Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-24
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THIS is Christmas Eve and happy for all ChrendOmor
i should be- In America it is happy compared to those
countries across both directions still suffering from the
@ of the awful waste of war and many of them with the added
terror of famine and peslence This country knows neither "A
most abundant year has to close ana os
hiss: b ave and warehouses loaded True there little
lust at this time and midst of the economic readju
ent that taking place for what most OF US have to SELL out we
h The products and most of us enough satisfy
and something besides-vlh a Orien' year niP "
of us
D YOU read those figures published yesterday regarding Georgia
~ values for the year just osng Two hundred and seventy
nine millions nearly $lOO for every man. woman ana
bld in Georgia produced farms this in addition
70 e great value output of mines quae and factories
and wealth otherwise producd Based on the valuations OF farm
cts as of December when the hnkage values had already
ce the total was less than half of what reached
last year details show larger yields produced most crops
this year, and the loss IN total TO DC que SS " ~ r
market value
IN considering this look at the result
279 millions of dollars which this will bring will buy
nearly if not quite much the total OF last year which more
than doubled it After ALL the value OF dollar is determines by
what it will buy bale of Is cents pound that Will buy
three suits of clothes is worth Just as uh IN a'.ual b ~
who sell bringing - cents ana clohhe ~e
proportonatey high and would purchase only the same three
suits Exchange value is what counts and WIN 0nsr he
down along with farm products COTTON an @ 90
worth Just would have been at p 81 cents ~
DAYS ago-a price every farmer would gladly accept had
opportunity go back to the beginning of the picking season
IF were not debts contracted basis OF cheap money
which be repaid with high priced money we wouo
be in clover Georgia despite market conditions Tor the disturb
anc of trade could shake AS must sit steady the
and for the full sunshine that is to follow the rosy Jaw"
Every economic condition underlying factor right for
prosperous year of Things that adverse Just now Will
right themselves shortly and naturally Just products are
dow-avay Wouldn't be good idea to reverse tor our
selves the old poveb this OF the year and make It read
IAN down and look smingy to the future
If we do this we all shout Merry Christmas with much
meaning tomorrow morning
GAIN you about the crime wave You told that
"A wave Of crime is sweeping over the country and especially
few short weeks New York Chicago Atlanta Cleye
land Los Angeles fact all the centers OF PoPua
ton are wrestling with the crime-vave problem.
nothing for American city experience cpl
demic of crime is nothing foreign cities There have
waves long there have been criminals Why there
should be of crime knows But think they
know The police commissioner of thinks the
headline responsible for He insists the de
uded criminal reads of crime in the evening and then
ushes out to stick up neghbor pick pocket crowded
This in face of the fact that the who read the
and have read them longest seldom get into the
murder or pckpocke Glass; those seldom read
pers clutter police in the land Arrive
conclusion.
GONE years ago was argued that the criminals
booze caused crime Then prohibition OF
and the early winter 1920 high anything
in the old booze years 1t wasn't booze. What was 9
During the high of which just passing
there noticeable ebb of There fewer hodups and
fewer pockets picked Excepting of the picking done by
prohteers The reason2 More work and higher
Within the last few weeks the line of unemployment has
have dropped Winter is at hand So is the crime
Do unemployment and low have anything to do
crime waves? they don't why is that highest
when bread lines longest?
Crime highest early winter when lack of employ
and most keeny felt They highest
when the fortunate making liberal display
their ability to buy what they want
You have the evidence before what is verdict
Congressman evidently think the eighteenth amendment has
failed dscourager OF immigration.
Most drank liquor but that doesn't prove that
alcohol made them great.
There's something dubious grief expressed bv man
who spills soup the Christmas nkte his wife gave him.