By the way of the Durham Herald we get this from the Asheville Citizen: “Governor McLean talks like a thrifty Scot and a progressive Tar Heel.” Thrifty and progressive—these are two good adjectives, and there is no inconsistency between them. The legislature of the State of North Carolina was thrifty when it voted $65 million in bonds for highways and when it voted some 12 or 15 millions for upbuilding the state’s institutions. Thrift does not consist in saving every possible penny but in using resources wisely. Consider the servant, in the parable, who buried his talent. He has come down in history loaded with the reproach of being wicked and slothful. The course he pursued is the same that some people are now recommending to the North Carolina legislature.
From the editorial page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, Jan. 22, 1925
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