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THEY SHOW US HOWAbout six miles from Morganton, N.C., is Vsldeae, an industrial colony of Waldensians, who emigrated from Northern Italy to North. Carolina thirty years ago. Coming from a rugged mountain district of the Italian Alps, they knew how to utilize every foot of ground to the best possible advantage, and soon they had vineyards around their homes and well-kept farms under cultivation close at hand.Realizing that cities arc built upon industrial enterprise, they established the Waldensian Hosiery Mill, with only $240 as an initial investment- From this meagre beginning the Waldensian Hosiery Mill has grown in 24 years into a large and profitable industry. In the meantime the Martinet Hosiery Mills, the Pauline Hosiery Mill, the Valdese Manufacturing Company, the Yaldese Shoe Corporation, the Waldensian Swiss Embroidery Company, the Waldensian Oakery and other successfully operated industrial plants have been established.The Waldensians are a thrifty, law-abiding people and have been a great asset to the county and the state. In 30 years there has never been one of their number indicted in Superior Court; they pay their taxes promptly and uncomplainingly, and never call on the county for poor relief.The Waldensians are experL stonecutters and have bufit for their community a beautiful scone church and a beautiful stone high school. Realizing that the available appropriation would not allow them to build the kind of school they desired, the residents of the community pooled their resources and by building the plant toemselves, doing much of the actual construction without charge, they managed through true cooperation and united effort to erect one lt;of the finest school buildings in the j state at a minimum cost. Every man, woman arid child in Valdese aided and assisted in some way in the building of the school. They built their church— they are Protestants—in the same cooperative way. About ten years ago they established a cooperative store, which carries a complete line of groceries, clothing, hardware, furniture and general merchandise. It, too, is housed in a stone building built by Waldensian masons. —P. W. Wager, Research Assistant in County Covernment. University of North Carolina.
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Chapel Hill University Of North Carolina News Letter
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
Wed, Jan 27, 1926
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