The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-13
rHE MISSISSIPPI
THAT WILL BE.

THAT WILL BE.
1t does not take the eye of prophe-
cy or the interpreter of dreams to see
in the near future some remarkable
changes in the physical and economi-
cal conditions of Mississippi.
The man who one hundred years
ago said of New York City that at no
distant day horseless carriages would
fill it's principal thoroughfares, and
that people would be riding bird-like
vehicles through he air, was no doubt
then thought to be a man whose rea-
son bore striking similarity to the
geometrical line, only an imaginary
thing. Yet all these things have come
to pass and ever more. We are talk
ing today to people several thousand
miles distant, and are actually send
ing messages without anything con-
structed upon which to send them on.
These inventions only open our
yes to make us wonder at what is to
avn upon us next. Greater things
ire yet to come.
But what we started out to say
vas that the children of the present
lay are destined to see wonderful
changes in Mississippi. We have
cen in a sense Rip Vanwinkleing.
tut we hear ar alarm that is begin
ing to make US toss about, as it were,
n our pillows of comfort and ease
The sun of a new day is peeping in
,pon us and we are about to be made
'shamed of what we have been leav-
.ng undone.
We have a great country-the
greatest in all the world and when
this war is w the multiplied mil
lions of earth will be ready to say
with US, Hail, America" Great
and grand are the United States"
We have a great state but it is far
from being properly developed. We
have not properly cared for our lands.
We have played the prodigal son
Nth our timber. We have failed to
enlarge the horizon of our ener-
gies, of our hopes and our aims. Miss
issippians have been a embarrassing
people. But the day of things "just
happening so" is nearly past.
If we do not turn our attention
to the things that need to be done.
that must be done. others will come
among us and take from us that which
we have.
The great delta will take care of
itself as Il place to make money for
moneys sake for many years. But
the other parts of our state
We can look not far into tie future
and see where there are now worn
hillaifes and gullies. where there are
lands allowed to go to waste verdant
assures upon which browse } erds of
fre cattle. The bleat of the sheep
and the lowing of the COW VII take
we r1are of the barren nils a. d neg
looted slopes.
The eye can see splendidly con-
rtrrcted and comfortable homes
---hcre there now too often appears
~" Tack of thought of family comfort.
Ra4utiful horses will be seen about
wnrT built barns. Fine milch COWS
and registered swine VIII add to the
Torment of barns and fields. There
III 10 sheep and goats, and chickens
in neatly kept poultry yards. There
viii be seen the turkey, the geese,
tire ducks and the %pea-fowl with her
proud and naughty masculine mate,
oil of which will not only add to the
material value and soIace of the farm
hut will in a sense be decorative to
I'll rural surroundings. By these
homas will ne we'll built roads and
the first thing to he thought of by
ne family will be the church and
the next thing, sending the children to
school. Things can not rock. along
as they are. We cannot stand still
without unconsciously going back
But we will stand about where we
are until we realize more and more
that every tub must stand upon it;
bottom and that at sometime
and somewhere we shall be called tt
account for the use we made of oul
talents.
We need to realize that farming il
business. We need to be concerned
about everything that is done in GU,
neighborhood. We need to realiz'
that while every tub must stand upol
it's own bottom, that the only way t.
make sure of that bottom. is to keel
a vigilant eye for the things around
about US.
We are in a transitory period j,