Dr. Frank Jeter keeps his finger on the pulse that beats in
rural North Carolina better than any man we know. As Agricultural Editor at
State College, it is his business to know what’s going on in rural North
Carolina, what farm folks are doing and what they are thinking.
Dr. Jeter did not go off half-cocked when he addressed
executives of North Carolina Chambers of Commerce at Wilson this week, but he
did tell these executives something Tar Heels had been saying about their
organizations. They perked up their ears and listened, too, as Dr. Jeter spoke.
In recent weeks, the Agricultural Editor said, he had sent a
large number of persons in North Carolina letters inquiring what civic clubs
and chambers of commerce where doing and had done to assist farmers in the
solution of their problems. The information that came back was almost
surprising in its conclusiveness that chambers of commerce and civic clubs are
working cooperatively and constructively in the interest of the farmers.
Roads, rural telephones, rural power lines, soil
conservation, rural school improvements, diversified farming, better markets
for farm commodities—these and many other programs affecting rural families of
North Carolina have been and are now the objective of chambers of commerce and
of civic clubs, Dr. Jeter’s survey revealed.
Granville County farmers well remember the effort that the
local Chamber of Commerce put forth and the high degree of success that market
its effort to locate tobacco plants for distressed growers last spring. It
would be hard to convince any beneficiary of that effort that the Granville
chamber is of the worthless variety.
When one looks for the truth and counts up the facts, there
is little foundation for any claim that civic clubs and chambers of commerce
aren’t helping rural neighbors with their major problems.
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