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SMOKIEST
Typical Great Smoky Mountains Cabin.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
THE 1,500 species of flowering
plants that blossom before
June 1 are spreading their
color over the slopes of the
Great Smoky mountains.
Haze-shrouded, the Great Smoky
mountains dominate the horizon of
eastern Tennessee.
Visitors often are amazed to find
such lofty, wild, and unspoiled
mountains straddling the Tennes
see-North Carolina state line.
In 1923, when public-spirited men
and women of the two states or
ganized to encompass soaring
heights and plunging valleys in a
national park, even the mountain
eers, grandchildren of pioneers who
had braved the arrows of cunning
Cherokees, had not explored the
whole area.
Adventurous hikers who did In
vade the mountains found the un
dergrowth so thick in places that
they had to chop their way through
it with an ax.
A few naturalists and surveyors
visited parts of the Smokies. Hunt
ers sought their quarry amid the
ly trees and dense cover e u t
Hp sheltered bears, deer, and numcr
ous smaller animals.
Revenue officers occasionally
tried to penetrate the wilderness,
and lumbermen, with dynamite,
axes and saws, pushed their roads
and railroads only as far as the
most recent cutting.
To business men of eastern Ten
nessee and western North Carolina,
the Great Smokies long were a
trade barrier. No road leaped the
rugged ridge along which the state
line rambles for 71 miles. Com
merce east and west in this latitude
still moves around either end of the
mountains, but the “barrier” now is
an asset as the Great Smoky Moun
tains National park.
Life There Was Primitive.
A few years ago it took more than
a week to go to Knoxville and re
turn to the cabins in the hills.
In those days there was little rea
son for the mountaineer to leave the
mountains. A few sheep supplied
wool for clothing and the mountain
woman was an adept spinner and
weaver.
When cows and oxen became use
less and were dispatched, shoes
were made of their hides. Bears,
deer, and birds, brought down with
five-foot rifles or caught in traps,
supplied the family meat platter.
“Sweetnin’ ” was produced from
sorghum.
Nearly all the land in the Great
Smokies was privately owned when
the park movement was initiated.
Arrangements had to be made for
its purchase before the land could
be turned over to the national park
service for development. An inten
sive money-raising campaign was
planned. Private subscriptions ag
gregated $1,000,000. Appropriations
by the adjoining states brought the
fund to $5,000,000.
But this was only one-half the
funds required. The campaigners
for many months sought vainly for
the other half. Then John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., announced that the
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Mem
x . qrial would match dollar for dollar
i * •my money raised in the campaign,
k In 1926 congress authorized the
-• establishment of the Great Smoky
Mountains National park on condi
tion that the citizens of Tennessee
and North Carolina present 427,000
acres of acceptable land in one sol
id tract, the acreage to be equally
divided between the two states. Of
ficials who had investigated were
enthusiastic.
“Nature is at her choicest there,”
they reported.
Development of the area as a
national playground began, and to
day the thousand resident families
have shrunk to about four hundred.
Some sold their holdings outright
and moved out of the mountains.
Highways Are Being Built.
For six years now government
agencies under the supervision of
the national park service have been
building roads and trails and re
stocking forests and streams.
The work is just begun. Only sev
enty miles of high-standard roads,
twenty-five miles of secondary
roads, and fewer than 600 miles of
trails have been completed. Yet
for the last three years this infant
of our national park system, not yet
dedicated, has been attracting more
visitors than any other of our 25
national parks.
Less than a mile east of Gatlin
burg, Tennessee, a white and green
sign announces the boundary of the
Great Smoky Mountains National
park.
At the end of a long curve, a short
distance beyond, the highway forks.
You stop and peer through the haze
at the steep, tree-blanketed slopes
of Mount Le Conte and Sugarland
mountain, whose lofty summits are
often hidden in lowhanging clouds.
There is only one modern road
over the mountains between Ten
nessee and North Carolina. It winds
through the scenic valley of the
West Prong of Little Pigeon river,
crossing and recrossing the stream
to the state line at Newfound Gap.
