Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-07-27

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AN ~ the bigger thing
taken into account
This results otter
AM in disappointment
for the big things n not always OBJ
tainable, and those who are satisfied
with smaller beginnings keep adding t
their possessions until they are really
big. Now and then one makes q Cor
tune in a short time, while others tot
patiently an entire life without accu'
mulating very much. But it lea notice
BILE fact that he who gathers slowly
steadil, legitimstely, patiently, takes
better cars Of what he has and is the
most ~contented individual, while many
who come into wealth in
short time. do not usually appreciate
its value and recklessly throw it away
and again become hopelessly poor, al
well as incapable. 1t is also true that
many who never stop to think oftryinl
TO attain anything Of a modest nature.
miss all the big things they reach for.
and are finally left out entirely. In
plain talk, it is the contsntment found
In small things that often leads tC
greatness.
The same rules that apply to IN
individual apply with even more force
to a community Of individuals.
The South is at that important point
in the development of our great coun
try today, when it realizes that it must
add to its agricultural products manu-
featuring industries, IL It would keep
pace with the balance Of the nation.
AS a result new industries of various
kinds are being fostered and those
localities which encourage them, are
the prosperous and growing communi
ties.
The favored towns soon realize that
such additions are most valuable, and
when the experiment is once tasted,
few indeed array themselves against
containing in the work Of encouraging
every new enterprise that offers.
Nor lie it impossible for any town to
do something in this line Of advance
ment. While the cotton factory is the
choice addition to which every South
ern town may l~egitimately aspire, yet
all cannot hope to obtain one. It re-
quires a vast amount Of money tobuild a
successful cotton factory. But there
are hundreds Of other industries, some
Of which may be made fully as advan-
tageOus to the town in a general
way, and they should not be over
looked.
Let It be remembered that it is net
necessary to have q half million dollar
cotton factory as q nucleus of q manu-.
featuring city. Those towns which
wait for this kind of q start will be dis
appointed, at least q great majority Of
them. The more rational and business
Ike way is to keep an eye open for
every new addition that promises the
employment Of skilled labor, and the
locating Of n small factory Of such
3 character Is q far better omen Of fu-
ture greatness than to fall down on try
ing to locate a dozen big concerns.
The establishment of a small paying
factory of :any kind in the hands Of
capable men, that win give steady en-
ployment to an hundred or so skilled
people means more for a town often
than all it, work Of the past.
Take our own city for instance:
While we have invested here more than
q million dollars in property improve
ments and merchandise, we are not
employing to exceed 100 skilled toilers,
who have their money come to them
each week to spend among the mer.
chants. A factory established here
which means the employment steadily
Of 100 whites, skilled in their business
Of toll would mean the doubling Of the
pay roll Of customers for cur business
men. Such 8 new enterprise should be
encouraged. Once in operation others
Of similar character would follow,
and the future Of q city would be
solved BY the initial effort.