Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-07
MORE THAN
$1,5OO,OOO CIRCULATING
IN SUMTER COUNTY.

IN SUMTER COUNTY.
Men have no time and little SYM
pathy for the born pessimist" or
the gutter" but to the sane OPP
timist and fighter every consid
Grafton and respect is shown.
The moment a pessimist or
gutter enters crowd, it begins
to disintegrate. We haven't time
to listen to their woes. On the 9TH
er hand, that man who is eternally
scrapping to get on top is shown
courtesies and favors even in the
face of his failures.
Sometimes we set our stakes too
high, and because they are too
high, our expectations are not real
lied and the pessimist begins
to howl.
Things are never as bad as they
SEEM" is an old saw usually a true
one. Maybe we won't produce as
much cotton this year as last, in
fact we will not. But suppose the
crop is t2,OO0,OOO bales, that with
the seed, at present prices, is good
for about a million and half doll
lars.
If that million and a half dollars
is carefully and judiciously spent,
cancelling out debts and replen-
ishing our needs here and there,
why get the blues and cuss the cat?
One of our local bankers writes
the Times-Recorder this week an
optimistic letter along this line of
thought. He says:
"At the present prices of cotton
and cotton seed, 10000 bales of
cotton with the seed will bring
more than $1,500,000. If we
can put that amount of money
into circulation in this county
and keep it in circulation, it is
almost impossible to estimate the
amount of indebtedness that it
will hquidate.
ri believe that we should try
to impress upon the people, the
Importance of keeping our
money in circulation, and Sum-
ter county money should be
kept in circulation in Sumter
County.
"It is alarming when we think
of the amount of money that has
been sent out of this county
this year in payment of products
and farm supplies, which should
have been produced in Sumter
county. 1t will take 1000 or
5000 bales Of cotton, or nearly
three-fourths of a million dol
lars to pay for the feed which
has been shipped into this coun-
ty this year, and used by our
farmers in making this crop, and
yet we are told that cotton is the
only money crop.
81 know of a few farmers over
county who have good pastures
full of pure bred live stock, their
yards full of pure bred poultry.
plenty of all kinds of feed in
crops and these farmers are not
worrying about their indebted
ness and very few of their farms
are in the long loans.
Nothing but hard work, diver
sification, economy and cooper
alton will ever pay off this enor-
nous amount Of Indebtedness in
Georgia.
eve will have to quit borrow
ing money to spend.
"The press can do as much or
more than any other agency or
institution in creating this desire
among the people.
"Georgians are sending hun
dreds Of millions Of dollazs out
of the state every year in pay
ment of products or commodi-
ties which can be produced as
well in Georgia, and Of as good
quality, as can be produced IN
any section in America. Can we
continue to do this and keep over
three hundred thousand children
of school age out Of school each
school day in the year,
II have very high respect for
the editor who has the courage
to undertake to correct these
evils and ! pledge you my coop
Grafton in your efforts
"Tell the people to KEEP Sum
ter county money in circulation
in Sumter county. That will i'm
prove local conditions more than
anything we can do during the
next four months.
AYou will render a great serv-
ice to this community if you sue
coed with your efforts along this
line, and ! am in kores. that with
the. cooperation of others, you
will be able to create a desire
on the part Of every man to live
economically and pay his debts to