Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-09
LET'S ALL GET THIS.

n bSOiSia ILdNChuS odicSlildI uTOp-
ped in at Fort Valley hotel one
evening for supper. He had been do
ing some observing lately and had
an idea in his mind that he wanted
to test out. He ordered supper and
for dessert called for peaches. The
waiter told him there were none avail
able except canned peaches. He told
the waiter to bring along the canned
fruit. When the order was served he
slipped the waiter a coin and asked
| him to bring him the can from which
the peaches came. He got the can
and confirmed his suspicion. 1t bore
California label, a we'll known and
nationally advertised brand The alb
surdity of the situation, being serv-
ed with California peaches in the CEN
ter of the greatest peach growing
| section of the country, where thous-
ands of cases of peaches are canned
and shipped each year, was a real jolt
to him, and he went out and told it.
The story was passed around - and
then forgotten. And probably Cali
fornia peaches are being served just
as regularly today in Fort Valley
and Americas, Atlanta, Macon and
other Georgia hotels-and ever.
The story should give you an ink
ling of one of the things that are
the matter with Georgia?
A few weeks ago mention was made
in this column of the acceptance of
w. r. Critics, then off Savannah, a
live wire, as secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce of Millen. The
prediction was made that Mr.. Critics
would be heard from. We didn't
prophesy blindly. Take a look over
the following report he has just made
to his board of directors, and imagine
he is making report on Americas,
because the same report might be
made here with equal truth:
Last week ! made canvass of
our stores in the desire to learn some
of the things that are holding back
Georgia's development. | found a
situation that to me was appalling,
ana one which in a large measure ex-
plains the financial situation of Geor-
gia today. | give below a list of
items found in our stores that should
be purchased in Georgia, and purch-
ased from Georgians, and this money
kept in our own state. Any other pro-
eedure is fatal to our own develop
ment. Listen to this and see what
we are doing to our own detriment.
| find that we are buying:
|, "Peas from Maine and Maryland !;
beans from Michigan. New York
and California; sweet. corn from
Maine, New York and California; po-
tatoes from Maine; sweet potatoes
from Maryland and New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana;
pickles, '57 varieties from Pitts
burg; peaches from California; with
country overlooking with Georgia
cane syrup at anything from rs
cents a gallon up, we are paying a
high price for corn syrup from New
York; with twenty million surplus
bushels of corn, we are buying grits,
I've hominy, corn and meal and corn
starch from Iowa, Illinois, Pennsyl-
yania and New York; English wal
nuts from California; tomatoes from
California and New York sauer kraut
from New York; vegetable soups from
Indiana; red beets from New York
and California; apple jelly from Mis-
souri, and Maryland; peanut butter
from New York, peanuts from Vir-
ginia; tobacco from all over the
world; soap from Cincinnati made
from our own cotton seed oils; mules
from Kentucky and Missouri, cereals
from Michigan, Ohio and Illinois;
cheese from Wisconsin and New
York; rice from New Orleans, China
and Japan; brooms from Florida,
Alabama and Ohio; apples from New
York; Oregon and Washington;
matches from Ohio and Michigan; nj
mentoes from Spain and New York;
meats, all kinds, from. Chicago and
South America; sausage from Green
Bay, Wis; crackers from Virginia;
glngerale from Wisconsin and New
York; grape juice from California and
New Jersey; vinegar from Virginia;
condensed milk from California and
Washington; oysters from Maryland
and New Jersey; hay from the cen
trail states; cotton goods from Massa-
chusetts, Georgia cotton coming back
to as with three or four profits and
exorbitant freight rates added over
and above what we receive for it
on spectators market; wooden
goods that should be made of wool
from Georgia raised sheep; furniture
from Michigan and Pennsylvania,
made from Co,fhaur I,,.oLo,, -