The southern sentinel., 1908-08-14
STATISTICS WANTED
OF HEALTH CONDITIONS
The Necessity Of Showing San
itary Conditions Through
out Louisiana.


lished highly interesting and
suggestive letter from the Secret.
ary of the Farmers Fruit and
Truck Growers Association OF
Winn, relative to the settlement
ment of the vacant hill lands OF
this parish. The great objection
against the settlement of these
lands was the reported unhealth.
fuIness of the Louisiana climate,
and the necessity of publishing
the mortuary statistics in order to
disabuse the minds of others,
particularly in the North, of the
fallacy of such reports.
Here thea is what Is needed to
dispel this fallacy that has become
q confirmed belief, while there is
no foundation for it.
Records, abso utely truthful
and backed by figures, should be
compiled and published of the
mortuary statistics of every town
and neighborhood, in order to
show the fallacy of widespread
belief in regard to the climate and
geographical formation of Louis
lana. In confirmation of such a
plan, the following opinion is sub
mitted as appropriate to this sub
iect of Louisiana's healthfulness,
taken from the N. o. Picayune:
o. w. Crawford, of Paradise,
La, says that in view of the pro-
posed advertising campaign, he
considers one of the most import
ant things that Louisiana can
advertise is its healthfulness.
81 have no other business than
trying by personal application to
get people from other States to
invest money in a large way in
Southern Louisiana" said Mr..
Crawford. "To induce invest
ment in lands and reclamation
propositions 1 have personally
interviewed all the largest dredg-
ing contractors in Illinois, Iowa.
Iniiaua and Wisconsin. Know
ing the drainage needs of South
ern Louisiana. 1 have visited the
most extensive manufacturers of
dredging machinery, urging them
to establish factories here.
"No other place offers such
remarkable advantages for stock
food production, and the stock
food men admit it. The material
is here and it is cheap, and the
purchasers in the South are in
creasing with prairie-fire rapidity.
.'It is true that no land can be
found that scientific fertilization
will not improve. 1t is also true
that the uses and demand for
fertilizers are growing just as
rapidly as experience and educa-
ton. The location for fertilizer
factories 10 nowhere as good as in
New Orleans.
MOTIFS per cent, not 80 per
cent, but absolutely all the men
l have approached 10 six months
constant travel have made the
same objection to investing in
Louisiana-they are afraid it is
not healthful. Not one has ques-
toned the fertility of the soil nor
the price of crops; not one has
doubted the future great promise
OF New Orleans; all agree to the
high standard Of integrity of our
business people; but every one of
them asks. 'Isn't it unhealthy |
dowa theref'
SHOW this. it seems to me,
shows how to advertise New
Orleans.
"Oue Of the largest planters in
the State rode with me down
through Illinois q few days ago,
and be remarked, Rich as this
country is. ours is richer. Why
don't these people move to Louis
iana?' Thousands of them would, |
bat they believe 1t is unhealthy,
! replied. lie said, We know it
b not.
"His answer is characteristic. |
The way to advertise New Orleans
4 TO tell the truth about its