The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-01
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PAANS' A'AchC At PoocAOAC AOh oAiAiOS~ any kind of a farmer to make a living and put something by for rainy day, but the acid test has now come, for it's going to take a sure enough one to make both ends meet.
 But the farmer need not be any more downhearted than the merchant or the manufacturer, for both in the mercantile and the industrial world it was easy to sell and to make goods at a profit; but now they both will be put to it if at the end of the year a balance is shown on the right side.
 s It is easy to speak of the south as the garden spot of the world, and being true born southerner, 1 want to weigh my words, for I know the danger of iet- ting ones imagination run riot when talking of it's women, it's climate or it's natural resources. I'll therefore strive to speak sober words of wisdom.
 I know America pretty well, that is the United States. I make the qualit- cation for the citizens of the Union are very apt to take unto themselves the word Americans. It's a great country and a great people, and while proud or the fact that I live in such a nation, yet I think I will not be misunderstood when count it a blessing to have been born on this side of the Mason and Dixon line.
 man ought to have a good opinion Of himself, he ought to think well of his family, boost his town, be loyal to his state, and love his native land. I think these are the right steps for each one to climb the stairs of American citizen just at present from a loss of the sense of nationality in the loose talk about the time has arrived for internationalism l do not want so much to be citizen of the world as good American citizen.
 It's alright on public occasions to talk about there is no north, no south, no east, no west It's true that when the nation calls upon it's citizens as a whole we ought to be big enough to sink sec ticnal differences; but I hope I'll never arrive at that flabby stage when I can cease to love my heritage as a southern CT, and I am willing to let those born and reared in the other sections have the same privilege, and think only the more of them for holding closely to their own local traditions.
 I never have been able to straddle a fence for any length of time, for when the fight comes I am compelled to jump down on one side or the other and get into the scrap. I am a preacher, but l freely confess that if am riding along a country road and two roosters hitch up I just naturally can't help picking my chicken. have often said I would not feed a dog that would trot under another fellows buggy as willingly as under mine.
 If a church member has no religious he will be broken reed when it comes to getting any help out of him in his local church. believe in a man being loyal to his church. This does not mean that as Baptist I am not willing to cooperate with men of other faith when it can be done without doing vio- fence to one's conscience, but it does mean that in these days when there is So much talk about it does not make any difference whether one is Baptist, Pres byterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, Cath ollie or an adherent of any other creed. that church loyalty is in danger
 n,,A was on the main line of the southern, and scheduled to write about the south and it's possibilities. I am not so much just at this moment to start an advertising campaign with the slogan, Sell It South as I am to first sell the south to southerners. I am going to try and do it in this article to farm CTS alone. Acre for acre, the govern ment's own figures show that the aver age southern farm earns more money than costly land in the great grain states of the west
 The south need not put mourning on account Of the cotton situation. 1t is in as good condition as the great wheat and corn-growing sections. There has been big jolt given to our people do not seek to minimize it. On one point however, all authorities are agreed. genefal conditions in the south are fun sound. There is one indis- putable fact and that is no other sec tion of the country has so many money crops. This ought to be enough to heart ar, opv land ownar uriJlinr to work
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that the south produces practically all the coun- try's cotton. tobacco peanuts and sweet potatoes, and three-fourths of the rice: with an abundance of corn, hay, velvet beans, sorghum and cane syrup and other foodstuffs. she also produces about oi.e-third of the country's cattle in her 15 states, and with a little concerted and careful effort could soon run it up to at least half, and this in connec- ton with 40 per cent of the hogs, why should any southern farmer want to wear crepe?
 Do you know what the average per acre for southern lands, as shown by late authentic reports to be? We'll. if you do not, I'll tell you, The average for the southern states was $57. These are averages for tenants and owners alike. What will it grow into when the ''cropper' has been replaced by inteiii-, gent and thrifty owners Montgomery is moving in the right direction Its chamber of commerce in rais- ing $100,00O to bring in white settlers.
 Some of our Alabama farmers cast