26 The Bulletin. 



Publicity Bureau Would Help. 



We should have an aggressive publicity bureau in the association. 

 The Western States spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle 

 their country which is not half so attractive as ours, but they settle it, 

 and get their money back in the increased business. They get marvelous 

 and rapid results. If California, with the hustle those folks have, 

 should unite the rainfall of ISTorth Carolina and the climate to their 

 hustle they would make five million bales of cotton a year and spin it. 

 On the sandy lands of this State could be made crops to feed millions 

 of the people of Europe if farmers were here to use the available cheap 

 land. The United States makes fifteen million bales of cotton a year. 

 The cotton States of the South constitute the only part of the globe that 

 makes enough cotton to satisfy its needs. In the United States we, each 

 of us, use an average of about thirty pounds of cotton a year. In most 

 of the world the average amount for each individual is not above three 

 pounds. To provide the world liberally with cotton would take a crop 

 of a hundred and fifty million bales a year. North Carolina is the 

 safest cotton State on earth and raises more to the acre than any other 

 State. Half the world has never yet had half enough clothes to be com- 

 fortable because never enough was raised. ISTorth Carolina is making 

 more cotton goods every day, and every day the commerce of the world 

 is expanding into figures of gigantic importance. The work is to 

 be done. We need more pepple to do it. As far as we can see we will 

 never reach our limit in this State. We have no limit of rainfall and 

 sunshine. We have land enough to stagger our conception. What we 

 lack is people. We need to show people that anything, that can be done 

 in any section of the United States can be done to a little better advan- 

 tage here, with few exceptions. We can make as good cantaloupes as 

 Colorado, and a thousand miles nearer market. Yet Rocky Ford melons 

 are known everywhere and Scotland County melons sell for Rocky Ford. 



"Lord Has Been Too Good." 



Think what rainless Montana or Idaho would do with our rainfall 

 and convenience to market. Yet those people are no more intelligent or 

 industrious than our people. They simply have to pump or drown out 

 there, and they pump and show other people they can pump. The Lord 

 has been too good in this State. Here it is not so necessary to pump 

 and we overlook the amazing advantages. We do not appreciate them 

 sufficiently to talk of them to others. 



I think you understand as well as I can tell you that here is a land of 

 boundless possibilities. If I were to be asked how many people North 

 Carolina could sustain in comfort I would say that Belgium sustains 

 thirteen times as many people to the square mile as we do, and they seem 

 to live in comfort there, and with not so much of natural advantage to 

 depend on. Using Belgium as an illustration I would say that thirteen 

 times as many people as we have now, or around twenty-five millions, 



