The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-17
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healthier sympathies and soberer idea.
treading the earth more proudly"

ueaithier sympathies and soberer ideas,
treading the earth more proudly"
The women of those days were heroines. too:
perhaps even TO an even more striking degree than
the men were heroic. and our twentieth century
DeJeWeled and pampered daughters of fortune, in
terested only in society, card-playng, nove-read-
ing, automobiles and gossip, doubtless stand in
as sore need as the young men of some course in
hard practical, unpleasant, human toll, calculated
10 give Thorn genuine sympathy with labor, the
knowledge of what dollar is worth, and more
practical views of life. Such course should, of
course. concern itself chiefly with housekeeping
and home-making, yet noticed not without inter-
est in this mornings paper that the English prin-
cess, daughter Of King George, is learning type
writing: something akin to the spirit which
prompts the German Emperor to require that
every prince Of the blood-royal shall master
trade.
The Panama Canal and Some Southern Oppor-
tunites.
San Francisco just now has its coat off and it's
sleeves rolled up in a bulldog-like endeavor to
get Congressional endorsement as the place for
the Panama Canal celebration in 1915. New Or
leans wants 1t, too, and every Southerner should
give New Orleans all the support possible, for
whichever city and section gets it will naturally
impress itself upon the popular imagination as Of
most Importance in connection with our Oriental
trade. Perhaps when our eyes once turned
south to Panama, We may also deign to look a
little further and take notice of the brilliant
mercial opportunities offered by the develop
ment OF South America. AS it is now, business
man here who has travelled over practically the
entire continent tells me that only seven per cent
OF South Americas trade is with the United
States, and to get decent ship for sister
continent you must first sail to Liverpool. And
yet on the great highway of the seas, these coun-
tries are next-door neighbors of our Southern
States and should buy largely of our cotton goods,
farm implements, and other manufactures. One
of my Southern friends is shipping considerable
quantity Of seeds to Argentine-which is the
United States of South America, with exports
amounting to three-quarters of a billion year;
but can never hope to get our share Of all
this golden traffic until we send commercial
explorers down there who speak Spanish.
More OF college students should learn the
language, for King Alphonsos decadent little
country represents only small part Of the Span
ish-speakng world with which our generation has
to do.
Utah and the Mormons.
Yesterday we passed through Utah and was
interested In talking with an ex-newspaper man,
long a resident of Salt Lake City, about the State
and its people Irrigation has made it quite a
fertile Commonwealth, and it is claimed indeed
that Brigham Young was the father of Western
irrigation. He may also claim to have been the
original advocate Of "Ten Acres Enough" for this
was the amount OF land he allotted to each Nor
mon and the careful, intensive and profitable cul-
tivation given these smaller has justified his
wisdom. Young Enthusiastically man of great
versatility and ability The cities he laid off would
do credit to landscape gardener; the great
church structures he planned are maryels Of
architecture, the organization machinery OF the
Mormon Church is said to be superior even to the
Roman Catholic. and his business enterprises
were we'll managed that he died-after sup
porting unnumbered wives and more children
than the tabled "Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe"-worth fully $7500.00o, whereas the
wealth of his entire party when they came to Utah
was only sass. Not impossibly he was fore