The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-05
More Impressions Of
the South
MACON, Ga, Jan. ].

Once il the dear, dead past beyond
recall certain vap was ordered to
sing Popularity, thing that is
easy to spell if you try IS a good
deal like whispering to mule and OK
pccting to receive response. The
only difference was that the var tried
and the mule didn t. The results were
the same. 1t was no 20.
They have new song down here.
You see it everywhere It is not sung,
but whistletl and eruned. 1t might
be worded something like this:
Pros -p-e-rit-v. something that
struck when dc war did begin" That
key word certainly is spelled with cap
ital letters down here and it includes
every class in whatever condition Of
servitude. War conditions sent the
price of cotton up to unheard of marks
and there ism t nigger who had two
or three acres of land that has not
bought ut least llivver.
The first two days of receiving APP
rlications for this wears automobile j.
eense card, for automobiles brought
over $500 applications and almost go
per cent OF them were for new cars In
the month | have been here two new
sales places fer automobiles have been
opened within a biscuit S toss of this
headquarters and am told there are
at least a dozen others recently opened
in other locations in the city. What is
true Of Macon is true i'll larger or
smaller degree of all places i'll the
south.
It may be all a nyby-uisht affair,
closes; then again it MAJ net, probably
will not. completely.
The apparent plans for the pcrma
nancy of Camp Wheeler, four or five
miles from here, gives promise that
the banks here will continue their an.
prccedentcd prosperity and that few,
if any of the restaurants, cafes, cafe
teria> and cafenets will bc obliged to
close up for lack of patronage.
The postotfiee has Just published a
report for the month of December and
the last quarter of the year. This
shows that the receipts of the post
office for December. 1917, were 50 per
cent larger than for the same month 4
year ago and that in the last seven
years the Increase has been more than
100 per cent This last would indica: 9
that Macon has had n natural growth
before the war boom struck the south
Aside from the big boost i'll the
"a f,i Is n+ a.. +
the Tremendous influx OF soldiers to In,
numerous camps down here has had
much to DO with the prosperity. They
moved south at the bchcst Of the GOV.
eminent to get where it was warm and
like some other poor dcluded individ
uals, they missed going far enoual
spHtht by something like 5000 miles
Still, they are hcrr. and. liable to j.,
for some tfmc and il is known h1t
that as soon u some of those at this
camp leave for "ntcr there tina.
there are others who. will come here
Everyone here is living in the present
making what money it is possible to
make, and refusing TO believe that the
war is due to, end during the present
@cncration
No uch thing as labor is obtainabI,
mere. Nothing but the worthless scum
1T both white and black Is availabl,
ana they require wages OF. experts anC
Work When they blamed please anC
only WIN some one standing over then
aRI DONG ne greater part OF the work
Apparently farm labor is due to h'
even more serious problem in th'
south than IN the north. When vol
/ l..
30 9et man up ther" t. work It j.
| sometimes pos lhie to pct work ont o.
| MN. here 1t - once IN a Whllr pos
Slbie TO get man III name only but Ii,
| never went TO school long enough e
| kilo" 'he meaning ct the Wor'
MGfk-
i"' scarcity Of workers reaches &
! SN't2 business aht profession. Tht
| P!cPh"le company : constantly ear
ing display ADVERTISEMENTS Tor opcr
d'ors- Nhlle .fhtS service IS fair. 1t /
'Niieht al rush times that there AZ
hot enough 9lflS TO handle he call
promptly
me l.aher hotel here, which, by til
way, waa the hostclry in which il /
claimed JeH Davis was captured Will
| wearing women clothes IS hard pm
10 II fof waters and bctl boys. TIL
othef hl2Ht III TIE large dining runl