The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-30
THE SOUTHERN PRESS

From the Sixtieth Anniversary Edition Howell, Editor of the Atlanta Constitu-
 tion.
 HHE south is waking to the fact that the outside world is discovering it's
 A wonderful possibilities faster than it's own people realize the richness of the untold natural resources around theml
 And the effect is being manifested in every channel of southern industry. Southern brains and southern capital are now going into southern enterprises as never before. Every dollar of outside cap itai that comes this way can find com panion in the community in which it is to be invested, and the most hopeful thing about it all is that southern capital, while cordially inviting the cooperation of all other that comes this way is no longer dependent upon the outside to assist it in undertaking the great work of de- velopment that is ready, on the same in yestment, to yield better returns than are promised in any other section of all the world.
 No American newspaper published out side of the south has been for the last 30 years in closer touch with what is going on in the south than the New York Times, nor has any other northern newspaper rendered more valuable service in stimu- lating the unprecedented development that has taken place during that period. Hence the southern press very cordially shares the good will of the nation toward the Times in the celebrations of its sixtieth anniversary, for the newspapers of the south remember with gratitude the evil derces of friendly interest manifested by northern sources at time when the south needed help to lead it out of the velley of the shadow of war.
 The press of the south was first to blaze the way to prosperity after the war by showing the possibilities of the new era. Henry Grady's impulsive creation of the term "The New South'' attracted the attention of the whole country. In Texas, A. H. Belo, with his twin news paper the Galveston News and the Dallas News, was doing yeoman's work, and later Rienzi Johnston of the Houston Post made his paper famous by its lead ership in the cause of southern progress.
 h New Orleans, the Times-Democrat and the Picayune were pioneers in es- tablishing system out of chaos. Col W. W. Screws of the Montgomery Adver- tiser came fresh from the war to take leadership as master workman in the
 ranks of the south's industrial army. J. H. Estill of the Savannah Morning News, Tzt.. rn 70 n. 1 F. w. Dawson of the Charleston News and Courier did the same thing. Up in Virginia the elder Cowardin, with the Richmond Dispatch, was showing Vir- ginia the way out of the woods-a work srlendidly followed by his son. Charley Ccwardin. Later on after his death, Jo- seph Bryan consolidated his Times with the historic old Dispatch, and the people Of Virginia have perpetuated in bronze their tribute to him as an industrial lead- er His mantle has fallen upon the worthy shoulders of his two sons, while J. c. Hemphill has transferred to the Times-Dispatch the splendid editorial abil- ity that characterized his management of tine old News and Courier after Dawson's untimely death.
 Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer has for 20 years been a wheel horse in North Carolina, as each Of the Gonzales boys in South Carolina
 has been with their remarkable paper, the State, in Columbia.
 But of all southern newspaper men the
 one whose practical work as ar indus trial leader perhaps accomplished most Is N. N. Tompkins of the Charlotte Ob-
 server. Not that Tompkins wrote more, or said more. or argued more forcibly, but because he himself was-as he still | is-a builder. He perhaps has done more
 to stimulate the cotton mill development
 of the south than any living man.
 Among the sturdiest workers of the up- l building of the south following the war