Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
Liye-at-HOme Governor

much as North Carolina has spent on
roads over q 10-year period. It amounts
TO $S1 annually for every man, woman
and child in the State, or more than
$500 Tor the average family.
Equipped to Live at Home.
This state of affairs is economically
unSound and as a practical matter
wholly unnecessary. With the exception
OF tropical fruits and spices, North
Carolina can by intelligent application
and planning produce every foodstuff
consumed by man and beast and now
largely purchased from outside markets.
Our almost Incompatible soil and cli-
mate are admirably adapted to the pro-
auction of corn, wheat, rye, potatoes,
beans, celery, lettuce, tomatoes, apples,
peaches and all the great secondary
crops OF hogs, cattle, poultry, milk and
| butter.
mo State in the American Union is
better equipped by nature to live at
home,' and no State is more dependent
upon outside sources for almost every
food necessity. We dissipate what might
easily be converted into gigantic sur
plus to meet this annual deficit in the
realm of elementary production. Money
that could be spent for better schools
and homes and the comforts and con-
veniences of life goes for food and food
stuffs of frequently inferior quality
when almost everything we need could
farms and in our own gardens"
The week of December IS was desig-
mated as "live-at-home week" to start
the campaign. All the organized forces
! of the State were called upon to help
civic clubs, chambers of commerce
clergymen, judges, womens clubs
schools and the various State and Fed
erel agricultural agencies within the
State.
The fact that Gov. Gardner himself
| is one of the largest and most success
full farmers in the State lent weight to
the campaign. He had practiced sue
cessfully before he preached. He i'm
mediately followed his own advice by
giving ''live-at-home" dinner at the
Executive Mansion in Raleigh din
ner at which all of the courses were
North Carolina products. Since that
time hundreds of such dinners have
been given by clubs and other organiza-
tions of the State
The most appealing and perhaps the
most effective part of the governors
4 Live at-Home" campaign, was that
conducted by the 100000 school chill
| dren OF the state. In his message to
the school children setting aside a
''Live-at-Home" week for the schools,
/ GAAC EOfC1uOL uclulCQ LIlc meaning OF
| the campaign;
THE 'Live-at-Home' program has for
its main purpose the encouraging of all
of us engaged in farming to grow for
ourselves and to supply ourselves with
all the foodstuffs and feedStuffs and
livestock products necessary for family
and farm consumption the year
around. It would also encourage us to
grow enough surplus to supply the small
town. and the cities which are our legal
marke IS; and it would encourage the
city folk of this State to give a pref
erence to the North Carolina farmer in
their purchase of supplies.
1.-THE idea might in the long run
create an attitude of mind which would,
on the one hand, encourage our town
folk to cultivate tastes and wants for
North Carolina grown foods and live
stock products, and, on the other hand.
would encourage our farmers to pay
more careful attention to the supply
| ing of products demanded by the city
| population of the State.
There has been little profit made by
the farmers in many sections of the
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