Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-07
EDITORIAL.
THAT YAM CONVERT AGAIN

n COCFLE OF years ago there APP
peared in the Times Recorder
reference to letter which had just
been received from a young ex-sol-
der of Sioux City, Ia, who was then
IN the commission business, inquir-
ing where he could obtain Georgia
vans by the carload. he failed to
get them here, but the word was pass
ed around and eventually he secured
80 carloads. "a
E. H. Taylor, staff representative
of ''The Country Gentleman" came
to Georgia few months ago to find
out what was the matter with Geor-
gia's rural life, attention at that time
being directed to Georgia by the fact
that it had sent Tom Watson to the
senate and he was kicking up con-
siderable fuss, as he always does.
Mr.. Taylor reached Atlanta and was
taken in tow by F. H. Abbott, secre-
tary of the Georgia association, who
took him on tour of the state to
show him what Georgia REALLY is
and has, in contrast to what outsid-
ers, judging by our junior senator's
maniacal conduct in Washington and
other adverse publicity, too often
think we are and have. The two
headed south from Atlanta and
among other places paid brief visit
to Americas, unheralded at the time
Mr.. Taylor went back North after
s days and in the December issue
of 1.-THE Country Gentleman" his first
article appeared, having to do almost
entirely with the sweet potato, and
with little attention to Georgia's APP
parent political decadence. He told
the story of the Iowa ex-soldier who
at Camp Gordon got his first taste
of Georgia vans.
"A lieutenant in the National army,
1owan by nativity but shifted by
chance of war to a Georgia camp,
became acquainted with the Southern
sweet potato" he wrote. 'The ra-
tion list thereafter never contained
it often enough for him.. When the
war ended he resolved to have all the
vans he wanted and also give his
fellow Iowans treat. The sale of
thirty carloads of Georgia sweets is
directly traceable to his activity
"This case is typical of the en-
thusiasm of the average Northerner
when he meets up with Dixie's sweet
spud in it's home circle. Once let
him cut into a baked sweet potato,
trowel over the honey-golden meat of
it with goodly chunk of butter and
try just one mouthful. Right then
he joins the army of golden-spud en-
thusiasts. Thereafter sweet potatoes
candied, Drowned, casseroled or serv-
ed up as pie can follow in due time
and place. It's tpss-up as to which
is the best; the golden-spud is always
"a quality dish in the hands Of those
who know its possibilities.
"Assurely as fate this question will
occur to the Northern traveller: why
the dickens can't | get sweet pc
tatoes like these up North Prob
ably he cana year or SO from now
Maybe he can right now if he lives il
a favored city and is willing to scoul
the market places diligently enough
But the Dixie sweet is still largel!
consumed or allowed to go to waste
at home. Only 5,191,700 bushels Of
the. 103sS34, 900 grown in the Souti
in 1920 were shipped outside"
The story continues with complete
statistical data about the sweet pc
tato in the South and contains man,
references to Georgia sweet potat
experts who were interviewed by MI
Taylor during his visit in Georgi
under the guidance of the Georgia as
ISOLATION. Among these are H. C. Al
DIN of Waycross, j. ]. Parrish o
Abel and j. w. Firor, of Montezum;
manager of six curing houses for thu
Planters Products company which
has advertised widely "The Pride o
Georgia Sweets in. Northern mar
kets.
Mr. Taylor's story also refers t,
the effective work being done by th'
Georgia Bureau of Markets on "th'
other end of consumers street.
through representative in Chicago
lining up the big retail stores in Chi
cago's big negro district"
1t is understood that as result O.
the same trip through Georgia, Mr.
Taylor has prepared several othe
stories which are expected to appea
IN subsequent issues of the Countr,
Gentleman, giving Georgia still furth
er constructive publicity of inesti
ROle value, and Illustrating