Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-08-17
4 POOR TIME TO LEAVE THE
SOUTH.

The South and the Southwest are
certain to enjoy remarkable and enyi-
able prosperity" said Frank J. Gould
in discussing American business con-
dition of the coming twelve months.
That is the common trend of bust
ness expression as found in the inter-
views appearing in papers in all parts
of the country.
For several years past attention has
been centering more and more on the
development of the South, on the rap
| id expansion of its crops, on its rapid
increase in population and wealth, on
the general prosperity of its people.
The fact that the South has a
wonderful future of material develop
Iment and unparalleled prosperity isl
accepted by the world at large Men
ARE showing it by their studies in this
section for investment. Only the 9TH
er day it was reported, on good foun>
dation, that the Vanderbilts contem-
plated heavy real estate investments
lin various growing Southern cities.
They will 90 this not only because !
they wish to scatter their holdings, |
but because they realize that great
growth and consequent increase in
values is ahead for such cities.
Fortunately the Southern people are.
themselves awake to the fact that they
have a wonderful section. The devel-
opment of the South is largely from
within. The West has developed from
without. by the thrush of settlers from
all over the world and by the enorm-
Gus investments of Eastern capital.
The South has had but little inn
migration. It's people have remained
a homogeneous people, the descendants
Of the original settlers Of a century to
two centuries ago. From the loins of
the pioneers have come the men who
are to-day leading the South in its
ownward march The wealth creators
are the men who were born in the
South and whose fathers fought the
battles Of the South.
1t is we'll that this should be so. /
While desirable immigration should |
always be welcome, it is peculiarly
satisfying that the wealth that is be-
ing produced is to remain largely in
Southern lands, that the increase in
the values of lands is to represent in F!
creases in the wealth of Southern fam |
lilies, that after the half century of toll |
and privations and ceaseIess struggle !
that followed the civil war the fruits
are not to accrue to strangers but to
the men who faced adversely and out
of ruin and devastation have wrought
such a remarkable change. To them
and their children and grandchildren
the heritage is coming and not to an
alien host pouring in to possess the
land and all it's riches.
This is poor time for a Southern
boy to leave the South. Hundreds Of
thousands have left it in the past five
decades. A few have conquered for
tune elsewhere, but the vast host have
been little benefited by the change.
But to-day, with the South at the open
gate to fortune such as few lands have
ever known, the boy who leaves its
rich fields and thriving cities and
towns. is simply committing a suicidal
mistake, He is leaving the land Of
richest promise in the world to-day
the land of the greatest opportunities.
the land that offers most to the boy Of
honesty, of intelligence and industry.
The boys of the South should stay by
the South and share in that remarkable
and enyiable prosperity that Gould and
other men of foresight see are its near
portion.