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By G. HOLMAN GARDNER, Associate Registrar, Georgia School of Technology
1 could wish that Kipling's great
martial hymn, "The Recessional," were
engraved in letters of gold on the por
tals of every school house in the South.
We of the new generation in the South
need to sing dailv. "best ye forget," for
it is a constant tendency on the part of
our young moderns —in business and
society as well—to forget: to forget
who laid the foundations of the present
greatness of the South, what mold of
men they were who shaped the desti
nies of our country: what privations
and hardships, literally what sacrifices
of blood were made, in order that the
old South should be rehabilitated and
her very institutions be perpetuated.
Strange to say, comparatively few
people of the present time seem to
know much about the South of ante
bellum days, "The inherent strength
and virility of the people of the South."
says a recent writer, "and the natural
resources of this section are, therefore,
not understood. Even Southern col
leges and universities have fallen short
of their high respons* ility to the ex
tent that they have failed to impress
upon their students the most striking
business achievements of the people of
the old South. Credit is given to the
old South for its statesmen and war
riors, for its broad vision in national
affairs, for its influence in shaping our
government and in enlarging our terri
tory. but if the question were asked,
what was the greatest business
achievement of the first half of the
nineteenth century, how many would
answer that it was the creation by the
South of a cotton industry which rep
resented more invested capital than
the total capital of all the manufac
turing interests of the entire country
in 1850? Even then the South s cotton
dominated the foreign commerce of the
United States, and shaped much of the
business and political activities of Eu
rope as well as America. The creation
•f this industry required as much busi
ness ability as that needed for the de
velopment of the manufacturing inter
ests of the country, and involved far
more capital."
There Should Be Pride.
It is but natural in this golden age
of the South’s commercial and indus
trial development, when the natural re
sources of this section are being so
widely exploited and the hum of her
machinery is almost deafening, that a
feeling of glorious pride, if not exulta
tion, fill the public mind, and the in
toxication of the business whirl about
us cause us to forget. We are prone
to be dazzled in our admiration as we
gaze on the glorious sunrise of the
dawn of this wonderful day of pros
perity and material achievement, the
greatest day the world has ever seen.
It is natural to put too great an em
phasis on the physical and material
values, losing sight of the moral and
intellectual, the "unseen realities,” as
George Wending happily terms it.
Never before in her history has the
South grown so rapidly as in the past
twenty years. We point with pride to
the fact that our coal prod-ucttion in
1910 exceeded in the combined
output of the gold and silver mines of
the United States; that we are cutting
21,000.000 feet of lumber annually,
w r hieh is more than half that of the
entire country; that our textile mills
are using more than half of the Ameri
can grown cotton used in American
mills today; that the output of our
mines and quarries in the South equals
8370.000,000 a year, which is $5,000,000
more than that of the entire country
in 1880; that our cotton crop, includ
ing the seed, for the year ending Au
gust, 1911, was worth more than twice
as much as the value of all the gold
mined in the world and $437,000 000
more than all the gold and silver mined
in the world in 1910. These are stu
pendous facts, and. can riot be compre
hended by the ordinary mind. It is but
natural, therefore, to rejoice in such
splendid achievements, and it is easy
to exaggerate in our own mind’s the
importance of our physical and natural
resources. No wonder that we are
proud of the South, and yet we may
well sing, "Leet ye forget."
World Has Been Impressed.
Undoubtedly the physical wealth of
the South, with its rich mines and
quarries, its fertile fields and unsur
passed original forests, its unlimited
wealth of climate and soil, with its.
practically undeveloped water power,
has come to impress the world and blds
fair in the near future to attract to our
shores a tidal wave of immigration that
mav some day overwhelm us.
THE ATLAN TA GEORGIAN. SATVBBAY. .lI’LY <i. T.T
The Debt of the N?w South Tq the Old
These are the visible, the tangible
signs of the South’s greatness, and in
our blindness we are too prone to wor.
the material and visible and lose
sight of the beat assets the South has
today—her educated citizenship, her
pure Anglo-Saxon blood and her im
martal traditions.
