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House Puts- WSIrsH Things Firsts Dr. R. B. Hous.e, dean ofad ministratio.n. afc the department of the greater uni versity, made, what I almost deem an epochal he* fore the assembled Legie»-» naires at Greensboro. Sunday evening. The address- should have an awakening and quick ening effect upon his hearers. It should, alsft gratify the co zens of the- state, to have., th& evidence of tb# ability, pf the newly chosen; dean of adminisn tration to. pot first things, first, An instituion largely admin istered by a man of' the clear cut religious and economic principles enunciated in that address is very fortunate. So impressed is the writer with the text of Dr. House’s addr-ess that it is being largely incorporated in this article, and? without fur ther comment it is> in> large oart. sriven below : “There is but one, sure means to make a better world, and, that is the religion of Jesus Christ. Religion oft Peace ajift "It is, in the first place, a religipn of love. The fundamental problem inside of every nation, op earth todq.y, and between the nations of the earth, is not economic or political; it is spiritual. There is enough and to spare of material things for us to .live and to live well; provided,, we can learn to live together in reason rather than in hate. “It is a religion of peace. We can never live together in terms of love and reason so long as war can call the tune of our lives at will, destroy both life and* ppop^rty, and eat up our daily suh^tagpe in the unenjjjpg circle of \yars, that promise peace but never do > anything, mota than sreate new wars. It takes no prophet- to see that Europe is, headed- jpst aa degnitely into war today, as it wee ip. 193,4, tjhat there is a jingo, movement leadipg to war between this coujntr^..andi Japan; that there are, those in this country who prefer, the hopeless task of fight ing out our internal problems to the hopeful task, of thinking, and. wording them out. It is for us who. honor those who gave their lives for a better world to set our faces like flint against war* Plea For, Society’s Slave*, “It is a religion of mercy. There are in this country thousands of people so badgered and battered by the shock of these years of war and depression that they are sick in body, mind and, spirit, and utterly unable any more to shape their own circumstances. They are casualties of war and depression. Left to themselves they will but infect our whole body politic with despair and confusion. Left to themselves they are but slaves to society. They must be come the wards of society and be nursed back to health. “It is a religion of justice. We must never foget that our dead died in an age that did not hesitate to draft a boy but feared to draft a dol lar. The boy could bo blown to atoms in Flanders, but the dollar had to be preserved to bear interest forever. And we know that the most hopeful sign in this world today is the leadership of America which, is endeavoring to re motivate this nation in etb'caj terms rather than in the old terms of brute force, and that is unafraid to set hu man needs that are concrete and: tangi ble, crying, above property rights that are abstract and recalcitrant. We can have no better world so long as the few have luxury and the many have penury and fear and despair. “Hut the religion of Jesus Christ la above all a religion of individual re sponsibility There Is a great debate waging in this country abopt the re sponsibility of the individual. Some ‘ people claim that the government is inr lerforing so much \yith the individual• business that it has removed the pos sibility of individual freedom and thereby removed the necessity for in dividual responsibility. Those who pre sent this argument have, as a rule, done pretty well for. themselves under the old order. They have been willing s. gamble security for freedom because ^thcy have been able to turn freedom to their own account. There is another gtoup who not only wel<?oma the en trance of the government into: the' field °f individual freedom but would like for the government to relieve thern of the responsibility of any thought or action of their own initiative.They are billing to gamble freedom for se-,. curlty because th,ey, have neither ttosft courage noi;- dasjre to act op their ow? initiative. What each side needs to understand is that freedom and se curity are based in something- deeper^ and* that is moral character and intel ligence. The gjQvecnment itself can? not guarantee w elfetPe to % people- wJiq ' cannot, ri^e in, their otyn, thought an# action 'to the ley eh at. which, the gov ernment is aiming. : , - %4 Sjfeft?