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4 WW s-ff --v I. "i w ... .:' Pcrrcs 1-0 Volume LX; Ho. 149. RALEIGH, N. C. SUfltfAY; MORNING. MAY 5, 190r. Price Five Ccn::. rtM GarolMa C ( ... . ;&0iliORH : OF WOMEN N piffle Ml ft ft -v.r Annual Report to he pbaughter6;and Sons. : ; By MR& W. 1L S. BUItGWYX. , Secretary:, of the North Carolina Branch of the Organization Delegratea from The Central Council, Members of The N. Cj Branch of The International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons, Ladies andilentlemen: - ,r We are: observi ngr today, the 18th anniversary of th e North ; Carolina Branch of the Ki ns Daughters and v Sons. , These -annual conventions are . not only occasions fr the rendering of reports and learn Ing- lessons of wis dom front " holdin r counsel one with another -taey are Uso seasons for re freshment and recreation. ior "march-i ng to beat of toi merciless drum." without the comi adeshlp of fellow workers,- would, indeed, make our paces grow slowei and slower; so 'we , , are grateful for tfhe invitation which '"; brings us , here th s morning, and for 'the hearts and homes which have re ceived us so hospi ably. p There is a vacant chair at this con vention .which W hoped would be filled by: our late) lionored and beloved president - Mrs. Margaret . Bottome. There are vacant places too, which cannot be filled in the order which she established, and i the hearts 'of all : who knew' her aid everl listened to i her heart-to-heart talks. It has been our privilege -to have her with us dur ; ing two conventlo ns.s Let us treas ure In our minds her, striking words of faith and love, Jach one of us real i t-- izing that tjir''ti': ' ? ' ' -.: 'f loj tnet but brighter shiri, v nom death has 1 nade forever mine.? Is amtmi tu2 V entlon of her name. , ntung time to speak of the nwan -nZ -Wltlionfthe more earn! tl"t 1 .have to e abandoned. ' Wo -Two new circles one of voun -iri ; gJi "y anVgtrtl : W Kded tom state Branch dur Lnrt fa.l,he. ormer-in Charlotte, and the latter in A shevllle. Thev havX , nost interes ing wKrt?5thSB viii tLe ft:fV 11 Persons in" Ashe 'C i5.talftranch' n OctoberT 190. vi . Plnsrthat position for an-yearjt ha tWal and splendld work? but r JhZi c!itn8;suPPr: front 1U members, - ;e?i.mm?ntar: Pn the necessity ; for Individual .re ponsibllity -: in th work of a circle. With reference to ray correspondenc6.ri rwillFsay that I have bought out tl i stationery depart ! I?"'.0 a storerir my home.- think I the State Treasurer would like to have "kL miia5Vpasse 4 restraining nie in f this particular, a : she often : advised me of the deplet ,d condition of the treasury, but still she meets all ol mi" demands upon ft. Kind responses to j icuers nave guven me great; pleas ure during this year, and have been an inspiration in my work which -has neen performed to Rhe best of my abll :?ty and what has our labor been for the past twelve n onths? ach circle r T2l tcl! of lti loc 11 ministration s jto ! those in need, an I rejoice to speak I of our State work. "At the convention i held in Chapel H 11 last ; May it was I resolved , hat we t hould continue our ,. efforts to Induce t le State Legislature h to establish a Refo -matory for juvenile f offenders, and mos ; earnestly have the ! Reformatory com r tittee and the circle In this Branch discharged their duty. The brave manner in which' they have pressed In this task , assumed five years . ago. Is most prais jworthy. Not . one i complaint ; has bee n heard s-Journeying through, our wild rness of deferred r hope as , the Legislatures of-1903 and 1 905 encouraged . md- commended us, i but left-, ft to the' Legislature of 19 07 ( to make an apprcpriation for the in . stitution.. Like the - village, ..patriarch, ! Nicholas Vedder,. who,' from morn-till . i night, sat under thv shade of a tree, :' only moving sufficiently to avoid the 'ays of the sun thus making: of him , self - a good timepiece, the '; King's t laughters of North ; Carolina, . have steadily maintained th,eirv position-as suppliants for the young criminals, ? ; having no sun to drive them from - their post, until the charter for The. Stone wall. Jackson Manual Training and In lustrial ! School, and the appropriation . of S 10,000 for its 1 maintenance was - granted to the women of the State. This was done during the last days of the session of the Legislature of 1907. v and all men, then- knew ; that North . Carolina would help to care properly for her younff criminals. s liet s not dread, my dear sisters, the labor ira- , posed upon the wimen of the "State - by the terms of this bill, for since: the , flamin- sword, turning every way, ?as placed as a guard I at the entrance to the Garden of -Eden; - the only noble life for -man or woman, is one" of " toil for,the glory of God, and the good of humanity.