The Prescott daily news., 1915-11-02
THE SUMMONS OF THE SOUTH
 COME HOME"
(From the Manufacturers Record)

wanderers home.
 Knowing that other sections could not be developed without the energy and the brain power of its people, the South has generously sent to other States missionaries to the number, since 1865, of more than 3,500,0OO that they might show to other regions how things should be done.
 These Southern men are found in every State in the Union. They rank among the great leaders in finance, in railroad management, in engineering work, in manufacturing enterprises, in law, in the ministry and whatever else men of ability can achieve things.
 But in giving to other sections so largely of it's own best life the South has impoverished itself to the en- richment of others. In times past this was necessary, because the pow erty following the war made it difficult for Southern men to find field of ac- tivity at home, and so they went out from the South to New York, to New England, to the central West and to the Pacific coast. Wherever they went they blazed the trail of advance ment. When counted by numbers the total of 3,5OO,00O is great, but when counted by achievements the aggre- gate is vastly greater than the num- bers indicate.
 Commerce and Finance of New York, in publishing the statistics of Southerners and others living in that city, gives figures taken from the cen sus of five years ago, which show 92, 900 Southerners living in New York.
 Commenting on these figures that paper says:
 Nothing statistical has been so sur prising to us as these figures. If it were not for the profound respect we have for the Census Bureau, we might doubt them.
 Only 2387 Texans in New York! Is it possible? It has seemed to us at times there were that many here boss ing railroads, serving on the bench or in borough presidencies or getting shamefully rich in corporation prac- tice. And surely there are nearly that many Texans here running New York banks.
 Next to the figures regarding Tex as, those of Virginia are most aston ishing. To anyone who has gone about New York and in theater or restaurant has seen nine-tenths of the men get up and give the Rebel yell when the band played Dixie" it is inconceivable that there are only 2S,- 862 Virginians resident in New York. There hardly is anything a gentleman will confess so readily as that he is a Virginian after he has given the Rebel yell. There is no place where the Rebel yell and 'DiXie" are so pop ular as in New York. Most persons thought this was because the city had so many hundreds of thousands of Vir- ginians--F F. V's-resident here.
 The more these figures are studied the more they disappOint It is made to appear that there are 10,736 North Carolinians. This must be a mistake, as is also the 6798 charged to Georgia and the 8229 credited to South Caro- lima. There are no Southerners in New York except Texans and Virgin ians. There used to be a North Caro- linian but he always apologized, and now he has moved away.
 It is not surprising that Editor Price was surprised at the compara- tive smallness of the number of South erners, for he had judged by their achievements that they made up a lor, of h., ol l., tion. The number of Southerners in New York, as given by the census, figures up 92,273, but, measured by what Southerners have done, the fig ures ought to be ten times as great. Nor is it surprising, considering the number of Texas bankers and rail- road men who hold foremost positions in that city, that he thought nearly all leading New Workers were Texans and naturally he supposed for similar req sons that those who were not from Texas were necessarily from Vir- ginia.
 Instead of counting Southerners by the size of the numbers in New York and elsewhere, they must be counted by brain power.
 Lloyd George was once introduced to a great political gathering by a man who had never known him and who was not very much enamored of some of his political views, and, therefore, possibly with an idea of casting slight slur upon the distinguished Welshman, said to the audience, with