North Carolina Newspapers

PROSPERITY NOW REIGNS IN NbftTH CAROl ' I UNA Hv Mora Cotton Mill. Tkan Any Other State, Big Edu cational Program, and a Spirit of Work and Win, Soy* Now Yorinr BY JAMES ARTHUR 8EAVEY In Jhe New York Timea North Carolina! There the aland* < Ux.mer, boomed and booming!. Southward the course of empire take* ita way. Health land and up land at one and, whirling apindlea and turning wheela at the othtr.! Timber and turpentine, textile* and tobacco. Tarheelia forever! That abovt expreaaea, a bit too coo- | narratively, perhap* the »pirit with which North Carolina face* thu world and front* the future. If evr a Commonwealth went in, head over heel*,, wholesale and retail, latitodin ally and longitudinally, to boom and I develop itaelf, that Commonwealth ia the Old North Stat*. Ev*r aince history, the expert ac countant, began to certify the record of this country on the acroli of tim*. we hare hoard of the boom towns of; the boundless Wert. Either thoae town* survived their booms and be-' came * permanent part of that great empire which waa baptized in the : water* of the Ohio ana confirmed on i the shore* of the Pacific, or they sickened from overinflation. blew up, and the remains were laid away in the graveyard of "busted" booms. ! That wnich ha* hit North Caro-1 lina i* not even a forty-aeventh cou*-1 in of the old Western boom. It i* | pociibl* that the native captain* of industry would obiect to it* being railed a boom at all It ia, rather, a financial, induatrial and commercial regeneration—the phoenix of the, New South riaen from the **he* of i the old. a imagine nwv nurva uudiuihhu might consider all the propertie* shocked if it were asserted that they were coddling' anything like a Weat-' pin boom. The development mania which haa (wept over the State ha* expanded itaelf ao sanely that K might be called the dementia of c<yn mercial common senae. It bean all the ear mark* of permanent locceM. lecauae it lack* all the element* of bubble enthusiasm. The metaphysic* of the job may not be known locally a* introspection, but that !■ what this great work was based upon. For thia statement there is no lei* an authority than Professor E. H. Bran son, head of the Department of Rural Social Science at the State Univer ™, _ . iw«»i ... . * * * * A proper itudy for North Caroliniana 1* North Carolina. An acre in Tarheelia is worth a whole townihip in Utopia. Knowing on which aide- of a Commonwealth's bread and butter it, la worth at least m much as knowing on which side of the Hellespont Abydos wai." The other day the President of the Aiherille Chamber of Commerce said: "Before we try to aell North Caro lina to anybody elae, we mustr sell it /to ourselves." AD For One, One For All And that'* just what the Tarheels are doing, from Mount Mitchell to the* Neuae—celling North Carolina to themaelvea. If that i* not introspec tive development, Professor Bergson doesn't know anything about the in trospectiv* movement. Time was and not *o long ago, when there was an intense rivalry between the east em and western sections of the State. The particular purlieu* of the Hon. Josephu* Daniels may have had a (peaking acquaintance with the mountain factnesse* of the Hon, Lee S. Overman, a Senator in Congress from western North Carolina, but the lowlands did not call much to the highlands, and the mountains were n*ver caught kiaalng the *e«. It wa* east top east and west for west and the devil take the hindermost. Now, as Mollere said, nous a von* change tout ceta. There still is ri valry between the lection*, but a rivalry based on the hope that one aection'may outchieve the other in greater good for a greater State. The whole Commonwealth ha* come to realiie that part* cannot be greater than the whole; that, in the long run what is good for Raleigh is good for Aaheville. and what work* to the dia 'good to Salisbury. Tarheels have one to an understanding among themselves that booming the mt at tbf expanse of the east, or riec versa, hloeka the way of the chariot of pro freaa and therefore, seriously inter feres with the financial, commercial and industrial success of every in habitant of the State. Hence the slo gan of yesterday, today and to morrow in North Carolina rings like a clarion from the mountains to the "Tarheels for Tarheelia, one and inseparable: Tarheels without end!" There fa plan, there is posh behind the plan, and then is teamwork. North Carolinians ate not posing, bat working all together. They enow that faith without works is dead.and so they are working with mighty effort to Jwtify their faith and make real their dream of the fntm. If yarn ask them to tall you the story of that dream, their ere* will kindle with the vision bounded by the golden mil liu that hang above Cape Fear and the purple twilights that mantle the peaks of thp Blue Ridge, they tell you of their grwt tieasurs troves of minerals, of the density of their fereat timber, of the ilmow IMtiesa j •tan «f their water jmr. of the | plantation*, of th« uncounted »tark» of their factories, of the mile* and nOn of tlx moat modern roads, of the 