- ' - . In the fall, of :i90.: The " Greater ' Club - of .Chirjottei j composed ? of .her i most patriotic and able citizens, or : ganized a committee to work for i a Reformatory Thejf devoted to this la bor their intellect,! their :. time. and . their means, and their names will : be forever- linked with the success: tit- the 1 movement. We, The King's Daughters. " realized, after association with,? them; ' that before" the advent of these and other -men and Women Into ' the field r we were as: - . "A Lute whose leading chord i gone. v A wounded -Bird that has but one .-. ' Imperfect wing,, Jp soar upon. 1 V On January 30.: 107; Hon. , e' r. Preston, of The Greater piub. present ed before the Joint. Penal committee of the Legislature a jpetttlojf circulated by this club for a? Training . School. There were so . many signatures to it, that the lensrth of paper containing the names when unrolled had. to be car-i ried up and down Ithe aisles of The House of representatives by pages. This was declared i to., be - the most mam moth petition "seen since the one car- v ried ' Co Washington on a flat car by - Coxey, f ' , Before that sami 1 committee the State 'Society of King's Rev. E. A.' Osborne most eloquently, presented the plea of the women of the State for a Reformatory, and his arguments in . favor of this measure, and proving the different aims of a Reform School and the Society for Friendless Children, Jiad great weight with the legislators who were to vote upon the question. Mrs. R. D. John ston, of Alabama, a native North Car olinian, came all the way from her home to appear before this committee and tell them of her own experience in 'establishing and carrying on such an Institution in the, State of her adop tion. With unsurpassed grace, dignity and ability she told of practical results in training the boys, and followed by other speakers, when the evening was over mere seemed nothing left unsaid to convince the hearers of the neces sity for a Reformatory. Two more names must be added to those men-H tioned Hon. M. B. Stick ley, of Con cord, who- proved himself a great sol dier ,in the fight for the boys, and Hon. J. R. Young, of Raleigh, both of whom did so much to make that memorable, evening) before the com mittee a success, and also to secure the passage of the bill for the school. Let us be as great In victory as we were in defeat, and do our part: towards ehowingthat the combined strength of the men and women in the State may save her homeless children, who really belon-!tqm all -"a point .which yes terday was invisible, is our ! goal to day, and let us press forward to it with all our might, remembering that with each one of us, "faithfulness is success." For The King's Daughters, this work will be twice blessed to the young criminals and to ourselves, for we -must have a grand 1 central inter est,! to keep us as individuals, as cir cles, and', as a State Branch in our proper orbit. In the system otf The-In ternational rder. First lessons in Philosophy teach us that when a boy whirls a . stone in a sling, the stone acquires a circular motion causing- a centrifugal or centre fleeing force. By holding1 the two strings of the sling, a centrlpelal or centre seeking force 'Is created, which prevents the stone from flyin-r off at a tangent. From this sim ple Illustration In natural philosophy we rise to the moral law, that in this life; and 1n' this work, we must be bound together .byva common interest, or we. wllt' grow selfish. , evert. Jin our own charities. Wei jfiy-i off at-a-tan-igeht, 'without the firm -holding 4t the strings of our sling. EachOnevof us has a special part in this- work, and however-small that part may seem It Is vastly important. On top of the Peaks of Otter that monarch of mountains, with a. throne of jrock, a robe of cloud, and a diadem of sun shine, there- are huge boulders pois ed 'in such a manner that the hu man .eye would expect to see .them crashing down the mountain side at any moment. The traveler gazes up on them in wonder, balanced there almost on a pivot, as they have been for centuries, just because the centre of gravity is undisturbed. A small weight throwing the centre of grav ity without the base would dislodgo those grand om rocas, wnicn are mere lan1ailn tha malmtvtnrt nnwfr of fc nil I T"i- - - - ' j IVlheir Creator. In like manner the equilibrium or a