The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-15
WHY NOT HONOR BOTH ?

The magazine issued last month by
some talented Durham ladies, callei
"Tucks and Fuckers contained not a few
articles showing talent of a high order,
and it discussed questions of vital inter
est. One of the articles tina is not with
out point and truth is the following:
CVER-PRAIsE OF NORTH CAROLYN
IANS ABROAD.
We submit that there is a marked ten
dcncy in North Carolina today to fall
down and worship the man who has gone
away. Just let one leave the State and
go elsewhere and we find in him a thou
sane virtues and intellectual qualities that
we denied him at home. Ii he goes to
Chic or Nebraska and secures a little
office, he is hailed as the Hon. So and
So" or Judge this OF that" Isn't this
all wrong? 1t finds no warrant even n
Che parable OF the Progidal Son. For,
III that allegory, the need OF praise was
at least withheld until the p~rodigal
started back home.
Why, We know North Carolina boys
today who practice medicine as faith
fully and successfully right in Our midst
as any New York physicians. We know
A""S SAo, VIZ SpCdh DIS We'll ana manage
cases as adroitly as. the apocryphal Phil
aGelphla lawyer. We have preachers As
eloquent IL North Carolina as those In
Boston. Our acquaintance embraces col
Iege presidents and school teachers,
whose success IS greater than that OF
other men, with like opportunities in any
other State and yet so long as they re-
main at home, doing their duty in the
midst OF those whom they should serve,
trey seem to waste their sweetness Oh
the desert air. But just let the same
man mCve away and his praises are
sung from county to county, is this
right? 1t was said Of old that a prophet
Is not without honor save in his own
land. Tucks and Fuckers rises to move
that We change in this particular.
Let US pay a little more attention to
cultivating our home talent and Just a
little less to ~cultivating our dispersed
friends. \ North Carolina boy has really
begun to feel that the mere fact of leav-
ing North Carolina, and moving to New
York to practise law or medicine or to
preach IS about as much glory as remain
ing at home and being the Governor of
North Carolina.
This will not do. Let it be understood
that a great North Carolinian is great
at home as well as abroad; indeed let
1t be further understood that home talent
is to be recognized to the fullest extent.
North Carolina for North Carolinians'
is the motto OF 'Tucks and Fuckers"
"Tucks and Fuckers" should remember
that this has been reunion year. n
North Carolina, when the "scattered
abroad of the sons of this State were
invited to join in a homecoming cele
bratlon IN Greensboro. In preparing tor
the "Down-homers,'' and in reporting the
proceedings of the unique and successful
meeting, it was natural that the papers
should be full of What North Carolina
boys have done in their new homes. More
has been published this year about then
than In all the previous years because
OF the reunion, and not a line too much
We wish them always to feel that VIZ
still regard them as North Carolinians
knowing that day or night the latcl
string TOR them hangs on the outside.
But the criticism Of our contemporar,
suggests the inquiry: DO we give tn
deserved need Of praise to the able an,
useful sons who say by their acts cher
be our homes while we live and here b
our graves when we die?" 1t would b
a good thing in 1904, if, without an,
stopping over or any fulsome praise
the press would devote more attentio.