Shelby Growth, 1920-1930, Tops
All N. C. Citizs, Census Survey
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ly one hundred and forty-two thou
sand inhabitants.
Exactly half of these places grew
more rapidly than the state as a
whole. Two were not incorporated
ten years ago. Four others more
than doubled in size. While a con
siderable number experienced large
gains, the group as a whole gained
leas rapidly than the larger places.
Fourteen gained less than ten per
cent, while f.ve actually last popu
lation. These are mainly trade'
towns and their growth is depend- j
ent upon the conditions in the sur- j
rounding trade terr.tory. As a rule,
the strictly trade and banking towns j
in tills group did not gain as rap
idly as the small towns ot this group
with industries in addition to trade
and banking.
From 500 To 1,000.
Finally, there are 102 Incorporated (
places In the elate ranging in size,
from five hundred to one thousand |
inhabitants. These places we might,
designate as the very small towns,
as distinguished from the 237 ytl- j
lages with fewer than five hundred,
inhabitants with which we are riot
here concerned.
There very small towns appear to
have increased at about the same
rate as the sub-census size towns
above one thousand inhabitants.
One-half of them increased more
rapidly than the state as a whole,
that Is, above twenty-four percent.
Six were not incorporated or not
reported as towns ten years ago.
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Five others more than doubled their
Inhabitants. More than one-fourth
grew at retarded rates, while eigh
teen actually lost population. The
total population of these 102 Incor
porated small towns Is 72,008.
These very small towns are pre-*
vailing trade centers, many of them
without banks or any Industry.
Their inhabitants live principally oy
catering to the demands of the sur
rounding trade teritory, and the
growth of the towns reflects the sur
rounding conditions. Often where
these small towns are near larger
trade centers, they have grown slow
ly or have actually lost population.
Improved highways have helped
some of the small towns, while
others hnve not bcnefltted from good
reads and motor cars. However, a
safe guess would be that the small
towns of North Carolina have held
their own better than In most other
states during the last decade. Even
the small town ; seem to have shar
ed in the phenomena) growth of the
the state has experienced during
.he last decade.
There is a marked tendency every
where for cities to grow much more
rapidly than towns, and for villages
to decline In population. There Is
that tendency in North Carolina,
but it certainly Is not as pronounced
as In many other states. Most of
our small towns seem to be holding
their own. At least this has been
trite for the last decade. Whether
they can hold their own In the fu
ture remains to be seen.
wnr towns rrusjrer.
The economic foundations of cities
and towns are manufacture, trade,
banking, transportation, and pro
fessional services. Borne places have
all these in a balanced ratio. Others
are pronouncedly industrial, trade,
and bnnlcing or transportation cen
ters, and they prosper or suffer as
their particular business prospers
or suffers. North Carolina has towns
and cities representing both multi
ple and rlngle foundations. General
ly speaking the multiple foundation
centers have grown more rapidly
than the single foundation centers.
I The strictly trade and service cen
! ters have not kept pace with those
j places with an Industrial mud-sill.
The piedmont towns and cities have
j grown far more rapidly than have
tho e of less Industrial regions. For
instance take the first group, places
.above ten thousand. Note the rate
of growth of Shelby, Greensboro,
j High Point, Durham and Charlotte
I compared with Wilmington, New
(Bern, Kinston. Elizabeth City, and
Wilson.
Finally, it might be observed that
North Carolina is peculiar In that
her industry is not concentrated,
but widely scattered over the state,
i Throughout the piedmont, and over
J much of the we t coastal plains and
j mountains, almost every town, large
land small, inis one or more indus
j tries. Often industries are out in the
open country, or in unincorporated
towns and cities. There are many
unincorporated mill Centers that are
much larger than some of the Incor
porated places. North Carolina best
illustrates a decentralized urban and
Industrial development, which Is
'generally advantageous to Industry,
to the towns, and to te surround
! Ing trade territory. This is probably
the main reason why such a large
I ratio of our half-thou and lncor
I porated towns and cities have grown
o rapidly during (he lost decade.
There are advantages to having one
| large city in a state, but all In all
many thriving towns are preferable
j to one city.