great worn is pre served Dy tne unnea enoris oi an m terested in it. Let .us think of the great danger of disturbing the equilibrium of our work, by the smallest neglect oi amy. Emerson says that nothing great was ever accomplished i witnoui mnusi astn. y An example ; of the power of this element Of success, and also of the power of individual responsibility, Is found In life of a young French maiden; Joan of Arc. Her patriotic aevotion to her bleeding cotintry dur ing the-hundred years war, and her Intense desire to .save her race from the English yoke made her, a modest shepherdess, gladly risky and ' finally lose, her life in the cause wnicn- sne espoused. - in response to all of ' the obtacles presented to her. Jhe ex ork, for claimed. I must - tro to the the Lord: wills it. By ner. irusi in God, -and enthustesm, she- exercised authority over men to such, an extent .that they followed her to successful combat . on many occasions, until the faith and - ardor of a simple maid, were the. means of placing the crown of . France upon the head of Charles the lth( Having accomplished the triumph, Joan underwent a change. She lost her self confidence and with, it: her control of (men. The inspira tion of enthusiasm was lacking for ttie balance of her tragic llfe.v The lives of some of us, will onlyte recorded on the pages of unwritten history; but our Individual s responsibility, will ! no less great for that reason. .. That - wonderful modern invention, which 1-by means jof tiny impressions made noon t. brass cylinder, enables ussto hear the sound of voIces long silent, is no; more certain nor marvel- ous in its results than Is the repro duction f- of our words ' and deeds in those who live .after us. So .great is our Individual responsibility that long after , each one of us is .forgotten, will be visible the shadow least by the sub stance of our life.j Let us make that substance such - that the shadow ma be like ' 'The lingering charm of a dream that - Is fled; The rose's - breathi. when the rose Is ded: The-echo that lives, when the tune is done; v :; , . !' , Sunset glories that follow the sun; Everything tender, and evertfthin fair. i v'': - "' - That was and is not. vet still Is there. MRS. W. H. S BURGWYN. V '' State sec North Carolina Branch of the King's. Daughters and Sons.. ' ' 'WUaAMS TOR 3LYOIt. The Primary Completes the Ticket In i:'--'Hamlei-PytltUiiti'Ilold n'Suo . . cesful District Ieetlng. 1 (Special to News and Observer.) Hamlet. May . 4. The A second - pri mary for mayor and one alderman was held here Thursday, and resulted - in the nomination of i Mr. J. A. . Williams , It may be assumed that all, road work now being contemplated in North Carolina will be executed by convict labor, and it is safe to base es timates of cost upon this premise. The greatest economy has been found in convict gangs of about fifty, say from forty to sixty. Certain fixed expenses are incidental to each gang and where the number Is small cost per head In creases. But with the economical number of fifty men cost in North Carolina for feeding and guarding ranges from 25c to 30c per day per man. This cost will vary under ex ceptional conditions, running as low as 15c. and as high as 40c. With labor costing from 25c. to SOc. per day. road work may be estimated to cost as follows. Grading. This item may vary within wide limits, depending upon the character of the country, the care with which location shall have been made and the gradients adopted. But a safe esti mate Is that It will rarely be less than 1500 per mile in the eastern counties and rarely more than $2,500 per milt in the middle counties. When th hill country of the western counties shall be. reached, grading may cost anything you please. In the smooth, loamy sections of the eastern coun ties grading may run as low as 9200 per mile, but it will not be safe - to make estimate upon this basis. About $1,500 per mile is a reasonable esti mate for grading a thirty-foot road In the middle counties with the best appliances available. These figures for mayor over the present incumbent, Mr. J. A. Atkinson and Mr. K. A. Lackey for alderman. Mr. William is a contractor here and owns and op erates a large lumbering plant. He It was that took the lead in driving out the blind tigers here, and it is pre dicted -that during his administration the prohibition law will be rigidly , en forced, and that Hamlet will tak on new - life and-take her stand amonK her sister towns In point f progress as. well as morality. - - ;v. " '- Mr, Lackey' Is a fine business man. and completes the board of city fath