The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-06

is that true of new and I'M
developed sections.
Oklahoma has outgrown South Mis-
sissippi: Why? Because it advertis-
ed. They-the railroads, land synd..
Gates and others, issue alleged mag
azines. giving pages ard pages of
reading matter, but other pages and
pages advertising Oklahoma and the
West. They travel men all over the
middle states, hanging posters, scat
tering literature, talking Oklahoma
and the West. Publicity; they have
piled it on heavy. Oklahoma has its
advantages, but it is not what it is
cracked up to be. 1t is not so good
a general purpose country as South
Mississippi is. But it has outgrown
South Mississippi. Why? Because
it has been given all the Publicity pos.
sible, while South Mississippi has
been given little or none
Texas has grown and prospered
using the same methods Oklahoma
has.
Coming down to the point South
Mississippi MUST advertise, to get
results. We have the land, the tim.
Der, the climate, the water. the re-
sources, but the world don't know it.
People just little north of us have
mistaken idea of the health of the
South. Pneumonia kills as many peo-
pie north, and more, than fever does
South of the Ohio river. Mosquitoes
are just as bad in Tennessee as they
are in Mississippi. In the dead of
summer the sun shines Just as hot in
"Old Kentucky" as it does in Missis-
sippi. More people die from heat
prostration in New York or Chicago
than in the entire state of Missis -ippi
But the world is ignorant of these
facts. We may know them and ap-
preciate them and talk about them as
much as we like down here among
ourselves, and the local papers can
pass the word to some extent; Tut
South Mississippi must be advertised
to the world if South Mississippi gets
half the immigration it is entitled TO,
or grows half as fast as it should.
And Hattiesburg. and the county of
Forrest! This city. logically, geo.
graphically, is entitled to the lions
share of immigration coming to South
Mississippi. Hattiesburg is the
Queen City of this favored section
But as much as we may know of Hat
tiesburg and as much as we think of
Hattiesburg, not one man in a thou
sand, up in the middle states and
the north and north western states,
have ever heard of Hattiesburg, Mrs.
Hattiesburg, if it wants to do bust
ness must advertise. Advertise abroad.
Tell the world where Hattiesburg is
and what it is, and all about the
country Immediately surrounding. Tell
them we can grow fine corn and fine
cotton; tell them we can grow two
crops year of Irish potatoes and the
finest sweet potatoes in the world;
tell them we can grow figs and Pc
cans. Tell them we can grow anything
that any truck gardener who under
stands his business wants to grow.
Tell them that cattle and stock can
live out-of-doors and find their own
feed all the year round, except per-
haps, six or eight weeks in the winter.
Tell them these plain, homely truths
which we know so well and appreci-
ate so little, but which they do not
know at all but would appreciate SO
highly.
Hattiesburg and Forrest county can
grow like magic if they have the
nerve and the business foresight to
spend the money; but it will take
money and BIG money to do it.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL
LARS ought to be raised as a gener-
al Publicity Fund for Hattiesburg
and Forrest county, all of it, every
dollar of it, to be spent whiting the
next twelve months. 1t would bring
in return a million The railroads,
whether they will or not we do not
know, but the railroads ought to con-
tribute literally to this fund. The
large land owners ought to be the big
gest givers. Property owners in and
about Hattiesburg ought not to be
penny wise and pound foolish" and
the merchants and business interests
generally ought to help some. Every
body ought to give, because every
body will be benefited
Talk is cheap; but the way to build /
a city and develop a country is to ad- |
vertise far and wide and extensively. |
and to do that somebody will have
to go down in their pockets deep
down in their pockets.