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cotton mills aud alcohol for the arts and for the automobiles when 

 gasoline is scarcer. 



Opportunity in Every County. 



Every county in the State could place ten thousand people as fast as 

 they could come and opportunity would await them. One of the greatest 

 of advantages is that our resources are so distributed that in every town- 

 ship in the State it is possible to establish a varied industry. Here is 

 one State that has power available in every locality, raw material in 

 every locality, transportation in every locality. We do not have to 

 bunch our industries in cities where coal and iron and shop room can 

 be had, as is the case in other States where the utilities must be assem- 

 bled. We are not compelled to crowd into centers of population. Look 

 at the cotton mill development that lines the Southern Railway fi'om the 

 Virginia boundary to the South Carolina frontier. It is a continuation 

 of mill communities with their farm settlements about them. At the 

 last census North Carolina ranked eighth among the States in its rural 

 population. Only seven other States are developed all through the 

 rural regions more than ours. In city population this State ranks 

 thirty-first, but we are practically alone in having farm and factory 

 property developments scattered over the entire State. The farm is 

 where it can feed the factory and supply such raw material as cotton 

 and tobacco, and the factory is where it can benefit by the farm, and 

 find labor and subsistence and afford a market. Every manufacturer 

 knows the economy of a shop away from the high rents and high living 

 costs of the city. 



North Carolina is "sloppy with opportunity." I can no more tell 

 you the limit of that opportunity than I can tell you the limit of the 

 water of the ocean out there in front of us. This one single thing of 

 electrical development that has commenced in the State means a revolu- 

 tion in industrial things, with North Carolina as a cradle of expansion 

 and a training ground. Ten years from now the electrical atmosphere 

 of industrial North Carolina will be a marvel. 



Duty of Press. 



You realize the ojDportunities. How can the press help to develop 

 them? By becoming thoroughly familiar with what is here. We know 

 of many opportunities, but there are many we have overlooked. We 

 must become familiar with as many as possible, and get our people to 

 know and appreciate them. My people laughed at me for an enthusiast 

 when I told them North Carolina has the best climate in the United 

 States. I showed them the weather bureau statistics which tell that in 

 every State along the Canadian frontier except New York and New 

 England the thermometer goes higher in summer than in North Caro- 

 lina. They are surprised when I tell them the Catawba has power 

 enough to turn all the wheels of Connecticut, a prominent factory 



