The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-22
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Preparations Started By J. c. deHoII 7ring To Alabama HoIIa$% As Agricultural WSse 4 And Settlers
P$ / J. DE HOLL VISITS < fE, MAKING SURVEY
AiII Bring Same Class Of Protestant Farmer As Those Who Made Nation Of Afri- can Wilderness

Preliminary steps have been taken to bring 500 Dutch farmers to Ala bama. They are the same type ot church. going, straight shooting, and hard working folk who made a na- ton out of the South African wilder ness.
 History is making cycle, observ- CTS Of the movement say, for again individual ships with high hearted pioneers are being headed toward American shores.
 Birmingham heard the news of the definite settlement of the undertake ing Friday. Already discussion has started in regard to what financial help will be necessary for the new corners in getting them started.
 J. c. deHoll of the Federated Bank and Trust company, 110 Twenty-first street, north, is behind the plan to bring two colonies of 300 families to this state, he announced
 Negotiations have been started through MT. deHolps brother, Dr. F. J. deHoll, professor of divinity of the University of Amsterdam, who left America Thursday after visit to Birmingham and other large cities all over the United States. o O o
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 pr. deHoll, while in Birmingham. was taken over the SIdIer dCCOH- panied by several prominent Ala bamians, in order to ascertain the fertility of the farm lands and the opportunities for the Dutch colon ists.
 He immediately decided to begin a campaign in Holland to induce Dutch people to come over. MT. deHoll will act as his Alabama agent in ob- taining data on the states resources with a view to. providing for the in- flux of the GOO persons. Plans to finance the project will require some time for solution, ac . cording to MT. deHol, as the great majority of the Dutch farmers who will come over are without funds.
 Speaking of the success of such colonies, Mir. deEoll pointed to Hol- land, Mich, and Amelia county, Vir- ginia, as successful undertakings of this kind. He said that the Dutch people would do great deal to- wards developing idle lands in Ala bama.
 Hollanders among Europes farm CTS are rated with the best intensive agriculturalists. They have farmed under handicaps of many sorts for centuries.
 Developers.
 It was the Dutch farmer who de- veloped the sugar beet to propor- tions of physical size and commercial value chat have made it the basis ot great industry.
 Perhaps the Dutch farmer of today is best known through his cultiva- ton of tulips, this horticultural in being the source of bulb supply that goes to all parts of the world. drstry of Holland ranking high and
 Intensely religious protestants, frugal to a fault, hard working and immediately clean, Duech colofists are at a premium" wherever new lands are being developed.
 Dutch immigrants, such as those heralded for Alabama. are of the sort and stock who developed South Ali rica from a chaotic wilderness to nation in shorter time than any peo- pie and governmental body in all history was ever formed.
 The half dozen republics of lower Africa that later became part of the British empire, were all born" after 1870.
 It was said of the Dutch colonists Africa that when he went hunting he put one cartridge in his gun. He could not afford to miss.