The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-12

a distinguished North Caror.r.
once said: L don't Want = o...tt
near enough to me to ha.r....
bark, and none at all ex.-..
across the mountains. whose ~u...
can see on a clear day. Gi4-.
his chimney, SO that We r1..
chunks OF fire in ~emereeu,:.- -.
old idea of the pioneer. th.. 81.
Saxon greed for land and G.r...
and large domain, gave us a IT,
Who lowered above their f-.Iu..-. F.
some tall cliI, but did Mot
the whole mass, without HH.
largest development is imposes
The call to our day, in doa..,-
the Appalachian situation.
make of these independents ir,. ....-.
who inhabit n mountains. -....
phalanX in III corpcTation-cu#.. ...
where each shall march elbow e..
bow with the other, accomiaIs.... .-.
cooperation the things viii. .s...
could be brought about in 1I- sd. ,.
i~ndiVidualiSm. without IoSiI. .
power Of initiative and iudrl4uu....
which has always characrerl~rH IT,.
m~ountaineer. In the old Times De-
fore we had found the modarn ...
which we call the c0rporatiou. 81.
man had enough money, ur ...f
borrow enough money to hs,lid Il ,.-
tory, he built one; If h. didur. tM.
water ran idly to the sea, and ua.
who had the capacity to be .rua..~
of industry and to chain the wtZht.
currents and make them turn -p.ull-~
were contented to manage q .lfH-
farm, and to hunt the gam Ha..H
nature pientifuily pr0VjdeG. Il. MI.
State this virile mountain pnpuau,a.
gave US, in the lives OF men uu" liz
ing, Zebulon Baird Vance. thu, MAI.
crnNav,na, whose InTtiltjNa am, ..r
age found a way to supply thu NORTH
Carolina troops with shoes i'm tile
diresr extremity Of the C~oufcdcrac.. 1T
gave you your Bob Taylor. wiz. his
varied talents and inimitablc fun. ol
anecdote that illustrates tho sle"ua
wit and happy life Of the dWclIer: Ia
the v~astness Of the mourt3ju forests
Our Vance won his WY Irsl into
popular esteem because the spi.t or
Jest and hurnor that relieves the
0notCI of the isolated if. .s.u0
its highest incarnation in hin YOU.
can never take these ulo!
and make OF them a f.--.Et
class. with the ingrajned. -.-.arn
Difference to their employers ihat ua
find in the Old country, The "d'
never lose their independence .-.
initiative, and il our new ne"d~r" i'm
dustrial life we need them. We a.ta
not only their Skill and their la|-I .
but their initiative. Captains "| '#-
dGstry have been thinking 1Ut. Alt
they needle was a few men of ..'-"
vision to plan and execute, vita n''l.
OF li~eutenants and priVates to ,:I.r' .uE
their will. We cannot build --n. lily
upon such an old world conc@It"'" I'd"
manhood, and YOU will H"\'F n: h.
his Appalachian country r#." #
great. unless its richness "'. ifs
greatness come from thu dr. ."I-
mcnt and expanding of The lille ". .""
people who live in these mo'...t..-,
whose prOwess Ook ii from I'll lH
dams, and whose courage d'H1 .
pendence are the priceless h"Tlt-- t
the republic. 1t is not easier {" ''-'.S'
the current OF the free and ot'u "|"
Of the mOuntaineer and harh"s "".-.
to our new industrial life, than - ta5
for Jack Hale to lead the itti' "i'
June of the Lonesome Pine pom.
the ignorance and sqralor Of her '."'
cabin, into the larger life OF H@ .t
Gated omar who, when ad%@t.""
were opened to her, showed that "
every quality Of mind and S2"t I3
she was the equal in dA+N"-
OF character, as we'll as in ul"ii'i d
tainment, Of those who had hetn r'7i
ed in an atmosphere OF criIlf' $500.
education. But, just as surely III l3"-
little girl, whom JCIn COX :Q"@t
ana who is typ cal Of In" noa'."-E
lasses and the mountain lads-Ju-s ~
sure as she emerged from tn" HdI '"
confines Of the mountain hut that .'..
in her horizon, and carried the .H
tues and grit and h0mespUn E"...
ment ingTained into her chaTa-t"' 70.
her very isolation and daii5 ''''-'
with nature-just SO sure VII
door OF opportunity opens 10 III" -3.
and girls OF III Appalachian |f"..-
they shall come forth. no as peg
or machines to be the newer Of
and the drawers of water 10"
tains Of Industry. but To carry .l.--
and Initiative and ambition lnt' ."'
work, SO that out OF this
long pent up by the OLE lnd1>ta
and lack OF cooperation, shat
forth men and women "h"
go into undreamed Of induSlrt
neerism as Sewer found MS
open Tennessee to h world -
Daniel Boone was kentucky > I''.
What We shall find in Il ApiEt'"