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4: THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLAKTA, GA„ 6 HOSTM FOBSTTH ST. { Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter ol , the Second Class. ' t — . JAMES *. OKAY, ^ President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months Six months .... *•>•• ••••• 10® Three months - " 5o •The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday . and Friday, and Is mailed by the shortest routes for vs early delivery. i: It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into eur office. It has a stafr of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted ut every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD- LET. Circulation Manager. The * only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Tates. 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The representative of a large Oklahoma ranch who has spent the greater part of the year in the South, buying cattle and shipping them West to be . -fed "and marketed as beef, is quoted in the Suwanee : Democrat, of Live Oak, Fla., as paying: “You have better facilities in this State for raising cattle than - ■ any other place in the Union.” The same observation might as truly be made , of neighboring States, certainly of Georgia, in so far as natural resources are concerned. Soil and climate are ideally suited to the production of live ■» stock. The most nutritious grasses will flourish. The mild winters reduce to a minimum the cost of : housing and feeding. There is abundance of land. Indeed, there is every opportunity and no serious ■ obstacle for the development of a great and profit able cattle industry in the South. Yet, with the supply of beef continually diminishing and the price steadily Increasing, the South has done little or nothing to utilize its rich advantages in this regard. - In Florida alone, the cattle buyer to whom we ■have referred has purchased this year some twenty- three thousand head of stock which have been shipped to the West and which will be sold as steaks and roasts at incomparably higher prices. The buyer said that yearlings sent from that State would at tain, after twelve months on the Oklahoma ranges, a weight of a thousand pounds. If these cattle were fattened and converted into food products at home, i^hat a tremendous gain .they would be to the wealth > pf "the South! The Manufacturers’ Record makes the apt comment: > “There Is hardly’ a greater waste conceivable than that involved in sending raw material to a "distant point and then buying back the finished product, when only human initiative and energy are heeded to carry on at home all the processes and, Consequently, to retain all the advantages and legi timate profits.” | Georgia’s need in this connection is more ele- tuental than Florida’s. This State has not produced lenough cattle to interest Western buyers. Indeed, jnany, if not most of our counties, because of the prevalence of cattle tick, are under a federal quaran tine which prevents the shipment of cattle. The Georgia farmer should first of all co-operate with State and national agencies In freeing his stock from this pest; then, plant a sufficiency of forage and improve the breed of his stock. The. way would thus be opened to really profitable cattle raising and packing and market facilities would duly be pro vided. — Oscar Underwood. ; When Mr. Hobson burst into his windy attack on Oscar Underwood, he was talking, of course, for '‘Buncombe.” The coolness of his colleagues mattered jittle to the valiant trencherman, if he could only •impress the boys at home. Being hungered for a ■seat in the Senate and peeved that Mr. Underwood {should aspire to the same hqnor, he determined upon the most glaring course of personal publicity at his command. He would denounce the House leader in set, round terms, would call him “the tool of Wall street,” the ally of liquoF interests and thus by sheer audacity wfn the ear of Alabamians. But we cannot ttelieve that the folks at home will takfe this matter otherwise than do the members of Congress and the country as a whole. Following the Hobson tirade, the House of Representatives, irre spective of party lines, cheered Mr. Underwood as an expression of confidence in his integrity and pa triotism. The people of the entire United States, and especially those of the South and of Alabama, have good reason to be proud of the useful and splendid statesmanship which Oscar Underwood embodies. Who ever may have contributed to his campaign fund for the Presidential nomination, with or without his knowl edge, this one important fact looms up: As leader of the Democratic majority in the House he has work ed with an eye single to his party’s honor and the public’s good. ■ . He has stood stanchly by the Wilson administra tion in the enactment of a tariff law which special interests bitterly fought and in the passage by the House of a currency bill which Wall street opposed with all the vigor and cunning it could muster. The end has proved the man. His record is clear; his achievements tower. And there are still greater things in store for Mr. Underwood. In West Virginia. The recent congressional election in the First dis trict of West Virginia disclosed interesting and sig- iiificant facts. h The Democratic candidate won by a plurality of more than thirty-five hundred votes; last year he was elected by a scant one hundred and sixty-nine votes. The “Progressive” candidate received four thou sand votes and the Republican some ten thousand. ' These figures compared with the returns from the same district in 1'J12 show "rst that Democracy has more than held its own and furthermore that the “Progressive” party has gone backward. The Call of the South. A Frenchman who recently called at the state de partment of agriculture for information concerning Georgia farm lands is one among hundreds of pros pective settlers now interested in the south. This visitor remarked that the Georgia climate reminded him of southern France, where he was reared, and that the general appearance of the country was most inviting. He has lived the past five years in Canada but the story of the south’s natural treasure and its varied opportunities called him; he came and' was I convinced. The fact that the tide of immigration which a few years poured steadily from ,the United States into Canada is now ebbing must be ascribed largely to the wider publicity which southern resources have been given. Home seekers and investors are learning that in this genial corner of the continent the paths to progress and wealth are most numerous and free. This is true of industry and commerce but especially is it true of agriculture. An abundance of land, com paratively cheap and capable of producing rich crops the year around, awaits development. So soon as Georgia and her neighbor states make an organized, systematic effort to bring the advan tages more widely to the country’s notice, a great inflow of new wealth and population will follow. Praiseworthy plans to this end have already been j inaugurated and they are bringing results. Particu- i larly seasonable is the recent establishment of the Georgia chamber of commerce which purposes not only to upbuild the state from within but also to advertise its wonderful resources beyond the home borders. A movement like this means much to the individual Georgian and to the commonwealth, as a whole. It merits the earnest support of all good citizens. Pass the Currency Rill. The need of currency and banking reform has been discussed for years and years. Statesmen, business men and bankers, particularly, have long seen the defects of the present system, while the people as a whole have often felt the sharp pinch of its inefficiency and injustice. Divers conventions have met to consider this problem, special commis sions have studied it and various recommendations have been offered; but not until President Wilson called Congress into extra session and urged definite legislative action in this regard, was there any clear prospect of relief. Thitherto, those interested in currency reform had worked fitfully or at cross pur poses, unable to agree upon the essentials of any change proposed and powerless to set the law-mak ing machinery in motion. Today, however, these conditions are completely altered. A hanking and currency bill which, in the main, meets the approval of all interests concerned and which will undoubtedly protect the country from the dangers cf the existing system has passed the House of Representatives by a towering majority and awaits the action of the Senate. Never were the true friends of currency reform so closely agreed as now; never in the course of this great issue was there so opportune af’moment for practical service to the nation. What will the Senate do with this splen did opportunity? Will it reconcile its minor differ ences of opinion and clear the way for a prompt en actment of the bill, or will it quibble over mere de tails and hold the country’s business in prolonged and disquieting suspense? If the Senate heeds public opinion, it will settle thi^ question with the least possible delay; it will pass a satisfactory bill at the present session. Criticism of the pending measure proceeds mainly, if not entirely,- from bankers, or rather from certain i groups of bankers; And even,they warmly commend its general purpose and its’chief provisions. Their dissent, in the matter of detail was to be expected. In truth, hankers themselves are sharply divided in their views as to just what the country needs. Should Congress wait for a currency plan that would be equally satisfying to all men or all interests, it could never move a step toward reform. The bank ers will be no easier to please in December or Janu ary than now. The essential features of the present bill will come nearer their wishes than any other, unless it be one framed by themselves for the pur pose of retaining in their own hands complete con trol of the nation’s monetary resources. No such suggestion, they may be sure, will ever be tolerated. Perhaps the grayest of all defects in the existing system is the fact that it leaves to pri vate, and more or less capricious rule this tremen-' dously important field of the country’s economic in terests. Currency affairs and, to a great extent, hanking affairs must be under public, that is to say, under government control, if our common business life is to be prosperous and secure. The cardinal vir tue of the bill now before the senate is a guarantee of this protection. It is this provision that means most to the people and that will stand as a great bulwark against financial panics and business alarm. Congress is not assembled to make laws in the interest of bankers alone but in the interset of mer chants and farmers and working men as well, in the interest of equal justice to all the people, without special privilege to any. It would be neither right nor reasonable to delay the passage of the currency bill merely to appease a particular class of interests, White the country as a whole suffers from the lack of remedial legislation. We have gone from year to year and from congress to Congress talking about currency reform but this is the first time that definite results have been at tainable. Surely, the Democrats of the Senate will not neglect so inspiring an opportunity te honor