The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-18
Montgomery Citizens Begin ActiOe :
 Work Along Southern Congress Lines

palachian National Forest. for It's com
 mercial meaning has been made won
 Farnlina sn tke sossh.
 The Comufttee of Arrangements, in l planning for the two other subjects to be treated in the regular program. had ip mind certain important elements .s,.pL oL | able paper by Clarence H. Poe. a son of the soil a farmers son. who is now turning his whole purpose toward ma ma. i of these two elements of renaissance. | ITO simply scratch the soil time af-
 ter time, in the same manner that our
 is not Agriculture. it Is not growth, 1t I shows scarcely any more reflection
 than the burrowing of a water rat to
 .'Mr. Poe pointed out hopeful ele- ments permeating the whole South ern agricultural world. elements that will lead men to trust less upon one crop. | to traditions in farming and to strike out more boldly. more freely. into the great field of social development that beneath the farmers hand. Mr. Poe I rightly pointed out the importance of 1 the farmer in the social fabric. and
 ss ao f wssiy sss out s the and he showed. just as has been shown all through this congress. the soliday-
 y ity1 the unity of interest that should Il !. ing of intense patriotism.
 Edueati0n the Omega.
 The committee arranged that the cation, and their choice naturally fell upon pr. Alderman. Tn their plan they spoke of health as the Alpha of the paogTsna' y and of .education. as the 0ne. ending have. up until now. lain unrec-' lognized, unappreciated, and in some
 cases condenlned, all these maryelous
 fsssoqTces 9,.s. of the most gifted section of
 So, we. felt in planning .this pro- gram which is intended to, make southern commercial history. and. in United states. we planned that health should first be shown in ita true light, for. without these, all other cominer- ufactures multiply. If wealth multi pltea, and men themselves still re-
 main simply dormant. human animals
 all eur civilization and olr. progress
 .TheFe must come to the south . geTater realization of itsek. greater trust upon education of the highest Kind, "a greater sense of unity with the whole United States in all It's prob lems and aspirations for the South ttselr is already feeling the spirit of trained. hearts and trained minds.
 A few moments more and shall
 have finished a summing up, placed
 upon my Shoulders by the other mem
 bers of the committee, not through my
 seeking, but because there is perhaps 8 fitness that man situated as T have
 been should occupy this important ele- ment In the history of the Congress-. Speaks As An EmGlashman.
 If spoke as a man Of the south, there might arise in the minds of those
 not of the South feeling that all this declaration was scolored with a natural hoastfulness, based upon a bias in favor of home land. I am not of the South. At the same time, if a man should speak In the summing up of southern resources and come to thfs great task as a child of the north,
 of the South. not yet able to see as
 wisely as they ought to see, there might come the thought of an impertt-
 nenee in anortherner coming to show to the South It's riches and its gems. and its diaderns of power. l am not of
 sThe stock from which come is the stock which peoDled the New Eng | gia aud Carolina and Virginia coasts the English stock. Twenty-f five | years ago came to this country as an
 immigrant. For twenty years I labor
 fairs, in fact, in some cases a partici- pant In public aKfairs.i travelling here
 and 4here understanding the resourcea
 of the United States--my particular uU4AAGGB
 to do so--and here in the post maturity of life Iahave come to the South to lay l. whatever gifts l have upon her altar. + ESQ In interpreting the South, there
 either one way or the other. II love | the United States. for this country has for twenty-five years been. my foster
 mother; love the thought of its
 development. and because love to see spiBe the God of things as they are, 1 have turned in the later years my whole thought and purpose to a devel- ! opnent of the Southern states thas | shall be commensurate with the gifts | of the states. and that shall not make
 1t ashamed when comparison Is made | between the earlier settled portions or the union and this vast empire of
 riches lying at this moment south of
 Hopes For ResuEts;
 Nov. what shall this Congress re- suit in7 VIII you men go back home
 and be just the same men that you were before. Will you go back home l and fill your thoughts and use your strength on, things, important in them
 selves. but not realized as related to Ihe
 development of great region? or, | will you go back, every one of you, to your own home, fired with a new be- | lief in the South, absolutely convinced beyond all argument that the South is
 great in It's gifts, and that the south | shall be greater in It's accomplish ments?-
 Those of us who have spent weeks. toiling night and day to make the | knowledge of this movement spread through the whole South and bring 1 this magnificent audience here. would | feel that our work had been in vaIn if men simply went out from under che sound of this Congress and were 1 the same as before.
 Tt is not enough to merely speak of the material greatness of the South --grosg natertalism will not make a great nation. There is an ethical prin- l cipie underlying this Congress. 1t is that our men shall be greater In their daily affairs; that they shall be greater | in their thought; that they shaii radiate around them a feeling of a | erraatar Eoufb hound "a e0r1a zo that