Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-26
DR.. BARTON'S
AILYLETTER
YOUR HOME TOWN

IL is good for one to travel, and to
learn what people do in other
places and how they do it. But it is
not well to be ignorant of ones own
town.
Most of us know very little about
the important features of the cities
where we live.
An English literary man who has
recently returned to his own country
from a visit to the United States,
where it is to be feared he did not
greatly enjoy himself, writes in one
OF the current magazines:
only foreigners and provincials
know anything of the treasures of
art and architecture that any city
possesses. Have you ever seen a
Florentine in the Uffiza? or a New
Yorker in the Metropolitan Museum?
rms may be too extreme a question,
but | am certain that no one ever
saw a Partisan in Sainte Chapelle.
and 1t was not till they heard the
other day that it was about to fall
down, that any Londoners ever en-
tered Westminster" Abbey. If, how
ever, you wish when in Paris to be
sure Of hearing your own language,
no matter from what country you
come, you may confidently seek the
Louvre"
How often would you visit West,
minister Abbey if it were in your
own town? Probably only when Won
had out of town visitors who wanted
to see it. Quite possible YOU would
net visit it even then, but would
say
You run in and take a look at the
Abbey. The guide-book will tell YOU
where to find the things you want
to see. I'll run over to the office,
and look over the mail. and meet you
somewhere for lunch"
Have you ever climbed Bunker Hill
monument?
Not il YOU live in Boston,
Some years ago a Boston editor,
wise and good man, visited Plymouth
for the first time. He was so i'm
pressed with the dignity and signifi-
canoe of the National Monument to
the FOrefathers that he proposed a
replica, Of it be erected in Boston for
the benefit Of the many scores Of
thousands of people there resident
who could never see it at Plymouth
They would be more likely to make
the trip from Yakima or Duluth.
Think not that Boston has any
monopoly of this characteristic. New
York is the most provincial city on
this continent, as London is the most
provincial city on the Globe But
proud as New York is of New York,
It is ? protective pride against the
rest Of the world rather than an in
telligent pride in the things that
New York deserves to be proud of,
No one in Chicago ever visits the
stockvards except with friends from
out of town; but not even with those
friends does he visit the university,
or the art institute
Not very far from where you live
is something notable.
Do you know it?
Are you proud of it as the really
during the war. That man thought
he had made $500. So he had-if he
cashed in, which few did Most
couldn't resist waiting for the profit
to reach $500. The increase was
imaginary-what Wall Street calls
paper millions"
Now the stock is down to $50
again. And the owner walls that he
has lost $500. He hasn't lost any
thing. What he thinks he lost. he
never had. Itnever really existed.
A railroads stock and bonds fuc-
tuate daily, yet the tracks, freight
cars and so on remain unchanged.
Stocks and bonds and bonds merely
are certificates of ownership of prop
erty The property hasn't changed,
though an increasing buying power
of. the dollar makes it look as if the
nations wealth is melting like snow
on a hot stove
No, Rollo, we're not getting poorer
| We're merely learning to talk about
the same commodities in terms of
thousands instead of millions.