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-The South'it Prosperity;ts...Danger. By R. I. Edmunds, Editor Manufae turer's Record. During 1906 the wealth of the south nere;sed $7,800%009 for every !da Of the! y'ear;,8%4aYs included, 'i' a -- otal -4f ,2,000,0000. The acul nrease in assessed value was $1,070, 479,788, and this was on the average of 40 per cent. of the true value. The amazing magnitude of this gain of $7,300,000 a day is strikingly shown by the statement of the London- Ex press which, bemioaning the inability of Great Britian t'o keep pace with America's growth, puts the increase in Great Britain's wealth at $7,000, 000 a week. Contrast the south's increase of $7,300,000 a day with Great Britain's $7,000,000 a week and then think of the future. Great Britain, with comparatively few na'tural resources, dependent-up on the outside world for nearly all its foodstuffs, for much of its iron ore, for all of its cotton and a large part of its lumber, and with only 10, 000 square miles of coal of which a large portion has been worked out, has 40,000,000 people crowded into an area equal to that of less thain, half of Texas. Ott the other hand, look at the south with the world's cotton trade . in its absolute domination, with 62, 000 square miles of virgin coal fields, with iron ore sufficient to duplicate for years to come the whole iron and steel trade of all Europe, with almost limitless soil capabilities already prot ducing over 800,000,000 bushels of grain a year and several hundred mil lion dollars' worth of diversified farm product.s, able to produce food stuffs for hundreds of millions, able to clothe the world, able to do more manufacturing than that of the whole country today, with millions of avail able water power, 500,000 horse pow er for electrical transmission being al jr ready under development and when you have catalogued these you have mentioned only a few of the south's stroig points. Who Can Measure Possibilities? Who can measure the limitless pos sibilities of the south? Who can fully grasp thle fact that the south is rapid ly pushing forward to thle timle when its own wealth will exceed all of the vast wealth accumulated by Great Britain through the ages, and by which it dominates the finances of the world I Surely the vision is one to stir every southern heart, for it is, indeed, a reality. The growth -in wealth during the coming years will far exceed the won derfil story of 1906. "Unto whtom mucht has been given, of him shall much be required' is as trie as when first. ttttered. The south's responisibility is as vast as are its resources and its gain in wealth. The world has a right to de mnand of such a country the highest order of citizenshtip, the highest type of a strong, self-reliant people, who realizing their power and dutty. butild for time and eternity a chtaracter wh'lich shtall he worthy of imitation. Sneh a people should be givers, niot beggars- -giv~ers not sitmply of mome y, whtich counts for little, but givers to all mankind of honor, self-reliance, indeplendence and undeviat ing dlevo-. tion to thte hiighest prtinciples of life. Beggars! beggars of mnoney for any cause when a boutntifutl Providence is pbouring more than $7,000,000 a day into their laps, seven times as much as the present increase in Great Brit ain 's wealth ! And yet the south may conmc under the charge of begging charity whent too many of its people stand, with hat in htand, asking alms of ot hers and pledging~ thtemselves to almost atty conditions in order to win a few paltry dlollatrs that are doled out by those whtose charity is, to say the least, not free and open but has a string tied to it. Beggars ! and yet $7,300,000 our 1.daily growth in wealtht. Pray that South Be Not Ruined. Better a t housanttdftold thta t every Christian soul should be much in pr'ayet, asking Divine guidance that the south he not rutined by this enor ons incoming wealth. Every fiber oformoral being will be tested as never biefore. It is no longer ''root -hog or die,'' as it was for forty years. -Under that strain the south faced . problems sitch as no other pecople -on earth ever- had to meet. It contquered dieite which the world htad thought wotuld conquter it. In those days which tried men's souls it asked .no favors; it was- a giver to the strength and manhood of the nation. --Now, with limitless wealth at its Sdoors, it is in danger of lo.sing its old time sturdiness of character. It is in danger of no longer being self-reliant. , It seenims to have forgotten its own strength; for, in apparent wveakness, it cries to others to come and give a Lfew beggarly dollars, wich its own ' people could give a hundred times over and never miss. It has been - said that"''a