The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-21
THURSDAY, OCTOBER Fl, 1909.
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
A SUGGESTION.

The News is so thoroughly imbued
with the idea that South Mississippi
will grow and bloom and blossom as
the rose, if its resources are properly
presented to the world. that we can
not resist the temptation and oppol
tunity to insist upon publicity" b =
ing given in every practicable way.
AS we have said before, the west
has grown with wonderful rapidity
during the last decade or two, be-
cause, chiefly, it was advertised. The
South could have grown even more
rapidly if it had been advertised as
well, because the South really has
more attractive features to present
But because the West did things"
and the South didn't, the West has
had a phenomenal growth, and the
South has not.
1t is not enough to say, I'VE have
cheap lands" there are others talk
ing the same way 1t is not enough
to say 1--WE have fine, healthy eli
mate;" there are others saying the
same. 1t is not enough to talk in
generalities. South Mississippi ought
to have a Publicity Bureau" and
there should be some system and
method to the work. Years ago the
marohant Thnr, he oil
would say 1--WE have the best goods
and the cheapest prices of any store
in town; come and see." That did for
those days. But today the merchant
uses cuts, and he describes the text
ure of his goods, and often he names
the price. Times have changed and
the up-to-date merchant has changed
the style of his advertising to keep
up with the times The same is true
of general advertising. Home-seek-
ers, investors, capitalists, want to be
shown. In fact they do not get muc
interested until they are shown
South Mississippi should present it's
claims to preferment, in some tangible
way.
Hattiesburg would join in any gen
eral NOV ement like that. But with
out waiting for that, there is some
thing Hattiesburg might do. For in
stance, a local experiment station
might be organized right here with
local capital Some land owner, no
doubt, would be glad to loan the land
say fifty or one hundred acres. That
land should be put in the care of the
most skilled man to be found. He
should be paid well for his services
and required to give his undivided |
time to the cultivation of that soil |
The crops should be diversified: a lit |
Tie of everything should be raised that |
can be raised In paying quantities in
this climate and section. The land
should be properly fortified; not I'M
moderately. but reasonably. 1t would
not be fair to the prospective pur-
'haser to overdo the fertiIizing: that
would be misleading. The amount
4 fertilizing and cost of same, every
tenn OF expense, full and complete
istory Of everything grown per acre.
hould be accurately and honestly
ept, and next year when the harvest
'mes. samples of the products from
lis experiment station should be say
! and, with all the statistical infor
alton connected Herewith, these
implies should be taken and shown p
over Tennessee. Kentucky, Illinois :,
diana. Ohio and elsewhere.
In short, drummers should be sent
t to sell these rich lands which are
w producing nothing but grass II
tn nothing to eat it; and these y
nmmers should be furnished sam q
y to sell by. Does a clothing W
ummer, or shoe drummer, or p
INNER Of any kind, go without his to