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Show THE PAYSONIAN, 0000000000000000&00000000000000000 Printers Ink Is Magicians Wand for Dixieland By 1ST. ELMO MASSENGALE. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Nolo. Editor ol. louuu AiUftseugulu ra liio louiluig figure m uilvoma uig circles iu tuo south. Aa moat people know, tiro big udvoitisiug expert ot today ia u uiuu of wide knowl edge, grout executive ability uud iu lonstaut uud closo touolr with I lie t'coiiouiic needs uud coudrtroua of tlie lira work lies. territory wfiuroiu liutovcr tlio head of tuo Masson-galugeuey says will bo uuouptod us moicliuuta ubsorbiug fuuta by tho and leaders of tlio aoutb, aud cau bo accepted by those of tbo uoitb ua the uote of authority. a e Up to a few yeurs ugo eapitul waa not sought iu or did it buriy to the Booth. Dixie wus considered ua a of tho couutiy about section pretty which oue should aud often did write sougs, novels aud dramas unduly remarkable for an impossible negro dialect aud tho number of roses that intruded upon every sceuu uud set-tiu- , Cash, as the country considered its uso in Dixie, was a petty coutnvunce used strictly as a medium of exchange and nof as a power of deWith blind velopment, allegiance tho South cluug to cotton as its groat and only staple and the shifting market on that single staplo spelled relative poverty of affluouco for tho territory south of Mason Dixon. A change has corno to Dixie. It still has its roses and its negro population, but added to that has come a great outpouring of industrial blood through tho veins ot southern progress and In instant response the South has developed until from a weak aud pretty sister in a cotton gown it stands today an industrial power to bo reckoned with in tlio worlds grontest banking, transportation, development and commercial units. Figures may weary tho average render, but beneath them lies a romance greater than any - fictionist ever drew with swift running pen if one has but tho ability to seo and understand. Of the entiro output of tho United States in corn the South gives Giln per cent, of tobacco tii potato 92 per ceut, peanut 1W b 10, apple lo rice do per cent aud sorghum syrup 05 per The annual peach Ceut. crop is nearly $1 1,U0U,00U, sugar cane syrup oata $00,000,000, $173,000,000, wheat $ju0,000,000 aud cotton with a live stock value iu the South of $2,500,000. The Souths development as an agricultural, dairy and live stock country is due to ono cause more than all others. was the Advcrtisiug force that changed the South from a one crop to a varied crop und live stock section. It was not until the Southern newspapers aud farm paper publications had given tho widest publicity to tho benefits to bo derived from varied crops and live stock raising that Southern farmers could bo induced to dethrone King Cotton. It took years of continuous advertising on the part of those Southern publications to sell the Southern farmers on tho idea that prosperity depended not upon ono kind of a crop, but upon many kinds of crops. UTAH, NOVEMBER PAYSON, neath his armpits and hit him at the other end about the kuees. lie did not believe In decollete clothes. They buried him in the midst of a maible They cut quarry. through solid marble to make his gngve and yet, the little tombstone that they placed above him was from Vermont, 'they buried him iu the heart of a pine forest aud yet, the pine colhn wus imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine aud yet, the nails in the coilin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him beside the best country on the face of the earth and yet, tho wool in the coffin bands themselves enme from The South did not furthe north. nish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole iu the ground. sheep-raisin- All From the North.1 18, 1921 years During the past twenty live there have been southern cities that have doubled their population, not once but time after time. The south today has a number of cities which have into developed these In great distributing centers. cities are huge distributing and jobbing houses representative of practiOf cally every line of merchandise. so much importance as distubuting centers have certain southern cities become, that hundreds of manufacturers located iu other sections of the country have chosen them as locations for important branch houses. OOOOOOOOOOOOOC'OOO'XOOOCOOCOOOOOOOOO' Senator Warren Asks Consideration of New Tax Reform E. Woxkxxoxxxoooooxoooooooc the Inineis Editors E. Wnrien Note. is chairmau of the committee on appropriations for tlie United S ates As the nation Minus this senate. meaus he must be a man of unusual ability, of a wide knowledge, of keen South as Playground. appreeiution of finaneial pioblems and Advertising, however, did not stop situations and an expert of economies. at developing the South agricultural- On him Tests a responsibility that ly and industrially. It developed would stagger the average man and tho south as a great winter play- to him there looks D(l,fil)il,mio citizens There was a time when for the wise distribution of the vast ground. tho south as a winter resort was sums to which they contribute. neglected. Advetisiug has changed And they laid him away, and the all this aud now southern resorts enclods rattled down upon the coffin. tertain thousands of visitors during And they buried him in a New York the months when the north had its coat, a Boston pair of shoes aud a inclement weather. pair of breeches from Chicago and a Advertising has acquanited people shirt from Cincinnati, leaving him with and sold to them southern innothing to catrry into tho next world dustrial and agrietural products. It to remid of tho land from which he has built up southern cities and peocame, and for which he fought for pled tho southern resorts with visfour years, but the chilled blood iu itors. It is recognized by southern his veins and tho marrow in his people as, the greatest faetor in the bonos. souths rapid development of its It was advertising, that changed lands and mineral resources. the South that Henry W. Grady picTo so great an extent do southern tured. Today Southern people may people believe in the power of adbuy Southern made shoes, hats, suits, vertising that New Orleans has algowts, steam engines, automobiles ready made a large advertising exPapers Repaid. d, act, almost any commodity penditure in telling people of its While tho southern newspaper and e anywhere in tho United it The state of many advantages. farm paper publications were never Georgia is planning to conduct an addirectly paid for such advertising, the y are Southern made goods vertising campaign , extending over a resultant prosperity of the South has l period of years. 