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TUESDAY, JULY 10. 1923
TOP O’ THE MORMNG
a true friend le « purifier, a cor
rective, an incentive, an Inspiration,
and ideal—F. B. Meuer.
IT MEANS PROSPERITY OR
depression
A few people can not hurt their
town or county or state but a whole
i lot of people can. Joe Patton, who
I edits the Made-In-Carolina page of
0 The Charlotte Observer, persistently
hammers on the idea that North Caro
linians should buy the manufacturers
and products made in Carolina for the
purpose of encouraging industrial de
velopment and for the purpose of
building up a* sustained prosperity.
The Star, as well as The Observer,
haB often pointed out the buy at home
policy as a iheans of building up our
industries and communities, but there
is yet too great a proportion of people
■who have not given consideration to
the economic importance of spending
, in North Carolina the money made in
North Carolina.
That is no doubt true, for Editor
Patton states that “some people have
considered this merely a small move
ment, whose ultimate success or fail
ure would affect very few individuals.”
cities have lost their rank as cities
; because their people failed to patro
nize home establishments and local
industries. Not long since we read of
a” western city which went through
the thrones because the trade of its
people went to Chicago department
stores. Several industries also fol
* lowed the trade to Chicago, and a
. number of business houses pulled out,
too.
Well, of course, that left vacant
stores in the victim city, idle indus
trial buildings, vacant dwelling houses
and \ unemployed working people.
Business dwindled, real estate
slumped, and prosperity fled. That
. city was Spokane, but for all we know
there are North Carolina cities and
towns with Spokane's experience.
: There can be no doubt at all that one
of the worst things a people could do
for their state, their county or their
city is to build up trade elsewhere
than at home. Industry, business and
population surely migrate to places
where there is something doing. Of
course, when the purchasing power
of the home market town declines, the
ultimate effect reaches the farms,
causing farm values to take a 'slump
r with the town, just as the American
Harvester magazine related concern
ing what happened to a New England
town.
No need to tell anybody what Is
/" going to happen to any New England
town when its industries put on skates
and migrate to North Carolina. How
ever, North Carolina also has to take
care of the prosperity that has come
to her because of industrial develop
'ment. Lots of us can very materially
affect our home prosperity by neglect
ing to do our part towards sustaining
and stabilizing it. The best way to
get industries is to be jealous of the
prosperity of the home city, and the
% best way to keep industries is to su
stain them as well as to go fishing
for them, as though they are suckers.
•'/' According to the thirty-third report
of the Department of Labor and Print
ing, at Raleigh, the cotton milling in
dustry in North Carolina ranks first
among all the state’s industries, in
cluding the tobacco, furniture and
. other manufacturing industries, all
/ combining to place North Carolina
, ahead of all other southern states.
■. The capital invested in industries in
North Carolina aggregates $367,769,
952, not including factories which did
.not* report to the commissioner of
" labor and printing. A proximately
100,000 people are ■ employed in in
dustries and practicall 1,000,000 of the
' state’s population is dependable on in
.. dustries. Mr. Patton points to that to
.show that at least one-third of the
people of the state depend upon the
: Carolina payroll for their living.
Certainly North Carolina prosperity
depends more upon her industries
than upon any one factor, for most
Dther industries, especially agricul
tural industry, depend upon the pros
perity of our manufacturing Indus
'' tries. We make a very grave mis
take when we fail to take considera
tion of the fact that buyers among in
dustrial workers, agricultural workers,
and the people of the state generally,
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can do serious hurt to their own pros
perity by not buying "Made-in-Caro
lin’ manufactures and Carolina prod
ucts and by buying in other cities
what can be bought in North Caro
lina cities.
COME SOUTH FOR SUCCESS
Senator douzenB, of Michigan, who
is all sorts of a success himself, and
who knows what an opportunity is
when he sees it in seizable form, is in
a class with Roger Babson when it
corned to boosting the south as the
Mecca to which forward-looking young
men should hasten while the hasten
ing is good. At least Senator Cap
per, says in Capper’s Weekly:
Senator “Jim” Couzens, of Michi
gan, whose success In business Is
pretty well established, decides
the south is the land of oppor
tunity after ihis tour of that coun
try with the senate committee of
reforestation. ‘‘They’ve got every
thing down there to make for suc
cess,” he says. “If I were a young
man and had my life to live over
, again and was sure I could retain
ray pep, I’d surely so south.”