'million* of bank deposit* «nd invested capital, of the mitions ap propriated to the cauaa of adoration Of thaaa are tba warp find woof of thair dream, and there la not one among them who makaa any doubt that uia result of their working and thalr dreaming will be the Empire State of the South, and aoae day, perhaps, in manufactures, the Em pire State of the Union. Then, to prove they have not been idle dream ers, they will produce the statistics of their wealth and resources, the story of which sounds more like a romance than the record of induatrial growth and commercial prograaa. Hers an a few flashlights taken from the record: Maaafactarea Speeding Up In the first year or two ol this cen tury, North Carolina's place among the states in the value of manufac tured products was twenty-seventh. According to the latest available fi gure* she is fifteenth, with her manufactured products valued/'at 9043308,000. Trailing North Caro lina, among other states, sre Kansas, Maryland, Washington, Rhode Is land, Iowa, Georgia, Louisiana, Vir ginia, Nebraska, Tennessee, Ala bama, West Virginia and Maine. In fart the Old North State, in manu factured products, leads *all the Southern States except Texas, and Connecticut and Massachusetts. The amount invested in manufacturing plants in North Carolina, according to the census of 1920, was 9619.144, 000. That was far more—almost twice as much in many instances— than in any Qther southern state. In approximately 20 years manufactur ing plants rose from 8,466 to 5,999— just about doubling the factories. In the same period the number of fact ory wage earners rose from 79,000 to 168,000. The voliftne of wages rose from 914,000,000 to 9127,000,000. In 1919 North Carolina led the south in number of factory, establishments, Virginia being the nearest competit or with 6,608. t But that ia not all, North Caro lina leads the world in mnnufacturea from tobacco. The tobacco factories ■ f 'the state consume one-<juarter of all the leaf tobacco uaed in manu facture'tn the United States and pay one-fourth of all the tobacco taxes levied in the Union. North Carolina leads the aouth in the cotton tex'ile industry, in the number of mllH, knitting machines, hew 'looms installed year by year, operatives employed, the total capi tal in use, the volume of wages paiti, the (Toss value of textile products, ootte'n in the pro man of manufac ture, North Carolina baa more cotton mills than any state in the Union. The state also has more mills that dye and finish their own cotton pro ducta than any other southern state. The largest hosiery mills in the world are in Durham, tile laigest towel mills are in Kannapolis, the largest denim mills in the united States are in Greensboro, the largest damask mills in Roanoke Rapids, and Wins ton-Salem contains the largest num ber of cotton underwear mills in America. Furthermore, North Caro lina leads every other southern state in the number of furniture factories, in the amount of capital invested in this industry, in operatives employed, in variety of products, and in total value of the output. Hijjh Point, with one municipal exception, manu factures more furniture than any town in the United States. In the way of other manufacturing records hung up by North Carolina, it may be added that the state has the larg est aluminum plant in the world apd the largest pulp mill in the United States. And these mills have the power behind the wheels. Nowhere east of the Rocky Mountains is so large a proportion of the tot«l power for in dustrial use supplied by hydro-elect ric development. According to the compiled figures, there is a marimum undeveloped water potentiality of 1.000.000 horsepower and a minimum of 610.000. Of this water potential ity. SflO.000 horseptnltr has been de veloped. »» • ■ »• • • inuns nun HinunR i the states of the union in the value < of'Ha farm crop*, the amount being i in mi. $262,880,000 a*ainsf *142. 890,000 in 1910. Only the crop value* of Texas. California. IlHnob and New York exceeded those of* North Carolina. The value of the food and feed crops amounted to $180,000,000. According to the figures of 1921, the per acre value of North Carolina crone was $38.82. Only eight other states exceeded this record and they were all northern states. North Caro lina ranks second in the production of tobacco; third in sorghum, pea nuts and sweet potatoes and has grown more corn to the acre than any other state. North Carolina produces B0 per cent of all the lumber mariafartursd tat the United State*. The hardwood forests in the western ^rt Of the state and the pine iforeeta the eastern part yield the largest supply of lumber in all the eastern half of the United States. In Miner als the state takes potable first rank—first in the value and quality of mica in the entire country; first in the quantity of feldspar, first in the quantity and value of millstones, and North Carolina tale commands the hirheet price tier ton of any min ed lathe United Stetoa. Big as has bam her stride hi the development of her manufacturise, water power, fans products and na tural rssoarsee. North