The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

timber is now going on, ana, In tner
haste to get rich, lumbermen and
owners of land, forgetting thc-id-
ture. not only are depicting our Tor
ests. but destroying the trees that
roduce the leaves and debris that
stop the rapid flow of water. thus
causing floods in Il streams that
ruin our crops. destroy our river bot
toms, greatly injure our water power,
and strike q blow at by
filling up our naNigable streams.
Strict laws in regard to what size and
to what extent trees should be cut
ought to be passed and rlgldly en-
| forced, else in a few more years an
injury that can never be repaired VIII
be done.
IN my judgment, the greatest need
| today in North Carolina is good roads,
and there, too, the Geological Survey
has already done much service. When
inaugurated in 1905, / said: Mud,
next to illiteraey, levies the highest
tax on a State, and bad roads are a
curse and a hindrance to the bust
ness, education and progress of a
people" DIR. Pfatt's recommendation
as to the kind OF highways we need
meets my approval, n / hope a
fuller and more up-tO-date measure
relating to roads will be passed at
this session, for one needs only to
study the improvement in counties
having good roads over those having
odo tiIC - \ ~ CAV ioll
of mud to know what better highways
mean for the growth and wealth of a
county or State. During my admins
tration / have taken an active inter-
est in every measure looking to the
Improvement of our roads, making
many speeches in the interest of bond
issues for this purpose, and doing
what l could to bring the minds of
the people to q healthy sentiment
along this line. The people are now
ODD fO tho MI nn1
to this Legislature and the incoming
Governor as the one paramount need
of the hour GOOD ROADS: and if the
next administration should accomplish
nothing but this n result Of better
highways, it would forever deserve
the thanks of a grateful and rapidly
enriched people. DIR. Pratt is in pos
session of so much valuable infor-
nation about the subject above dis
cussed that / have requested him to
remain in Raleigh during your ses-
sion, to the end that you ma see and
fully converse with him concerning
matters fraught with such vital i'm
portance to u people.
The State National Guard.
The Guard is now IN good condi-
tion-not perfect, and subject, of
course to some just criticism, as all
militia are: still, all who have been
connected with it as long as I, know
that its equipment, discipline, sol
Utterly DodIilS dId StltIdI CoIuILlofl
is far in advance of its previous
standing. Now that the Dick bill
has been amended, giving each Stat
: a larger appropriation, money mat
; ters will be Jess stringent and every
thing move more smoothly for the
States highest protection. Several
times during my administration ]
t ave had to call out various compan-
les in cases of emergency, and in
every instance they responded
: Quoted themselves in a manner be
coming soldiers and Carolinians. The
1 personnel of the Guard is of a high
: type, and the State may rest assured
| that if at any time danger should il
4 any w a threaten the peace of Oui
. people they havc q military organiza,
e ton ready and prepared to protec
their interests and, if need be, Xix
/ their fo~refathers. die in defending the
2 States honor and good name.
Pensions.
AS / said in my message of 1907
+ and now repeat find out what til,
\ veterans of the Civil War require
: and then do all you can for them
and when you have done all that i
? asked, o have not lone half enough
z to repay them for their LOYALTY in tn,
past. A small increase will be :asket
for the support of the Soldiers Home
The veterans are getting old; the,
t cannot work, and many are now com
- - ~ ~ ~ - 10 IItt'
r ed, II let the declining years of thes,
old soldiers be in ease, as in Il com
Portable home they smoke the pip,
of peace, awaiting their t
4 come up higher.
State institutions.
n 1t is not my pdrpos in this mes
sage to take up separately institution
S established for the education of on
O youth or for the ameliOratiOn of pain
and suffering: for this / did fully il
q 1907, and now refer YOU to that pa
per. l will say, however, this mucl
!, as applicable to all: 1 do not beIieI,
: any other State, according to it
wealth and population, has tried t.
u do more for its youths education o
IN caring for its unfortunate than
y North Carolina. h University o
d the State, the Agricultural and Me
t chanical Colleges for both White an,
c cOlOred, the State Normal and Indus
trial College and the training q II
normal schools for both races haVt
all been conducted on q high plano
without any scandals or troubles, anC
have equipped tmany good men AM
women, who. going out into the Stat
n to engage in various occupations
have added greatly to our ~eXtraordi
s nary growth and development. and
a in my Judgment the good accom-
: plished by these higher nstitutions
coupled with the fruits produced from
our public schools, has added as mucs
n as any other instrumentality It
the-wealth and prosperity now q
g joyed by the State. Money spent
educating our boys and girls yielC
p the greatest of all dividends 10
+ State, and educated brains directin
4 trained fingers. is the power that
building manufactures, deyelopin
q our educating our comm
generations and elevating our moral,
An idle brain is the devils work
shop" but a cultivated. educate
. brain is the handmade of thrift an
enterprise that builds up but ncvo
destroys.
= Each institution viii lay it's resnec
tive claims before YOU. and / know
deeply interested as you are in ednca
ton and the States development. Va
Will do all that duty and our fnancie
condition will admit.
; What L have said of the above -
Stitutions can likewise be said Of -,
Deaf and Dumb and Blind Schoo, :
Raleigh and the Deaf and Dnn1
School at Morganton, and to This nm
V more can be added. The frst-non,I
schools deal with boys and girls ~,