Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-19
FOR SOUTH GEORGIA
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT

FOR SOUTH GEORGIA
THE FUTURE is BRIGHT
What about South Georgia? Is
business back to normal. And
what of the future?
Possibly nothing is a more ac-
curate barometer Of business CON
ditions than advertising. When
business is off, it is the advertis-
eng that feels the slump-and
feels it first.
There was in session in Triton
Tuesday the business managers
.of the daily papers Of South Geor-
gia-Albany, Americas, Cordele,
Moultrie, Triton, Townsville,
Waycross and Valdosta-and each
of these representatives reported
business with his paper as better
than any time in the past two and
a half years.
Crop prospects for the year are
said to be excellent. The mer-
chants in each community We're
out fighting for more business, ex-
tending their trade territories,
reaching for new fields, planning
for greater effort than in the
past.
Foreign advertising was report
ed back to normal, which means
that the large manufacturers know
that there is money in the country
to be spent, that their millions
of advertising appropriations will
product sales.
4 It is the cash crop-OTHER
THAN COTTON-that is bringing
South Georgia to the front, in the
opinion of the newspaper managers
It is the fact that South Georgia
HAS other cash crops, other than
cotton, that is attracting the eyes
of the outside world to this section.
Hogs and cattle, peaches and pc
cans, poultry and dairy products
and now the lowly pender, (pea-
nut, goober, groundpea, or what
ever name you prefer)-that, in
the minds of the business mans
ayers of the South Georgia daiIies,
is bringing this splendid section
into it's own.
Cotton will always be our BIG
Crop, the backbone of our buy
ing power, and with an even break
on seasons, South Georgia will
surpass its 1922 cotton record.
But
The other money crops mention
ed above will make Southwest
Georgia INDEPENDENT. Instead
of cash income from one source
-only, we are creating incomes from
dozen sources. When one crop
fails. we have others to fall back
~on. The last and what promises to
be one of the best, in the opinion
Of the business managers, is the
PEANUT.
The organization of the peanut
growers is THE big step forward.
The plans of the organizers are
fundamentally right. From the
standpoint of hardheaded business,
it is commercially alright. 1t is
"a movement to ESTABLISH a mar
ket, to CREATE new source OF
demand. 1t is NOT an effort to
corral the crop and artificially
boost the price, but to increase the
DEMAND, create new uses for and
secure wide distribution of this
valuable and delightful food pro-
duce a product that has been al
lowed to lag and anguish in the
past.
The newspapers of South Geor-
gia will devote their wholehearted
support to the organization move
ment of peanut growers, now I'M
derWay in Sumter and every other
South Georgia county, as we'll as
in other States of the South.
The Georgia Cooperative Pea
nut Growers Association should
receive the moral support Of every
merchant, banker and other bust
ness man Of the state.
For South Georgia, the prospects
for the future are bright. Bust
ness conditions today are good.
There is no place for the pessi-
mist or the laggard. Brain, ener-
gy and lots of sweat is an all
fired good recipe for success in
South Georgia