From the editorial
page of the Brevard News, March 7,
1919; M.L. Shipman, Editor; C.B. Osborne, Managing Editor and Publisher; and
Gertrude R. Zachary, City Editor.
The Tannery
In this issue of the News
we publish the resolution in regard to the Transylvania Tanning Co., which
was unanimously passed by the Brevard Club at its meeting on Tuesday evening.
This organization has with characteristic loyalty to the interest
of the county taken the lead in this matter. And now the time has come for the
people of Transylvania to decide as to whether or not they will devote their
efforts to the progressive development of the county.
The question is now squarely before the people individually
and collectively. The Transylvania Tanning Co. cannot be expected to rebuild
the plant recently destroyed by fire without assurance of the support of the
people.
The company has received offers of building sites and
through support from many other towns that know a good thing when they see it.
Through the efforts of J.S. Silversteen the board of
directors of the company has been persuaded to delay their final decision a few
days longer.
To all thinking citizens, the loss of this enterprise looms
up as the greatest industrial calamity imaginable, yet a loss insignificant
compared to giving up a resident who is a remarkably vivid expression of the
highest ideals of American citizenship—Joseph S. Silversteen.
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