Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-10
EDITORIAL
EYES ON SOUTH GEORGIA.

IN ATLANTA, which is the business
and financial center of Georgia,
as well as the heart of the South,
all eyes right now are on South Geor-
gia. The statement is made
there by competent persons that
conditions for many months have
been worse in South Georgia than
any other place in the South, and
that recovery here has set in on a
scale that is remarkable and com
manding the attention of the other
sections just now. While stagnation
and waiting for recovery still pre-
vail in Middle and North Georgia
to a large degree, the change has
set in Enthusiastically in South Geor-
gia and business elsewhere is taking
on new hope and confidence as re-
suit, certain that the condition will
spread.
w. J. Vereen, banker, manufac-
tuer and industrial and civic leader
of Moultrie, is quoted in Atlanta as
saying there that he hesitated to tell
others just \how great had been the
recovery already in his section, be-
caase he was conscious that his We
raeity might be reasonably question
ed, so he cOntented himself with
stating that the recovery had been
wonderful. Other portions of South
Georgia report similarly.
Americas business men are dis
covering that business is better here
much better-and that people have
gone to work, have largely quit
grumbling, and are getting ready for
marketing new crops which will be-
gin their harvest with the first peach
es in May and continue pretty stead
lily from that time on.
Prosperity may not be here on a
great scale, but good times are ar
irving for the hustlers.
In March 1907 American business
es failed, compared with 2090 in Feb
ruary and 2705 in January, Brad
streets credit agency reports.
Better news comes from j. Il. Ire
goe, secretary of the National Asso-
citation of Credit Men. He thinks the
credit crisis is over and that failures
wul decrease from now on.
The weak trees have been blown
down. Strong trees withstand the
storm. Surviv of the fittest is
natural law. Unfortunately, in bust
ness, the unfit frequently are the
strongest and survive.
Business men who were fit but
weak will come back, some stronger
than ever, One defeat is not fatal,
unless the defeated thinks so. The
ultimate victor usually loses a lot of
battles before he wins war.
Gradually the counry comes out
of the cyclone cellar. Promoters. un-
dismayed by the epidemic of CONNER
clal failures, in March authorized the
issuance of 1852, 1884, 900 in new Sc
curitles, compared with only $685.
$4,000 in March 1921.
This is SO much new blood for
business.
The big fellows are expecting in
dustrial activity and getting ready
for it. Courage is increasing in the
pf vate offices, and it will be infee-
tious.
As times get better, you realize
that most problems solve themselves
oy natural processes. At the peak
OF hard times, the nation franticallv
turned to legislators for cure-alll
No cure-all showed up. Hard
times, like fever, run their course
1t is natural law, bringing US to our
senses, restoring the sense of values
chloroformed by prosperity.
Nature takes her time with the
reactions that inevitably follow ac-
lions. Usually man cannot apply
spurs.
Like Little Bo-Peep who lost her
sheep and didn't know where to find
them, Leave them alone and they'll
come home, dragging their tails be-
hind them"