The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-19

D a mar gets a farm OF the
land OF Hoke count which VIII
serve : IN example as Weli as any
other land in the State, and that on
that lam he raises a crop. He VIII
not kick about five cents an acre Tor
road tax out Of that crop. and ten or
fifteen cents for school tax. Five
cents an acre or all the land in Hole
county would give annually sl5,seo
for roads. which would keep IN re-
pair 800 miles of cradciay road. or
much more road than IS IN the county.
II would repair all the road and DullC
more and repair that. Ten cents an
acre for the school would give $50
900 q year for schools. Eut such de-
velopment would mean a lot OF town
and factory property That would also
add to the tax list.
Again Moro People.
So no matter where we start the
place TO get off at is the same. We
need a lot more people IN the state
to develop the that they may
provide money TO pay more taxes IoI
the growing needs of the state, ana
We may as we'll face that fact that
the task is getting too big for the
people now here to do justice. Aoer-
deem children Wen to school at the
little house at Bethesda church. Then
as Aberdeen grew a little larger a
bigger school was built in the town,
and the people were proud OF II and
happy. town grew some more
and the school was not big
and last year they built d fine new
brick building that they are proud of,
it is a model for the size Of the town.
But without intending to hurt Abb
erdeen's feelings any that school
house will one of these days be set
off as the first ward building and
the people will clamor for another
and q better one for the second ward.
go I'm - o-a1Ha
people will need it and will be able
to pay for it.
More people in Aberdeen made the
new, modern, convenient brick school
possible instead Of the little old farm
one-roOm 1t Bethesda church. More
4 people is what has made all the pro-
T greSS we have, and it is what Will
J make all we get. The are
j here. North Carolina is endowed by
nature with sufficient wealth to pay
e a hundred million dollars a year in
taxes if the money is needed. But
1 to produce that money it is necessary
T to have people employed. When we
I build a mile of good roads that mile
can accommodate five farms and five
l families on each side in the mile as
well as it can run through the woods
? that far. Ten families. five on each
side of that mile of road can help ma
e terially in paying the expenses CT that
o"o oiA0 - CtA "a oNif --o~
in the county.
I never CLASSIFIED the land specula-
= tor. Probably he has a place in at
fairs all right But I do not give him
= much thought. Developing North
- Carolina will play into his hands to
= some extent, but ne is eliminated with
- a single transaction. So we can at
4 ford to overlook him. The mair
u thing is getting the land into the
hands of the people who will utilize
- it, and from those people comes a
q permanent revenue for the State and
for the community as far as we car
u see into the future. Personally
e would imagine that the State should
u have held its land until the land coul6
/ have been placed in the hands Of &C.
n tual farmers. But as the land has
been put in the hands Of private own.
Is ers the thing for ali Of us to do i!
to try to get that land into the hands
Of men who will do something with
it, whether it be farm land, waite
81 power. mineral land, or anything else
~ that will employ men and produce
wealth for private and public good.
"a Therefore. | take it, as | look owe
,e these ridges, that we are interestet
20 in seeing things of this kind becom
IF common all over the state WheT'
N there is unused land, not because i
il will benefit the man who has Ian
i to sell but because it is the one ant
IA the only way to provide for our ne
10 cessary taxes. and to build up gu
rd towns and counties, expand our pub
70 lie institutions and conveniences, an,
ca bring US the comforts and things W
i want.
,el One day when I was a boy in tn
y. Pennsylvania lumber woods Jir
he Clark came into DR.. Hoey'S little OF
aa flee and pulled off his coat. He roll
ar, ed up his sleeve and barred his bi
e arm to the shoulder. Doc h
ry said. look at that arm a minute"
is. The doctor looked at it, felt i
'e- passed his hand up and down, an
his around 1t, and finally said, W
it Jim, I can't find anything the matte
or with that arm
hit Matter, thunder" exclaimed jim
,ut course there aint nothing tn
of matter with it. But amt she
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