North Carolina's Dreams
Come True

Governor Aycock's Vision of What Education Would Do for an
Ignorant and Poverty-Stricken People, Realized in Twenty Years in
One of the Richest and Most Progressive States in the Union
BY FRENCH STROTHER

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ORTH CAROLINA is just
now cashing in on an ideal
and a dream. Sprinkled
through this article, in small
type, will be annotations

about the cash, thus:

North Carolina now pays more Federal taxes than any other state in the Union except New York and Pennsylvania.

But the big type will deal with the dream, because the dream is the big thing, which not only has produced the cash, but can produce anything else North Carolina wants. It has already produced, for example, a splendid system of public schools, a state university that any state might well

boast of, a system of highways that makes motor travel a joy to even the remotest mountain hamlet, a revived and modernized agriculture, a new and flourishing crop of industries,

North Carolina ranks just after Michigan in the manufacture of

furniture, and is neck and neck with Massachusetts in the weaving of textiles, and a people so full of hope, courage, and honest pride that they have reversed the old definition of North Carolina as "a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit" and have made it a model for the envy and the emulation of their neighbors.

Of course this article will tell how "Buck" Duke's sore toe built a hydro

Harris & Ewing

electric power sys-
tem that now runs
five million spindles
and most of the
street cars in North
Carolina. It will
tell how the oyster
fought the boll
weevil and saved
Pamlico County
from being all a
poor farm. It will
be full of the living
leading lights and
the plain folks, and
enough about cash
to give it flavor,
The R. J. Reyn-
olds Tobacco
Company in
Winston-Salem
buys more than
$250,000 worth
of revenue
stamps from the
post office every
day,

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A highway near the Atlantic Coast running beneath moss-festooned trees, between Newbern and Wilmington. It has been the construction of such roads as this that has made North Carolina an economic unit. The stream and waterfall form only one of the natural beauties that are legion throughout the state.

The Southern Power Company, of which organization James Buchanan Duke was the motive influence, has put to the use of industry in North Carolina half a million electric horse power developed from the waters of the Catawba River. This leashed strength is at the service of every laborer in every factory.