Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-13
r. SCOTT FITZGERALD CLAssIFI Es
But VIII Southern People Agree
With Some of His Conclus-
ions? Hardly!
BY JOHN O'DoNNELL


NEW YORK, April 13.-"And as
for the girl of the middle west"
F. Scott Fitzgerald inahled deeply
and paused before he released a
cloud of cigaret smoke and shower
of burning adjectives.
"She is unattractive, selfish, snoo-
bish, egotistical, utterly graceless,
talks with an ugly accent and in her
heart knows that she would feel more
at home in a kitchen than in ball
room."
The author who has been hailed
as the interpreter of American youth
halted for moment. Fitzgerald.
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automobiles, and were not laying
aside cent for rainy day. Then
the disaster came in the form of de-
flation and caught them and they
have been paying for their folly ever
since. We must get our farmer
friends to lay up something for a
rainy day, to put by something when
things are coming their way. For
conditions change and good times do
not always continue.
''If we teach our farmers to save
we will learn that they will become
prompt customers. | find one of my
hardest problems is to teach the far
mer customers to be on time when
they have an obligation fall due. If
one of them owes me $4,000 | don't
always expect, necessarily, that he
will come in and plank down the
$4,000 cash. But | do expect him to
come in on the day it is due, pay at
least part of it, say $4,000 or $4,000,
and make arrangements for carrying
the balance for so or 90 days. That
is what | mean by teaching them to
be prompt. If we can teach our far
mers to save, be thrifty, and put
something by, it will mean prosperity
not only to the customer and to the
community, but it will mean a bigger
and a more prosperous bank, so you
see it is to the interest of the bank
er to teach these things to his
customers
The Reserve Bank.
/ was very much impressed with
the talk of Governor hardee a while
ago, and | agree with him absolute
ly in his references to the Federal
Reserve Bank that par clearance
should be abolished and the Reserve
Bank should pay interest on the de-
posits of its members. | think |
might apply for membership tomor-
row in the reserve system if it would
take down the par clearance rule and
pay interest on deposits, 1t is not
right to compel member banks to
keep their funds on deposit in the
Reserve Bank without them paying
interest, and par clearance means
ruination to many small country
bank which must depend upon its ex-
change collections to pay expenses.
And these small banks are the life
blood of the communities.
Governor Hardee, who had listened
to Mr.. Councils talk, asked as a mat
ter of curiosity what he thonght of
the calcium arsenate poisoning of the
boil weevil. Mr.. Council said he be-
lieved that if cotton were worth 40
cents a pound the poison could be
used in liberal quantities, but that
under present conditions, with cotton
at 16 cents he thought possibly one
application at blooming time might
be justified, but not more, because of
the cost involved. He said he had
spent some $4,000 on calcium arsen-
ate control last year without appre.
ciable result, because of the wet
weather.
The group meeting was we'll at
tended and much enjoyed. Cover
nor Hardee motored over from Talla-
hassees and spent the day. He is a
banker at Live Oak and made a
splendid address of highly practical
nature.
Frank S. Jones, of Bainbridge was
elected president for the ensuing
year and Cairo was chosen for the
next meeting.
Americas was represented by Mr..
Council, I. E. Bolton and E. ]. Witt,
of the Planters Bank; Lee Hudson, of
the Bank of Commerce, and A. J.
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