Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-06
Observations From
Here and There

knotty problems---that it has sc
many things to set straigh hit that il
is making no progress at all.
But there is a ray of hope in
the situation that we often forget
about.
And that is the extreme youth
of our nation.
One hundred years ago Chica-
go was a trading post and every
thing west of the Mississippi was
wilderness. Texas and Califor-
MIA were under Mexican rule and
towns like Detroit and Pittsburg
were little more than military out
posts. San Francisco was only
a little Spanish nilsson, and sew
eral hundred people lived in Los
Angeles.
These things considered, is it
any wonder that there are some
things wrong with our national
Hfe} So rapid a growth is bound
to bring the rise of unwanted fea-
lures But it also implies a ca
pacity, in the national character.
to meet any and all difficulties
and, sooner or later, to find way
out of them.
Religion and politics and radio.
What will be the outcome?
A few years ago thu national
politician was forced to rely on
the newspapers to carry his mes
sage. Today he may reach mill
lions over the radio.
Until the last two years a min
lister addressed only those whom
he could see in front of him. Now
his audience listens from every
State in the Union.
The mediocre preacher. whose
Sunday night audiences have
been composed of those who rail-
lied about him, through a sense
of loyalty-or habit-must com
rete with the greatest pulpit ora
ors of the nation. Paul Raidor in
,hicago, or a divine in Nashville
nay be more interesting than the
ZONE product. Both may be
leard in one night.
What will the average man
do2 Remain at home with his
radio or doze in his accustomed
place in his home town church,
If you know human nature, you
know the answer.
?Radio will make it hard sled
ding" for the lazy, hte mediocre,
the fellow who has been just get
ting by" both in politics and re-
ligion.
A Georgia farmer is quoted by
the Savannah Press as saying
that there was never a better
time to hold cotton than the pres
emit Commenting on that state
ment, the Press SAYS:
Federal crop reports are confus-
ing. The truth is that the pres
ent crop is very early and it will
not do to estimate future receipts
by the amount which has been al
ready ginned,
This years crop is one of the
earliest on record, probably the
earliest ever known Cultivation
has been very rapid. owing to the
dry weather. The cotton plants
matured sooner than usual. The
continued hot weather was pro-
tracted into October, hence the
bolls opened sooner. The amount
that had been ginned ur to the
middle of October represents a
great percent of the crop.
A correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution believes that the cot
ton crop will lbe but a little over
100000 bales. he argues that
cotton should be bringing 80 cents
soon and that the farmers of the
cotton belt( should inaugurate a
holding movement. Their finan-
cial condition enables them to do
this.
AS a rule it is bad advice TO give
farmers. Experience of the past
has shown that it is better market
the crop right off and ease up the
financial situation all around.
Very few farmers can afford to
hold their crop. Such speculations
has resulted badly heretofore. 1t
may be as this correspondent says,
that the estimates of this crop are
too. large, and that the affect of
this has been to depress prices.
Generally it is safe to sell. 1t may
be that this season is phenomenal
Government estimates may be far
out of the way. But such specula-
tons should induce caution,
The farmers who sold early
lis year gained by so doing. and
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