Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-22

10 be funny at the South's expense.
Under headline, lis 1t Worth While?'
| that paper says:
Southern papers claim that there
/ are no Sunstrokes in the South. no
matter how hot the weather gets. Well.
| E3ktmos don't catch cold. cither-but
| look where YOU have to live TO pur-
| chase such immunity"
In reply to tho above the Manufac-
turers' Record relates two little stories
which are full OF hints and sugges-
tons that are worth while. Here's
one OF them:
Some years ago n Southern minister
accepted call TO Cleveland church
or one in that neighborhood. His lit
tie daughter. who had never known
anything OF hlizEards or snowstorms,
but who through the whole winter in
her Southern home had listened to the
singing OF the mockins birds and in
haied the perfume OF the ever bloom
/ ing flowers. week after week and
month after month in her Western
home endured the torturcs OF tho bliz-
Zard.
She saw those around her suffering
from the bitter cold and SHOWS OF that
western region, and one day. when the
storm was particularly severe. she
turned TO her Gather and said:
Papa. Is Heaven divided, like tho
United States. into the North and South
and East and West?"
What do YOU mean. my child?" was
the reply.
And the little girl shivcrinr with
cold, said:
Il thought IL Heaven was divided.
Hike this country. into the North and
South and East and West. when rot
10 Heaven l would ask the dear Lord
TO let me live IN South Heaven"
The other story is somewhat like
unto the above and also illustrates
thht INC ONO parer knows nothing OF
winch is talks. Here II is:
some years aSo II well-known busi-
ness man OF Lexington, Ky, largely
Interested in the development, OF coal
properties in the South. gathered a
group of the leading business men i'm
the West and started South i'm order
to show them some of the mineral r.
sources of that section
. Nhcn they left the est tho weather
was biting cold and the snow was deem.
br there for many months, bu, tho
next morning rs tho passengers looked
% n they found They had passed
afternoon they reached u section where
the tree" were hu idinE. the spring
mowers were putting forth and the
birds were vocal with praise for the
rrivii"Ee OF living in such Heaven
favored land.
These Western men. turning to their
Kentucky friend, said:
We do not believe it possible that
the section TO which YOU are CARRYING
us mas SuCh natural resources as YOU
claim. for, II TO this glorious climate
you could add such advantages as Won
SAY the South has in coal and iron
and otner minerals. how can you ex-
plain the fact that il has never been
NOR" largely DEVELOPER"
Inc answer, said b. X. Hutchcraft
who At that time WAS 4 leading busi-
ness man OF Lexington, is simple
enough 1t is y part of Divine wisdom.
The Almighty knew that il the world
at large learned first OF the advantages
and resources OF the South all popu-
iaiion would ccrte- there and il would
never he possible even for Divine Pow
cr 10 induce people 10 locate in the
West
And then here's the Records own
suggestion:
VIII tie Cleveland Plain Dealer. liv-
!nS III land OF burning sun in sum
mcr and OF death dealing blasting
billiards. in the winter. know enough
10 come South aid for itself taste OF
the heavenly delights OF this glorious
sunk kissed land where all nature "a
ever vocal with praise for its infinite
blessings?