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stablished 1877.
RALEIGH, N. C MARCH 16. 1915.
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RORTH CAROLINA WIDER- AWAKE
VOL. C, NO. 69.
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THIS MINUTE THAN EVER BEFORE
State Going Ahead With a Confident Assurance And
Breadth of Plan That Have Not Been Known In the .
Past New Project Mapped Out At Every Turn
COUNTY SCHOOL
hion ii. butliik.
t.u i. March 13. In spite of the
with each other in which half a
, v. .itions of the old world are
iivinv tlx industrial conditions all
il v jjohe, and in spite of all of
a i ; , i.iv influences that have
-i. the financial progress of
ii ';:iiMl States, 'there was never
. !.! in ili- history that looked more
i.i Rising tor North Carolina than the
it( -u present. War conditions
,r- wholly temporary that only
n:..-.-ii,.u attention is given them by the
i
r.'i :
ial
''riii
iiit do thiny:? on this conti
Alreaily u revolution in finan
in.itui.. has commenced in the
,) states, and it is the forerun-
n) stu-n cnanged relations to tne
Mrii that we may go ahead confi
1" t :h;it we have entered on a pe
.i 1 i, uspeeted prominence in
v-'rll- hi' affairs.
W.ir, i i r- as it is, has upset all pre-
i ..u t uvims connections of the na
ti ami the trade arrangements are
vlfily revolutionized. Instead of
Armrirans going .abroad to spend
money like water, and thereby keep
ing iho I'nited States with its nose to
the grindstone to pay off foreign ac
oountsi against this country. American
t-mdsts are carrying no money abroad
r.uw, while foreign money is coming
thi. May in unexampled sums to
rviuuie off the unheard of bills for ex
ports. Never in the history of th
(wo continents was there such a dis
ICirritfrrnent between the exports from
lh- United States and the imports. In
the month of January of this year the.
import were more than $145,000,000
lea." than the exports, and the orders
(nun Europe at the present time run
away up into hundreds of millions for
oof stuffs, manufactured goods and
arii thing that can bo serviceable in
Ktii neace and war.
lro:pvrity Coming Back.
'3 he return of prosperity has begun
I:; the United States, and it will con
tinue because of several reasons. First
f all is that Europe must have food
from America, A continent thai, is so
i: r?ely engaged in war eats more than
has time and people to produce.
l.'irolH; ITlUSt have tnntl frnm Amprinn
hntil it gets time to make a crop,
uiat in positive guarantee that the
j-trra win thrive this year as it has
tt-ci, thriving the last year, and that
tno profitable season may run over
another year or two. As all other
tnings depend on the farms wc may
h sure that with -ffrosperity on the
arm.s there will be prosperity in all
"Hmt lines.
If would not look so hopeful if we
"id to depend on Europe to pay in
rod wets of her fields and factories,
&ut there is the different situation.
America has been owing Europe a lot
'f inoney, for since the beginning of
wr.iTican history Europe has been
r "curing money into American-invest-
'' 'ii'J s unrl annually 'carrying away
tsniiinns as return on those invest
ments; Now Europe "Is beginning to
'?S ir what she is getting by sending
'k tome of those investments. The
united States is not lust getting re
in kind for what it is sending to
"f'pe in such enormous Quantities.
'd i liaving a credit Pet down aTWdnst
SI'-.lt this eoilldrv nwa in li'npnno Tr
'' Mortis the hour has arrived when
I I ' 1 p. f . (,or i.lit rlcJJ li . . r n rl rro
' 1 4"le.
Capital in Abundance.
he called on to pay debts when
nave not been looking for it and
ihaps ?,ro not prepared is not al-'''.-
a sign of prosperity, but in this
: eiinH another surprise. Money
! ; -asy in the United States that
i"' '"inks of the big cities are full,
i "nrnings are enormous in spite of
hard times. The credits that are
J,,Uz extended to Euronpt dfiilv do
effect the financial situation in
United States in the slightest de
There anDears to be amDle
Pital in this country to finance home
M'V ar,(l to carc tor the unparal
.Vd European exports as well. The
; f'de(i States has suddenly Jumped
" a froju place as a banker for the
nuif.
1 1,
v
:he
,- v-
Wf.rld. and is meetiner all the
'iids. And while it is unfortunate
for Europe, it is profitable for the
United States to find that the Ameri
can supplies going out are bringing
abnormally high prices while the se
curities coming back are bringing low
prices. Europe is to pay in the next
few years vast balances to the Unit
ed State and as Europe will not likely !
be for some years the same vigorous
producer it has been, the old world
nations must pay from their hoardings
of American securities and thus stop
American interests and dividends that
have been going abroad.
