Gov. Broughton Has Designated
Monday, JULY 5th As
“N. C. DAY OF DEDICATION”
And Has Asked That Anti-Loafing Meetings Be Held
In Every County In The State
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By The Governor
NORTH CAROLINA DAY OF DEDICATION, JULY % 1941
Work ia no longer merely a privilege or opportunity; it is a high
patriotic duty. No man or woman, white or colored, in North Carolina or
indeed in America today has any moral right to loaf or be idle even for a
part of the time. We are confronted with the most urgent need for productive
manpower in the history of our nation Farm labor and industrial labor
are absolutely indispensable for the protection of the national welfare and
for the success of our man in arms. Under these circumstances all citizens
of all classes, groups and races have a public duty to engage in productive
work, even though the individual financial necessity for such work may not exist.
Trustworthy reports have come to me from virtually every section of
North Carolina indicating that hundreds, indeed thousands, of men, white and
colored, are either not working at all or working only part of the time.
Likewise, many women, boys, and girls above the age of sixteen who could be
productively employed are doing virtually nothing in the way of productive
work. The time has come when every able-bodied person should either be fight
ing or working.
I herewith call upon the citizens of our state to respond to this most
urgent need. I have every confidence that our people will rise to this need
and I hope in a manner worthy of our state and its traditions. I urge the minis
ters of North Carolina and our teachers and school people generally, our oivio
clubs, representatives of the press and radio, and other public spirited leaders
of the state to join In the high endeavor to get every citizen of our state
productively employed on a fulltime basis. I further urge the Judges, mayors,
and law enforcement officers to do everything within their power and within the
law to end any idleness or vagrancy that may exist anywhere in North Carolina.
Furthermore, I call upon the local selective service boards to study carefully
the oases of those who have been deferred on physical grounds but who are able
to work and are not working. I am also calling upon police officers and
sheriffs to visit places in their cities and oounties where loafers and idlers
customarily congregate and inquire into the reasons why they are not at work.
If these efforts fail to get the necessary response, I should feel it ay duty
to use the emergency powers granted me by the recent legislature for dealing
with these problems so vital to our national welfare.
NOW THEREFORE, I, J. MELVILLE BROUGHTON, GOVERNOR OP NORTH CAROLINA,
to.the end that we may act in a statewide manner on this important subject, do
hereby set apart MONDAY, JULY 5, 1943, the day on which Independence Day will
be most generally observed throughout the state, as NORTH CAROLINA DAY OP
DEDICATION, and I urge that in the county seat of every county in North Carolina
there will be held a meeting to be attended by mayors, cojrnty commissioners,
sheriffs, pollcs officers, ministers, farm leaders, health and welfare workers
ana other public spirited citizens, for the purpose of studying conditions in
each of such counties and taking such organized steps as will effectually end
any idleness or loafing that may exist in such oounties.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1, J. Melville Broughton,
Governor of North Carolina,* have signed and oaueed
the Great Seal of the Stats to be affixed hereto,
in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, this
the 23rd day of June, 1943, in the one hundred
and sixty-seventh year of our American Independence*
J. MELVILLE BROUGHTON.
Governor.
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Allston Stubbs,
Secretary to the Governor
In Accordance With This Request A
MEETING FOR THIS COUNTY
W ill Be Held At The
COURTHOUSE IN BREVARD
Monday Night,
Every person in the county is invited to attend.
The time has certainly come when every able
bodied person should be working or fighting.
Our industries and our farmers in the county
need workers to produce things for Victory.
We do not believe conditions are as bad in this
county as they are in others, but it is impor
tant that everyone work or fight. We urge all
our public officials, industrial leaders, mer
chants, farmers and every one to attend this
meeting.
Program
Harry H. Straus, Presiding
Concert-By Ecusta Band
(Starting at 7:45 o’clock)
Purpose of Meeting_Mr. Straus
Reading Proclamation F. S. Best
Talk-Ralph Ramsey
Talk-Verne Clement
Talk-Carl Allison
Talk-Julian Glazener
Discussion
Song--America
HARRY H. STRAUS, County Chairman
Ralph Ramsey, Verne Clement, Carl Allison, J. A. Glazener, Miss Annabel Teague, A. M. White,
C. M. Douglas and Ed M. Anderson,—Members of Executive Committee.