The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-04-13
4 Few Things About
Talking and Dong
(By REV. L. e. HALL.)

dollars of surplus money which they
never have and, fear, never will en-
ploy in this, the most promising and
most important of all the industries
of the South. We have cooperation
in every other sphere of business. 1t
REQUIRES but little effort to enlist suf-
ficient money to inargurate an enter
prise of almost any other kind, but
suppose you start out to organize
stock company to build up "diversl-
fed" farm? Do you want to try 1t?
If so would say "Stop, poor sinner:
stop and think before you further CO."
You can have plenty of TALK, II you
will pay enough for it, but great
deal of the talk will be from people
who are full of theory and who are
totally without experience in the
things necessary to success. have
heard discussions from parties who
never did a real hard days work in
their lives You might place such a
man on a farm and diversity" it as
much as he wished and if his living
depended on what he would produce,
he would have to beat the possums to
the persimmon tree, at night, or go to
bed with hungry stomach.
The quotation from me, referred to
above, grew out of what I said about
, an editorial in The News of the previ-
GUS day. | heartily approved of that
editorial. What the editor said was,
as | saw it, the truth, plainly and
simply stated. Capital must come to
the rescue. Intelligent, earnest, per-
sistent and constant cooperation on
the part of capital and labor will solve
every problem that there is in the
way of making this country the garden
lspot of America. Just in proportion as
There are employed. in that proportion
will be the measure of our future pros
perity and happiness, so far as human
happiness can be had from what there
Is beneath the skies.
/ have felt, for some time, some
such thing as was said by the editor
of The News ought to be said, but
have hesitated to write anything my
self, and this for several reasons. A
principal reason was, | have friends
who are active in the matter Of agita
tion, and / did not want to place my
self in an attitude where my loyalt!
to them would be questioned. The sec
retary of the Commercial Club of thii
, city is my personal friend and know
that he has done all that mortal mai
, could do to promote every means ant
, method that he has believed to b.
. useful in advancing the interest of thi
city and community Nothing in thu
above is intended as a criticism of hi
methods or his motives. I dare sa,
| that he would, himself, affirm that hi
: greatest difficulty has been inabilit,
, to enlist the men who have means in
practical way. know that he canno
{ fail to realize the utter futility of al
: effort without it.
Why not do something? Why tall
and talk, and talk about what every
body knows. while we do nothing? w
are doing the talking while people
thousand miles away from us are bu!
ing the land under our noses. W
want to pass laws to keep other PEI
pie from buying it and save it for'ou
children" This while "our children
many of them, are spending their tim
going to the show, drinking coc
cola ard eating popcorn. The pro
perity of people rests upon the cha
le acter of productiveness of their er
N ployment. If this be true. and 1t is sci
,e evident, ours has foundation large
Dr. of coca-cola and popcorn. I want
IN ask, in the name of our country's I
,e ture, in the interest of the future !
le our children, and in the name of Il
I'd Blessed Lord, God Almighty, If 1t
q. not time that we should take serio,
d, view of the possibilities and respon
rk bilities of the lives and opportuniti
or that God has given us?
lie In conclusion I want to say that
st an not "sour" with anybody or an
'e, thing because of failure from lack
Ell means. I am farming and am MAXI
he living. Though pretty old to plt
at and hoe corn and potatoes, ETC., ha
IN meat for sale, hogs for sale and co
,e. for sale. We have raised ten childr'
All of them are grown and gone. w
. and I are alone, as we began neal
= fifty years ago. About the only 3
= ference is, am older and she is b