'u5 South, but they are in Savannah, Georgia, are shipped to all parts and Montgomery, Alabama, are each repaid them many fold for tho spacelnmnd so generously donated for tho up- of o jr own country and to foreign to put on an advertising campaign to tell the rest of the world the advan- building of the Southern state agri- countries. cultural interests. The upbuilding of tho South indus- - tages of locating in a southern city, But advertising has been not only trially has been due to advertising. Proving that they believe in and tho means of building up the South The success experienced by the few .practice what they preach, tho manufacturers who first had orn NewspajKq- - Publishers It has built up the agriculturally. associSouth industrially from practically a ate courage to advertise encouraged .tion has conducted a remarkably t minus quantity, so far as manufacturonly other southern capital to cessful advertising cnmpnSgn selling ing industries wero concerned, to a onter the industrial field, but brought thc south to tho rest of the United from other sections of the States. There is not another secpoint where Southern industries rival capita tho industries of tho other sections conntry to start manufacturing plants tion of tho United States which beof our country. in the south. lieves moro in advertising or shows It was only a quarter of a century These new manufacturers in their greater results from advertising than nr so ago when Southern people had turn advertised and became success- the southern states. to obtain even the simplest of manu- ful. At tho present time some of What has been accomplished in the factured commodities from the north. this countrys largest advertisers, do- - past by tho south through advertis It was this condition which inspired ing an annual business amounting to Hng is only a promise of what it will the late Henry W. Grady,- - the be- millions of dollars, arc manufactur- accomplish in the future with its loved publicist of the South, to write ers located in the south. vast mineral resources, its wonderful in one of his editorials, ns follows: Tho growth of tho south industri- - agricultural facilities, and its growing It was a fellow, ally has in its own turn mnde the industries all backed by the power whose breeches struck him under- - rapid growth of southern cities, of advertising. far-sooin- de-m- south-Souther- suc-no- n WAKKK.V. dined ion ing a listening ear in of tho voices that preach radicalism, communism, or some other ism, by whatever name, that may propose departure from the safo and sane jzdicies of our government, As fellow stockholders, all of us j are keenly alivo to the fact that, in the interest of good business and the 'smooth limiting of our cnijxirato mui-- ! chi ne rv, we must raise for money 'our expenses vvi'h the least possible disturbance to business progress if we would attain the success. Much has been said nnd written about the tax- scheme in Canada, which has without doubt brought in to tiie Canadian treasury a huge sum end apiKirentlv no burden lias been felt by Iho taxpayers. Indeed, one writer icferred to lie levy as a painless tax, and, if any tax can lie truthfully called the Jv.iinless, sales tax of Canada so'ms to justify (lie description. It became efloe-fivin May, 1020, anid, in its first year of operation, levying n rate of two cents on the dollar, yielded A similar levy in revenue. in our country would, it is estimated, v ield about six hundred millions anWithout doubf it would be nually. fair to all; would put a premium upon economy, nnd vet could not be 'aid to carry any extra imposition upon the luxuries and evtra vaganees of those who do not want to be economical. The distribution, in other words, would be universal; the collection would be economical; chances for dishonesty and evasion would be hit-ho- in With congress limnoil over proposed importnnt changes in our revenue laws and lining sunmped wil , oceans of advice from economists real and theoretical v ith unfavorable business conditions, signs of depression, stagnation, passing of dividends, withdrawn! of money from investment nnd failures here and there, the only clear my of light is one that points out the why of the condition and that whv seems to be the present methods of taxing in comes and excess profits, methods so drastic that in some eases they amount to practical confiscation. Figures, often tricky tilings at best, indicate that with .9.5119.090,000 on deposit in this country distributed 1 1,500,090 among that depositors every depositor should have $570 and every inhabitant 02. On the face of it this may seem a sniall sum for the freeborn American average to show for a period of toll that may be many years yet taken in comparison with the average of mdy$!5S minimized. per depositor in the worlds figures of saving it is to bo seen that we Congress Hesitates. citizens of U. S. . did heed the But regardless of the fact that onr warning, guiding erv of war times, own country 1ms already had consideconomy, thrift and conservatism. - -v- 0 t? ! erable experience with sales taxes by the acts of 1917 and or With savings depositors which to the 1919, the administration number of one tenth of onr popula- has been satisfactory and successful, tion; with Liberty bond holders esti- there seems to be a hesitancy On the mated to number between fifteen part of congress to do avvav with and twenty millions less, of course, the onerous, annoying lines of taxes than there were during and immed so difficult and expensive to collect, nnd to adopt instead even on trial iately following nctual war times -- some sort of sales tax we may safely depend ujion the staplan. Chambers of commerce, business bility of our corporation nnd believe that our Tom Joneses and Bill Smiths and other stockholders are not hold- (Continued on Page 6.) 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