The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-10
VOL. C. NO. 80.

industrial agencies of the railroads is
another. and there - one of the most
inHuenual factors III existence al
! though We usually look on IN. rail
| roads as corporations TO be damned
! instead OF To be commended But ia
/ North Carolina the railroads are put
/ ting in big hcks for this work II
/ making the State known.
! The publicity League is a gathering
! CI these forces and the utterances At
the Greensboro dinner with reference
/ 70 the work that is in store for the
| league together with assurances ar
backing it TO its limit also signined
| what is in sight in the Immediate fu-
ture FOR North Carolina.
IcNying on Northern potketbook>.
Another slsn was the utterances Z
such men as Bird Coler w A Blair.
W. \. Irwin, Fred Tate and Ed Brit
ton. Coler surprised the diners with
his announcement OF what Northern
investors are finding out about North
Carolina and what they are doing
with what they find ont. He fired 4
few ty-centimeter guns loaded
with startling facts. Northern lnVes-
tors have discovered the North Car
ollna Piedmont The pocketbOok OF
the Northern investor is OF the same
, size as the famous old Derby ram, and
) YOU remember "the horn OF this ram
sir, reached to the moon. \ man
went up in January aAd didn't get
j y
I pocketbook is financing big block
OF the European war, reaching into
millions and millions. The same old
: pocketpOok viii do just as much for
. peaceful operations when il sees
where those opportunities and oper-
ationS are.
! Blair, from Forsyth. fred another
: big gun. and it viii echo many a day
: III North Carolina, when ne said that
r when money finds good thing
the world. Blair worked off a short
classic on the meeting. lie viii 30
home and forget what he said. and
q the listeners Will forget the wording
= of his brief utteTanceS, but on the
' memory of those present he has gray
! en- a sentiment that will reach just
-, about as far IN its Influences in this
e state the pistol shot last sUmmer
- in Serbia has reached around the
:, world. Blair dragged into that meet
a ing a truth. which if it came under
=, the head Of Thugs mechanical. would
% be in line for what inventors call \
% generic patent. Erwin tossed in
= some more Of the same sort OF orig
- inal package stuff, and no matter
- whether We realize it today or tonor-
a row we will realize it even though We
~ forget where it came from. Erwin
let US get away from the hall com
: pretending in a sort OF a way that the
! cotton mill men Of North Carolina,
in two Q" three decades had come
i from an insignificant place at the foot
. OF the class to an honor place at the
.o head, and with sudden promotion to
:" new and untried higher planes direct
~ ly in front. North Carolina cotton
= mills have grown up so swiftly they
-, ~ can not understand their size and
&c strength and vigOr, but they in
ie the mans class now, and they sit in
the councils when anything is und er
discussion.
Dinner an Eyc-Opcner.
le North Carolina went to the Green's
ie boro dinner something like the drunk
10 en- printer In the bad old days when
re printers were given to rolling the
re bowl. The d. p. walked up after A
"a hair-pulling sleep, and began TO feel
ne in his pockets in hopes of finding a
J" dime somewhere that would straight.
'e, en- things out. To his amazement he
be discovered something in nearly every
rs, pocket he said, reading matter
nd on every page" His wealth was as
he tonishng to him and that is far as
y he will serve to illustrate this ste
p We went to Greensboro satisfied that
is we were citizens of mean country
and came away knowing that the men
lr who spied out the land had shown US
he that we live in a land in which the
ne sky is the limit and our chief short
he coming is a fashion Of hiding our
a light persistently under a bushel that
he neither nor our neighbOrs may
ce know what We have.
ng Ever since the day when old Nath.
nd ariel Greene out al Guilford Court
ee house countered on the solar plexuS
ng Of an English gent CORVALLIS b
de name, l have figured that this Stats
as has owed Guilford a debt Of senti
he ment. But the Greensboro folks have
Of extended a further credit Whether
ed they know it or not their dinner wa
ed a state affair and 10 some extent
Ii national matter It was planned tr
ort stimulate things around Guilford. 1
its planned infinitely better than il i'm
ill agined when il undertook 70 locaiizf
of what is strictly world wide in itt
u scope. the Pan-American movement
n a movement that in the past was the