Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-12-22

will be for supremacy of South
American trade. The Europeans
know this country, and when
their statesmen come here they
speak to these people in their own
language and know what they
need and what terms of credit
suit them best. | came down
with about twelve young sales
men representing good business
houses in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia and other cities and
not one of them knew anything
about these countries nor the Ian
guages. When Laucelet Dent and
Finis Carleton are % years old
this part of the world will be the
focus point of all the eyes of the
world. Great opportunities will
be here for the thousands who are
sure to come; but without a
knowledge of the people and their
language, any room or company
will be greatly handicapped. l
believe it is essential that every
high school in the United States
should have an optional course in
the modern Latin languages.
These people have great admi-
ration for the United States and
for the people from there, but
they feel hurt that we know so
little about this other half Of the
America
/; | was in a home in the country
a week ago in company with
Senior Loneta Moreira de ADrue,
the young man who travels with
me, and at dinner one night they
were discussing, in a general way,
beauty. I understand this Ian
guage a little, even though | don't
speak it. / know more about it
than any travelling companion
think | know. The lady asked
him (Mr. Moreira) what people
he thought had the prettiest wo-
men, and that brought on the dis
cnssion. I could keep up with
most oft One ia, ored the t'rench,
one the Italians and one the Bra
zilians, but the lady added that
she thought all English and Amer
leans ugly, but the dear senorita
added the compliment that all
Americans are intelligent. / never
wanted to talk any worse in my
life. q ',yasted 50 ttciff fttr not 20
think all men from the United
States look like me, and that she
should see some of the pretty girls
of Macon. would not have said
some of the grown young ladies,
because l understand % have mar
ried in the last six months, and /
never saw a married woman half
as pretty ten minutes after she
marries as she was before.
I will say something about my
work before / close this rambling
letter.
In my demonstration work |
haye an advantage over the work
in the states. If a man agrees to
o.operate with me the work is
done exactly per instructions. /
am having the land prepared just
as / want it prepared, and GER
tainly believe in thorough prepar-
alton. The land was broken with
a 9.inch Avery steel beam plow
with 4 oxen pulling it. After
breaking, the disc harrow was
used until the seed bed was fairly
good (some school teachers | know
in the Macon High School object
to the word fairly, but I've seen
it in school books) then l used a
section borrow, followed by a
heavy roller and planted fiat. /
planted some Texas durango,
Mebane's Triumph, some Texas
Big Boil and some native cotton
Nearly all the cultivation will be
done with "Gee Whiz' cultiva
tois. Hope to be able to give the
Beacon some interesting reports In
June or July. These people, as /
have already said, believe in us.
They think we do things right al
ways. 1 don't want to break their
illusion of our perfect methods;
let them 60 on believing we are,
all the farmers, prepare their lands
just this way. But they want to
know why our acre yield is so
small, and l tell them it is be.
cause OF the boil weevil and poll
tics. They can't understand how
politics could enter in, but / give
them to understand that I'll ex.
| plain later on. They ask why we
use so much coffee when our medi.
cal men say it is injurious and l
explain most Of it is used by the
hyphenates and the negros; and
why is your alcohol bill so large?