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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK ' TROPHIES and PERSONAL ARTICLES In Gold, "Sterling, Bronze and Leather The Gorham Company is known the world over for its fine designs. Special atten tion is given to the production of Trophies, Cups, Medals, Pins, Badges, and Emblems for every purpose. THE GORHAM GO. Silversmiths and Goldsmiths NEW YORK Gorham Silverware is to be had in Pinehurst at "The Jewelry Shop" Gorham Silverware" is to be had in Pinehurst at "THE PINEHURST JEWELEY SHOP" Tremont and Beacon SU Copley Square Choisa" Ceylon Tea i lb. Canisters 65c 1-2 lb. Canisters 35c Packed in Parchment-Lined One Pound and Half-Pound Canisters We invite compari son with other Teas of the same or higher price S. S. PIERCE CO., iron St. ,i..iu ' DAOTAM 185 Milk St. (Wholesale) UUO I VylJ, BROOKL (Joolidgw Corner, jTNE A 1 t r America have WhikKock water t&SL ontneirtaDles its AO ii 'trs-mr'-st,i , . - 111 i..MM IthJfcr 111 CLASH OF THE PURITAN AND CAVALIER THE SANDHILL COUNTRY ELIMINATES THE WEAK UNHAPPY AND UNINSPIRED Clyde Davis, Secretary of Our Board of Trade, Tells the North Carolina Conference How Yankees Make Good Tarheels and How Dancing Makes Good Preaching NOT long: aero I spoke at an agri cultural meeting in Oklahoma. The first soeaker was a rj United States Sena tor. .tie talked a long time in a most complimen tary way but said nothing. The next was a specialist. He also spoke pleasingly but said nothing. I next spoke and I too said noth ing. Then they called on a little thin cheeked, hook nosed man to talk on "The Dairy Industry in Oklahoma." He said, "I have been asked to state what we must do to get a dairy industry in. Okla homa. The first thing, I should say, would be to get a new popu lation. If I could teach you men how to tramp silage with spurs on or milk a cow on horse back there might be some hope, but there is none now. What we need is a new population." That man had something to say. He made a speech. NEED A NEW POPULATION The first factor to mention in discussing Sandhill progress is that our section of the State has a new population. It is no better than the old if as good, but the clash of the two civilizations is what is worth while. The civil ization wheh radiated from' Ply mouth Rock has gone to seed. That which radiated from James town, Virginia, has become mori bund. But bring Northern peo ple down here, put the two civil izations together, and let them "fight till they eat each other up" and the result will be something better than either could boast be fore. That's perfectly natural. Carlyle in speaking of the clash of Mohammedaniam with other religions says a religion succeeds not because of the quackery there is in it, but because of its element of strength and in spite of its quackery. Let it conquer what it can, says he, and rest assured that it will conquer nothing that does not deserve to be conquered. But the civilization of New England and that of the South together. Each is the critic and the ridi culer of the other. With criticism and ridicule they burn the quack ery out of each other. The dross is consumed and the gold is re fined, and with the latter the foundation of a better civilization can be laid. My first advice to you then, if you desire to accelerate progress, is that you bring in the Yankee. However much in the bottom of your hearts you old sensitive, clan nish, complaisant Tarheels may be iiritated by the Yankee with his figetyness, his two-by-four omni science, (and his critical perpetual-motion jaw I'd advise you to cast your advertising nets on every side until you catch some of the genus and then not let them get away. Whatever else their coming may bring, you may rest assured that it will be sure to bring a clash of civilizations the result of which will be some thing better than either you or they would be able to work out alone in a hundred years. what is progress? Bacon begins his best essay with this sentence : "' What is truth?' said Jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' If some modern Pontius in this audience asks what we mean by progress I shall waste no time in picturing some Utopian goal which we are trying to reach. Every age will have its problems and its difficulties. If we had lived in Egypt during the plague of lice it would have been our duty to spend our time spraying lice and searching out the cause of their increase. By progress we mean simply this: getting out of our community whatever makes it weak, unhappy and un inspired; and getting into it whatever fits our people to possess the land and hold it against all comers. parable of the tin can A community cannot be strong',
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