The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-05-25
NOW is THE time
TO Do THINGS

BY H. B. Rails, Southern Represen-
tative, American Hampshire Swine
Record Association.
No greater opportunity ever pre-
sented itself, for the bringing into
play of the nerve, sand red blood
grit and the never quit qualities of
our forefathers as they came home
from the Civil War, to take up the
work of reconstruction. Our troubles
today are small compared to theirs
and as l study the situation it seems
to me a good time to build over, on
better foundation, and now is the time,
of all times, to get busy doing it,
There is no use sitting around wait
ing for good times to return, because
these good times won't come until we
this thing out and we had just as we'll
get at it.
No greater prophecy was ever writ
ten, than that Of Henry w. Grady, in
1888: when every farmer in the
South shall eat bread from his own
fields and meat from his own pastures
and disturbed by no creditor and en-
shaved by no debt; shall sit among his
tecming gardens and orchards and
vineyards and dairies and barn yards.
pitching his crop in his own wisdom
and growing them in independence,
making cotton his clean surplus and
selling it in his own time and in his
CT osen market and not at masters
bidding; getting his pay in cash and
not in receiptcd mortgage, that dis
charges his debt but does not restore
his freedom, then shall be breaking
the fullncss of our day" Tiis new
day is coming r. pass md if we
measure up to our responsibilities, it
will not be long.
Georgia is now the sixth pork pro-
ducing state in the Union and other
food and feed crops and fruits are be-
ing produced in like proportion, but
we arc really "just piddling along"
when we compare what we are doing
with what we could do, if we would
live up to our opportunities and ad-
vantages. Is it possible that God has
blest us so wonderfully, in soils, eli
mate and rainfall and it is so easy "to
make enough stuff to do u.s." that we
have become too well satisfied and
lost our ambition for achievement and
the good things of life?
/ made trip through Southern
California in January, where / travel
ed on paved highways, through beau
tifuily cultivated fields and orchards
and gardens, made possible only by
an artificial water supply in a section
that was desert ten or fifteen years
ago. Somebody must have gotten dis
satisfied with conditions as they were
out there and got busy.
1T seems to me that we should be
able, now, to ride through this coun-
try, on paved highways, through
beautiful cultivated fields and or
chards and gardens and see good hogs
and cattle and sheep and horses on
good pastures on every farm. Sure
~ no section of the country offers
greater natural advantages for these
things which are so necessary to the
prosperity of the farmer and every
body, in any kind of business, in this
section. If this be true, there is one
on two things the matter. We are too
lazy and tritling to amount to anv-
thing or we are using the wrong svs-
tenn. | travel among the farmers Of
the South all of the time and thew
are not lazy, so it must be the sys-
tenn.
If this be so, don't you think we
have given the old system thorough
trial? l do. / think we have had
enough and the time has come to oct
Strengthened out and get busy, and I
think the first thing for us ia do 10