Show THE ADVANCING SOUTH In the south Alabama Georgia and Oklahoma are prohibition states and the late election in North Carolina adds another state to the list of those in ill which as an Atlanta cartoonist makes clear The Time water is fine We take it that this means that the thc whole south at least that portion wherein the negro population is den dense e will soon be prohibition It will be of interest to watch the result The first trouble will be we apprehend with the and probably for a long time the mountaineers' mountaineers districts districts districts dis dis- or North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Tennessee and Kentucky will continue to supply a beverage bevel a genuine supply of which keeps implanted in a man all the seeds o of violence But in inthe inthe inthe the country at large there will be nothing to incite the negroes to insolence and to give the hoodlum I whites an incentive to murder the negroes for how I could a band of poor whites be expected to go on ona ona ona a negro raid if deprived of benzine 1 And how will I the old time southern politician be able to arouse the belief that eternal vigilance is essential lest there be benegro benegro negro domination 1 Is it possible that the time best sentiment of the south is beginning to recoil against the time manifest hum- hum buggery that has ruled there politically ever since the war warY And nd we suspect the time change has come to re re- re- re main There will be bc a mighty falling off in the expense expense expense ex ex- pense of running the city governments In poor mens men's homes there will be more comforts violence will pretty nearly cease and the strong religious sentiment sentiment sen seti- I of the time southern people will more and m more re reassert assert itself And gambling will be in a great part done awa away with for how could men gamble all day and all night without intoxicants Then the records of violence will show marked changes The hasty quarrels in which men in a frenzied moment kill each other will grow less and less the time corner store loafer will have no interest in going up town to talk politics the change will be wonderful to see And just now another movement is on in the south That hat is for a better tilling of the soil and how to restore lands that have had the life principle about t taken ken out of them by constant rotations of the time same crop The Time agricultural department is supplying experts to teach the people what is best to do with their lands and the time best methods of cultivation and the time different states are paying the salaries of these men And Amid new crops are being planted Louisiana and Texas are are both becoming great rice producing states Indeed rice is getting to be a great staple in half a dozen southern states since it was discovered that it is just as easy to thrash rice as it is wheat Again electric power is being generated and applied applied applied ap ap- plied to great numbers of manufacturing plants and the people are looking forward to the time when all the coarse cotton goods will be manufactured where the time cotton is grown Schools are being rapidly extended and as the children of the poor whites emerge from them they are beginning to take part in politics and a few men menno menno menno no longer control a state As yet there are few labor troubles in that sec sec- tion The changes that are being worked out amount to something akin to evolution in half a dozen of those states and the they are getting betting rich faster than they ever eyer were in the time bellum ante-bellum days |