their party and to bless the nation! The proposal that this matter be carried over to the regular session is ill advised. Conditions will never be more favorable for an adjustmeent of such differences as exist. The most effective work can he done now when there is nothing to divert attention from this one important issue. In the regular ses sion, the members of Congress will be busied with all manner of bills for their particular States or dis tricts and the remaining features of the administra tion’s program will require careful thought. Pro longed delay would rob the bill of the advantage it has acquired from its overwhelmnig adoption in the House and would also tend to dissipate the public interest it now holds. Senator Shafroth truly de scribed the situation when he said last week that postponement would only leave another pledge of the Democratic party unredeemed and icould afford those who are ill disposed an opportunity to bring about artificial troubles in the monetary world. It is important, first of all, that the Democratic members of the banking and currency committee reach an agreement among themselves to report the bill at an early date and that every Democrat in the Senate urge this course. This, it would seem, can easily be done, if those who now differ over ques tions of detail will get together in a spirit of “give and take.” So numerous are the points at which all honest and enlightened thought on this issue is at one that there should be little difficulty among rea sonable men in-compromising the comparatively few matters in dispute. Further delay simply for the sake of delay will be Inexcusable and grossly unjust to the public as well as to the party. The country’s business is anxiously awaiting the outcome of currency legislation. Conditions will not become normal until this question is settled. Pro longed suspense .will be distinctly unfortunate. Prompt action will be universally reassuring. A per fect bill is not to be hoped for but the pending measure will at least serve the larger and more urgent needs of the time. Its benefits will be imme diate; its defects can easily be remedied at the future may demand. Let the bill be passed at the present session of congress and the country will be incomparably better ou. The Secret of Increased Land Values in Tift. The enriching influence of good roads and pro gressive farming, which, by the way, generally go side by side, was strikingly witnessed in a recent s„le of country lands along the Journal-Herald High way in Tift county. One hundred and fifty acres we—- auctioned at prices ranging between eighty-five and a hundred and twenty-five dollars an acre; an entire tract of five acres sold at the latter figure and several others were bought for more than a hundred dollars an acre. In another part of the same county, four hundred acres, much of which is swamp land, sold for correspondingly good prices. Tift county, as all Georgians know, is in the forefront of the State’s good-roads crusaders. When it was determinec some years ago to extend the National Highway to Jacksonville, the business men of Tifton and the farmers in the surrounding district began a vigorous and systematic campaign to bring the highway through their county; and they succeeded by the excellent roads they produced. The energy aroused and organized through this particular undertaking was distributed among many parallel enterprises. In various parts of the county connec tions with the great central highway were estab lished so that Tift county now enjoys the advantages of a true system of good roads. To this fact and to the accompanying development of agricultural interests, must be ascribed the rapid and really remarkable increase in real estate values. Well built and well kept roads invariably raise the price and quicken the demand for adjacent farms. They upbuild the community as a whole. They make schools accessible and bring town and country into closer commercial relationships. They make the life of the people more worth living. Little wonder that lands in such a county sell for a hundred and twenty-five dollars an acre; that is merely the be ginning of their value. It is a noteworthy fact that Tift county’s truck- farm industries, which are fast becoming one of its chief sources of wealth, have developed step by step with' its good roads movement. So soon as improved highways reached into the country about Tifton, the idea of diversified crops gained popular favor. Long before this, the gospel of scientific agriculture had been earnestly preached but it was no| until good roads made markets accessible in ail seasons that new methods of farming were widely applied and the production of foodstuffs seriously undertaken. ' The truth is there can be no progress in agricul ture where roads are poor. Certainly, truck farming, which is to play so important a role in Georgia’s fu ture prosperity, cannot advance withofit the aid of adequate highways. What Tift county has accom plished in this connection is within the reach of every county that will press forward with the same foresight and energy. The town folk and the country folk of that county have worked together for the up building of their common interests. The Tifton cham ber of commerce has steadily applied its thought and means to agricultural problems and in all its efforts it has had the farmers’ hearty co-operation. These people began with essentials. They devel- oped*their public roads so that the channels of trade and all enterprise might be constantly open. They thus brought into continuous touch all the interests of their county, rural as well as urban. They made possible the truck farm’s development and wider