beggar race can never be a great ne, and no one disputes th statement. Kould you sap, the virility, the sturdy character, the manliness of a boyI Then. pauperize him in thought. Telth him to look to otfilrs for help an d,cision7 instead ot developing s6lfreliane.' Teach him to accept ehatity, teach him that, as the world owes himt a living, all lie has to do is to sit down anid wait for others to care for him, and you have made real manhood impossible. Outwirdly such a man may look prosperous. If sue cessful as a beggar or as a dependent uponi others, his fine clothes and well groomed bearing may give him the outward seiblance of a real man, but inwardly there is decay, rottenness, death. As 'With an individual, so with a people or a nation. The nation is but the sum of its units. Outwardly there may be signs of real life, of manhood, of progress upwards, but at the heart there may be a fatal dis ease gnawing at the very vitals of all true national character and life. The south needs to study this situa tion as no other people ever did. The years of poverty and privation, of hard struggle in which every dollar had to do the duty of two, are pass ing. For thousands those years have already suddenly pqssed. Millions Won Quickly. A few days -ago the writer sat at a banquet in a southern iron center, whose growth only typifies what soon will be seen to a greater or less ex tent in hundreds of other southern cities. On his right sat a man who within a few years has made a for tunie, and who mentoned the purchase thlree years ago of 3,500 acres of iro-n ore land at about$63,000, or $18 an acre, for which he and his two or three associates would now refuse $3, 500,000 for the tract or $1,000 an acre; Inext to him was a gentleman who but a few years ago was a mine superintendelnt at a small salary, aid who has lately received $1,600,000 for his interest in a coal property; next again to him was a business man who, through inventions and their business development, has an income of $75, 000 a year, of which his friends say le devotes one-third or $25,000 to re ligiolls work; lext came a 111111 who would be foolish to accept $5,000,000 for property for which 1 11111 sire he would have gladly necepted one-tenth of that less thani tell years ago. And so on down one whole banquet table -men of millions who but lately were toYilers for a living. - These mei are merely represenita tives of thousands who are to be made enoriiiously rich by the material growth11 of the soultI, while hundreds of thousands leretofore eking out a fair livingo olly are soon to le num1 beredi allo- the well-N-do with whom the dollar of yesterday has grown to a hundred of today. Orucial Point for the South. In this mighty change the south is facinlg the imost crucial poinIt inl its history. It could go'down in battle and see its beloved leaders dead by tenis of thousands, its wealth swept away and its homes devastated, anld yet lose none of its mnoral filler, its real manIlhlQod ando womnhoIlod. Unlder. suchi ordeals it cold, with head erect still face a frowning world a:nd turnl (defeat onl the bat tlefield inlto v'ictory illn im wuorld 's commIlercial st ruggle. More that that , in tile time of its dlir est poverty' it could be equal to re-es tablisingi. law and order, to solvinIg its great. labor problem, and( to the gradual but sure developmlent of its ednueationlal faciHties, state and,- de monliina t ionial. Now, wheni c'omlmercial victom has been won, when wealth is growving at a rate never imiaginled a few years ago, all element that forgot the south ill the da'y of its poverty or eripp)led it still more, that cared niot whlether lit lived or died, now bearing gifts i.n its hands, edmles to tihe soulth with proffers of a little money for- its schools, provided these schools anld their teachers give ill exchanlge aln irredeemable mortgage 01n the soul of tile inistitutioni and on the very muan hood of its students of today and all hlereafter. Mnd lo! led away lby false teachers, by menOl who for a retainer, for the gratification of a misdirected ambi tionl, or unider tIle influence of a mor bid hlumanitarianism, have proclaimed the beaulty and loveliness of such a plan and the wonderful angelie char aeter of this element which would, however lofty its mistaken purpose, pauiperize the manhIood of the southl, and thlus make it ready to accept all of tile false doctrinles and social equality practices as to thle race ques tion, many southerners almost fall down anid worship this element, and ill s0 doing sow what may become a wvhirlwind harvest for the south. The signs of thle storm are seen ill many directions and when it breaks thIese false leaders who have sold their birthright for a mess.of