Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. SOUTHERN EDiTOR'S OPINION Governor Goodrich of Indiana is opposed to the Indiana militia coming to Mississippi in August "because it is so hot here.” That’s where you are mistaken, governor. It is not as hot in Hattiesburg as it is in Indianapolis. We challenge you to take the. government weather readings. We never have prostrations from heat here, and you sometimes do. We nearly always have a soft gulf breeze here, and a good deal of the time you just bake under the sun and have no cooling breeze at all. Our summers are longer than yours, but not hotter; not as hot. Our winters are shorter and hot as cold. When it comes to climate, this part of the state —not the Delta, but south Mississippi—has Indiana beaten a whole city block: You are laboring, governor, under the same mistake General Wood was before he came to look this camp site oyer. If yOu will come with the boys, Hattiesburg will give you a right royal welcome, and convince sou in a little while that the war depart ment has greatly favored the Indiana and Kentucky militia by ordering them to camp Shelby. It you want to “be-shown,” governor, just come along. We’ve got the goods and are willing. to display them.—Hattiesburg News.