Carolina's ef fort aad achisiess—t for ■■ nil I education ia om of the Moat fmpr*» ■iv* ditptm in bar wonderful deve lopmmt story. Eight years ago North Carolina waa • pending un thing like $4,000,000 on ilaamtaiy public schools. In thoaa eight year* there haa befn In the OM North 8tat* a mighty educational awakening. In the fiscal year of 1921-22 there waa ■pant for the maintenance of com mon achoola $15,000,000; support of institutions of liberal learning and technical training 11,274,000; new buildings, equipments and repairs for state educational institutions 14, 000,000; expanded for local school buildings between September, 1921, and June, 1922, $12,000,000; raised by the sale of local school bonds and ex IM-mlrd for local school purposes, January to June, 1922, $9,000.06<) In other words, approximately $42,000, 000 waa expended fof public educa tion in North Carolina In t single year. Commenting on this, the Uni versity of North Carolina Newa Let ter for August 16. 1922, said: "He knows little about this state| who does not know that the people of North Carolina are bent on building a great commonwealth on public educa tion, public highways and public health. The story of road building in North Carolina is hardly less remarkable than ita story of the money Spent for public education. In 1919, $60,000, 900 were authorized for the building of atate roads. In July, 1922, the highways completed and under con traction stretched away in every direction for a distance of 2,609 miles, costing $36,000,000. A third of this mileage is of hard surface construc tion and of all the states of the union, Pennsylvania alone has a better high way record to show. In addition to the state roads, $42,607,892 have Men authorized tof country road* ind bridges hi the last five years and n the same period |46,8r>5.838 of mnda have been issued by municipali ties for street*, lights and water. Supervision of the public health has closely attended state develop ment. The birth rate for 1921-22 was 29.2 per 1,000 inhabitants, al nost six pointa above the general iverage of the states, and the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 inhabitants, >r, approximately, three pointa be oyr tne general average. This kind >f vital iflatistics has brought about i rapid increase to native bom popu ation. 16 per rent in the ten years rmm 1910 to 1920. The population of the state is over whelmingly native bom. Only seven tenths of 1 per cent are of foreign lirth and mixed parentage. Two re mits have flowed from the high and m ■mini rnu" "na. l" factory labor at oresant employed »nd a reduction of disputes between abor and capital so that clashes be tween the two are few and short ived. The sentiment of both work in and employers is against alien ahor In the mill and on the farm. North Carolina invites capital, and he laws are hospitable. There is no itate tax on corporations, but there is i state tax on corporation incomes, imited by the Constitution to 6 per rent, net. The actual tax usually is ■round 3 per cent. Individually-own sd corporate stock I* tax free. "Die physical properties of resident cor porations are taxed for local pur poses under a constitutional limita tion of 16 cents on every $100. • The statistical record of North Carolina's development may seem, to some, like a fairy tale. It is, but n spinning it the fairies fabricated mly with farts. The figures here riven are official and the records ire open fbr inspection. Even he who runs may resj) North Carolina! rhere she stands—boomer, boomed ind booming! cleared murder—ivmeo m Court Grayson, Ky., Dee. 9.—Harrison Blanton, 24 years old, shot and killed Paul Herron on the courthouse steps ate today, a few minutes after Her ron had been acquitted of killing the Former's father, William Blanton. Sheriff* deputies were guarding the »unty Jail tonight in consequence of reports that an effort would be made jo ly%;h the youngeV Blanton. The slaying of Herron waa witness id by a crowd of men and women, most of whom had attemfcd the trial. According to spectators Blanton find three shots. Two pierced Heiron's body and he died almost nstantly. One of the bullets wound id Isaac Houeh, a farmer 40 years ild. Blanton ran a few yards and sur rendertd to tits town msrshal. He fas rushed to jail. A few minutes ater the grand Jury which was in leasioa returned an indictment charg ing first dsgtss murder, Blanton's father was shot at WB nos creek on July 16. A crowd of nan becsme disorderly sad Warner Blanton, a deputy sheriff, » ssake an arrest. The | and ■'■"■iif to iffmd at the trial Herron and Mkm «pk his part William Blaatoo came is the ssaistaalo of his sen, the de puty sad ssreral shots won fired, reusing his death. Herroa and thros ether sseo won tried far the killing. An Latter From Japan I am now traversing the beautiful Inland Saa of Japan again, not an in frequent thing for me, by any means, since I am a member of the building committee of oar Mission, and am frequently called to distant parts of oar work, with no other means' of reaching these points, since airplanes are not yet aaed hers