Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-22
WHAT AID. CLARK SAW
IN OTHER CITIFS
Our Residence Section is
Equal TO the Best.
Other Cities Showing
More Industrial
Development.

Alderman G. ]. Clark, who has been
| absent from the city for over three
months, mainly at Salisbury, N. c.
where he has been experimenting the
erection of the Pennsylvania state
monument, has travelled extensively
over the South and West, and to a
considerable degree North in the
past three or four years, on business
matters, and during that time has Wis
tied number of enterprising, pro-
gressive and pretty cities of between
$500 and $4,000 population.
Asked yesterday as to how the
many small cities he had visited com
pared with Americus, Alderman Clark
said:
The one thing that has impressed
me in the comparisons that one always
mentally makes when away from home
is that few, if any, of the small cities
compares with Americus from the
standpoint of the beauty and we'll
kept appearance of it's homes. In
towns of $4,000 or more population /
have seen fewer of what one might
term handsome homes than in Ameri-
Gus, and nowhere have l seen the
homes as a rule kept up better, paint
ed more prettily or with more care
fully kept grounds. In truth, and [
am not saying it because this is my
home, but because it is the fact that
is stamped on ones mind in travelling,
Americus is really exceptional among
small cities in this respect.
Nowhere, either, in any small city
| have visited. have | found a system
of sidewalks that compares with ours.
Our streets, or many of them at least.
compare most favorable in grading
curbing and general appearance with
those in residence sections in towns
that are larger and OF more command
ing business Importance than Ameri-
Gus. These are things that we should
be proud of. l certainly would not be
ashamed to show through our resi-
dence section a visitor from any one
of a score of cities of our size that /
have had the pleasure of visiting.
Our Weak Point.
:'In our business section, though.
Americus perhaps does not show up as
well, as in some of the cities | have
seen in recent years. On the average,
though, it is the equal of the majority
of cities of 10000 to $4,000 population
although the trend everywhere is to-
ward the paving of the highways in
the business section with bricks or
other material and in that respect we
may seem behind the procession.
''The one thing in which we are fall
ing behind, might say" continued
Alderman Clark, 'is our failure to get
more industries, in ouI unwfllingness
to get together, put up the money, and
inaUgurate a new Industrial era hy
the establishment of a cotton factory
or hosiery mill. That is our weak
point as I see things in comparison
with what have noticed in other
cities. Now, | am proud of Americus
in many ways, but | do not believe it
wise to shut my eyes to our short
comings. We are too prone here to
stick to the old ways, to invest and
reinvest along the same old lines, not
to branch out into anything new. And
that is a shortcoming | believe we
must overcome. I found in other
towns a strong industrial spirit. a
determination to have diversified
manufactures, and in a number of.
towns our size | found many small in
dustries that were thriving and gave
promise of healthful development. That
is what we must do. We must not
rest content with our fine agricultural
country, and I haven't seen any bet-I
ter anywhere, or with our beautiful
homes. We must buckle down, as
these other cities have done and are
doing, to the work of building up the
city through new industries"
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