North Carolina is a great state, up and coming and proud. The Tarheels are rejoiced by their progress and betterment and business and trade. A statistical story of the greatness of their industry has been appearing lately in the newspapers. Their state has the greatest damask and denim and pulp and underwear mills in the United States, the largest manufactures of aluminum and hosier, of tobacco and towels in the whole round world; $900,000,000 invested; 6,200 factories, 158,000 workers; yearly payroll of more than $127,000,000, or $67 per month apiece! All that is great human achievement and far cry from nursing hookworm and malaria on pine-clearing farm patches.
--Collier’s Weekly
From the editorial page of the Cherokee Scout, Murphy, N.C., Friday, Dec. 7, 1923
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