The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-07
.ME FOR NORTH CAR'LINY."

III hIit@NIiit
gives in its own language the story OF
a Young North Caroiinian. VINO, De
puiled BY the beautiful stories or
how easy il vas to get rich III can
some time ago left tins state
and went to the Golden Gate. Like
many others before him ne had des-
the things near at hand and
attracted by the beautiful stories
Of greater things else " here. lie did
not find out how good a place Norm
Carolina was until he had reached
the Pacific slope and then he found
and tina it was very much in Cantor
MA like the story of the w~ayfarer,
who was met in the suburbs OF Bos-
ton and was held UP by a robbie VINO
said: your money or your brains.
The man said: Take my brains. 1t
any brains then without money He
found tina in California, unless he
had the money, opportunities were
not SO great as in North Carolina, and
he wisely trekked back home and here
is what he said to the Knoxville re-
borders Of the State:
"Belieye me said a u North
Carolinian as he was about TO board Il
train for Charlotte at the Southern
passenger station Monday morning.
I'm going back to Moth Calling, and
I'm going TO stay. No more Of Cali
fornia and the West for me at
least. not when it comes to looking
for a job.
I've been awaN nine months and
spent most OF the time looking for
where ! Whiled away a few weeks,
with nothing familiar but the strains
Of Dixie and Homo Sweet Home"
waited through my WindOW from a
graphophone. and Of course they ad-
ded TO my feeling Of c~ontentment. J
don't think with me far. far away
from home. Why. I've got a dog
back in Charlotte ! think I'm going
TO kiss when l get home.
Take it from me, if you're In Cal
ifornia with a pocket full of rocks,
you're all right: il not, you're in the
middle of a bad fix. All they wan
is your money, and when they find
out a fellow is a tendeTfOOt, they'll
come pretty near getting it. Jobs:
There's nothing doing in San Fran
cisco. When the street hits YOU for
a dime to buy a sinker tsandwich)
with, it's a good place to get away
from. There are 10000 men in Sar
Francisco hunting jobs, this very day
Why, | dropped around to the Y. NJ
{. A. employment office to see it
could hitch on to q job there. ano
found more than thirty ahead of me
all hunting the same thing l was
something to do.
Il have ozens Of letters from boys
| knew back in Charlotte, wanting me
to get them jobs in Frisco. The,
Imagine that because Of the exposition
TO be held there in 1915, work il
plentiful n n as thick as peb
bles At the bottom OF a creek bed
but they haven't even started on tn,
exposition yet.
Il left three Fasteners back i,
Frisco in tears because they didn'
have the price Of a ticket back home
And ! left another doing the hardes
work in his life, trying to get enough
money together to buy transportatio1
back to North Carolina. When | lef
he had it figured down to where h
had to get in fourteen more DAYS t
have the price Of a ticket ahead, an
then he's coming.
'Cahfornia is a great country,
You We got plenty Of money. ! ex
pect to go back some Of these days
mayoe for the exposition in 1915
but it will be only for q trip. M
for good old Moth Calling" sang tn
Young Tar Heel, as he dashed fc
. his train
The interview Of this young me
should be printed in every paper j
North Carolina and emphasize,
Every cal scores Of North Care
Hnlans who cannot get rich here (
fast as they would like. go to otht
q States il the hope of lettering the
i condition. In nine cases out of te
U the man would nave done better
North Carolina han in any 9th
State. Let the boys who are di
= satsfled with conditions at nom
red the interview Of this young ma
who has returned from Californ
q ana hustle at home as hard as