The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-14
MEN
 ARE OPTIMISTIC Jolly Gathering Held in
 New York SOUTH IS ENROLLED Suffragettes Will Have a Handsome Club House-Southern Has a
 Cotton Culture
 Department
SOUTH IS ENROLLED
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York, May 13.-(Special )-New York extended the glad hand the other day to perhaps the most distinguished and influential body of men in the country. the newspaper publishers and editors. Fa- ther Knickerbocker was glad to, see his visitors and apparently they enjoyed his company. Hardly paper of any conse- quence from one end of this broad land of ours, but had at least one representa- tive here.
 And if anyone had any doubt of the broad prosperity of the country he could have had it quickly dispelled by doing as did, pay visit to the Astor gallery of the Woldorf-Astoria during the sessions of the Publishers association, observe the prosperous, happy looking men and listen to their buoyant, optimistic talk.
 I may say here that whenever 1 ran across a particularly prosperous-looking group they were almost invariably from the south or west. Fifteen-cent cotton and big meat, corn and wheat crops means prosperity for those sections.
 Among the noted southern newspaper men I had the pleasure of meeting were R. M. Johnston of the Houston Post, Clark Howell and Roby Robinson of the Atlanta Constitution, James M. 1ahomp- son of the New Orleans Item, E. ". Bar rett of the Birmingham Age-Herald, Frank L. Glass of the Montgomery Ad- vertiser, Frederick J. Thompson of the Mobile Register, J. R. Ross of the Char otte Observer. M. E. Foster of the Hous- ton Chronicle, c. F. Milton of the Knox vile Sentinel, A. E. Gonzales of the Col umbia State Louis J. Wortham of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, J. D. Lorens of the Galveston News. Frank IIinman of the Jacksonville Times Union, Bruce Haldeman of the Louisville Courer-Jo our nal, H. NJ. Suter of the Nashville Ten nessean, W. J. Cranford of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, J. R. Gray of the At lanta Journal, w. NJ. Clemens of the Mem phis News -Scimitar, E. NJ. Foster of the Nashville Banner, T. F. Rapier of the New Orleans Picayune, c. J. Glover of the Waco Times-Herald, F. G. Bell of the Savannah News, Robert Ewing of the New Orleans States, w. F. StoVall of the Tampa Tribune, Col Charles S. Diestel of the San Antonia Light. Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer, J. C. Hemphill and Allen Potts of the Rich mond Times Despatch, Robert Maverick of the San Antonia Express and host of Iothers Colonels all, and without excep- tion advance agents of prosperity for the great section of the country they repre- sent. I don't recall a single conversa- ton in which the splendid condition of the south it's remarkable growth and glow ing future was not emphasized.
 One conversation particularly is worth
 repeating here. Col Josephus Daniels of
 Raleigh was talking with E. H. Butler, Jr., of the Buffalo News, who had just leone from his North Carolina plantation. Naturally the question of cotton came up Mir Butler said
 T have made somewhat of study of the cotton situation and I am confident you will see the price of cotton go to 20 cents a pound before the end of the sea son. The mills will be scrambling for cotton and some of them will be unable to get it at ony price before the new crop comes in
 He urged Colonel Daniels to start a good roads campaign when he went home. "The national government" he said, should take hold of the question of good roads It would do more to develop the south than almost anything else. You get the roads of North Carolina put in the condition they should be and I'll guaran- tee there will be an influx of northern capital and people which will transform the state and the same is true of other states