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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
NORMAL COLLEGE NOTES
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&. J. Puryis, former student OF tn"
College and also member Of 'ho Leg
islature from Union County is a visit
or at the College today.
The Lyceum num55r Daddy Ions
Legs" give nat the Normal College
last night by the great actress, Fetue
Jane Dunaway, was one of the mos
pleasant and enjoyable numbers of the
entire Lyceum Course. The audience
was held spell bound and the laugh
ter and pathos introduced caused it
10 appeal TO every heart in the audi
cnce. The musical Director, Alice For
tn. entertained between scenes with
choice selections Of Ih1s'c.
Miss Matte K Moore has had as
her guest for the last sew days her
mother and little niece. =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
PLAN ENDORSED TO
CHECK TRANSMITS"
EATTlEsBURG WILL COOPERATE
TO HALT WARRANTS.

Hattiesburg Joined today in the
movement originating in Natchez some
time ago, to settle permanently the
transient" question which has been
giving the police and the various
charitable organizations OF Mississippi
so much trouble for so long.
The scheme is to keep a close record
of all persons applying for transpor-
tGtion from one part CT the state 70
another, 9Ed to decline 10 issue such
transportation until ii has been shown
that the person requesting il has some
valid excuse for ferrg sent to the
proposed destination.
Chief Of Police Bennett is confer.
ring with he Associated Charities Of
Natchez regarding tie proposition.
"Tlis IS Il central roint," the chief
said today. "Hattiesburg gets more
than its quota OF urdcairables. \ pen
niless man applies to Jackson for
transportation To Hattiesburg, and he
gets it. He is dumped on to us. He
has no money, no employment, and
consequently is a menace and a bur
den to the city. Consequently, the
Town is filled with these persons at all
times.
Something SHOULD Re done to put
check on the floating population.
am willing 10 cooperate with the off
Gals of the other cities with view OF
Kidding the state Of this evil"
The following letter has been receiv-
ed from the Associated Charities in
Natchez by the CHEF.
q have been requested, as chairman
Of the transportation committee Of our
association, 10 get into communica.
tior with all the neighboring towns,
with the view OF seriously considering
the transient question. We have con-
slant REQUESTS from u dHSleulS 10 Dc
passed on to the next city. In order TO
promote efficiency and help solve the
problem, we deem il highly desirable
to cooperate with all the nearby as
sociatiOns and cities If you will assist
us, we promise you that we shall not
pass on anyone to your city until we
have at once sent you one of our record
cards filled ont We would kindly ask
you to reciprocate in the same way.
Whenever you have any poor in your
either permanent citizens
or transients who desire transportation
to Natchez, do not assist that person
until you have communicated with
Natchez. Whether they claim that Nat
chez is their home or that they are go
ing TO relatives there, or that employ
ment has been promised them. do not
pass them until you have satisfied
yourselves that they Will not be
burden TO this community. In this way,
| believe. we can to greatveXtent
eliminate one of the existing evils con-
fronting all cities and charity organi
cations"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
GOOD SIZED CROWDS
At CHURCH SERVICES
BAPTIST WILL BE RESUMED
ON FRIDAY NIGHT.

Good sized crowds attended the re-
vival being conducted at the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church on Sunday and
last night The Rev. J. n. McMillin,
Because of the Sunday school con-
vention now in session here, the meet
ings will be discontinued till Friday
night. when they VIII be resumed,
and will continue through Sunday
night
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
SUMRA[L ORGANIZES
NEW BASEBALL TEAM
CLUB PROMISES T OsE ONE OF
THE STRONGEST THAT TOWN
EVER HAS HAC

Sumrall, Miss. April 11.-At an en-
thusiastic meeting OF the baseball play
ers and baseball fans at Sumrall,
new team was organized and the Of
ficialS of the club believe that they
have the strongest organization this
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
WOODMEN WILL HOLD
IMITATION TONIGHT
BAND CONCERT WILL PRECEDE
REGULAR MEETING; LAST
AN HOUR AND A HALF.

A concert by the Woodmen's Rank
Of Leaf River Camp, No. %, viii be
given in Woodmen's Hall. beginning
at 1880 O'Clock tonight. The concert
win last till . o'clock.
Following this. initiatory exercises
will be held. At least one candidate
will come up for consideration.
Plans for the unveiling exercises to
be held on Easter Sunday also viii
be discussed at this meeting.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11

fund commission for valor displayed
in carrying two men through a mine
fire to safety Five years ago he re-
celved a gold medal for his act and
was told that he would receive a cash
prize later
Flanagan carried Mullery on his back
for distance of several feet through
flames and after he was safe went
back and carried Derrig through the
Same danger.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11

lumber town ever has boosted of.
The following officers were elected.
p. F. Williams, business manager: G..
p. Lewis, captain: w. c. Cowart. adj
yertising manager.
In a few weeks, the team will be
ready to meet any other organization
in this section.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
GETS 1000 OF HERO FUND
FOR SAVING TWO LIVES

Pittston, Pa. April Thames Elan
agan. of this city. has just received
900 in cash from the Carnegie hero
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
CITY BREVITIES.

