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Entered as second-class mail matter August 20, at the Post Office at Tryon, N. C under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 111 he tLmott Haily bulletin Vol. 5 TRYON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPT 21, 1932. A Tribute to North Caroling 1 I I ■ I . - 3j> Bruce Barton, author ot “The Man Nobody Knows " has written this tribute M to North Carolina for the "Parade of the States” Monday night programs of the General Motors Corporation, part of an educational plan to make the country as a whole better acquainted with the individual states —their history, scenic beauty, industries and people. . v ) yj ®TO North Carolina, the old North State, the Tar Heel y? State, the state whose greatness has been achieved & by her own native sons and daughters, with little aid from without ... to North Carolina, General Motors fj pays its tribute. - |: One of the thirteen original states, she has placed in many fields the heroic role of the pioneer. On her soil was planted the first English colony! in £ what is nov/ the United States, and the first Anglo- a Saxon child in the New World was born. Virginia Dare was the child, and her name lingers on in our 0 memories, though her fate is forever veiled in the mystery of the Lost Colony r of Roanoke Island. In North Carolina, on the wind-swept sand hills of Kitty Hawk, the Wright 4 Brothers flew the first airplane. The Old North State gave the nation Presidents Polk and from the same sturdy pioneer stock sprang Andrew Jackson, Hep s ru.ggfid o ' mountains bred ruggedneps in the character of Daniel Boone. . , Those mountains have not losj either; their ruggedness or their charm. Dreamily be4iut4ful they are . . the Blue Ridge and ,the Great “the Land .oif the' Sky,” .. . covered with virgin foaming, rivers u peopled by hardy? mountain folk who stin Reserve in thefrr 1 ’Spfeerih stnd 'ciistfdraSthe ; h*44iiion3 of Elizabethan England. .Sfchqaot From Mount; Mttphell, the highest peak east Los the Missisaippl, an empire of fertile valleys and plains slopes down bo .the: Atlantic, an empire boasting.'. > -climate of siriendid variety-and > an almost bewildering wealth of products. io rii'u H°w.n from the. mountains copse the rivers and streams to be trans? formed into the magic of electric energ>’, and so to drive the wheels df , hundreds of textile tpills and the yast tribacco facto Mes bf Durham, Winstbn- Salem, and Reidsville. • f ' rv - 1 OJ E't'iio.eGiiii nsbo sv«| . n'typ' tQf tho mountaiha vfmd tb the pine .firtdStS'ied ! fferiw ‘all' Qyer i: ‘ our land, to find health arid refreshment and delight at Asheville and Fhifc hurst and many anothey.beaaity, spot. n; ,, . .ebe-mrlT aiUtß Jil TD W cnT You, too, must go. You must ride along fatuous modern IfeMSTtPt j North Carolina, penetrating every corner of .the state. You-paust, Raleigh, the charming old eapital. Y6h ihdst Dolly .. ..Madison-.and, O.’ Henry Were bdrn; and Guilford Court Hhl- Vdrsify. at Chapel Hill,„ and Duke University at Durham, so'‘munificently endowed of the state’s greats , bays along the coast where fishermen and hunters find the spprtsman’a >J 3 3 la ' r: On North Carolina’s behalf General Motors extends this.invitation to the pomrin' Go and linger. Nowhere, ppgtjnwe instructive or the present more in- | spiring than in the Old North State. _ , _ ___ „ ~ , » 3%ht HDifiaoeg^—aTDuaoßq | loar-aTfatC - ' TUttf 7 «iou ; Est. 1-31-28
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