The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-31

o'her WorGS. much as education
49, 1teah, TO the prosperity of a peo-
dhIi now, the new education is
sol1i2 60 mean tenfQId more ana North
a oiiila should make haste to lead ali
.uher ot2tes IN taking advantage Of
s sleat energy giving impulse. We
nave MADE great advances in educa-
t.on, ana yet the best thing North
ioilnaNcoul DO in 1910. the besf
financial investment her people could
make, would be to double this school
expenditure Considered simply as 2
pi"iitabie place to put money. it would
pay the man who has land. the man
VINO mas capital, the man uho has
SciehtiIlc knowledge or industrial skin
ana the man who lives by his muscle.
for the prosperity OF all is measured
hS the intelligence and efficiency of
cur average man.
And not only the schools. but all
o1her agencies that are educating the
people TO a higher degree Of efficiency.
deserve our support lust IN proportion
20 the extent and thoroughness Of
their work.
HOW western Immigration Would
Help the State.
First Of all then, in raising the ef-
1icIenty of our average men we need
always ana everywhere to help for
ward the cause of education for the
development Of our people: and in the
next place., We ought to
the immigration OF progressive and
e~nterprising men and women from
other section. Every man who comes
into q city with and purchasable tai
ent or skill in him. gives to every
mans labor in the city a. new worth.
as Emerson has we'll said, and that
just on the same principle that [ op-
pose in~dtscriulinata European irnmi-
grafton, l invite Northern and West
ern immigration. In other words. i'm
migration from Southern and West
ern Europe would lower our tandard
Of efficiency, while immigration from
the North ana West, and from Eng
land, Scotland, Germany. etc. would
raise our average standard OF eff
cheney.
If there were no other reaSon for
advocating his immigration from the
North and West. l should favor it as
our surest deliVerance from our race
problem. The proportion Of negroes
to whites is too large in every South
orn State, and my hope is that ulti-
mately the tides OF migration and i'm
migration will elualize population
unit n proportion Of Eegroes-the
more ignorant he is the greater bur-
den en- the Soutn-hut at best the pro-
cess will be slow. and at present It
would probably not Ee 100 much 70
say that in considering our whole pop
n~lation. including cur great construct
i've leaders and captains Of Industry,
the average negro III North Carolina in
economic worth and efficiency is only
half as useful as the average White
nan
ON other words. in rating the gen
era! average of efficiency we should
put the white man at 100 and the ne
GRO al SO. 50 tina q county half white
and half negro would have an aver
age efficiency Of IS or a handicap of
Is per cent as compared with q coun-
ty with an exclusively white popula-
Tor Of q normal degree Of efficiency.
North Cardinals Great Future.
whether or not the difference is
such as have Indicated, certain 1t is
that the larger the population or
whites. the higher the average of eff
cheney, the more prosperous Will be
our every industry, and the better 1t
will be for every individual citizen,
frc1u6ing the negroes themselves.
Our whole section is still TOO sparsely
settled. Eleven Southern States, in
Guiding Texas, have d population OF
only 1900 900, while q similar area
IN Europe supports 16O,0oo,00o.
North Carolina ought to have a
100000 instead of 1000, 900. For 90
Years now North Carolinians have been
going West to build up the new States
Of that great mpir Now let US Wei
come back their children and neigh
bors to help US build here a great.
prosperous and populous common
wealth, when the great masses OF the
ueople trained to as high standards or
efficiency as anywhere in the world,
shall develop a symmetrical and Well
rounded civilization, a great Democracy
of trained, intelligent, ana lnduStfl-
c,s home-owners out of whom shall
come not only North Carolina's Ief-
ferson's and Madisons n MaTshalls
- NOT ONLY men Wh0m ali
tba NATHAN shall know as leaders in in
d1stry and in public affairs. but poets
and orators, sculptors ana artists
the States long and tragic a OF
var and struggle and rebuilding find
ing their reward at last IN an outburst
of achievement such as our fathers
vearned for and it is now u nigh
privilege to help bring about-"
The society reunion was held after
the anuuet. The face Of Col. Paul Is.
Means was absent from the Dl re-
union for the first time. save one,
-,,ortl Of a aontHrV