The Chimneys, rugged twin
peaks, thickly forested, stand like
sentinels, guarding the bridge which
carries the highway across the West
Prong. From the bridge all the
way to Newfound Gap the traveler
is hemmed in by steep, wooded
mountain slopes, unbroken except
where a waterfall, too high above
and too far away to be heard,
gleams in the sun like a white silken
ribbon as a mountain stream
sweeps over a precipice toward the
noisy river cascading below.
At Newfound Gap along the state
line the mountain top has been ex
cavated and space provided for
parking several hundred automo
biles. Here the arboreal wonder
land that is the Great Smokies
spreads before you in both states.
Down Into North Carolina.
From this point the highway de
scends into North Carolina along
the Oconaluftee river, through the
Qualla Indian reservation, tow’ard
Asheville and Bryson City, North
Carolina gateways to the park.
Southwestward from Newfound
Gap, the Skyway, one of the high
est highways in the country, is tak
ing shape. It has been completed
nearly to Clingmans Dome, the loft
iest peak in the Great Smokies.
Ultimately it will wind forty miles
over and around peaks along the
state line until it reaches the west
ern end of the park, affording amaz
ing vistas of jumbled mountains and
billowy valleys. Portions of the Sky
way are already 6,300 feet above
sea level.
It is along the trails that the hiker
meets isolated mountain families in
their cabins, and stumbles upon the
remnants of abandoned mills that
not long ago ground out the moun
taineers’ “turn” of cornmeal.
Nearly everything one observes
in and around a mountain cabin is
homemade. Trundle beds, high
backed chairs, spinning wheels, and
looms are usually heirlooms.
One of the first known white men
to study the wonders of the Great
Smoky mountains was a botanist,
William Bartram of Philadelphia,
who climbed among these heights
about the time patriots in Indepen
dence Hall signed the Declaration
of Independence. After him came
other botanists who have found the
mountains their paradise, one of the
largest and last vestiges of the na
tive forest that swathed the hills
and valleys of colonial America.
Orchids and Ferns.
So diversified are the wild flowers
of the Great Smokies that visitors
from many sections of the country
find species that grow abundantly
in their fields and woodlands among
others that are rare to them. Twen
ty-two orchids find a natural habitat
in these rugged and well-watered
mountains; there are 50 kinds of
lilies; 7 of trilliums; 22 of violets,
and 5 of magnolias.
The native wild orchids, while not
so large as the more familiar cul
tivated species, have all the exqui
site form and dainty coloring of
their “civilized” cousins. Like
many other plant families in the
Smokies, the orchids are found
throughout a long blossoming sea
son. Certain species make a bold
debut in the very early spring; oth
ers appear reluctant to yield sway
to chilly autumn.
Ferns range from the most deli
cate, with lacy fronds, to the most
hardy types. There are lush car
pets of mosses and lichens of many
varieties, and hundreds of mush
rooms and other fungus species
range from almost microscopic
sizes to the large and showy vari
eties, many of which are prized edi
bles.
Here the catawba rhododendron
is at its best. In late June and
July its white and purple blossoms
cover whole mountain spurs, fleck
sweeping slopes, and envelop trails
and streams. Mountaineers call
rhododendron and laurel thickets
“slicks” and “hells.” Indeed, the
plants grow in such tangled masses
in some areas that only wilderness
animals can get through them.
Huggins Hell, covering about five
hundred acres, is one of the largest
rhododendron and laurel thickets.
It was named for Irving Huggin?,
a mountaineer who sought to drive
his cattle from one mountain to an
other. On the way he was trapped
in the Huggins Hell area. It took
him several days to find his way
out. Mountaineers avoid the
“slicks,” identified by such colorful
names as Devil’s Tater Patch, Dev
il’s Courthouse, Woolly Tops, and
Breakneck Ridge.
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By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for June 13
THE BROTHERLY LOVE OF
JUDAH
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 44:18-34.