#} Anaktata^. "Thf fundamental question' in this country is whether or not the rank and file of'the-people desire to better their lives, and purpose to put forth the effort to better their lives* It- iB a matter of* spiritual awakening* Religion* democracy, education, an$ culture- are the spiritual forces that cafl, hotter ow lives* They dp, not, oRf ernte on nothing; hut th,ay. do opiate tb.o estahllshed institutions of society., "We will not have the benefit of religion until we are willing to make the church a more vital part of our lives. We will, not have the intel ligence necessary so long, as we nour ish, the intelligence of our children* in starveling schools under starveling teachers. Wo will npven hjfcvO government, so Iqj^f as W,e leave.- the oftfratians. of the govaRnme.nt solely to the. Pi;otession%l politician, agd, regerye for ourselves th.e right to critjcise on the basis of selfishness or whim. We wnsf aatticiBgte in, ou^ government loc.nJ.ly,. i.n the., state,, and in th,0 and. mgkn, its decisions our decisions; vote with conviction, and criticize fear lessly and magnaidmousiy.’' _ Apoto(|^( The Century Mark. ft, wa§. ouj? pleasure Sunday at the reunion of tbe-Uwyb? & Hofc Springs to, meet Mr* Those. Ji. Council who laeks less- than three months being a hundred- years old. Mr* Goun c8* is able to walk about and se,ems c.lear of mind and m ifts §pn Ci&udn ft as gray-headed as the father. Mr; Caunoit himself has- no strain of Utley blood but mar ried into the family. Another tvfeteran of the * Utljey clan tb Miss Nancy Utley, who. taught for abo.ut a half-century. She ft. eighty b;ut strong, and active. A- Mr. Norris present is eighty five and appears as if h,e might be good for a hundred too.. Hs Loved: Mis Native Land. Not of the ilk the poet de scribed as having souls “so dead that to themselves they have never said, ‘This is my own, my native land’,” was W. W. Fuller, who died the other day at his northern mansion. He still loved Cumberland county and its institutions. The remodeling of Old Bluff church, near Wade, was effected large ly through the contributions of Mu. Fuller. Less than a year ago this writer met him there and found that he knew far more of the writer than half the people in Dunn, where he had lived for ten months, knew of him, That is, Mr. Fuller .was interested in North Caro lina and its. people;. As a young, lawyer he be came concerned in the reor ganisation of the North Caro lina tobacco; industry. As chief counsel for the American to bacco, Company, he- became wealthy- That connection car ried hm ©hyaieafe from the State, but not his. affections. Certainly, that loyalty was nothing but natural, yet it is not infrequent that one finas that “dead soul” which causes utter forgetfulness of ones na- , tive haunts and the friends of his youth. That W. W. Fuller was not of that ilk, though his wealth made it ppssibje for him to choose in afr the world, be longer accredited to him as ^ a virtue than any benefaction he may have made while alive or by the. m> the contents °f close#. ■ .■» '-*»i Goldsboro-Dunn Rfaril*'oa<f 5 The Qoveeme# isgqpgagfcff OW a hal£-milU9ft tn cpftr stoucti/ngf a bq^ # Marched 'Eke* port itself wHEtefc * real port, so, far as capacity* depth of water, and other physical features are- concern ed. But a port without bus!* ness- i» a poor investment. North Carolina alone cannot furnish thye business that, wilf jngti# th.e expesn^tuye. Bj& tfci mi$ ^west ba& W% bu^tfie^s., Tbii question is? how M- ^ business.,. Thus fan, th& first, der sitoatum i& a liae> of. railway straight iota the area from wiuc&ike. mm* e wo, abMI %a$aye&e ©b^pwi^ tel yort tfeO’ rest, mart. s$e& it. Efe do>#& so, as ^bl JMprrf'^?#,- [■Iff1 ^W'V- tP - “ "-I “rwr ^s^;» wgvn» os mbssqr % >, Vj. . -yy^/>jSjL “IflbOijeatl^* t£ t*H$ ia ttys. reijjort tbafc. NSW York; capital: % concerning I*m)& with, vp$Sf>f4&Wt ok leasing tfeO; Stater o.w«<** iMJMWie w$£ Nflfth Carolina ra4^oa4?. f«J<>W- QoJ,#boso t0 $anu#W& $0$ bQjekM^ i& the ^unfyyft Etapki- S&JtMfc®®** hJ&> a r\$M v#il$o&4i f^QP- ***• *Wn> thu* ^cgri,9^ a, straight: chu*® the Qiji^y^ttey. tjov the, ^oj^tpct r»ftw> Q»f an port at Morehead City via Cloldsborn, Dunn, Durljain, apd theNorfolk-Wes tern raiinoa^ • ... “At present the A.' &-N. C. road is leased by the Ststtat to_ the- Noi^k Southern for 9 9 years but the* Norfolk ^ou^tbV) is ij^ t^renVa^ 'is the possibility that the State may be able to break the lease if it desires* “Thus; is renewed tha idea of h» East-ttest railroad ruiyii^ through N.otth Carolina and, connecting a North Carolina ocean port with the middle-, west. . “Such, a dream was held . by the bhilde/s o^ the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad more than a genera tion ago when