The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-03-09

like that before him what encourage
mont has the farmer to advance along
aeY lines? Something must be done.
We cannot continue to send money
out Of the state for the things we use
and could make and raise ourselves
and expect rising tide OF prosperity.
Needs of Georgia
1T is time for the people to wake
up and consider the full development
OF the state they claim to love. In
arousing this sense OF duty the news
papers can play a big part. The con-
tinual pounding home of an idea by
the forces under your control cannot
fail to bring results Let us analyze
the needs and adopt a working basis:
First. A campaign of education to
investors in an effort to stimulate
manufacture in order that Georgia's
mineral resources may be converted
] into finished products by home indus
tries.
Second. A reduction of cotton acre
age with more intensive cultivation
and q ceaseless fight in combating
The boil weevil.
Third. The production Of every
thing possible for home consumption.
Fourth. Careful supervision and a
standardized preparation for market
ing, and a stimulation of production to
a sufficient volume to permit organic
ed methods of disposal.
Fifth. The encouragement of prop
er storage and packing facilities, in
GLIDING elevators, potato houses, pack
ing houses, cold storage plants, etc.
Sixth. The keeping of high-grade
cattle, swine and poultry on every
farm, and the promotion of creameries
as rapidly as cream production per-
mits.
Seventh. A continuous campaign
Of education to the end that the Geor-
gia consumer will recognize the value
of the home product and the necessity
Fof insisting upon it's use to the ex-
clusion of outside commodities. The
carrying of a streamer head across the
top of every newspaper in the state for
+ q solid year, calling up the consumer
to demand the home product.
81 want you to enlist today in the
cause of the prosperity and full de-
velopment of your state. If l can be
I,assured of the support of the organ
lied efforts of the newspapers along
these lines, the dawning of brighter
day will be at hand.
i 1--WE all have our dreams. You have
yours and l have mine. Awhile ago
visited the old Hermitage and as
stood there under the oaks from
mountain top to tangled swamp and
from peach blown west to tumbling
sea, there seemed a mighty canvas
thrown. There I read the stupendous
epic tale of toil-of brains and mighty
Imuscled meanwhile from all around
there came the sound of school bell
chimes. On every mountain top and
fertile plain there grew million gar
den spots where cotton used to reign,
and along each running brook there
were meadows deep and green with
blooded stock instead of cattle from
the range. | heard the blast of rend-
ing rock and saw the flash Of miners
lamp as with sweat and CRIME they
tore from earth a newer wealth.
felt the scorcning heat of belching fire
from many a furnace flare; great riv-
ers had their torrents leashed by en-
gineering skill, and high above their
murmuring song 1 heard the shrill in
dustrial chorus swell, as proud cities
rose like magic from the waste.
eve need not fear, for in that ex-
allied vision there, it seemed l saw
the unconQuered spirits of the gallant
men of earlier days descend upon
their faltering sons to cheer them on
and on in their forward sweep into
the greatest fifty years of Georgia's
development.
"But the newspapers must lead the
advancing hosts"
II isn't inpossibIe to forgive a son