Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-12
SCREVEN COUNTY
WORKING AGAINST
ONE-CROP SYSTEM
Younger Business Men Get
ting Away From Idea Of
One-Crop System-Sugar
Refinery Projected
BY RALPH SMITH

EN- ROUTE, Nov. 10.-Leaving
the main line of the Central of Geor-
gia at Rocky Ford. it is some four
teen or fifteen miles to Sylvania, the
heart of Screven county. AS the
mixed train bumps along over the
branch line, the spirit OF the people
and it is an altogether pleasing and
commendable spirit-manifests itself
through the medium of the train con-
ductor. He is native son Of Screw
en- county, and he is proud Of it.
Between stops at Scarboro, Zeig-
Ter and Duffin, the train captain,
talks of conditions in the county and
the hopes and ambitions of the peo-
pie. Much information is CLEANED
from his remarks.
I'VE are not in such a bad way
in Screven county," says the con-
ductor. True enough, the boil
weevil held high carnival in our cot
ton fields and weather conditions
were adverse, but we produced some
10000 bales as against a normal crop
of $4,000 bales.
But we have other things than
cotton in Screven county. Our
farmers have plenty of corn and
velvet beans and hay and other
feedstuffs for their stock and cat
tie, and they have an abundance of
meat to carry them through the win
ter.
1.-THE people are not discouraged
and their experience will prove in
ii I4e,
son, in the town and in the coun-
try, too, and the habits of genera
tons are on the way to being chang
ed materially.
cit is a difficult thing to per-
suade a fellow, whose antecedents
for a century have\ engaged only in
something else, but this difficulty
is being overcome. Our farmers are
looking to other crops for future
years.
"And the most encouraging fea-
ture of the situation finds express
sion in the attitude of our bankers
and merchants. They are favorably
disposed toward diVersificatiOn and
they are impressed with the necessi-
ty of making arrangements to han
die other farm products than cot
ton.
A New Spirit Manifest.
"a new spirit is manifest through
out the county and among all classes
and I believe more real progress
has been made in the past two years
than in the two preceding decades
1t is a spirit of unselfish co-opera-
ton, a recognition of the murual OBJ
legation of the people,"
The conductor attributed the gen.
eral optimism, in the face of ad-
verse conditions, to the fact that
within the past few years new and
younger blood has assumed control
of the county's affairs.
1--WE were in a rut for a long
long time" says he. Our leading
citizens were over conservative.
in the school of conservatism, and
they hesitated to encourage or ap-
prove any change in the general or
der of things.
But now we have a lot Of young
men directing the affairs of the
county, and there are evidences of
progress to be seen everywhere. They
are doing much to encourage the
COlIlII1uIl4Iy spirit anu " d"dheH d
renewed interest in the development
of new ideas in every line Of bust
ness activity"
The Weekly Bargain Day.
1 was in Sylvania on a Thursday,
and Thursday is the weekly bargain
day. Every merchant in the town
advertises at least one special bar
gain for Thursdays-and they are
real bargains, too. In addition,
public auction is held in the court
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