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A Splendid D V, Richards by f iption c hoWa Late Sa Southern | tliu.-.s Inj cost to tllftj )f non [ead'of 'thel (By Richard H. Edmunds! Kdltor ?t\ The Manufacturers'^.Record.) About 175 people are ^employed in thb development work w/nlcn is being so vlaoroney pushed by^the Southern Railway Co. and its associated Hues for the upbuilding ofthasonth. Theac men are experts In their .various Un?:*. Some of them are experts in the hand ling of Immigration, somp are exporta in securing capital for Investment, enm? are experts in finding the best locations for industrial interests, some are rXerta in various lines of agricul tural activities, and so the 175 men, ab.bsb work Is given exclusively to the upbuilding of the termtbry of the south through which Hallway runs, count value to the louth and railway of the service! I paris. Mr. M. V. Klchd Take for Instance, thJ ? land and Industrial dep?tlnent, M. V..I Richards. He is one ofKle foreniiosi l i;i'ts in America in&fe develop ment o#a territory throfel industrial ahd Immigration operatwnb. For 20 yefcrs or mor? Richards? Haa been at thb-head of this work for the Southern ftntway. Born in the w?fct of Virginia pbi*?it*r identified is edrly life with Immigration work in thebwesf, he lat curned his attention -to the south. MWH^Xj a^n...i ?_.'?r^v-_ Jt_I _i_. I>?TO B.IUUVI k>|>CMWl r?..|l,<l.lumi. o? the Baltimore and Ohio railroad long, enough to discover that the $40, ^^HsMIO surplus- which had appeared j?.oa the books of that road for some : year*; was not worth much more than hod Richards asfhs Industriel agent of the Baltimore,and Ohio. When Spencer left, ?be Baltimore ' and Ohio presidency to 'take up the ; gigantic task of welding Into one sys tem the diHjointed bankrupt streaks of which, to a considerable extcnf, aanted the Unes put togstber- for: Ing that system* he took with him M- v. Ribbarda. During the last 20 yearn Richards has given his atten tion as fhe bead of the Southern Rail way Co.'b band and Industrial depart ment exclusively to the work of the upbuilding of the great territory c?rved by the 8,000 miles of road con trolled by the Southern; and Its affil iated lines. Richards knows that ter ritory?known all of its Strong points and Its weak, pointa; uejnows its re sources in raw materials ahWiu Cllt mate about as thoroughly as the'Weil Informed truck grower knbwa the riety of soil in the dozens or so acres d out of which he .makes his llv :7e*.j-nt . nder his leadership there has been u?lt up an organisation wbdae; worfc jr the nouth ha* been rar beyond the ?a?rai understanding of the people of ni? section. Just now there is con ic talk In the newspapers of the iiici? Whu, >u>* the 'U?t or six years, have been at work Pahania, and who have thua be e ft^ustomed te a s?stm. ci Imite, settle In the south, when the canal struction activities are over. This talked of by some papers as iough .lt was a new thing. The Future of Great Thoughts. ,Orchards was, to my personal nowt?dge, busy at work on that cam sign more than two > %ars ago. The ewapapera are talking about the penlng up of a Une of immigration Great Britain Into the south, e Sodtbern Railway has been at k on that Job for some, ypare an? maintained an expensive office' in don under Richards' direction, and Is often over there hefp1rfk?to df* thia work, he importance of turnlngg^jst-r ition of -be i>eople of the west to resources of the south is being. uaty urged in many dlreefmnsv very wisely so. But for years Southern railway has maintained ranck.-often In St. touts;tdadyobre1 tly it has established office*? In vcr and St. Paul, whose work la exclusively to making known advantages of the south to attract and people to this section, extwah of-this work may be un ira* the simple fact that the office alone travels six men _h Its terrltotry in the interest the uautheaac. These men renort f to the St. IiOula office. While industrial department of the them Railway has Its head office Washington, It maintains offices for worn and traveling agouta in each Ueryt las Virginia, North Carolina, uth Caroline, Georgia, Florida, Ala* sma, Mississippi and'Tennessee. Its noes maiauiee* outside of the with engaged In this wora'aro at Si. nuls. HarrUbarg. 