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Text of Address by John Motley Morehead (Edltor'n Note ? Apprarinx here t> the full address (iiven Thursday* moralag by John Mali*)' Morehead at the formal dedication of the new state port at Morehead City), Here, today, come together, in the dedication of the Port Terminal of Morehead City, the mime and significance of a man and a city, the past and present programs, and the high hopes of a progressive people. The man-is John Motley Morehead, whose name this city bears, and one of whose dreams is being fulfilled here to day. Well it has been said that* these who do not commemorate their fathers will not deaerve to be remembered by their sons. I recall my grandfather here today not so much with filial pride, but as a fitting part of this occasion and as a symbol of all those North Caro linians who in the past and in the present have dreamed dreams and built nobly for a great state. Some of those dreamers and builders still live, and are Represented on this platform today. The name Morehead was given to those families in Scotland who lived at the head of the moors, and they came to be variously known as Moorehead, Muirhead, and More head. The Moreheads had lived since 1121 at the head of the moors as farmers and shepherds, served as members and chiefs of the High land Clans, as parishioners, pastors and Bishops, and as soldiers in the Crusades to the Hold Lands, as knighted lairds, as Ministers of State, as Scottish rebels against English kings, as merchants in Edinburgh and in London, and as colonizers and colonists in the new workl. Of such, in common today with uncounted millions in their composite inheritance and descent from the nobility, gentry, and the commons of Britain and the old world, are the people of America melted together in freedom ind democracy. These peoples of ihe old world were the pioneer sub stance of the new world, and are now the chief hope of freedom and peace in the old world and in the new. From Scottish moors an<l London business houses, the Moreheads came in 1630 to the lands of the Northern Neck of Virginia between the Potomac and Kappahanock and thence to the fertile valleys be tween the Banister ^nd Dan rivers which join to make the Roanoke and tie together much of North Carolina and Virginia. The first John Motley Morehead was born on July 4th, 1796, in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, of John and Obedience Motley Morehead, whose father served as a captain under Washington in the French and In dian War and whose *ix brothers served under Washington in the Revolution. John Motley Morehead was brought by his parents as a two year old chili to their new home in the fertile lands of Rock ingham county, North Carolina, in 1798. Not far away from his boyhood home was the battlefield and his toric traditions of Guilford Court House to which her grandmother, Karenhappuch Norman Turner, had ridden on horseback from her Maryland home to nurse her sons and other soldiers severely wound ed fighting under the able General Nathaniel Greene. That stubborn battle checkmated the advance of the conquering British and pre pared the way for the final Ameri can victory at Yorktown of George Washington over Cornwallis. Lord Cornwallii, tradition has it, directed his surgeon to attend the wounded as he found them on that battlefield, whether friend or foe. Not very far from the M rehead house over in Guilford county was also the famous log college of Da vid Caldwell, who later prepared young Morchead for the Universi ty. Caldwell was one of the sons of Princeton, who, in his preaching and teaching, helped to light the fires of the American Revolution, and for whose capture Cornwallis offered 200 pounds. At the young State University at Chapel Hill Morehead, quite early in the last century, develop ed in association with other young men who were to become gover nors. judges, members of Presiden tial cabipets, senators, ambassa dors, preachers, teachers, agricul turists, manufacturers, builders, and leaders of the people in many southern states. As an instructor at Chapel Hill, Morehead taught, among other fu ture leaders, William Mercer Greene, one of the founders and chancellors of the University of the South at Sewanee; Robert Hall Morrison, one of the founders and first president of Davidson college, and James K. Polk, first honor man of the class of 1818, and later Pres ident of the United States. Polk, Morehead respected since their Chapel Hill days, but campaigned against him in support of Henry Clay, his Whig party favorite for President. The steam engine, the motive power of the new factories and mines in England, and later of all the world, became the pulsing heart of the industrial revolution through its invention in 1769 by James Watt. James Watt was the son of Agnes Morehead of