The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-05-08
.GRONN IN MISSISSIPPI"
Is Slogan that is Urged Being Put On
All Products Shipped Out of
the State.


facturers, and all who are interested in
the AGRICULTURAL and commercial prog
\ ress of Mississippi are getting behind
this movement and carrying it on to
what promises to be splendid success.
Il will be brought before the bankers
of the state at their forthcoming meet
ing in Vicksburg Some of Mississippi's
most prominent bankers have already
indorsed Grown in Mississippi and
they are anxious for the bankers asso-
ciation to adopt it. Likewise. the i'm
portance of the movement will be i'm
pressed on the teachers of the state at
their meeting at Jackson and they will
he asked to give it their heartiest sup
4 bort both Individually and as an asso-
4 citation.
I "Put the words Grown in Mississippi
on every pound of produce that is sold
in the state or shipped outside of the
state" say the leaders in this great
movement. Hang it up in all our
schools so that the children may be i'm
pressed with it; let Us set aside one
week of the coming school session as
Grown in Mississippi week; let the
children be taught what Grown in Mis-
slssippi' really means, that living up to
it and acting on it means increased
prosperity for all the people; let us in
duce every business house to hang this
motto in conspicuous place; let Us in
duce our own people to raise everything
they need and to raise products for
other states, too; let US advertise to the
world that Mississippi can grow pro-
ducts as good and maybe better than
those of many other states
This movement is the result of the
addresses delivered in southern Missis-
sippi by Prof. p G. Holden. Hon. H. E.
Blakeslee. DR.. J. A. Herman, Mr.. r. S.
Wilson, Prof. E. R. Lloyd, Prof. r. N.
Pate, Mr.. ]. B. Mitchell, Mr.. John C.
Clair, DR.. TAFT Butler. and other promi-
nent men in the recent campaign for
diversified farming and live stock rails
ing
Before leaving Mississippi Prof. Hol-
den urged the people in Jackson, Hat
tiesburg. Meridian, and other places
where he spoke, to adopt this motto
and make it slogan for all the people
Of the state. He told how the motto
Grown in Iowa" had made Iowa a
wealthy state, and placed her in the
front rank of states, agriculturally and
commercially. He predicted that the
MOTTO. Grown in Mississippi" would
90 as much for Mississippi as "Grown
in Iowa" had done for Iowa.
One of the prominent men most en-
thusiastic in this movement is DR.. j. A.
Herman who has charge of the United
States governmet tick eradication work
in the south. 'For thirty years, says
DR.. Kiernan. 'all of Mississippi has
shipped her cattle as quarantined cattle
with placards tackled on the side of the
cars. Today thirty-four counties may
ship cattle to the free market. Would
it not be a better way to advertise the
state by having signs Grown in Mis-
sssippi' tackled on the cars than the
old quarantine card? Now is the time
to do something for Mississippi, pros
psrlty and for posterity."
The sentiments of DR.. Herman are
echoed by all the United States govern
ment men who are working for
the eradication of the tick in Missis-
slppi and many of the foremost cat
tlemen of the state. There are far
who are looking forward to the time
one of the largest stock regions in the
world. These men are most enthusias-
tic for the Grown in Mississippi"
campaign, for in it they see benefits
that will make up for the loss Missis-
sippi has suffered because of the cattle
tick Some Of them have already ta-
ken up DR.. Kiernan's suggestion of
placing "Grown in Mississippi" signs
on the cattle cars that go out of the
state from the tick-free regions. 1t
seems probable that on the cars con-
tanning some cf the states best cattle
these signs will be appearing before
very long. Among the growers the
men who are interested in the raising
of tomatoes and producing syrup are
deeply interested in the movement and
predict great things for it. Already
Mississippi-grow tomatoes and Mis-
sissippi syrup are known in many sec.
tons of the country, but the 'Growr
in Mississippi campaign will give then
even greater fame.
Grown in Mississippi" not only
means advertising Mississippi-growr
products, but it will result in growing
more products of standard quality tt
advertise. When he was in Mississippi
Prof. Holden gave some striking facts
Of how this state has been spending
money for those things which she cal
grow more proftably than the states
from which she buys them. He showed
that every year Jackson sends nearl!
$1,000, 900 into the Central West fol
beef and pork, lard. butter end eggs
canned goods, and horses and mules
Meridian sends 81, 900, 600; Hattiesburl
nearly 81, ,500,0 900 and smaller town
from 5000, 900 to $500. 200 for western
food-stuffs every year. Most of thes
products come from states that are no
favored in climate or in rainfall a
Mississippi is favored. They come from
states where the production of bee
cattle costs a great deal more than il
Mississippi.
-Four dollars out of every six o
your cotton money!" said Prof. Holden
goes into the Central West for thos
ioodstuffs that you can raise her
cheaper than the Central West ca
produce them. Then when the food
sums are gone, you have neither tn
money one nor the products"
The Grown in Mississippi" campaig
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