The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-13
LOOK AROUND YOU.

the South-with such boundless resources
for manufacturing, there was invested IN
manufacturing Tin 1914 only 81 ,4O1, $685.
900, or nearly a hundred and forty-seven
million dollars less than in Massachusetts,,
the Manufacturers Record says very truly
THE South needs to know itself If it would
rise to its opportunities.
And Massachusetts, has as much invested
outside the state, in railroad and other en-
terprises, as inside; whereas the Southern
states have very little capital invested out
side their own borders.
This is merely scientific way of saying.
what we already know, that there is not
much money in the South.
Again, approaching the bject from a
different quarter: In this the greatest ship,
building era of our country's history, with
389 merchant ships, aggregating 1,26O,978
tons, in process of construction on August
(not including the wood sailing vessels
building) the only yards south of the Ches-
apeake Bay that are employed, are the Mer
rill-Stevens Company, of Jacksonville,
which has under contract four steamers,
with total tonnage of $780, and the
Tampa Foundry & Machine Co., one
steamer, 1000 tons. The South, with three
fifths of the coast line of the United States
is building only two hundred and eight
ieth part of the ships
While it is pleasing to Our amour propre
to know that Florida is the only Southern
state that is doing any of this ship-build-
ing, we must not forget that we are import
ing those things which we ought to pro-
duce, and are not selling those things
| which we ought to raise. Baldwin, Ala
bama, sweet potatoes are being sold in
| Pensacola today In the meantime, Escam-
b1a county farmers are very hard pressed
| for money, because the money that should
be theirs is going in steady stream to
baldwin county for potatoes, to the North
for butter, to the West for beef, and to
heaven knows where for heaven knows
what!
Never was the South in such need of
commercial, industrial, and agricultural
leaders as now. Not even in reconstruction
days. And who so qualified as the bankers
and business men to lead the people from
out of Egypt into land flowing with milk
and honey?
Agricultural development depends upon
the business men and bankers no less abso-
lutely than commerce and industry Here
IN Pensacola we are beginning to realize
this, better perhaps than do certain other
parts of the South. 1t is the business men
OF Pensacola who will retain the farm dem
onstrator for Escambia county. It is the
business men who will take a leading part
IN the formation of the Stock Growers As
ISOLATION at Magnolia on Thursday, which
will probably be the means of bringing an
other demonstrator-a livestock expert
to help us make Sunshine Land a synonym
for prosperity It is the business men here
las everywhere else in the worldwide
are making the model farms installing the
latest machinery, and experimenting to fine
out where two blades of grass will grow
where only one grew before Many O.
these farms are operated at a dead loss, bu
the farmers benefit from the practices tina
are found to be sound Finally. it is tn,
business men who develop the markets
Have you ever noticed our business mer
when they get ont IN the country, and how
they marvel at the glories thereof? No
when they spurn the surface of the land il
an automobile, but when they get out, tall
to the farmers, walk about the BARNARD
touch the corn and looking at the cows
They don't understand the details of agri
culture, of course, but they understan
enough to know that what they see is GOOD
e Little journeys like this into the land ar
becoming more frequent every day. an
this growing intimacy will be one Of tn
D principal factors in the development of Es
i Gambia county and West Florida
: But Our business men must enter sti