9t* Paul, Denver some yeera this department of Southern*. Railway Res carried on sive^eanibkv eed*" edaceasenai with much suc?es* lia exhlb made*eA*ttte various cfcuaty faire in north, and. west have attracted wide* attention. tbia department much attention ft* eaeeurejpmea* of* 41? f agrisultur*, and eight ex e engaged as dairy end poul nte. Th#y are stationed at crent.pc&?t*of-the system, and de H- ?' lue d*rtT6i^?fiW?et Oc and pcaltry industry. A atraetlaa ear ?s maintained at pease, sad Is exhibited fross t Vwn/oo t?*mr mOng or the ro^f*rV?h*-e*>r?? of educating the people a? to ce of the dairy indaetry e purpose of giving specific [Mlai? ???Tvt????.Y ?MMUB t> handle tttnto.atl Its ?f the Achievements of M. is Brought to the South irmiel Spencer. tje ?T?? I Several years ago tSe Southern IItallway organized a' department I known as the department of farm im provement work. whnue >>nu|?dSH It I? to advise farmers tributary to the various II"??? of the company In re jgard to the beat methods of farming. WJille this depurtincnt Is not un der the direction of the land and In dustrial department, the ugents of ?otii departments co-operate to the fullest extent possible in furthering the pro gress of the south. The I.Ire Stork Agent*. And then in th freight traffic depart ment there are a number of. li/estoek agents^ whoso duties are to aid In the development of the livestock Industry. There are also several men of ability known as market agents^ whp.co-ppe.r: at? wFth*Southern farmers In finding markets for their products. / # The 'amount of money expended by1 the Southern Railway .in carrying on this work'm?st necessarily ?'b* 'very large, as Indicated by the employment of IT.Vmen. most of whom are expert of ability who command high salaries, or at haret-onght- to do ro; for they ere worthy of good pay. And yet it Is certain that the value of this .work to the south Is many time? Ignnater than the outlay. In' thia case the south 1b getttlng the benefit of thia magnificent campaign of having lt?v- -resources made known throughout uns and oth er lands entirely without coat, for the Southern Railway is doing thia as a part of its work and for the betterment of Its own territory, realising that whatever adds to the prosperity of the south will ultimately add to its own prosperity. It may be said that the railway company lu do'ng^bjOrom a selfish point of vlewT^HSvlin grant that Is true, It'is only~the selfishness which' Is of necessity found in all of the- business activities of mankind. It is difficult to find any business Indus try it matters not how high ethically may be the plane upon which It Is con ducted, that does, not have In It that selfishness, if such a term can prop erty be .used,, a's that which It shown .by-rallwavs Which advertlso their own territory. ' ' - No one would for a moment lma.,1" ~ that a railway ?eeld advertise an\t de velop its owh territory without itshlf receiving some benefits from the work. Unfortunately there arefst'me roads whoaq' v^anafireTsarenot\broad enough to appreciate the importance of work of thia kind. Believing that the aquntry .tributary* to them will or it self fWe*eW.*'<h?y looV^dpon wotic such as that whioh the Southern Rail way ils doing through itarjgnd and in dustrial department and through Its wide advertising campaign it con ducts in all parts of the land-as to the resources of thi* south, as *n unnec essary expenditure. P * The Southern Railway looks upon It as ? Wtefe investment, though the cost of this work must run jar into hun dreds of thousands of donors a year. In the twenty years that Mr. Rich ards has headed this department he has seen its influence rapidly expand. He has seen the cumulative power of the Bteady plowing and the seeding of the years as year attet"year ho haa widened the circle of those whom he touches in his efforts to.bring peo ple and money Into the south. He has aeen the influence of his department with th/? .people of the.? sottttk- steadily develop! 