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VOL. XXVIII
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DECEMBER 27, 1924
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Governor Silzer Addresses Kiwanis Club
0OVERNOR George S. Silzer, of New Jersey, who is
spending a few days here for rest arid recreation, was
the principal speaker at the Kiwanis Club’s weekly
luncheon, held at Southern Pines this week, at which there
was a large and enthusiastic attendance.
The Governor was loud in his praise for North Carolina and
predicted that the state has a bright future just ahead of it.
He said that having the pleasure of the acquaintance of our
incoming Governor, Angus McLean, he felt sure that we are
in for four years of good, sane, solid and progressive govern
ment. ^
e His address was as follows:
“I know your local problems are much like ours. Your
state is growing rapidly, you are building roads on a large scale,
your institutions need help, agriculture must be stimulated and
education is always a question. It is only the peculiar local
conditions which vary the problems.
“In New Jersey, for instance, lying as we do between the
two great cities of New York and Philadelphia, our problems
are intensified by their proximity. Both great ports of entry,
we get a large number of recent arrivals, and more than our
share of defectives and criminals to fill our institutions. Our
roads are congested with out-of-the-state traffic. Every trans
continental railroad has a terminal in New Jersey. Ocean
steamers dock on our shores; hundreds of thousands find
living in our suburbs pleasant, while they do their work in
New York and Philadelphia. These we must get to their work
and back each day with speed and convenience. Transporta
tion problems in a large congested population are different.
In the summer time our hills in the north and our 150 miles
of seashore furnish a pleasure ground for millions of visitors.
Our Atlantic City, for instance, has no counterpart anywhere
in the world as a winter and summer resort. We are princi
pally an industrial state with a considerable agriculture.
“I have watched with interest the growth of North Carolina.
Visiting here some 25 years ago as a guest of the Seaboard
Air Line with a party of New Jersey newspaper men. Com
paring conditions today, I can see the rapid strides you have
been making.
“From what I can see, I believe that you are just beginning,
and that North Carolina has a bright future just ahead of it.
“Having the pleasure of the acquaintance of your incoming
Governor, Angus McLean, I feel sure you are in for four years
of good, sane, solid and progressive government.
“As I said, our conditions do not differ much from yours in
general, except for conditions that are purely local in charac
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“I think I see something here in the s6U|j^mat is most grati
fying. It is a tenacity for your traditions and a ^persistence
to ideals. In the north and east there is. a growing tendency
toward materialism that is not evidenced here. This ten
dency has forced itself upon our national life in a most un
fortunate way. We are becoming entirely too prone to judge
everything by material success, to gauge success by prosperity,
and to measure it by wealth. This is a natural result of in
dustrial growth, of the prosperous times we have had; of the
very practical way we have of looking at everything; of the
era of combination.
“In the midst of all this, sentiment is scoffed at and ridiculed.
In almost any state it is much easier to interest legislators in
the building of roads or making other public improvements
rhan to secure appropriations for the insane, tubercular and
others alike unfortunate. It has entered our national life as
a natural consequence of these local conditions.
“Nationally it is equally difficult to arouse enthusiasm over
purely humane subjects. Materialism is wholly selfish. In
such an age each looks out for himself. Capital wants every
dollar it can get, and labor unions the last cent for its toil. A
terrible contest is started, the end of which no one knows.
So long as times" are good and both are prosperous, we go
merrily on, but when hard times Come something must give
way, or somebody must be hurt. With everyone purely
materialistic and selfish and not thinking of others, there can
not be that accommodation so necessary in times of stress.
“Immediately after the war we were in great fear of the
march of socialism and radicalism which had made such strides
in Europe. Prosperity lifted us out of the danger, for when
a. country is prosperous, these ideas do not appeal to a people..
When prosperity disappears and hard times arrive, and the
great masses have difficulty in making both ends meet, when
starvation enters the home, and labor can find no employment,
then socialism, radicalism and Bolshevism find a fertile field for
their peculiar doctrines.
“Discontent and suffering grasps at any straw. In France
the outward manifestation was Revolution. Materialism is
the breeder of revolution among those who cease to prosper
under such conditions. The only clear antidote for materialism
is idealism, unselfish interest in and love for humanity. At a
time when there is prosperity .some ope, at the expense of
being called a pessimist, strike a note of warning'before it
drifts too far. * V1 ; * * i'M
“Let us examine in passing the last political campaign. One
party advocated leaving well enough alone and appealed to
the purely material side of life, and this party was overwhel
mingly successful, especially so in the north and east. I
fear to think of the time when the South and West are swept
into this maelstrom of materialism, when they too think only
of present success and prosperity and forget the more humane
and sentimental side of life.
* . (Continued on page 10)