Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-18
Americas, Ga, November IS, 1909.
LET WORDS GIVE WAY TO ACTION.

we are not going TO QfScreQlt An1efI-
Gus before the world It is a great lit
tie city. 1t has risen over almost I'M
surmountable difficulties in the past.
1t has seen fond hopes blasted, ruin
threaten it, and depression reign SUI
preme over several years. But none
Of these things have served to perm
| anently daunt it, or to more than tenn
porarily check it's ownward march.
| For little community in the past it
has done some remarkable things.
And judging it by this past record
there are still other and greater tri-
urnphs for it to achieve in the future
Last year Americas accomplished
| several things that were of command
ing Importance. This year IL was ex-
| pected that it would fully duplicate
this record, and perhaps even estab-
lish a better one But what have we
| really accomplished this year. Review
the eleven months that are almost
| over and determine for yourself
whether the record is satisfactory
one, whether it is in keeping with the
record of 1908, whether it is such that
we can positively say that the city has
made decided progress and stands to-
day stronger in business, larger in
population, greater in wealth than be-
fore.
There are two old adages that might
be locally APPLIED at this juncture that
tell of the condition into which indi-
! viduals, and some time communities,
fall Tney are these: Talk is cheap"
and Actions speak / ouder than
words" During the year now drawing
| to close we have had an abundance
| of words but precious little bit of
| action. We have met and discussed
adjourned, and then met again and
renewed the discussion. If words
would build cotton factory the cot
| ton factory would long ago have had
it's spindles humming. If words would
build a railroad connection we would
already be shipping some of our
| freight via the A, B. & A. If words
would pave the streets the business
section would now compare favorably
with the same section of other cities.
But words will do none OF these
things, and while discussions are adj
visable and beneficial, when nothing is
done save to discuss measures the
actual results accomplished are likely
to be, as they are in our present in
stance, absolutely NIL
What Americas wants is less talk
and more action, less words and more
actual performance. The necessity and
value of certain things are we'll recog-
nized All the talk that could be in
dulged in would not make it more APP
parent that a cotton factory would
give the city decided boost in an in
dustrial way and be the opening ses-
anne, in all likelihood, to a continued
development along that line. So with
the matter of the Byromville railroad
connection. Business men and the pub
lie generally do not need to be further
assured that this connection would be
an excellent thing for Americus, that
it would mean the opening up of new
trade territory, and the other benefits
that accrue from a third railroad con-
nection with the outside world. And
as to paved streets, if taere is any
one left in Americas requiring addi-
tional talk as to the adVisability and
necessity of keeping Americas abreast
with other cities in this respect he
must have been asleep for the past
three years.
The real question confronting US is
this, when are we going to have some
positive action of a definite nature?
When are we really going to see If the
comparatively small amount of local
subscriptions necessary for the cotton
mill can be raised, when are we going
to see what can be done about the
railway connection, when are we go
ing to impress on Council the fact that
the citizens want the business section
paved, impress it on them so positive
ly that they will issue the bonds and
make the improvement? If we really
want these things, IL we think they are
going to help make Americas greater
in material ways, there is no use in
wasting another ocean of words about
them. Get down to work for them.
Let action succeed words. That is
the crying need of the hour here now.
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