Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

And the average business man
to the average country boy.
could not see that he himself was to
blame for the whole taIlure--for not
supplying a market. The farmers
were ready at all times to diversity,
but they could not sell that stuff, di-
versifcation, and it was dead loss
to raise it.
After all, what is a city for? 1t
is simply a market place-not only
to sell, but to buy Selling is only
4 half its mission.
The town that does not buy ev-
/ erything at the standard market price
as we'll as sell everything at the
standard>market price, ought to break
up and quit, and its bankers and
merchants go back to the country
where they started from. They are
failures as market men-the only eX-
cuse they have for living in town.
Must Provide Market.
And the town that fails to provide
I standard markets for everything the
surrounding country can produce, is
not fulfilling it's mission and will
eventually lose it's prestige as town
"a market place-and it ought to
lose its prestigue, and will lose it, for
! the time has come in the evolution
of cities, as we'll as in the process of
! human development. when every
tub must stand on its own bottom,
Shams and ignorant neglect will
not much longer stand current. In
telligence is becoming too common to
be fooled. Perception has grown
sharp and sees through the veil of
camouAage. Men and cities must do
what is expected of them or else lose
out to those who will make good.
Legitimate failure will be looked
upon as a defect in the system which
science and cooperation must recti-
fly, but men, governments and God
! Almighty will bear down on the care
less and vicious faker.
The farmers of the South have
had their failure cleared up. They
were not responsible They will be
in future, for everywhere over the
South the business men are should
ering the responsibility and supply
ing the markets.
Packing houses are being followed
by grain elevators, potato houses
feel mills, storage warehouses for
peanuts, beans. peas, hay and the
banks are supplying the money to IL
nance these markets both in construc
ton and operation, and, henceforth
there will be no legitimate excuse
for the farmers to persist in one
crop system that ruins the land a
well as curtails the income.
Neither does a farmer have to ped
die any longer, and take what n
/ can get from a local market condl
p ton. He has place to carry HI
, produce and sell it at the standar,
price. The business has been dignl
fed along with other honorable busl
ness.
South Waking.
The entire South is waking up T.
the necessity of packing houses. In
meat packing houses is the cruX t.
the whole scheme of marketing, be
cause in making a market for Inv
stock, the necessity arises for tn
=. production of all the feed crops wit
r which to produce the live stock. Vine
d we raise a hog or COW, 1t Is neces
sary to raise feed for that ANNA
n In order to raise enough, it IS neces
Y sary to raise more than enough an
;, the surplus creates the elevator. fee
l. mills, potato houses and storage.
e Since the Moultrie packing hods
II was built in 1914, seventeen other
4 have been built in the Southeast, hv
of them in Georgia, giving this stat
y seven in all. Prior to the erectio
u of the Moultrie plant, there were tiv
in Texas, two in Oklahoma, one