Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-30

Among the hundreds of plans and schemes and laments and direct bids for free advertising that have come to the World since the outbreak of the European war, this refreshing message from Wright Willingham, president of the Rome, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, glistens like a freshly-cut diamond. It is an ap peal to the manhood of the south and rebuke to those who have been disposed to whine. Also it is full of good, sound advice, and it is given prominence here because it deserves :. ol uslsYI 'ssIs Su!qlou pug leql asnif MT Willingham, who is southern man, and therefore privileged to speak on matters of grave concern to the South.
 For more than one hundred years the United States have made the proud boast that this country could live regardless of any exigencies that might exist in other parts of teh world; that this country, bounded as it is on the one hand by the Pacific Ocean and on the other by the Allan tic, separated thousands of miles from the "Yellow Peril;" on the other hand separated thousands of miles from the heterogeneous elements of Continental Europe-the rest of the World might go to He'll if they chose to do so, and stil1 we would be bask- ing under the sunny skies of Amer ica-the land bubbling over with milk and honey and hog and hominy.
 Ax1A m n;t have an opportunity to illustrate the declaration made by every hill-billie orator of the last century or more from the mountais of New Hamp- shire to the plains of Texas, and yet here we are, the average one of us going around like mangy dog, whin- ing about "The War" You can hard 1y get an audience with man on any other subject and nine tenths Q. the people seem to be under the i'm pression that somebody has done them or their folks a serious injury.
 "The question at this hour is not are the American peorle-the south ern people, lot of pale-faced molly coddles, with skinned goats milk flowing through their veins, or have they inherited the rich blood of our American sires who left their bloody foot prints on the frozen valleys of Virginia, when George Washington led them on to victorious deliver ance from the yoke of English Roy alty
 s "These men won because they had sand in tehir gizzards instead of grape nuts. and guts in their bellies instead of tape worms.
 True. we may have to abandon some of our twentieth century lux uries. It may be necessary to adjust ourselves to a new basis of living = but should we surrender? True it 's some of our folks may have to di- vert to some extent the stream of gold that has for the last ten years flowed from our vau1ts and into tho cofec~- Of Mir Ford MT. Peclvard MT Rnio', and MT. Saxon. and other esteemed fellow corntrvmen .N the north ce us. but we can still raise mule colts and Jersey hu,le and get there somn- how even +houoh it be at lowa~ rate of speed
 'sTrne it nav he that our wome~ >fc1ks nav have to suspend their snf-- frare cnnvora+ions for hr'af sre,' and ~eeuma Tho rooro+orors husireee of looking after the babies and knit ting sox for the men-but this is the way thev nsed to do and they ma~ aged to live through it.
 "True it may he. that onr rich dads won't have quite as much money to snend on their hovs in the way of Piedmont cigarettes. patent leath- CT shoes, and ice cream. clothes, and 1t may he even possible that the boy will have to learn something about self-denial and physical labor-but this is the way they used to do and several of them managed to live through it.
 True it may be, that some of our farmers will be driven, against their will, to the production of hog and hominy, peas and potatoes and sor- Rhum and cider-but that is the way they used to do in the old days and some of them managed to live through 1t.
 "True 1t may be, that the insincere politician who has been feeding the Dear People" on glittering gener- alities and pleasant platitudes may be called upon to deliver the goods in- stead of honeyed phases-but this is the way they used to do in the old days and the country managed to survive it.
 "True it may be, that these kins of times serve to show up in the com munity who is the real man and who is the humbug, but We will have to submit if we can't do any better.
 "True 1t may be, that preachers will be driven to revisiting the sick, the widows and orphans and preach ing the gospel instead of politickiag