Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-26
WCTORYgTHEsFUTURE
HOLDS FOR THE SOUTH
Director Dave Told of II
Last Night.
Each Man i'm His Place
Must Assist i'm This
Great Task.

AT the Y. NJ. G. A. last night Mr. G.
Grosvenor Dave, managing director of
the Southern Commercial Congress,
addressed representative body Of
Americus citizens. President SILVER,
of the Board of Trade, presided In
the audience were the majority of the
prominent business men of the city.
Mr.. Dave took as his topic "The
Approaching Victory of the South"
Basing his talk on the fact that at
this time of the year the South is
commemorating victory desired, but
never gained, Mr.. Dave showed that
from time immemorial certain great
bases of victory have been in the
South and that therefore the South
has had within its grasp a sceptse
of conquest whose effects might all
ready have made a greater nation and
a stronger nation, but whose effects
will certainly produce these results in
the near future.
Marvellous Resources of South.
These bases of victory were shown
to be the marvellous coast line of the
South, the supreme leadership in nav
igable streams, the unapproachable re-
sources of water power, the distrtbu-
ton of favorable and abundant rain
tall,0 the favorable temperature fol
vegetable growth, the immense varie-
ties of soil, the extraordinary riches
IN minerals near to natural transpor-
tation and the forest cover.
Mr.. Dave pointed out that in an in
cidental way some. development had
occurred in connection with all these
resources, but that it had re-
mained for the men of today to sudden
ly realize that these resources taken
in combination positively placed the
future development of the South upon
solid basis of enduring greatness
that coult not possibly be matched by
the other two thirds of the Unite4
States.
He was followed with extreme in
terest during this recital of the ele-
ments of victory in the South, and it
promised to be talk like that of the
average booster who simply piles on
the pleasant things until people are
lulled to rest by thinking that all
these great results will come anyhow
At this point Mr.. Dave suddenly turn
ed loose a series of araignments and
denunciations, directed fairly and
squarely against every species of SNUG
contentment with things as they are
Quoting from Holy Writ, he showed
that the moment man reached a state
of supreme contentment that night his
soul was called for; that every man
who simply leans back and regards
life9 as "a round of meals, Sleep cloth
ing, Incidence, is dead though ne
walks and talks. He showed by
rapid sweep over the history of the
race that only discomfort with condi-
tions as they are and the eternal
reaching forward to things unattainei
had brought therace to it's present
high position. He rebuked vigorously
the false IDEA that there is dishonor
in work, that our young men must be
hedged around as if they were tender
plants, that our men of mature years
must rest back and take their ease.
and that the aged must loose inter
est in current events and the prog
ress of the world. Heshowed that
this very attitude of mind which wa,
an outgrowth of the evil influences
of servile race must be completely
eliminated from every nook and cor
ner of the South; for unless it is So
eliminated the vast sweep of develop
ment over the Southern states, which
is absolutely inevitable, will be under
taken, forced on the way, and car
ried to success by the seeing men who
come and look on our treasures and
appreciate them more than we do who
tread them under foot and disregard
them with our eyes.
What the Congress Aims to Do.
He explained that the Southern
Commercial Congress, which is a un-
ion of the constructive forces of the
South, has two great duties, the first
of which is to arouse the South, to
stimulate the minds of it men, to
create complete change of attitude
toward the future. The problem, as
he outlined it, is a psychological one.
1t involves bringing into existence an
affirmative state of mind from which
there will be no drawing back and
which will prompt every man in his
own chosen or appointed task, putting
therein more positive determination.
Even as the streets of old Jerusalem
were kept clean by every man sweep
ing in front of his own door, so the
enormous task lying before the South
along the pathway of development, will
be accomplished by each man in his
place feeling that his work is part
of tie great task, and that therefore
he must put into his work a new spirit
and dignity