“I hear a lot of talk about cooperation,” says Miles Jennings, Elizabeth City’s forge and anvil philospper. “It’s my observation,” says Miles, “that folks who are always blessing the town out for not cooperating have a darn sorry idea of cooperation. Their only idea of a cooperative town is one where everybody agrees with them in everything and lets ‘em get away with their graft. When you happen to differ with ‘em, then they set up a howl and say you aint cooperating. When I hear some of these birds preaching cooperation I put a lock and chain on my anvil and sew my shirt to my pants.”
From the first page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 1923
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