The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-21

James. professor of medicine, the most important chair of all perhaps in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; pr. Virgil P. Gbbney. Dr. John A. Wysth. all leading physicians. are demonstrating ev- cry day to the country in general, to New York and suffering humanity in par ticular. the advantages of a Southern heritage-plus genius.
 Prominent Teachers and Clergymen.
 Columbia University. with three South ern professors. Thomas R. Price. William F. Trent and J. Bassett Moore, and Dean Keener of the Law School graduated to . judgship, has shown It's material ap- proval of the South in New York. A trio of New York's famous ministers are southerners-Dr. David H. Greer of St. Bartholomew's J. N,vstt Stesls of Trim fly, and Ernest NJ. Stires of Trinity. In- southerners within the borders of the city that only with blue book of professions and industries would 1t be possible to classify them. The South and the North are bound together In New ork. and if cyclone tomorrow should sweep every Southerner out of the city, society would ness go on crutches. If John c. Carlisle. Thomas F. Ryan, capitalist and director panies in the city; George Foster Pea body; Charles Steele, member of the firm of John P. Morgan. director in twenty nve railroads or more; R. T. Wilson: Emerson McMillan, president or director of score of the leading gas companies in New York; W. H. Tllford, treasurer of the Standard oil Company: Randolph Guggenheimer, Theodore Price, ex-Gov- ernor Thompson of South Carolina, Comp troller of the New York Life-if these and a score of the other Southern men whose individual brains are conceiving and car rying out gigantic plans and far-reaching enterprises. should suddenly drop them where they were. in the crash and panic that would beat about the ears of the country, 1t would appreciate the South in New York as it never had before.
 An Old Myth Exploded.
 In the face of the untiring energy with which the Northern 6outherners have threshed out success from New York fields the supposed languor of the South born seems rather a joke. A Southern born Erie clerk who rose from the yard gets down town at half-past eight, and leaves anywhere between the hours of and that seems to him wise. A young Georgian lacked up cheap little sign on the door of a sky-lit room in The Post building about fifteen years ago. and in less than six years his was the lead ing name in one of the most conspicuous houses in the street, and his rent was more month than his first office had cost a year. He did not get his success by sitting still. but by intense appHca- ton and downright hard work that would have made stone-breaker wonder. Even the average transplanted Southerner works with a zeal and fire and energy that quite eclipse the strenuous efforts of the Northerner. It k as If the unex- hausted strength of leisurely foregoing generations. colled within him like a spring. was released against the task in hand with an overwhelming impact
 ''They come up here with their carpet bags and walk off with a thing you have worked to get for years. Think of the erner who had just lost an once to a Southerner. He did not understand that the luck" was combination of energy friends. whatever mirht he nressing Pleasure, too, is more often included in his schedule. and he seldom gets so completely submerged in work that he loses fun when it offers.
 Why do Southern men succeed so pre- eminently and so consptcuously?