Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-14
LAVONIA EDITOR SAYS
: SELF YOUREL F
Press Association Delegates Hear
Address on Farming And
MARKETING Programs

operation OF the newspaper editor
of Georgia with farmers today Was
urged by Rush Burton, Of Lavonla
Times, an address prepared Tor
delivery here before the JOINT 8 Ses-
sion of the Eight and Ninth DIS
trict Press associations.
III | should lay out one com
n,and to the editor at the beginning
Of the year 1924, | would say sen
the Farmer Yourself" Mr.. Burton
said "Or, in other words, get
vourself sold on the idea that every
problem the farmer has is your
nroblenf There is not farm prop
lem which isn't at the same time
an editors problem, whether 1t pc
cooperative marketing tlghtlh9
weevil, arranging farm program
fighting the bean beetle, promot-
ing the poultry business, or promo'-
in the dairy business. The editor
is not in a position to render the
farmer the best service possible
through his paper till he Is thor
oughly sold to the farmers view
point and the farmer realizes that
the editor IS his real friend.
Hence, 1 would say that the CO.
operation of the banker and the
supply man are indispensable to
putting over a farm program. They
should be familiar with agricultural
conditions in the communities when
they serve and they should be &c
tive in putting on farm programs.
Il can approach almost any city
or town in Georgia and know be-
fore reaching the city whether II
has live bankers, live merchants, a
good chamber OF commerce, and an
editor who knows how to cooperate
and lead and is on his job. The
activities of these people and bodies
are REFLECTED in the farms near
about ! remember one Georgia
city that | used to pass through
which Ecould judge the distance TO
the city by the number of idle
farms along the roadside, the near
er you saame to the city the more
idle farms you found along the
roadside This city was cltS
in which bankers took absolutely H.
Interest," IN farm progress or IN q
farm program, ana as a result ths
farmers Aadcno where TO go tor IN
spiration,f information, ADVICE, OF
encouragement which they so badly
need inhthese dayslbot diversified
1armingEki bHBina, 50 t ii
II Know "a nbaifkGqs:iW acted 81
farm demonstration agent tbr Nj. 4
farm casteMers this year. He. le4t-
his bank with the assistant cashier
and spent almost all his time go
ing from farm t6' farm and urging
the adoption of modern methods OF
llghtlng the weevil. His work as an
and to his farmers in making a cot
ton cropl was worth immeasurably
more to HIS section this year than
his work as cashier of his bank. He
saved hSSffa5a customers and noW
has one of the most prosperous
constituencies ans Georgia. No one
else than this barker could have
done this. work 1'hel editor doesp'ti
lend enough money to put his qlcta
ties over. The banker has the
punch to say that as long as YOU
follow a safe, and sane course in
farming your credit is good a. my
bank, and when you abandon safe
and sane farming your credit is no.
good with my bank. The supply
man can say the same thing.
Farmers are anxious, and eager.
and begging for help. When they
ask for hep we cannot do other
wise than give every available aid.
ARTICLES should be short and well
written. They should rarely even
be more than a third of a column
IN length. Often a ten line edi.
toral paragraph carries a message
home that will impress the readers
with new ideas and with new
ideals.
No editor should say let the far
mel' look after his problems and
III look after mine. Every prop.
lem the farmer has is the editors
problem f the farmer fails it is
only question of time till edi-
tor will fail The farmers. house
OF prosperity may fall and crumble
IN one block, and the editor lives
only few doors away and the
same fate is bound to come to him
Ihe-success of the farmer is cv-
erybody's concern, and everybody's
problem. The trouble with the far.
mer is that he has so many advisers
ana SO few eo-workers. The farm
ers problems should be as vital to
the editor as the problems of his