The Semi-weekly leader., 1921-11-23
BROUGH'S TALK
OPENS CARNIVAL
SOuth's Part in New America is
Praised by Former Gov
ernOr of Arkansas.

| ing DeIOfe an immense duulenc6 OF
citizens gathered for the Natchez
cotton carnival, which opened today,
Or. Chas. H. Brough, former govern
or of Arkansas, national president of
the National Good Roads Association
and director of publicity for the
state of Arkansas, stressed the part
of the South in the making of a new
America. He said in part
I'VE of the southland can congra-
tulate ourselves that the fair price
of cotton of which we produce nine
ty per cent of the nations supply,
has meant an addition of approx
mateiy 100000 to our total
wealth in the last three months. The
South rising phoenix-like from the
ashes of war and the horror of re-
construction rule, with it's reign of
ignorance and depravity, now repre-
sents one-third Of the total populaS
tion of the nation and more than
one-fourth of the income producing
power of the nation-sixteen billion
dollars in 1921 out of a total of If
ty-seven billion dollars"
3CoTToN'S REIGN SHORT.
But let us not be deceived. The
reign of King Cotton for the past
two months has been a temporary
one for the staple commodity of the
south has declined 500 points since
October l, and since the publication
OF the government ginning report, as
much as seventy-tiVe points in a sin
gle day. There was never time in
Southern history when it was more
important that we feed ourselves at
home, diversity our products, build
up country life, and construct good
roads. In order to check the dread
full exodus from rural communities
we must emphasize the value of
education particularly in the less
favored districts, cultivate the hab-
its of saving and thrift and seek to
Usher in an age of great home inde-
pendence, local economies with less
self-sufficiency."
Referring with pride to the fact
that he is a native of Mississippi,
born at Clinton, in Kinds county,
educated at Mississippi College and
the University of Mississippi and
spending his early manhood as a
teacher in Mississippi, Governor
Brough paid an eloquent tribute to
Mississippi and Natchez, "the home"
he said 'of the worlds greatest ma
tural orator-that pale ethereal son
of Mercury-Sargent S. Prentiss."
For more than an hour the former
governor of Arkansas, who is a doc
tor of philosophy from the Johns
Hopkins University and who took
special courses while there under
Woodrow Wilson and had the honor
of organizing the first Woodrow
Wilson for President" club in the
United States at the University of
Arkansas, October IL, 1911, held his
large audience spellbound with an
able, scholarly and eloquent discus
sion interspersed with rare bits of
humor and telling anecdotes.
LEADS WHOLE WORLD.
He contended that America leads
the world in the excellence of its
governmental system, in the versa
tility and real worth of it's litera-
ture, in its economic and industrial
system, in the characterization of it's
educational system; in the realm of
fine arts and oratory-and above all
in Christian leadership, religious j.
dealism and its championship of
peace on earth, good will to men,"
Governor Brough expressed the
devout wish and belief that the con-
ference on the limitation of arma-
ment, now in session at Washington,
would be fruitful of results which in
his opinion, the American people
threw away when they rejected the
League of Nations
"The cost of militarism, repre-
senting 1876 per cent of the total
expenditures of the federal govern
ment during a period of thirteen
years, must be lightened and lifted
from the necks of the American peo-
pie" passlonately exclaimed the or
ator of the day.