Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-15


present moment freight charges cancel altogether and
the railroads would the tonnage offered free of charge In
Varaby the has been that would practically make differ
at all the volume OF business because people buy
ing the present time.
rates?
SOME business after months depression arc
unable figure what caused the known the
buyers strike Some attribute it nexpEcable twist of mob
psychology.
But the most plausible explanation that combined prices
reached the point where they exceeded the pubc buying
automatically compelling the public cua purchases The
brakes set the whole machine stopped
Until the total of prices lowered point where
again level with the pubcs buying power there
business revival and this recognized by business who have
this and act accordingly boring holes row boats
What happened the buyers strike also happened in rail
road business according to idea spreading among
ecuives
Passenger business dead because are so high that peo
pie cant afford to travel Is this also the predicament of freight
uahc' Some railroad executives beginning think They
at lower rates than little traffic at high rates
Just how rates should be reduced separate question The
above ideas merely offered part general discussion Of
our greatest domestic problem-the railroads.
WHEN President Harding i%ed his first message he surprised
his hearers because he waved hguratvey speaking red
from the new president s'' "'s""
The first was the Senate the other was big business
During the campaign Hardngs adoption of the seductv
phrase Less government in business and business govern
men was taken to mean that business far liked
But the presidents message hitherto unknown fact
that not only has he been Federal Trade
He that legitimate business be used shield be-
hind which those guilty of restraints of trade unnauay
tanning prices may hide
His unusually clear this point 1T is we'll to
right to from cooperation stamping practices which
add to unrest and inspire restrictive legislation
And then the fash of the red lantern
ous to rest the onward flow of business fair
combine assurance and warning il utterance.
RLUNTIY, he that prices the have
down far they should of the fall prices of
products For example wheat and live stock down, but bread
down but the workers have UNFAIRLY agreed
and yet the public is not benefited
Specifically also the of the price associa
tons whose membership and snguay similar the
shop associations.
With the other red the president gave
two of president batting the Senate must lay ofmus
the White House the kidnapped treaty making power.
FROM he said in effect the White House would nssi
exercising the constitutional with the
advice and of the Senate but that
longer think of
econabe Congress the Senate should the function
the executive
Senate and business Roosevelt and Wilson him took
exactly the ground Both of them exceedingly busy lives
trying to hold that ground
Harding has himself for his red lar
terms III his two hands.
The hard road leads to easy street
And sometimes when your bread upon the waters it
back buttered
No doubt, the first ultimate patient old lob
1t is to find people who'll lend you moneyf you don't
need ii.
" Write your down notebook-and save them 70,
Light reading year two hence .#.
Heroic deeds good as warranty deeds when il
comes to borrowing money them