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
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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
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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. _ , _ ___ „ ~ , »
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