The Tupelo journal., 1908-03-20
GREATER
..... MISSISSIPPI
Devoted to the AGRICULTURAL. Commercial
and Industrial Development Of the States
Incompatible Resources-OEcfal Organ Of
Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
By b. Il. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

While the legislative bodies are in
session and enacting laws for the gov
eminent OF our people, laws that n
supposed to be both wise and just, would
it not be we'll to carefully consider
something that would tend to impress
upon u people the advantages of Mis-
sissippi owe other States that are
drawing upon us heavily for the mate.
rial that is building them to our detri-
ment. For years and years the great
States to the west of us have drawn
largely upon us for the brain and Drawn,
for the development of their resources
to the detriment of our own. Missis-
sippi has contributed largely to the
building of great States, such as Texas,
Oklahoma, Indian Territory and New
Mexico. These States have sent out
ton upon ton of nicely printed litera-
ture descriptive of their resources and
inviting good people to come and live
with them. The railroads have given
exceeding favorable rates to those who
desired to go and every inducement has
been offered to get good citizens. All
the while Mississippi las been sitting
Idly by and seeing u people leave to
make their homes in a section that
offers not one thing more for the man
who has common sense and is willing
to work. 1t is high time that we were
awakening to what is necessary to keep
our people at home and assist in the
splendid work of developing our own
resources. Let's consider this matter
carefully and then act promptly.
Yazoo City will celebrate the fourth
of July this year in a unique and at
tractive n Last year the Yazoo
county fair was organized and an ex-
cellent event held in the fall. Later
the best of their exhibits were brought
to the State fair at Jackson and attract
ed much attention as we'll as a liberal
share of the premium money offered.
1t was a success from the beginning
and the management now proposes to
60 further. On the glorious fourth a
Midsummer Fair and Exhibition will
be given with a handsome list of pre-
miums for the display of products pos
sible at that time of the year. The OBJ
ject in doing this is not only to stimu-
late the people of that section by CIV
ing a fair in the summer with its at
tendant benefits, but to encourage them
to renewed efforts for a prize-winning
exhibit at the fall meet. 1t is a most
unique project, and the success of this
effort on the part of Manager Woller-
stein and others will be watched with
interest. If it proves all right, and
there seems to be no reason why it
should not, other places will soon be
following the lead of that enterprising
city that has set the pace so often for
others to follow.
The man who sets out to advise other
people about how to run their business
is likely to be confronted with numer-
Gus suggestions as to how he should
conduct his own This department is
not of that character at all, but is in
tended as one of actual experience,
from which those who read it can Gull
what they like and believe would be of
benefit to them aud reject the balance.
Experience is said to be an especially
costly school, but it can also be made a
profitable n by taking advantage of
what others have accomplished. The
young man is enabled to begin life if
he chooses with the advantage of ex-
perience that it has taken a whole life
to acquire, and if he is wise he will do
it. Write your experience and give
others the benefit of what you have
been able to acquire.
President Kolb, of the Monroe county
union, comes out frankly in favor of a
bond issue for the purpose of building
roads in that section. He is very much
in favor of building and maintaining
roads, although the cost will be high. The
only trouble with a large bond issue is
this; if it is attempted to use all at
once for a general system of roads, it
is likely that considerable will be wasted
in experimenting. What will build a
road in one part of a county would fail
in another part. The writer has coun-
seled at all times to build only a portion
each year and profit this year by the
experience of the past year. We must
have roads and the increased interest
shown assures them in the near future.
Yalobusha county, with Superintend-
ent T. A. Early at the helm, has an ex-
cellent corn club organization that will
be worth a great deal to that section of
the State. More than one hundred
boys have fallen into line and taken up
the work actively. The movement is
worthy of the undivided support and
encouragement of good people every
where.
Truckers in the vicinity of Gloster
and Centreville are far advanced with
their work and the prospects for q good
yield could not be better, and this, too,
despite the unfavorable weather during
the month of February. The worst
difficulty encountered so far has been
damage to cabbage plants by rabbits.
That section of the State must be some