The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-18
Editorial Correspondence

union of Non Resident North Carolinians
is numbered with the things that were.
II will not be forgotten. From its i'll
ception nothing that could contribute to
its success was neglected. Every prepare
ton was complete on Friday, and from
the first song of praise in the Sunday
reunion service until the pronounclng CT
the benediction near midnight last night,
nothing has been wanting to make the
occasion a perfect one.
Greensboro not only was united to
make the Reunion notable achievement,
but it seems to have had the Weather
Bureau and everything and everybody
else on its side. This is in accordance
with the maxim, "God helps those who
helps themselves" Greensboro owes
much to the help it has received from
others, because town is like a man,
and cannot live unto itself, but 1T has
not depended upon anything except Its
strong right arm and on the proper Use OF
ATLANTA modesty" for its wonderful
progress. The growth of this city has
been most remarkable, and largely the
increase of population has been due 20
! the wise art of town advertising Some
| towns and cities-and some of the very
best-advertse their disagreements, their
troubles, their reverses to the outside
| world When a man, who is thinking
L Jr hon
| town that gives an airing to its grleV-
ances, he says Il have troubles OF my
| own" and travels in an opposite direct
| ion. | reckon Greensboro people have
| their family jars now and then and that
sometimes there arises differences OF
opinion in its private councils. / say, l
| reckon So but if they do they settle them
| without letting the outside world ever
know that there have been differences.
Then, when there is any great enterprise
set on foot to help the city, they all get
| together, pull together, and know no
division in working for the upbuilding OF
| their city. This united action, this mal<-i
/ ing common cause for the best interests
Il
Of the city makes what has come to be
known in North Carolina as "the Green's
boro spirit
| The public spirit and civic pride that
caused the people of this city to take
five thousand dollars out of their pockets
to pay the expenses of this Reunion Is be-
| yond all praise. OF course in this, as ia
all great movements, there must be lew
| men of enthusiasm and generalship whe
| lead but no few men could have executed
the well arranged plans which have made
this first reunion brilliant success. Ev-
erybody in Greensboro seemed to share
| the spirit of the hour, even If their en-
| thusiasm did not irradiate itself so percep-
| tibly as that OF DR.. Charles d. McIver,
chairman of the board of managers. What
mighty power there is in united COM
| munity
The day of orators and oratory has not
ended When four native North CAROLYN
lans who spoke irst-(McIver, Ay.
cock, Morehead and Ransom, quartette
| worthy of any State and of any occasion)
had finished, l began to feel bit sorry
that we had put up such eloquent men
Ito start the ball. 1 thought as l listen
ed to them that it would embarrass non
L Of
| could measure up TO the fellows who
chung to the old chimney corner. But l
wasn't sorry for them long. They didn't
need anybody's sympathy. They waded
right in like ducks and soon were swim
ming around in the pond just as well as
| if they had never flown to other parts.
They hadn't forgotten North Carolina
WAYS" because of their absence from home,
and one otter another took his seat, /
began to be glad that we had given to
other States orators and thinkers of North
Carolina birth and training to teach them
the value of true oratory. Will their
children, reared in surroundings that cares
less for oratory, be taught to speak so
we'll? Time alone will answer.
Already in these columns the full text
OF the admirable speech of Governor Az
cock has appeared. l hope every sub
scriber read every line of it. OF course
there was wanting to the reader the i'm
pressive manner and indescribable some
thing in his delivery that makes Governor
Aycock the most attractive and winning
orator in the State But there needs no
grace of oratory to make the following
passage addressed to native North Caro-
lirians living elsewhere appreciated:
in your travels you may have run
across the scorners who scott at and the
Writings who defame' this State. You
may have heard that she is ignorant and
provincial, but 1 have the pleasure to in1
fern you what your affection already
knows, that there can be found nowhere
within her borders man known out OF
his township ignorant enough to join