The Holly chieftain., 1920-09-23
SOUTHWESTERN
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development under way at the
present time. He said he knew of
no town SO favorably situated as
Polly. He highly commended our
splendid High school plant, the
good roads of the section his party
had traversed and assured his hear
ers of the wonderful future OF this
great legion. iie also assured the
audience that the newspaper pub
Lefty .iis section is nov receiving
in the way of news stosics alone
about rl'e soil and its agricultural
possibilities was OF inest,r abte val
lie to the country in the aid of its
early Development and WIS worth
far more than al the space that
could be bough. in these i,ublica-
tions for real money, while these
news stories cost us not 9 penny. He
closed with the statement 'h1t the
Great Southwest movement was the
largest community development
campaign thai had ever been in
augura,eu and thar it nia' ked a
new epoch in industrial Dlogr.ss
c. Z. Isely, treasurer Of tn, asso-
citation, explained that the work of
this great campaign had been only
fairly started, that it was to be Wis
tied by others under the auspices
OF the association for more intense
organization of both The towns and
the count Y districts. The slogan
of the movement h said. was ''Citi-
zens and Neighbors Wanted" and
declared the full purpose of this
slogan was being realized. Mr.. Is
ely said $4,000 had already been
expended in newspaper advertising
in attracting better farmers to the
unoccupied fertile acres of the.
great southwest, but that $4,000
more were needed to finish the
work. He said he was wonderfully
pleased at the response of the peo-
pie everywhere in the promotion
of the work.
Chairman Thayer stated at this
juncture that all the prize winning
grain exhibits at the Webb Com
munity Fair were to be used by
the Great Southwest association as
an exhibit at the Dodge City fair,
where they will be viewed by thou
sands of easterners.
The, evenings program was then
given a splendid diversion in the
form of humorous chalk talk by
w. w. Pile a cartoonist and lee
turer, who furnished the chief en-
tertainment feature of the trip.
Mr. Pile is an artist in his line of
drawing and his drOll humor as he
commented upon the characters he
portrayed with his crayon, elected
much hearty laughter.
A. NJ. Hogan, field editor of The
Earth, the official publication of
the Santa Fe railway system issued
monthly, was the last speaker of
the evening He emphasized the
value of enthusiasm, in any line OF
work. but especially in the work
of developing great agricultural
region such as the Great Southwest
Empire, most of which is traversed
or tapped by the Santa Fe system.
He said the people of this section
possess more of this essential en-
thusiasm than any community he
had yet visited. He declared that
the people OF the section We're back
ing this movement in way which
meant success. Mr. Hogan enumer-
ated as the two most essential
agencies in the development of
new country as the press-the
newspaper-and the railroads He
even asserted that the newspapers
exerted greater primary influence
than the railroads and that the
good will and enthusiasm of the
press in any similar enterprise or
movement was worth thousands OF
dollars. He said the news articles
which are now being published in
the papprS ralatiya tO the Great
Southwest Empire We're publishing