Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-21
Calamity Howlers


CAUTION and COWARDICE.
There's a difference in playing
the game safely and losing ones
head.
We might as we'll face the prob
lens of the day with a smile and a
determination to pull through, as to
stand on the street corner and
howl hard times"
For weeks we have had entirely
too much frown and too little smile
about this great county of Sumter
To listen to some folk talk, one
would think the devil was around
the corner on a one-way street.
Things are never as bad as they
seem, nor as some seem to think.
A few days ago the publisher Of
one of the larger daily papers of
the state said this to US;
II am just back from the East
and Central West. You know,
those fellows up there say Geor-
gia is broke. They told me more,
about our hard times than |
knew.
"They said every county in
the state was bankrupt except
Fulton; that Atlanta was the only
city in the state that was not
standing with its back to the
wall, holding off the sheriff
with pair of six shooters.
"And we folks are to blame.
An Atlanta man goes East, with
smiles over his face and good
word for every one. He tells
them that around Atlanta bust
ness is good.
Every other fellow in the
state who goes up there. radi-
ates blues like an engine with a
busted valve"
Mass thought is the most power
full factor of modern civilization
Cause a city to THINK it is broke
and you'd just as well ring for ths
undertaken
On the other hand, the commun.
ity that faces adversely with 8
smile and may be down and will
never admit it is out, comes bach
in a hurry and suffers little Il,
compared with others. 1t is the
result of MASS THOUGHT
A few days ago an Albany mer
chant said to us that his October
business was 40 per cent bette,
than the same month a year ago
We We're incredulous and asked TO
an explanation.
Il saw what was coming-no
cotton and bad prospects, so |
just went to work IS never
worked before. 1t is my opinion
as well as that of others, that
conditions are only 25 per cent,
while the man is rs per cent.
guess that is right, for my
ledgers show me ahead of the
game, this time last year"
Here's another story that ha
been going the rounds of the ed
torial columns, which presents az
other phase of the question:
"A prominent real estate man
from Vienna said the other day
that recently Northern capt.
alist went to South Georgia for
the purpose of Investing upward
of 100000 in farm lands. But
on the trains, at hotels on the
way, and at the stop-over sta
tons, the people were talking
boil weevil, farming difficulties
and hard times. Even at the
town that was his destination,
he found the same disspirited
demoralizing conversation.
1.-THE gentleman from the
North purchased a through ticket
back home, boarded his train and
did not even stop off at Atlanta.
He said that he wanted to get
out of state where the people
had lost their nerve. A people,
he stated, that have lost hold of
their backbone are in a bad way,
and he couldn't see how prosper
ity could thrive in their midst.
What this Northern man said
should be worth as much to the
people of Georgia, the farmers
and the business men, as the
100000 he intended to invest
We've used our mouths about
enongh-in the wrong way; the
psychology of it is bad for us
Now for our hands and brains Il
chance. Georgia is in better fix
today than ever before"
A half dozen determined me.
coming to the front, and assun
ing the lead, could turn this coul
ty into an Eldarodo.
There are certain fundamenti
causes for the present condition
Americas and Sumter county, Il
principal one being ALL COTTOl
There's a way out and it is n
hard to see find, but street corn,
calamity howlers will meyer see
nor are they mentally capable
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