W. II. Harris of Hattiesburg, is in
Jackson today on business.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11

Clean up. We win If we lose Help
make Hattiesburg the cIeanest city
in the state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
w. A. JOHNSON SELLS OUT.

| have sold my market stock and
accounts to Hemeter Brothers. Peo-
pie owing account splease settle with
them.
11-1t-p w. A. Johnson.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11
Big LEAGUE TEAMS
CRASH ON TOMORROW
MAJOR LEAGUE CLUBS OPEN SEA
soNiN EIGHT DIFFERENT
CITIES
80 1899 e~>>~

How big teams open season
of 1916.
American League.
Detroit At Chicago.
st. Louis at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at Boston.
Washington at New York.
National League.
Pittsburg at St. Louis.
Chicago at Cincinnati.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at brooklyn.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11

How about those vacant lots of yours
Have you had the weeds cut?
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-11

Are you a booster? of SO, clean up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14

ing damaging notoriety and securing
friendly treatment in the news and
editorial columns. 1t lies in Convinc-
ing the editors and reporters that you
and your company are on the square
and doing it yourself directly and OPP
enIy. IL we can't convince a man with
the education and intelligence of a
newspaper man, how can we expect to
convince other people? There is, of
course, a number of b1ackmailers at
large. The only way to deal with a
blackmailer is to get the goods on him
and then fight him and fight him hard.
There are editors honestly opposed to
US on principle, but any honest man
Will recognize the integrity of purpose.
Public utility questions, of course,
get tangled up with political affairs
and with the currents of business &C
tiVities. 1t Is the managers business
TO steer straight and isolate the con-
troversles that affect him so they will
stand out distinctly in their own light
IN the public mind. Tact and I'M
wearled patience are necessary. Some
times 1t is advisable to get out news
paper statements; at other times to
purchase advertising space and set
forth the facts. briefly and with malice
toward none"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14

Dor overlooked Germany. In 1913
Germany bought of us 1852, 900 900
worth of goods; last year she took but
s11 900, 900 worth.
That the present trade situation is
abnormal is so commonplace a fact
that it is almost an insult to common
sense to mention it But the United
States has had good crops since the
failure of 1913. We have paid off
debts abroad by the hundred millions
and have made loans abroad-the eff
feet of which, by the way, will be to
add to the so-called balance of trade
against US, to the amount of the div
idends and interest-by the hundred
millions also.
Our financial system is ready both
for prosperity and adversely, for the
first time in our history. For the first
time in our history we are in a posi-
ton to put branches of American
banks into foreign trade centers and
to mobilize our credits for heavy for
eign loans. We are the only impor-
tant manufacturing nation in the
world which has preserved its indus
trial organization intact during the
past two years, save only little Hol-
land and Japan. We ended the gov
ernment's business year, on June 80,
with balance Of $4,000, 900 on the
right side of the ledger. During the
same year England. France, Germany,
Russia, Austria and Turkey dfved
deeper and deeper in an overwheIm-
ing sea of debt
We are prosperous, agriculturally,
financially, industria1ly, commercial
~. The financial leadership of the
world is within our grasp. Ais right
with every part of the United States
except the council chamber of the par
ty of gloom and tears, whose prosper
ity can only be found in the nations
adversely.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
WHAT COMMERCE SHOWS

Republican papers find the United
States falling off in export trade tc
South and Central America and mel
ancholy reflect that our new markets
are due to the war alone and that
there is nothing about the growth OF
our foreign trade in the last three
years to give us any permanent ad-
vantage.
The cause of the falling off in the
gross volume of Central and South
American trade is not far to seek
The loss was in Central America and
Brazil Our 1915 calendar year, ex-
port trade to each of the five impor-
tant South American republics show
ed a gain over ,913. These were Co
Iombia, which gained $2,3OO,O0O; Ven
ezuela, $2,100O00; Chile, $1,1O0, 900,
with slight gains in shipments TO
Peru and Uruguay But why not tell
the whole story?
The fact is that from 1913 to 1914
we are speaking of calendar years
our trade with South America show
ed a tremendous falling off on the ex-
port side. These countries are debtor
countries, financed from Europe. Eur
ope went to war Aug. I, 1914, after a
"hOlS ycdl VI IlSHC uuouey anu con-
tracing credits. The strain on the
English, French, German, Italian,
and Swiss banks, on account
Of war distur Dances, was almost the
ruin of South America BraziPs pur-
chases from US dropped from $50 ,999,-
600 to $23 200, 900; Uruguay's fell from
ST 100000 to 81 100000; Chile's drop
ped from $4,000 900 to s13 500 900. In
the ca lendar year which closed with
last December all made handsome re-
COveries and all but Brazil passed the
1913 figures
In reckoning wars trade costs to
America it is strange that our neigh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
FRIENDLY COMPANY.

