The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09

ter 1n1OrmduOn from the sea 10 f-a
mountains. Getting back to ra
Cones, Caesar Cone is a big man
cotton manufacturing. He is 2 tsg
ger man there than many a man IS ~
fields that are ranked as bigger fhs-
cotton manufacturing. He has taken
UP line of work in a section of tra
State and made that work and tr+
section prominent all over the wor-f.
In that same manner DR. McBrav-r
has shown himself a big man To ha
the successful head Of a gigartte
work such is possible at Montrose is
greater than to be Governor OF the
State DR. McBrayer's ambition is 10
make at Montrose headquarters u
health and Of knowledge of healta
that will make North Carolina health
full and famous if his work can b-
carried out.
What's Needed? Why, To Get Bus.
And what is necessary? Simply
that we all turn in and make North
| Carolina resources produce the funds
necessary to take. care of the STATE in~
stitutionS. Perhaps we want lot
more people to develop the resources.
| If we do why not let us get the peo-
pie? If we will make it a State task
| to fill this State full as it will hold
with people, and to make every acre
| as productive as it can be made ana
to bring North Carolina to the front
as it can be brought we will look
| back to laugh at the idea that the
| men who are at the head of the State
institutions ever had to go to Raleigh
with their hats in their hands held
out to ask for a few thousand dollars
| to carry on their work.
| At every institution that I know ot
in the State Of North Carolina for
which State aid is asked the same ar
gument presents itself right in the VIZ
- H. e.
us beyond peradventure that Orange
county alone, were it producing TO the
limit that it could produce, could
make a few hundred thousand dollars
a year for the State University look
like a little sum. One of the most
| tragic things I ever saw is the big
| RaVenWOOd plantation down in Jones
county, capable of making two million
| bushels Of corn a year, and actually
making q few thousand for want Of
men to plow and cultivate. A planta-
ton capable of making two million
bushels of corn year and at time
when men Of the highest intelligence
in our State are wasting their time III
a constant struggle to coax from the
Legislature enough money TO run
| their institutions, not because the Leg
islature is not generously inclined, but
because we as a people are not pro-
ducing it.
Resources Ample.
| Only one thing needs to be offered
> here as a suggestion in this respect.
Half a dozen years ago we thought all
over North Carolina that we could
not afford to build good roads. Today
we laugh at that foolishness. The
township that boldly undertook the
job of building two Or thre miles of
good road is insistent now on build
ing more. 1t has found out that II
can do anything that is worth while
as soon as it finds out that the thing
pays. You can not argue with 2
township that has few miles of good
roads or a school district that has a
g | special tax. Those two individuals arc
the most obstinate creations under
S the sun. You may let a district GRIP
pie along for forty years with its one
t | teacher in a four months term ol
q school, but the first year that it votes
t special tax and increases its scho0
= term and adds another teacher you
could not more get it to go back tC
), the old way than you could get the
t sun to shift it's course and rise in the
west. The resources of North Caro-
I lima are ample for an these things we
{ want to do. Right along here pas
:. the sanltorium is one of the bes
q roads in the world 1t is built here
in township that has little cultivateC
" land, and wilderness Of undeVelOpeC
G land. yet it is ambitious enough L
r build miles of good roads, and a nal
q from Pennsylvania riding by in al
IL automobile said that the thing tha
II surprised and interested him most Il
North Carolina is these marVelou
II roads. Five years ago when this roa'
system was planned the people sal'
Ihls is a poor district 1t has n
& money. and cannot build good roads
q Ioday these same people would tel
:. you that under no possible circum
II stances could they get along with tn
"a roads they had five years ago.
IS Profit in Development.
ii Development pays. An improve
man is just as valua BILE as an improve
road. What we want in this State
ie 10 make up our minds that where Ma
- lure mas been SO lavish we can NEE
e practically any calls that can be mad
- on US within reason, and then let tn
ie heads of the various institutions, an
= every other tlin Oh. fne