Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-13
R. |. BENNETT DELIVERS .
AN INTERESTING ADDRESS
Enormous Shipments Of Lumber
Over Gulf & Ship Island Rail.
road to Gulfport.
J. F. Wilder is Again Chosen Presi-
dent and Ewing A. Walker Is Re-
tanned as secretary-concatenation
Of HooHoo.

The Mississippi Pine Association
met in the private dining room of Hotel
.Hattiesburg at 1890 a. m. yesterday
morning (12th). This was the occa-
sion of the annual meeting of that
association, composed of manufactur-
ers and wholesalers of yellow pine.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. ]. F. Wilder, of Epps, who is the
efficient president of the organization.
Mr. Wilder read. his annual address,
reviewing the work of the association
and treating of subjects of Importance
to those connected Herewith. He
urged the great need Of cooperation
and the necessity for an active, earn
est support of the association by the
men engaged in the yellow pine busi-
ness. Showing from statistics that
particular lumber section represents
upwards Of one-third the lumber out
put of the United States. A matter
of great significance to this section
was his statement that the Gulf and
Ship Island Railroad handled in 1907
upwards Of 5000 cars OF lumber for
the interior, while quarter of bill
lion feet of lumber passed over the
same road to Gulfport for export ship
ment. That upwards of 800 million
feet Of lumber were handled out of
this section in one year over one rail-
road signifies much for our section and
this he emphasized.
There were several interesting
speeches and suggestions from differ
ent members of the association.
The following splendid paper was
Sead by Mr. r. L. Bennett, of the
Hattiesburg Banking and Trust Com
pany.
Address of r. L. Bennett before the
meeting of the Mississippi Pine As
sociation, Hattiesburg, March 12, 1908.
Man is ever learning. but never COM
ing to knowledge of the truth. This
is fact only ina qualified sense. We
do learn, but some times forget our
lessons. Experience is hard school
master, but many of us insist on at
tending his classes. Life presents
not only opportunity, but evolves is
sues that are useful If not eternal. In
our social intercourse, men touch their
fellows and influence them for good
or ill This thought suggests, then, the
possibilities that lie before us in our
desire to fill our place in the body
polite. No one man knows all things
therefore every man has laid on him
the duty of sharing his thought and
influence with his fellows. Men with
common interest find it not only in
structive but profitable to meet to-
gether in council for the discussion of
questions with which they are familiar.
The interchange of ideas is useful, and
he who Is keenest to note the opinions
of his fellows is most likely to acquire
opinions of his own. An assembly of
men engaged in the development of
any great industry. or the handling
'of any staple product, makes possible
consideration of the conditions which
effect their vocation and determine its
results. Our section is known as the
yellow pine belt. because yellow pine
forests have been and are our chief
source of wealth; therefore, anything
that we can learn relative to these is,
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