Scotland. Stephenson put the steam engine on rails in England; Robert Fulton put the steam engine in ships on the Hudson. John Motley More head put Stephenson's locomotive on rails in North Carolina to meet the steamships which would soon ply the seven seas of the earth. To the dreams of his teachers he added larger dreams of his own, to which he gave his long and de voted life. Hear this prophetic man. more than a century ago speaking out for the freedom of the mind, the freedom of enter prise and the unfettered equal op portunity of the people of our state. When fighting for equal represen tation in the legislature of the peo ple of the more heavily western counties, he was reminded by the opposition that in Virginia, the home of Thomas Jefferson, no per son was allowed to vote or hold office who was not a freeholder of real property. Morehead replied in substance that while he cstecyned the character and achievements of Virginia, he highly respected and felt veneration for her great lead ers, but "he shuddered to ihink that the poor freemen of his state should be excluded from the legis lative councils of the country. To whom did this country t>elong, any way, when it burst the British let ters and became independent? It certainly belonged to the whole community and not to the wealthy alone. Why then should the peo ple be deprived of any privilege for which they jointly fought ind to which they are justly entitled?*' At the request of ihe Quakers of Guilford county he introduced a bill in the state legislature for the gradual liberation of the slavey. Judge William Gaston of New Bern, who, in 1789. was ihe first student to enter Georgetown university, and who wrote our state song. "The Old North State.'' and John M. Morehead were leaders of the minority which voted in ihe Constitutional convention of 1835 against taking away from free Negroes the right to vote. Then Governor Morehead. ahead of his time, recommended state institu tions for the training of ihe blind, the deaf and dumb, and for the care of the insane. A large slaveholder#himself. he was opposed to both slavery and to reckless abolitionism, and favored gradual and responsible emancipa tion. Opposed to secession, he tried with other moderate leaders. North and South, to save the Union, but he cast his lot with the Confederate states against North ern aggression in the invasion of the Southern states. He fought against unequal repre sentation, against the poverty, il literacy and isolation of a people devoid of hifhways, railroads, waterways and seaports, and there fore without advanced agriculture, trade and industries upon which depend the free enterprise and prosperity, the enlightenment and culture, the opportunity and prog ress of a free people. As agitator and builder, as lead BEAMS 86 Kentucky Whiskey A BLEND > 84 *350 $220 rirtw pint er of the Whig party, as trustee of the University of North Carolina fot 38 years, organizer and first president of its Alumni associa tion, of which, . incidentally, his namesake was president exactly one hundred years later, as reform er of the state constitution, is chairman of the National Whig convention, as president rvf the North Carolina Railroad associa tion, founder of Edgeworth, a woman's college in Greensboro, friends of religious dissenters, champion of the equal representa tion of the people, of gradual eman cipation of the slaves, of the right of free Negroes to vote ? planter, builder of mills and factories, pro moter of highways, railroads, and seaports, founder of Morehead City, he was both a prophetic ideal ist and a practical agricultural, in dustrial and political statesman. Not the least of all these enter prises, movements and events, is the development of this port, the terminal and the docks of More head City as a junction of rail ways, airways and for the exchange ! of goods in the commerce Df ihe world. More than a Hundred vears ago he helped to lay the foundations in Morehead City and across ihe state from the sea to the moun tains, of a modern state and the progressive traditions of a humane and hopeful people. in the vision of Morehead the North Carolina railroad, terminat ing at Morehead City, was not only to tie together in travel and trade the eastern and western sections of our state and through the new sea port here the seaways of the world and the great interior waterways of the American continent, but also the railroad was to connect with the turnpikes and railroads >OQn io be built from north to south, across eastern America from Boston io New Orleans. Others Hiave told the story of those before him and after him who worked and buiided on Shep ard's Point. They have told of the times from Bridges Arendcll, io the times of the Morehead City Fort commission of W. Hufham, B. F. Royal, S. Woodland, W. P. Freeman, and G. R. Wallace, io the days of the State