Table Given.
| The following table shows the pop
■ ulat ion and Increase of the cities
lover 10.000 In the 10-year period:
Percent
Rank * Town 1930 pop. Increase
1920-1930
1— Shelby . ........ 10.789 199.0
2— Greensboro - .. 53,569 169.7
3— Htgh Point ..... 36.745 156.8
4— Durham ........ 52,037 1 39.6
5— Charlotte - .... 82,675 78.4
6— Thomasvtlle .... 10.090 77.8
7— Rocky Mount .. 21,412 68.0
8— Winston-Salem . 75,274 55.3
9~ Raleigh . ...._ 37 379 53.1
10- Fayetteville .... 13 049 47.0
11- Statesvllle . 10,490 32.9
12- Gastonia .. 17,093 32.8
13- Goldsboro. 14,985 32.7
14- Asheville ....... 50,193 32.3
15- SallsbUry_... 16,951 22.1
16- Concord ........ 11,820 19.4
17- Wilson —__ 12,613 18.9
18- Klnston ...._ 11 362 16.3
19- EUzabeth City .. 10.037 12 5
Decrease
20- New Bern ...... 11,981 —1.8
21- Wilmington .... 32,270 —3.8
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Nobody’s Business
By On McGee
.':t=_
news from flat rock,
the holly days passed off verry
quitely Here ana oniy a iew iouts i
got drunk, and they seemed to be i
strangers. Just 2 axcidents took !
iplace, as followers: the Christmas]
tree at mrs. smith's ketched on fire
and burnt her a right smart betwixt
the corridor and the front door
where she throwed It out, and mr.
wllklns got dog bit by a dog wnen
he tried to play old sandy claws and
his dog dlddent know him. they are
all mutch better now. Including the
dog.
the bread line Is growing some
shorter every day onner count of
the town counsell has set up a wood
yard and when men come to beg
for a few ntshlons, but befoar get
ting same, they hafter cut wood till
they give out, and noboddy Is com
ing mutch except their wives who
can't cut wood, and the chjliuns.
the folks here think hard times will
last for at least 2 yr longer when
the dlmmercrats will take charge of
the govvernment and straighten
j things out.
our little town was made sad last
Wednesday when word come that a
hit and run lord drlvver had hit
mr, sam green’s wife's grampaw oe
twlxt the post offls and his home at
cedar grove where he had gone to
mail some letters he had his wife to
rite her kinfolks not to come up to
visit then* till June or mcbbe aug
ust, and his llsents number was b
234356. so he sed and turned It over
r,0 uie pouseman Here. out wo an |
felt better when we found out that
It was not mrs, green's grampaw,
but another old man by the name
of bulwlnkle who was no kin to the
green's a-tall.
most of our citizens Is farmers,
but like to live In town, and they
have comments to ride around to
hunt up some monney to try to
make another crop on as It dlddent,
rain anny to amount to annythtng
here In Julie and September, a com
mittee has benn picked out to rite
or foam mr. oover to put us down
for some monney on his drowth
program which the republicans al
most had a fight about, and as no
boddy voted for mr. hoover here
except the allins, everyboddy thinks
it would be best to let him pull the
ropes. If they have anny to pull,
(he Is back in the party though now,
but he will not tell that.)
well, mr. editor, that la nearly all
of the news from here at this time,
the filling station and the three
stoars complain about cash being
powerful scarce, but we notls that
the 14 Instalments agents la still
kept blzzy trying to collect, one of
them got 3$ and 2 radios and 4
grafferfoams last week, rite or foam
if you ever want anny extry peaces
from here.
\ yores trulle,
mike Clark, rfd.
last Between Vs and Oar Kids.
Did you ever check up on what old
3anta Claus brought the kids—only
two weeks after his visit? We did
this very thing last night. The train
that he brought our little girl was a
pretty train, but now tho engine
has no cow-catcher or head-light,
and the baggage car Is minus 3
wheels and 4 doors, and the 4
coaches look like they have suffer
ed a tail-end collision: they resem
ble a pint cup that an elephant
stepped on.
