The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17
Things NeedfuI In Building Up
a Fruitful Civilization
Continued from Page One.)

u,men. She rose out Of a manger.
poo rev In the humble homes Of
- HE men, who ate their bread by
,ha sweat of their brows in the fear
~. cod. There Is her past and there
- bar future. The future belongs to
the workers, the purpose1ul men, the
nI,rposeful ome Worse,
$ nnssible. than the p~urposeless man
is ,'he purposeless woman-the woman
"obn is neither wife, in any true sense,
nnr mother. nor worker; but merely |
worthless figure upon which iE-
dulrent man hangs fearful and won-
SerfuI garments. The bone, marrow,
sincw, and spirit OF a nation die in
tha womb Of the ~purposeless woman"
We are nightly concerned about
..rro Migrants sometimes and run
,h.n into calabOOses to expires our
ai.nleasure, but the big fact we need
liver to remember is that the on.y
rarrancy that can really harm us
j. yagrancy in our own race-and the
vagrancy that is most or all
= not that Of ragged beggars. but
ibaf of men and women who boast
~ wealth. education or ancestry, but
ors MOI ashamed to be drones; idlers.
narasites in a day when the State calls
FOR workers in a thousand fields.
II we are to have a great ciliviliza-
ZION in North Carolina, we must
create an atmosphere vibrant and
tonic with labor, energy, industry,
enterprise, achievement. And not only
must our people work, but they must
mork in what are really creative and
nroductiye lines Of labor. We have
today TOO few men who are creators
of wealth and too many who are
merely traffickers in the wealth that
other men are creating. When / was
in Japan / was struck with the fact
-. ~ o1d JananoCo CVCfom nf ofhiaC
ave the farmer more honor and a
higher social rank han the merchant
or the banker-because the farmer
;s more distinctively an actual creator
Of wealth.
No Appeal to Class Feeling. :,
Let no man m~isrepresent me here
or think h I would appeal to class
feeling. would not. / recognize
the fact that we must have men in
the work of exchange as well as ir
the work of production n that iT
so far as men are needed for thi:
work OF exchange, they are a. usefu
servants of society as the act.
creators of wealth. But the trouble
is that here in the South-in
measure, perhaps, all over the coun
try, but especially here in the Soutl
where foolish and ruinou5 ideas abou
the lack Of dignity in physica
labor still peTsist-we have just twic
rs many men in these n~On-productiv
lines of industry as are needed-twic
as many merchants, bankers, lawyers
insurance men, etc.-while our yOun
men of extraordinary ability an
training are neglecting u great crea
tive businesses, agriculture and manu-
featuring, and all the others.
Go into the north and west an
you will find a much larger proper
ton Of the leading men and the edu
Gated young men making the CON
munity richer by running dairy farm
stock farms, fruit farms, grain farm
or running factories or brick-kilr
or machine shops, or building hous,
or making roads or draining land
creating more wealth in Stat
already wealthy-and a very niue
smaller proportion Luttin- up lit
banks, little stores, little lawyer
Offices in towns already overcrowde
with such institutions.
Instead Of selling western meat al
western Hour and northern fruit al
northern butter, and sending prof
awav 10 the loss OF the State, half o.
merchants ought to be running ski
tully managed farms, producil
North Carolina meat and -four a.
fruit and butter. and keeping prof
here for the u~pbuilding Of the Sta
And a thousand merchants who a
spending their lives selling Norther
made cloth and Northern-made fur
ture n Northern-made tools a
machinery should be conduct
North Carolina factories and furnis
sng us with North Carolina ma
cloth and furniture and tools q
machinery. Think what q revoluti
we should have In North Carroll
agriculture or in North Carroll
manufacturing Il we had drafted II
either OF these creative businesses
abe extra talent and leadership n
concentrated In our legal professit
Or in our banking business!
do not forget. OF course, that tn
Is other wealth besides hat Of IA
or factory. No n realizes m
fuily than I that the man who is
gagged in any vital educational worl
whether In school work. Journal:
lecture or extension work-any n
who is creating dynamic knowled
which Is pOWer-iS as definitely