The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-21
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THE SOUTH IN NEW YORK
Jacksonville Times-Union.)

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The South is being treated very generously in
the matter of giving of the best of its public Of
fees and private places of Importance to of
Dixieland. 1t may not always be generosity, this
giving of the distinction profitable places and Of
fees to men not born in Gotham; it may be that
New York realizes it's own shortage of native
raw material" and seeks to employ or use, the
best, matter where may have been it's source
or origin. The fact remains, nevertheless, that
the South is well and prominently represented in
New York, the greatest city, in some respects, in
the world.
With the beginning of this year, New York
installed, in the office of district attorney, Joab
H. Banton born in Waco, Texas True, Mr.. Ban
ton quilted the loneliness of the Lone Star state
twenty-six years ago. presumably seeking for
wider fields of usefulness than the almost limit
less area of Texas provided, and located in the
restricted territory that is New York. the city
of limitess possibilities. And 10, in the closing
days of 1921 he was elected to what is really
one of the most important public offices in the
United States, considering that this Office of dis
trict attorney is in city of more than six mil
lion people Previously, Mr. Banton had been an
assistant district attorney so that, after being
thoroughly tried, his election was in reality a
promotion.
Another assistant district attorney in New York
is Jim" Osborne Mailing from North Carolina,
who distinction in the famous Molyneaux
murder trial. From that same state went Bern
ard NJ Baruch who has achieved a prominent
place in the metropolitan city North Carolina
also furnished New York and Tammany Hall with
George Gordon Battle, who in turn furnished
ability that landed him in high places in the
city that adopted him. Martin W. Lttleton an
other distinguished New York lawyer, was con-
tributed to the metropolis of the nation by Ten
nessee, although reared in Texas, which also
sent Col. Edward M. House to New York and to
fame.
Col. Francis Gordon Caffey who has just re-
tired as United States district attorney in New
York, first the light of day in Gordonville
Ala, while Gen. Samuel McRoberts president of
the great Metropolitan Trust Company, went from
Missouri to carve his way to fortune in the great
city on the Hudson. Atlanta, Ga. furnished Col
Thomas B. Fielder, who is known as counsel for
the 100000 "bootlegging crowd" whether or
not that be place of distinction. The same Geor-
gia city furnished Joe Johnson, who recently be-
came the commissioner Of public works for Man
haitian. Bob Adamson, also from Atlanta, was
secretary to Mayor Gaynor and fire commissioner
under Mayor Mitchell.
Gen. Robert Lee Billiard and Maj. Rozeman
Buger, both prominent in New York affairs, are
sons of Alabama, and Irwin S. Cobb, he who
serves New Workers, and the rest of the world,
humorously, made timely escape from Kentucky
and in New York hitched his typewriter to star.
And of course, everybody knows that New York
pulled William G. McAdoo from Tennessee and
Georgia and give him the opportunity to marry
presidents daughter and play "angel" to all
who suffer and toll on the railroads of the coun-
try.
But why continue the list of those who have
gone from the South to prominence and wealth
in New York? Names of those who have so
gTavitated pile one upon another. While the
roster is of considerable length, there is no indi-
cation that its frightening is to be interrupted.
The South still has abundance of raw material
such as is evident the city of New York needs
and desires, gets and utilizes to advantage that
is not at all one-sided.