Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-05-13

see that your congressman present
your claims for recognition in the ap.
propriations made with such regular
ity
While there ore people who will dis.
sent from this opinion. II Ia q fact
that the Mississippi Railroad Commis-
sion. by Its fricndliness to Mississippi
industries, is effectively aiding the es-
tabishment of factories 10 supply the
needs Of our State Reference Is made
to the rate on machinery manufac-
tured at Corinth and shipped to other
| points in the State, and other matters
OF q Ike nature The commission Is
showing a commendable spirit towards
our home manufacturers and one that
Is attracting attention abroad. A
! large concern Is now arranging to
place n plant of considerable size In
! Jackson for the purpose of distribut-
| ing to the Mississippi territory on ac-
| count nt the rates put in force and
| the protection offered by the Railroad
| Commission So long as the article
Is manufactured in Mississippi or the
| distribution is made from a point in
this State. tho commission is in 2 po-
sition TO do excellent service and is
doing II. OF course. shipments origi.
mating from outside the State or on
rehilling privileges from points in the
State, with the original outside, the
commission is poweress. The pro.
lection of our home Industries by the
commission should be appreciated
and proper credit given.
After long drawn out heht by
| the travelling men of the State and
the Jackson Board OF Trade. the Rail
road Commission has ordered union
station commensurate with the needs
of the city constructed. This will be
! good news to large number of peo.
pie from every section of the State
who have business In Jackson and
have had to contend with the mad.
equate facilities afforded.
Work Of construction has begun on
an extension OF the NJ e. O's branch
to VardamGn, TO a point ten miles
west which will be called Calhoun
City Only short time will be re
quired to push this extension through
when it is believed that another ex.
tension will be made and an eventual
junction with the Ittabena branch OF
fected These lines will open UP
fertile section of country
The weather has been very unfavor.
able for planting the cotton crop and
It is safe to estimate that the acreage
will be even more greatly reduced
than at first contemplated Very lit
tie cotton has been planted and
considerable amount of the contem.
plated acreage will he put In corn and
other products Trucking has also
suffered and the berry crop which was
just being taken cf Is damaged to
considerable extent.
Some two months since the writer
called especial attention to the fact
that Mississippi stood very much in
need of medical college, where the
young men could receive training for
this profession, Since that time the
State Medical Association has held its
annual meeting and this matter was
an important part of the proceedings.
The proposition was not only en-.
dorsed, but a unanimous vote revealed
the fact that the association favored
the establishment of such q college,
and the legislature was memorialized
to appropriate 100000 for the pur.
pose Of building q charity hospital,
which is one of the necessary adjuncts
to such an institution. The hospital
as recommended Is an absolute neces-
sity. at present those desiring atten.
ton being sent to Louisiana and Ten
nesses II is not right for this burden
to he shifted to our sister States Mis-
sissippi should be too proud to accept
such courtesies, even II they were
granted unbegrudgingly, which they
are not at all times Build the hos.
pital and then establish the college
Five hundred and Sixtyone young men
from Mississippi were educated In
medicine in other States last year,
The prosperity Of Mississippi is at
tracing hordes of adventurers and
confidence men to the State, as has
been the case everywhere when pay
dirt" has been struck They come in
every imaginable disguise and the
man who misses them all Is fortunate
indeed Articles of household neces.
sity are peddled at enormous prices,
fake nostrlms are sold to ignorant
people at fabulous prices, bogus his
torical and biographical works sold to
those with an abnormally developed
bump OF vanity at prices that would
make sane man shudder. safe
plan is to buy what is necessary from
home people with whom you are ac-
uuainted, and Yet the others severely
alone.
Tho Atlanta Constitution has the
following to say of ths wonderful
progress being made by Mississippi
More miles Of railroad have been
built in Mississippi during the past
year than ln any other State, The
towns and cities Of that State have
shown the most remarkable increase
In population, and her agricultural in
terests have prospered corresponding
ly.
Mississippi has led the other States
of the South in educational expendl
lures for many years. "'f Much
of this money has been invested in in
dustrial and agricultural training,
through the medium of several -four
ishing colleges and numerous agricul.
tural experimental stations These
have prepared the Young men of that
commonwealth for the work Of devel'
oping the wonderful latent resources
Of that section"
Hazlehurst has been shipping con
siderable quantities Of truck and tho |
season is young yet Up to the eth |
fully $500 bushels of green peas had |
been shipped and the crop was moi |
nearly exhausted. Some of the grow
ers had sold more than 500 worth to
the acre Beans and cabbage will be |
on the market in few days and later |
will come other products After the |
truck Is off corn and cotton will be
planted and a good crop realized |
What country in the world csfers |
greater inducements than this of olrs? |
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