GOLDEN TEXT—Let brotherly love con
tinue. Hebrews 13:1.
PRIMARY TOPIC — Benjamin’s Bis
Brother.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Big Brothers.
INTERMEDIATE TOPlC—Loving as •
Brother.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Self-Sacrifice in the Family.
The fundamental unit of society
is the family. It is of more im
portance than the state, the church,
and the social order of which it is a
part. The breakdown of the home
and the sacted relationships sus
tained between parents and chil
dren, or brothers and sisters, points
to the destruction of society itself.
God established the family in the
garden of Eden. His plan and pur
pose have never been changed, nor
have his laws for the protection of
the home, for the sanctity of mar
riage, for brotherly love, been set
aside. Men and nations may de
vise other plans and follow the dic
tates of the flesh, but that road al
ways leads to ruin.
The continuation of our story of
the life of Joseph and his brethren
brings before us today the filial and
paternal love of Judah, and affords
us an opportunity to stress true
brotherly devotion. No one should
fail to review the connection be
tween the chapter before us and
the lesson of last week. Joseph had
been dealing with his brethren who
had failed to recognize him as the
one they had sold into captivity. He
was bringing them kindly but defi
nitely to that point of repentance
at which he could show himself gra
cious to them. In doing so he had
brought disaster upon them. Being
happily on their way homeward
with a new supply of food, they
were overtaken and Benjamin, the
beloved of Jacob, stands accused as
a thief, and by their own words
condemned to die.
In this crisis the mouths of the
ten others are closed, but Judah,
who had really saved the life of
Joseph (Gen. 37:26, 27), stands
forth to make an eloquent and pa
thetic appeal to Joseph. It presents
him as a brother who is
I. Courageous
Easy rests the yoke of family life
as long as all is joyful and pros
perous. But when adversity strikes,
when sorrow comes, or sickness, or
sin, then the true test of devotion
is at hand.
It was a brave and manly thing
for Judah to stand before the one
whom he knew only as the man
who was “even as Pharaoh.” The
circumstances were all against him.
He expected the flaming anger of
the offended ruler. His brethren had
collapsed in despair. It was one
of those dark hours which come to
every family when someone must
demonstrate true love by being
strong-hearted and steady.
11. Intelligent.
Crises call for more than a cheer
ful smile or an encouraging word,
much as they do mean in such an
hour. But we must be prepared by
our close contact with our loved ones
to speak and act with vigor and as
surance.
The plea of Judah is a master
piece of logic, argumentation, and
appeal, demonstrating that Judah
was not only well-informed about
his family and its problems, but
ready to use his knowledge skill
fully and effectively.
111. Sacrificial.
One step deeper goes the devo
tion of this man to his father and
his brother He has done no wrong
that merits punishment, but evi
dently his brother has been guilty.
Had he been of the spirit of Cain he
would have said “Am I my broth
er’s keeper?” and let him answer
for himself. Why should he suffer
for another? Why should he allow
himself to be imprisoned in a
strange land to save his father from
sorrow and his brother from what
seemed to be the just reward for
his deeds?
Thus reasons the man of the
world, but such is not the language
of love. “Let thy servant abide in
stead of the lad as a bondsman”—
so speaks the true brother. And
this is but a faint prefiguring of the
One “who sticketh closer than a
brother,” who “though he was rich,
yet for your sakes became poor that
ye through his poverty might be
rich” (Prov. 18:24; II Cor. 8:9).
Let us improve the opportunity to
review our relations with our own
family, to determine whether there
is aught that we in intelligent and
courageous self-sacrifice should do
for our own.
An Aim in Life
We want an aim that can never
grow vile, and which cannot dis
appoint our hope. There is but one
such on earth, and it is that of
being like God. He who strives after
union with perfect love must grow
out of selfishness, and his success
is secured in the omnipotent holi
ness of God.
A Guide to Paradise
The life of a faithful Christian
man is a guide to paradise.—Thos. a
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