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

do otherwise than pursue the course that
| has caused them to be misunderstood,
| here at home by fresh college students
. like Mr.. Dixon, and by men IN other
States who were mislead by such express
sions as he used in his speech here. But
| it will all vet be clear and Mr.. Dixon will
see wherein, unntentionally, he conveyed
| a wrong impression about this great and
good State Like a loving mother, even
though he does not understand her, 1T
rejoices in all his honors and is always
| glad to see him back around the home
circle that all North Carolina born folks
love, no matter how far they wonder or
bow many misconceptions they harbor.
| l was talking tonight with. Col. Paul B.
| Means about the Reunion, and he fur
nished me with the following on his esti-
mate of the worth and value of the Re-
union:
| This is a wonderful result and event
here today, on Guilford Court House Bat
| tie Ground. have seen a great many
meetings of the people in North Carolina
| for great many purposes, during the
last thirty years. l have never seen one
which was more productive of good for our
State than this, the First North Carolina
| Reunion" / feel under its influence, as
one who, for fifty years, has lovingly
watched and studied the benefits, blessings
and glories of his own home State and
with all his soul filled to overlooking
with its hallowed memories, is gently
turned, under the guidance of the Spirit
of Truth to a beatific vision of North
Cardinals glorious future, surprising as
| far her past, in every respect, as her pres
| ent sCrpasses the lines of her abOrlglnes.
| That is no mere Imagination. 1t is a liv-
| ing picture to me of things to come" az
the fruits of the thoughts, feelings and
actions of North Carolinians hereafter.
| And then, too, this meeting had an effect
and blessing far beyond the borders of
our State 1t has begun the uniting of
the hearts Of the folks at home with
| the hearts of our sons and daughters alb
sent from the Old North State in a way
and to a degree that neither ever felt or
realized before And this will continue UNI
der the blessing of Our Father in Heaven
until it will add new strains to the angels
| song of peace on Earth and Good Will
to Man" throughout all the State in this
| God blessed Republic of sun crowned men
and women.
| EVERY great pFdcIlcdl result Is Slulply
the concrete form of previous thought
and action.
/ Two men stand pre-eminent in North
i Carolina as the creators of this reunion
here. First, Judge David Schenck; with
out whose thought and action the Gull
ford Battle Ground in North Carolina and
its present heroic history would not have
been what they are today and judging
the future by a hundred years of the past
would never have been what they are to-
day and this reunion would never have
been held here.
!, Second, it was the thought and action
OF Charles d. McIver in whose great soul
the idea of this reunion was conceived and
born that did most for its production
and without this star of the first magni-
tude in the educational armament of the
States united" this great reunion would
not have been.
"All honor to the names of Schenck and
McIver now and at all the future North
| Carolina Reunions when they occur here
annually as they will.
These Reunions will be as perpetuated
as this place of flames eternal camping
ground" Because this place, as it now
exists, and this Reunion are full of the
immortality of the two mighty souls of
which they are the love-fruits, and year
after year, while time lasts, North Caro-
inians and other Americans will see sim
liar scenes right here, only more loving
and more glorious. God bless North Car
Dina and this Republic
l enjoyed nothing more during the Re-
), Union than the opportunity of visiting
Greensboro Female College and the State
Normal and Industrial College. Both
gave entertainments on Monday night
rarely interesting and pleasant. Al
Greensboro Female College, in addition to
the regular program, speeches were made
f by Governor Aycock, Gen. Julian S. Carr,
Rev. DR.. Atkins Sunday School Secre-
tary, Rev. DR.. Byrd and the writer to a
! large AUDIENCE embracingN bevy of beau
tiful young girls who are being educated
under the guidance of Mrs. Lucy H.
Robertson, president and an excellent
, faculty. The college is doing splendidly.
was informed, in spite of the loss oc-
casioned by the threatened closing of its
doors. They are open. its halls are
thronged with ambitious young women,
and all its friends have faith in its sue
, cessful future career.
The State Normal and Industrial Col
: lege is growing daily in usefulness and in
power. That college was born in Raleigh
in the brain and heart of Charles D. Me-
: liver and his "helpmeet,' for her enthu-
isiasm and wisdom makes Mrs. Nc
liver, indeed the ideal wife of the
noble man who is at the head
OF the State Normal College It's success
has been phenomenal and it is as vet but
in the dawn of its great usefulness. 1t
has over five hundred lovely and aspir-
ing young women in its halls and could
have many more if it had the room to ac-
commodate them.
The banquet given to the alumni OF the
i University of North Carolina by the Gull
ford County Alumni Association was one
of the most delightful events OF an event
crowded with enjoyable events. 1T was
i given on Monday night in the dining hall