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would be about the number I would recommend to start witb. Wben 

 we get tbat many we could figure on bow many more to tbink about. 

 Belgium bas as mucb territory as tbe coastal plain of JSTortb Carolina, 

 and as many people as botb tbe Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland, 

 wbicb is all tbat need be said about tbe room for people in tbis State. 



We Must Get the People. 



To promote development we must get people. I don't count myself an 

 old man, yet I remember wben we spoke of Obio as out West. From 

 tbe day wben tbis government was establisbed it bas been an average of 

 only a little more tban tbree years between new States. Tbe people to 

 make new states are increasing faster now tban ever. Tbe new states 

 are all made. Tbe people will go on making farms and factories and 

 towns and communities, and tbey will follow tbe lines of least resistance 

 in finding tbe place if tbey know wbere tbose lines are. To sbow tbem 

 is our task. To get tbose people is our need. Tbere are plenty of tbem 

 to be bad. 



Tbe first part of tbe work is to become tborougbly familiar witb tbe 

 work ourselves, tben to sbow our bome people tbat we bave bere some- 

 tbing tbat sbould be made known to tbose of tbe big world wbo are look- 

 ing for a cbance to do sometbing for tbemselves. We must arouse our 

 own State tbat it will belp us to attract attention. Tben we must go 

 after settlers. Tbe papers must furnisb information. Tbe papers 

 must arouse tbe entbusiasm of tbe people. Tben tbe papers must lead 

 tbe campaign of publicity. 



You must, eacb one, constitute yourself tbe aggressive agent of devel- 

 opment of your county and your community, make your paper its en- 

 tbusiastic organ, and tben as one of my darkies said one day wbile 

 wrestling witb a piece of obstreperous beef, you must cbaw for godsake. 



Wben you get your job started stay witb it. Of all tbe remarks tbat 

 bave been made about me as long as I can remember tbe one tbat pleased 

 me most was tbat of a man wbo said of me, ''Tbat fellow never knows 

 wben to quit." 



Friends, let us go bome from bere determined to cut out; tbe muffler, 

 open tbe tbrottle wide, advising tbe rest of tbe world to excuse tbe dust 

 as iN'orth Carolina wbips past. 



Approved for publication : 



W. A. Graham, 



Commissioner. 



