The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-21
GOING AFTER BUSINESS.

Local banks have more than twice
the money in their deposits that they
had last year this time. The May
statements reveal rapid gain ana
this forging ahead is going to be much
more rapid in the future. The quick
get away for the year already points
to a considerably relieved scarcity OF
money.
Every little bit of evidence points
to a similar advance in other lines
If business. All the business concerns
have noted the quickening and are fui-
" alive to the belief that real bus
mess activity of the old kind is just
ahead of us. There is certainly not
COMPLAINT that can be raised here al
ready. for numbers of the business
houses remain busy all the day long.
There is only a slight lull towards the
end of the month.
Our bankers should be the first to
begin the campaign for larger pus-
mess and a larger business territory
for the town. They have in their May
renorts of their own conditions the
evidence that there is now a nearly
steady, healthful condition of affairs.
The fall business is going to throw
them ahead.
In other lines the business man
with the ginger and enlivened spirit
is promised rich returns for his labors.
Individual business effort,-plans laid
and well worked in each establishment
for an increased business-are going
to bring big returns. The business
man with enterprise that never lets
up will end with the largest showing.
OF course, there are those who Will
continue to stand on the corners, SIT
on the goods boxes and counters and
complain of the dull times. This is
a crowd whose ranks are thinning fast.
When the funeral of the last one is
said and the grave is covered, the rest
of the neighbors around about will
come away relieved. Almost all of
our cussing and cussedness comes OF
our drones
The hard working business man who
is willing to expend an effort and do
sonic real systematic thinking on
plans for the enlargement of his own
business, is the man upon whom the
community can count most in time
of need. Call him selfish of you wish,
but let us have more of the kind. II
he loves his trade and has interest
enough to work at it eternally, his
business will have earned some profits
before the year is finished.
There is the argument for the whole
community. The first duty our phil
anthropic and patriotic owe the town
is to get the dead ones off the curb and
put them to work. The man with a
business usually considers it a rath-
err serious reflection for the rest of
the business world to see him hang
ing on the corners idling away the
day
If he is a professional man, he GER
tainly has business in his office where
he should be studying for improve
ment between calls. He should have
hours there and observe them. and be
out only during such hours as he has
set aside for free air and recreation.
If he is a business man, his place will
never run itself and he should be there
during business hours.
Every man to his post working,
working, for every inch of the bus
mess that can he brought is the kind
of schedule that will put the business
community far ahead of its old self.
What the banks have shown in their
statements for the month of May is
the undisputed evidence that there
is now chance to move up a few car
lengths.
SHELVE THE TRAINMAN.