Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-10
Coco. MARSHALL
TO GET CHAMBER
SECRETARYSHIP
Offered Place By Direc-
tors IF Arrangements
Can Be Made

An offer to become secretary of
the Sumter County Chamber of
Commerce has been made to George
o. Marshall, county agent, by the
board of directors, it is understood.
The offer, it is also understood
was agreed upon at a caucus of the
directors this morning preceding Its
regular meeting at II o'clock. The
offer is said to be for part-time ser
vice, to be performed in connection
with his duties as county agent, pro-
vided that arrangement is agreeable
to him and arrangements can be
made with the county commission
ers.
President Allison of the Cham
Der was delegated to inform the
present secretary, Joseph Perkins, of
the offer to Mr.. Marshall.
Mr.. Perkins has been serving in a
temporary capacity for some time
and is understood to have had his
resignation pending for several
months while the board was looking
for a suitable man to succeed him,
He is now engaged in Boy Scout or
ganization work throughout the
Third district, and is serving the
Chamber only half time.
The board believes that if Mr..
Marshall accepts it has hit upon the
right man to revive interest and
harmony in the Chamber, he having
demonstrated his ability long ago and
enjoying the widest possible conf
dence and popularity locally.
At today's meeting W. A. Joyner
was elected a director of the Cham
Der to succeed s. R. Heys, resigned.
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and demand.
There is a possibility of there be-
ing too many wholesalers. The great
er the volume of business done by
one firm the less the percent of
overhead charges will be. / am not
one of these who claim that every in
dustry should be in the state of the
agricultural industry. No man car
do legitimate business at loss, al
least, not for any length of time.
believe, therefore, that the whole
saler should have a reasonable prof
it. If the farmer gets 10 percent
profit the wholesale grocer should
have ten percent profit. OF course
the actual profit becomes greater
the greater the volume Of business
and this is another reason why the
wholesale business should be of Q
respectable volume.
Il am not one of those who be.
lieves in the government taking
part in private business. There is
plenty of public business for the
government to attend to. When il
comes, however, to the production OF
foods and their distribution it seems
to me that the United States gov
| ernment has no function to perform
l, perhaps, should modify this ex.
preston. There is a function which
! a government, state, municipal and
national may justly perform. that
is, in limiting the amount of profit
and in diminishing, as far posi-
BILE, the number of hands through
which foods must pass. Every time
| you have a new agent you must have
a new expense. There are just
| three or at most, four necessary
agencies that stand at the present
time, and in our present system, be-
tween the producer of food and the
consumer. These three are: First
transportation; second, wholesale oil
iobbing, and third, retailing. 1t
does not seem to me possible to even
feed our country under its present
system of distribution Of population
directly from the producer of food
to the consumer.
cone great function of the Law
would be to prevent reselling. What
we need is a system which will make
the farm as productive as possible
we need better labor on the farm
we need a better TRANSFORMATION and
that, if possible, should be carried
on at a smaller cost.
az doubt the wisdom of any gov
! ernment interference with business
which protects lust one kind of bnsi
ness. When the government de-
cides that the return on the stock Of
railways should be six percent anc
effects a series Of freights and pas
| sengers to yield that return, this
excess money must be taken from
other industries. We are taxing
Peter to pay Paul. The laying Of
taxes under our constitution by the
government, if they are direct must
be in proportion to population. Il
they are indirect they should be laiC
as internal revenue tax on commod
tiles. ! doubt if tax laid by rails
ing railroad rates is either just OF
constitutional.
"My plea, therefore, is that al
the business organizations of this
country, should share as nearly
equally as possible in the burdens
which necessarily follow the infla
ton, the waste and the extravagapc'
of the world war. All branches Of
industry should cheerfully bear it,
portion. None should seek to es
! cape"