for travel. One of the privileges of these tedious voyages is having plenty of time for quiet reasoning and meditation. {Sometimes in these meditations we plan for the future; sometimes we gaze at the ever changing panorama << mountainous coasts and innumer able Islands, and thank God for the part beauty plays in the creative realm. f Again on these voyages we grow reminiscent, recalling incidents of the past, allowing our minds lo go back to scenes and circumstances in our beloved America. I have been recall ing the fact that I still belong to the citizenship of the greatest country in the wyrld. By my last sojourn in the home land Mount Airy is now my American home. Thither oar two children in the home land resort dur ing their school vacation for a touch of that which is a splendid substitute for the parental home too far away to be utilised. I am thinking how the folks of Mount Airy ministered to our happiness by constant kind ness. I recall how the phyaiciana looked after our health without re muneration. Never shall we forget how patiently and tenderly the two physicians at the Martin Memorial hospital set tfcs broken bone in Grady's arm#by the uae of X-Ray's, su inav (is nuuciru uui nvuv uuriug the process of hemline; *nd «ince then he has never suffered any discomfi ture except during one very short interval. Though it was a bad break near the shoulder, the am la aa good aa the other one. We too an very grateful to Dr. Hege for making Mra. Frank luch a superior upper set of ssissasr-s: -"fig without any remuneration except our lasting gratitude. Were it not s* personal I would like to tell of the kindness of the editor of The Neva, whose gift of honey served to sweet en us after we landed here, and whoee excellent paper sweetens and re freshes us week by week. How good it is to get the news from home serv ed in such a palatable way! It would be impracticable to record the names' of all who showed interest and kind ness. I vividly recall that Sunday morn ing when Mayor Bivena proposed that Central Methodist Church assume our support as its Centenary Special, snd how heartily and unanimously the pastor supported his proposition. And after that what an inspiration it was to hear Pastor West pray for the Church's missionary representa tives every Sabbath morning! I trust mention is still made of us in public worship by the present pastor who is one of the efficient members of our great Board of Missions. We expect him, of course, to be pastor for the' ensuing year. We are yeatly en couraged to know that we are the special objects of prayer of our peo ple at other places, even one place in West Virginia. We are sure that these prayers have had much to do with the success which has attended our work on Uwajima Circuit, about which I hop#'to tell you in some fu ture article. i am giaa to note mat uie eauca tion, of the children is tngtging the ittention of the beat citizens of Mount Airy. Much of the crime and low living of Mount Airy and Surry county, as elsewhere, are due to lack »f proper training of the childrea in the public schools and in the tchools. I have soibe recollections >f Mount Airy and at Surry which are not so pleasant a* the fore-1 toinf Hams of this article, on or I if which I shall mantion in my, next! utkle. Uwajima, Rhine Ken, Japan, Oct, k im J. W. Prank. I "A large class of pupil a vei the Government does it or builds »r buys it or pays for H that K N. C. CHILDREN'S HOME TO EXTEND ITS ACTIVITY Dmcton Hmmr Report* Om Most Successful Y«r Aad PU» Fdr Immm _ Greensboro, Nor. "Whan Um Children's Hob* society of North Carolina ruchn Um point vkm H can find homes for 100 ehfldrea a year, it will have gone • loac way toward solving the homeless child problem* in this •tat*," Buperin t*nd*nt J. J. Phoenix told the direct or* To—day afternoon at their an nual meeting, held tat tfc* office of Claude Kiser. Mr. Phoenix had preview!? re ported that SSI children had bean placed in home* thi* year and tlpt the number would probably exceed 260 before 1922 ring* eat. The di rector*, following the spirit of Us words, adopted plana looking to the extension of the wotfc in aO lisee. They agreed on a monthly budget of $2,600 for 1923, a marked Increase over 1922 made neceaeary by In crease in the number of children and in the work to be done for the child ren. They added another field home supervisor to the staff. They tenta-1 tively indorsed the plan for a baby unit, the matter to be handled by com mittee*. They took steps for further ■ educational work with children while i they are in the receiving home. They authorised improvements at the home. I They approved the policy of urging legal adoption to the foster homes where children are placed. In all actions and in the sptrft of the meeting they gave Indorsement to the activities of the year, which | have been by far the most successfulj the society has er»r known, and they are prepared for additional work on a more intensive scale. . ■ rormer orricers » * re-elected with two addition*. A. M. Scale* was re-elected president, E. Stem berger and Lynn Williamson, of