The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-13
NORTH CAROLINA, HER SONS
ABROAD AND AT HOME.

The fatted calf is being killed and the
best robes arc being put on in Greensboro
now and this to welcome the home-gath-
ering of North Cardinals scattered sons,
in the grand reunion that is being neld
there this week.
~ Not as prodigals are these sons vel
coined to their native soil but as gallant
representatives of great State, who
have gone out into other States, and
there by their lives their counsel, Their
example, their deeds have reflected glory
on the mother State, which with wide
visit home, and will bid them again God
speed when they turn their faces again
toward the boundaries of their adopted
States.
1t is an occasion that is unique in the
history of the State, and most fttingly
il has been conceived and carried to a
splendid fruition in one of the most pro
gressive cities of the State, a city which
today symbolizes the magnificent prog
ress of North Carolina in things material
and in things intellectual, and in the
things which go to make up State. the
pride of its sons.
Great men of the nation are gathered
IN North Carolina at Greensboro today,
and these great men give voice to the
pride they have in being North Caro-
linians, while the sons who have stayed
at home welcome them and rejoice that
they have achieved high and honorable
estates in their adopted homes. which
have been made better because North
Carolina has given them freely of her
gifted and talented offsprings.
But these sons will find that those they
left behind have not stood still, except it
be in the faith of the fathers, and in TIE
things in which stability means progress
They will find that as of old there are
great men in this great State and that
on the Waves of time, though buffeted
oft, the Ship of State is riding proudly
with fair winds and smoothly breaking
pillows, driving forward under the can
vas full spread to harbors alight with a
welcome for its grander and more glorious
achievements.
Scattered sors arc welcomed and ap-
plauded. and yet in this welcome the
mother can well point with pride to her
sons at home, and to her well ordered
house, garnished and adorned to make
her welcome more sweet and marked, yet
showing that the holiday trappings are
not to conceal ugly spots. but only 20
brighten an already bright picture made
by a sturdy and conservative people,
alert with the alertncss of the age, brave
with the bravery of the Southron, honest
with the honesty of the fathers, pure,
high-mindcd, chivalrous iii their lives
energetic, progressive and successful in
business. true. steadfast and strong in
their religion, the peer OF any beneath tie
sun.
And the beauty of it all is that it is
kinsmen speaking to kinsmen in this r.
union gathering, for the same high id"als
animate the North Carolinian abroad as
do the North Carolnian at home. And
pIease God. the stock is such in the land
that North Carolina the dear mother ri
the scattered sons and the sons that
STAY at home, may look with pride on both
and with the divine glow of motherhood
on her face may lay her right hand on
the one and her left hand on the other.
and with confidence facing the word,
say;
These are my jewels