they sought to link Wilmington through Fayetteville by rail with. the West. “That dream was shattered when, the G. F. & Y. V. was thrown into receiver ship. and; partitioned between ; other railroads. "As a result of that partition, the. en tire State of -North Carolina was thrown into a species of freight rate servitude, to the Commonwealth of Virginia because Vitgingia had exactly what was snatched, from: North, Caro lina. , ‘ "A strong East-West railroad through North Carolina connecting ijhe West to an - ocean port undoubtedly would bring North Carolina lower freight rates, “•The plan in the present related in stance should produce results — "If the interests which propose t*ie East-West route have the finances apd the desire to create a strong, modem railroad and not merely a dummy con cern which will serve the purpose ;of preventing the creation such a road; and. • . “If Morehead City can reaMy be made an ocean port. "Fayetteville’s interest in the propo sition lies in the amount of competi tion such a set-up would create against goods shipped by inland waterway to the port of Fayetteville one hundred miles in the interior of North Carolina for trans-shipment to more distant points. “For instance if the lower rates which might obtain on account of the Morehead City-Dunn - Durham - Middle West hook-up, would; make it possible to. bring- gasoline.; to Morehead! City bX tanker and. resbip it by rail to more cheaply than gasoline might, be shipped to Wiimineton, by, tanks*, to Fayetteville by. barge, and. to Pairham by rail or truck, then the proposed set up would hurt Fayetteville’s' inland port certainly to the North of a line funning, through, the center of the gtate. although it would have, little effect on business In the southern half of the State on;, in South Carolina. *• ■’ *‘It q.trUfV?, ua tbftt .wUtt Eayettevlll^ able to geti ib«* cbpape* 125 njtieg fnrtbeb InlanA .'thapr. M^p^jhead City its position should be hurt very Jittle even if the proposition is.carried to completion and* a genuine,- strong East-lVeijt railroad- is sefr up. "But* why not an East-West railroad based.' one Eayettevijle as the* PP*1* « railroad: which," wo,»tf?l being: tb#] tnid#$i! •*¥.«$(# %2fr, miles near^5- thapQPb based on Morehead City., s^d .a, r<aUi;oap wWph ,wo*l& b*3*b Sy.ipuchj ^req,t^^eld ip.' ^awi (r^ni t^an ..one. basep on Mo*e 'fiead(, City because it woul<| be furthei frojn the low rate competition 64 Virginia East-West systems ?**' ; . ,-iij Tfewt St&fai f : zf? Seeggse AlngMi Gmtadih •• { ’I’fctesfe seems; hoR$ atffe general strike; of- America# textile employees witf lie - TfteC; tors, are peoriyr paid and have %fe bmm oim o$ t^e ojf afcb&upt U ijfaismm?£% WfeP tJM* w&m mm «** Qs£/th& emfjfcfaa a teHbfefe bm mm h£#n more eseiierailtv, r&£0&<$fek&$d *rPr£nf?l& r?i£‘*£*f9rr?KJ &fl& ^ ean mm imtntsrrupted m w& h««*k He soseat pMoe, ip* the e«p nemt* hedy beep agrh3$l tm t$& Sputh ^P#f e twsj. t-TT* -jrrri -. : r : r - ' -_* prosperity- o# the Southern farmers %; peat group of purc^W^ §(#on goods —in fact, tpe whole popular •:^«»- 9J§lth% prosperous farm population as sures a general prosperity m the South. But '.the: material izafiom of that: prosperity de pends* chiefly upon a good price for cotton. . A strike which will stop the jnills ah most inevitably ipeans a lower price for cotton during .tlif farmers’ marketing period; Six months from* now the denr ger wopld- no| be, so menacing. 'The cotton would, he in the hands: of those who couldM9r l UJULCIIAOV'** ***=*• v The drought area is already impoverished and wilf not be able to buy a normal' supply of ^cotton goods. The impov erishment of the South and the West, for the tobacco- area. is only an inconsiderable portion of. the; former, means a necesr sary curtailment of factory op erations throughout the coun try, and that further menaces the textile industry. Accordingly, the prospect pf the mifls being in better con dition to increase labor is les sened,. and hot improved, .by,a general strike- In, fact, a gen eral strike will probably uvean the elimination of many of the smaller mills,. which are now finding* it practically impos? sible to compete- with the large mills under code regular tions. That would mean the permanent loss, of jobs, by thousands of employees, and the reversion of tfi£ textile ihr dustry to the stronger g£Oni? oi miU£> That, would be- an unfortunate conseuueneer at a time when an attempt ia bemg The write# has- contended made to decentralize Indus try. - „ • . , many year^. for a pior# ju?t distribution, of wealth, but *| sure-that only- a natidn-brw scheme whieh< takea ndn: nc? count alt industries and afir
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