Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-18

thoroughly will ask to be permitted to make these
few remarks in reply
First the writer the Georgia fellow with the spirit
of being good booster didn't have the good fortune
to be born in old Georgia. but like the California writer
any farther away from Georgia than the Californian
evidently has been away from California he may not
have had the effrontery write so "exollngy' of the
virtues of Sumter county But, having been reared in
the great prairie country and having lived at various
times in the great states of Montana and California in
the far west, well as several other states in other
sections of nation he he speaks with some
thing akin to authority in comparing natural advan
tages offered by the various sections
In the first place let it be understood that nothing
deprecatory has been said these columns about
California On the contrary time and again California
achievements have held up before the people of
this section for emulation has been realized and
believed by the writer since he first eyes on Sumter
county after nearly years of residence in another
part of Georgia that Caofrna had become the great
state it is with what advantages offered how
the people of Georgia sleeping their bhrghts
occupying place in the California in reputation
and achievement. i
We give California her due Everyone who sees
California does that But the amazing thing to the
visitor California she has been able to make
such wonderful showing with so little, with apparently
only little valley here and there between mountains or
deserts in cultivation
The fact is that California is populated with diff
refent class of people than Georgia California is a
state that has boosted itself the bignnnga state
that is living example of the advertsing-a
delivering thegoods people are no better no ADLER
than the people of Georgia. they merely are different
and long they learned their lesson in advertising
Inc truth OF the matter is, they forced to work
hard and boost to beat the band the first to exist
Soon boosting became habit and a business The re-
suit that today despite almost ntoerable egotism
of the Californian that state is one of the very
greatest if not the first in union in actual
achievements Certainly she leads the country in paved
highways, and that is respect in which we now
are attempting to emulate her example in Georgia
1t is true there parts of California where irrf-
CATION is not required. Sonoma as may be surmised
from reading the foregoing reproduction is one of them
But although the Sonoma editor may not know it, his
county is only small bit of California and he should
know, and probably does know although he carefully
conceals the fact here are millions of acres of
California soil-ha portion of California best known
10 the remainder of the naton-where nothing could
exist much less and thrive, without irrigation
California has secceeded IN SPITE of natural con-
ditions while Georgia has sat idy and peacefully for
years and with opportunities unfahomed waiting
within her borders
i is nile To
S'ate-a OF US that amount to anything do that. But
some have great deal stand up for than others
And that is why this Georgia fellow'-Georgian by
adoption because he sees more chance here than any
where else in the world because in his roamngs he
has never found people congenia openhearted and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES no strain his boosting powers
by getting frequent effusion about Georgia "off his
chest"
Georgia is Weakening and Weakening fast to her
opportunities She is learning how to organiza her
industries-as California learned long ago-and learning
to do the things that count most
&c. look out California. Great as you are, your
soil never peach that could equal Georga's
famous Elbertas, although you grow that variety too
Besides you are far away great markets of the
country.
The Georgia watermelon is famous the world over
but whoever heard of California watermelon however
many and however fine they maybe?
You have your grapes and wonderful wine but of
what are they now, with the nation dry to remain so
forever? Yes you can make some of them into raisns
And Georgia yams! Maybe you never heard of those