Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-03
DITTO RIAL.
LET'S STOP THIS

q, 1000 pounds year? If you didn't
st over the following:
Speaking at a meeting CT the Moul
rie Chamber of Commerce, H. Nc
lowell, manager of the plant of Swift
{ Company here took occasion to
answer Statements without founda-
ton and frequently from sources un.
friendly to Moultrie that are being
circulated that the Swift was closec
u would close" Mn Mcdowell de
claS "a the Moultrie plant would OPP
eratk continuously as long as there
is sufficient quantity of livestock
to warrant its operation"
at is true" said Mir. Mcdowell
that the total supply of livestock
in this section has been cons. antIy
decreasing for two years but we still
believe our farmers intend to raise
hogs and cattle in excess of thcir
home slaughtering requirements and
y sufficient quantities to warran
Operating of our plant through
each year. --..........-
fWe have never suggested or wish
/ that the Georgia farmer would
irtail his operation in cotton raising
0 make room for hogs. We rejoice
With the farmer that his cotton
selling for higher values this year
because it is and always will be one
of the South's main sources Of in
come, but we believe there is suff'
cient untitled acreage to adequately
Support a livestock development OF
Isufficint magnitude to stop importa
ton of meat products from othe2
slstates.
! Georgia is today importing one
million pounds daily of livestock
meat and meat food products.
eve shall continue, as we have
done for four years, to actively co
operate with the farmers and al
agencies, to put the raising of live.
took in Georgia on d sound basis anc
% promote the production Of bette
qualit. hogs y
Isni ,>thA an aJssura strus5ron.1,.
Isn't it a sad 1s5fnmeptary ON om
own enterprise?
Georgia can raise hogs and cattle
cheaper than they can be raised any
where in the North. Georgia field.
will produce feeds for stock cheape2
than any section of the North. Geor-
gia has packing houses ample . take
care of many times as much live
stock as they can get. Cotton is still
making the Southern farmer poorer
and poorer. What is the matter?
cannot be that the growing of live
stock doesn't pay" For in ship,
ping in so much of the finished pro
ducts of the live stock industry, We
not only have to pay the growers
of other sections their profits, but
the packer, the wholesaler, The rail
roads for long distance hauls, and
lastly, the retailer. If we can af-
ford all these costs, it appears II
logical that the people of Georgia
should find it improbable to grow
live stock in competition with these
piled up costs on the imported arti
Gle.
rhe trouble. is, Georgia has too
many shiftless, incompetent farEsers
YUuopter of the unsteady tenant class,
fwho have little interest in their own
welfare on that of anyone else; peo-
pie with no future hope, merely get
ting an existence out of life. This
doesn't mean all tenants, by any
means, but includes many. If some
scheme could be devised whereby
even half of these tenants could be
turned into home owners, we would
see a tremendous change in economic
conditions in Georgia, and one Of the
lq changes would be huge increase
ia livestock growing. This is. an in
dustry that goes with farm develop
ment. and farm development doesn't
make much advancement. through
tfnants.
Let's hope that when in Washing
tn these famous foreigners Will DO
as Washington, did.
perhaps Chaplin is leaving comedy
TO reduce the pie shortage.
The silver lining to domestic
Couds is payday.
Edison says our schools are all
aaong, and the small boy agrees.
The key to the Far East prob
len fits an open door to China.
skinny people can't see why fat
people want to reduce with such a
cold winter predicted
Holland is almost bankrupt and