EDITORIAL



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In Nnrlh Carolina the center has been in the western half of
Chatham County for 30 years, but has moved always westward;
the growth of t-otton and furniture manufacturing in tlic Pied-
mont region apparently outweighing that of agriculture in the
pine-barrens.
In Rhode Island the center has moved slowly but surely
toward Providence, at the rate of about 229 feet a year.
In South Carolina there is less contrast in soil fertility be-
tween the Piedmont region and the coastal plain than in either
of the two adjoining states, and consequently the effects of the
discoveries of fertilizing materials in the second half of the last
century have been less marked. The center of population has
been within a few miles of Columbia during the three decades,
but has moved slowly northwestward, doubtless on account of
the development of cotton manufacturing in the Piedmont.
Tennosscf, like its neighbor Kentucky, has shown very lit-
tle shifting of population. The movement in 30 years has been
eastward, however, perhaps on account of agricultural develo|)-
ments on the sandy Cumberland Plateau as much as anything
else.
Things have apparently been (iretty quiet in Vermont, as in
New Hampshire.
In West Virginia the center of population has been moving
steadily southweslward, possibly on account of the opening of
new coal mines in that direction.
EDITORIAL

Economic Geogbapiiv in the High School

AS a liigh school study, commercial or economic geography is
growing notably, while physical geography is declining.
