The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-23
4 PEOPLE OF COUNTRY
 LOOK ID SOUTH W Vast Resources Outrank All.
 Other Sections WE SHOULD ADVERTISE New York Gets . New 0ptimist In Joseph T. Howell of Nashville. Says Southern Business Outlook Is Good
Ny ROBERT LEE CARTER


 pie of the north and west are just com- ing to realizing sense of the splendid possibilities of the south. as a place for homes. In conversation the other day with gentleman who has just returned from an extended tour of the country he remarked that throughout the west and ,porthwest there was great interest in the south. People from those sections, solid substantial American farmers, who had made their homes in the southern states were writing home in the most enthusiastic vein.
 'If the southern states" he said, "were to take leaf out of the California book and advertise what she has in the way of farm lands, there cost production, nearness to ma ] cts, schools, churches and other evidences of civilization, 8 stream of the best very immigration could be started southward which would fill up the country with just the kind of people she needs.
 "It Is not to Europe the south should look for immigrants to settle her vacant lands and develop her natural resources. She should invite the northern artisan and western farmer. When the yankee sgoes south and fits himself to the condi- tions he finds there he soon becomes as southern as the intensest southerner. That was shown in the antebeiium times. Albert Pike was a northern man, so was John Slide1l; and the most inveterate southerners today areN men who wore the blue and took up their abode in that section after Appomattox.
 Less than one-third of the tillable land at the south Is cultivated, and here the opportunity for the northern farmer who feels crowded.
 te hot is-x orfn n1 water power in the south than in the D rest of the union besides. If we are go- Ing to conserve our west, there is noth- ing for the northern capitalist to do but go south and harness the power that is awaiting them
 What the south needs to do is to let the people know what she has,
 New York's corps of optimists has re- ceived sturdy recruit in Joseph T. | Howell of Nashville, Tenn, who has taken charge of the Carnegie Trust company.
 When asked in regard to trade con- ditions in the south MT. Howell pointed out that the situation there, from an all-around standpoint was very favor able one. He added: Crop prospects are excellent. Merchants have been en- enjoying prosperous times. for some lit- tie time, and all indications point to a continuation of the reasonably good and up to the average at this season. With regard to the monetary situation can say that money just now is close, as is customary at this period This condition is not at all unusual, Is all ways expected and provision Is made to meet 1t. Tt is occasioned by the fact that the city merchants are discounting their eastern bills; country merchants and country banks are carrying the farmer, and as the country merchant will not be able to pay his country banker nor his city merchant until the crops are marketed, easy conditions in money are not looked for until the middle or latter part of December.
 This condition is not peculiar to any particular section of the south, but -ob-- tains all over that territory, and is attributable entirely to the facts that it Is the crop section rather than the man. ufacturing."
 Mayor George w, Tiedeman of Savan- nah. Ga, attended the performance of Madame Troubadour'' in the Lyric theatre, the other night with flowers for Miss Anna Wheaton who appears as Georgette, the dairy maid Miss Wheaton Is the granddaughter of MT. John w. Wheaton, once mayor of Savannah and captain of the Chatham artillery.
 Martin W. Littleton Is going to make hard fight to go to Congress from the first New York district, Colonel Roose- velts own. MT. Lttleton is first rate i. cempaigner and Is sure scratching gravel v on the east end of Long Island.
 He was placed in nomination, by the way, by Marion J. Verdery now a New York banker but formerly of Augusta, Ga, and a son-in-law of the famous D. Charles F. Deems, founder of the Church of the Strangers in this city.
 MT. and Mrs. H. M. Atkinson, Miss May Atkinson and Miss Ada Alexander, who spent the summer at North Hatley, Canada, were at the waidorf-Astoria for few days, before returning to Att laDta, Ga.
 Mrs. Louise Farley, Miss Farley and A the Misses Crum of Montgomery Ala, spent several days in this city.
 After visiting Atlantic City, Mir. and Mrs S. P. Graham, of Louisville. Ky, are in New York before returning home.
 Dr. Andrew Henderson of San Antonio, Texas and l.. A. Benedict of New Or leans have been visiting in New York.
 Miss Bettie Britton ofNew Orleans, clair, N. J., where she will spend sev eral weeks with Mrs. Frederick Llwellyn.
 Mrs Louis R. Barras Dallas, Texas, Is on a brief visit to her sister, Mrs James Harman Dinwiddle. Mrs. J. B. Cunning ham of Birmingham, Ala, who is also visiting Mrs. Dinwiddle. will remain here until December.