The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-23

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State is gridironed with power wire
: now and in that respect has no pee
:. on the globe.
: Ours is one State that is self-con
: tanned and self-providing. 1t has tn
: farms on which to feed the people
: TIE factories in which to emplo
them, the power to run the mills
the yearly crop of raw material TO
, the factory, the river and sea T
; carry the freight market, the railroad
in all directions, besides the surplu
of product eagerly sought by othe
States.
Rising in the highest mountain!
east OF the Rockies, North Carolins
rivers have more fall to the sea,
greater distance to the sea, create
annual rainfall to carry down, ane
a greater area to drain water from
than any other State of the East
How much power that meansis pure
guess. 1t is a limit we cannot over
take for years. We have no idea
of our ability to produce cotton foI
the e> er growing North, oranything
We have no idea where we are
going, but we are headed some
where, and are running away on
halt dozen roads at one time. :.
1t is no use for me to point out to
you the opportunities of North Caro-
lima. Five thousand people could
find opportunity in Jones county to
90 raising cotton. AS many mole
could 90 to the mountains to raise
cattle. As many more could go to
Guilford to raise corr, to Moore, to
raise scuppernongs for the grape juice
plant starting there, to Henderson
to raise apples, to Robson to raise
cantaloupes, to Cumberland to raise
tobacco, peanuts-for oil, sweet po-
tatoes to make starch for the cotton
mills and alcohol for the arts and
for the automobiles when gasolene
is scarcer.
Every county in the State could
place ten thousand peonle as fast as
they could come and opportunity
would await them. One of the
greatest of advantages is that our
resources are so distributed that in
every township in the State it is
possible to establish varied indus
try. Here is one State that has
power available in every locality,
raw material in every. locality, trans
portation in every locality. We do
not have to bunch our industries i'm
cities where coal and iron and shop
room can be had, as is the case in
in other States where the utilities
must be assembled. We are not
compelled to crowd into centers OF
population. Look at the cotton mill
development that lines the Southern
Railway from Virginia boundry to
the South Carolina frontier. 1t is
continuation of mill communities
with their farm settlements about !
them. At the last census North |
Carolina ranked eight amol ng the
States in it's rural population. Only |
seven other States are developed |
all through the rural regions more
than ours. In city population this
State ranks thirty-first, but we are
alonesin having farm and
'actory property development scat
:ered over the entire State.
The farm is where it can feed the
'actory and supply such raw material
IS cotton and tobacco, and the fac
ory is where it cah benefit by the
arm, and find labor and subsistence
md afford a market. North Caro-
ina is sloppy with opportunity. |
AN no more tell you the limit of the
water of the ocean out there in front
,fus. The one single thing of cleo
rical development that has COM
nenced in the STATE means a revolu-
ion in industrial things, with North
Carolina as cradle of expansion
md training ground. Ten wears
rom now the electrical atmosphere
If industrial North Carolina will be
/ marvel.
You realize the opportunities.
How can the press help to develop
hem? BY becoming thoroughly
amiliar with what is here. We
now OF many opportunities, but
here are many opportunities we
ave overlooked. We must become
amiliar with as many as possible,
nd get our people to know and ap-
'reclate them. Ny people laughed :
It me for an enthusiast when | told
hem North Carolina has the best
Innate IN the United States. |
howei them the weather statistics
which tell that in every State along
he Canadian frontier except New
FORK and New England the Their