The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-30

was Patrick Walsh of the Augusta Chron- icle and Tom Loyless has proved himself to be a worthy successor. Down in sIacon Charley Pendleton is preaching daily, in tho Telegraph the destiny of Macon and all Georgia, to the prosperity of which he has contributed so much. Pleas Sto- vail is doing the same thing with tine Savannah Press. as is Bowdre Phinizy with the Augusta Herald. while over in Birmingham Ed W. Barrett, with The Age-Herald and Frank P. Glass and Vic tor Hanson, with the News, are singing the praises of their great city so success fully that they have all the world listen- ing to the story of that Magic City. Up in Kentucky, Henry Watterson-the only Watterson-the pioneer of the flock, is still giving the same good advice that he did when he quit fighting and went to building, and he has a powerful part ner in the Courier-Journal in Bruce Hal dcman, who inherits the marvellous sa- gacity of his distinguished father.
 Col. " J. Crawford in Memphis, with the Commercial-Appeal; Senator Luke Lea and E. B. Stahlman in Nashville, with the Tennessean-American and Ban her; George Milton in Knoxville and Chat tanooga with the Sentinel and the News all these have done and are doing great work, just as is being done in Florida by Ball of the Jacksonville Times-Union. Carter of the Metropolis and Stovall of the Tampa Tribune. .GH
 Tn referring to the work of the southern press in starting the south Ion it's way' a. in T I, of the Ochs boys until the last, though if measured by the substantial results they have accomplished for the south, they would be among the first. These three self made boys literally grew up with the "new south,' and they have im- parted their buoyant enthusiasm to every channel of southern industry with which they have been connected. They made national regulations for the Chattanooga Times and the Tradesman, and now Adolph has placed the name of the New York Times among the few at the top O. the worlds greatest newspapers. George and Milton are in control of-the Philadelphia Ledger-and all of the three learned how to do these wonderful things in Chattanooga, where they are still counted as friends by the entire com- munity.
 It was nothing new for the Times, even under a southern publisher, to become a champion of the cause of southern indus- trial progress. for that policy was ready made when Adolph Ochs took the Times
 Just about 30 years ago the south's first
 'cotton exposition was held in Atlanta. ,or MT c. R. Miller-always good friend of the south--was one of the many prom irent visitors who came here from the north as the guest of Henry Grady and my father. the late Evan P Howell, two pioneer war horses for southern progress
 Mir. Miller came to see if all the things ho had heard about the south were really true. was college boy at the time, and remember that came over to the
 formal opening of the exposition-and just here let me add that upon finishing my course went to the Times to serve my Journalistic apprenticeship. for which good fortune I will ever be grateful Tremendously significant from. a pc- litical standpoint is the growing inde- rendence of the southern press. We are parting with the traditions of the past, where they are fetiches, and preserving only those fit to survive. We are learning toleration, free speech" the privilege or uttering one's convictions. Where this may ultimately lead politically do not | undertake to say. But do know that tLis great, new, vital quality, born of what may be called the soutiis rena- tionalization. is another of the forces
 n.olding the south of tomorrow. To their CT edit let it be said, the more progressive
 newspapers in the south, realizing the relation of absolute independence to de- velopment and prosperity. are encourag- 1 ing this tendency by every means at their command.