The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-22

should keep pace with her material
growth"
We know of no more inspiring me-
mortal to greatness than this Hall of
Fame with it's twenty nine tablets
dedicated to the memory of men
who have ''served we'll this mortal
race" and-even more eloquent and
inspiring-its vacant panels which
remind us SO impressively of great
deeds yet to be done and great men
yet TO rise up and win a place with
these importals of the past.
X X y X
Very very few people have an 40
curate idea of the immensely of New
York City. Three out of every 100
Americans live in it. Take only the
policemen and their families, or the
lawy ers and their families, or the
doctors and their families, and with
either class alone you can found a
city more ~populous than any TO be
found in North Carolina. This is
not an idle statement, but is mathe-
matically correct. The exact num-
Der of lawyers, for instance, is 7,755.
Multiply this number by five, the
size of an average family, OF even by
three, and compare this imaginary
city Of lawyers with the popula-
ton of the largest town in our State.
Again, you could stow away Will
mington's entire population in two
or three of New York's largest struo-
tureg-in two or three like the Park
Row Building, for example, with it's
81 stories towering $50 feet in air,
it's $50 offices, 1850 windows, and a
working force of $500 tenants.
X X
And how poverty and Opulence,
rags and splendor, elbow each other
in this great city! As you go up
Fifth Avenue, with the magnificent
residences of the Vauderbilts, Rookie
folders, Goulds and Astors on either
hand, it seems hard to realize that a
few minutes walk would take you
so places of misery and want. Yet
this is true. To illustrate: You
may stop at 256h street and examine
the famous Waldorf Astoria hotel,
built at Il cost of $12, 600, 600, in which
people are living who are said TO pay
800 per day the year round for their
rooms. Yet you need not take long
walk 50 find repulsive holes where
regularly wretched men pay 15
cents per night for places whereOn
80 lay their heads. Better are con-
ditions in the Old North State where
there is neither extreme wealth nor
great poverty, and where the struggle
for pelf and power is not so goddess
and INSCRIPTIONS. A Northern pas
tor, writing in a we'll known relig
ious journal the week before our
trip, had this 10 say Of conditions in
the NOrth-a picture somewhat OVor-
drawn, we think, but applicable to
more than n Northern city:
''The commercial spirit of the
North subordinates everything to ITS
own interests. Speaking generally,
you cannot understand Northern
life without keeping this fact in
mind. The very thing which has
made the North famous and strong
and rich has proven to be a snare,
Money getting is a prime necessity,
even though family, friends and re
ligion are sacrificed. Marriage is
becoming more and more a business
transaction, a fact which makes the
awful tragedy of divorce a common
place occurrence, and involves So
oiety in great disorder. And religion
itself becomes subordinate to money
getting. Talk about the Southern
problem the North today is con
fronted by problems too great for
any brain TO compass. A rich arts
tocraoy dominates society, an arts
tooraoy inspiring cringing fear in the
middle class, and provoking curses
from the poverty-strioken. The rich
live like princes, feed on the best
that earth car produce, wrap in silks
and furs while the poor in the
crowded city suffer in dirt. The
horses and dogs of the rioh fare bet,
ter than the children of the poor"
The Observaut Tai Heel visiting
New York is also impressed by the
number of foreign names on the
street signs and the number of peo-