The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-11

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..nt Il. X. Graham, of the State Uni |
,.r.itv. in connection with the clos |
Irg rally OF a series of country life
tonferences held in Mecklenburg
tounty.)
The topic ] am announced to speak
an is Culture and Agriculture
What mean to ask you to think
ahout is the relation between educa-
non of any sort n business Of any
sort-the training of our mind and
spirit. and the earning Of our living.
And want to add to this, the rela-
tionship that our association in the
community adds to it. Perhaps this
seems a very general subject, not
Greatly concerned with our living in
,erests: but when we consider the
matter we find that discovering this
relationship between our material in
rerests and III higher interests is the
thing with which we are most practi-
cally concerned both in our private
and our public affairs. We might al
most say that tina is what life is.
In recent years a great many writers
and speakers have how extraOrdina-
~ interest in this section In which we
live. They have spoken fair words
If praise of our resources. u his
tory. our native stock" u manu-
features, our farms, our water powers
and they have shown their faith in u
future in the best way strangers can
show it-by putting their money here.
But the main interest they feel in this
section is not the opportunity it has
Of developing it's material resources,
but the unparalleled opportunity it
has Of. building up a great civiliza :
ton.
was reading the other day an
article that spoke of a certain man as
a fine type Of new southerner, not the
vaguely idealistic type, fine but in
effective, nor the type exactly that IS
building our peculiarly successful
commercial cities, such as Atlanta
and Birmingham: but the kind OF
man who is hamnering his ideals into
his business and his citizenship. and
who is invigorating his ideals with
practical performance.
Reason For Civic Interest.
That is the cas- We are interest
ed in this civilization we are making
here in Mecklenburg, and that is the
reason that we meet here today. we
are Justly proud Of every particle OF
material prosperity that we nave
won: but there is a deeper reason fol
our eager civic interest than u ma
terial success. We are not worklns
here merely to have the richest coun'
~ and The biggest city in the count
II We have 200 900 people and MT!
skyscrapers in Charlotte in the mex
half century we'll only match Atlantf
If today and there will be two o
three hundred more just X us. W.
are glad of the prosperity, and TN
more of it we get the gladder we are
but it is for the use we can make o
1t, in setting us free from the siaver,
of poverty hat we may be fully a
liberty 70 xyo~1 Cor nrocYCa1V me SOV
oi. civilization that we want mere, ina
We are mainly glad. :.
That is the interesting, the thrlilini
thing that the material prosperity W
have won has done for US: it has pu
us where the manly man ana IN
manly civilization ask to get-tn
position young Solomon. was in VINE
the Lord challenged him to make hi
choice. +. We do not ask for the blgses
town or the richest town, SO that IN
people at the top cam have none
enough to stop work. we 90 ask 10
wisdom enough to know what the pei
manent and progressively GOOD tnihs
to work for are, n civic Will !
work for them, and the material pros
perity TO put wheels under thehh !
make them go.
The Most InterAting Game.
What we have learned that II
wise TO work together for it is a goo
place TO live-a good town, in a goo
county, in a good State. Ana "
mean by a good place to live-a pia'
both To make "a good living and TO nv
a good life-good money, good wate
good ~treets. good schools, goo
"hurches. A good place to live Is
place to invest money and get blge'
returns and to invest life and get on
ger returns. To make such = pla'
IN The biggest and most interestl1
game in all the world, and there Is ]
hotter field in the world to play
man right here in North Carolina.
What do we get on our investmel
here" What, and how much! IN
- the problem of agriculture, Gus
ness, education and citizenship: iran
iating lower values into higher valu
In quantity and quality.
And as we ave worked at u
problem here during these past III
Years of %privation and struggle '
have learned that conditions Tor &c
unG good material things1Soo 100
health. clothing. roads. are not sep
rate from the good spiritual things
good churches, good schools, good go