That returning capital will be avail
able for investment at home and the
earnings will be available for invest
ment at home instead of abroad. Eu
rope for the next ten years will have
to live on scant fare and give up the
bulk of its earning to pay the United
States what is coming this way, and
in that time Europe will have to work
like a locomotive on up grade in the
effort to . re-establish its industries
and its commerce. Europe is not to
die. It will come out. of this war just
as France did out of the other war
with Germany but the people over
there will practice close economy in
their personal matters while they give
their earnings to pay debts and re
store their institutions. During that
time the United States will be going
ahead on the crest of a wave of in
dustrial prosperity tnat win make a
new world's record.
Where North Carolina Gets On.
And here is where North Carolina !
gets on.
Men have looked at the fabulous
progress this State has made in the
last fifteen years and asked if the
thing can continue. There is always
a chance that enthusiasm may run
out and a big hustle may stop. But
not so in North Carolina now. The
signs ' are all the other way. North
Carolina is wider awake this minute
than it has ever been before in its ca
reer. "With due regard for the adver
sity that, has been felt in the last six
months the State was never before
going ahead with the same confident
assurance and the same breadth of
plans. This is shown by the projects
that are blocked out at twery turn.
One of the most significant is that
which is reported from Greensboro.
There the Southern Railway is laying
out the building of a 'new terminal,
and it includes all of the .adjuncts of
a real terminal, which means that
Greensboro will be surprised at the
magnitude of the work when its full
signicance is unfolded. The Southern
Railway is not a concern that builds
to . fit last year. It has at its head
one of . the most capable prophets of
mis country ana airiax Harrison is
building -for tomorrow, not for today.
Last fall, when money was to be had
Mr. Harrison secured millions for im
provement of his road. Now, he is ap
proaching the improvement and it will
-be', improvement of the same substan
tial and .bold character that character
izes the improvement made by the big
roads of the North, for the ' Southern
is a big road, and it has learned from
the other bi roads what improvement
means. : . , ' - . - " :
Building For The Future.
The Southern is starting, to spend
millions of dollars to take care of. the
new North Carolina. It is not try
ing to care for the present North
Carolina but for what is to come. And
make yourself absolutely sure that
thi3 big corporation is not throwing
money into its line from Charlotte to
Greensboro on a guess. The millions
are are going into the permanent im
provement or tnat Dig property over
in the Piedmont are going in there to
earn dividends. The twenty million
dollars that President Harrison is
about to . spend on the improvement
of his road is expected to return an
nually a million or more dollars after
the improvement is completed and
that can be done only by the increase
of business in this State and the ad
joining States of the Soutn. to earn
a million dollars in dividends takes
an awful lot of money, for before
dividends can be paid it takes money
to pay running expenses, equipment
and things of that port. llunm'ng
through Poor's -I
Statistics I -eo T.
Hlys a million dolit
year earns somewhere
or twenty millions, for
of things t pav before
of Kail road
-M.il routl that
ddends a
fifteen
lot
'the
So it is safe to concilia y
Several Teachers in City Yes
terday; items of Interest
About Schools
1 i r.
the
eilV
comes.
Fairfax Harrison sees how his roa.
to earn fifteen or twenty million doi
lars a year on the money it is putting
into the line between "Washington and
A tlanta.
Railroads Close To Other Kusiness.
I am not trying to forecast ,the
business of the Southern road. I am
simply showing that the road is put
ting millions 01 dollars into improve
ment in the State and that the im
provement is to earn a lot of money
from the industry that is to grow up
in this State in the immediate future.
The railroads of the State are in the
closest touch Vtith business. They
know whether it is safe to spend mil
lions for what is to come, and they
are spending the money. Not only is
the Southern pouring 'out money, but
the Seaboard is completing a new line
to Charleston from Charlotte, and is
also double tracking and building new
depots and things of that sort all
along the line. The Coast Line is
doing the same thing, and the Norfolk
Southern is said to have up its sleeve
the old project of pushing on west
ward from Charlotte which has been
its ambition for a long time.
A Bis Scheme Brewing:.
TMs railroad improvement, signifi
cant as it is, is only one of the signs
that point to the big expansion that
is just in front of North Carolina. It
falls in with various indications of
what is in the air, and they all tell
the same story. A project not yet
ripe for much announcement is a big
and scheme that is near the com
mencement stage for the east end of
the State, backed by Northern capi
tal for a large sum, and contempiat
ing a big development. it appears
to be an assured thing. In the Wil
mington territory at two or three
centers of infection has commenced
an influx of Belgian and other foreign
immigrants as a sequel of the war.
Hugh MacRae has tried out the peo
ple of the Low countries of Western
Europe and acquisitions to his colo
nies are of the greatest significance,
for the success they have been mak
ing m .fender and isew wanover are
certain guarantees of the future. The
Hollanders and Belgians are intensive
farmers and extreme economists.
