Goldsboro weekly argus., 1914-01-22
WORK FOR THE CHAM
Der OF COMMERCE
Opportunities and Possibiliti S
Impending
WHY NOT GET BUSY
ffEastern North Carolina Needs More
PeOple-Why Not Promote Her
Capacity TO Care For
Them.

Senator Simmons, VINO Knows every
part of North Carolina from persona
visits and close and competent obsef-
vation, is reported to have SAID tnat
the chief need of Eastern North Caro-
lima is several thousand new people
to assist in tilling the fertile soil OF
this section and in carrying on manu-
featuring industries.
The Senator is right, and it is not
without the province of political OF
fice-but wholly within the sphere OF
it's public duties-tO promote the de-
velopment of the country along agrl-
cultural and manufacturing lines as
we'll as along other avenues OF pub
lie effort.
The Argus commends Senator Sim
mons for this frank and pertinent ut
terance, and we believe the Goldsboro
Chamber of Commerce could not do
better than get in touch with Senator
Simmons, who in his exalted political
position and high sphere of influence
is most fortuitously situated to be OF
inestimabIe service in the develop
ment of the Industrial population and
possibilities of this section, of which
Goldsboro is essentially the gate city
AS the Wilmington Star recently
and so truthfully said, going west Tor
agricultural opportunities is thing
of the past in North Carolina, and
commenting on that statement further
the editor of the Star in it's issue of
today says: 1--WE based that editorial
on the fact that the United States De-
partment of Agriculture awarded the
premiership to North Carolina for the
acreage production of cotton, tobacco
peanuts and several other staple
crops, and certainly the actual re-
suits and the possibilities of farming
in North Carolina ought to be enough
to keep our own people at home and
attract thousands of homeseekers from
abroad"
Following the Stars declaration
that going West for agricultural op-
portunities is a thing of the past in
North Carolina, the Norfolk Virginia
Pilot adds:
"And SO it is in Virginia; and SO it
ought to be in every Southern State
The hegira from the South to the
West was born of conditions which no
longer exist, which, in fact, are in
rapid process of reversal. In the for
mer time the acreage of this section
was devoted in such proportions to
the growth of cotton and tobacco that
the planters became to a great extent
dependent on the West for their sup
plies of corn and bacon. 1t was on the
South that the Western farmer grew
rich despite the disadvantages of cl1-
mate under which he labOred, and
Southern money paid out in millions
for hog and hominy has been the
foundation on which the wealth of the
West was builded. This situation has
sof rachanged that the South is pro-
ducing food cereals, provender and
hogs in quantities approximating a
suff1ciency for home consumption, with
the prospect of an early surplus for
expectation"
In doing that very thing lies some
of the greatest opportunities of agri-
culture in the South. In five years
North Carolina has cut her purchases
of food and feed products from more
than $64,000,000 to $39,640,885 last
year. That mehns something like
S25,0OO.00O kept in North Carolina IL
five years, or saving of $5,O0O,OOO {
year. There are great possibilities il
keeping on doing that till the State
becomes absolutely independent ant
turns the tables by selling what i
used to buy. North Cardinals acre
age production of cotton last yea
was one-third greater than the entir'
Southern average, and since it ha
been demonstrated that modern meth
DDS prove the agricultural premiership
of the South, the Virginian-Pilot state
1t strongly and logically in this asser
tion:
"There is no part of this broad con
tinent where so great returns awai
intelligent industry on the part c
tillers of the ground. There is nc
where that such a variety of crop
can be sowed with certainty of a
abundant yield. There is nowher
else that so much open weather pre-
walls and where farm work may e
on uninterrupted for SO many month