ers. Hamlet can boast of as fine set of aldermen as any place in the State. All of them are first rate business men and have the welfare of the town sit heart, and with such men at the helm the place is destined to be a "greater Hamlet." Mr. J. M. Jamison, formerly proprie tor of the S. A. L. hotel here, has purchased the hotel at Norllna from Mr. Tom Gresham and left yesterday with his family for his new home. Mr. Jamison has large interests here and will divide his time with Norllna and Hamlet. The meeting of the Sixth District of Knights of Pythias was held here la-st nlgtjt. District Deputy Grand Chan cellor Covington, of Rockingham, wa In charge. The Pythians met at the Castle Hall of Carolina Lodge, No. 14 6. and marched in a body to the graded school auditorium where public exer cises were held, opening with prayer by Rev. E. R. Harris. The address ot welcome was made by Rev. T. A. Sikes. and was responded to by Rev. J. H. Roberts, of Carthage. Grand Chan cellor Willson. of Raleigh, was intro duced and delivered a most excellent and eloquent address pn Pythlanism. It was full of fun and facts. He cap tured his audience. After the exercises were over at the academy the Knights repaired to Gresham's Hotel where an elaoorate banquet was served .tinder the directions of Mr. Edwin Gresham. the manager. There was laid one hun dred covers. Rev. W. ji. Coppedge. of Rockingham, was the toastmaster, and proved himself to be equal to the oc casion. Several toasts were responded to. After every one had expressed his satisfaction at the table the Sir Knights returned to the .lodge room where reports were heard from . the several lodees. and the second degree was conferred. A man may be a failure, without knowing it. but if he is a success he not only tyiows it himself, but lets everybody else know it. Bj Jsh W. Hjjrj, CMI Eigineer. FiirTH PAPER: will also fnclude-sand-clay surfacing, if material .be conveniently near. ' 'Crushed Stone. This item likewise varies widely with proximity and character of stone. In some sections of the State field stone are used, gathered from the road side and ' open fields. 1 have bought these delivered to the crusher with a mlle-hAul'for 50 cent per cubic yard. n If stone Is tf be 'quarried it will cost under best cdndjtions about 30c. per yard, of vhlh'-10c. will be for con vict labor and Z0c.. for supplies. It will cost higher if the quarry be poor face or require' stripping. Probably 4 0c. per cubic yard, measured loose, is a safe figure ... as . quarries run. with some hance wf reducing to 25c. or 30c. Htone .mwved out of the quarry and run through -the mill will cost 10c. and by the time it shall be moved and spread on the- road 50c. will be a cheap figure, even with convict labor. On mile of road 'having stone spread ten feet wide will require 1.250 cubic yards approximately measuered loose, costing at 50c., 9625 per mile for stone surfacing exclusive of roll ing. So that stone may be expected to cost not less than $500 per mile under the most favorabl, conditions and should not exceed 91.000 per mile under any ordinary' conditions. These figures varymg with proximity of ma terial, character of quarry , and number of convicts worked In gang. Considering the two items of grad ing and surfajcin together, we find that a road gfaded 30 feet wide and metaJled 10 feet wide and 6 inches deep may cost as .little as 91,000 per mile of finished road if the work shall have been excepted under .the most New netlfodict Chiirch to V JiaiKlxonie structure Erected at a Cost of $20,0(M. niul Not a Penny of Uelil to Cast a SJmhIow L'ioii tin IteJokHng. Special 'to News and Observer.) ' Wilson, N. C-. May 4. Tomorrnv. will, indeed be a red letter day for Methodism in Wilson, as the entire debt has been liftedfrom the hand some church building -situated on tho corner of Tarboro and Greene streets. The corner stone of thst imposing structure was laid In the year 1900, when Rev. J. B. Hurley was pastor here. The work progressed slowly but surely, until the coming of that great favorite divine, Rev: A. P. Tyer, who took the matter In hand and rushed the work through to comple tion. The cot of this building. 