- Title
- Public addresses, letters and papers of Joseph Melville Broughton: Governor of North Carolina, 1941-1945
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- Date
- 1950
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- Creator
- ["Broughton, J. Melville (Joseph Melville), 1888-1949."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Public addresses, letters and papers of Joseph Melville Broughton: Governor of North Carolina, 1941-1945
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Papers of Joseph Melville Broughton
cination in these subjects when translated into terms of navigation or
communications. Languages may have been but a course to “get by”
on, but when they are pictured as a step toward a career in the in¬
telligence service or allied military government, there is a quickening
of interest. If, as the poet has said, “Peace hath here victories no
less renowned than war,” cannot the challenge involved in the building
of a better world develop a more purposeful body of American
college students?
There will be much talk of stream-lining education and converting
our colleges into trade schools. True, there is too much lost motion
and inefficiency; and vocational education is tremendously important.
But culture cannot be stream-lined. Literature, poetry, music, and
art will continue to be, with religion, the spiritual foundation for
greatness in any nation.
PUBLIC WELFARE IN NORTH CAROLINA
Address1 Delivered At A Testimonial Ceremony
Honoring Colonel William Allen Blair
Raleigh
April 19, 1944
Mrs. Bost, Ladies and Gentlemen:
We gather here this morning for a celebration unique in the history
of North Carolina, and perhaps in the entire history of state govern¬
ment in the United States. We meet to give recognition and to confer
honor upon a man who has for more than half a century devoted his
life and his talents, his personality and his time to one cause, and that
to the cause of human welfare. I doubt that his career can be equaled
anywhere in the United States. I doubt if in the entire American nation
there is a state which has had anything like the continuity of direc¬
tion, or, indeed, of purpose in its public welfare program as has the
state of North Carolina.
This is one of the few states in which the welfare of human beings
is put into the constitution of the State and made mandatory upon the
state government and upon the legislative body. To the credit of those
who framed the Constitution of our State, notwithstanding the cir¬
cumstances under which the Constitution was adopted, it should be
said that it is one of the outstanding documents of this Nation. In that
lThis ceremony was observed for Colonel Blair in recognition of his fifty-three years of ser¬
vice as a member of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Colonel Blair was a
member from September 25, 1891, to October, 1901, and chairman from October, 1904, to date.
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