The Washington herald., 1922-10-21

ings. both In the cities and In the
small towns Of the Agricultural dts
tricts. are high schools, to provide
ampler educational facilities than
ever before known.
TIE survey Dfagnssed.
The South has been too busy with
its building program to realize
what immense totals OF invest
ments. permanent In character and
full OF future Importance. are being
made at the present time. Except
for a few alert minds. the North
knows nothing, practically, Of what
Is going on
A diagnosis OF the statistical
tablo reveals In a graphic way the
Development of the various States
The AT per cent Increase for the
tributed. Because of Baltimore's
slump. Maryland shows a decrease
Of 22 per cent; while Mississipprs
rapid development Is revealed in an
increase as high as 1913 per cent.
States issrevealed in the following
table:
The most striking fact to be
gathered, from this compilation Is
that those States which In the
past have been most undeveloped
are now at the forefront of build
ing operations. Florida, which
forty years ago. was scarcely more
than continuous stretch of
swamp. hammock and pine barren.
shows the way with an expendi-
ture OF s52.72 for each person
living In the State It 10 also
interesting to note that while It
leads the other States In per capita
building. it shows practically no
increase over the previous January
to June period: which indicates
that the unusual building program
has been In effect for some time
past. Those who are In close
touch with the affairs of the State
realize. that there is little likeli-
hood of any abatement in the near
future.
Oklahoma Makes Strides.
Oklahoma. ranking second in per
capita building Is another example
of a race against time to take
advantage of boundless resources.
The public usually associates the
phenomenal spurt OF this State with
the discovery Of oil. Oil has had
much to do with II, but the vast
wheat fields of the State contribute
q large shars of its wealth. Minne-
sofa -four mills are the heaviest
buyers Of this years crop. and the
manufactured flour will take its
place with the best products of
the winter wheat fields of the
northwest.
In 1900. Oklahoma's largest city
was Oklahoma City. with 32,452
people. Muskogee came next with
14.41S. Today. the former has 100,-
900, while Tulsa, a small village
Of twenty years ago. approaches
the 10000 mark. 1t is little won
der that building figures are
mounting with incredible speed to
keep pace with such development
North Carolina. coming third in
the list. presents an anomaly.
One of the original thirteen colo
nies. it has long been developed
In its rural life. but its cities
have been singularly small. Re
Gently. a remarkable expansion has
been noted in the urban life. due
largely to the rapid growth Of
Carolina now leads all Southern
States in its manufactured prod
ucts. and industrial villages are
rapidly expanding into cities. The
traveller riding from Greensboro
to Gastonia is scarcely out of
sight of a textile mill. furniture
factory. tobacco factory or some
other evidence of Industrial en-
terprise.
1t is in the States where the an
cient cities are to be found where
building is lowest per capita
where Charleston. Savannah, Mo-
bile, and New Orleans have built
their structures gradually from year
to year. or some of the older Inland
cities maintain a steady growth.
The South's Resources.
The South has an exceptional
foundation upon which to erect its
future structure. Climate, soil, the
character Of the people. water pow
or, sea coast. mineral resources
this list could be indefinitely ex-
tended TO show that what is being
done today toward the development
Of the section is merely scratching
the surface of future possibilities.
Nothing could be more ilIuminat-
ing along this line than a recent
dispatch from Charlotte, n. c., read
ing:
investigators are now at work
throughout the South obtaining for
New England textile manufactur-
ers facts that will be considered in
connection with the transfer Of
their operations to the South. Re-
Gently it was pointed out by one of
these investigators that inasmuch