930.500. has been canceled and hot on ly Methodists, but all other denomi nations, rejoice that not one penny is now due any one. Through the un tiring energy of the pastor. Dr. F. D. Swindell, the last of the debt, amount ing to 98.900. was raised last year. The following is the program for the 'day; i Morning Service ll o'clock. Organ Prelude Prayer in A flat 'Callaerts." Anthem "Gloria' In Excels!" Bv Mozart. First Hymn 207. "The Church's On Foundation." etc. Prayer By Dr. J. C. Kilgo. Scriptural Lessons Offertory "I have waited for the Lord" (sex tette). - - - Second Hymn 2. "Christ Is made the sure "foundation," etc Sermon .by Dr. J. C. Kilgo. J "Dedication. First Lesson, Gen. xxviii-. '10-22 To WILSOUSGLADDAY favorable conditions, but may run as high as 93,500 under unfavorable con ditions. These figures applying to the -middle and eastern counties. Summary of foregoing discussion: Do not lay out more road work than can be well built with money available. . For heavy country traffic use crush ed stone. . '; For light country traffic clay-sand will give satisfactory results. Get thoroughly organized for the work. ,f Three rules must be observed: r' 1. Best location possible. 2. Thorough drainage. 3. Surfacing with best material available, applied In workmanlike manner; It these precepts shall be followed the results will be good; if disregard ed there will sooner or later be dls appointment. , ' Cost of outfit: Including 12 mule teams, dump wagons, scrapers, slips, carts, plow road machine, steam roll er, sprinking wagon, tank and" pump, harness and gears, stone mill witlv engine and screen, steel hammers, picks, shovels,' etc.. about 915,000. Whether road shall be, sand-clay or crushed stone both "should be located and graded alike. ; Road of S ner ceni wm irequenuy oe practicable and S per cent should be extreme limit in A. ...lit m a me middle counties. , The total cost of these roads built with convict labor will vary for sand-clay, from 9500 to 92.500: - for macaoam, zrom 91.000 to 93.500 per mile. Grading is the largest factor in cost or mis worn, varying, with cnarucier or son ana topography. be read by the pastor. Rev. F. D- oninaru. Second Lesson Heb, : Dr. T. N. Ivev. x., l-25By presentation or the Church By W. a - Davis. Sentence of Dedication and Prayer y tiev. a. . Tyer. Doxology. - m v Benediction By Dr.-J.r C. Kiljo. -vj. 1 - :- - - l - ' - Arteruooo t O'rfock. 1 r " i - - f v. w t.. uj vi. yuan F. Bruton. - ; Opening Hymn- "My Country Tls of Thee," etc. - -Scriptural Lesson James 11.. 14-26 tty uev. j. iv. cole. Prayer By Dr. T. N. Ivey. Introduction By Hon. F. A. Woodard. Address By Governor Thomas j. jarvis. . - . . r oio By Mrs. R- P. Watson. "Only remembered by What . We Hav Benediction By Rev. J. N. Cole. It is regretted ;verv miicii that tv J- B. Hurley cannot be here on tmC memoraoie occasion. . - , The fallowing visiting ministers are in me cicy. Rev. A; p. Tyer guest of Mr. W. J. Davis. Rev. J. N Colei gueet of Mr. John C xiaaiey. - -y . rtev. i. .-m. ivey, guest of Mrs. J. T. vegins. Dr. J. c. Kilgo. gxtest of Col. John F. Bruton. Governor and Mrs.' Jarvis. guests of "n. ana Mrs. r . A. Woodard. ' Since Rev. Dr. Swindell's here there have been 102 additions to I-the -h,ifi.h r WHITSETT lNSTmJTE." ' i , - i - Invitations Out for the Commencement May lath to 20tlu' . ' : '.. f ' Invitations to the annual commence ment of Whitsett Institute have 'been The. exercises will begin W the 18th instant and; close on the-20th. . Rev. v. s. Long, of Graham, will, preach the annual sermon, and Dr. !. E. - W. Sikes. of Wake Forest College, . will deliver the literary address. . . ' 1 i - - One sentence Of a police magistrate is more effective than ' a dosen sen tences handed out by a political orator. Vanity of woman , looks like a plug ged nickel when compared with the conceit of a man. . . v" - . Address tm the Difficult and Perplcrinfx Prob leihs of America's Near- Future. , ' ' By JAMES J. I1ILL.X. . President fof the Great Northern Railroad. . The ; hopeof the country Is in lm proved : agriculture. f The mineral ro sources are exhaustible as are all ot:i er sources or wealth except the lana. Present methods of ' farming are d depreclating the productivity of v lanl whereas in foreign -countries the pro ductivity of land is - Increasing. TTWs condition indicates the imperative ne cessity of an Improved argriculture In America. . . . "... W;- - ; -The increased interest In agricul tural education: and diversification In North Carolina fv makes everyf hiirg touchng upon farm", improvement In teresting -to our people. Last week w? printed the : admirable paper by Dr. Kn&pp on -The New Agriculture." delivered at; Plnehurzt . and the series of papers on ; Road Building- by Mr; JohnJ W, "Hares have interested and Instructed many . readers." One of tho most notable- contributions u toward awakening public interest in agricul ture is the recent address delivered it Minnesota by . James J.: Hlll.i presi dent of-the Great Northern Railroad It has Jbeen widely ' printed and dis cussed and has been an important fac tor in. moulding- public opinion: and, in shaping the. action of- CongressT: to larger liberality towaf 4 v agricultural education and.