The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-06-09
nv J. 4. .Breedin)


I had charge of the. first regular iHstis5
tue-that held >at Is-snr T lie. sssIases
officers were sent as specials fnt
present the subjects. One scntfesnans
was .on the program to tell OF oppor-
Etunities for soldiers on goYesnsneats
land. But itEaiI .sinfrnerea down sla
California. Day after day, for Weekssss!!
he presented California ny letIures
oral and pictorial; for he was
ped abundantly with slides showing
everything. Ss = z: So
T grew so tired of that onsssiaed
presentation of California as tie land
sof agricultural opportunity that dalIy
invited the men to ostell Of their ho1Ee
communities. They didnI have the,
facts. i did my best to- present S6aths
Carolina and the South, telling
things knew, q, was q ccniiry 5neWs-s
paper man oncet, citing the usual ms
stances of good farming, not the sssx-
ceptiona record Of prodJrcsi3a per
acre where a, prize stimulate fsefaTss
mer to unprofitab1e cost of prodsicss
ton. - So
On stlle basis of:;a1y Statements eyens
Irhy California associate alnlitse:ss that;
the South is the land OF oIporf an,ty.
How L did wish FOR facts an1 sisfles
and other data to present the eHsssAG
my own state Of South Ina
HcH n1any OF Us know the exsa1ss
lent annual reports OF the State be-
aIpaxtnaes.t Agric,iiitt 3 lians
Banks has produced is an annaaasssss
la book ofaiHf forulation that evet
r.afy should hsJe and ever
| ness man should Keep Wiisilin reach.
L.et us get the facts and tllen p,iss
them before the world.
"a business man OF New = orks res
marked of.Soufh Carolina st SIS the
most, advertised State, pohticaIlys and
the least known State, economicallys
in. the Union -. :.
While listening tosa, Gaiifor COM
rade one day, South Caroline caps;
tain who had stsaxeied in nearly eys
cry State remarked at intervals
raise more l;of this. that or the other:
than California .or the whole Vest
together. He was right, utaRd
here's the the Caiiforn ;S..ss<s s,Rerel
ont ppoclainaing their State and its Te-;
sources and doing It as ardently saa
though 1t would. bring. q new dispen-
.sation. - - IS s ,s ~,
One man asserting with confidence;
and enthusiasm the greatness and
grandeur OF his State. can sweep sa z
multitude of uninf formed men off their
feet. That is what Caiifornians have
done s,s &.
One night /. spoke at the Hotel
Mediterrannee III Paris, and in the
Introduction the chairman said some
nice things about California. Now
where do you suppose he came from 2
In London /. went to q movie-anc 3
saw a picture of a1 negro trucking
bales Of cotton about. and under the
picture. Cotton in the Imperial Va5-
lev, California Raised $4,000 bales
last year ss5s
Do we realize that California is adj
xertising its cotton on the screens and
in the great magazines? Some daysa
Frenchman will ask, Where is ze COT
ton raised ?'' And the answer will be q
I'm California And Orangeburg
does all the West. probably. 20
Recently there were four men on &
a train from Sumter to Manning. One 3
man was from California. Did we
lust guess that? Oh. no; he gave
facts, figures illustrations. He told
how many cars OF each kind: OF fruit
were shipped from California last
wear. II came easily almost torren-
tally from his booster trained lips II
And that lone Californian here IN
South Carolina backed the three Of us
1own. How? He had facts or what
passed for facts, about California we
lust guessed or had no facts as To g
south Carolina. ~ 80
South Carolina is truly d State OF
but the average CaroIin-
an doesn't know.it and the rest OF the
world doesn't even imagine it
What do you know, Mr.. carolinian,.
# your State? What OF the great to.
,acco industry? Did you GreeAvine !.
men ever hear of the special quality u
f .'Puddin'' Swamp tobacco Ard
id the low country man ever think
definitely Of the textile enterprises OF
he Piedmont? What of the trucking.
nd>ferti'izer interests, Of the fisheries,
lumber and fruit, OF the cattle and
tock awakening, the cotton seed oil
nills, etc.
William Banks has collated this
and put it in cold tyne:
ow lets all of US animate it and VII 8,
ify, it to the enhancement of the we'll
'eing of our home State. am glad
0 see that the South Carolina sDeveI-
pment Board is going to help Us
quip ourselves to talk intelligentiy