Burlington, were re-elected vice presi dents, and Claude Riser was named a new vice president. Or. J. S. Betts and Frank C. Boyle* were re-elected secretary and treasurer, respectively. R. W. Ginn, long one of the moat ac tive IW>W» of the board. WM chos en for a new office, assistant to tile president. All directors were re elected, and one new director, Mrs. Clarence Cone, was chosen. John J. Phoenix * was re-elected superintendent and • special vote of thanks and appreciation was given him for his successful work and for the spirit he has shown in his ener getic handling of the society's af fairs. Special commendation was 'given also to Miss M. E. Holt, mst ron, and a substantial increase was made in her salary. Miss Holt was referred to as "the soul of the home" and on all sides deeply sincere ex pressions were heard for her work. By unanimous vote the directors expressed appreciation for the gen erous attitude of Greensboro medical and dental men toward the home. They have done much work, it was reported, and have refused payment of any sort. The annual report of Superinten dent Phoenix was read and adopted unanimously. The society is com pletely out of debt, he reported. It has a staff now of a superintendent, a matron, Two assistant matrons, one field collector, one office assist ant and two field home supervisors, , to whom was added • thfcd super visor. The increase ia children plac ed in homes is 200 per cent over 1990. The greatest development of the year, however, has been in improved and intensified supervision of the foster homes where children have been plaeed. During the year the following physical improvements have bean made: A garage, a school reoaa, at six-room addition and many rhsnges to the main building. Two Ford cars are now Ik use. / THAT cm. or Hon The finaat |M in all tha world, I'm tort you'll aay tia mIm, S1m11 bonne* My lap aor fhra a rap •WW) aaaa. My girl ia fin*. Ska polls my hair, Bar daaa aha eara r« traMplfor on mf torn; Sha prib ajr aara and all tawm Shall araa tea, jut aajrwbara. To gin or taka a Idas; With all bar Might aha hvp BM tight Nor thiak* abet tea aaUn. Yon araataal amid that afcat aa bald. Aad say My «M la bad; Sha'a only thraa fonooU pa* aaa, 1 Aad aa. Ob, I'm bar dad. Raleigh, Nov followed operative whtn JmIge Lyon to kMtrisf And titionm from F. A. Elk* and J. M. PHt, count of and M. T. Wins toad, of attacked the contract ' and trial at Soma bocaaao their most be delivered ikm, Vm petition. Tha co-operative »tctoey la complete. H furnishes no intimation aa to whan tha eaaaa may be triad md eeat to the Supreme court, bat tke ttm frmct lienors are bald for the IMS planting and H could bo a year bo fore theee litigations reach tha f*f and judge stage. Tha eouUacto MM been attacked aa fraode. One of the allegations is that to prw-ure i 60 par cant had *ean first payment. Tha deny any such states* for the actual verbiage of tha i pact. The indafhifteneoe of the ther hearing makea the 1 relief almost permanent and the co-ope retire eauae mightily. Padded Cell Will Get Put Drivers Indianapolis, Dae. I.—^ sanity teat will be riven all persons arrested far (speeding. Mayor Samuel Lewis Shaak announr <d bare today. The mayor j made this announcement after Jodp 0. Wilmonth in city court car* a number of speeders light finaa. Persons arrested and held for ex amination by the sanity rommiaaiaa, the mayor said, would be held in jafl until they are examined, the state law providing that persona held for sanity teats cannot give bond. In announcing his plan for hold ing speeders for an insanity teat, the mayor said they would be placed la padded cells, which are now used tor the insane. The mayor announced several days ago that in an effort to curb speeding within the city he would hare police officers hold rfclefe nrs under $5,000 bond, hat this set with the disapproval of Judge Wil month. The highest bond under which a speeder could be held, the judge said, was $600 R. T. Lincoln Saw Killing Of All Three Presidents Here is the amaxing, the eery ex perience of Robert T. Lincoln, at of President Lincoln, and now in Ma eightieth yaar. He related it re cently to a friend and, so far aa I know, it has never before' been pob lished. Young Lincoln waa to Ik army and stationed in Virginia whan he received aa order to report at Washington. He got into the theater just in time to see his father receive his fatal wound. Young Lincoln was Secretary of War under Garfield. He waa asked by the President to meet him at the station and he reached there jnst aa Garfield was aasaaamated. Mr.' Lincoln received an invitatioa to attend the formal opening of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and accompanied by hia family, get there just in time to see President McKinley shot by Csolgoaa. A friend happened to he with Mr. Lincoln when he rscelvsd an Invita tion to attend a preaidentiaJ. faae tion at Washington a few years age. He then remarked something to the effect that, "if they only knew, they wouldn't want me there." And he recited hia experiences as hare re realed.—& C. Forbes, to Forhse Kagaxtoe.