Senator Capper evidently believes
that is the truth, so he passes it
along. He believes in tne iruui auu
is a stickler for it, even “true in
fabrics.” The distinguished Kansas
senator knows the distinguished
Michigan senator, and, therefore, at
tributes great importance to what is
said by such a successful and re
putable man as the Michigan senator.
The Star is always ready and pre
pared to confirm all constructive
references to the south, especially the
Tar Heel portion of it. Down here
in North Carolina we "have every
thing for success,” hence '"The Star
has always turned the spotlight on
this as the “land of opportunity” for
the young man, the constructive man,
the man of vision and the man with
capital. The evidence, the testimony
and the exhibits bear that out every
day, so we are always glad to accept
such testimony as that freely offered
by Senator Couzens. In another
article in Cappers Weekly, the ro
mance of that gentleman's own indi
|vidual success is thus chronicled:
IVhen United States Senator
James Couzens was a poor young
man he put a few highly-prized
dollars into a gasoline motor that
another poor young man. Henry
Ford, was trying to put on the
market. This was in 1903. Couz
eris had saved $400, and had re
ceived a bonus of $500 for helping
a coal dealer run his profits up
to $90,000 In a year. All told Couz
ens put up $900 cash, another $100
he borrowed from his sister and
his note for $1,500, and for all this
received 25 shares of stock in the
company. In 12 years Mr. Couzens |
drew a million or so in dividends,
and in 1915 sold out to Mr. Ford
for 40 million dollars. He repaid
his sister by giving her 1 share
of stock for her hundred dollars,
and she drew $95,000 in dividends,
then sold this share for $260,000.
Now Mr. Couzens is a United tSates
senator.. It is well to be able to
recognize an opportunity when you
meet one. also to have a little
spare cash to invest in it.
Senator Couzens knew an oppor
tunity when he saw It personally ac
companied by Henry Ford, but we
know the Michigan senator best by
his own ability and great achieve
ments. He made the greatest mayor
Detroit ever had and his wonder
fully successful administration of that
great municipality, and his extraordi
nary achievement In handling the
Michigan city’s traction problems,
gained for him a tremendous reputa
tion entirely his own.
We accept Senator Couzens as a
most eminent authority upon the op
portunities and possibilities in the
j south. He knows its inexhaustible
[ resources and has the vision* to ad
vise young men to seek the south for
their greatest opportunities. All we
can do is to say, that a young man
who leaves the south leaves behind
him "the land of opportunity.”
CASH AT THE WEEK-END
The intelligent and industrious
farmer in the Wilmington district has
about the same advantage as working
men who work in factories and re
ceive cash for the week-end. The
man on the payroll of a substantial
and prosperous industry is a lucky
individual, but he is no more to be
envied that the farmer whp can “cash
in” at the week-end and every day
he can reach the home markets or the
northern markets from which he gets
his money for what he produces and
sells.
A Carolina farmer who began dairy
ing on a small scale and thereafter
increased his herd and dairying side
line, says he finds it to the great ad
vantage of himself and the family be
cause it provides “cash for the week
end.” His system includes cows, hogs
and hens, and he markets milk, butter
fat, butter, eggs, cljifekens and smoke
house hams. He is on his own pay
roll and has, cash for the week-end
every week. '' >
Of course, the best of all week-end
cash opportunities a farmer has is
here in Alluvial Carolina where he
can market dairy ;and poultry products
the year round, can market early
vegetables, strawberries, cantaloupes,
watermelons, peaches, dewberries,
huckleberries, cotton, tobacco, and)
all manner of crops which, sell every I
day or every week- throughout the
year. ■ ; ' *' •. V
Nation’s Garden^ Spot farmers ap
preciate the difference between “cash
for the week-end” and long-distance
cash received at the end of a cotton
or tobacco season in a one-crop coun
try. The chief glory of the Cape Fear
region is that farm income is liquid
and flows just in proportion as farm
owners know what to grow and make
and sell—not one season of the year
but all season’s which he can call
his own.
