Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-10

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pitality has gone far abroad in the
land, and along with it is her boast for
beautiful women, fine farms and
magnificent roads. Sumter county not
Only claims but has witnesses to prove
this SO, in Yerification we are re-
printing an article by Frank T. Reyn-
Odds, a well known Georgia, now living
il. Macon, which he wrote for the
Dalton Citizen:
From Macon to Americas, seventy
one miles in two hours and ten min
utes by automobile is what the boys
on the street would call some" speed.
But that is what did last Friday
morning in the highpowered, six cyl
iLder, new Chandler car of Mr.. Herbert
Block, accompanied by W. NJ. Little,
manager of Hotel Dempsey, driven by
Mr. Block himself. This could only
have been done on good roads. We
went through the counties of Bibb,
Hoston, Macon and Sumter, passing
through Fort Valley, Byron, Marshall
vile, Oglethorpe, Montezuma and And
ersonville.
Between Montezuma and Oglethorpe
we crossed the head waters of the
Flint river. I saw some of the most
beautiful farms I ever had the pleasure
to behold They look more like the
dream of some artist in oil on canvass
than the actual, growing organisms
they are. There were miles of peach,
pecan and pear orchards heavily fruit
ed, with every tree neatly whitewash-
ed, and every building either painted
or whitewashed. Every stone, fence or
barn the same. saw acres and acres
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brought together in conference, it is
understood. the foremost men in the
financial. commercial and manufac-
turing activities of the states lying
below Mason and Dixon's line; men
who understand in every detail the
possibilities as well as the needs of
the South. When the handicap of alb
sclute reliance on cotton is removed,
and when the southern people have
determined upon meeting the needs of
home consumption with home pro,
duction, their geratest economic
problem, if not entirely solved, is well
On its way toward solution.
Not in its entire history has the
South seen so clearly as it does today |
way to industrial freedom. The
new as well as the old South has until |
recently been hampered, rather than
assisted, in its progress by its mag
Iiicent staple That which should
have been benefit has been a detri-
ment because it has been allowed to |
restrict energy and enterprise, to
stand in the way of development along
lines that promised immeasurably
greater returns. 1t can be said OF
cotton in the South, as has been said
Ct many other things in human ex-
perience, that while it is splendid
servant, it has been very poor mas
ter The South had only to put it in
its proper place in order to prove the
truth of this beyond cavil.
That part of the Union in point OF
real development is only in its in
fancy. In many respects it is as new
as was the West at the close of the
civil war. 1t calls for increased
transportation facilities and the pro
motion of industries that will turn it's |
raw materials into finished articles at
home. Wonderfully fertile, rich be-
yond calculation in timber and min
erals, the idle capital of the nation,
seeking profitable employment, can
find opportunity for investment in !
the South equal to those held out by
any other part of the country or any
other part of the world"