- experimental agricultural-work, vv";; -'.vr jvw- :.'':, : V5-.ui-U " A: prominent, citlxen deeply Inter ested in the progress of agriculture in North Carolina, suggests that the pub lication of the address by Mr. . Hill would. be of great interest and value, and therefore it is printed below: "The highest conception of a 'nation is that of a trustee for posterity. . TheJ nature the simple'. necessaries of life. But the modern idea of duty is ton servatism of . the old and modeling of the new in order- that posterity may have a fairer dwelling place and thus transmit the on ward .Impulse. .The ideal of theprudenU loving, careful head of every family Is the true ideal for a nation of rational men. . The people ofH the United States.' as far as any perhaps, have meant to follow this pattern. It jis worth while to consider how far ther have been successful and where they have failed, For not for eight 'centuries ' has any" people .found Itself dowered "with such 1 embarrass ment of riches.-V- ". ' :i : . v . - SpJeculatlTe'Tlieorles.- " -The Average rtian -Is oflern more ia terested In speculative theories than in his plain-duty toward himself and his neighbor. The average state .Is, filled with visions of Its place In tie proces sion of the ' years, while It overlooks the running account of daily expenses. Problems we have found ajid trifled with, in confusing number and variety; but the "-. problem of the future ; ma terial condition of our country, of an inventory - of its'' assets and liabilities, of the inevitable demands -upon its re sources;: and ithe. careful adustments by " .which" alone - they .may be pre served has thus far been a subject for little?, more than a passing, thought. National securltv. calls for a Just ac counting of the' business affairs of this great natiQnv:.-.?.' v . A'i'":.'"'.-;- v - '. -Iiet '.Us.. Look- Aliead. ' ' ".Let us try to cast our minds twenty or twenty-live years ahead and see what will then be our condition. - The main elements of this problem., which above 'all others Is crowding upon our attention, are three: , Possibilities ' of population, actual and possible natural resources, and. possibilities of produc-4 live application ; of one to the other. As" the prudent man, f about : settling himsclXJn life, sums up his possessions, his? opportunities for earning Income and the demands upon him of a family to be cared for and left In a position to begin the -world ' at least as ad vantageously, as he 'himself,- so the people of the United- States should know with reasonable-exactness , Just where, we shall stand half a r century from : now - .'. ' . , ' - - - ?. ':Vk""".' -; Vital ; $Utlstlcs. "The population index has the sim plicity of ascertained vital statistics. Subtracting from the, total, population of .'the country; as returned, by .leach census since 1880 the immigration for tne aecenniai period. the ratio of Increase for the first decade is slightly over, and for the scond decade slightly under-15 per. cent. So careful an ob server ' as .. LerOy : Beaulieu 1 gives the natural Increase of our population as 1J5.2 per, thousand per year. It is rair, therefore,: to reckon the increase by the : excess - of births over, deaths at 15 per cent on the average, for each decade. The : additions - by j immigra tion are more variable. - It, is highly probable.' however, that the oncoming tide. . wlll.v increase. ; Only , In periods of severe depression . has -Immigration fallen' much '.'below the half million mark ' for. the last twenty-five years. In good -or, aJrly good times It has gone greatly abovev In the two years before 1905. It exceeded 800,000 an nually, while for each of the last' two years, it yhas exceeded one million, it is a conservative estimate, therefore. to add 750.000 a year for Increase of population from this . .source, ,or 7,i. 500,000 - for each decade- Computed on - this basis, the population of the United 'States in the .near., future will show, these totals: . '. , population In i 9 1 0 . . Population In 1 2 0 . . ; Population In 1930. . ; . 93.248,895 117,039.229 142.091,663 170.091. 6S3 104,041,223 Population in 1940. . . Population in 1950.; f. 