The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-18
2|NTERWEWERs
ARE INTERVIEWED
Pennsylvania Newspaper
Men in Raleigh
ARE TOURING THE STATE

NIL uUIItUu TIT VfHtI
prominent Representatives 81 the
.Eourth Estate In Quaker State,
Attracted to North Carolina, Ex-
press Their Favorable Impressions,
and Talk of Their Pians-Tfink
News and Observer Outfit the Best
y1p.y Have Seen in the South.
,..ror The News and Observer.
April 49,
Mir. ftrombia Allen, president
of The Western Pennsylvania As
soaiated Dailies and first vice
president Of the Pennsylvania
Editorial Association, and Mr.. FL. L
Allen. both OF Greensburg, Pa, spent
Yesterday in Raleigh. Messrs. Allen
have been, until the last few weeks,
editor and business manager OF the
Daily Tribune and Weekly Press,
puhlished at Greensburg, Pa, who,
having sold out their business in that
state are taking a trip through the
South and West, and left in the after
% for Southern Pines, where they
will visit Mr.. Bion IL. Butler. a form
er newspaper man n correspondent,
who went from Pennsylvania to that
place. and who, by his letters on
North Carolina, its and OPP
p~ortun.ties. las made his old home
in Pennsylvania very familiar with
this State.
Mr.. Allen said:
We have been accustomed to in
tegvieWing other people for newspa-
pera, and it is rather a new expert
enee to be solicited for an interview.
We ca1ne South on the mission Of see
ing for ourselves it's progress and de-
vclopment. I have been very much
attracted to North Carolina through
several visits some a g on my
way further South, stopping Off with
Mr.. Butler several times at Southern
Pines, but never have stopped Off Ill
Raleigh before. My brother and I
have sold the controlling interest in
our papers and expect to spend the
summer looking oyer the South and
Pacific coast with q view of acquiring
another newspaper proposition l
wish TO say that North Carolina IS
really very much indebted to Mr..
Butler for presenting the claims Of
The Tag Heel State to the people OF
Pennsylvania. He sends a weekly let
ter 10 u large numbe OF Pennsyl-
van:a pa pers, and it is printed in a
great many of the 40 daily papers OF
the Western Pennsylvania Associated
Dailies. Of which I nave the honor Of
be ng president, and hundreds, chiefly
weekly. in the Pennsylvania State
Editorial Association, of which I am
first vice-president. Perhaps we
WPTn attracted RI tbfS State in addition
to Mr.. Buffers letters, because North
Carolina seems to have attracted
some Northern capital and Northern
people, and through his letters, espe-
e1ally around Pittsburg, a great many
people have been interested in this
STATE and On my former visit and
present visit here, it has impressed
NE as being more like Northern States
man any of the other Southern
States / have visited.
North Carolina Naturally Appeals to
Home Seekers.
1t seems to me that North Carolina
appeals to people OF the North, moro
especially Pennsylvania, because it runs
pennsylvania, because 1t runs from
rom coast to the mountains, very sim
'"F TO PENNSYLVANIA in having both sea
coast and mountains with climatic
conditions of both sections. Some
'llAe ago some Northern people be-
anne interested in North Cardinals
possibilities and began to develop the
Po"ef possibilities very extensively,
anu that seems to be one Of your re-
sources that puts you among the first
i"hk' We came here rather to see
nan 10 be seen of men, but we are
p7'ighted with lis last visit Of ours
. me South and for myself, having
?eeh away for three or four years
S.hte my list visit through your
,2'ate' have noticed a great improve
I'M III nearly everything. North
Narollna certainly has The climate in
T1l'ohess that should appeal to
'it'efIers One thing. 1 like about
Nhen l Was here before, and the
u'nultion still obtains. is the fact that
> ooes not have the extreme heat OF
~ states further South. nor the
,eolS OF the States further North,