The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-09-27
GOVERNOR Appeals
FOR THRIFT MONTH
ASKS NORTH CAROLINA FARM
Frs TO OBSERVE NOVEMBER
AS THRIFT MONTH,
FARMERS ENJOY PROSPERITY
Governor Beckett Warns Farmer.
Against ImproVldence and Get
Rich-Quick Schemes.

Raleigh.-Appealing to the farmers
Of the state, in a special message
Governor Beckett urged them to ca.
operate in making Thrift Month, No.
vember, 1917, q 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.
hind she is bald. If you seize her by
the forelock you may hold her, but
once permitted to pass on Jupiter
himself cannot catch her again
$50 runs an ancient aphorism. This
year Opportunity stands before the
farmers of North Carolina with q
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 a higher level of happi
ness and hope. Temptations to frit-
ter away the proceeds of your crops
will crowd thick upon you. ImproVi.
dence will lure you to sleep, and pleas
ure and prodigality will cali to you
with many voices. The "blue sky"
artists are already on your trail. They
have heard that you are fat, and have
| 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 Cen
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 l now
call upon the farmers to make su-
preme effort in this direction, and to
| capitalize the opportunity of the hour.
To this end J. earnestly beseech the
farmers of the state to set apart the
month of November as Thrift Month,
and urge every farmer to do some
thing definite and substantial during
that month that will insure to the per-
manent betterment of his condition in
life. I suggest the following SPECIFIC
accomplishments and appeal to every
farmer to do one or more of these
things:
1. If he be a tenant to buy, if pos
sible, a small farm and make the first
payment on the purchase price.
2. To pay off all debts, and go on
a cash basis next year.
8. To start a savings account IN
some bank or credit union.
4. To buy a mich cow or brooo
SOW.
5. To install home waterworks ana
lights.
6. To paint his house.
z. To. set out an orchard.
"The agricultural department, tne
joint committee on agricultural WorA
and the state department of educatlon
will generously cooperate WIN tn0
farmers in making Thrift Month
notable month in the agricultural lie
of the state I call upon the teachers
in the rural schools to read this ap
peal to the children. Complete plans
for taking a census during the nl''
week in December will be arrangeu
the end that we may know at INC
end of the month just how nl"n'
farmers have redeemed the great W
portunity that low confronts tnem'
and have preserved for their WIZ w.
and children some portion Oh
blessings of this unparalleled ye''
EFT. w. BECKETT, Governor
September, 1917"