All over the State is an' awakening
of the Chamber of Commerce ambi
tion, and back of it is a more defi
nite idea of what is to be done. Ral
eign is making an ertort to get a
lot of these organizations to work to-
getner, ior common state results as
well as for individual results, and
the individual boards are going at the
work on different plans than the an
cient methods. From towns like Ma
rion, Kinston, Reidsville, Thomasville
and their kind, comes the news 6
scnemes to arouse development 01
local resources. rne state iair is
figuring out a way to make the next
fair an event that will attract atten
tion from the various States and be
come a medium for advertising North
Carolina to the big outside world.
Schools Active Too.
The schools are laying mit new pro
jects to stir up the State. Salem Col
lege not long ago had a "North Caro
lina Night" at which information con
cerning the State was made the tfvent
of the evening, and it made such a
hit that a plan was formed to repeat
it on a more elaborate scale. Th;
work over at Chapel Hill by the Bu
reau of Extension is giving the people
of the State an entirely different con
ception of their counties and of the
whole State, and it has helped with
other things to start the papers in all
sections to give greater publicity to
North Carolina.
The persistent and successful en
thusiasm of the Sandhills Board of
Tratie has set other communities to
thinking. The Sandhills movement
Mi s0 Elizabeth i
tic 3 epartmeni f
school, was in the
was at Uayleaf on Friduy
demonstration in the kitchen
G. B. -Norwood in making roll
of the l'l'icn-s-Cary
farm-lif-yesterday.
She
ana trae a
of Mrs,
. Ther
were iifteeii la.lies present, and the
demonstration wa.s highly successful,
even Mr. Norwood, who elaimed that
he did not like hot rolls, being won
over, as after being persuaded to try
one he called for another.
Middle Creek No. 2, known ar- Oak-
wooo sciiool, has raised monev to
Vir-
ilOol
ngthen trie school term. Miss
gima Khoads is teacher or the sc
this year.
Miss Alia Jordan, teacher in 15ar-
ton-s Creek, known as Pinehurst
school, was in Raleigh yesterday and
deposited $iy towards lengthening the.
school term.
Miss Clyde Moss, principal of Clem
ents Academy, was in the city yester
day in conference with Miss Royster
about her-school. She deposited $40
which will go towards lengthening the
school term.
A club was recently organized
among the women at Clements Acad
emy. Mrs. Garran. of the Department
of Agriculture: Miss Elizabeth Prior.
of the Can" farm-life school, will give
demonstrations there next Friday
night.
Clements Academy is getting ready
for its own local commencement and
it is also actively engaged in prepar
ing for the county commencement.
Mr. t rank Smith, contractor fof
Panther Branch school, known as
Mount Pleasant school, was in the city
yesterday and reported good progress
on the building being erected.
Miss Annie Workman and Miss Rose
Key. primary superintendents, were in
Raleigh yesterday on business in con
nection with the county schools com
mencement. Prof. John Lockhart, of Apex,
chairman of the examination commit
tee of the county commencement, wa-s
in the city yesterday getting the ex
amination questions in final shape.
The examinations will be given on
March 23 and 24.
Sunrise school , will hold its com
mencement on April 1 and 2, the clos
ing exercises will be held on the
nighf of the second. While they ex
pect to have an interesting com
mencement of their own they expect
to bring a large crowd to the county
commencement. Last year after mak
ing the trip to Wake Forest it took
two coaches on the train to bring the
school children here.
Mr. William O'Neal, from the Sun
rise school was in. the city yesterday
conferring with the railroads about
accommodations for. - the Sunrise
school and community. . '
All the railroads exoept the Norfolk
Southern, and it is also expected to
do so, have given reduced rates, made
favorable schedules - and had have
agreed to furnish extra coaches or
account of the county commencement.
An entertainment will be given at
Fairview school next Friday night. '
Mt. Hope school, St. Mary's will
take part in the county commence-"
nient. The. betterment asociation will
accompany the school. This school
will begin their farm scho 1 work, on
Friday.
The Holly Springs board of trade,
the faculty of the high school and
the betterment association are plan
ning a get together meeting on Fri
day evening, March 19. Special stress
will be placed on home economics. A
special invitation has been extended
to Miss Royster to be present.
(Continued on Page Two."
WILLAKD ON WAY TO HAVANA
New Orleans, La., March 13. Jess
vVillard, heavyweight pugilist, accom
panied by Tom Jones, his manager,
&nd sparring partners, left here to
night for Key West, where they will
board a steamer for Havana, Willard
is to meet Jack Johnson for the
World's championship in Havana,
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