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

C 9'ote Dig majority of North
Carolina people into going our to
huht some pine knots.
North Carolina has ar annual rain
al ol q NIUE over fifty inches Okla
hoHa mas less than two-thirds that
amount. Part Of Oklahoma is So
dry as to be almost d desert.
w men IL comes to the vast water
, bowers OF North Carolina Oklahoma
- lett. Oklahoma is q long way from
the eastern markets, from the dimes
or travel, from the centers of popu-
iatlon and industry. Oklahoma has
10 manufacturing prospects like North
,afollns Not single one of these
things could be offered to induce the
SIX or seven hundred Thousand stran-
/ gers 70 leave some other State and
go to Oklahoma. There were no farms
to occupy, no cities ready for men no
schools. no homes, no roads. no any
thlng, but vacant land, to offer as 4
natural opportunity.
Why Ol1lahoma's Growth.
| Yet Oklahoma added more people
| 10 her population in the ten years
than any other States except New
York and Pennsylvania She added
more than her big neighbor Of Texas,
| more than the pOpulOuS and thrifty
| State of Ohio, or Illinois, nearly as
| many as all the New England States
| added III the same period, more than
| Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska a! q
| Wisconsin com bined.
Not because Oklah homa has any ad-
| vantage that North Carolina does not
have, nor because the people are more
| available, for a big lot Of the people
| in Oklahoma are from every state OF
| the East, nearly a hundred thousand
| of them from the States along the At
| lantic coast. and ten thousand Of them
| from North Carolina. That is nearly
as many people as North Carolina has
| taken from all the States, for North
| Carolina has about 10, coo inha oi-
| tantS not native, while Oklahoma has
ten times that many not native.
Now why?
Simply because Oklahoma has made
il easy for people to know about that
wonderful growing State.
Oklahoma has III the State more
people from other States than any
other State OF the Union has. There
is not another State that has popu-
lation of any consequence that has Sc
small a number from other States az
North Carolina has.
Doesn't that signify something!
And Won all know there is not an
other State in the Union that has sc
much to offer as North Carolina has
Doesn't that set YOU North Caroline
folks to thinking?
" hat do you suppose Ohlaho1ne
Woould do with North Carolina ]
Oklahoma could have our state t
hold up as an asset for Oklahoma:
If oklahoma grows during the pres
ent ten years as it grew the last tel
wears. and North Carolina grows a
) the same rate, Oklahoma will be {
more popuIouS State than North caro-
lima. What do YOU think OF that
thirty years overtaking a hundred
and fifrv wears, and the old state haV
ing ali the advantages
North Carolina Sure Winner.
It is hardly possible for Ohlahom;
r, ovev1aixe North Carolina. but If i
: should North Carolina will soon pas
AWAY a4tin for Oklahoma does no
! have the resources with Willcn u
) maintain tte-biG population that VII
some day be found in TINS state
There is where North Carolina IS Ger
tain 10 win in time. North Carolln'
= hae such varied and endless resource
that il is certain to come to the IRON
| through the slow process OF natuIa
+ erowth. or through the influences 0
! neopIe yef1o are looking across III
horder from other States ii our Owl
, | neoDle do not arouse to q more Ce
= irr,nire0 effort TO push the o''t
I head like il can be crowd
: The state Press Association has un
: dertanen to develop the resources
North Carolina. Ii the state ires
, | Ac.ociation will take vigorous hold o
, ti,s idea OF developing the State IN
= .aoociafion can do just as much ner
: a. this state as the people or Okla
: ,n ho,uI. ta,'i have done out there in the prai
n;.s The truth is that il the news
papers OF the State take i,,is, hold eh I'M IN,
| reo--e7nent they can do ai1nost d >
: lcont:aued q rage i've