President Wilson touched the key
note when he said that the foundation
of peace with Mexico must be laid in
good will and mutual comprehension.
I This great country has sent missions
/ of friendHness to various parts of the
/ world; why not a friendly mission to
Mexico? The Business Mems league
sent friendly mission to South Amer
lea year or two ago; why not one
to Mexico2
We ought to show our friendliness
by trying TO understand Mexico. Per
haps the first necessary detail in com
mending our friendly attitude to Mex
lean intelligence would be 10 stop
praising POrtiriO Diaz, the utter break
down of whose system of government
brought Mexico to her present pitia bile
state, and TO substitute for our mawk-
tsh eulOgy OF a tyrant a few practical
and sensible observations upon the
natural faculty of all men for self
government when given q chancs.
One great obstacle to our giving
credit to the MeXicans for the capacity
which they really possess is Mexican
brigandage. Yet that is simply a direct
result of the Diaz regime. Diaz had
an army of 10000 men-as many as
we had when the Spanish-American
war broke out. This army had no com
missary department and was recruited
by force.
Here are Juan and Jose. They are
taken by press gangs" and forcibly
thrust into the army. Here is Guada-
Iupita, wife of Juan. and Juanita, wife
of Jose. As the army" marches away
with the two men the two barefoOted
wives trudge by the side of the com
pany. Guadalupita has q sack of Mex
lean beans on her shoulders and Juan
tia a sack of corn meal. They serve
tOrtillas and frijoles to their husbands
until the sacks are empty. Then Juan
and Jose 90 a-foraging They visit a
neighboring hacienda and bring away
more beans and corn meal.
The Mexican soldier, under Diaz. was
educated to two things. the idoa rh"r
me becomes a soldier because the press
gang catches him, and the IuLa .....
food belongs TO the one who takes it
The brigands of Mexico were in train
ing under Diaz in the Mexican army"
long before the glorious celebration of
1910, in which that ruler was decorated
and eulogized by all the monarchs of
the world
If our army had been recruited and
subsisted in the same way, il would be
the same menace Mexico's is All
Mexico needs is chance And our
friendly comprehension will help won
derfully. .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
HENRY FORD'S SCIENTIFIC IGNOR-
ANGE. =
(From the Detroit News.)

(From the Detroit News)
Highly educated and smart writer's
are devoting many columns these days
to exposing the scientific ignorance of
Henry Ford.
They are really plying Mr. Ford in
the density of what he doesn't know.
for not knowing what scientists know
has led him into several huge blunders.
The industrial scientists had it all
figured out to nicely that the larg-
est industrial institution that could
possibly succeed was one that would
employ 5000 men in a single unit.
These scientists knew that a very
shrewd, clever, careful and thorough
going man with plenty of resources
and ability for organization could
make a go of it with 5000 men; and
if he was one of the worlds rare in
dustrial geniuses he might possibly
handle 5000 men in a single plant; but
that was the limit of human capabil-
ity. and to try to go beyond that was
to fail Of self-disintergration or some
thing of the sort.
Now. poor Mr.. Ford lacked woefully
in scientific business training. He was
ignorant of all that. He got about him
men who were able to sell automobiles
in the markets of the world and other
prOfit-and so his business grew
When his plant had reached the
limit of 5000 men and he was shipping
out about 500 machines a day, there
was no kindly scientist to raise a
warning hand, and he doubled it to
10000 men. Still no warning of the
impending disaster came, AMI he
doubled it again to 10000 men-and as
a result where does this man find him
self?
He has a business organization and
a plant that $200.000 900 wouldn't buy.
He has $40 900 900 cash in banks. He
has over S30,000,000 worth of raw ma
terials on hand. He has many millions
of dollars worth of big assembly
plants in the larger cities of the coun-
try. He turns out over 1000 automo-
biles a day and has a personal net
income of over 100000 day.
OF course there are those who can
tell us to a certainty that it was not
the brains of Mr.. Ford that built up his
big organization. Sure! Mr.. Ford
had the brains to assemble the brains
that did it.
Mr.. Ford turned his eye to Dearborn,
where he was brought up on a farm
and where the people used to shake
their heads and pronounce him a fail
ure as a farmer. There he has bought
up a lot of farms, and is fencing it
safe from the huntsman's gun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY
LIFE.

