The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-20
Echoes From the Reunion
What Has Caused Over $4,000 North Carolinans
To Make Their Homes n
Other States.
lEdItorIal Corresrondence.l

Editorial COrresrONCence.)
Greensboro. \. G.. oct. 1.-THE Pc
Union Of NONRESIDENT North Carolnians
Is numbered with the things that were
II viii not be forgotten. From its in
~ccption nothing that could contribute to
ii. success was neglected. Every prepare
ton was complete on Friday, and from
the first song of praise n the Sun6a.
| reunion service until the pronouncing Ct
the benediction near midnight last night,
nothing has been wanting 70 make me
occasion a perfect one.
Greensboro not only was united I'd
make the Reunion a notable achievement.
but it seems to have had the Weather
Bureau and everything and cverybod:
else on It's side. This is in accordance
with the maxim. God helps those who
! helps themselves Greensboro owe
much to the help it has received frorl
others, because a town is like a man,
and cannot live unto Itself, but it ha-
not depended upon anything except IT.
strong right arm and on the proper rsc Of
-4llGlld 4l1OAGcIS " u IL -
progress. The growth of this city has
been most remarkable, and largely the
increase Of population has been due to
the wise art of town advertising. Some
towns and cities-and some Of the VERY
best-advertise their disagreenents, their
troubles, their reverses to the outside
world. When a man, who Is thinking
about changing his location, reads about
a town that gives an airing to its grie+-
ances, he says 7 have troubles OF my
own" and travels in an opposite direct
ion. I reckon Greensboro people have
their family jars now and then and that
sometimes there arises differences Of
opinion in its private councils. | say, |
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 upbullding OF
their city. This united action, this max
ing common cause for the best interests
o. the city makes what has come to be
known in North Carolina as the Greens
boro spirit
The public spirit and civic pride that
caused the people of this city to take
five thousand dollars out Of their pockets
10 paw the expenses Of this Reunion Is be-
yond all praise. OF course IN this, as IN
! all great movements, there must be a rev
men of enthusiasm and generaishlp VINO
the well arranged plans which have made
; this first reunion a brilliant success. EV-
erybody in Greensboro seemed to share
the spirit Of the hour, even II their en-
thusiasm did not irradiate itself SO percep-
tiblv as that of DR.. Charles D. McIver,
chairman OF the board of managers. What
a mighty power there is in a united COM
munity.
The day Of orators and oratory has not
ended. When four native North Carolin-
,ians who spoke frst-CMcIyer, Ay-
cock, Morehead and Ransom, a quartette
worthy of any State and Of any occasion)
had finished, l began to feel a bit sorry
that we had put up such eloquent men
to start the ball. l thought as l listen
ed to them that it would embarrass non
residents because 1 thought none Of them
could measure up to the fellows who
| chung to the old chimney corner. But |
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 we'll as
if they had never flown to other parts.
ways" because Of their absence from home,
and one otter another took his seat, l
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
O. the admirable speech Of Governor Ay-
cock has appeared. l hope every sub
scriber read every line of it. OF course
there was wanting to the reader the IN
~pressiye manner and indescribable some
thing III his delivery that makes Governor
Aycock the most attractive and winning
orator IN the State. But there needs TO
grace of oratory to make the following
passage addressed to native North Caro-
lrians 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 | have the pleasure to in
tCln you what your affection already
knoWs, that there can be found nowhere
within her borders a man known out Of
his township ignorant enough to iOin