The Hattiesburg news., 1909-11-29

yet they say in the next breath that
the land owner has not sense enough
or business judgment enough to do
the thing that will make him rich.
That is the logic of their argument.
Their argument, we think, is faulty;
these land owners, we take it, have
as much business sagacity as other
men; they are quite as able to see
good thing and quite as willing to take
hold of it, as other men. And because
this is a good thing is why we be-
lieye they will accept it when it is
properly presented to them.
PRESENT 1T. TO THEM. AR
CUE 1T WITH THEM. Show them
the advantages they will derive from
this broad-guage Publicity proposition.
Don't send a man to them who thinks
they WON'T; send man to them who
thinks they WILL. Employ a man to
do this work, and NOTHING ELSE;
If he does this work we'll he will not
have time to do anything else. 1t Is
a big thing; it needs to be we'll and
thoroughly worked. 1t needs the SER
vices OF a man who, il he fails to get
the land when he first goes after it,
will go again, and keep going until he
does get it. 1t needs the services of
a man who thoroughly believes in the
proposition, and who will start out
with no thought of failure. It needs
the services of man who can handle
his subject and himself we'll; for a
man who can handle himself and hls
subject we'll, can usually handle the
other fellow. 1t needs the services Of
man who thinks we'll enough of it,
and believes strongly enough in 1t, to
stop some other good paying job to
take hold Of this at better salary,
and make 1t go.
Who ought to pay this mans sal
ary and other incidental expenses
connected with this great movement?
The property holders and business
men Of Hattiesburg and Forrest coun-
ty. Why? Because they will be d.
rectly benefited II the effort succeeds.
and they can afford to take the risk
Of it's succeeding.
If the effort is made and succeeds,
1t will bring thousands Of people right
here to Hattiesburg. because right
here the drawing will take place;
right here the tickets will have to be
validated; from this central point the
homeseekers will go to look at lands,
and come back when they have looked.
The Associated Press and other
news gathering agencies would have
"Hattiesburg" in their date lines, and
will be talking of "Hattiesburg,' as
they have been for several years talk
ing of Texas, Omaha, and the West.
The railroads would be making rates
to "Hattiesburg"; their folders would
tell about "Hattiesburg'; "Hatties-
burg" would get free, advertising that
hundred thousand dollars would not
buy. And that advertising would
bring ten, twenty or thirty thousand
people here to participate in that
drawing, to see this country, to in
vest in these lands, or to go back to
their homes and tell others who might
become interested and invest.
Put on in thorough business way,
put on as the business men of Hat
tiesburg attend to their private busi-
ness, this land can be obtained, a
man can be found, the scheme can be
made to go" and the tide of immi-
grafton turned this way will attract the
attention of all the country; and then
the crowd will follow the crowd
You say it is good thing? THEN
PUSH 1T ALONG. For the love OF
mercy break away from the habit Of
PROCRASTINATING.