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State, or that one big dam building on the Yadkin would run two-thirds 

 of all the wheels in Vermont. The newspapers must put these things 

 before the people vigorously. In the North and East North Carolina is 

 an unknown region, almost as far out of public knowledge as Roosevelt's 

 river of doubt in the Amazon country. Every North Carolina news- 

 paper should have several exchanges in the North and in New England 

 that what is printed might be passed along to people elsewhere. 



The newspaper must be a clearing house for information concerning 

 the State, the county and the town. Every new farm, every new fac- 

 tory, every new thing that tells of development and expansion should 

 get a place on the first page with a two stack head. I fig-ure in our 

 paper that building a dozen new tobacco barns on Pinebluff farm is of 

 more consequence than the vote for the candidate for Congress or 

 Governor. 



An Example. 



An example of this helpful enthusiasm in the Southern Pines Tourist, 

 one of the most aggressive development factors in the State, as well as a 

 model village newspaper. 



I don't mind telling you a trade secret if you will go home and profit 

 by it. Every time we start something new over in Hoke County we try 

 to tell it to the News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, the Star, 

 and all the other papers that want to know what is going on in the State. 

 They can't keep a secret and they tell it to their readers and every few 

 days you notice that something new is breaking loose in the Sandhills, 

 I don't know whether our section is any better than yours, but we go on 

 the theory that our section is the best on earth, and our favored bird is 

 not the American eagle, but the wise old hen who makes a note of the 

 occurrence every time she lays an egg, and alludes to it several times 

 during the day, before and after laying it. We believe in advertising. 



People the Need. 



It is useless to enumerate the opportunities in North Carolina. "We 

 could accommodate in this State many millions of people. People are 

 what we lack. We lack people because the rest of this country, which 

 is supplying settlers for all the United States and Canada, does not 

 know North Carolina. Within the next year, and nearly every year, a 

 million or more Americans will hunt new homes. They will not find 

 anything better than North Carolina, but they will go elsewhere for 

 want of knowledge of North Carolina. You who print papers in the 

 tobacco belt should get some of your papers into the hands of people 

 in the tobacco sections of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. 

 You, in the corn counties, should be in touch with people in the corn 

 country of the North and West. The climate of the North and West is 

 fierce and people are running away from it constantly. Our climate is 

 one of our greatest assets, and when it is known what a climate we have 

 and what other advantages, we will get people. 