Silver and gold, coal and iron, gran
ite and marble are rich assets, but c’om.
pared with the men of brains and in
domitable courage, who saw a vision
in the South 30 years ago and have
since lived to work out that vision,
transforming our wildernesses into a
flower garden and our waste places
into happy homes—compared with
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Locust Grove Institute
Is a high-grade preparatory school, located in a small town, where character is essential
for admission and where character is required in order to remain. It is a school for boys and
girls with home influences, and at the same time the development of the mind, spirit and
body may be had under painstaking and careful tutoring. For years it has been noted for
its intellectual, moral ami physical culture, its splendid ideals and its ability to bring out the
best in its students.
Founded for Principle, Not for Profit
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Perplexed parents are here offered the solution ot the problem ot the selection of a school
where there is insured that same splendid wat*-h*are and kindly interest which marks the
home and hearthstone. The development of the physical body is encouraged by both indoor
and outdoor sports, under competent coach and physical director. I tie record of college ath
letes. both in classroom and on the field, who were prepared here, is a matter of pride with
the institute.
Courses are offered in Literature. Music. Expression. Art Modern Language.-.. Bible and
Business. Courses in Bookkeeping. Shorthand am! I vpeuriting. without extra charge.
Individual Teaching Is Stressed
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The student body, while sufficiently large to develop a wholesome spirit of competition,
is kept within limits to insure careful and individual instruction. Iw*‘titv teachers and offi
gers, each trained for a certain work, live at th** school with th*- students. Separate dormi
tories for boys and for girls. The shaded college campus with athletic field, is one of the
largest in the state. Twenty young pupils received in preparatory class.
The Expenses Are Minimum; the Advantages Are Maximum
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CLAUDE GRAY, President
P. O. BOX 106. LOCUS! GROVE, GA.
these. 1 repeat, all the gold and silver
locked in the eternal hills sink into in
significance.
After 1865 these men who led the
South in ihe direction of the promised
land were men of a large vision They
looked into the earth and saw its limit
less resources in coal, and iron, and
copper, and granite, and marble. They
looked upon the soil and realized that
though this land could produce ail the
varied crops of the widest agricultural
diversity, it also had a practical mo
nopoly of the world’s most kingly sta
ple-cotton. They looked upon its
mountain streams and rivers- running
their courses idly to the sea, and saw
that here was a power, the utilization
of which could be made to run vast in
dustrial activities, and bring forth al
most limitless wealth.
They looked upon the sky bending
above them and realized that to this
land heaven had sent its softest and
sweetest air. They realized that in its
climatic advantages the South had an
asset which could yet be made to
crown its matchless mountain regions,
its long stretch of seacoast and its
piedmont sections with millions of set
tlers seeking to escape the harshness
of less favored lands With a clear
vision of the future, they could see
that, by reason of these fieaven-giv* n
advantages, the time would* com*- when
throughout the South there would be
seen a mighty atmy of health and
pleasure seekers from othei sections
upon which nature had not smiled as
she had upon this.
With this power of vision, enabling
them to draw aside the curtain that
from others veils the mysteries of the
future, they ‘could with assurance of
knowledge and deep faith urge with
unceasing energy the utilization of the
‘South's resources, and th*- development
of her imperial domain tli.it her people
perish not.
"He who has the vision sees more than
you or I;
He who lives the golden dream lives
• four-fold thereby.
Time may scoff and worlds may laugh,
host assail his thought.
But the visionary came ere the build
ers wrought.
Ere the tower bestrode the dome, ere
t,he dome the arch.
He. the dreamer of the dream, saw the
vision march! •
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“He who has the vision hears more
than« you may near.
Unseen lips from.unseen worlds are
bent unto his ear;
From the hills beyond the clouds mes
sages are borne,
Drifting on the dews of dream to his
heart of morn;
Time may await and ages stay till he
wakes and shows
Glimpses <*f the larger life that his
vision knows.
"He who has the vision feels mote than
you may feel.
Joy beyond the narrow joy In whose
realm we reel;
For be knows the stars are glad, dawn
s- and middle-day.
In the jocund tide that sweeps dark
and dusk sway.
He who had the vision lives round and
all complete,
.And through him alone we.draw dews
from the combs of sweet.”
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