The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-14
THURSDAY, OCTOBER "A, 1909.
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
OPPORTUNITY.

1IONluSuCS udS uOuS ulOIe IOT Iuls
section of the country called the
South, than for any section OF any
country. The climate, the water, the
fertility of it's soil, it's resources in
minerals and timber, its diversified
crops, are unequalled anywhere; and
last but most the land has been
peOpled by noble race of man.
hood who love honor, esteem virtue,
and whose natures are responsive to
sympathy, to kindness and to brother
ly love.
God has given the South the Oppor.
tunity to be greater than it is.
The South has way, and has al
ways had way, of conceding to the
North the privilege of having the best
OF everything. The best of everything
we raise down here, we ship to the
North. When we speak of good
things generally, we tell how it is
done in the North. Why not have
these things and do these things in
the South?
The North has better public schools
than the South has. We say that with
shamefacedness, but it is true. The
North makes a special feature of its
schools. The towns and cities vie
with each other as to their schools
They advertise to the world the per-
lection of their schools. Don't you
think they are wise in doing that? Is
1t not good example for the South
to follow?
The North tries to see how much
money it can spend, judicially, on its
public schools. The South tries to
see how little it can get along with.
That is why the North is better edu-
Gated than the South That is why
school teachers of the very highest
grade are plentiful in the North; and
that is why they are scarce in the
South. That is why skilled labor of
every sort, kind and description, is
easy to get in the North, and hard 20
get in the South.
The South ought to wake up to the
knowledge of the fact of how shame
fully it is neglecting it's opportuni-
ties.
Not only in common justice to the
children, but as business investment
we should like to see Hattiesburg set
the pace. Hattiesburg is a city set
upon a hill. 1t is called the Magic
City, because of it's marvellous
growth. 1t is called the Capital City
of South Mississippi, because there Is
none other to compare with it IN
growth and energy and business
hustle, and the volume of its bust
ness. 1t is the observed of all OBJ.
servers 1t ought to be good ex-
amplar to others. 1t ought to set the
pace in education as it does in many
commercial ways. Why not? AS
business proposition it would be the
best advertisement the town could
give itself; it would bring quicker re-
turns and better returns than any ad-
vertising money spent in any other
way.
Suppose We could publish to the |
world that Hattiesburg, Mississippi, |
had the finest system of public schools |
Of any small city in the South. Sup
pose that statement was so manifestly
true that none would gainsay it. Sup.
pose other towns in the South, and
other newspapers, as they would,
should begin to cite Hattiesburg as
an example for its unexcelled system
d public schools. What would be
The result? Why people from every
where would begin at once to move
Into Hattiesburg for the benefit of its
schools. Don't you know they would?
Every parent, these days, wants to
educate his children. He may be I'M
sducated himself, but none the less
ne wants his child to have q better