The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-07-01
IMMIGRATION MEETING
Ov. NOEL TELLS OF STATES
LATENT PRODUCTIVITY.
resident Finley Says Aim Should BE
to Induce Substantial Class of I'm.
migrants

entlon was opened Tuesday by Gov.
,. F. Noel. When he assembled the
peaker's platform of representatives
ali he faced as fine and intelligent a
@ouy OF men as could be gotten to-
ether, men from the urban and SUI
urban centers. representing agricultu-
al and mercantile activity, the indus
RAJ enterprises, the professions and
rades, and the great railroad systems.
All of these men were there for the
n purpose of e~ndeavoring to plan
or a day of better things materially
or Mississippi, not only by impartlng
ne fruits of their own experience, but
earning from that of others.
: There were 800 persons present
when the gavel sounded, and without
ceremony Gov. Noel, as the convenor
Of the assembly, proceeded to address
the assembly in words of welcome,
coupled with considerable interesting
Information.
In calling the convention to order
those assembled, Gov. Noel compressed
a great deal of practical information
into a twenty minutes address, which
was heard with attentive interest. He
touched upon the climatic features,
agricultural, indsutrial and develop
mental possibilities, which are as yet,
he declared, in an untried state, main
ly for the reason that the people OF
Mississippi have been over-cOnserva-
tive and prone to cling te~naciously to
the habits and institutions peculiar to
their ancestry and content to take
things as they found them.
Illustrating the latent possibilities
which the soil and climate of Missls-
sippi hold out to intelligent cultivation
and exploitation, Gov. Noel exhibited
a beautiful sheaf of alfalfa which had
been brought to the convention hall
by c.. C. Clay, of Noxubee county,
which had been matured in twenty
two days from planting, and explained
that no more remunerative feed crop
a be grown than that same alfalfa,
nor more cheaply.
In the next instant Gov. Noel was
showing a jar containing some fine
wheat which had been grown in Gov
ington county, which is in the heart
of the pine district and within a hun
dred miles of the gulf coast. The same
grain is grown successfully in the
prairie and the delta section as had
been amply demonstrated, and he told
tersely of the experiments that are be-
ing made on the state convict farms,
which have, so far, been ~abundantly
successful.
More Law and Order.
The governor also commented on
the highly gratifying moral as well as
material conditions of the people and
to the splendid forward movement that
has been made from the enforcement
of law and order, and the administra-
ton of the laws against crime and
wrong-doing.
The next item of procedure was that
of organization, and the governor sug-
gested that this formality be disposed
of before going into the rest Of the
programme.
On motion, l.. E. Davis of Natcnez
was chosen as secretary, and w. w.
Simonton of Jackson as his assistant.
H. Lowenberg of Natchez nominated
ex-Lieut.-G Carter as vice chair
man, which motion vas greeted with
applause, and the temporary organiza-
ton was thereupon made permanent
and Gov. Carter invited to the stand.
The next incident was the presen-
tation of Mr.. Mooney, whom Gov. Noel
alluded to as a man representing a
great city and a neighbOring city, al
that, but a great newspaper, which is
known far and wide within Mississippi
and without as n of the most helpful |
agencies and institutions of the time
and one which may be relied on to
work for the advancement of Missis- /
sippi in the future as it had done in
he past. 1
Mr.. Mooney was received with en- l
.husiastic applause and proceeded i
the start to entertain, instruct
thoroughly interest the body to I
whom he addressed himself. His adj
1ress was on sheer practical lines. The {
burden of his message may be summed 6
in a sentence, and that is the slo- j
gan, Back to the farm" for the boys
If Mississippi. Following Mr.. Mooney f
R. d. Teeves, the representative s
If the Mississippi Central, who dis I
on South Mississippi Oppor- {
tunities," telling Of the conditions I
through the pine belt, what has been -,
accomplished In a comparatively re- t
cent past on the cutover pine lands, !
the solid and substantial future &
hat would follow the introduction of s
he right class G" immigrants. ,
President Finley of the Southern !
delivered a splendid practical
after congratulating himself
hat he, too, was a Mis%sissippian and s
hat Mississippi's interest in his in ,
crest. Much applause greeted his 9
declaration that, while he believed In .
IMMIGRATION. the selection of the ma. 4;