Do Americans truly realize the re-
markable social and economic changes
now taking place through the agency
Of the small town and rural schools :?
Professor James once declared that
most people are old fogies at %, that
they have gained at this age hard-set
notions and a safe means of making
travel in a comfortable rut. There is
undoubtedly a marked tendency among
American rural teachers to avoid such
a condition.; they are realizing that
the teacher who never does more than
he is paid for never is paid for more
than he does. They are realizing that
the day is gone when the school house
was intended simply for children;
they are seeing 10 it that the building
IS fast becoming the most important
center in the community. Consider
for a few minutes some facts about
the practical results Of rural and
small town educational efforts in
America
Apparently the back-to-the-soiI
movement has had it's day. There is
in all probability a large enough pro-
portion OF the American people now
engaged in producing food from the
earth-if they only knew how TO do
il efficiently. The next great econom-
ic movement in America will probably
be the countryfying Of industries. Tn
noticed. this movement has really
been going on for several years. Large
cotton factories have sprung up near
the cotton fields, paper mills are
steadily moving toward the forests
tobacco factories are less and less in
the cities, and more and more near
the source OF raw material The ten
dency to move away from crowded
centers Of population, with their con
gested apartment life, TO the country
and small towns where the laborer
and his family may have cheap breath
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
PUBLICITY BEST REMEDY

w. r. MOlinard, manager of the
Oklahoma Gas and Electric company,
Oklahoma City. hits the nail squarely
on the head in an article he has writ
ten for the Public Service Magazine.
He says:
Public utility men seem to be well
agreed as to the desirability of doing
their own publicity, rather than let
ting more or less well informed critics
do it for them. The feeling among op-
orators and managers is that their
corporations really have nothing to
conceal from the people, and that if all
Che facts were known to the public the
permanent confidence and approval of
the latter would be assured
During the last 10 years there has
been a great deal of preaching and dis
cussion in these industries relating to
the necessity for publicity and the
methods best to employ. Many utility
companies have done something along
these lines and a number have done a
great deal Some of this effort has
been successful and some of it other
wise, but the net total has been a
marked advance in knowledge as to
what should and should not be done
toward the achievement of tangible re-
suits.
Publicity is a broad term. IT in
cIudes advertising directed at com
mercial returns, and it takes in every
form Of expression and communica-
lion which a utility organization NAV
have with its patrons and the public.
II is written, printed, talked and pro
jected in every piece of visible prom
erty and every act of the officers and
employees. II extends all the way from
the formal statement of the president
or general manager to the wording of
notices on the bill forms, and the
thank you" Of the employe who an
swers the telephone. Everything in or
about a corporation goes to make up
its pSbiicity and the Impressions re-
ce''-~7 by the people.
There is only one way OF prevent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-14
PHYSICAL VALUE OF UNIVERSAL
MILITARY TRAINING.

General John J. Pershing, the dis
! tinguished United States Army Philip
pine fighter, recently gave authorita-
J Give facts from our own history tend
| ing to show that any system of yolun-
tary or limited military service is a
/ failure from the military standpoint.
! He advocates universal service, a year
/ of training for every ablc-bodied young
man.
Nothing could be better for the
/ physical welfare of our young men
than compulsory military service. The
discipline, the open air life, the incul-
cation of real patriotism and organiZa-
ton which young man gains from
year with the cOlors are bound to
make him a better man Under our old
system of enlistment. the really ambi-
tious yOungster has little incentive to
obtain this training. Our standing
army has been so small that most of
us have seldom if ever witnessed any
regular army maneuvers, and hence
have no conception of the enlisted
mans status. If the people generally
were accustomed TO seeing trained
troops on the march or at drill there is
every reason to believe that national
pride and patriotism would rise to a
considerably higher level than it has
ever attained in America.
At the age of 20, or Whereabouts, the
average young man is likely TO waste
a year anyway. That is, we think most
boys become either idlers. love-sick
SWANS, pOol-roOm regulars, mothers
pets, or gangsters of one sort or an
other. good or bad, at this time of life
1t seems to be in a boys nature to
want adventure or change at the ago
of 20. Give it to him. Let him have a
year with the colors. 1t will make a
man of him.
As General Pershing says, every
citizen who expects the right of suf-
frage and liberty owes something TO
the government in return for these
priceless privileges. He has a duty as
well as a right the duty TO be prepar-
ed to defend his country against all its
enemies. and nothing less than year
of military service will 1T a man 10
do his duty in time OF need
We would like 10 see congress en-
act universal military service law
tomorrow, requiring one full year OF
training from every able bodied man
There is more democracy in France
today than we can boast in America |
A soldier learns to know and respect |
his comrades. Universal military ser |
vice is great leveller, il kills snob- !
berry, II gets boys acquainted with /,
other boys in the next block.