'M-fe has seen that*rhe?south is fully realising the magnitude or the Hrk of Ma road and.the thoroughness with which he has handled it. and ?kernet., he, appears In . th? }south, Svfether^aa armeeting or farmers or ( gathering of business men, he Is all M? (?r< one or the- men whose in fluence foe the upbuilding of ibis sec tion haa beeh mighty in lta power! u When Mri Spencer passed away and1 Mr.'PlnUty'took up his wort, there was no lessening of the Interest of the road In this land and 'industrial department. Indeed, Mr. Plnley pressed the work forward " with in creasing activity and through hit own Personality and the tremstfdous en ergy which he threw into everything that looked to the upbnlldlhg or the south. President Fairfax Harrlsan. And now that Mr. Fipley has passed away he has been succeeded by Fair fax Harrison, wbo in many ways in the past ha? fuMy de; -<^usirs(ea ois enthusiastic devotion to the broad up building of the agricultural and tn ldUftrial interests or the south. It njw'Jfci dapended upon with absolute j ?ertulnty that under hta. administra tion there will be hotting In *he work of a#ye rising the south and of doing the things which the land and Indus trial department baa been "o vlgprous jly doing for many years' m ' making {known the south'a resources and at tractions through its own -traveling men, through the exceptionally in tel Utsntllteraturewbtr.h It... publishes aad through its monthly publication. The Beathern Field, which la one or the very best railway publications- is sued in this country In behalf tX'li Uerrltory tributary to any road, iu 1 deed, It was a pioneer in this work. .. h%* nee? ?ai?ited by "^any, but sut p-ssed by none fi* ? in this day, when sill sorts fcf efforts are bel?g made to create the lrapres eion that aotfctag of greatjjjlswrtance rrwm ST?r ?viut- io c??r?e* wnsnuon to ihs south or to bring about the tlver Ils1?ttlea of southern agrt witht? the last few year" should be given to Southern, Which have years beep doing thia wt>? it with such intelligence and brlnt r M I .9 HI L . 1 ' "Bl "---^~^*OM^-W'JI|"IMIt**IJ WILLIAM STATES LEE, Vite President of the G. S. A., An Anderson boy ."Who I* (fining Home" today and wltt J?e en? of the spe?kers at the -moker tnnhrhL Mr I wa? reared a peer boy in this county, and hi* li t work nn? teaching at th? school In iL Xn?^ll'-m Tillagev when Mr. Hob Lfcon gare hhn the place. 1* now Int^sfcf In ran^d^reSntn^ In ?he ^.n? an authority en ntilrond heitent* and possibilities. KO,,IJ, >lld ,H P??gr?ssib? B?nkers Invit? has made a lernarkable increase in its b?s?nes ing the past year. .". . .v & \.'{ There is a reason for this, trjr us-with a- por* H tioirof your busineps now-Iafter'yM wlft ^e ??f alT. I ...We Pay Interest on. Savings... J. If. AndrrsoB, Pres. _ J. F. 8hsmate, Cask. If iirf>- -?J il - 1 i' ^ ?mi?. . Tfe? Farmers Loaia ans?! Twists1 Million Dollars' are taking on more new"'?cco??t?""?v-' ery day tna^ev?r fctffr?. .-.^I .V| ? .\ |fi*{||H Small dejRcl^janf? ;o?s^all io$?, are' '.'^^??sal?^ and are especially appreciated and rccffif? (1* "a'ttent??n.^ Interest paid on d?port*. ... >-r y; Don't you see strong, healthy men taken down with ?& ' { nesi ever day? . I* ?IUI UlIS M ICH&a lO ?.? v ?v iKtT?.nfvn^?i| ii?lW v UP in our bank so that you cajnHde thros^h your ??dcn?as? Bank your money? i> is your DUTY. Make OUR Bank YOUR bank We pay 4 per cent, interest quarterly. I PEOPLES BANK, win * ? > r f?. v: - ; : 1. 1 ! : V/ " .! .,, ..' V II ri'J?? (I 1 Jit . . '.-I New Vehicles of eyte?y descrttH ke?p coming ?ii every day. Ou* stock of Bam??s,^ ? i -a .11 1 s is the finest ev?r. some Extra (???d r ai*. ! 4Uw%eeit*~ on ANDE?f?ON^ t<or S?te by? S. B. Br?Wti??i*.^, : Anderson,' SMX forth results which none but those In touch with It bavo had any concep tion Of. Thousands of men and mil lions of capital haVe been drawn In to the south by the work of the South ern railway. There is -probably no other railroad in American ond that ig' a rather.broad statement, whloh has a! more thoroughly organized: depart ment of thla kind, where information covering so completely so- wlde-o^varl ety of inierrtua has been fathered end is available at a moment's notice, than I the Southern Railway. In the \VT,8bmS^n^hlco of this de partment, an/almost lfrnitless amount Of data hnu] been srathon-d tihrait the mineral and'the tifiibrr and the aar!