Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-10-18
EVERETT SEES DAY
!. OF PROGRESS FOR
NORTH CAROLINA
Secretary of State Declares We Shall
Continue ForwaI Pays Respects
to Vision and Courage of Cover
--or. Declares People and State
Must Move Onward Together to
Their Appointed Destiny.

Chapel Hill October 12.-Delver.
ing the founders day address at the
exercises in Memorial Hall this morn
ing before the entire student body
assembled to celebrate the 13Oth an
'niversary of the founding of the Un-
iversity of North Carolina, the oldest
State University in this country, Sc
cretary of State w. N. Everett a
member of the university's board of
trustees, revived the progress of the
Old North State since "it stood like
a lion in chains shackled to it's en-
vironment," until the present day.
He concisely explained matters re-
garding the states government and
financial conditions.
A balance of $366,OOO in the gen.
eral fund was estimated by Mr.. Ev-
erett for June 80, 1928, after pay
ing all expenses if one half of the
estimated revenue for 1923 be cred
tied to the first six months of this
calendar year.
"In the building of the nation
during that time when the 13 free
and independent states were being
trained and welded into one - the
leadership easily rested with Vir-
ginia" said the speaker in beginning
his address. "And when we think
Of that period our minds bring into
review the names of Washington,
Jefferson, Patrick Henry and John
Marshall.
"When the question Of slavery be-
came paramount in the minds of men
that leadership passed to South Car
olina. =
During that generation" contin-
uei Mr.. Everett, IN egs.I 5ss.I Carolina
stood like a lion in chains shackled
to her environment, holding fast to
her tradition, standing close to the
landmarks set by her fathers, having
no chance to turn her thoughts to
the new civilization emerging out of
the old, and rising around her amid
new conditions. But with the passage
Of the suffrage amendment, like a
lion in it's might, she shook herself
free and turned her face to the dawn
ing Of another day-and that leader
ship passed to North Carolina.
"Charles B. Aycock, inspired Of
God, and saturated with a tender
love for all mankind, came out of
the wilderness crying for the ~devel-
opment of the minds of the children
Of men, but so poorly had we Jared
by the fortunes of war that for many
years the only answer was cry.
The message he burned into the mind
of men was that the way to develop
the resources of a state was to de-
velop the minds of the children.
'Then came Glenn and Kitchin
and Craig and Beckett, each splen-
did in his leadership, each leaving
his impress on his day. And then
came Morrison. When the legislature
met in 1921, in the darkest period
in the memory Of any member, dur
ing that deflati9n time when no man
knew what the morrow would bring,
with prophetic wisdom he declared
\ that the state was no bankrupt,
that the way to develop state was
to develop all it's resources and do
it now.
That legislature, catching his cour-
age, increased it's appropriations for
the maintenance of all it's institutions
and with a $7,OO0,000 bond issue
provided for the enlargement of its
hospitals and it's colleges and author
lied $5O,OOO,OOO for the construction
Of state system Of roads. The vot-
ing of this money restored confidence
to our business men and its expendi-
ture carried many of it's banks and
business institutions away from the
wall and avoided the problem Of en-
forced idleness.
1.-THE leadership which passed to
her with Aycock still abides with her
in ever increasing measure. The
splendid system of roads connecting
county seat with county seat, section
with section; the consolidated school
with it's equal opportunity, the
states busy factories and fertile
fields are but circumstances which
mark the way over which it has come
in less than generation and are but
a promise of what is yet to be.
with 5000. factories using an in.
vested capital of a billion dollars
she manufactures more cotton thar
she grows, and she grows more PEI