A STATESMANLIKE VIEW
OF EUROPE
When Senator Undeswood, of Ala
bama, returned from Europe last week,
he made a statement of his observa
tion of present and prospective con
ditions in Europe, indicating a point
of view of the statesman not the
least shaded by political or partisan
prejudices, and far removed from any
commercial or financial considerations.
No American who has been over
Europe and returned home to give
Americans an impression of the sit
uation there has so' ably, so clearly
or so dispassionately pointed the
United States to a duty it owes to it
self and the world. Senator Under
wood allowed himself to be quoted,
and a journal of such high standing
and wide influence as the New York
Journal of Commerce refers tc his
statement as “Underwood's Clarion
Call,” commenting as follow:
Returning from a tour of Europe,
Senator Understood flings down
the sharpest, strongest and sanest
challenge .to the present admini
stration that regime of do-noth
ingism has yet received. The
prominence of Senator Under
wood in the councils of the Demo
cratic party and the fact that he
is generally considered a candidate
for nomination to the presidency
to succeed Mr. Harding lend add
ed significance to his utterance.
That Europe has progressed but
little, if any. toward settlement
of major political questions since
the armistice and that that con
tinent is today about as far from
normal conditions t»s it has ever
been is a fact only too well known
to those who have been closely
following world affairs during the
past few years. That our positive
and persistent refusal to play a
manly and self-respecting part in
straightening out the tangles re
sulting from war’s upheaval is in
no small measure responsible for
this situation is'a truth universal
ly accepted by unbiased students
the world over. Has the^tlme now
arrived when we can gain our
own consent to policies more In
keeping with the advice of Sena
tor Underwood and with the dic
tates of sound statesmanship?
Evidence is not lacking of some
faint stirrings of conscience on the
part of the present regime in na
tional politics. President Hard
ing’s rather timid support of his
world court proposal jand the Eu
ropean tours of several prominent
Republican politicians are symp
toms of uneasiness on the part of
some whose' desire heretofore ap
peared to be to keep the eyes of
the public turned from all matters
outside of our own borders. Predic
tion is always dangerous, but It
now seems highly probable that
the Republican party will find it
difficult to obtain Its own consent
to face the electorate next year
upon a platform of studied indif
ference to world affairs. Much
more likely is it that serious en
deavor will be made by' that group
to square itself with the awaken
ing conscience of the people of
this nation. It cannot go very far
in this direction, however, with
out completely repudiating its own
past, and that It could hardly do
without sacrificing its chance of
being returned to power.
Senator Underwood indulged in no
hysteria about Europe but it is evi
dent that the study which he gave to
the situation there caused him the
gravest apprehensions of the future.
Participation in the international
court of justice, he said with deep
conviction, will not enable the United
States to do its duty to the world at
a time when it faces obvious peril,
and he made It plain that joining with
the world court with reservations,
such as President Harding has sug
gested, would make America of little
service to Europe in handling her
problems.
Under the circumstances, the Jour
nal of Commerce sees little hope of
any Republican policy that will open
the way to the United States to serve
Europe in what is impending, since
Senator Underwood declared that
there are at present more causes for
war in Europe than there were in
1914. The Journal of Commerce can
not find in the Republican attitude
the slighest indication of a sane for
eign policy, so it declares that "the
hope of sanity and vigor in our for
eign relations appears, therefore, to
be largely dependent upon the oppos
tion.” It is from this fact that the
admirable statements of Senator Un
derwood derive much of their vital im
portance, that paper says. Then comes
this significant query: “Will' the
Democratic party. JbdVe the wisdom
and the'patriotism to select its candi
date and to write into its platform
vigorous, sound, honest planks with
regard to our foreign policies?’
