The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-05-27
SouthWestWard. HO!

An article OF timely interest appears in
Everybody's current issue. II IS by Mr..
Herbert Kaufman. and he calls It South
westward, Hor' and In It shows us how
for many years the movement has been
from the farms TO the cities, but that
now the reaction has set in; a new
America is in the making and there has
set in tide OF humanity toward the
fertile Southwest that bids fair 10 change
the entire face OF that country. For. as
Mr. Kaufman says:
THE killer has gone and the tillsr has
come. The cattle baron Is retreating be
fore the lettuce king The eightv-acre
vegetable patch is Checker-bOardiuC the
millionaire range. The irrigation pump
sings through nights that hitherto sob5ed
with the lowing Of herds. Where mes
quite and prlclly pear fOurished. the
plowshare IS now demanding the plows
share"
Mr. Kaufman describes the wonderful
growth OF the cities Of the Southwest
built by men who have not failed in
other States, but who have found other
States failures. Modern invention has
done its part in making this prosperity Of
the Southwest for the rigors and hard
ships OF agriculture are disappearing.
Sequestration is no longer the lot Of the
farmer. The telephone. periodicals. free
rural delivery bring him now in close
contact with the world. The gasoline
engine relieves the wife and boys OF a
hundred and one tasks that were arduous
IN the olden days. and so the desert is
being made 70 blossom. Irrigation is doing
its work; and though men do not grow
rich over-year they make good Iivings
from the outset, dwell in comfortable
homes, eat nourishinE food. and soon
maintain comfortable bank balances.
And the growth Of the Southwest is a
high-speed growth, as witness some Of
the facts In the late SOS, Oklahoma
was a no mans land" IN 1890 her pop
ulation was 10000 In 1910, 100000. There
were 129 newspapers published in the Ter
ritory fourteen years ago. To-day there
are more than COO. In less than twenty
years Oklahoma City has increased her
Inhabitants from 1900 to 10000 Her
| streets are asphalt. her skyscrapers of
steel and concrete. Kansas is 'fnsolent-
ly opulent;" prosperity has become a
chronic habit. Arkansas is not an abode
Of ague and fever: she has solid counties
OF deep black soil waiting for the plow-
share She Is beginning her growth
Dallas. Fort Worth. Houston. Galveston
San Antonio are no longer insular. AL
over the prairles are dotted little cities
Land which begged for buyers at eighty
| cents an acre at the beginning Of the
century now finds a ready market at
forty and fifty dollars.
Mr. Kaufman gives many typical in
stances. Here IS one Of them:
Amarillo ten years ago was cattle
station. but to-day it luxuriates IN a
| theater OF Pompelian brick, large enough
Tor any company on the road an6 COM
! pletely equipped. Transplant Sc five
! churches, and they will prove worthy Of
/ the average New York CONGREGATION
| - 49, A"A-+N AZ w al GAttl ana lL Will
| have none Of the earmarks Of a country
/ cousin. -Four hundred and twenty auto
| mobiles were licensed by the town clerk
last year. and any night you may en-
counter string Of citizens speeding
along a motor boulevard to Amarillo
electric amusement park"
OF course. there are problems-the heir
problem, for instance-but this viii be-
settled. Mr.. Kaufman thinks. by immi.
grafton. Then the era Of the factory
must come, and after that a great In.