“North Carolina has vindicated the Immigration Law,” says The Charlotte News in pointing to the fact that North Carolina, the most “American” of all the States in the Union, has the highest birth rate and the lowest death rate. Thus it would seem that the State with the purest American blood has the best health record.
The recent census report issued from Washington gives North Carolina official recognition as the leading State int his vital statistics table.
There are 19.3 more births than deaths per 1,000 in North Carolina. In California, at the bottom of the list, births lead deaths by 5.7 per 1,000. And in California the immigration problem is perhaps most aggravated.
There are no happier people than those living in North Carolina, and we believe, as does The News, that one great cause for the happiness in the almost 100 per cent Americanism is found in the State.
It is fine to have good roads, good schools, good homes, good farms and good churches, says The News, “but healthy happy people are North Carolina’s greatest asset, and it is of them that she is even more proud.”
From the editorial page of The Concord Times, Monday, December 1, 1924. J.B. Sherrill, Editor and Publisher; W.M. Sherrill, Associate Editor.
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