pot tage will be the first to seek shelter. People tell us that the negro is es -sential to the .south's prosperity; that without him as a worker this see. tion would cease its wonderful in. dustrial development. That doctrine is false. Now that the world knows in part the riches of the south's ma terial resources, now that it realizes to some extent the vastness of its coal and iron supplies and its strategic re lation to the world's itndustrial life, whether this section were peopled with savage cannibals or were with out-a 'single inhabitant, economic de velopment would force a great popu lation and vast material upbuilding southward. i Did the deadly arrow or the rifle of the Indian stop the westward march of populationi Did the seem ingly impenetrable ice-reaches of Alaska, with the fearful suffering entailed, halt even for an hour thi tide of population when once the prospect of gold became the alluring vision? We need not stop for a mom ent to thi-ik a'bout whether the souti will draw population or not. That is just as certain as the rising of to morrow 's sun. We should, however, very seriously consider what part the peopli of the south themselves are to play in the wonderful drama of de velopment. upon which the eurtain is just beginning to rise. Through false teaching, th rougi failure to fit the rising generation by tochnical training to meet the neu conditions, through failure to devel op its never before-for never beforc was it so badly .needed-sturdiness of character, ielfreliance to meet every emergency. and initiative to see and -risp the Opl)ort'tunities of the day the south's own people may in thi( incantime have become the hewers of wood and the drawers of water foi others. Day for the Technical Man. If the men who are worse that wasti-ng their time in toadling to thi almsgivers and illraldings as wisq leaders for the south to follow peopk who know absolutely nothing abot its real educational neceds; if ti( men who in mistaken zeal are forevel discussing the negro question anl thus maling a real problem wher< none of importance exists but for thi, agitation and discussion would a1l1 unite in one untiring,' effort to arous( the south to fit its white boys Ani girls for the Imlighty developlen ahead, they would then be doing good service to their country. Some tine ago I heard an oratiov to the effect that the supreme need ol the south is a few great universitics In diction and delivery it -was wel nigh perfect, but it was'fundamental. ly false. This is not the day for greal universities in tihe' souti. Such as 14 have, if' properly handled, are wel en1ough101 in the their way. This is Ih( day for the technical man, tor Ii( next quarter of a century at least be, longs.to tle indust9trial leader. Unrin.t that period the south is to see snel material progress as never. fell to th lot of any countriy on earthi. The pe'o p)le whoi( arie to contro'(l thle vast weahl to be crieatedl are thle techiniahlh tirained b)oys of today; if not the( son thern hoys then h)oys whol ai'e be'int tratined elsewhlerc and made r'eady fi such limit less oppor'tutnit ies. II is noi' a quest ion of fav'oring 0or opposinii 'commilterciailism'' so-caflled(. Te ini (listial) eraW is upon1 us,. anid we 'onl not st(op it if we wmubll. i is simll) a quest ion of whlethler' thle sonuthl is U' ing' to tit. its own'i People to lem i'ight in thle cieat ion anud con triol cominig wealth. in t his era iupw' which we have entered the univer'sitl man01 w.ill be thle employp of the techi ntically trained expert. Later on wril comne the uniiv'ersity ltI ma's opporitlil ity. Controlling its industriy am~ domuiiating its weal thI, thlese .1 echuni cnlly trineiid men w'ill b)e thle leader: in state and churich, and hence Ii supreme ineed of the sout-h is to be'n< every energy to fit its r'ising genera tions for t hese vast opportuni tes ain still 'vaster r'espotisibilit ies, toi tri its younig people in selfireliance an to teach them that half a loaf, wh'leth er of bre'ad 01' educa0tional opprituni ity, wonl by hard and honest wor'k, h:, the sweat of the br'ow, mearns mi for manhood than a thousand daini ties accep)tedl as charily from thiosi up)on whom they havec no claim. lin stead of doing this, many of our peo1 p)le ar'e losing time of priceless v'ali by talking a'bout universities here an univer'sitlies there, or' i-n begging a fev dlolhar's from Ogdentism for' some deI nominattiotnal school which shonb look to its own p)eople alone- for ii sftppor't in mione~y, ini stuideints and i lbrainus. What the South Couldl Do. Mo'e'over', the south out of its owl abundant resources, could give a huni dred fold more without missingi thon what it begs from others, if it: -people were being