The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-12-01

cepted as absorbing facts by the mer-
chants and leaders Of the South, and
can be accepted by those Of the North
as the note Of authority.
Up to a few years ago capital was
not sought in or did it hurry to the
South Dixie was considered as a pref
ty section Of the country about which
one should--and often did-write songs,
novels and dramas mainly remarkable
for an impossible negro dialect and the
number of roses that intruded upon
every scene and setting.
Cash, as the country considered its
use in Dixie, was petty contrivance
used strictly as a medium of exchange
and not as a power of development
With blind allegiance the South clung
to cotton as its great and only staple
and the shifting market on that single
staple spelled relative poverty or af-
fluence for the territory south of Ma
SON Dixon.
A change has come in Dixie. It still
has its roses and its negro population,
but added to that has come a great
outpouring of industrial blood through
the veins of southern progress and in
instant response the South has devel-
oped until from a weak and pretty sis
ter in a cotton gown it stands today
an industrial power to be reckoned
with in the Offices of the worlds great
est banking, transportation, develop
ment and commercial units.
Figures may weary the average read
er hut beneath them lies a romance
greater than any fictionist ever drew
with swift running pen if one has but
the ability to see and understand. OF
the entire output of the United States
in corn the South gives 54h per cent,
Of tobacco "a ITO per cent, potato 80
per cent, peanut 90 9-1O, apple 16 9-10,
rice S. per cent and sorghum syrup
S5 per cent. The annual peach crop is
nearly S44,0OOOOO sugar cane syrup
$9OOOOOO oats S175.0OOOO wheat
SSOO,000,OOO and cotton $4,000, 900, 600,
with live stock value in the South of
$3.50, 100000
The South's development as an agri-
cultural dairy and live stock country
is due to one cause more than all 9TH
ers. Advertising was the force that
changed the South from a one-crop to
n varied-crop and livestock section 1t
was not until the Southern newspapers
and farm paper publications had given
be derived from varied crops and live
stock raising that Southern farmers
could be induced to dethrone king
Cotton" 1t took years Of continuous
advertising on the part of these far
seeing Southern publications to sell the
perity depended not upon one kind of
a crop, but upon many kinds of crops,
Papers Repaid,
While the Southern newspaper and
farm paper publications were never
directly paid for such advertising, the
resultant prosperity of the South has
repaid them many fold for the space
so generously donated for the upbuild-
ing of the southern states agricultural
interests,
But advertising has been not only
the means of building up the South
agriculturally, 1t has built up the
South industrially from practically a
minus quantity, so far as mauufactur-
ing industries were concerned to a
point where Southern industries rival
the industries of other sections of our
country,
1t was only quarter of a century or
so ago when Southern people had to
obtain even the simplest of manufac-
tured commodities from the North. 1t
was this condition which inspired the
late Henry w. Grady, the beloved pub
licist of the South, to write in one of
his editorials, as follows
ut was n one-Ealloused fellow,
whose breeches struck him underneath
his armpits and hit him at the other
end about the knees. He did not be-
lieve in decollete clothes They buried
him in the midst Of n marble quarry.
They cut through solid marble to make