The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

few years ago., and a pioneer in big
things of it's kind. U~nfOrtunatei
Whitney IL Stephenson who were al
the back of that were swept away
in the financial disaster Of 1907, ana
that brought Whitney to grief, but 1t
did Tot destroy the resource OF power
that made a Whitney scheme posi-
BILE, and when the folks who are put
ting Baden on the map came along
the work at Whitney showed them
what could be done, and they pro-
ceeded to improve on it. That IS
practically all out Of the State effort,
except the beginning at n Rowan
granite duarrieS, and j am or the m
preston that the man who prevailed
on Whitney and Stephenson to begin
in Rowan was an outsider. 1t may be
he was not.
This lis a Coming State.
North Carolina is coming whether
we help her to make quick time, or
leave her to make slow time, but
the gait will be much more lively if
we all join i'll with the State Press
Association and let people all over
the world know what we have in the
State. The neWSpap erS will under
take 10 spread the intelligence to all
four qua rterS.
Do you realize what more people
means? 1t does not simply signify
selling some land to a few people in
your neighborhood. That is of a lit
tie consequence for it brings "a little
more capital into the n~eighborhood,
but it is small in comparison with
what more people neans to a COM
munity in a bigger sense. In Raeford
we have two trains a day each way.
In the union station in PittSburg
there is a train going out or coming
in any time you Happen there. You
can see people going out through
the gates to a train or coming from a
train any time from before six i'll the
morning until after midnight. And
why? where there are many
people many trains are necessary to
carry them. Where many people live
hoo are within a few Thousand
feet OF each other instead Of miles
apart.
Pennsylvania is just a trifie larger
in area than North Carolina, but
Pennsylvania has four times as many
people. Pennsylvania collects al
average of a dollar and q half from
its people for Dads. North Carolina
collects q little more from ach one
on an average. But PennSylyania
from its four times as man people
gets nearly four times as much nloney
to build loads. If we had foul times
as many people think OF the roads
we WOhlu lave ana az no greater
cost to any Of us. Think of the
schools, and the public works of al
kinds. We woul nave more railroads
and mc.e trains, and more trolley
lines, and every thing we can think Of
Advantage of More People.
The advantage i'll having more
people is in having a greater force il
our community efforts for the genera
public welfare. A %populous State is
nnarnr 70 tho r,orEot TOWNS ,ao,a
to the postoffice, or to the rura
route, nearer to the church, nearer
to every thing, for it has more O.
them TO be near. A farmer in lowe
does not haul his crop as far to sci
it as the farmer in North Caroline
does, because more people in hi
neighbOrhood bring a town and a rail
road to the Iowa farmer. North Caro-
lima has ten miles Of railroad to tn
hundred square miles. Pennsylvania
has two and q half times as mar,
miles OF railroad to The same area
Where you nave lots of people 20,
get the public co~nveniences.
The State Press Association has un
dertahen II OF the most importan
!, things ever lone in the State, and j
is going at it's job with the idea O
carrying it through. If the peopl
Will back up the newspaper men Their
S is no reason why We cannot have PEG
pie enough in North Carolina in an
other ten years to make our cOuntr
= towns thrifty little cities connected b
busy trolley lines and railroads wit
t frequent local rains, our rural re
gions picturesque and prosperous farr
communities thickly dotted wit
v handsome homes and populous neigh
e horhoodS. and our State one OF tn
foremost in every way among tn
States of the Union. The main thin
is to let people elsewhere know whs
we know IF North Carolina and tn
V possibilities in Tar Heel land.
II NIAGARA FALLS WILL GO DRY