rightly tr'ainec hever to look beyond their own bord~ era foi' a single dollar. They shioiul be trained now during this crtici -time when r'ushiing 'from povet'ty int< prosperity to dedicate their net wealth to the liroper educational, mor al, spiritual and manhoo1 develop ment of their own people. In the muaterial world this is the plastic age when concrete construe tion is taking the place of iron and steel and lumber. In such construe tion the concrete, taken at the right tine, can be molded into any form; but let the critical moment pass with out its being rightly molded into any form and it becomes ''set'' and hard ened and worse than useless. The south has entered the plastic age in the foination of character, and un less its people be righ-tly molded now, southern character will ''set'' and harden beyond man's power to change or improve. h'lie early spring number of ''Te Designer'' has a useful and interest w;- array of household matter aid flehln. The first fifty pages are mainly devoted to the display and de scription of gowns designed for spiin and summer wear, and to the illustr-atioi of the accessories that go with them. The end of the book is reserved for arficles relating to household affairs, among which are the three seetions of matter contribut ed by the readers of ''The Designer' cont1iig many prlcteical bits of ad vie about children, iomnes and wage eaniing. Simple entertainments, suit For T Fe TRADE MARK REGISTERED * F. S. ROYS IROASTING 11 1Flue Curing Develh Found In Schnm There are three ways u Imers for curing and pret tobacco for the market; n cured, air cured and flue c old and cheap way is calle the later discovery and imni is called flue cured. In the tobacco is taken fro: - and suspended over int flues in houses especially Itain the heat, and there proper templerature until I process developes in the i stimulating taste and frag found in Schnapps toba< green coffee is made ifr stimulating by the roasti Only choice selections o juicy flue cured leaf, gr - famous Piedmont countrj I best tobacco grows, at I Schnapps and oth er Reyn< Sof high grade, flue cure< R. J. REcYNOLDS T( ible for little home evening affairs, t xre always given in the Designer and b in the March number some verse suit- 1 ible for reeitation is included. The ' puzzle pages, the fashion notes Xor e Men], the practical advice about how to make and keep oneself beautiful, the lectures by a florist on how to ;row flowers-all regular depart- r mients of the magazine-are full of I especial interest this month. 1. The fiction is made a feature in i VETERAN CHEi E the most enthusb cates of fine chewir that is why we mak< AND BARS" the tobacco that can be produced old, ripe and mellow leaf. lovers of a real, genuine, go( This tobacco is like the elect w the flag for Southern right. A try it. vent y-ons )ySter rtiize. have been the because they from honest n See that the tr is on every baj genuine withou1 TER GUANO CO., 1& iHMPROVESTC POVES GRI sps the Stinfulating pps that Satisfies T sed by far- H-undreds >aring their on sale that amely, sun outside of t Lired. The bacco is flut d air cured;. filled with >rovcd way' sweetened flue-curing chew of Sch xi the field hunger long enyht such tobacc4 buily toe Expert te bul.t e cured tobac< kept in the Piedmont r this curing less sweeter ;obacco the and has a rant aroma satisfying e :co, just as kind of toba< igrant and satisfy, mor nig process. expectoratirn f this ripe, and chew S >wn in the Schnapps , where the ers formerly e used in to $i.oo per >lds' brands at 5oc. per i I tobaccos. i o and 15 e bBACOO OMPANY, Wn ic March number. A continued story y Miles Bradford, author of "Car )tta and I,'' is begun, entitled 'Economy Farm." Also, Edith Park e Johnson, now a resident of Korea, as contributed an interesting article illed "An American Garden in Ko Mn." Be4ides these, there is a story y Edwin L. Sabin and a particular v graceful little poem of Minna Irv ng's. tstic advo. tg tobacco very finest Made of A boon to. >d tobacco. bo followed latchless Years S rs standard ire made iaterials. ide mark Y. None it. lorfolk, Va. IBACCO LIKE EEN COFFEE Aroma and Taste obacco Hunger of imitation brands are look like Schnapps; the he imitation plugs of to cured, but the inside is cheap, flimsy, heavily air cured tobacco; one napps will satisfy tobacco ~er than two chews of sts prove that this flue ~o, grown in the famous ~gion, requires and takes ing than any other kind, whol..some, stimulating, rfect on chewers. If the :co you are chewing don't e than the mere habit of g, stop fooling yourself ;chnapps tobacco. is like the tobacco chew bought costing- from 75c. pound; Schnapps is sold >ound in 5c, cuts, strictly ent plugs. ISTON-SALEM W. Qt