From Charlotte Observer
We are beholden to Eugene R. Black, Atlanta big business man, for “shouting” praise of Carolina at a meeting of leading Georgia business men in Atlanta. A dispatch says he “shouted” when he told of the good roads up here.
“Why, their roads are wonderful,” he is quoted as saying. “With one family where I visited we traveled 100 miles in a motor car after dark just to pay a pop call. And we got back early, too.”
Mr. Black didn’t confined his ‘shouting’ to good roads, however. He bragged on the development of tobacco and textile manufacturing as well, and said, among other things:
“North Carolina is being built by North Carolinians who were born there to live and die there; and they are showing bed-rock faith in their state, just as Georgians must show in Georgia.”
And so North Carolina continues as a shining example for the South, particularly, and it is “just lovely,” as the modern young bobbed-heads say, to have a Georgian and an Atlantan at that, hold us up as an example.
Mr. Black, to be sure, is not the only outlander who sings the glory of North Carolina. Every visitor, if he be a man of perspicacity and sound judgment, goes away from North Carolina in the same frame of mind as did Mr. Black; and Carolina spirit and progress is being preached from coast to coast.
Who was it called North Carolina “Rip Van Winkle?”
From The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Friday, May 22, 1925
The Cleveland star. (Shelby, N.C.) 189?-1936, May 22, 1925, Page THREE, Image 3 · North Carolina Newspapers
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