Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-26
MUST TRAIN OUR BOYS
TO BE THE LEADERS
Otherwise Others Will Reap
the Harvest of South.
Nothing Can Stop a Vast
Development Here in
Near Future.

Hon G. Grosvenor Dave, managing
director of the Southern Commercial
Congress, put in an active day IN
Americas yesterday, making three ac
dresses, meeting many citizens, and
quite thoroughly acquainting himself
with local conditions. AS a result Of
his visit he carried away compre-
hensive idea of the development al
ready achieved in this section Of
Georgia, of tie aspirations of pushing
citizens, and on his part impaired
greater stimulus than existed on his
arrival
Mr.. Dave arrived from Montgomery
on the afternoon Seaboard train, was
met at the station by the reception
committee composed of President Jno.
w. SILVER, of the Board of Trade, and
Messrs. M. NJ Lowrey, B. f. Arthur,
and A. N. Walker, Of that organiza-
ton. They escorted him in an auto
to the Windsor, where rooms had
been reserved for the visitor.
After dinner Mr.. Dave was taken
in an auto to the High School, where
the boys and girls of the higher
grades were awaiting him, gathered
in one of the larger rooms. Mr.. Dave
was introduced in a few fitting words
by Supt. Miller and spoke for twenty
minutes, in a very forceful way, di-
recting Its remarks especially to the
boys. Stress was laid upon the fact
that life is a struggle, that the chief
honor of life lies in service, and that
the coming years will see the great
stress of a great struggle in the South
for the control and direction of its
wonderful resources. Mr.. Dave pre-
dicted that the next fifteen years would
see a vast flow of immigration into
this section with great development in
every line of human activity, that
trained brains would be at the helm,
would guide the course of evolution
in this section and would reap the
harvest TIE boys of the South should
be its leaders. he held, should educate
themselves for the work of controlling
IS destinies in material things, should
have their ambitions awakened 10
prepare themselves to assume the po-
sitions Of leaders in the vast move
ments that are just ahead. In this
connection he appealed to the boys of
the High School to determine to be
somebcdies, not to be mere onlookers,
to use their talents, through the Guilt
walton of their brain and physical
powers, so that to them and to thei1
children would come the rich heritage
of ownership and domination. The
SoutLfs vast possibilities had hardly
been touched, it was impossible to
restrain the world from developing
them, and if the Southern boys did
not rise to the level of their oppor-
tunit;es those who would come in
from somewhere else would take the
re.ns and reap the harvest. The talk
was elear-cut, practical one, and was
listened to with the glEatest attention
by all present
Leaving the High School Mr.. Dave
was driven to the Agricultural Col
!ege, where the boys, over a hundred,
we're assembled in the auditorium
awaiting him. supt. Collum introduced
the speaker who addressed the boys
on the vast possibilities of agricul-
ture in the South, on the riches that
lay in its soil, and how they could
be unlocked through the magic power
of human intelligence rightly applied.
He appealed to the agricultural stu
dents to prepare themselves for the
work that lay before them by con-
scientious study of the opportunities
that exist in the cultivation of the soil
by determination to avail themselves
of them and by scientific and diversi-
fed cultivation of a beautifully pro-
ducing soil enrich themselves and
their section. Here, too, the fact that
service should be the keynote of life,
the central thought around which the
drama of existence is woven, was
stressed in strong language.
Leaving the college Mr.. Dave was
driven, despite the .harpness of the
evening air, over a considerable
stretch of the good roads of Sumter,
in order that he might have an intel
ligent idea of the improvements being
made in the county's highways and
see for himself some of the fine coun-
try for which the county is noted. His
encomiums were like those of other
travellers who have traversed the
South and found nothing offering bet
ter than Sumter county presents.