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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 NEW HOSPITAL AT TECH T 2 1 """" - ■" i i ■ Hr„ HrM. MMBMBB ■ | * I%' if ImMmEI I SEII W*!^M*®* 11 tizz: .. ■—, ' ’-" I I This building was erected at a cost of $20,000. 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 • 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 F 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 Write today for catalogue and illustrate*! college annual. Address 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! • ■ » “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.” 11