The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-09-25
A TOWN THAT
HELPS ITSELF
A Lesson May Be Learned
From The Town That
Doesn't Nope for North.
ern Capital

Many a town in the south
could gain a valuable lesson
from Winston-Salem, town
that has made wonderful
strides in every direction, be-
cause it didn't sit down and
NOPE for Northern capital to
develop it. This fact was dis
covered the other day, by w.
O. Saunders, who was in VIM
ston-Salem, studying that city'S
school system for an article i'll
Golfers Weekly.
Interviewed by the Journal, Win
stOn-Salem's morning newspaper,
Mr.. Saunders told WinstCn-Salem
folk few things about their town
that pleased them well and was
given much prominence in Sundays
Journal. Among other things he
said:
There is something distinctive
about Winston-Salem that makes
me very fond of the city and its
people. l have tried to find what
that distinction is and it has elud-
ed me for years but at last think
1 have found it."
"WinstOn-Salem is big and strong
and hopeful and unique because OF
its marvellous self-reliance and self
helpfulness,' said Mr.. Saunders.
$50 almost anywhere in the south
and one hears plaintive boasts Of
what we could do if we only had
more northern capital.
Il have never heard anything
like that from anybody in Winston
Salem. l say that Winston-Salem
doesn't give q hang for northern
capital, but is bent upon develop
ing her own resources and pOssi-
bilities with native capital, native
genius and native labor. And l
guess that's why I love Winston
Salem.
Should Not Worship Golden Calf
"Worshipins the golden calf is
bad business anywhere, any time,
even when it is your own golden
calf. But when the imagination OF
people runs off to worship Il
golden calf of a foreign pedigree
the plight of that people is pitable.
I'VE have too many worshipers
of the golden calf Of northern cap
ital in the south; too many of our
folk sitting on their hind parts
signing and opining what. great
things could be done with our soil,
our climate and our other natural!
, resources if we only had the money
of the north. They would sell our
richest heritage to northern capi-
tai for pittance, unmindful of the
fact that northern capital coming
, TO the south in any great mass would
, bring with it all the attendant evils
of northern capitalism. including
, the importation of cheap foreign
labor element that would never mix
with our blue-eyed, naughty, proud
spirited AnglO-SaXOn strain.
No Illusion About Capital.
"Winston-Salem has no illusions
, about Northern capital, but has
, its own genius and hard work has
built up great industrial CEN
ter that is its very own. And. hc-
Ing that sensible and far-sightcd,
, Winston-Salem has provided for
itself one of the greatest educa-
tiOnal plants in the country, from
, what have heard and hope TO see
during my visit here, and ii is no
doubt an outstanding public school
system designed to raise up more
alert. more ingenious, more
lcvel-headed and fricndlier citi-
Zcnship to conserve and carry on.
| lcS, tUSL lily Nott lol " bh'''"
Salem. l think my own North
Carolina home town, Elizabeth
| City, is a fine town, with its elm
shaded streets, its municipal I'M
provements, it's miles Of improved
highways tapping one Of the
greatest agricultural back countries
with which any town in America
is blessed. =
But | find myself preaching the
spirit, the enterprise and the gen.
ius Of Winston-Salem to Elizabeth
City. Still, 1 don't think l could
be happy in Winston-Salem. You
see l am at heart reformer; and
there Is so little in Winston-Salem
to quarrel with"
MOYOCK AND POPLAR BRANCH
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