Survey com mission composed of the directors of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, Selby Anderson, Wilson Luther Hamilton of Morehead City, J. Y. Joyner, and later M. D. Ste phenson of New Bern. They have told the story on through the re cent state administrations of Gov ernor Gregg Cherry, hich uqt up the pn'srpt State Ports authority, directed Chairman A. G. Myers, Col. G. W. Gillette, engineer and executive director, and their asso ciates, who have ably brought for ward this enterprise to this happy occasion and hopeful outlook; of Governor W. Kerr-Scott, who made North (Carolina seaports a fighting part of his go forward program through large public investments in interurban and rural highways and commercial seaports at Wil mington and at Morehead City. Others still will tell of the en gineering layout of the harbor, ihe docks and the terminal, their fa cilities and their limitations. Others have recalled the vision of Gov ernor Cameron Morrison and his great program for building roads, ' institutions, and ports in our state. A proud history gives back ground and momentum to the for ward march ot^a great people of the purest native stock. The first settlement of the English speaking people and the first English child born in the New World was over there in Dare county on Roanoke Island. At Alamance in 1771, in Mecklenberg in 1775, and at Hali fax in 1776, North Carolina blazed the trails of an insurgent people on the way to the American Revo lution which started the march of the peoples' revolution around the earth. This revolution for the free dom of people could not be stopped by Adolph Hitler, or Mussolini, and cannot be halted now b jr the re actionary and no less monstrous dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. At Chapel Hill, as a child of this American Peoples' Revolution, 1 % DO YOU KMOW WHAT SHE KNOWS? ? She knawa BOW MUCH ahe paid aad for WHAT. ? Skc know. WHOM ike paid and WHEN. ? She kaowa WHERE the iludi financially today and every day. BECAUSE the paya aU her bllla'hy CHECK. Open a checking accent la tkia haak NOW ... and know AH the aaawen ALL the ttaw. Stop la Today and Let Ua Tell To* Haw Eaay aad Simple It la. Firsft-Cilizeiis Bank & Trust Co. US ArcadeB St. Mare head City, N. C. Phoae M1SI MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. I there was founded by the soldiers i of George Washington and Na thaniel Greene the first itate uni versity of the people in the New World. Today, consolidated *ith the distinguished State college in Haleiith and the pre-eminent Wo | man's college in Greensboro, and I in cooperation with Duke univtrsl , tv. Wake Forest, Davidson, and ait | our splendid colleges for men and women, .starting with its outstand ing system of nine months a vear state supported public school sys tem. is with them all, an 3dvanv ing hope of "light and liberty" Tor our people. The primary purpose of ihis port is to serve the state of North Caro lina. Today big name industries | are swarming to Carolina ? names such as General Klectric, General Motors. Western Electric, DuPont, Union Carbide, American Woolen. A total of 101 industries invested over $140,000,000 in plants in North Carolina in 1951, and estimates of the expenditures for similar pur i poses for the first part of 1952 have equalled or exceeded those of 1951 for a like period. The manufacture of iheir prod ucts alone will approximate an ad ditional $1,000,000,000 a year. These companies require and de mand world markets for their goods and world sources for iheir raw materials, hence ihe Morehead port terminal comes vividly into the picture as an outlet to ihe sea. It is singularly appropriate that .he Union Carbide company should establish a plant in North Carolina, as it was in this state just 60 years ago that this giant industry had its inciptency in the discovery >f a method of producing calcium car bide in the electric furnace. Dur ing that 60 years the company has established businesses in every one of the 48 states, and in 18 foreign countries, has built up a business with a volume in excess of $2,300, 000 a day. Having made a round trip in the 00 years, it has come back home and is now building t $30,000,000 plant in Rockingham 1 county,' within less than iwo miles of the spot where it first saw ihe light. If these industries come io our state, spend vast amounts if money | in the location of their industries | here, if they give employment io thousands of our people and dis pense millions of dollars each year to the population of our state, in taxes, in payrolls, md through other channels, it is only fair ind right, and it is good business that the state provide every means io help them make a profit in their business, without which profit they will not and cannot continue to op erate in our midst. In this city of Morehead, where "men