The Whole State's Talking!

I hear they plan to run a railroad clean across the state course I don't know that the durn thing 11 out tonight i railroad maybe with a system of railroads we can free ourselves not be so dependent on our neighbors is we can progress John Moorhead says the trains will ride the track team in wet weather even when the roads are bad it's like they kept off on it well I say it's going to work wonders then you know who's doing it where he's called Moorhead so that means he's got something to do with throttle and that means it's going to get done yes a century ago the whole state of North Carolina was talking about railroads and about the man who thought thought carolina ought to go forward with this new steam invention that man was governor jon moxley Moorhead this model locomotive may be called a symbol of John Mutt the Moorhead but it is not a symbol of all that he did governor Moorhead was for 38 years a trustee of the University of North Carolina he organized the Alumni Association and was its first president he was a reformer of the state constitution chairman of the National League convention friend the religious dissenters champion of equal representation of the people spokesman for gradual emancipation of the slaves and of the right of free Negroes to vote he was a planner builder railroads Mills factories promoter of Highways founder of Morehead City he was a prophetic idealist a practical agricultural industrial and political Statesman in its article about the first locomotive able to arrive in the capital city they're all in register which I have before me had this to say magnificent Enterprise we have now actual demonstration now that which no man would have believed thirty years ago to be within the compass of human power truly has it been said that the last few years have unfolded more that is normal vast and wonderful than the whole eighteenth centuries of the Christian era that's the end of the quotation this I say is a symbol of a great statement that the people were talking about a century ago his ancestor by the way was Agnes Moorehead the mother of James Watt the inventor of the steam engine [Music] that is a symbol of another John what the Morehead grandson of the governor a man of our century about whom the whole state of North Carolina is talking with reverence because he has made to us Reverend gifts the Moorhead building the planetarium Art Gallery and scientific exhibits are in real and proper terms types of prayers made of brick and steel and lenses and lace to be sure but they are not tied to the things of this earth the Morehead Patterson bell tower also lifts our spirits to the music of the spheres the Morehead scholarships perhaps 400 full time scholarships to the University in a given school year are dedicated to the youth and future leaders of our state this is a John Mutt the Morehead of our century who lives in another day of magnificent enterprise who lives in a time of great expansion in communications just did governor Morehead and are these presently expenses the most challenging and potentially the most rewarding is television the greatest aid to education since the invention of the printing press they arson and just in time too in time for what productive Boyd he should be starting his daily Bible class on the UNC television station on a Bible and Chapel Hill well they do and this guy Boyd can really explain it so fella like me can understand it come on sit down and watch oh hey I won't charge you for the extra time this is a pleasure I tell you Helen if someone had told me when I was in high school but I'd be looking forward each afternoon to listen to some professor from Women's College lecture on Charles Dickens I would have thought him crazy no I don't know thanks to television a lot of us are signing out learning can be fun take Jorge for example used to attend the television set to an educational station to watch a demonstration of Home Economics or lecture on history or odd or even a concert by the woman's college glee club Jorge would get up and leave the room you know go out back and work in the yard or try to find something to do around the houses I'm going to visit with full well the other evening we finish dinner later than usual and while I was washing dishes Jorge got up and turned on the TV set this time he picked the station and you know what program he chose a program on the process of osmosis and the northwest New Hampshire birch tree I thought I was pretty good tobacco topper till I saw this TV show from State College last week you see it no but my neighbors told me about it well this stuff is money in the farmers pockets you can't afford to miss it don't intend to miss it anymore I cut out the whole TV schedule going to do it every week soil and water conservation building and dairy herd farm machine repairs chicken feed ain't hay getting the most out of a 20 acre farm improving passion forage crop a new weevil threatens not being fun not TV when school takes down I sure do wish you were well enough to get up and around a little more Uncle Jim I saw they Star of Bethlehem show at the planetarium in Chapel Hill last night my wife and I and it was out of this world well I'm afraid I'm not going to get the Chapel Hill anytime soon but you know that eclipse they had on the other night well I wouldn't know what that was all about if it hadn't been for that television program from the planetarium I propped up here in bed looked out the window see the moon they put a television set down here I looked out there and saw the eclipse of the moon and then looked at the television set and saw the explanation and the diagrams and we're just like having an astronomer right here in the room with me explaining it to me my wife and I saw that show - I probably helped a lot of people it was great well what would really great was that programming head on on heart disease last night if I had seen that five years ago or even one year ago I wouldn't be in this bed right now did you see this book about those Morehead scholarships no I haven't seen any book but the other night I saw a TV show about those scholarships and they're really worth suiting for John muttley Morehead well that's the old who gave North Carolina all this television we're getting president golden gray has written this about the Morehead family no North Carolina family ever dreamed greater dreams for North Carolina than the six generations of Moorhead's that have lived in the state over a century and a half and few families have done so much to make their dreams come true his guilt with his cousin Rufus Lenore Patterson of the bell tower adds to the beauty and music of Chapel Hill the Morehead planetarium has both the stars down to the people of North Carolina the Morehead scholarships searching out our most promising you and sending them to the University where they may develop into the future leaders of our state and nation will help lift our people to the Stars and now this other gift educational television which will reach into the homes of North Carolinians with knowledge ideas and reports vital to accelerated progress now this gift of educational television which will take the consolidated university to the people which will accomplish in unifying and freeing the minds of our people and stimulating our actions what the coming of the real rules achieved in freeing and stimulating our commerce and total progress and so a newspaper added to today's I say of the work of our present-day John matzo Moorhead exact clip what a newspaper of a hundred years ago said of the John Mutt the Moorhead of that day magnificent Enterprise we have now actual demonstration of that which no man would have believed thirty years ago to be within the compass of human power truly has it been said that the last few years have unfolded more that is normal vast and wonderful than the whole nineteen centuries of the Christian era and what may be said in the future is for the next generation to know and to say just how can it help say looking back that here is a family which is always looked forward that here is a name which for six generations has stood in this state for vision and has seen the needs of the people and generously stepped forward to lead in meeting those needs and which will serve also down through the years that pritus star wall [Music] [Music] [Music]