The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09
STATE CAN TAKE CARE OF HER
INSTITUTIONS, WHY NOT DO Is?
Must Graham Foust~ McBayer Ray and Rest Keep On
Wasting Their Time Holding Out Their Hat to the Legsa
tme? Utilization of Talent Will Solve the Problem

hl3 words exactly, yet in his COM
plant there at the Marlborough
House he shattered down the whole
house of cards by insisting that il is
folly to look on these things as
charity, for there are never any re-
suits when we try to make a charity
of what is really a simple business
matter. To analyze Senator John
sons idea would be to take one Of
the inmates of the sanatorium and
consider what that inmate signifies
Say it is the mother of q family Of !
children. Ii she had stayed at home
and suffered 2, fatal sickness it
would have meant q bill of two or
three hundred dollars, which would
include doctors charges, nursing
funeral. etc 1t would mean leaving
the family TO the charity Of friends
ard neighbors, and that would be
actual charity, not tie. charity we
State institutions. The loss Of the
one mother is q loss to the connnu-
nifty and the State. In slavery days
an able negro woman was rat
Cd as worth probably q +hous-
and dollars. A white woman is
worth fully AS much. We Try
to attract settles TO the state
| from other sections. A settler
brought here from Iowa is not worth
| as much as a citizen raised on the
ground, for the home raised product
| is familiar with his surroundings.
| You can go further than that and
| say that the whole value Of the entire
| State Of North Carolina lies solely in
the two and a half million people OF
| the State. Take them away and
| North Carolina would have no more
value than the same area in the mid
| Ole OF the sea.
Eyhihit
[ hope John f. Ray, DR.. Graham
! DR.. Foust and Or. McBrayer will not
object to serving as an exhibit 70,
| this story. Let us take them, willing
or unwilling. Seriatim, Mr.. Ray is
| trying his best to make Of the bline
population of the State a self-sup
Lorting self-dependent force. He i:
making Of helpless individuals help
full individuals. OF burdens he i:
making assets. He is converting in
efficient persons into creators o
value. He is not charity, but he i
putin necessary charity aside, ant
in it's place developing q creativ'
power, and his work is one Of tn
most profitable to encourage. w
can't afford to have people helples
because they are blind. To sustain
. them that way is charity and un
t profitable. We cannot kill them, an,
, dispose Of them. Common fairnes
as we'll as common business sens
) says help them to become self-de
l pendent, and that is strictly business
/ 1t is not charity, any more than it
: charity to take a saw log and spen
f money making it into fine lumber.
: Graham First.
1 told DR.. Graham / thought hi
institution ought to have about
million dollars and he laughed.
told DR.. Foust he ought to have
million and he laughed. I told D1
: McBrayer he ought to have about
= | million and he laughed, and Mr.. Ra
? laughed at the same suggestit n. Mo-
= why did they laugh? Every one c
y y these men knows he should have q
= | least that much money, and we a
= | know that the results would pay i
the product that is turned out {
;, = So why do they laugh at what the
- know is the sober truth? Simply Dc
cause the money is not available.
d What's The Matter?
That brings up right seriou
8 Why is a State as big as North Care
n lima compelled to weigh SO plain
e problem as caring for her sick, an
g her blind and her boys and girls
v school? If a horse is sick we figul
!, that it has value of a hundred an
l. fifty dollars and we send for Pa
l. Kelly to come out and give it SON
is boiled tobacco or some laudanun an
n linseed OIL or if a COW is sick it he
a value of fifty dollars and we wri
to Raleigh to the State Veterinarian
l. and we try to avoid the loss Of II
IL animal. But men and women az