The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1921-11-05
ROMINENT IOWAN
PLEASED WITH MISS.
CIV. Harding Who Toured This
State Has a Good Opinion
of Schools.

ne department. OI SuuCdLlOu VI
thI state has clipped from one Of
/ th5Iowa papers a report of an inter-
viR with former Governor W. L.
Hiding, of that state, which gives
tbeopinion which this distinguished
geIleman holds of Mississippi. On
theinvitation of w. F. Bond, super
inthdent of education, Governor
Hiding made tour of this state
las summer with Prof Bond and
spde from two to five times daily
folh period of six days in the inter-
esEbf education. Those who heard
thSinspiring address of the genial
loan will be interested to learn the
options that he formed of Missis-
sipl, as result of his tour Of the
stat. Governor Harding is credit
ed nth bringing his state from the
thiiy-second place in the education
al plumn among the states of the
Unin to the seventh place in per-
iocpf ten years.
ktracts from his statement are
giyh below:
Mississippi is not very far from
low and in some respects resembles
ouIstate A twenty-four hour ride
of he railroads from almost any
plas in Iowa gets you to Mississippi.
The same great river that bounds
low on the East bounds Mississippi
on he West. Eigthy-five percent
of te people of Mississippi are rural.
The live in the country and make
thes living farming. Usually in.
thepast they have made it raising
cotln; now they are learning to
grpf corn. Growing corn in Mis-
siss1pi, in a big way, is in its in
fanF. The public school is being
use{ there as in Iowa to teach the
faeThr how to farm better and make
moi money, so that the big business
of te people of Mississippi is grow
ing rops for food and cotton for
cloting folks throughout the world.
MAY MISSISSIPPI ACRES IDLE.
'lwa has about five million acres
NOR land than Mississippi To date
thirE four million out of thirty five
mill4n acres in Iowa are under cul-
tipalon in Mississippi only one
aefe7at of every three is being cul-
tiNa Id. This means a vast differ
emit ia the income of a state. At
one ime the school books taught
that Mississippi was swamp and
mos y waste land.
oout one-third of. the state was
baStid over during the Civil war
& Awhile all this was nearly sixty
Vel ago the physical effects on the
lan n#cape are still visible. Out
ffs & Jackson little way the en-
ba Nnents and trenches are still
W. preserved. Near Clinton is the
br house where General Grant
ia his headquarters. 1t is still
81 8ing although they have started
to Har Il down now and use the
br Ia new Baptist church. The
au3QRium at which / spoke at the
Baisst College in Clinton was used
a. hospital during the Civil war
4iae TIE Union soldiers we're
aro adrsed Lack to health.
s7NsT NORTH YAN-
lsHED.
however, new Missis-
Those who still re-
s the new Mississippi is
s Mississippi before the
i atever feeling there may
S been growing out of the war
/ ards the North is now
b kitically wiped out. A new gen.
; ion and the American spirit of
IL fathers are visible on every
li Edueationally and industrially
l3 4 people 0f the state are at work.
IS lazy folks you have read about
/ K he past down there have been
i Iflanted " a people with their
4 3tE.es rolled UP and hustling.
AlRtsDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
lfEhree things in my judgment
tlN have been undertaken in Mis-
slsippi within the past ten years
hive done more for educational prog
rls there than any others. First
Isl The county agricultural school;
sdsnd, twice year meetings of the
sd Dol trustees of the county; third,
til consolidated schools out in the
cdhtry. These agricultural schools
All unique, tor, so far as / know,
Mississippi is the only state in the
unon that has them"