The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-20

from IN Pennsylvania. and ,ta,
20 into the old Presbyterian chr-rr -,
eBthesda on q summer mornirrpwau
be almost Identical with going .,t1
the old Beechwood P~reshvte~
church Of my boyhood days n T.-r-
sylvania.
Ny friend asked me about ta-m,rr
I told him that North Caroline
cording to the Federal report isst
last week, had made s122, 600 COO .-s
crops last year. In my opinion,
where YOU can make a hundred t.,r
lars worth, you can make any ga..r-
tity you want to make. l to'd hin,
of individual farmers who ha-vrS..}
five and ten and twenty THOUSAND
dollars from their crops. and con-
cludcd his question answered Ytt
also added that a Pennsylvania u.n
came down here last week l. see tina
country, and went away c-unel.Elrs
that this it not a farming section.
To offset that / mentioned a new
conner who fell in with my boy am
the road a few days ago. The l.s-
conner is from South Carolina. and
he says he is delighted with the r'.a-
tation which he bought in the wine
ter for something like thirty thousand
dollars near my house. He : plant.
ing three hundred acres Of cotton
this year and clearing ground for 4
great deal more. Before long his
crop in a single e will pay him 3
much as the place cost.
1 merely mention these things rs
different opinions of the same thing.
Then l advised my friend, If his
wife and son need a change Of c..-
mate, to come and see. for when =
mans family needs a milder climate.
where liz and health are involved, I
never hesitate about taking or me the
responsibility of saying that here he
can find what he evidently needs,
Where 1t is a matter Of individual
choice as to what he will like I prefer
to let him choose for himself. Where
it is 4 question Of better conditions
for an ailing member Of the family
/ can speak freely and confidently,
and say that If climate is the thing
he will find It here.
If health is the desideratum, then
other things must be secondary. Those
other things are always personal.
North Carolina is just like any other
place where you find people. The
fact that people are here shows that
here is an inducement. Where there
is an inducement other people can
find opportunity. My friend from
Pennsylvania will find here resources
for the satisfaction Of more than two
million people. Those can
De enough 10 lnCluue hlNi
and his family. But the resources
are available only to the man who
makes them available. That is the
case everywhere. North Carolina g
a paradise. Do you know why? Well,
l will tell you. Because my house
hold gods are grouped here about
the domestic shrine. Were this same
accumulation in Texas, Utah. Ohio or
anywhere else ] would say that there
is the happy valley.
Where a man finds his wife ana
young ones, his horses and his COWS,
his fig trees and his roses; where he
finds his possessions and his inter-
ests: where he likes to DO his work.
there is the country for him, and all
the rest is of minor consequence.
He will find the n~eighbors all right
in any neighborhood, and the SOL
satisfactory, n the crops fruitful.
and the industrial conditions about
what they need to be, and all that
sort Of thing.
And that is all ] can tell any man
about North Carolina or any other
spot en- earth.
Snl7tharn piroc N q