Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-07-01
IMMIGRATION MEETING
GOV. NOEL TELLS OF STATES
LATENT PRODUCTIVITY.
President Finley Says Aim Should 5e
t Induce Substantial Class OF I'm
migrants.

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gether, men from the urban and SUI
burban centers. representing agricultu-
raj and mercantile activity, the indus
trial enterprises, the professions and
trades, and the great railroad systems.
All of these men were there for the
one purpose of ~endeavoring to plan
for a day of better things materially
for Mississippi, not only by impartlng
the fruits Of their own experience, Blu
learning 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
and addressing words of welcome to
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 tenaciOuSly 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 Missis-
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
can 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 h 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 a~bundantly
successful.
More Law and Order.
The governor also commented on
the highly gratifying moral as we'll 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
w~rons-doing.
The next item of procedure was that
of organization, and the governor sug-
gested that this Formally be disposed
of before going into the rest of the
programme.
On motion, L. E. Davis of NatcheZ
was chosen as secretary, and w. W..
Simonton of Jackson as his assistant.
S. H. Lowenberg of Natchez nominated
ex-Lieut.-GOv. Carter as vice chair
man, which motion was greeted with
applause, and the temporary Organlza-
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 n~eighboring city, al
most a Mississippi city, and not only
l1dIS Jul q SASoS AAO ~
known far and wide within Mississippi
and without as one 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
tho past.
Mr.. Mooney was received with en-
thusiastic applause and proceeded
from the start to entertain, instruct
and thoroughly interest the body to
whom he addressed himself. His adj
dress was on sheer practical lines. The
burden of his message nay be summed
up in a sentence, and that is the slO-
gan, Back to the farm" for the boys
of Mississippi. Following Mr.. Mooney
came r. D. Teeves, the representative
Of the Mississippi Central, who dis
coursed on South Mississippi Oppor-
tunities," telling Of the conditions
through the pine belt, what has been
accomplished in a comparatively re-
cent past on the cutover pine lands,
n the solid and substantial future
that would follow the introduction of
the right class of immigrants.
President Finley of the Southern
railway delivered a splendid practical
address, after congratulating himself
that he, too, was a Mississippian and
that Mississippi's interest in his in
terest. Much applause greeted his
declaration that, while he believed IN
immigration, the selection of the ma
terial should be wisely and conserva-
lively made, and that everything pos
sible should be done to attract South
erners who are, after all, best adapted
to it's characteristics.
Having been born in Mississippi
and having been associated with