The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-09-29
ONE OF COUNTY'S
BEST COLORED CITIZENS
Gives Advice TO Those Of lila Race
As to What Not to Do. Owns
1000 Acres Himself and Is
Very Intelligent Color
ed Man.

Editor Sentinel Permit me space
in your columns as one of the colorec
farmers of Grenada county to say 8
few words to those of my race who
are interested in farming. These
are times that try mems souls, times
that the metal in man is tested. and
/ hope that you of my race will show
that YOU possess the elements of true
manhood and citizenship, that you
are not a migratory people, ready to
change homes and surroundings be-
cause of adverse circumstances.
I know that there are those abroad
in the land interested in persuading
the thoughtless to go elsewhere; the
good things. the best things they tell
you are over yonder, but is it no
time that we were learning better
than to listea to the outsider who has
only a selfish interest in us. 1t is
time that we were being guided as to
what we shall do by Il own eXper-
fence and observation.
The boil wecvil is here. He is at
almost all other sections of the cot
tor belt. and those places he has not
reached will soon he objects of his
avages The thing is not to run
away from him but stay and fight
him. Others have won, SO can we.
Are we going to let the boil wcevil
make us cry help" make us leave
our homes. friends and acquaint-
ances, and hunt new qdarters? No,
if we will stop to think. The people
are living in Texas and are doing
well, where the boil weeyil has been
for more thon twenty years. The
people are living and doing well in
Louisiana. Arkansas, South Missis-
sippi and other places that have had
the boil weeWl several years. Many
people who live in those places are
doing better than they We're before
the coming of the boil weevil. Can't
we do the same? We can if we will
stay and try. The thing to do is to
remain here and adjust ourselves to
new surroundings. If we go where
there is no cotton and no boil weevil
we will have to meet absolutely new
conditions. We will have to deal
with a people whose habits and Gus
toms we do not understand; a peo-
pie who will never understand us.
If we are to change our methods of
agriculture we had better change
them among the people we know and
understand and who understand US.
While we are changing the white
people will be changing. If we go
to a stock country We shall have to
learn how to raise stock. We can
learn that here in the best country
in the world for stock raising. There
are people going up and down the
country now who are trying to tell
everybody how to raise stock and
how to meet new conditions; this ad-
vice is open to Us Just as it is to the
white people, and it is without mon
ey.
We are an agricultural people;
this being true. it is the right thing
that we remain here where we are
known and understood and where
the chief concern Of all is agricul-
ture. Take the advice of those who
are succeeding on the farm. Have
good gardens all the year have a
COW, some hogs and chickens. Raise
everything at home. Practice in
dustry and economy. Our prosper
ity and happiness will soon return
US who remain here, My advice
to you is Live at home"
A. II. HENDERSON.
Grenada, Miss, Sept. 27, 1916.