The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-27
RELIGIOUS Influences

1 ZION OF plan CtcCHANAN ILL.,
out the South. 1t is q significant
fact that there are twenty-tour
churches, as many Sunday Schools,
and various Church societies and
only one police officer. Before con-
stitutional prohibition, drinking was
little INDUCED in and crime IS negli-
gible. Baptists and Methodist pre-
dominate. The majority are church
goers. Each church has its "Shep-
herd of the Fold"
/ The Chief encourages church
building. When a new community
wants a church he will supply two
dollars for every one that the ne
groes will subscribe. The result IS
twenty-four churches as compared
with three in 1911. The enlighten-
ing influence of religion is evident.
1T is a community of law and order.
It is a big family where friendship
and mutual respect abides. The best
tenants If the entire country are at
tracted to the farm. Few leave II
and almost daily the big wagons
and trucks are moving new families
to the farm. There is no jail.
Observing this great man as he
goes among the negroes on the
farm, groups not engaged at work
will gather about him and he viii
talk with them in the same spirtfN
that is exhibited throughout this
entire great enterprise. He in
quires as TO their families and how
they are getting along and other
matters of interest TO Them. They
trust him implicitly.
The white population HAYES
community church, where all de-
nominations attend, and they con-
duct Sunday School and other re-
ligious societies.
"New Community Plan"
The slogan of this builder up
ward toward the Better" keeps the
community constantly az work on
new plans and new attractions.
Effect on Adjacent Territory
1t is but natural that the whole
some effects of the plantation would
extend to the surrounding country
Others have cleaned up their
fence corners" so to speak. Others
are giving attention to sanitation
anu RtaAA1 III AAAI - aAA-
cation of disease. The attractive
ness of white paint and whitewash
is appreciated. Better buildings
with greater comforts are noted.
The spirit of law and order extends
TO others who see its value and
comforting influences. The processes
of scientific agriculture are adopted
where the results attained exhibit
their commercial value. Varieties
of seed and formulas of fertiliza-
ton and methods of cultivation, the
use of machinery and economies in
harvesting and marketing are all
emulated to great profit. Just how
the boil weevil fight was waged and
won has become an inspiring study
in other "War Colleges" where
similar campaigns viii be con-
Quoted. In this particular work, the
influence of the farm is Solah-wide
and of genuine concern to the marts
of trade.
The Cotton Farmer
Unique in farm organization is
THE Cotton Farmer" a weekly
newspaper edited by Rev. A. J..
Winds, a highly respected colored
man, assisted by a committee of
colored leaders from the various
farm communities. There is no other
one influence in the entire opera
ton of the plantation that has so
great an influence as this periodical
in building up morale, inspiring the
spirit of cooperation, creating a
common community interest, and is
the only periodical of its kind pub
lished in the cotton-producing area.
It's slogan is Labor oyereomes all
things. Everybody Works"
Who is This "Great commoner"7
This democratic friend, who
dreamed a dream and realized it;
who prayed but who made his
prayer but the index to his effort
this genius, who combines the
ability of a general, an executive
fnancier and a benefaetor, who
caught the vision of the poten-
tial possibilities of the Southland
and the response its natural re-
sources will yield TO the hand o.
labor and capital and system
Who is Salisbury? He said once,
God Almighty placed this soil
here in the Delta that only
needed the heart of faith in its pos
sibilities and the touch of organized
processes in its cultivation to estab-
lish here an agricultural power, not
excelled anywhere on the earth"
And be has seen them all, through
out our homeland, and the coun-
tries Of the world, including Egypt
and the Nile.
He is father Of processes of seed
breeding, pest fighting, deiinting, &C
counting, intensive production on
small acreages for tenants, reclama-
ton, harvesting and marketing thai
constitute a romance Of achievN
ment. He has made his COMPANY
the largest seller of planting seed
and the biggest and most success
ful user of boil weevil poison and
nitrate Of soda in the South.
He is the President and Greater
of these planting operations, ~
the directing-head Of many othei
large and successful operations.
A part Of the outstanding geniu,
Of the great brain and heart Of ths
man that directs the management
of the plantations, is his ability L
select competent men 10 fill tn
complex system, so necessary 70
success. Many Of the prominen
departments are today filed BY tn
men who were in the original or
ganization, and their LOYALTY eff