The sleeping doll is totally blind
and the saw dust has become noth
ing but saw-dust instead of her in
nards. Her hair is In the front yard
and her 2 legs are in the garage
and X ear is busted. Her tricycle
I now has 1 good wheel and 2 bad
wheels, but no tires and the axle is
bent because little Willie Brown
tried to stand up and ride behind
her. The doll house and bed are in
the waste basket along with the
mouth organ (She always enjoyed
mouth-organs)
Well, hr the first place—old Santa
Claus had no business being so lib
eral. When we were kids, we were
happy when we got an apple and a
stick of candy, and perhaps a penny
prise box. Toys always lasted most
of us several months. We have spoil
ed our children and they have never
known anything about appreciation.
If you were to give your little Jim
mie a Ford, he would want to know
why in the thunder you diddeot
get a Cadillac while you were get
.ing.
Old Santa Claus was the biggest
thing that ever came into our lives
between the age of 2 and 10 years.
We always found his sleigh tracks
in the old fire-place. We even saw
where he scratched the side of the
house getting up to the top of the
chimney, (it seas chimbly then.) We
moved the tongs (they were toms
then) out of his way, and hung our
stockings where he could see them
without trouble. We found an orange
peeling out near the bam once: he
had dropped it while getting Into
that sled. <W« divided it up into 9
pieces, 1 for each child, and ate It.)
Children are u wise at 4 as we
were at 10. They use better lan
guage at 6 than we u ed at 16. All
of us tivnrrht “aint and ti't and
wuatent and fetch and ketched and
Little Hope Held for Missing Ocean Fliers
Trrmtr
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Mrs &E.EVI/ Hart an* I^eut WK/Uam: MacIaren 1
Hope ;Ut Ju- tf.in'a.!.AOt*.c ’‘pay 4
load” aviators, Mrs. Beryl Hart
and William S. MacLaren, are
still alive, haa been virtually
abandoned. No word has been
heard from them since they took
off from Hamilton, Bermuda, for 4
Horta, Island of Fayal, Azores,
•n the aecord lap of their flight I
in the monoplane, Tradewind,
frorn New York to Paris by way
Of Bermuda and the Azores, i
Storms prevail over a wide se^
tion of the Atlantic, according
to reports from ships at sea.
Gardner Explains His Reason
For Asking Salary Slash For
Public Workers Of This State
rake Cut Himself Although Salary
Does Not Pay Hi*
Expenses.
Raleigh. Jan. 15.—Why did Gov
ernor O. Max Gardner recommend
a general 10 per cent cut In salaries
lor all state, county and city em
ployes in the state, when up to a
lew weeks ago he wa s generally sup
posed to be opposed to this course.
Governor Gardner * answers this
question directly and personally,
giving several reasons why he decid
ed to make this recommendation and
how he happened to reach the con
clusion to make it.
“I considered the matter for weeks
and looked at it from every possible
angle before deciding to make the
recommendation for a cut In sal
aries," Governor Gardner said. “It
was only after the most careful and
thoughtful consideration that I fin
ally decided to make It and only
because I thought It was the wisest
course to follow, especially for the
employes.
“In the first place, I became con
vinced that the state and its subdi
visions could not afford to continue
to pay out $100,000,000 a year In
taxes for the support of Its various
state and local governments, as it
has been doing. 1 also became con
vinced that the state and its sub
division must do one of two things
with regard to their personnel If this
eoet of government was to be reduc
ed, namely that they must either
drastically reduce the number of
their employes and discharge hun
dreds or even thousands of em
ployes over the state as a whole,
who would indirectly If not directly
become dependent upon the state
and its citizens and Increase the
present unemployment problem, or
else reduce the salaries of their
present employes.
| “After the most careful study and
j Investigation I became convinced
[that the state, counties, cities and
towns are not greatly over-manned
jin the number of employes they
now have and that in order to re
duce the personnel sufficiently to
effect any substantial savings, the
efficiency of all these governments
would be those who received lower
i salaries as well as those who prob
ably needed employment most.
“There was still another consid
eration, in that all governmental
employes have been assured of
steady employment, with no lay
offs, and still arc assured of it.
while In Industry employment has
been and still Is precarious. For
while wages have not been extensh e
ly reduced in industry thousands of
workers have been employed only
from one to three days a week,
which has brought reduced earnings,
though not reduced wages. Em
ployes of the state, county and city
governments have not had to ex
perience this reduction in earnings
because they have had steady and
regular employment.