utilization of the soil’s resources. That is why their land is steadily increasing in value and is attracting a larger and larger number of settlers. And some men refuse to quarrel with their wives because it costs them too much to make up. Huerta’s Safest Course. Reports that Huerta is about to resign the. pro visional presidency of Mexico may not materialize but they are certainly of a logical drift. His situa tion, officially and personally, grows more and more precarious. With a bankrupt treasury, a depleted and sullen army, a treacherous circle of advisers and a record that arouses the hatred of free-minded Mexicans and the contempt of foreign governments, he can find no reasonable hope of bettering his pres ent fortune. The fact that he has clung this long to his fragment of power shows desperateness rather than strength. Poriflrio Diaz ruled Mexico with a hand of iron. His acts were often arbitrary and intolerable to the spirit of a republic. But his rule was that of a vigor ous mind, bent toward constructive ends and in spired, we must believe, by higher interests than merely personal gain. Old Diaz was a tyrant but a wise one and when he realized that the country was against him, he had the good sense and the grace to retire. In Huerta, all these qualities are lacking. Aside from a certain craftiness and brute force, he has scarcely a trace of leadership; certainly, he has none of the mental and moral reserve that sustain men and governments in time of crisis. His latest step in dispersing the Congress and imprisoning more than a hundred of its members, because they dared criticise his policies, is a complete betrayal of his weakness. It is doubtful that Huerta gives his coun try a thought, but every consideration of self-interest should urge him to resign while a voluntary and peaceful exit is open. Certain it is that so long as he is involved in Mexico’s affairs the quiet restoration of orderly gov ernment will be impossible. No regime with which he is identified will receive the recognition of the United States or retain the moral support of other Powers. Dispatches from Vera Cruz credit John Lind, President Wilson’s special representative in Mexico, with a knowledge of Huerta’s intention to withdraw. It is earnestly to he hoped that the re port is well founded. Said the maid to the bashful youth; “I’m going to scream anyway, so you might just as well kiss me." The Curse of Poverty BY DR. FRANK CRANK. (Copyright, 1013, by Frank Crane. There is but one calamity—poverty. There fs ljut one thing: to be desired—riches. Any kind of poverty is bad: material, intellectual, emotional, spiritual. Every bodily disease is due to bodily poverty; of the blood, of nutrition, of elimination, of co-ordination. Malignant germs abound everywhere. But they are snobs. They do not attack the rich-blooded, the richly, functioned; they pounce upon the anaemic. A health- rich boy can have a million pneumonia microbes in his mouth and not be hurt. Money poverty is bad. You do not have to be a money worshipper to believe that you cannot lead a decent life without income enough to get you comforta ble clothing, wholesome food, a sanitary habitation, and the saving bits of culture and leisure. It is perfectly right for us to want money enougli to secure a reasonable independence. Any one who is rfot investing regularly a portion of his earnings is a food. Thrift is just as sterling a virtue now as it was in the days of Ben Franklin. Any child not trained to save is wronged. The newspapers are full of the news of domestic scandal. It is due to poverty of love, and poverty X>x character. The richest rich people on earth are they who have plenty of love. And how terrible and far-reaching are the effects of mind poverty! The people are like “dumb, driven cattle.” herded by shrewd political bosses. Their children are stunted, their homes are cramped, their rights are denied them, their food is poisoned, they are insulted, despised, pil laged, and swindled, simply because they are ignorant^ they are victims of intellectual poverty, they don’t know what to do. Duly train just one generation of children and see what a tremendous silent revolution would ensue! It is the great army of the ignorant who stir up violence, follow fatuous enthusiasms and bring defeat in the battles of the people. It is the moral poverty of the money-rich that ren ders them pests. It is the spiritual poverty of the church that makes it ineffective. . . It is the artistic poverty of the people that gives us ugly cities, dreary streets, stuffy flats, hideous ad vertising plastered over street cars and billboards. It is artistic poverty that produces poor theatrical shows, wretched, musically poverty-stricken comic op eras, idea-poverty-stricken play 4 s. It is moral impotence that causes the dearth of honesty men as great leaders. Y’et reformers hawk preventive remedies. Pro hibit this, stop that, curb the other! Humanity needs the bit, the brake and the restraint of its too powerful forces! Stuff and nonsense! The one thing mankind needs is more force, more fire, more steam, more riches. Never more than now. Democracy needs a thou sand-fold more money than royalty. Freedom needs more brains than serfdom. Virtue needs more energy than vice. Love is aseptic in proportion as it is po tent. Real religion is only in surcharged souls; watery and timid souls can have but Pharisaism. Give us riches! Rich hearts to love mightily, rich brains to think boldly, rich hands to work skillfully, rich bodies to live wholesomely, riches of culture to keep us out of the bogs of barbarism, riches of music, of sculpture, of architecture, riches of spirit to grasp the majesty