The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-11
Big BUSINESS IS
. ALL OVER VIRGINIA
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ing shops in the South are in Rich
mond. and they are the biggest In all
lines. from small notions up to heavy
groceries. 81.
Richmond Folks Should Talk out.
And yet Richmond people seem TO
be slow to bow about these things.
Why does not every Richmond man
who boards q car for a trip, however
short or however long. think to blow
about Richmond and its greatness, and
about the superior manufacturing and
farming and fruit-growins and truck :
growing advantages OF Old Virginia?
Too modest. you say. Well. maybe
SO. ,but'Iwhen We have the goods to
show for our blowing. modesty ought
to and must take back seat.
Last week l was in the western part
OF the State. and while talking with
several gentlemen on the street In a
small town something was said about a
building boom In the town Imme-
diately. and without any thought of
footing Rtchmond's horn, 1 commenced
to talk about the building boom in
Richmond. the scarcity. OF brick and
all that kind of thing. making the
point that Richmond was building
houses and skyscrapers and residences
and things faster than the brickyards
and the granite quarries and the saw
mills could supply the material. A
local booster commended me for talk
Ing that way. Privately. he intimated
that no was not sure that was con-
hninE myself altogether to facts Gin
thewhtch he WAS mistakenly, but
he said he loved to hear a man boom
his own town. And then. addressing
the local crowd assembled. among
whom were some croakers. he preached
them quite a little sermon on GLOWING
about your own town"
Blowing Ia Not Lying.
III I quite agree with this fellow that
Is. II we have anything to blow about
All Richmond folks have something
In the industrial and commercial line
to blow about. All virginians have
something In Industrial and manu-
featuring and commercial and agri-
cultural lines to blow about Then,
why not blow and talk and advertise
all the time or whenever opportunity
presents itself? Blowing does not mean
misrepresenting. 1t simply means talk
ing about the good things that you
know Of. II you do not know OF the
good things that Greater Richmond has
TO offer and to suggest and to tell
about, find out about them and then
talk to beat the band. II you do not
know that Virginia ia the best farming
State in the Union and has more I'M
wealth. than any Commonwealth of
Its size in the whole world. then read
UP and get posted. and when you get
the facts down fine, and you can get
them all right II you Will try. then go
to talking Old Virginia Tell about 1t
to every human being who will listen
talk 1t on the trains as you travel;
talk It In. the hotels as you tarry; talk
1t In prayer meetings IL the presiding
preacher will allow 1t; talk It on the
stump; talk It In the parlors. talk 1t all
the time and In every place and be-
fore every kind of audience Tell about
Old Virginia and her great Industrial
and agricultural progress; She can
stand 1t. and she is always worthy of
all praise, for there IS nothing that
Is worth having that cannot be raised
or manufactured IN the State.
Some cuts that portray Virginia In
dustries here and there throughout the
State are used to illustrate the
thoughts herein brought out. They
tell good story of themselves.