University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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Iirvfarv ISSISSIPPI-WHAT SHE IS AND WHAT SHE IS GOING TO BE-is the message of this, the 1917 edition of The New Spirit. The Class of 1917, hoping to encourage our schools in a more systematic study and review of the State, and to awaken our people to a greater appreciation of her innumerable pos- sibilities, has collected and compiled in this year book such in- formation as the limited space of the publication would allow. And should the subject matter herein offered in any way assist some teacher in gaining greater efficiency in her work, or cause some one to become a stronger or nobler Mississippian. we shall not feel that our efforts have been spent in vain. The plan in selecting this material has been to employ the latest and most authentic data that could be secured, and if in any respects it may be found lacking in its completeness or accu- racy, it is because it has been impossible in some cases to ob- tain such definite facts as were desired. The Diploma Class in publishing these articles wish to thank the various members of the Faculty of the Normal Col- lege, and other friends, who have been so kind in lending us their hearty co-operation and support. We have drawn freely fr-im the publications of the State Geological Survey, for which we wish to express our thanks especially to Dr. E. N. Lowe, State Geologist. Also we wish to thank Mr. E. M. Jones, Assistant on Soil Survey, and Mr. E. V. Yates of Macon, Mi+siss ppi, for kind offii-es. Further assistance has been re- ceived through the courtesy of the United States Bureaus of Census, of Commerce, of Agricultureg the State Department of Ag:-icultureg the Industrial Agents of the Gulf Sz Ship Island, the Mobile Sz Ohio, and the Louisville SL Nashville Railroads: and the individual management of various industries of the state.

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