Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-09-28

Oh the state. in a special message
Governor Beckett urged them TO co
operate in making Thrift Month. No.
vemoer 1917, period OF substantial
progress in the agricultural develop.
ment Of the state
Governors Appeal to Farmers.
TO the Farmers of North Carolina:
Opportunity has hair in front Be.
mind she is bald. II you seize her BY
the forelock you may hold her, but
once permitted TO pass on Jupiter
himself cannot catch her again.
So runs an ancient aphorlsm. This
year Opportunity stands before the
farmers OF North Carolina with
forelock that reaches TO the ground.
You have with superb common sense
increased your food and feed crops
You have with splendid foresight can.
ned and dried your surplus fruits and
vegetables. For you the high cost of
living holds few terrors. Empyrean
prices are being paid for the products
OF your toll. Never before in this gen.
GRAFTON. and possibly never again will
there come TO the average farmer so
large an opportunity to lift himself
and family to higher level Of happi.
ness and hope. Temptations to fri..
ter away the proceeds of your crops
VIII crowd thick upon you Improvi.
dence will lure you to sleep, and pleas.
ure and prodigality will call 10 you
with many voices. The blue sky"
artists are already on your trail. They
have heard that you are fat. and have I
marked you for their own. All kinds
OF get rich quick schemes will be dan.
gled before YOU and the voice OF the .
agent will be heard in the land
in my inaugural address, and in a
series OF bills submitted to the Gen.
eral Assembly. endeavored to make
plain a purpose TO make life on the
farm Just as profitable and Just as
attractive as life In the town. The
intensity OF that purpose has depend
with the passing months. and now
call upon the farmers to make a su.
preme effort in this direction. and to
capitalize the opportunity OF the hour.
To this end ! earnestly beseech the
farmers OF the state TO set apart the
month OF November as Thrift Month.
and urge every farmer to do some.
hing definite and substantial during
that month that will insure to the per.
nanent betterment OF his condition in ,
life. suggest the following specific '
accomplishments and appeal to every
armer TO do one or more OF these I
hings: q
!. IL he be tenant TO buy. IL pos. 2
ible, a small farm and make the first t
'ayment on the purchase price. I
2. To pay of all debts. and go on s
cash basis next year. q
3. To start a savings account in
ONE bank or credit union.
4. To buy mich COW or brood g
ow.
5. To install home waterworks and
ghts.
6. To paint his house.
Z. To set out an orchard. ;.
The agricultural department, the y
'int committee on agricultural work q
nd the state department Of education :, u
ill generously cooperate with the -
irmers in making Thrift Month a O.
otable month in the agricultural life
the state. | call upon the teachers =
the rural schools to read this ap.
eal to the children. Complete plans
II taking a census during the first
eek in December will be arranged to a
lie end that we NAV know at the 70
nd of the month just how many Al
rmers have redeemed the great Cd. a.
ortunity that Low confronts them, VI
Id have preserved for their wives 81
nd children some portion OF the se
essings of this unparalleled year .
1T. w. BECKETT, Governor"
"Spptemhpr 1917" hi