Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-05

greaS demand, the shortage of raw ma
terials. prices must stand about where
they now are. Cotton will bring good
prices. and there can be only prosper
itv for this section" Mr.. Bailey says
that the hustling concern will gets its
share of this prosperity.
Following is Bradstreet's forecast
for the year, 1919, just issued:
While a certain amount of the
buoyancy with which the victory of
/ the Allies was greeted has disappear
ed, and readjustments from a war to
la peace basis in industry have made
for a good deal of uncertainty, due
mainly to the question of the future
of prices and the disposition of un-
needed war supplies, there seems to
be no good reason for taking counsel
of our fears as to what is to happen
latter peace terms are signed. Much
weighty talk of problems to be solved
lappears in the papers, but, unless all
past experience is at fault, most of
the problems arising are very similar
to those encountered in other periods
Iof readjustment following widespread
hostilities If the result had been diff
ferent and Germany had won, there
vast deal of worry. But civilization
hos won; the rafting sword the shin
ing armor and other properties" of
the Berlin Snowman, as Harden called
him, have been relegated to the scrap
pile, and Europe no longer has to lis
ten with bated breath to the rantings
of people who in the past had made
murder and robbery profitable while
masquerading under the comparatively
respectable name of war We do not
believe the millennium has come, or
THAT we have seen our last war, but
something like what the poet Tenny
son termed Parliament of Nations"
is about to meet, and under the agree
cents likely to be evolved therefrom,
the world should be a safer place to
| live and do business in.
I'VE believe that big potential de-
Imand for goods exists. at price, and
lii is known that there is and will be
tremendous demand for food products
| from Europe while materials for cloth
ing and for shelter and implements OF
agriculture will probably be badly
NEEDED, The United States having suf-
Ifered the least of all the belligerents,
should be in position to supply these
demands, as we have a good share of
the food and the raw materials which
the world needs, and our prestige has
certainly not suffered at the hands of
the two million men who have repre-
Sclteu' us i'll EUROPE. we also nave
what we hitherto iacked--a big mer-
chant marine capable of serving our
importers and exporters. and our loans
Ito Allies and neutrals have given us
la financial footing in the markets of
the world of which our bankers prob
ably will not be slow to take advant-
age If it is necessary to finance our
customers throughout the world to en-
able us to sell goods, we can do it,
because we financed Europe when the
possibility of returns was not nearly
so good as now We also have
larger capacity for output, and GER
,tainly greater adaptability for ca
tering to foreign demands, whether of
peace or war. In fact, we have reach
ed in a few short years position that
it took Great Britain, the business ma
ton par excellence, generations to
achieve Fears of unemployment OF
the masses should be considered with
the known fact in view that immigra-