The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-09
WHO CAN STOP US?

We are going to the outside world
today with a published bank statement
which shows that the deposits in one
OF our local institutions have over dou-
bled themselves in an even years time.
That is something remarkable for an
old established banking house. new
one with one or two years to its credit
could do that easily, but for the oldest
large banking house in the community
to 90 that pace is record altogether
unusual. 1t is not likely that we will
get called" when we say no other
community in the state has such
splendid business record to its credit.
And our banking houses have run
race, Ieck and neck, through the whole
spring, with great increases in savings
and open deposit accounts. They have
determined purpose of making them
selves ielt in this section OF the state
and are going to set d great pace III
the business development of the com
munity.
What the bankers are doing can be
done in all lines of business. When
all our merchants get off the goods
boxes and go after the business Cor
dele is going to be stronger, richer
business community. II is already as
good a business comm unity as any OF
It's size in Georgia. There is abundance
of evidence.
Who knows here how much local
business the banks OF the community
have brought back home from other
larger centers? 1t cannot be denied
that people have done business here III
former seasons and conducted their
banking business at the same time in
other commercial points Our bankers
have been after it and their fine show
ing is the result. The beauty of it all
is the fact that they are not letting
sup. They realize that there is yet
more business for them. Their fight
for bigger, better business is but just
begun. They study and work, and
work and study. No goods boxes about
their places of business. No idle time
for cui bstone assertions on poll
tics and the war For every working
day they have a plan scheduled for
more work 1t is going to make us n
ricn banking town. Mark it.
Now 10 another line: There is not
another business in this community
that is doing its best. Some of us are
sitting on the goods boxes and Willing
away the long days on the corners
when our own enterprises should be
pushed, pushed far over our trade ter
ritory until the possibility OF missing
the larger volume would be mini
mixed in the highest degree. Some of
us haven't asked for a dollars worth
of business in the doubtful territory in
"a full lifetime. And some of us just
open cur doors, sweep out, and sit
there ahd wait, all day long.
~ Cordele has wide, rich territory
from which to draw its business. II
has better trade territory than Amer
icus or Albany. Its farmers live on
their farms and raise their own pro
ducts. They usually have the finest
crops. They are learning every year
how to make the most out of their
crops Ii you doubt that they are the
q people with the money ahead ask the
bankers If you still doubt our state
ment that other business centers are
dividing your business with them, get
off the goods boxes and get on the
outside.
Our loyalty to our business commun-
ity bids us tell you that Cordele has
as much to gain in consistent bust
ness campaigning as it is already en-
joying 1t is ours for the asking,
There never was a better opportunity
for record business fall than that
which we are approaching. Our sum-
mer even is not a dead one. Over
stocking is not the thing. Going af-
ter business and selling what we have,
then buying more, is the thing. Let
US be sure we are prepared, and then
let US be out and after it. Then we
will grow and who can stop us?