Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24

But we must go slowly" he said. "We must take things in their turn"
 Cooperation Necessary. Mr. Mooney stated h. was informed Pine Bluff has but the one commer- cial organization. the chamber of con- merce, and he expressed his cOngrat- ulations to the city on hat fadt He said he would urge upon inc business men of the city to maintain that ganization, to support it and to co operate fully with it. He cited in ] stances where other cities have two or more commercial organizatons. with dire results. in that thcre is a scattered adtivity, without concerted action, and little if aTything is ac. complished. Memphis, he said, is in this class, and he informed the gathering that he is now about to launch 9 campaign in Memphis. to have all the forces of this nature com- bined into the Business Mems club. so that efforts may be concentrated and actual results may be obtained
 "The one great trouble With us to- day. he said is the desire to do everything right away. to get results at once. We will be here long time. You gentlemen appear tollera bly, young. And you must remember that after us will come another generation. end others after them"
 One generation, one organization one sci of men, can rot accomplish everything it would desire, he said. It can not solve all the questions Tho present generation sh0nld ouild the 1 foundation, the next generation can l finish the struqure.
 Often. he said, those persons most i benefitted by the activities Of the commercial organization are absent from it's counsels an,; its activities. And most often the persons most l benefited can be found on the street corners, CT in the market places criti- Qslng the activities of those men who are doing the most to build up the city and enhance the value Of prop arty. Mir. Mooney ventured the as sertion that the salarie1 men of Mem phis, and the small business men whose capital is. in the main. bor- 1 rowed deserve the credit for the great progress and advancement o9 Memphis the past p years. benefitting most greatly those persons who have held on to property one and even two generations, and who have waited for their neighbors to enhance the value of that property.
 l Mr. Mooney remarked that doubt less it has been said here that Pine Bluff needs a few first class funor- als.' That has been said elsewhere, he said. "I have said 1t myself scv- eral times, in Memphis he remarked, "and only recently a man from At lanta said his town would be really first class q 'ty. if they could have a 1 few funerals and thus get rid of some of their mossbacks.''
 Every community has it's moss 1 backs, Mr. Mooney asserted and if Pine Bluff has none, it is certainly in a class by itself.
 Need for Good Roads.
 Mr. Mooney spoke of the recent railroad car shortage problems, in connection with reference to the growing need for comprehensive system of good roads. Such condi- tions should never have been allowed to exist, he said, and he made the statement that primarily the people l were to blame, in having been too severe with the punishment they in flicted on all the railroads because of Irregularities eight or ten years ago l by some of the roads.
 The building of good roads will ai1 1 materially in solving the problems associated with the prevailing high cost of living, he said, because it will allow the ditizens of each city and town to live on the products of tho farms in it's own vicinity, which the farmers can haul into the communi- l ties over the turnpikes.
 l Brief references to better health and sanitary conditions. good water, good sewer system, good schools, which latter Pine Bluff has always had, he said, was followed by state ment in whidl MT. Mooney declared the South is a cotton country and will always be cotton country. To get the greatest benefit from it's cot ton crop, however, the South will have to change it's methods little, so that it can produce on 100 adres the cot ton now grown in 15N acres, and use l the other 50 acres for growing the 1 lOoO oiIu ICCOoIQllo HCCoCu Dy edCH III dividual farmer, his family and his stock
 Meat can be grown in this section for ? IA cents pound and it costs 1-2 cents pound to grow it in Kan sas,' he said. "A steer which can be sold in Chicago for $50 costs $6O to raise in Missouri, and can be raised in this section for $42. That's a differ ence of $1S," he said. "Is that not enough of a margin?'
 MT. Mooney said the South has ex- cellent prospects for continued pros- perity, even after the close of the war in Europe. Two things it has that the [ world will be. compelled to buy cot ton and lumber. and he urged his hearers to use their best efforts to be in sudh position that they can sell this stuff to the world. and make a