of moral laws, and riches of money to se cure our personal independence. The great man is the man of full life. “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth fruit; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” Spirit of the West During that hot wave last week when the sky was cloudless and a thirty-mile wind sent waves of heat through the cornfields and the mercury went up to 109, there was an eight-day Chautauqua held at our county seat. In addition to that, a circus came to our town on Thursday. We met folks from every part of the county, and from other states. We met former governors, congressmen, suffragists and jubilee sing ers from the south. We listened to lectures given by men of national reputation, and we enjoyed the music - furnished by bands as good as the best. We saw beardless youths strolling around among the tall trees in the glimmer of hundreds of electric lights, happy in the thought that their “Jane” was with them, and that the sup ply of ice cream cones was abundant. Women we saw who were dressed in tight-fitting skirts. Some of the dresses had bands or belts away up near the arm pits, other dresses had the belt line near the knees. \Some of those dresses were made from pil low casings, and one stout old lady’s dress looked large enough to use for a bedtick in case of emer gency. There were things that made us sad and things that caused us to laugh until ‘ the tears trickled down our cheeks, but the saddest thing was the pessi mist—the man with good health, with his barn bulg ing with hay, his granary bulging with wheat and oats, the trees in his orchard bending with ripening fruit, money in the bank to pay for gasoline for his automobile. And yet the ungrateful old grouch was going about from place to place with his mouth look ing like a crack in a pumpkin, and his face looking like a cast-off sweatpad that had been used for a scre- necked horse. It is the gospel truth that before the “showerlet” came on Sunday evening our corn crop was ready for the hospital. We now think that ten or fifteen bu shels an acre is all that is left. The 800 acres of sweet corn grown by the canning factory was “can ned” in the field. Yet, I cannot help but ridicule that poor old shrivel-faced, whining soul who pours his stories of distress into the ears of every one he meets until he causes his hearers to feel like they had been dieting for weeks on green apples and sour milk. I will go for miles to meet the optimist—the man who is full of hope, who is figuring on the aver ages of the country, who shuts his eyes on the fail ures and recalls the years of big crops and good times. He is like the man who would not complain of misfortune, and who, after having had both feet amputated, said: “I shall not be bothered again with cold feet.”—Nebraska Farmer. Quips and Quiddities Jack was pulling the cat’s tail. His mother Indignantly remon strated. “Stop it this moment!” she cried, “Jack, don’t you hear me? You stop pulling that poor kitty’s tail.” “I’m not pulling it, mother,” was Jack’s answer. “The cat’s doing the pulling. I’m just holding on.” Pat had joined the navy and was being drilled with his shipmates on a pier. “Fall in!” came the order. Im mediately Pat fell into the water. “Two deep!” was the next order. Pat (sputtering in the water) — “Bad scran to ye! Why didn’t yiz tell me it was too deep before Oi fell in?” Old Salt—Yes, mum, them’s men-o’-war!” Sweet Young Thing-—How-interest ing-! And what are the little ones just in front? Oid Salt—Oh, them’s just tugs, mum. Sweet Young Thing—Oh, yes, of course; tugs-of-war. I’ve heard of them. SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONGRESS BY FREDERIC J. HASKXN. The fifth annual meeting of the Southern Commer cial congress, which will convene in Mobile on October 27. bids fair to become the most notable commercial meeting ever held within the confines of the southern states. It will be very much a “Panama canal meet ing,” for it will be especially characterized by an ef fort to assess the possibilities of the big waterway and to point the way to a proper capitalization of the advantages it will afford. Every qther meeting that has been planned for th e fall that might in any way 'interfere with it has been called off, and the forces behind them have made common cause with the lead ers of the Southern Commercial congress tb mako mo bile the one great gathering place for all the forces of the south to rally for a great movement toward a new era ol’ commercial and civic growth. Even the proposed pan-American Commercial confecence, which was to be held by the twenty-two pan-American re publics, under the auspices of the pan-American union, has been postponed, and its work merged with that of the .Mobile congress. • • • The members of the congress who desire to do so, will be able to take part in a great South American business men’s expedition. Under the patronage ami assistance of experts from the department of agricul ture and the pan-American union, fifty selected guests will make a ninety-day trip for the purpose of giving special study to Latin-American trade conditions. In addition to this there will be a special trip to the Pan ama canal open to all members, and it is the hope of the officials of the congress that they may be able to be the first organization to go through the can&L • • • The other matter (if unusual importance that wilt come before the congress will be the report of the American commission for the study of European co operation. To show the people of the south how to help themselves and how to aid one another is one of the primary aims of the congress, and it has bor rowed some remarkable pages from the book