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SOUTHWARD, MAN
PUSHES AGAIN
The following article, written by Frank
Bohn and published in the magazine section
of The New York Times. is so timely and of
such importance that we are giving our whole
editorial page to its reproduction today.
The New York Times has long been friendly
to the South and in publishing this article is
doing the South a great favor. Such publicity,
in a newspaper of such magnitude and influ
ence, can only serve to turn the eyes of the
nation on the South. - '
Georgia is certain to share in the general
prosperity that will come when the southward
movement reaches its heights and Georgians
who can acquire property now at low prices
will live to see their lands double and tribhie
in value within a short time.
This excellent article follows;
The Florida boom is not merely an extra
ordinary example of our American speculative
erase. What is happening in our Furthest
South is a chapter in a colossal historical
movement. This movement has included sev
eral decisive epochs in ancient and mediaeval
European history. It Accounts. loo, for the
variety of races in India,
This never ending southward push of the
Northern peoples has been an essential creative
phase of Western civilization. But in both
Europe and Asia the southern areas are now
saturated with population. Our present migra
tion is probably the last of these southward
movements.
What northerner does not crave, in winter
time, the privilege of going south? A Cape
Cod fisherman was outfitting his boat for the
long trip South through the coastal water route.
i: “Whur yu goin?" queried an old mate.
• • Florda.
“Why> M
*« l Cause die sun shines there, n the fitb
bite all the round. Come along. »•
year
*‘Guess I better had.
So reasoned the barbarian fisherman and
herdsman upon the shores of the Baltic and
the North Seas 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 years ago.
And their migrations always re-energized the
southern societies.
The Drift Southward.
The latest phase of this movement, next to
Florida, was the hush to southern California.
It built Los Angeles into a new sort of city and
created all about it a region meant for play
rather than work, The Florida chapter will
not end with the settlement of that state. It
will undoubtedly continue through several gen
orations.
The general drift of our people southward
was bound to come. Hosts of us will settle
between the Potomac and the Rio Grande.
Ports of the South will be as fully industrial
ized as is the Middle West. A million or more
and farms of from one to thirty acres
wiU.be created. These will draw farmers from
•B America and Europe. They will pour vast
agricultural products into the world's mar
kets. The movement south in the twentieth
century will be fully as significant as the move
ment west in the nineteenth.
Robert Louis Stevenson explains why the
northern barbarians invaded Rome. He con
eludes that the fundamental cause was not
economic. The Germanic tribesmen sought
adventure. Going to Rome was a great sport*
ing event. We are inclined both to agree and
disagree with Stevenson. If the northern races
have looked southward with hungry eyes, their
deep yearning has arisen from mixed motives.
Empty stomachs as well as aching hearts have
urged them on. Endless gray days on the
shores of the Baltic and the North seas, as on
the Great Lakes today, filled the frozen pop
uiation with deepest yearning for blue seas and
orange groves.
The "new south," the phrase made common
in the generation after "reconstruction," has
a misnomer. In reality the "new south"
has just had its birth in California and Florida,
• * * • *re not yet part of it.
south.
>S~ the in the
typical rural south the 5
are vast areas of
lands, cut over lands and swamps. For
acre under the plow in every part of the
there are many acres still uncultivated.
cotton crop of 13,153,000 bales was grown
1924 upon 40,115.000 acres of land
a minimum of care in methods of tillage,
in * ° f * b “ le P "
*ame amount could be grown upon
the area .
The twelve states included between the
lom „ c a „ d *. Rio Gr „„ d e
squsre milee. Here ere .even Italy, in
and at least a dozen Italys in total economic
sourcee. Florida and Georgia together
almost exactly Italy .size but only a tenth
Italy, population. The south a region
untold opportunities. Any settler there, if
be gifted with average strength,
and patience, can prosper at his work.
day of regeneration has now arrived
No other area on the earth’s surface is going
witness so rapid a transformation.
sons made between states are the best
of the economic backwardness of
»outh. The resources of Tennessee, for
stance, are quite equal to those of Ohio.
two states have almost exactly the same area
Yet Tennessee has only half the population
lees than one-fourth the wealth of Ohio.
