Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-13
WHAT MAKES TOWN GROW?
What makes a town grow?

NIdL MAKES Town grow.
We discussed in yesterdays Times
Recorder some of the agencies that
limit or prevent the growth of town
like Americas.
What are some of the agencies that
promote growth?
Consider some of them as follows:
1. A welcome hand to newcomers.
?. A welcome hand to outside capt.
| tai seeking investment.
8. An adequate recognition of the
right of such capital to protection from
destruction or confscation, no mattec
what the form of the assault made
upon it.
4. The maintenance of the municipa.
credit unimpaired.
| 3. The maintenance of the public
departments in condition that as
sures the safety of life and property.
6. The expansion of the public con
veniences that promote and insure
| health.
T. The steady development of an
educational system abreast with that
found in progressive communities
elsewhere and capable of meeting full
ly the requirements of a growing pop
ulation.
8. The suppression of demagogy.
whether apparent in assaults on cor
porations, or in schemes, that, while
nominally in the public interest, are
primarily based on considerations of
personal selfishness or arise from
profound ignorance.
: 8. The effectual silencing, by popu-
lar disapproval, of those whose chief
play in public affairs is the instigating
of discord and the decentralization of
the spirit of unity and concerted ac-
ton
10. The avoidance of the deadening
effect of public debt that necessitates
high assessments and a high tax rate
on property and heavy burdens on
general business, discouraging realty
Investments and improvements and
commercial ventures, and at the same
time limiting or prohibiting progress
5ive steps that are needed if the town
S to develop along legitimate, whole
some, sound and sane lines.
Study the situation that confront:
ou as a citizen of Americas.
1t is proposed to issue the last dol.
lar of bonds that can be issued under
the assessable valuations.
1t is proposed to strain the public
credit of the municipality to the las
penny
1t is proposed to make it an abso
lutte financial impossibility to issu;
another dollar of bonds for publ,
schools, for sewers, for the extension
Of the water system, for street paw
ing, for any public purpose whatso
ever, for many years to come.
Two years ago you were told tina
an issue of bonds to the extent of fiji
teen thousand dollars would be all tina
was required for municipal lightin,
plant.
You voted down the proposition.
Today you are told that it will re
quire bond issue of fifty Thousand
dollars for that purpose.
If they try another guess, a yea
hence, they may make the estimat
then, one hundred thousand dollars.
Who can tell what their next CUES
on this line will be?
The money obtained from the issu
ing of the last dollar of bonds tina
Americas can issue for some years t,
come, from this straining of it's credi
to the utmost limit that the constitu
ton of the state of Georgia will per
: NIT, is to be used in an experiment
the experiment of municipal light
ing plant.
= This plant is to be worked by poll
terest, in competition with lightins
plant here now, this private plant re
presenting very much larger invest
ment than the amount of the proposed
bond issue
There is absolutely no guarante,
that such an electric plant will be
economically conducted, that it will b.
successfully conducted, that it will not
n the end be an additional and con
tinuouS tax upon every citizen OF
AmericuS.
Its purpose, and there is no conceal
ing the fact, is to destroy private in
vestment in Americas to destroy the
value of an investment made in god
faith, to use the public credit of the
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Meat Eating.
OF meat eaten bV the WORKING