Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-07
VIRGINIA AS A PRODUCER;
THE THINGS TO HER CREDIT
All Over the Ola Domini Grcnt signs
or Progress Arc In


| We overheard Il man say recently
: that Virginia was not much OF pro.
duccr. mo-" thought VIC. Eve won
! der if YOU know that Virginia came
pretty close TO producing the United
States"
! by her resolution against the stamp
act. Virginia made the first move to-
ward producing the revolution against
British rule, which finally resulted in
the freedom Of our country.
Virginia also produced the man who
wrote the Declaration Of independence.
She also declared her independence be-
fore any OF the Colonies and gave the
first written Constitution to mankind.
George Washington. the Father of
his Country, was another Virginia
product: likewise Thomas jefferson.
made us the greatest nation in the
world.
We should say that Virginia has
done fairly we'll, all things considered,
and while she may not have been very
busy making money. she has been ire
mendously occupied in making it pos
siblc for other States to exist and
prosper.
she cheriSilcs tender memories of
brave men and gracious womcn"--to
us that seems the finest tribute that
WAS ever paid Il State. Brave men
and gracious womcn'-may heaven
prolong the strain
But there's u library of books full
of Virginia history. study it to know
the full pride of being an American
we must hasten to other things.
Advertising was responsible for
Firginia's beginning. and she had Il
great advertising promoter in Sir Wal
ter Raleigh. He WAS the father, of all
the tobacco advertising which fills the
magazines to-day. SO effective was
his publicity that even till now our
English cousins buy Virginia tobacco
as something extra choice
Richmond had It's beginning from an
advertisements of Lots for Sale" pub
lishcd by Evelyn Byrd in the Virginia
Gazette. back in April, 1897.
Richmond. There's Il place TO really
live in--"full Of good feeding, breed
ing and fellowship" and. according to
ThaCkeray. the mcrricst place and
the most picturesque | have seen in
America"
Aud. by the way. you who look on
Virginia as backward might do we'll
to make mental note that Richmond
was among the first. If not the very
first, American city to be lighted with
gas.
Now that Virginia has borne the
hrunt OF making il possible for all of
you other States to prosper CONNER
ciaUy. She has the time to turn her
arisrocratic hands TO toll
She has the soil TO grow almost
everything. She has the waterways
and railways to bring her products TO
market.
Lynchburg is already a great shoe
manufacturing center. Only four
other cities in the country outranl
her in the production Of shoes. LYNCH
leaf tobacco market in the world and
ON" OF the largest Hour mills In the
country. She ranks second in the
south in the manufacture OF cast-iron
pipe and leads al Dixie in the distri-
button of wagons and bugries
All o:cr Virginia signs OF progress
nrc in evidence. She's coming along in
I.nc style. and we venture TO assert that
She will in the future be famous not
only a. the Mother OF Statesmen"
but r. the mother OF great business
men as we'll
w already have ,h@ honor Of act
ing as the advertising counsellOrs Of
some ~! H.! well-kuowu manufacture
cgs, as we'll as thirty-avc OF her Lead
ing educational !nstitu,ions--nud our
arms are open 10 all Of her industries
which seek TO grow.-S,atemeu by y
W. Aver x Son.