The present wealth of Florida springs
marily from her climate. The same can
said in varying degree, of the entire
The south produces two, three or four
instead of oner as in the north. Forests
plenish themselves two to three times as
ly. Fuel, food, clothing and building
all cost much less than in the north. The
cold winter is a most expensive experience
the part of northern peoples- The
climate is thus, in itself, a means of
wealth.
Why has our southland been so long in
ing into its own? The answer is by no
a secret. The south has lain under a
curse. There has been the curse of
the curse of cotton, the curse of the Civil War
and “reconstruction."
Slavery and later the presence of the
negroes made southern settlement
to the northern farmer as to the
working man. Meanwhile the single
prevented the normal evolution of a local
white small farming class, rmally, the Civil
War worked destruction in fhe south to a de
gree which only the more careful historian yet
realizes. There are elements of her ancient
Strength which never will be recovered.
the south is the land of tomorrow.
Tempting economic opportunities lie in
for the farmer, the manufacturer, the en
gineer and the skilled worker. “We have over
fifty merchantable minerals in this state, said
southern engineer to the writer recently •
"but we haven’t a single working
the job here. (I
Since the world War we have witnessed the
beginnings of this great change' in the south.
About a million negroes have come north. Ou;
present immigation law, causing high wages,
will continue to draw them northward. They
are taking the pjaces of European unskilled la
bor in construction work. In the long run. the
scattering of the negroes over all parts of the
counrty will prove to be the best thing for
them, for the country and, above all. for the
south.
Many Fanners Trek In
In, South Carolina the writer recently visited
a county which had lost its negroes by tha
thousands. . j * It was not . only . , ... high ...____ wages • m .l.
north which drew them off. The boll weevil
ha. proved to be too much for tha independent
negro farmer. Numbers of hanks in the rural
regions of the older south have failed. Mort
gaged land, have been tolling at public auc
tion for a fraction of their previous values. This
is all a dreary tight.
Then, soon after, in North Carolina, the
writer observed a totally different situation,
On thousands of acre? of reclaimed lands hun
dreds of immigrant farmers have settled. They
work plots of from 10 to 30 acres each. They
were prosperous to a degree which made their
communities seem paradisical. Not one of
them had the slightest notion of deserting the
soil of his adopted country and state.
Such is the vision of the new south. How
ever vast and thriving its industries may be
come, the foundations of its economic future
will be laid deep in the fertility of its soil. It
will product poultry and pork, pairy products
and beef. Already the Carolinas are pouring
into the northern markets their peaches and
apples, strawberries and dewberries and
den truck of every conceivable variety.
cannery ship# tomatoes in the summer
shrimp in the winter, The agricultural
in the bider south is as notable as
the industrial revolution. And, the south
to double its white population every
The Piedmont, the hill country east of the
has made vast strides in man
The next section to be industrializ
is dp valley of the Tennessee. Basic con
made it evident that this valley will be
in the future to the Pittsburgh dis
Industrial development extends from
Shoals in northern Alabama as far up
Asheville, N. C.
In natural resource# this valley shows a more
GRIFFIN DAILY NFWS
extraordinary variety than any similar area
in this country. It has enormous deposits of
coal, some of which lies in veins twelve feet
thick. Its iron ore is inexhaustible. Aluminum
rock assays as high as half its weight in metal.
East Tennessee produces even now large quan
tities of copper and zinc. In this valley, as
,he Birmi n8 K«n diMrict. (he iron and
manufacturer , can take his ore. his coking *
1 i coal and hi(S J ime8tone a „ from the * 8ame hu n,n
««*«• . , With , the . of river naviga
improvement
don he een ship et the iowee, cost.
