Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-08
$50 TECH
QUOTA ACCEPTED.
BY SAVANNAH
Georgia S Second CITY
Lines Up $1,000, 600
Campaign
w. s. KlRKPATRlCK,
Special Correspondent.

EM ROUTE WITH TECH IN
DUSIRlAL TOUR, April I.--Sa-
yannah has accepted her quota of
e39O,85G for the Greater Tech S5,-
OQ0,000 campaign. Announcement
OF this, conditioned on other citles
also accepting their quotas, was
made TO the tourists in that city
yesterday by Chairman Chas. G..
Baker, local manager for the South
ern Bell Telephone Company.
= The announcement was, most
cheering to the tourists, Savannah
had been strongly counted onto do
her part, but until then there had
been no definite promise. A long
conference on the boat during the
river trip, given by the Savannah
Chamber of Commerce for the en-
tertalmment Of the visitors, in which
Chip Roberts, Victor Allen, Gov
ernor Dorsey and other Tech boost
ers took part, selling" the idea to
the Savannah leaders, brought about
the agreement of the Savannah men.
The acceptance was on condition
that other cities in the state also
accept their quotas.
At Brunswick, one of the peagalIt-
est and most satisfactory occasions
was enjoyed. Piloted to the Ogle- |
thorpe Hotel, they were seated at a
banquet which was highly enjoyed. |
IllS affair was arranged jointly by
+. u. Ward, chairman for the Board |
of Trade, and Ed. Miller, chairman
Tor the Young Mems Club. DR.. j. |
W. Simmons, president Of the Bruns-
wick Board of Trade presided aud |
IN an eloqucnce seldom heard offer
ed the city's welcome. ..
DIR. Matheson, in a brief talk. de-
clared the responses that had greet. |
ed the tourists since leaving Atlanta |
were LOO percent better than could /
have been expected and an indiea,
tion that Georgia had really awaken
ed to its possibilities. lie told !
OF Techs handieaps. Not |
long ago, he said, d travelling rcpre-
sentative Of great electric supply
concern in the cast visited Techs |.
shops and was viewing the equip
mGnt. He observed a machine which
borc the stamp of his concern. He
examined it and said he had never
seen one before; that he had been I
working for this concern IS years,
but that 20 years ago it had quit
making this machine, replacing it
wJh newer models.
Everett Morss, that delightful
BoStonlan who has made many tell
llg speeches on this trip for Geor-
gla Tech, one Of them at Amcricu3,
5pcaklng from the viewpoint of The
manufacturers of
W1lch he is one, and their self inter-
eSr in technical education, diverted
somewhat from his usual speech.
"Wherc Life Is Easy
81 am going to give YOU my I'M J
preston of Georgia" said he. "as |
have observed it while oil this tour !
and from talking to many of your
neopel Georgia IL state where ,
life is easy.
81 had heard that Georgia was !
broke before coming down here a
few days ago Dreadful stories
came to me by letter from men in
the South about The hard conditions. /
But | want to tell you something,
now that have looked you and your
hard times over. You people don't /
have any bread lines, no thousands
Of men out of work, no struggle Of
men to get clothing TO keep them L
selves warm with the temperature !
below zero. We have had little
trouble up in and around Boston
that you people. down here can't un-
lerstand and realize, because you
haven't the, conditions.l rs
Another observation. / wonder
who has killed all the horses. in
Georgia, have seen scarcely any
In Boston we think we have lots of
but VIC have TO come /
away from Boston to find ihcm in
he numbers you have Them III the
South. It seems here Ike every +
body has car.
GAS | am able 10 sec 1T, this is a
and Of milk and honeW land &C !
Easy money. If | could get away~I
hink | would like to come down
lere But I wouldn't grow cotton, /
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