The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-20
BREVARD NEWSPAPER ON
HENDERSONVILLE ~

An appreciation OF HenderSonVllle anG
the Hendersonville way of carrying on Is
found in this weeks issue of The Transyl-
vania Times, under the editorial caption,
1.-THE Spirit That Conquers." The Times
News is pleased to give space to Editor
Douglas impressions of this place, in the
following comment:
''While there are some people in Pennsylvania
county that would refrain from using Henderson
county and Hendersonville as models by which our
community should be run, there is one phase Of
their work that could copied in Brevard espe-
cially that would pay us 100 per cent plus.
CAT meeting of the Chamber of Commerce.
Kiwanis Club and Rotary Club held last Thursday
night reports made and statistics quoted led one to
believe that Hendersonvle was on boom Guest
after guest was introduced to the audience by Ollie
Brownlee, a moving factor in civic work in Hen
Jacksonville, as "Mr and Mrs. -, who have re-
Gently moved to our community and are 10
Gated at - place. These people, Mr. Brownlee
made the audience understand have chosen Hen
Jacksonville as their permanent homes, brought to
that hustlng little city by of the fact that
clquedom, sslfshness and two-cent ealousies if in
existence at ALL are so small that they cannot be
noticed the face of things.
whats more, several of the prominent people
introduced to the audience have been Brevard resi-
dents for short period of time in the past, COM
ing here before they went to HenderSOnve to take
up their abode These people when they left Bre-
yard and moved to Hendersonville were met with
an open and above-board gesture by the business
and social leaders of the town. If the man wanted
to go into business he was treated fair Just and
honOrable-he was not looked upon as an outsider
who had come to hog the business from us old resi-
dents who are responsible for building the town.
He was not approached with the stealthy inouis;-
ton of what party he belonged to, and would he
become part of our clique which is against every
thing that the other bunch wants to do
when there was public meeting to discuss some
vital question, ne invited to attend and asked
pointblank as to his ideas on the matter after he
bad been greeted a somebody and not shunted
off into little group of undertoners who wondered
Just what kind of dirty deal So-and-So' was 60
ing to try to pull at the meeting, and what was
HE going to get out of it. Seeing other people of
the town interested in the towns affairs this new
conner took an interest in things that would help
the town and community and indirectly come back
to him, and on and until he who had been
newcomer was one of the bunch getting other peo-
pie to come in and join the band of WORKERS.
More than fifty people of high standing in three
months moving into community the size of Hen
Jacksonville is proof aplenty to this writer that it
pays to be on the alert working all the time, win
ter and summer holding elections every two years,
ONLY, and playing fair
"No, no, we are not getting ready to move to
HendersOnvie, neither are We trying to get our
best citizens to pick up their bed and walk down
Highway % to the next town. Rather we are call
ing attention in clear manner as we know
how to the fact that if Brevard people do not
change their way of doing things we will be alb
sorbed by people who are.'