Condition. Are Changing.
The energizing fdrees of our national
lt3 ca pital, its inventive genius, its business
proaperi , ho „ have movad „ , h ,
generation, from the east, where they origf
nated, upon the west, which they
j so marvelously. Between north and south
gulf was fixed. For nearly a century the
| west absorbed the nation's surplus strength,
The change came when the textile industry be
gan to move southward.
At least half the progress of our west ha
been due to the incoming European farmer and
wage workers. But the black worker of li.
south excluded the white immigrant- A re
cent event .' is significant. * Last year J a southern
committee appeared before an immigration
1 committee of congress and asked that the
immigration law be altered. They wanted the
bars taken down for the admission of select
ed agricultura j immigrant8 f r S m Europe . He re
was a harbinger of the new time.
We have come to the close of a long pe
nod of sectional divergence. North and south
are uniting at last. The last ten years have
wrought a greater change in this regard than
cou j d have once been thought possible.
Studying the comparative re90 urces of the
8ect j on8 mu8 t conclude that the twelve
southern states are as rich potentially as he
twelve states of the middle west. Reflecting
that the south is undoubtedly goin^ to change,
; n the coming generation, a large portion of its
negroes for several times their number of whi f
immigrants, we must conclude that the south
will presently begin to rival the middle west
j n both population and productive power,
Which district will draw the net southward
moving throng? We have observed that a
mighty wave of industry will work its way
f rom the Birmingham district up the Tennes
see Likely that district will replace Florida
m th e public eye. Furthermore, this southern
ap pl ac hian district will witness another sort of
growth. Asheville points the way. Scores Caro-1 of
gjmilar resort towns will develop in the j
linas, in east Tennessee and in the beautiful
J elevation valley of Virginia. Atlanta, Given Knoxville, a thousand Greenville feet of
, as at
S. C., or Roanoke. Va., and the summer cli
>rna te is more agreeable than in New York
’ or Philadelphia
The Southern winter is a perpetual joy to th?
northerner. One forsees, logically, through
out this region, the evolution of such a society
as that of southern California. While the tide
water country everywhere will be settled b>
great numbers oFsmall farmers, the up country
wjU attract the retired farmers and the "Main
Streeters," as well as persons of wealth from
a n t he north,
Somewhere on the Carolina coast there
j 8 sure to arise an Atlantic City of the south,
built as cities are now built in Florida. Whether
it will be near Wilmington or Charleston can
j not yet be foreseen. But it will be built, and
soon. On those shores are hundreds of miles
of fine beaches. Wilmington is only 17 hours
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from New York- Bathing , . . ecellent for the
; is
general ...... P^hc. eight months , in . the . year and .
i fishing is fine the ^ round ' Alread y the
caravans of tourists are enjoying autumn and
early springtime along the new coastal motor
highway, notably at Charleaton. , .
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!
In South Carolina recently a middle western i
j group purchased 3.000 acres of shore land ant
began to plan a colony. No doubt there will
■ be many such aquatic developments along the
Scoast of the Carolinas and Georgia. But
j f or the greater future development of *this
gort watc h the Gulf Coast.
From K Wot. to Brownsville, Texas, is
- a thousand miles tins ut as far tar „ as t trom rnrn
Gibraltar to Sicily, Who can doubt that here
£ • ofo“ _n _ wl _, r L„ rm
ranean? How fa.cinating to imagine the to
ture beside these bluest of blue waters f Of
course, there will be here, as elsewhere, a stu
pendou. economic development. The vast
hinterland ol factories ,t«t farm, will pour
t * ieir Products into these coastal cities,
New Orleans will continue, no doubt, as
social capital. When Louis- .
the economic and
iana was purchased it was nroDhesied propnesiea that
New Orleans, at the mouth of Mississippi, con
trolling the 'commerce of that river System '
would become one of the largest cities in the
t Two factors , , screed j to . prevent _______ L, .r i
country, n
logical development: one the abnormal social
and political life of the south, the other the
building * of the western railways. But at least
. , .
