The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-08
ALABAMA LAUDED
 IN HE. WINDY CITY Mobile and Baldwin Counties
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MAKE FINE IMPRESSION
Speech By David Holt, Mobile News paper Man. Gives some spicy Advice About Back To the
 Southern Farm"


 brightest spot in the big Chicago land was the Alabama booth It was the first exhibit to greet the eye of the ob- server on entering the Coliseum and across it's front was an electric sign with letters d foot long, Mobile and Bald win Counties. Alabama.
 Nothing in the whole 10 acres crowded with exhibits. three floors deep attract were making cigars out of Baldwin coun- ty tobacco at the Alabama booth. These cigars were given away to visitors as fast as the working force could make them.
 The citrus fruits, / oranges satsumas. komquats and ponderosa lemons, collect ed from the groves of southern Baldwin and Mobile counties by MT. and Mrs. A. and the Mobile Progressive were a never-failing source of attraction to the thousands of visit DTS who thronged the mammoth build ng MT. Hutchings had also assembled at the instance of the Alabama Sumatra and Havana Tobacco company every shape of vegetable, fruit and fish that he broad empire of Baldwin could fur aish
 Sunday was Alabama day at the land show, and in point of attendance and in- terest was about the biggest day of the entire two weeks. The Hawaiian musi- ,ians, orchestra and singers gave numer- )us concerts, and DuVal, the renowned enor accompanied with harp, sang se- ections from grand opera.
 At the Coliseum auditorium Dr. William ). Krohn of Chicago Baldwin county investor and enthusiast, and David Holt, l Mobile newspaper man, addressed two immense audiences, illustrating portions ,f their talks with steneopticon views ,f farm scenes and pictures of growing obacco.
 Dr. Krohn told of what has been ac- within three years in the Baldwin counthy tobacco belt, and of his 'wn success last season, producing SLIGO worth of cigar wrapper tobacco to the Lcre under shade, and following this with profitable crops of Vegetables which are low being placed on the market. He told If the healthfulness of the southern DOT Ions of Baldwin and Mobile counties md the pleasures of life which the dwell ITS there enjoy.
 MT Holt said in part: Newspaper Man Speaks
 Coming from the ancient city of Mo- 'ile, where even the oak trees wear long vhiskers of green moss. to a young city ike Chicago, I feel almost as though -ddressing a high school class. How yer, cities do not grow old by years, nut by achievements, and, measured by hat standard, you of Chicago will prob -bly be inclined to feel that you are lis- ening to a member of the kindergarten | Five days ago I was with my friend, Dr. ". g. Harvey of Chicago, at his farm n Baldwin county, Alabama, and as we | walked across the garden, where tobacco | lad been harvested but few months | enderest of all vegetables, blooming and | earing in the open air. The barefoot | oys and sunbonnet girls of old Baldwin | we're gathering radishes in the plantations | where shade-ls rown tobacco had been ana | we're packing them into barrels for ship | nent to the Chicago market.
 That same afternoon at Fairhope, the | ingle tax colony on Mobile bay, where | re assembled the finest collection of as- orted cranks, earnest and purposefu, | hat were ever brought together in peace, not in harmony. we saw the roses blooming in the yards. The day was warm, and after dinner at Seminole, overlooking the beautiful Black Water lver, our hostess reminded us in the rood old southern way, T think you will ind 1t cooler on the front gallery
 You can imagine the contrast which vas presented to my view when l awoke his morning in Chicago. 1 had seldom cen snow before Once when a boy way town south snow fell to the depth of learly two inches, and stayed on the round three days, but have daughter n school at Mobile who. has never seen he beautiful, beautiful snow.
 What a miracle of change 1t seemed o leave old Baalam grazing In the green ields of Alabama at noon on Friday md wake up Saturday morning in ice covered Evansville, Ind!
 "1. may be truthfully said that the iouth and the north are getting very dose together and Chicago men are lelping to decrease the distance. nave seen with my own eyes stump covered wilderness in southern Ala oama transformed into a landscape Jf farms and happy homes through the energy, brains, enterprise and capital of Chicago men. They came, they saw they conquered and brought with them the Chicago spirit. It Is contagious. Others took it--or had it given to them and the results have been marvel ous. Towns have sprung into existence with schools and churches; tobacco barns and shades crown many hill. tops; the stumps are being hurled into space with the explosioa of dynamite or burned away with sounds like battle by day ard scenes like an army in camp by night.
 And now I am here for the first time to sec the T. P. Hamms, the W G. Harveys, the William o. Krohns, and others of that type on their native heath. I have found the secret of their success It is the wind that comes in from Lake Michigan, gets in behind them and makes them hustle. That it would blow the hook worms from a Georgia cracker and give him vino, force or shredded wheat biscuits.
 To the Southern Farm
 James .J. Hi'l was one of the first to sound the tocsin, Back to the faT1n! but the tocsin would not be worth the breath 1t takes to uitter t If there was not some good reason back of if. Beck to the farm es leave these modern babels of sound and strife and get back to simpler and fuller life, where the field dark will call you in the morning when it chnl lenges the mocking bird to an all day duel of song, and the whip-poor- nl will tell you when bedtime comes, then u,bictia 1,cu fo sleep with his mono