The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-04-06

Again has the lead of the proud old
state Of Mississippi been followed by
others that at times were wont to sheer
at some of our seemingly puritanie
laws and regulations. The anti-gam-
bling law Of Mississippi as to pool
selling on horse races has been endor5-
ed by the passage Of very similar ones
in Missouri and Tennessee. There has
been a great deal said that such laws
were retarding to the progress of our
state and that the doors should be
thrown open wider that capital and
business might come in under more
favorable circumstances. Laws that
prevent people from doing that which
is hurtful to themselves directly and
to others by the example set as well
as the demoralizing influences that
are bound to be felt, have never re-
tarded community in a legitimate
sense or driven away one dollar of
capital seeking a legitimate invest
ment. On the other hand, men seeking
investment and locations will invaria-
bly, choose the community with good
laws strictly enforced. 1t affords to
them the protection necessary to the
successful conducting Of safe and
commendable business enterprise. The
laws of Mississippi are good and
fairly we'll enforced. The corporation
laws are especially favorable as is evil
denced by the large increase Of money
invested year by year in Incorporated
concerns. The laws of Mississippi
have never driven away a single dollar
seeking legitimate investment.
j. f. >Culp, of Waynesboro, has 81
900 bearing peach trees on his farm
which has been opened but four years,
eight acres in strawberries, one acre
of asparagus, six acres in potatoes and
a large acreage in beans. Mr.. Culp
also grows corn, cotton, sugar cane,
sweet potatoes, peas and peanuts He
is an Illinois man and is delighted with
the south and its wonderful possibil-
tiles, never allowing an opportunity
of saying a good word for it pass by
without taking advantage of it. He
has been the means of locating a num-
Der of families of northern people and
will continue in the work of getting
good families to come to Mississippi.
The little city of Ackerm pm is be-
coming active IN the buiAding of
churches and two splendid NEW ones
will go up this summer. This lis we'll
and good. Every community should
be well supplied with churches where
the people can worship according to
the dictates of their conscience and
comfortable and commodious school
buildings where the youngsters can be
fitted for the battles of life.
Money spent in good public buildings
is not squandered by any means. The
first impression stranger receives
from a town comes from the churches
and schools. Better public buildings
are the rule III Mississippi now.
The visit of Mr.. William E. Curtis,
the noted newspaper correspondent of
Washington to Mississippi, should
prove an event Of unusual interest and
result in good to the south in general.
Mr.. Curtis took great pains to learn
of existing conditions and promises
to write them for the powerful SYM
dlcate of papers that he represents
just as he found them. Such visits as
these from responsible men, and the
attendant publicity, will do much to
get the true condition of affairs down
here before our brethren Of the north
and thereby bring about much better
understanding and feeling between the
sections.
The reduced showing of deposits in
a large number of Mississippi banks
does not mean that the country is not
so prosperous as formerly, but is on
account Of a great deal of cotton be-
ing held and large amounts of capital
being invested in manufacturing.
Large bank deposits do not mean pros
perlty for any one except the banker
particularly. 1t would be far better
for Mississippi if the deposits were in
vested in legitimate manufacturing
enterprises to work the crude material
we have into the finished article. 1t
would be worth far more to the gener-
al prosperity Of the state and its peo-
pie.
Aberdeen has let the contract for
her new water and sewerage plant and
it is TO be noted that local man Sc
cured a healthy portion of the job.
Too few Mississippi towns have con-
tractors capacisated to. handle con-
tracts of this dimension, and Aber-
deem is to be congratulated upon the
fact that a laroe mart of tho vro,lr