SUFFICIENT TO RAISE
DOUBTS
Senator Borah stands for the re
nodiination of President, HarcRng and
Un4» no objection to the President’s
wofld court id®a. The President’s
proposal,for reserved* American parti
cipation in the international court of
justice is being shot full of holes .'by
statesmen conversant with Europe’s
perils showing that there is some"
thing wrong with it. Borah’s endorse
ment of it bught to make president
Harding suspicious of his new for
eign policy. If Hi Johnson should alsjo
chime in with the President, when he
I returns from his tour of Europe, that
!should make.Mr. Harding’s suspicions
unanimous. •. „
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
OFF YEAR FOR DICTATORS
Editor of The Star: v ,
Having been on the firing line of de
mocracy for 44 years, and serving on
the New Hanover Democratic executivi
committee for 20-odd consecutive years
! when good government was at stake, I
I feel that I am in a position to know
some things about the working of poli
, tics. When .Senator Simmons ran for
| the senate the first time, I wrote an
| article showing why the populists and
I Republicans were -working against him
! and did everything l could for him, and
j have always been for him and think he
has proven to he everything in his
work at Washington that any man
could he. In fact, he has been a great
honor not only to North Carolina, but
to the entire Democratic party, and in
the urimary that selected Governor
Morrison I did 'everything I could for
j him, and am glad of it, as he stands
j at the head of the list of governors of
! North Carolina In material progress and
! constructive work, and he and Senator
j Simmons both deserve the praise of the
people of North Carolina in their great
achievements. But I think that they
both would make a great mistake to
assume the role of a Ceasar or dicta
tor and try to dictate to the-Democratic
voters of North Carolina whom they
should vote for in the Democratic pri
mary to fill the various offices in this
state, as I am sure the manhood and
womanhood of North Carolina will not
stand for it.
There are a good mapy professional
office seekgrs in North Carolina, who
like the dogs that sat around the rich
man’s table, are waiting for the crumbs
in the shape of office or appointments,
and who at the crack of the whip by
those whom they think control the
Democratic party, are ready to say "me,
too.” and obey their'commands, what
ever they may be. ' We want to elimi
nate this class'out of control. I be
lieve that the primary law is one of the
best laws ever enacted, for that, pur
pose, if the voters will turn out and
express themselves at the ballot box
and not stay away and let the machine
get control. I will offer a way to put
the machine out of control in a future
letter at the proper time, and will say
to those who assume the role of Cae
sars and dictators of the voters of
North Carolina that they will wake up
some morning and find the handwrit
ing on the wait, which is the sure and
deserved fate-of ail who attempt it.
History has nrnven these facts.
Tours respectfully,
Wilmington, N.
D. J. FERGUS.
C., July 9. #



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Lynchburg for the purpose of
purchasing goods, but to those
who wish to combine business
with pleasure, railroad fares
will be refunded on purchases
of $500.00 or more, according
to distance traveled. Schedules
and definite information may
be obtained at headquarters.
to visit Lynchburg during MAt Home Week” July
24th to 27th, inclusive, and participate in enjoyable
festivities; which have been arranged in your honor.
The Lynchburg Manufacturers’ and Wholesalers’
Associatioh will be hosts arid there will be some
thing going on every minute df the day for the en
joyment of their guests. Everything Free, except
hotel accommodations, which can be had at mod
erate rates
All plans are complete for the big Industrial
Exhibition and Pageant of Progress, including good
vaudeville, style show. Band of thirty pieces, in
ehufiqg an orchestra, will furnish music.
There will be a Trades Pageant and Carnival that
promises much fun and entertainment.
Then there is the Water Carnival, Free Auto Trips,
Fire Works and a big supper on the island, the
kind you will remember.
Your money can’t buy any soft drinks or admission
to the movies on Main Street, for they are all free.
Aside from the entertainment, Mr. Harry Collins
Spillman, nationally known for his personality talks,
and conferences with merchants, will meet and talk
with the merchants for a short while each morning.
A welcome that you will remember awaits you.
Complete program for the week will be mailed on
request. Come bring the wife and family. Let us
know that we may be on the lookout for you.
Address, Lynchburg Manufacturers’ and Whole
salers’ Association, P. O. Box 752, Lynchburg, Va.
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