The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-10
PAN-ANlERICAN DINNER BRINGS
STATE TO FORKS OF THE, ROAD
Greensboro With It's Big National Event Has Written Message On The
WalNoh Carolina Must Accept Challenge To Join in as Vast
United Team Stand Back in ndi, Z nee

s"G ss$n aons So aas 'h= sqs"!s 'se naSs a5s
is reached some more ~ be cast
down. Then the sky will Var Some
radical steps Will have TO be taken at
Washington in banking in shipping
laws, in other things. but the govern
Inent and the people of the United
States see the situation and We may
look for these changes
New Day ahead.
ne statements made by the Assist
ant Secretary Of the Treasury Of the
United States concerning the relations
OF this government and that of the
republics OF South America and what
American manufacturers and the
Federal government are dOing Ger
tainlE showed the listening crowd at
the dinner that a new day is ahead
for North American industry and es-
pecially for North Carolina with its
three or four staple products that are
in demand in the Southern republics
The cotton and the furniture fac
tories Of North Carolina see a new
world for conquest and one that is
ready to be conquered for it means
to that new world simply the transfer
OF allegiance from European manu-
facturerS to American manufacturers,
and the task is not difficult.
Out of the European war are com
ing many changes. What they are
we cannot imagine. Revolutions in
many things will take place quite as
| pronounced in the industrial world
| and in the relation of nations as those
! startling revolutions in the method OF
| prosecuting war We have no idea
| what is ahead but we can See that il
| is to be surprising in its changes anC
| gigantic in it's magnitude. The rela-
! tion of the United States to all the
| other countries will be much more
| commanding than ever. Nothing il
| history outclasSes the suddenneSs OF
| the development of the United States
| and that development seems marked
for a bigger advance now than eve,
| in the past.
| Realizing this it is absolutely Ger
tain that North Carolina is II a posi-
ton to be swept along in the mael
strom that is readjusting every thing
sweeping some to destruction, som,
to supremacy, and everything to new
places and new dce,inies. We VIII,
listened to the speakers could com
prehend that world demand is ahead
and that North Carolina sits at tn
door of the market places with tn
products Of the most favored land.
Powerful Forces at Work
Probably North Carolina men nev
er before realized as they did at tn
dinner at the Normal College tn
powerful forces that are at work an
the enormous possibilities that ar
confronting the State. The entir
State was represented, delegates com
ing from the coast counties and tn
mountains. / noticed men from Ne,
) Hanover, PerQuimans and Buncombt
which is comprehensive enough to b
taken as covering the State Banker
newspaper men, business men, an
} men in all occupations were in til
bunch, and they all go home carry
) ing the enthusiastic message of op
portunity and Of destiny that
ahead.
That dinner came at the right hou
It caught North Carolina in what tn
fashion in slang at the present tim
3 calls the psychological moment. Th
people of the State just now are in
: frame Of mind if I can judge tn
State, which indicates the acceptanC
of the opportunity that is presentin
5 itself in the State, in the nation an
t in the entire world. For two or thre
years a feeling has been crystalizin
5 that North Carolina should be rad
known to the world. That feeling ha
E been taking various forms. Tt
chambers Of commerce and boards {
I trade and boosters clubs organize
in various counties and maintaine
s are one evidence Of it. The multipl
D cation of country fairs and the effol
= of the State fair to bring our exhibi
from the counties and towns that vi
8 give a knowledge of the resources
. the State is another. The enthl
siasm on the part Of the press is ar
\ | other. The creation of business assC
| Citations like the mill mems organize
n tions, the bank organizations. the OF
f ganizations Of all crafts and occupa
t tions is another. The work of tn