of Euro pean experience—pages which show that intelligent co operation has in it infinite possibilites. • • • The nation's best authorities on the divers subjects with which the Southern Commercial congress deals will be present to us© it as a forum from which to present their ideas as to what may be done in the south to capitalize its possibilities and to give practical demonstrations of what will result if the whole section moves forward in step with some of its progressive communities. President Wil son will tell the congress about the canal in its hew ing on our international relations. This promises to be one of the most notable utterances yet made by the present oqcupant of the White House, and will put the world on notice as to what the policy of the Wil son administration is going to be with reference to the international questions that will arise out of the open ing of the canal. • • • "the Mobile meeting will be the first one in which the women will figure. A woman's auxiliary of the Southern Commercial congress has been organized, and will hold its first annual convention. There will be addresses on women in industry, women in religion, women in club work, and women of the American coun tryside. Co-operation wiU also occupy the attention of the women, and the Countess of Aberdeen, on be half of her European sisters, will tell the southern women how co-operation helps the women of Europe. • • • A number of the representatives of Lattn-Ameri- can governments in the United States will tell the con gress what their countries are expecting from the Panama canal, and what they are doing toward get ting ready for the International trade expansion they expect to share as a result of its opening. • • • The yield of opportunity in the sonth is a rich one, and the service of the Southejm Commercial con gress in advertising to the world just how these op portunities may be found and developed has been in no mean degree responsible for the remarkable expan sion of Industry in the south between 1900 and 1910. The world has been so accustomed to thinking of the south as a region of run-down plantations and worn- out soil, where the people live from hand to mouth, that it may come as a great surprise to be told that the south shows a higher gross acreage value for its crops than the remainder of the United States. Ac cording to the crop reports of a recent year the value of the crops of the south per acre amounted to I17.2S, while the per acre value for the other sections of the United States amounted to *14.07—a difference ot -J per cent in favor of the southern farmer. These tig- urea were confirmed by the census inquiry as to crops made in 19b0. That inquiry showed that the returns from farming, based on the value of form values, was 27 per cent in the south and IS per cent in the other sections of the country. • • • The south has a longer coast line than all of the' rest of the United States together. This gives it op portunities for mole commodious harbors and better shipping facilities than any other part of the country. At the same time two-thirds of all the navigable riv ers are found there. If the navigable rivers which pass through its territory and are accessible to its steamboats be taken into the account, it will be found that 24,000 miles of the 27,000 miles of navigable river waters in the United States are at its command. When the inland waterway improvement policy that the open ing the Panama canal promises to put into effect is carried forward to a successful culmination, the south will have one of the finest systems of inland water ways in the wprld. • O • No part of the country is richer in water power than the southern states. New England has developed less than 2,000,000 horsepower in its industries, yet; this has made the New England states one of the in dustrial centers of the earth. The officials of the Southern.. Commercial congress call attention to gov ernment statistics which show that the south has 5,000,000 horsepower running to waste. • • • These few instances will serve to show how differ ent the south of reality is from the south of popular fancy, and how much greater its possibilities for the future are than its achievements of the past. Swept by a gory war that laid waste its resources, wrecked the fortunes of its people, and depleted its supply off abie-bodied men, in less than half a century it is back on its feet with an Industrial status comparing favora bly with any other part of the world, ar.d getting raw 1 ’' to show its sister sections that it has only begun its program of progress. • • • To carry out this program the Southern Commercial congress s’eeks to assist. It desires to be an all-the- year-round institution, serving as a clearing house be tween those without and those within. It desires to show the outside world where it may find safe Invest ment of its capital in the south, and to show the dwellers in Dixie how much they can do with their own resources. It seeks to bring into the southern states an Infusion of that sort of immigrant blood that makes for civic and material progress wherever it flows. It aims to bring the people of the north apd south closer together, knitting the bonds ofr Intersec tions! friendship so close that the differences of the past may only serve to emphasize the concord of the present, and to give all sections a common pride In seeing the south go forward to that high industrial, com mercial and Intellectual station to which it is fitted by its resources, its advantages and the character of its people. Pointed Paragraphs Even the vegetarian may try to make both ends meet. * * * People who go away tor a change usually coma back broke.