The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-09

s
ing f1id of our industrial welfare.
All our economists are agreed upon
this. Tie availability Of raw ma
terials and the geographical distribu-
ton of labor are factors that even
superheated reformers do not seek to
hurl aside. Florida is no more likely
to make steel girder3 for skyscrapers
than Pennsylvania is likely to mine
for rock phosphate or to build up
guava industry.
But there are several Southern
states that do not like the way their
books balance when they take inven-
tory of home industries and imports
from other states. The "Feed Your
self" slogan does not begin to cover
the situation, as you will learn from
the following editorial expression in a
| Tennessee newspaper:
"The average Tennessee farmer
gets up early at the alarm of Con-
necticut clock buttons his Chicago
suspenders to Detroit overalls, puts
on a pair of cowhide shoes made in
Ohio, washes in Pittsburg tin basin,
using Cincinnati soap, and dries on u
cotton towel made in New Hampshire;
sits down to a Grand Rapids table,
eats hot biscuits made with Mime
apolis flour, Kansas City bacon and
Indiana grits fried in Omaha lard,
cooked on a st. Louis cook stove;
buys Irish potatoes grown in Michi-
gan, and canned fruits put up in Cali
fornia, seasoned with Rhode Island
spices; claps on his old wool hat made
in Philadelphia, harness his Missouri
rule, fed on Iowa corn, with New
York harness, and plows his farm,
covered with a Massachusetts mort
gage, with an Indiana plow.
At night he crawls under a New
Jersey blanket and is kept awake by
Tennessee dog-the only home pro-
duct on the place. And he wonders
why he keeps poor"
! If we go little deeper into what
Tennessee really has in the way of
natural resources and rapidly devel-
oping industries we find that the state
is becoming a mighty important fig
ure in interstate commerce, no mat
ter how deplorable and forlorn is the
state of ridge runner who hears only
the Ilulations of his native cur.
Tennessee has coal and iron; Ten
nessee has hogs, horses, jackasses and
mules that are topping the markets
of neighboring states; hundreds of
thousands of horse power are being
newly tapped in Tennessee water
courses; millions of pounds of Ten
lnessee poultry are being sold out of
the state, and the South, the North,
the East and the West are beginning
to buy Tennessee hay and Tennessee
oats. Also there is good bit of
Tennessee cotton, not to mention some
other overlooked and little-advertised
/ Tennessee products.
The trouble seems to be that the
folks at home in Tennessee don't see
these things until somebody from the
outside happens along and tells them
in spectacular phrase where the state
is terribly shy.-Country Gentleman.
Investigation would no doubt reveal
the fact that this Tennessee indict-
ment might fit Florida conditions In
some counts. When Putnam county
farmers buy baled hay from the
northwest to feed their horses with,
and carry home canned goods to feed
themselves with, it is about time
! lllGy NSlC ldlSlllS W" peas NSlNSI
beans, crab grass, Japanese cane and
lot of other legumes to make en-
silage of, and time they were having
their girls join Jessie Burton's can
ming clubs.
When Miss Burton gave her exhi-
bition of girls work in the Board of
Trade rooms last December, it was a
revelation to those who took ad
vantage of the display of things
made by bright little damsels from
lall parts of the county. We hope
Miss Burton may be able to dupli-
cate-no, exceed it many fold next
winter, and she can do it if the par
ents and girls will only cooperate
with her in this most beneficial work,
Walt Mason. who always puts his
topics in graphic form, has this to
say on Home Made
"Why send afar, to Cork or Rome,
for Sunday hats or bales of hay?
Let's buy the goods we make at
home. and show we've patriots, that
way. The giant vessels sail the
deep, and bring us doodads made
abroad; we buy such traps, and fail
to keep our money on cur native sod.
Those ships take back our hard
earned cash, to pay the freight for
Eurore's kings; to pay for bottled
succotash, and stuff we grow at
home, by iings. My wife's new lid
was made in France, and us phony
thing, indeed; the boadcloth in my
Sunday pants was manufactured by
the Tweed. The sauce the grocer sent
today was brought from Lurnon in a