The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20
Letters to The Editsr
Let,s Do something.

GuAtoI AONeTtlsef.
 An owl sits upon a withered branch and hoots "a hoot. but the world passes by unmindful of its stu. pfdity. Is a man not hooting noot when he takes himself to a housetop to proclaim to the. world that the city In which he lives has many advan- tages?" Why? Because every man in avery city since the world began has said the same thing. so that such eulcgium is now viewed as plati- tude, and the world passes him by as unheedfully as 1t does the owl hoot- ing it's hooti
 It takes deeds to build a city--not eulogy and gusto.
 How does a city grow in wealth and achievement, by extending its corpo- rate limits? If twenty-five men were to come to Montgomery today to open twenty five retail grocery stores, could Montsofpery be saLi to be growing? Would they simply not create dt- vision in that business which Is scarce lv sufficient for the maintainance of those already engaged in It? Have the iobhers not added other names to their ledgers without increasing the volume of their business? If capital ist were to build thirty-story office building here tomorrow could our city be said to be growing? No. Because
  for spectacular effects, but they have an idea that the. world measures this importance by their surroundings, so they would desert and move from their less pretentious quarters into that building, rendering productive other investments of that kind in Montgomery.
 Montgomery is situated in the midst of a section that is marvellous In It's productive energy and do not regard those broad acres planted in cotton and corn and titled by illiterates as an unspeakable peryersion of their great usefulness? In passing the market places in this city find tomatoes. one of which represents more tomato than Is found in two ten-cent cans. l see ears of corn fourteen inches in length. see snap beans nine inches long. In fact" see all kinds of vegetables which are the pride and glory of all canners and gardners. look in the stores and the shelves are burdened with the self same goods canned, la- beled. and shipped from points nine hundred miles beyond us-from points indeed that are environed with adverse climatic iconditions---where the garden ing period lasts only four months What a sorowful commentary on our stock and isnofancet
 Montgomery Is a city of Anglo Sax ons.i Are you as a citizen willing for her to fall into that phlegmatic calm peculiar to those Latin communities to the South of us. Are you willing to permit her. with all her really splen- did. advantages to grow only in pop crease of her own people?
 In Green county, Mo, there are thir- ty-three vegetable canning factories The maximum capacity of their 5000 plants Is 15.000 cans per day.
 Two saw mills in the county are run, full time saving material for crates in which the canned products army and navy go there for such sup plies-buying millions of cans. Farm. CTS who subscribe to the capital stock of such industries pay for 1t with veg etables. These plants are situated in the midst of hundred acre tracts own ed by the company. In these simple statements is there not food for thought for all public spirited Mont gomerians? But. says the man setting In his luxurious automobile. those tanners are old and experienced, and would be hard to compete with,
 Yes. -that is a fact. and if most of your money was in such an investment 1t might despoil that delightful leisure which has Been yours during all these years. put 'Olu you ever, see fOd0 that lead to success paved with shells bordered with flowers and redolent with the order of many sweet flowers ? Did you ever see a man whose life was full-of achievements who did not graduate in the school of hardship? Did you not. know that soft and easy things produced soft and "sappy'' people? Are you willing to confess that this Is a. community of weddings afraid to do anything that fosters competition and trouble? When you speak of the ravaging worries of com petition. you are robbing us of our self-reliance, you are encouraging us to always be meniicants. asking others to do for us that which we could do for ourselves. People already are speaking about dear old Montgom- cry" term of affection always used in adressing an imbecile, and innrm grandmother.
 Let us celebrate the advent Of the new year by doing something-be- sides hooting hoots
 A L. Whetstone