The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-16
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Good Roads Sentiment Growing.
Town of Lovely Homes Vir-a
GINA Grown Fruit Holds
the Belt-No Fears Of
Frost County Fairs
Getting Popular.
ny FRANK s. woODsoN,
! Industrial Editor,

tIUtt0F.
have heard not il little talk about
the issue of Frank Leslte's Weekly
which appeared under date of April O.
which issue undertook to tell a good
deal about the South and southern
industrial development. 1t was very &
good issue of that pictorial periodical.
vastly better than some of its other Y
issues that did not have so enter
taininS subject to deal with and S
very much better than some issues OF II
mat same journal that appeared in tbs
days long gone by. days when Frank
Leslie's delighted TO picture the So
called sins of the South, loved to-. and Il
glodted over the chance. to make ar
tistlc views of the South's then blight
cd fields and worse blighted hopes.
! was just a little boy then, but 1 "
remember quite well how my blood
boiled when that journal came down
South with its pictures of the infamous, *
false story of Uncle TOMS Cabin.n
with imaginary pictures of the stately q
General Lee passing his sword over to
the doughty General Grant under an
AppomattoX apple tree that never.
grew, and whole lot of other pie
lures that were simply creatures Of
the vivid imagination of fools who
cashed in SO much per line for drawing
them, but which at the same time
were humiliating to good Southern
folks and lie on the face OF them
In those dark and gloomy days there
was no rilcr sheet, cditorially. repor-
torially and pictorially than this same
Leslie's. aud none more largely filled Il
with slanders OF the South and its 4
people. e
g4 a Change That Came
But In these better days. when the
South has recupcrated and come Into
Its own. with no thanks to Ieslie's
and as kind. 1t and its kind come
down to pick little off the recuper-
nted body that 1t tried SO ha I'd to make
into an unrecuperativc carcass. rho
shame OF 1t all is that some Southern
folks have been caught in the net. 4. &
O. well, Whatever else may be said
OF Leslie $: Il certainly does print good
the issue OF April were mighty
catchy to some of the folks therein
pictured. III 49,.
The truth. however Is that the de.
velopment which the Issue tells abotis
Is Is not nc IN any sense due to Leslie's
the unceasing and vigorous work Of
the Southern folks themselves. work
tnat was done and that accomplished
w ,!o in spite OF the fight the work.
ers NAG to make against the LesIte's
ana al OF the other things that used
70 rcvile the South and everythinc that &
was Southern. n s''-' Z,
the much lauded Issue OF April 6 con-
.a a,,. there was nothing new. in il.
noshing tnnt has not already been told
a pout In the Manufacturers Record
me kenbridse Tribune, the Peters
burg Index Appeal. the Charlotte OBJ I.
s se,y the Wilmington Star, the NoF-a5
star. the Roanoke Times, the Bristol B
Courier. the Blackstone Courier AZ no I.
ss, Earn Herald lie and the Industrial (
hundred other Virginia and Southern
napers could name. Leslie's Of April
sd, Ms indeed 1 a very pretty Southland
paid for a a fancy price per inch I.
more than paid the cost. but there was
no a.. news OF an Industrial character in 3
known. 1s - w!eetnttia
Down In Meckienburr
,,a The ,o, sewn Of south ffiii. down in
wo eeSaeno ns sho eG1nnty Is enc q the
velopmcnt The tobacco interest thars \
ana ana the manufacturing Interest
! 1FS So Mt many nan good people ,together.S
put the fact Is that the folks 'thern 4
first thought OF good and happy homes
t tiey Quilt those first and then the
shops and the banks. and the big stores
followed right. along. Maybe thesa
In. came along right in lump.
town tells ME that the convenient
homes came first and then the people (.
wnG So i6 them Slrs fought for the homes
t. NJ
tonsht indus.rialy or otherwise. the
iact remains that IN an Industrial wayE
they fought for the whore withaf ~
take care OF the homes that were all
ready made. The result is that South
Hill has whole LOT OF lovely resi-
care of them and the public and prts
vate SCHOOLS and the churches that
he!p them along. South Hill ia "a,
mighty good town any way you take
y, Us happy homes are always max
/
Divided Thought.
was In the town OF Ilawrenceyille &
rev days ago. That town is the Il
county seat OF brunswick, one OF the
largest and one or the richest countIes
OF the State. The day + was there a \
meeting TO consider n right Important
matter had been called. At the hour
named the courthouse bell was RING !
TO call the people together at was
tapped several times. and when the
man at the rope had about exhausted
himself less than a hundred people as
sembled. The meeting was held. how
ever, and In way It passed off very
WE'LL. but many prominent people were
missing There was something the;
matter. knew that very well be IS
cause saw several people around
turn Of mind, asked about the
caucussng, and was told that "oIrE
people are much divided, and they
want TO know which faction this meet
ms ms Is fer Sra O. these little local fac.
the country than ali things else, Take
the great and glorious county of i
Brunswick. for instance. that Is now;
trying to set good roads md a county;
fair and whole lot OF other, good
county-trying in a way What n power
that good old county would kbe IF 4fki