go down to the >ea ships" and fisherfolk as 'The ?ons of ihe sea capture the wealth of the leap ing tides," we ale reminded ihat at Edenton, Joseph ilewes, is the first chairman of the Naval Affairs committee of the Continental Con gress, founded the American Navy and enlisted for the American Rev olution John Paul Jones. It was John Paul Jones, who, at the very beginning, set high the fighting traditions of the American Navy,? so that ever since by his example American sea captains "when ar mored wrong makes terms to fight, fling back his proud reply, 'We have not yet begun to fight.' " Joseph Hewes was forerunner of four North Carolinians who became secretary of the United States Navy ? Branch. Badger, William A. Graham, and Josephus Daniels. One of these projected the expedi tion of Commodore Perry which opened up Japan to the world, re cently fateful with hazards and now hopeful with resurgent strength for the free peoples of the world. The last of North Caro lina's secretaries of the Navy, di rected the Natfy to victory in the first world war, my old friend, Josephus Daniels. In the War between the States, North Carolina furnished more sol diers than any other Southern state, and.her University had more of her son* kited or wounded in battle than any other college or university in any state on Either side of that war. It wa6 President David L. Swain and Governor Zeb ulon B. Vance, who. rn the spirit of Robert E. Lee, taught the accept ance and "the duties of defeat" after the war. This terrible war shook a continent but lorced "an indissoluble union of. indestructi ble states" which are today the chief hope of the Union of Nations and the freedom of the world. In the fulfillment of these great traditions, and on the foundation laid by Archibald de Bow Murphey. Bartlett. Yancy, Calvin H. Wiley, Edwin A. Altlerman, Charles D. Mc Iver, Braxton Craven, James Y. Joyner, and others, Charles B. Ay cock led a great public educational crusade in North Carolina. North Carolina has become the new leader of the new South in education, it is near the top of the list of states in agriculture, and it is at the very top of the 18 states in the manufacture of textiles, of tobacco, and of furniture, and is well up in public and general wel fare. as pans 01 ine i>orin Carolina rennaissance we see advancing to day two great universities, many state, church, and private colleges, three distinguished medical schools ? Duke university jn Durham, Bow man Gray of Wake Forest, in Win ston-Salem, and the State Medical school in Chapel Hil! ? a statewide system of interurban and rural highways*, a humane state-wide sys tem of hospitals and medical .'are launched by Broughton, and car ried forward by Cherry and Scott. This medical and hospital program by the vote of the people, is point ing the way for full competence in the medical care of the people across the state, from the sand dunes to the mountain coves. Nearby Morehead City. "The Menhaden Capital of the World," not far from where the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream meet ihe cold waters from the north, is the Beaufort Federal Marine labora tory, the University of North Caro lina Institute of Fisheries, ihe Duke university teaching center of Marine Biology, and the North Carolina State College Technical institute of the University of North Carolina. Camps Lejeune and j Cherry Point are nearby, with Fort Bragg only a little distance off ? all the largest camps in their re spective classes. The scenic parkway along the Blue Ridge mountains, Trom Wash ington to the Great Smokies Na tional park will soon connect (he vast population of eastern America with the majestic mountains of this state. The historical and symphonic folk dramas of "The Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island, "The Highland Call" at Fayetteville, "Unto These Hills" at Cherokee, and "The Horn in the West" at Boone, are elo quent and beautiful with iheir tales of the North Carolina pioneers. Too long has North Carolina been mainly tributary to the ports to the North and to the South. Too long have the raw materials of the South been tributary to the great financial centers of the gigantic in dustrial belt which reaches from Boston, New York and Philadel phia to Chicago and St. Louis. Rising to play its productive and INSURANCE COSTS throuqh DIVIDENDS RETURNED TO POLICYHOLDERS. CALL US. S.A.CIALX.JB. Mutual Insurance Agency Fint-Citbau lui Bldg. 6-4336 Morehead City | Fast Battel sL* We test and recharge your battery without removing it from your car. New jwwer for a discharged battery in only 30 minutes Peter's Smia Phone 2-4726 608 Front St. Beaufort membership drive were discussed at the annual district Farm Bureau meeting Wednesday at New Bern. Assistant county agent C. H. Kirk man and Floyd Garner of New port attended. The Five County agents' meeting was held in New Bern on Friday. Plans were discussed there for the junior dairy show. Assistant county agent Kirkman attended the meeting in the absence of county agent H M. Wiliams who has been on vacation. Mr. Williams return ed vesterdffy from his vacation. Dr. 1 F. Chestmri Again Holds Shellfish Office Dr. A. F. Chestnut. 