The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-01-27
KEEPING MONEY ATHOME
By EDWARD X. GRAHAM
Acting President Of the University OF North Carolina.
In Harpers Weekly.

and speakers have shown extraOrdi-
nary interest in this section in which
we live. They nav spoken fair words
or pralse OF our esources.o our history,
our native stock" our MANUFACTURERS,
n,r ater-po and they nave
.hown their faith in our future in the
hes, way can show lt-oy
nntting their money here. But the
main interest they feel in this secton
is not the opportunity 1t has OF devei-
oning it's material resources, Dut the
unparalleled opportunity II mas OF
building I'D a great CIVILIZATION. !
was reading the other day in Har-
nar,s Weekly an article that spoke OF
a certain man as a line type OF new
Southerner, not the vaguely foeaiastic
TYNE. fine but Ineffective not n type
exactly that is building our peculiarly
ruccessful commercial cities. such as
Atlanta and Birmingham; but the
kind of man who is hamTnering his
IDEALS into his business and his citi-
rensh;n and who is invigorating his
Ideals with practical performance.
That is the reason we are interested
in this civilization we are HlakIhg IN
Macklenburg. We are justly proud OF
every particle Of material prosperity
that we have won; but there is a deep
or reason for our eager civic Interest
than our material success. We are
not working here merely to have the
richest county and the biggest city IN
the country. If we nave Ioo,voo peo-
ple and fifty skyscrapers in Charlotte
in the next half century, We'll only
match Atlatna of today. and there will
he two or three hundred more just
like us. We are glad Of the prosper
ity, and the more of it we get the glad
der we are, but it is for the use We
can make of it, in setting us free from
A.. elo,-oru IF nOVorfV that we NAV
be fully at liberty to work for precise
w the sort of civilization that we want
here, that we are mainly glad.
That is the interesting, the thrilling
thing that the material prosperity we
have won has lone for US it has put
us where the manly man and the
manly civilization asks to get-the po-
sition young Solomon was in when the
Lord challenged him to make hff
choice. We do not ask for the big
gest town or the richest town, SO that
the people at the top a have enough
money to stop work. We do ask fol
wisdom enough to know the pei
manent and progressively good thing:
10 work for are, the civic will to worl
for them. and the material prosperit,
TO put wheels under them to makt
them so.
What we have learned is that it i
wise to work together for a good plac'
w a 6oO0 O"h IA - oOO0 IA
in a good State. n we mean by
good place to live, a place both t
make a good living and to live a goo
life-good money, good water, goo'
streets, good schools, good churches
A good place to live is a place to in
vest life and get bigger returns.
n do we get on our inveStmen
here? What, and how much? Tha
Is the problem Of agriculture, business
education and citizenship: translatin
lower values into higher values i
quantity and quality.
And as We have worked at tn.
problem hereduring these past flft
years of ~privation and struggle "
have learned that conditions for gel
ting good material things (good foo
health, clothing, roads) are mo- sep<
rate from the good spiritual thing
good churches, good schools. goo
Sovernment), but that they are int
independent. all a part Of the san
good civilization, just as sound phys
cal health is a part OF sound spiritu
heath. Our commercial and 'boOste1
organizations have learned that it
necessary to have good schools al
good churches; it is likewise nece
sary for education and religion al
citizenship to remember that h IA
terial well-being Of all the people
a part Of the spiritual ministry Of
all.
We cannot separate them and w
this great game Of Christian Demo
racy that we are playing. h Go.
Samaritan did a religious act when
healed h physical wounds Of t
man by the road, and Christ col
mended him The man He condemn
was the priest who ignored the ma
material need. One other man He co
demned: the rich materialist who
vested his active life in filling ]
barns with the idea that he 6
them full to bursting he would cul
vate his spirit. Both the priest a
the farmer were wrong, and Tor t
same reason: they separated mater
needs and practice from spirit,
needs and practice. The life we lie
in our stores, fields, factories, offices
not and cannot be separate from tt