Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27

helping to make the condition of
frozen credits nationwide. On the
other hand, we have also been buy
ing luxuries most extensively, and
in many respects, we are still guilty
Of that practice. The great reserve
of wealth which came into our hands
and which should have been laid up
as a store for the future was un-
wisely and foolishly spent for non
essential luXuries. We made the mis-
take of trying to buy happiness
through an orgy Of spending when
we should have realized that happi-
ness is a commodity purchased only
through service and sacrifice. Occa-
sionally, I think we have completely
forgotten the answer our own some
time student fthe University of
Georgia, r. w. Lillard, wrote to ''In
Flanders Fields"
'Rest We in peace, We Flanders dead.
The fight that We so bravely led
We've taken up. And we will keep
True faith with you who lie asleep
With each a cross to mark his bed,
And peoples blowing over head,
Where once his own lifeblood ran
red.
So let your rest be sweet and deep
In Flanders Field.
Fear not that We have died for
naught,
The torch we threw to us we caught.
Ten million hands will hold it high,
And Freedoms light shall never die!
We've learned the lesson that We
taught
Tn Flanders Field.
In the south a good many of the
difficulties our farmers are now eX-
periencing are supposed to be local,
though I suspect they are all more
or less reflected by conditions in
other parts of the country. What
I shall have to say along this line
is therefore probably more generally
applicable to conditions throughout
the nation as a whole than might
at first seem to be the case. In the
south we failed to raise and supply
ourselves with a sufficient amount
of essential animal and human food
products. We not only failed to live
at home as completely as we should
during the years of our greatest
prosperity, but we are not doing it
at present. 1t is quite conserva-
live " oLoIS LlloI We al Pun Niie1oAAiEo
in Georgia, for instance, food and
feedstuffs equivalent in value to $500
per farm, or approximately $150,000,-
600 a year for the commonwealth. l
am sure conditions are not widely
dissimilar in many other of our
southern states. Therefore, instead
of making cotton our main money
crop as a tax-free surplus product,
a crnn6 of If onfnQ11U mort
gagged to the north and west the day
the seed was planted for food and
feed supplies which should have been
grown locally. d..
The same is true in regard to
our animal industries. We have
failed to support, organize and eX-
tend them on basis commensurate
with our needs, though our soil and
climatic conditions, are favorable to
an almost unlimited development
along these lines. Relatively speak
ing, teh ante-bellus planter laid more
emphasis on live stock raising than
those of recent generations. Diff
cult and costly transportation, such
as the farmer of today is again eX-
periencing, no doubt was a determin-
ing factor in this situation. 1t
seems providential under existing
conditions that we should now be
faced by similar problem. During
the year 1921 the boil weevil has
literally eaten up and destroyed the
cotton crop on thousands Of acres
of our most fertile soils. This makes
it fundamental that d part of our
tillable areas be devoted to some
other purpose in the future. The
relief now so essential can best be
secured by emphasizing animal pro-
duction. Not only will this type of
farming best conserve our natural
resources, but insure a liberal and
varied supply of meat for use in
the home dietary. 1t will also per-
NIT the balancing up of our farm
operations on a desirable basis and
insure our ability to grow and harv-
est a sufficient amount of cotton