2104 Aren dell at.. Morehead City, has been re-elected vice-president of the National SheUfisheries associa tion. The election of officers took place Thursday at the organisa tion's national convention at At: lantic City, N. J. Dr. Chestnut is shellfish special ist with the Institute of Fisheries Research. Morehe.id City. Other officers are J. B. Engle. Annapolis, Mil . president; G. Fran ces Beaven, Solomons, Md., secre tary-treasurer. Recreation Center Photos Appear in CPU. Report Appearing in the current Finer Carolina report, giving an account of towns' progress in the Carolina Power and Light company Finer Municipalities contest, are pictures of the Morehead City recreation center before the indoor furniture was reconditioned and after. Also appearing is a picture of the exterior of the building, after painting, showing a portion of the tennis courts. Straits Resident Pays Fine on Hunting Count Wilson Davis, Straits, paid a $10 fine and costs Friday night on a charge of hunting out of sea son with dogs and gun. Davis was apprehended Friday night by Leroy Mcintosh, game protector for Car teret county, and Bill Kinsey, game protector from Jacksonville. Davis was given a hearing before Justice of the Peace Vernon Guth rie, Morehead City. powerful part in America and in the world, is the New South of farms, factories, and electric power, transportation and communication, universities and research on the farthest frontiers of creative ideas and humane hopes. Witl) our vast store and variety of natural resources and advan tages with our pure native stock, with our state government, always singularly free of scandal and cor ruption, we have a great deal to offer, and are set to create and to ride the waves of progress and of prosperity. By cooperative leadership and the work of millions of people in churches, in schools and in libra ries, on farms, in factories, and in power plants, on railroads, on highways, in airlineS and in sea ports, the future is especially bright. North Carolina is on the march. Know where to find her? She might b* a Nurse, ? Milliner, a Dressmaker or Music Instruc tor. Whatever her business . . . whatever product or service you are looking for, you'll Had it quickly and easily in the 'VUIOW EAOII' of your T sliphoM Directory The 'YELLOW PAGES' an your handiest, quickest shopping guide to WHO BUYS ? SELLS RENTS ? REPAIRS jCk "M""* TEUEHHE imniNCMffm Tankers Dack Twa tankers unloaded at the port terminal over thi weekend. The Easo Annapolis, with kerosene from Baytown, Tex., arrived Sunday and sailed yesterday. The Paludina, with asphalt from Curacao. Vene luela, arrived Saturday and also sailed yesterday. Stephen Foster, the composer who, won fame for his songs about the South, was a Northerner. He was born in Lawrenceviile, Pa. Right Man, Wrong f irm Architects for the Morehead City port were Carr ami Greiner, \tlan t?, Gi The article on port con struction which appeared in Tues day's Port and Progress edition was written by Hobert Peel of Carr ' and Greiner. The by-line errone ously stated that Peel was affili ated with T. A. Loving nod com pany. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 100 PROOF JMMi B. B?mr Distilling C?.. Owmoflt KMtocky ?410 *260 nrTH PINT GREAT OAK blended ? ftp-.1 WHISKEY GEEjjnSHE m $2.00 j pint $3.20 J fifth ? I I I It pMl. 1?% (rata fc?M Splilfi | AustinoNicKoIs | SCoH Inc. FILL HER UP AGAIN! A man came into our store the other day with an empty pre scription bottle. "Fill her up again," says he. And got mad when we said we couldn't do it without the doctor's approval. He didn't realize that taking drugs without his doctor's orders is serious business ? for him, fox his doctor and for us. too. After all, the doc^>r knows what's wrong and how to treat it ? and how to keep his patient alive. When the government will not allow even a liquor bottle to be refilled, why take chances with a prescription? MOREHEAD CITY DRUG CO. ? GOOD DRUG STORE Phone 6-4360 815 Arendell St. Morehead City Say, This Is More Like Ii! Mealtime is no problem now that Mom's serving Maota chocolate milk. What a flavor . . . what nourishment . . . what a Mom! You'll win praises from the ?mall fry too when you lenre our rich, nourishing Mtoli Chocolate Milk. Low coat solution to milk drinking problems. This is pure milk with chocolate added ? not a plain chocolate drink. ASK FOR MAOLA AT YOUR GROCERY Maola Dairy Bar Nmmm 6-3434 North 18th Sfc . Morehe.d City, N. C.
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