Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-01-14

ing some physician to lecture on them.
The noble profession of medicine
which does so much charitable work I
doubt not has members in every coun-
ty who will gladly lecture to the
schools on these subjects.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
The good people of our State have
no cause for greater pride in their
governmental undertakings than in
their care of and provision for the un-
fortunates within our borders. Our
institutions for the education of some
and for the maintenance and treat
ment of others shrink not in compari-
son with such institutions in our SIS
ter States. No better work or one
closer to the hearts of us all is being
done by the State. The State should
not be proffgate, but it should be lib
eral with these institutions. With
liberality for such worthy purposes
should go the closest scrutiny into ex-
penditures, and a constant determina-
tion not to be careless with taxes will
ingly paid for meritorious public pur-
poses, and not to be extravagant in
public generosity.
PENSIONS.
The Confederate veteran needs no
further eulogy than he has always
had and will always have from every
brave and patriotic North Carolinian,
but many veterans need more assist
ance from the State whose honor
they maintained, whose glory they in
creased, and to whose cause they gave
an unstinted devotion in the days of
their young manhood. I trust that
with due regard to other matters
requiring your appropriations you
will find the conditions of our rev.
enues such that you can increase our
pensions.
RETURN OF PROSPERITY.
We congratulate the State that it's
manufacturing industries are emerg-
ing from the shadows Of the recent
panic While prices of some of our
farm products have not been very
greatly depressed during this period
| of general hard times, yet the low
prices of the important crops of cot
| ton and peanuts wrought serious in
| jury to large sections of the State
With the revival of business through
out the country, which always follows
panics, our State will reap her share
| of benefits. State policies never yet
caused a general panic, and State leg
| islatures can do nothing to avert one
| Our people were extremely fortunate
| in being so well prepared to weather
the storms which they did not pro
duce and could not escape, for the in
| dustries of no State withstood the
panic better than ours and suffered
less its direful effects. Every citizer
should do what is in his power tt
hasten the full return of prosperity
to our farms and factories which they
SO richly deserve and which will as
sure similar prosperity to all othel
| industries.
FACTORY LIFE.
| Factory life is increasing and fac
tory conditions will constantly press
upon the attention of all. Factories
should not be hindered or crippled
in their great work, but should b.
/ urged forward to greater triumphs
However the object of effort is not t.
pile brick upon brick or to merel.
perfect processes of earning money
Human happiness is sought, not mere
ly for the few, but for all. He tha
works to help another amass a for
tune is entitled in addition to hi
wages to healthful surroundings ant
pleasant conditions, otherwise hi
|struggle for happiness is Handicapped
and fruitless. While many of our mill
are. sanitary to high degree, espee
tally those of recent construction, ou