The Power and the Pride

Who loses the hand that turns these ever-turning wheels? When comes the power and the strength? Where dwell the slaves, the giant race that must toil by day and dark to work these miracles? No slaves, no giants.

Mark instead these tiny copper strands that stretch across the rim of the sealable world. Listen to this huge dynamo, this thing almost alive, contrived of lifeless things. Here is your slave, your giant. Hold this wire within your hand.

It's thinner than a man's finger and stronger than a thousand men. Look, a spark has bridged a fraction of an inch. Unlike some initial act of creation, a new world begins to form. Mark these things well.

Here is the outline of the future. Here is the power and the pride. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presents the power and the pride. The eighth in a series of programs describing what we believe to be one of the most significant developments of our time, the rebirth of the American South.

To report this latter-day Industrial Revolution, NBC assigned Henry Cassidy, distinguished foreign correspondent, to make a tour through the South and report to us what he saw and heard and felt. Today, he tells us about the development of industrial power in the South, the force that provides the energy for the thousand new factories and plants that have risen across this land.

Mr. Cassidy? things can often be measured in tiny ways. The path of a glacier is marked by a few scratches on some rocks. In a sense, the tremendous changes of the French Revolution are summed up in the account of a French baker peddling his wares on the lawn of the palace at Versailles.