-? cultural-and the water power interest^ of the great region which stretcher from the Potomac to the Mississippi and from the Gf Jf !tb the mountain r?gions. It is but' right that this should be,so, for there, is probably no other railway iri thls'or any otherdand which drains a territory of such limit - ?esr potentialities as that tributary to this road., Unlike roads which h?ve & llftiR:^' terv]t"!'y ttD?3 whlr't the en tire energies of the line can be con centrated 'or development, the South ern Fallway baa ? territory or induite variety of climate, soil, minerais and timbers. It lias on. its lipo some of rtiq richest coal and iron regions known; Ils lines cross rivers which aro ca pable of furnishing millions of horse power, only a frnctlon of which boa yet been developed. Us lihjes Btretchl from th? MuegrnsB regions or Ken-j tucky she1 very heart of the world's slock raising Interests, through the marvelous!y dowered mountains of ih>> .Ctfrollnak' and Georgia and ' Ala IHtnia, along th? ridge! of the Pled m jnt country,'the heurt of the cotton ?uiin?fK?iar'liI^'?nltiM.y of the Bout h and destined to be tht' heart ot the tortile-indusi y of ?bf world, on down to the coast. '-;!.crc the attractions of F'nrlda and the (toll tpoat'Of Alabama present wxconU ?\a. .uu aMagOB to the l ealth and tb > homo fci* fccr. * Thus, this foad.l.i: its> development 'vfcrk <h?s to' c?Vff'every variety of climate, tin roeufttaiU lesorts of the Carolinas, and the '..inter tourist re gions of the Gull' eoiiM. the hardwood ant. minorai rest.unes of the moun tain retfltiis and ilu- v tat. pine forests of the lower south', ihr coal and the iron and the marbles jf 'he mineral dlvtrkts. and all the varied manufac turing and g?nerai >J: \ 'r.ptnental ln ull the way frOUl '.?'.,! 'nerton on down through 'AUitaura to lit. Mississippi river. It Is a great country, and it la worthy of the broadest work ever done Hy any railroad on earth for the de? velopment of Hb territory. Thc Southern Hallway la measuring up every year more and more to- the situation. Richards has always realised the opportunity. Possibly h; Pas not always been able to mov*e at rapidly as: his own judftnient mifht have dictated, for he c.o;?id jjeo possi bilities Ip this work W'*|eh- none could see 'unless they' had bis knowledge, gained from his'Immediate 'touch with the work. > ltt the way-the Southern He M way 1 war .carrying on ..this campaign to attract settlers, to bring money, Into the south, to secure Industrial .develop? mont, to* build up diversified agrlcu*> \>'yz i> encourage poultry raising and i. and the Improvement of the an dUr make a light against the Juvii ..?cv?i and other posta wbl?h jbr!n? loasesen to the farmer. Se the ! settling c. onxamplo which could to profit be followed not simply by ev ery other railroad in the south, but ?y erery other railroad In the United Men like Htohor'Ss, upon whom rests the roaponslldtity for li?nd and indus trial werk of. railroacQc are dotog for a creative .upbuilding work which ; mttkos i^sflTtartorlei to grow where none existed bofoie or which 'makes IUI- II -" 1 I il) > , -nil "''i t Inn.,, .ill '; ?dum o . ? t*t non." ; Written ftflr* ^e Intellfgencer by the Neale's Creek irre*p(ondent, Rev. J. T. Mann. A glaring example or unduei,'love, of money, is the attitude;,of thaw fed eral government and 'oh ?state ;ugovr ernmenta toward ,tho.liu(|or-question. We Will, take ?a an example a man working for .the''ir^VerhnMint When sober he Is hone.it, but \,? soon takes to drinking. Then hi is, tempted to* gamble..and \vfi,yill juppflse, to carry out the illustration, thni,, he, .appro pri?tes to his flwp use money be longing, to thei nattpnal treasury. ;He Is trtedj convb#sd' and sentenced to >eerve a term. In,the fetjerftl prison to rstenling,. and for years is sepa rated from f ctepend^nt wife and h *.p*4 l?s* children. No"w tho same authority that said Nearly a third ofi the population are enrolled In-RcNbc.!?. illiteracy has been reduced front 49 to Z pet cent, now b?lng confined chiefly to tho.foreign olementn. 87 out of 105 counties have no Insane. In 9? coun ties- the attorney general reports no inebriates. The inebriates they h?ve, he says, came from cities that defied the law. 38 counties are reported aa having no Inmates at their poor farms, and there is said to be only one pauper to every 3,00(1 population. In ,tuly; 63 Jails were empty, according to the repprt. and 65 coun ties had nn prisoners nerving arm he iisust. go to prison also Said to the | tciices. The average annual coat of >?? i??y sen io mm or any one else juat as much liquor as they wish, provided you pay us a l evenue. Of course this is a sup posed case, but It serves to Illustrate the fact that governments Which p?r irait the sale or liquor for_a few pal try dollars In