The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-11-15
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
.mINp YOUR OWN BUSINESS"


ness" who will mind it, for you!
If you are in business in Hatties'
burg. and expect to remain in bust
ness here, and have your BUSINESS
grow with the growth of the town, 1t
is your business that will be attended
tn at the meeting of the Commercial
Club at the court house tonight at
1880 o'clock, and it is your, business
to be there to mind your own busi-
ness" See?
This will be an open meeting o.
the Commercial Club tonight, and the
invitation to you to be present is not
q perfunctory one, but your presence
is really desired; you are wanted. II
you are there, your attendance will
be appreciated; if you are not there
your absence will be construed to be
q lack of interest, and if there are
very many who show this lack of in
terest in the growth and future pros
perity Of their town, the ardor and en-
thusiasm and good intentions of the
few who may be there to mind your
business" for you, will be dampened
and their meeting will be in vain.
Down at the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep
Waterway Convention in New Orleans,
the Governor of Massachusetts or
Rhode Island or Vermont, we cannot
locate him exactly just now, but the
Governor of one of those frozen
States, who looked like ramrod and
talked like a funeral dirge, said ZEN
thusiasm don't dig ditches."' 1t was
not Mr.. Ramrod's fault that he said
that; he was the creature of environ
ment; his bump Of enthusiasm had
been frozen when he was babe and
had never thawed out. II he had
come South some years ago and been
thawed out, as some of the most ener-
getic and enthusiastic Of the South's
present citizenship have done, he
would have known ere this, that en-
thusiasm il the very thing that does
dig bitches. It Is the enthusiasm of
some young civil engineer, as he
sticks his nose further and further
I. into the virgin forest, and discovers
its mines Of wealth, its timber and its
ores, that wakes old money-bags and
wrings from his close fists the money
with which to hire the labor to dig
the bitches that Enthusiasm wants
dug.
1t has been said, and truly said, that
the hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world" But that is no phlegmatic
hand; that is no hired hand; there
is heart behind that hand, and in
that heart is Love, and the enthus-
iasm of Love, and the hopes and
dreams and inspirations that per-
meate the life within that little era
die, vibrates and tingles with the en-
thusiasm of Love. No ph1egmatic
hand ever gave any Inspiration to a
cradle that even helped to rule the
world
Money makes the mare CO." What
does a mare known about money?
Enthusiasm makes the mare go.
Who ever saw horse race won
without enthusiasm? Who ever saw a
good driver of horse who was not
an enthusiastic lover of the horse. No
man can make good shepherd unless
he loves his sheep.
1t takes enthusiasm to stir things.
The best antidote known to science,
or that win ever be known to science,
for the hook worm. is Enthusiasm.
II the South would become enthusias.
tic over its resources and awake to
it, possibilities, It would outgrow
Oklahoma in the next few years, and
that would be growing, some. II
South Mississippi would become en-
lnn1iAstie over its resources and