The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-28
CULLnAn AT rss. rAsn.

Now that the awards for county ex- hibits have been made. it win not be considered either invidious. or partial for The Advertiser to refer to the eI- hibit of one of them. When the county of Cullman was :ormed by. the Legislature in 1877 it was looked on as about the poorest part ot the state. We remember hearing 1t said that the. Legislaturs hsdN cut of the least desirable porticns of Blount. Morgan and Winston counties and put them together. so as to get all the poor territory into one county. The town of Cullman, then in Blount county, hut now the county seat Of Cullman county, was incorporated some two years earlier. The original founders of the town were Germans. and the 'inha habitants of the county are mostly Of the same country.
 But we didn't set out to write a splendid exhibit at the Fair. Some of those exhibits were tn the nature of a revelation to the visitors. Combined they formed a show worth going out to the grounds to see. If there was nothing else out there to look at. cally everything needed for maa. beast or bird, and their profusien and variety were only equalled by their fine quality. The grains, ,le vegets- bles and the fruits were there in pro- fusion, handsomely displayed anl open to all to look on and admire.
 One of the most significant features of this exhibit doubtless escaped the notice of a majority of visitors. The production of all this display was the work of the white race. One of the gentleman in charge told the writer that there is not a negro .n Cullman county. Whether he was entirely cor rect or not we do not know. but if there are any colored people there they are very few. and their presence does not change the correctness of the statement that all labor in tn county is done by the whites. The farming, the gardening, the fruit growing and the stock raising. the dAirying and the house ,ork--each and every industry that is carried on ,n cullman county is he work of white hands.
 There are two lessons to be learnel from this exhibit and its producers. It shows conclusvely that negro la hor is not an essential o a commu nifty. However desirable good and industrious negroes may be in any place. the county of Cullman is proof of the fact that they are not indispensable. One county teaches us that white men and women can do their own work and do 1t proftably.
 Another important fact to be learn cd from this exhibit is the value ard desirability of the Germans as colon ists and citizens. Not all the inhabi- tants of Cullman are Germans, bat most of them are natives of that country or their descendants. They have not only taken ote of ihe poor est sections of the State ard literally made it blossom as the rese," but they have proven themselves to be good and desirable citizens In any other portion of the State it would be the same, If they could have the same facilities atd the same room to operate in. In CulIman they we. in the nature of a colony and they have worked in harmony. The result is before us and it IS in every way creditable to them. Given room in any other portion of Alabama i: settle in numbers sufficiently large to not feel themselves strangers among a strange people and the results would te equally creditable.
 We repeat that 1t is no disparage- ment to the many spendil exhibits from other sections to call special at tention to Cullman's part in the Fatr.