The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-21
THE GREAT SOUTH
An AWAkED GIANT
Some Facts and Figures Well
Worth Preservation in Your
Scrap Book.
POINTS FROM BRILLIANT TALK
Picture Of the Giant South as
EloqucntIy Drawn by
GroSvcnor Dave.

'
ICES ""'hc az the recent meeting OF
| the Southern society Of Washington
by G. Grosvcnor Dawe. managing d.
rector o, ths Southern Commercial
CONGRESS do mn, hcI;cvo ~. al
p'''' ~" al '"''
In tn" .Sn%spapers, bu. :: ought to
nave ocen. Even II II was printed at
the time OF its delivery, Il will not
hurt 10 use some OF its coyent sem
FENCES again liza his,n,ic.I
o' VI "a wing an
curiaiiins some Of its best sentences.
Mr.. Dave said:
! The South OF to-day is giant,
stirring:
y,h t,,tii.
'e e'"ht Is 'h1s.
lie FORM is outlined in the vas, area
u inc south. $4,000 square miles OF
land and OF water its ocean bound !
aries exceeding no racIn, hv w.,
rI.
NC
~ heeiiS iour miles 10 one.
Its arteries are the streams: the
| south POSSESSING over 10 ana
niles our a rhe ~ .TG-I IHI
! st,,ns "a 'he Ln'ied
a.,
no. .,s>na,a.-e 80 e"e RAIN o!str!outed
| 49,. ~ AHehes ana NOR
| ,,ha =" ,noHSns man IL tfne OF any
'et eaual area IN the United States.
LIS nervous energy is ia sent in IL.
"ater powers, located nearer To great
Anfhii!ng ar.as OF production taau any
other OF r.ja water power resources
/ ii the nation.
| Its benign countepancc Is ,,a
/ extent OF its cultivubin I,pds eSn
! ,oo 40, -. - 'a"us' SVV'-
nave never Vel fol, IN. .',,oS, 49,
/ blow and :hou,,S ,ns-.,s.as - 'nt
500 coo 900 .cr,.s 'r ,r,,r, 80
~ NOR. than re- ro,, -, ~,
gct be, M, - ,hotr - ~ ."e nave
v..,,,,.,-
,ni,,srsia !" or : strong through It's
.ii.!'eEd!s' near 10 natures arteries OF
anu near 10 the water BOUNDS
/ S.a,, ~ ".I'''1e!ouS strength In
/ Its adornments are is forests, tina,
ior three years past nave produced
7 more lumber than ali ether states OF
the nation combined.
us iargess OF food and raiment is
que 10 the sunshine OF long growing
seasons, transforming the vital fluid
OF rain through the chemistry of plant
ne INTO gifts that make glad the neart
Oh man.
All these gigantic proportions and
I their attendant possibilities belonged
TO the south before history was ever
written and they Will remain there
whether used. abused or neglected, UNI
I'll time shall end. unless the Will OF
'ne Almighty DEGREES that this West
erh hemisphere shall be disrupted and
us contour changed.
In the BesfnninE.
ms giant began 10 render its SER
go, ~ 'he "oFid "heh Virginia was
cI.ied
Sa''c 10 national power when the
I ,HiE heroes, aSonizinS over
~ ~. mat removed the Revo-
s,t,,,.r tu' heu the!F thoughts TO con-
strar,.,h aucsl!ons and 10 the
ns,,s 'hal comes trcm union. II
nai.ed because OF the sapping in
,,Sn.rs ~ se.,iie faee. whose COM
,ienai ~, s"ool olnatioii Was ma
ono a,a 80, anu ,ot alone southern
tional and NJ, Spn,I arc arc now ma
facs IL Inc averted
ton Ub.r M ~, eidns distressed the ma
h,d 49,, "e unity the South
ii, as torminabIa W, ,i,I a. u .'s ps
Ii, Was rniCh,i., 2 "hliS thonsh
! diyin. docrnn ~ man IT, the
t.in6{visIble hro,,rh, iia'ioh' one and
might ma,ee,v emu us
in the nations connc,is Gnu power
ance hccam. ,,ora Is eouhteh-
lands. the sadness =, nan any
against Kin Was ,baro ~, Nm attaEen
the patriotism of stat.
patriotism of nation Mas lie nnr,,n,'
The stripes % i,s afflictioa ~. 49,
palling and In bitterness did i, a., -,
bread Its men wera sub;ao,a ~
fierce struggle for bara nocossi,;s
/ For twenty years II mas 1900
alone through tho naraiveta nv'
erty. blu; also throuerh ,ha S,i,,, ~
geance that reversed tho sou,b;.
order BIZ national mar
/ Yet from all time to ,ba dar az 49,,
| the bases of national gro.,tn.o uoo-n
there awaiting the fulness ~ H.,