The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-16
HIGH POINT GREW
ON SOLID GROUND
Native Timbers Converted Into
Furniture Made Big Town of
Ancient Village.

High Point. June Ito take what
the sunshine. rain. AMI wind has been
90 careful in making.--ihe oaI. ana pine
ana walnut-and to turn 1t into hap
piness is prc-emin. ,t!y the mission
OF High Point And As long as natu:.
builds nnG man loves ana the race In
creases, High Point Will grow. Its
short. phenomcnally successful past has
been, above all things substantial /:
reads Ike n romance. this reaching
IN ffteen years from a lag station
10 twenty-foUr or NOR" Passenger
trains daily. this transformation OF
sage field !nto the WAR of seventy
factories, but II is no moro a romance
IMAM are the mighty mountains where
In is TN" setting.
Apart from its wonderful furniture
output. there are contributing causes
OF High Points success. Here has
years disastrous land speculation has
done much harm IN many parts OF
inc South. In fact no land has es-
capped Whether II is city land. town
land. farm land. il all alike has :Aared
It's abnormal increase in price. Cor
tdinlE ali progress. such az the inc-casa
Oh population, the Srowth Of cities
ana the development OF industries. lc-
ultimately advance prices. but in adj
values is the unfortunate spirit 81
speculation which sometimes lrcnxies
the inhabitants of town until the
WlscSt lose thcir heads in the ncti =
uous get-rch- quick mania
DO YOU not know communities that
have caught the fever? Suddenly ie-
sitimatc industry stopped, people rushet;
IN the continuous Steam proNi ms the
soundncss OF the BOOM till at asst
ne. i,,l l..
awoke from its intoNication with an
impaired Judgment and loss OF faith
In mans spirit of helpfulness.
Built on Solid Ground.
But in this region OF the 'icdmont.
and especially In High Point. no hcu-
tous speculation mcnaces High
Pointers realize that the rapidity and
soundness of all their industrial deve!-
opmcnt depends on The honesty and
fairness of land transactions. The
49, IS of people WHO l::t becoming
citizens here are not those to Ice taken
In by land boomers they are not
neGrasthenic novelists who are begin
ming manufacturing, nor code!ne hah-
tues who. in response To the pre-
valent 'back-to farm" propaganda.
are Fastening to learn the difference
between a c-upper ana a chcck-rc!n.
They are people who know tho coun-
- 'pHiip dbput, NiON inc CUISINE s
in which they are engaging. md who
are home-owners y community of
1000 heads OF families owning their
own homes is superior in every dcsir-
hble way to another having 10000
heads of families of whom l.000 own
homes. The ownership OF n home is
tn" sheet anchor of citizenship In
crease of town population is q boon.
hrst of all to the real estate holder
who has land to sell. and then 20
ne merchant. hotel keeper. and every
other capitalist, including the farmer
"ho supplies the town market; bpt
o the wagc-oarrcr. who has only labor
% sell and with It's rrcc 10 buy. 1t
may he. it usually is, the reverse.
Whether High Pointers ever argued
from this premise is doubtful. but
anyhow they have followed the course.
they bavc encouraged. stimulated and
enabled as far as possible. the wage
Garner to become q capitalist. to stake
himself In the community by buying
lnrna