revenue are literally inviting i) on to do that for which they punish those who >accept their invitation. V. How much better it would bo to [have the responsibility of men's ruin rest upon themselves, and not have the government's consent to' start them In their downward course! How much public work^ls done by men whose crime Is traceable directly to liquor? In auch .cases the public gets lm; bcuyni of he man's labo.rj the revenue on the liquor he drinks goes to the government: and, if he, IS i<:>nr, jwhat will become of his wife' and little ones? Prohibition in Kansas Hut some, of our states are cleans |iitg their hands from blood, and are proving to the world that prohibi tion will prohibit. The report o? the attorney general ?f Kansas shows that prohibition has wrought a revo lution in that state during thirty i years. Some of the results are given below: .-.h . .JSHK urinks per capita in Kansas has been estimated at $1.45. as against $29.00 before prohibition became effective. io her neighboring state,. Mlsacui the annual drink bill per capita placed at $24. These' figures sound strange to us; for only those st that d?termine to enforce prohibi tion can have even a faint concei tio,i of the many blessings that flo\ to society as a result of such en forcement.. . What Alcohol Does I came across a quotation recent ly in an magazine which is so good that I wish to conclude this article by giving It. It follows: "Alcohol will remove stains from summer clothes. Thin is true, and*- it aJh>o removes other things, It wfll remove the summer clothes, and the Bummer- also the spring, the aut nmn, anfl the whaler clothes, ndt only from the one who drinks it. but from the wife and family as welt It WU1 also remove the household furniture, eatables' from the pantry, the smiles for the face of his wlfr. the laugh from the Innocent lips of his chil dren, and the happiness out of Iiis home. . As a remover of things, al cohol has no eqnal." J. T. MANN. Belton, Jan. 23._?, prosperous agricultural conditions <> flourish, where prosperity had been unknown. They are the real freight creators when they meashre up to to their opportunity, and wiun any road has a man at the head of such a department whb is not aahlevlng the?c thing.* the rault Is either In the man or I nth efallure of the road to back up his work. Daytooa, Pla^Fe>t. 20, 1914. s??iVriA FATu ???rrT. EASI,EY WAS VETERAN Oeatk et Jao. A, Wyatf, Well Known In ThlK County. Eaaley. Feb. 23.?John N. Wyatt died suddenly Thursday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. C Mauldlni About' one week- ago. Mr. Wyatt was stricken with'la crlune'alKaHBj poared to be Improving and his deafb today, cdnflng suddenly, was a distinct shock to bis friends and relatives of Bakley and Pickens counties. - John N. Wyatt was 73 years of age. He waa bora arid reared tnthts coun ty and had lived In thh Immediate section far'the greater, pan of? hlc life, with fHe" exceptio* of several years When lie made his home at Con trai. jH? moved from that place to Easier, about eight years 1 ago. and clnce that time hnc resided ?Ith hin. j l?apes te Oet lbs Leeg deeded Hotel . . -Soon. Ru^aor has it that one of our pub lie spirited cltixens purposes to Wild a twenty-room hotel In the neat: fu ture on ? v?ry desirable lot for such an IhiptoveTnent. We sincerely hope Uhet the rumor Is true. The town needs nothing quite so much as a ho ! tel and It la little teas thah a shame I that a town of the ?Im? nt tht? lbwed Itself to be without such anr'^'^S ^- A' >*uldJn- e . fnPtltutk;n for ^ Jon Mr. Wyatt was a veteran ot the The only way by which the blonderCWt- Wary having seen much active or the past can be romodtfd will be|se*tlce aii a member of the army of ,l.v building on adequate hostelry atl'he?c?federate Stataa. H* w** ? the very earliest date possible andl"W?* *ad~.ce. Estent in*****-* ?*.the ! thon **?mg -hat rt la c3*a*?t?<i -?a *J WWltst chatefl. until his death.and his first class manner. Kven tb?n ?t will jsbeenee wP.f be sorely felt In the take several years ror the black eye work of the church as well aa In the to brat whieb tye town^b?? already sJfqlr* of the ?wmnvunlty at. largo. igoiten by .suet. nttef ir?fc ,,T proper Surviving hin? ar? three son?v "T aeeommodatlon-fpr tho traveling pub- Nf WyaU, ?. F. Wyatt, W. R. Wyatt [Ho. *r [and an? daughter, Mrs. W. A. Mauldlt.