'StartltastjKtyor 'Tbewo 11sures. The- -startKns quality- of .these fig ures -is the. magnitude of our" prohlem. It Is' not even a problem of tomorrow. but. of today; r- Within forty-four years we -shall have to meet : the wants of more than" two, hundred million peo ple. In less than twenty-years from this moment the ' United States .will have ,130.00.0.000 pepole. Where are these- people., not .of some dim, dis tant age. v but of this very generation now growing to manhood. to be em ployed : and how ' supported ? - When the searchlight is thus suddenly turn ed on. we recognize not a mere specu lation, but the grim face of that specter which : conf ronts- the unem ployed, tramping hateful strc hope of food and shelter. All Illht In tlie la.t. The United States has 1 easily to take care of the r crease of population in the i cause it' had a vast area of r pled land.. This was the rr.. . in Its natural inheritance, practically ,, the last hair of t' century the -whole country f Mlsslssippi rivpr to the Roc:-:y tains was occupied. No prt population 'could make itself - 4 rfelt when .ft might be tumel 1 such an empire. In those fir; - Ihere-were added 547.640.932 i the agricultural area, an incr nearly 200 per cent, and the 1 in the actually improved ecte nearly-300 per- cent. This is c from the list of our resources, in the last six years there h:.v: transferred j from public to ownership more than 11 . acres of government land, r twice the size of the state r sota. The entire area of r .. , unappropriated land i:.iin t I States is only twof ad a h If that amount, the pres : t therefore, eyer$'. acre of pu' : would disappear withJn the r teen years. - But as a large r ' Of the lands included in th; are wholly or partially ur.f.t . age. It is literally true to f arable public lands have i appeared. And where are c ren to .find standing room, tens of millions of the future for, wholesome Industry? i:.' Intensely practical Question. mediate. '. For within twenty ; must house and employ In !-:. Ion fifty millions of addit! :r lation; and by the mid -1 3 century, at a time when the c : born will be in the j-rir-there will be approximately i a half times as many psrr" United States as there are t nation in "history was. c t r fronted with a sterner cyj: this ceitain prospect sets I Wiiat are we to do with ovr whose keeper we are? . II to provide otfr; 'on chil shelter and their diiiyt re . Ilesoxr; L i 'if. 2: C : ' . . I ,. - 'The 'summation of . c t u I j .of, national short and si:. , . . over the-atmo.'. ;rj t. minister' -InSirc. to t:. economy, there z four from which man jJ.: rnu-t C: national wealth. Of t..c.e the t not supply more t.-:.n 2 or e i of." manWood. It i i y t h r . dropped" from the c l-ulzti cannot be made -r.v-h r: re . coninoutory to n n forest, once a rich 1" -disappearing. Its - r not -for food, but an acessory in t: 2 wealth. Its fate i rather in the role i we have : done v;:;i ready what we a:e t cessfully with .tho 1 national capital. I on - the Pacific cc L source of wealth i - 1 lng. Within tvier'v - . i - . L i. '.elter. TO d ii r t -1 . cx -J r i , : -J.y: t for"; ,o f : Uv : . we shall have no here ca.: . Rocky - Mountains a timber worth recording, ar 1 then " compelled to begrin the slow f re-foresting. AVastlns What Is- les3 cl-nri." r :r: that we are wa?tir. r In the ion other resource. vh!eh,! ance and no ingrenultv c-n r The exhaustion ef t: r : these, the land. 1 ? lAter. Our mineral wtu!'-, stands on another plane. . ; en from the mina r n 1 -placed. Through all ttc r; as we can see, tl; 2 c mineral wealth tzrr in t must be a finality. . ; product Is math . : . : The adaptation of should -be a rr greater anxiety th : ance sheet of a tu the . singular fact : people convinced grounded in the t cal economy, the 1 Ion of this pr. everywhere heral u , enterprise an-1 c prosperity. The r riodically the rec assets never to t ; 1 with a smile of t eral consTatulat; . - Cc.i v to . The two crtt under earth.ecc r that are indisren fort and srowth Our inheritance of ; The most wonder:' this age is the lr. . which we are ex coal areas and re states are tiesctit What general ter of "the futur? i dependable gtjthurl & centurj- of life t coal supply. It v. i by that time, but t have to be olt. low grade, or at j points i emote fit needed. It tvii! or h!h in 5 r : economic ej r- ; . terms will be .. -. erous estimate . g-lst3 for the V 1 measures of iZv ; than one hun ' re , ; of the-Unite- ! ; : .t 3 5 0.1 -;- ) t within the 1' . : amounts to , cer.t of th? v, esti.ite I i:r? ..' i thracir? tic: permittt d ' at httl? r.: t larger i-ur-; ' . :' swer .1 1 It 13 t-I - ;(Cor:.t; . ,: - I- :. ' t '. ; 4 f . 4
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 5, 1907, edition 1
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