Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-14
Editorial Room, Telephone 90.
Americas, Ga. April IA, 1910.
4 PULL TOGETHER WILL DO THE
WORK.

Ameicus is on the turning point of
the tide The town is ready for a
campaign of well sustained enthus-
iasm. The training it has gone
through for the. past four years has
had its effect. The people have been
educated up to a higher conception of
public spirit, they have been by de-
grees awakened to the opportunities
that are available here, they have
come to a fuller realization of the
advantages Americas possesses, and
now, we believe, they are ready 20
put their shoulders together and push
the wheels of progress as they have
never before pushed.
Americas is going to go forward
from now on as it has never gone
ahead in recent years. We firmly be-
lieve that the people are thoroughly
awakened both to the necessity Of
working and to a thorough understand
ing Of the benefits that will accrue
from united efforts. The Board of
Trade has been working to good pur-
pose all these many months. It has
been laying the foundations for. a
forward movement 1t has advertised
the city. it has brought It to the atten-
ton OF untold thousands who were
not before aware Of its existence, or
had but a hazy conception of what a
city it really was. 1t has concentrated
attention on Americas and Sumter
county. 1t has encouraged movements
that have tended to the building up
Of both, and now, as a result of its
past work along these lines, the time
is ripe for a great aggressive and for
ward step
All that remains now IS to put the
spirit Of interest that the people feel
into concrete form, to give it def
mite shape, to work it up into some
thing tangible and Of positive charac-
ter And that is what the Board OF
Trade and the Americas Industrial De-
yelopment Company propose to do.
Three years ago it was not possible
to awaken an interest in an aggres-
sive industrial development movement
such as IS now under way. The city
was just being awakened from its Ieth-
argy. The good roads movement was
then being born. Public developments
were under way that have given as
the magnificent improved country
highways, the Carnegie Library, the
Y. NJ. C. A building, the new high
school, the Country Club and other
telling Improvements. There has been
a steady growth of interest in every
thing appertaining to Americas dur
ing that time. Slowly, surely, per-
s;stently, the seed has been planted
and has taken root and grown. Today
the harvest is near at hand.
It is now simply a case of pulling
together, of each and every one as
sisting in some measure. The time
has passed when it was necessary &c
throw great burdens on a few. With
public interest stimulated as it has
been the burden can be so distributed
that no one will feel it. There is on
all sides a willingness apparent from
every citizen to do his part, to become
an active factor in the work. This
spirit is the rich fruitage of the work
Of the Board of Trade, and it de-
serves the credit for it.
Americas can be made a vastly
more Important, vastly richer city
than. it is, and made such within few
years. With the good roads develop
ing the county and with varied mand-
features developing the city there is
absolutely no reason Wy Americas
should not have % oG0 population
when the pext census is taken, or even
before that time. If Union, S. c., with
no such country as surrounds Ameri-
Gus, no such prosperity as We enjoy
with no such advantages as this city
offers, could grow as it did, within fl
teen years from 1000 population to
over 10000 population it is easily pos
sible for Americas to increase from
-, 900 to $4,000 within the next ten
years That must be the aim of ev-
cry public spirited citizen.
Help the Board of Trade by uniting
with it, help the Industrial Develop
ment Company by becoming a stock
holder in it. Help Americas through
these two agencies. Help Americas
by buying your goods at home, by talk
ing up the city, by learning all you
can about it and letting others know
what you know.