Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-10
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n and reporers-ahough he joined the magazine
class been regarded reportcrha been spend
tng bout what he His observations entirely
athletic with South; he has discovered fundamentals the
of which before millions of readers throughout the coun
m will mo doubt benefit the South greatly by permitting the people
Of understand the South they have here
Mr. Bakers articles appearing in the Atlanta Georgian
among any other papers In his first he takes the condition
that been charged that the Southern farmers threw
much heir newly gained wealth buying automobiles and other
wise, and he continues:
EFT ALA THIS the real story have
- ed much farm and everywhere have
found mpFO vemen going forward but nowhere as notably as IN the
South houses barns roofs paint better roads school
houses churches and better farm machinery There have also
been great changes life.
wish ould neighbor
where for the first time there have been mpses OF the
comforts which necessities of life of farm If
Moth; home water supply Plumbing lighting washing
chimes Letter furniture musical !, huments and the III
The telephone human of country life has been spread
ing perhaps automobiles have been purchased most
them cheap which nave added untold values 10 accent community
It is only in the last few years that
has begun to break up and new community spirit nc" ~
pulse local self-help, has been developing
Another hng-whe 1917, 1918 and
1919 large compared with other the surplus
tuay them by considerable the
surface In place prices products
never ahead of increased of living In the
ond place. tremendous paying off of old debts.
MERCHANTS that dead charged off for
years time for the merchants But there finally
surplusn aggregate Some of wasted as have
said found lOnghaded farmers here and there
THESE MEN of their
ter prices they they the coming cotton
with confidence But the great proportion OF the surplus
actual improvements and engagements of the
standards of life
In 1919 and agricultural South both
ants of le of the deeneie
better chance to educate their children little greater
opportunity to get glimpse beyond of their dull ordinary
lives dropping that pleasant
fmnga savey merchants bnkerswh bitter and
forced competition themselves sell loss guted market
product which they have without real knowledge Of
market requirements organization for protection
1t may be of
painful of nearly all other classes of people in time Of
REIMBURSEMENT there this deep and fundamental dit
ference; pre-war life for the
transition may be painful return to substantially comfortable
with privileges and opportunities of all kinds but
prewar conditions Southern
only the catastrophe of the transition the pains and losses of which they
but essentially unsatisfactory
life, and pnched existence with limited opporun
tiles for education for growth, for success
THIS is ALSO THE SITUATION many working
population The prosperity during the however fcveri
founded have BEEN them glimpse Of possibilities
in ife-which hinkE lis snatched
made clear therefore that the cutlery of the farmers in
Nurps 1920 prices which not utterly runou This what
country chiefly hearing this is what esound the
of Congress and fills the newspapers.
there crisis and unrest which reaches far deeper
fundamental than this and the be leaders see plainly that even if the
present extraordinary
tariffs by the financing
There would be the same blind stimulation production the same
slavery the and pifu each fall
unorganed
upon gutted building parasitic
speculative and in probably another panic
other prayers politicians
the failure attempt really constructive remedies
of underlying economic abuses.
THE SOUTH should indebted Mr. Baker his intelligent
analysis the condition He shows understanding clearer
than people He arrives the intelligent
conclusion that after the stringent period will
we still up against old conditions the old circle unless