The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
SOUTHERN YOUNG
 MEN MIKE GOOD
Go To the Top Of Their Pro-
 fessions In New York
TWO FINE EXAMPLES
OOO,OOO For Her Public Schools Believes In Thorough
 Education
By ROBERT LEE CARTER


 Two of the greatest retail clothing houses in New York city are now in charge of southern men who came tA the city poor young men, and without influential friends or anything save sheer business ability and capacity for hard work have pushed themselves to the very point.
 I wrote some time ago of the career of Frank P. Chambers, formerly of Alabama, who came to New York in the early 70's and who is now at the head of Roger Peet & Co.
 MT. Chambers career has been du- plicated by Edgar E. Burlington, wEo has become the head of Hackett, Car hart & Co.,, one Of the oldest and best known houses in its line in the city.
 Mr. Burlington has carved out a suc- cessful business career through his own hard work. In 1885 he came to New York from Wilmington, N. C., and one day walked into the store of Hackett. Carhart X Co.,, and going up to the private office of MT. c. II. Carhart, said that he was looking for work.
 What can you do?' inquired MT. Carhart.
 q can sweep your floors, if neces- sary." responded young Turlng ton.
 DO you think that you can do it well?"
 Yes, do.''
 Well, then. tomorrow morning you can come around and I will give you chance
 The young man was put to work, and furn hq off rla cal position, which he refushed, saying that he wanted to learn the clothing business
 That was his start. Now just 20 years later he has bought out the bus- iness.
 New York is a firm believer in educa- tion and proves her faith by her works. The statement that the city of New York alone spends on her public schools each year pretty nearly as much as the entire expense of running the Uni- ted States government in 1850 seems hardly credible, yet such is the fact. The city for 1910 spent nearly s29,000,- 900 for it's public schools. the net ordn- ary expenses of the national govern ment was only s37,000,000. The state of New York makes even better showing, the expenditures for the state being almost s75,000,000.
 NeW 1Ork mas invested III ScnOOi property, greater sum than the entire amount of gold and silver money in the United States in 1880. Her school property Is valued at s344,000, ,000, while there was only s305, 5,000,000 of gold and silver money In the country 30 years ago.
 In a recent editorial the New York Commercial says: Perhaps more than any other one thing just now the south needs people. She has the lands, the waterpowers and the waterways. the mines. the forests. the climate and all the other natural resources, but she lacks the people necessary to their eff fective occupation and development. Here for instance. is Texas announcing that she needs today 3,000.000 farmers to develop her agricultural resources; with 109 counties that has less than one- tenth of their land under cultiva- tion and with 43 counties that have a larger uncultivated area than the ter ritory of the whole state of Rhode Island, the Lone Star state most cer- tainly has space to spare--and every inch of it Is capable of profitable cul- tivation in staple or diversified crops. Texas is already mining more or less extensively gold, silver, quicksilver, marble, iron, coal. petroleum and other commercial products of natures lava- tory; but her mines are scarcely moro than demonstration plants of her vast mineral resources. says one of her com- mercial organizations in a recent bulle- tin. It is people that Texas needs.
 And the same Is true practically of every other southern state. Most of em have well equipped organizations of one sort or another for attracting immigrants within their borders. But thesef will never come in such volume as in needed until the south perfects outside organizations for steering the more desirable of the immigrant hordes directly into the region"
 It has always been one of those things that mo fellow can point out' to me why 1t Is that the south has not filled up. With ideal climatic condi- tions, a soil as prolific as any on earth. railroads. schools. churches and all the other conveniences of civilization, peo- pie will pass 1t up to freeze to death in northwestern Canada.
 The time Is fast approaching, &C., cording to J. F. Wilson of Poulan, Ga., when pecan nuts will take the place of meat as staple food.
 The majority of nuts are admittedly nutritious. Few of them are uniformly expensive" said MT. Wilson. Tho crop is almost unfailing. Pecans. just now beginning to develop as an indus try in Georgia. class high with other nuts as nourishing form of diet. easi- ly digested when ordinary precautions are observed. Candidly, we do not look for them to supplant meat. though we are extremely partial to diet of nuts.
 There Is sort of divinity that hedges tendeloin," continued the Georgian, Especially that grown in Georgia upon watering, convivial.f un- dying tradition, that extends also to hog fowl and peas, pork sausage, spare ribs and few other of those meats that Georgia produces in defiance of the trust These beatific, gustatory qualities will for many years resist the onslaught of even tho seductive qieor- kia pecan. But as an adjunct to Georgia raised ham or meat of any character, sort of concentrated hour ishment, happy seasoning with Ayepy>-- meal Waiter. bring me pecan Steak, quick.'", .lsr&xsx.
 "Everybody is prosperous, lArH Rsa Is no indication of . let-up N Raleigh, N C., who has bAt homa for several weeks.
 All through that couRt Ter finds evidence of good, 1ey I, ad whale of cotto1 ,tte merchants had wont tday trade. At Memphis thu host sold out their stocks lhrist- mas. and I am told thu large cities in that part of Ify the people have been in IBpe to buy than for many They have been threatenf Brought,