| Show Great Problems Discussed by Auth c- c THE THE CHANGING SOUT SOUTH By ALBERT C. C RITCHIE Governor of Maryland Th The south louth t Is ent entering o S a new Dew In industrial in- in era Governor urges that hat it ft be a new political era as ai and presents what hat he believes Is the most Important political Lesne before it ft Change Changes Changes' are coming in th the ith denness and magnitude t t a are e almost wit without out parallel eol In history Statisticians lans estl estimate nate that durIng during dur- dur Ing the last ten years there has been an Increase of t more than of wealth in the new south with still undeveloped resources resources' resources ofa of a. a potential value that are The railroad railroad rail rail- road which is always a fair test of growth alone h Js s Increased fourfold in the last few decades with as till larger ratio of Increase In business and earnings One One-balf of all the coal mined In the United States came cam from five southern states and the growth In textile metallurgIcal and other lines Uries has been simply enormous s. s The value of manufactured products In 1925 is put at and southern south south- em ern farm products In the same year are valued at of which less than one fourth Is represented represented by cotton Like Impressive figures be marshaled as to building operations foreign shipping ship ship- shipping ping motor purchases and the like Ule UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES These few figures ruffice to illustrato illus- illus how real Is all the talk about the economic rebirth ot of the south and many are convinced tHat all this is but a mild forerunner of What Is ahead ThoSe who love lov the old romantic south of the blue bluegrass grass ass and the cotton fields m may y have mixed feelings feelings as to the ilie outcome outcome out out- come but the fact is that the star of empire is definitely mOVing southward Every economic eco ceo for force e Is driving ft that way With its natural re re its Its access to the sea and favorable 1 for foreign markets markets mar mar- and Its fine Jabor abor and living conditIons we are re bound to see ee inthe In th the soutH an almost unlimited industrial industrial in- in development New forces are everywhere at work in the south besideS those involved in- in in its Industrial rise Wesee We Wesee see them them- working In the field of education and social betterment in a more resolute and hearten hearten- mg ing towards state enterprises enterprises enter enter- and state pride and toWards the he monstrosities of Intolerance of class feeling of lynch law of ignorance ignorance ig- ig norance and the lUke like If the south lags anywhere now it is in poli- poli ti tics 00 HARMON HARMONIZE zE ISSUES In a very real sense some some of the the oldest political is ues of our history his his- tory are brought to the front by this development and process of industrialization and In their solution so- so lution the south Is once again In poi po- po i on to assert lead leadership From the very beginning of Our history history his his- tory vo t great elemental political forces have striven for mastery In OUr ur n national life One force impelled impelled im- im by Hamilton found expression expression sion in what we We Westill still call all federal federal- Ism The other impelled by Jefferson Jef- Jef ferson found e expression in what we still call caH The one force is strong for an powerful all centralized government the other for what It calls government of by and for the people Both concepts have their elements of weakness Both are again in vivid and the political political- al problem of today a as of yesterday is how best to harmonize har- har monize the two As applied o the Industrialization of the south the issue is whether our progress our liberties and our general welfare can best be sub sub- served ty looking towards Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington or towards our local capitals for government control protection I and guidance whether an industrialized indus indus- south prefers to have indus indus-I its larger politics shaPed by Itself or orby by federal bureaus Copyright 1927 1027 Cosmos Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate i |