these gulf cities . into their own. INew
are coming :
Orleans is at the foot of the delta country—our
American Nile. Of all the fiuitful sous which
are ours, this delta region is easly first. From ^
Memphis to New Orleans, eventually, on both 1
sides of the river, there will be one unbroken
vista of garden lands. j
It will be illuminating to continue our Euro-!
pean analogy a bit further. The elder Mediter-1
rr.nean would not be itself without its happy
peoples. In a very literal sense their laghter
and song are but echoes of Mediterranean
waves. Upon never-ending miles of these
sea beaches her sun and air have made glad,
through ages of evolution, the hearts of all her!
children. Let us be grateful, then, that New
Orleans is half French, and that the farther
south as a whole is richer for a generous in
heritance of French blood, \ j
Across the waters, only eighty miles from
Key West, is the resplendent Latin capital of
Havana. We are just now beginning to take
note of its university, its literature and its art ,
The ancient people of Yucatan may be com-.j
pare d with the Egyptians.
It is this large variety of our American
Mediterranean which will give peculiar color j
an d interest to its life and literature, Eventu
a fly it must be all bi-lingual. The Floridan
an d the Texan will speak Speinish just as everj’ !
educated Cuban or Mexican speaks English, have j
And thid neighboring Latin culture will aj
deeper influence. Our southern mentality will
nowhere else be so balmy, .so generous, so ]
sweetened by its whole environment as j on
these shores. 1
!
Eventually our Nordic type must be as;
changed here as were the Longobards and
the Normans in Italy. New England will prob- j
ably remain as our Scotland. But our Italy
and Spain will evolve and mellow with the
passing centuries. Indeed, in all our southland
our race is destined to go on in this refinin f
process. It is to be one of the major cul
tural evolutions of western civilization.
The coast of southern Texas will eventually
be a second Florida. He among us who has
not yet stood upon the seawall of Galveston
and seen the sunrise on a bright day in autumn
or winter has an extraordinary experience to
come. It is the long, long autumn and includes
the holidays; it is the charm of a Maytime that!
begins the , end , of , February, that t makes . i
at
all this Gulf like northern m Honda. -j ^ One 1
region
“» conceive, in the not too distant future,
a southern American literature, a regional form
of artistic expression in every field, springing
up and ripening beside these waters. I
M ch 9. 1926.
R iiDless ( /. ‘vJ ) l
/ MyAaf ey
can/do s
H O H, like why other can't girls? I huva Why a do r-Vn. I
have to have these ugly jilinpiea,
blotches and blackheads?
“If I could only find somethin'
that wouid clear up my skin an.l
give me hack my soft, rosy cou>
P lexion - 1 l:now 1 would be th «> han *
pies gjfl lQ th0 worJd! What can £
do?”
Is that you talking? If it is, you
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body. Then your skin wi;l bo ..j.
c j ear an( j so ft as anybody's.
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ing for generations — helping ?.
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red-Wood-cells so fast that t >
impurities thjit hardiy cause breaking oi.c
or) t i ia get into the sys-
8 tops them from breaking out
thmugh the^sldn
g ^
blood feeds and nourishes the i hi
skin aud keepa 11 look *
That’s all there Is to It Healthy,
^^° u *°°l?i c h aa ^
makes you healthy
away pimples, black
£oS S ’^ eczema
gives you back your appetite—
you ful^o^new^Tfe and^nergy.* 1113
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DEBTOR’S AND CREDITOR'S
NOTICE
Georgia—Spalding county.
All creditors of the estate of
w w Grubbs, late of Spalding
county, deceased, are hereby noti
fied in their demands to the
undersigned according to law, and
tate^Te'quired t^m^ke^mmS
late payment to me.
J. H. GRUBBS, Administra-
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