The Little River news., 1916-04-15
Is the Opinion of J. D. Goldman, Pres. Of Country's Largest Cotton Buy
 Ing Firms; States Has Future.

able conclusiesl that farmers can be fAppy and successful only by living a: home. Their corn cribs and smoke no,lses should be in their own yards, not in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and li- l.rois
 Lands that produce as do those o* Arkansas certainly should be useG to live at home in plenty and happiness. Then let cotton produce the wealth and it surely will"
 These aye the continents of J. D. Goldman of St. Louis, president of the Lesser. Goldman Co'tton Company one of the greatest cotton buying concerns in the United States. Although Mir. Goldman now resides in St. Louis, he retains the keenest interest in and, as his letter shows, he has warm af- lection for the state.
 The Lesser-Goldman Gotten Con- pany is a huge concern with branch offices in New York, Brennan, Ger many Little Rock, New Orlean$ Memphis, Fort Smith, Newport, Mary ianna, Helena, Pine Bluff, Hope, VaH Buren, Fl Dorado, Blytheville and M Alester and Weleetaka, Okla.
 Here are Mir. Goldman's sentiments as expressed in letter to the Profit able Farming Bureau e the Lit4e Rock Board of Commerce: l.
 "I am in receipt of your letter of recent date, requesting an expression from me on the subject of farming in Arkansas. Personal publicity has nev- CT appealed to me, and only my beep affection for the state ce Arkansas, created by it being like moth br to me, as it has given me the milk to proper on, persuades me to write you, and if you should care to usd any thing I may say, I hope that 1t may awaken some thought that may result in goe,i to some one. |. f
 Must Live at Home.
 After an experience of oyer 51 years in Arkansas it is my unalter- able conclusion that farmers can only be happy and successful by living at home. Their corn cribs and smoke houses should be in their own yards, and not in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Illino:s.
 II remember we'll, back in the late sixties and early seventies, Randolph, Lawrence and other adjoining count ies, shipped steamboat loads of bacon. ham and lard to the lagef markets like Memphis and New OAeans, and such thing as buying cyrn or any thing to live on was not ktown in our country. To be sure, we did not raise as much cotton then, beehuse We did not have the land cleared noT had we the labor like now; nor did we have and other xpen}sive lux uries as now. There was more home life and less indebtedness and conse- quently greater happiness.
 Such a thing as a mortgage was unknown in these days; everybody was honest and honorable; # was the good old Southern stock that was do- ing the farming and borrowing. Spe- culation. grating atl high finance were unknown termsI Neighbor trust ed neighbor, and it as because cur people lived accordil to their means, and were not schent lg to take from Cno what ''actly ,e;otged to the other.
 "i ant pct Gne who can only see good in the past nor would want to return to the days of the tallow can dle. but the younger gJheration might learn much, and profit much, by prac- t:cing many of the cardinal virtues of their forefathers.
 His Affection for Arkansas.
 Arkansas is a woI derful state in her vast and varied resources. It is hut natural that should love her and her peoole on accounlo of their moral principles-both from the standpoint of religion and honel 2 It was the home of m yearly maj kiood and mat urer years, and prac ,lcally all of my worldly possessions Ire within, and have been made withIn her borders. I never lost dollar oI any real estate deal I handled, nor on a loan made to lelp people in their needs and ad- versailles, therefore 1 can see her vir- tues, yet, l am not b,E Ind to her faults, and if I mistake not can see the be- ginning or brighter and better days an awakening Of the people and bet ter citizenship. I have watched with keen interest and unselfsh labor of you and year associates, and especial ly the generosity of lthe papers of the state in giving pubI Iicity to the pro- paeanda that should make for a hap pier and more prosperous Arkansas, which need not yield the palm to any state in soil and climate. Lands that produce as they do should certainly be used to live at home in n1anfv and