“So it was that I decided it would
ibe much fairer to the employes
themselves and to the state as a
whole to ask for a general 10 per
cent reduction In wages for all gov
ernmental employes, school teach
ers Included, rather than try to re
duce personnel sufficiently to effect
a resultant saving and throw thous
ands of persons out of employment
entirely. Neither did I think it fair
and just to recommend discharging
hundreds of clerks and stenograph
ers who have nothing else to de
pend upon for a living other than
their present Jobs and for me and
| other high state officials to continue
toted and teb-emtine and assy fid
ity and you-uns and bile on my
nake and over-yan and fer-neni and
sassy-lrac” was good English—un
til we were in the neighborhood of
20 years of age, and some of us have'
not outgrown or overeom" that be
ief to da". Yc f. we are
a long ways from 18 and 94.
Most Vivacious Girl
on School Campus
Mias Helen Wolley, co-ed at the
University of Utah, was chosen as
the most vivacious girl on the
campus of the school in an elec
tion by the students recently. De
scribed as being n "bundle of sheer
pep and activity,” Miss Wolley re
ceived her honor without a dissent
ing vote,
to get our salaries as usual. Bo I
recommend that the .cut begin with
my own salary, and effect, every of
ficial and employe, high and low
the same.”
Governor Gardner said the pres
ent depression had touched him per
sonally about as much as it had any
one in the state and also that hb
salary as governor did not begin tc
pay even half of his actual ex
penses In Raleigh as governor, it
maintaining the governor’s mansion
in the manner in which it has beer
traditionally maintained.
•During 1930, it cost me exactlj
59,600 more to live in Raleigh and
meet the expenses incidental to tin
maintenance of the governor’s man
sion than I received as salary frdir
the state as governor, despite the
strictest sort of economy,’ said Gov
ernor Gardner. ’’And former Cover
! nor A. W. McLean has told me thal
| it cost him approximately $25,COO a
year while he was governor. But de
pite all this. I am willing to have
my salary reduced 10 per cent alonf
with all the others, because I think
j it is the fair and just thing to d<
and that it is the only way to make
a start toward reducing the ex
penses of government in North Car
olina.”
Much Talk Hm
j Of Salary Slash
For Public Jobs
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I CONTINUED FROM PAOK ONE.' !
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ties and cities or not, is a matter
that is to be decided. It might prop
erly be left to the governing bodies
of these several cities and counties.
But, the attitude of some of the
state employes is more and more
disgusting. We quote from our Ha-,
lelgh correspondent:
“ "The state employes, including
most of the department heads, are
of course up in arms against the
i salary cut orcposal, while the mar
ried women employes are incensed
at the bill bv Senator W. H. Pow
ell of Columous county to oust them
from their Jobs Many of them air ,
throwing cauticn to the winds and ;
telling any one who will listen just
what, they think of Governor O. Max
Gardner, the budget advisory com
mission, which also recommenced '
the salary reduction, and the gener
al assembly as a whole.
“'Cne state ethplore tcld me ;e:
'erc'rv t -n f t' e r rj t ?•"' 1
cut his salary one dollar below what
it was now he would quit,’ said Re
presentative C. W. Tatum, of Tyi
rell county. ‘1 told him that that
was perfectly all right, since there
were hundreds who would be giad
to get the 10b at any sal a y the
state might, yifer.
*■ ‘This is characteristic of the at
titude of most of the members of
the general assembly, who feel that
if any of the present state employes
don’t like the cut they can quit and
that the state can employ hundreds
of others who do not have jobs and
who are willing to work for anything
the state will offer them’."
Postponement Of
Revaluation Work
(CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE.)
w hat this legislature can do to re-t'l
lieve land of its burden, if any
could do no harm. The only oppos
ing vote cast against the resolution j
to report, favorably the Neal bill, in
corporating this temporary delay, \
was in an unmistakably certain
voice registered in the “no” of Sen
ator Ward. The house committee at
& subsequent session unanimously
voted to report the Neal bill favor
ably.
‘‘Larry Moore, president, and
Judge F» rtr.er Glenn, secretary of
the Tax Relief association, respect
ively, appeared before the commit
tee and urged that no delay be made
in revaluing property, which has al
ready started in Buncombe, they
said."
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