Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-09
Observations
Here and There

a number OF Georgia towns
were 'scrambling' for til e
great Chicago potorcade of
more than 100 cars scheduled
to pass through Georgia in their
triumphal drive from the Lakes
to the Gulf.
The word "motorcade" caught
the public fancy. It sounded
like a host, a multitude.
But the motorcade" petered
out as will be seen from the fol-
lowing news dispatch from Gulf
port, Miss;
"The motorcade from Chicago
to the Mississippi coast and Flor
ida arrived at Gulfport early to-
night. The eight cars met with
welcome from parked automobiles
as they passed through the bust
ness district. !
"The motOrcade numbered
twenty cars at the start from
Chicago, but twelve went to New
Orleans before coming to the
coast"
A lot of money and more hui
man energy is sometimes wasted
on these so-called motorcades
which sweep through at 20 miles
and hour and forget both State
and county by the next day.
There are better channels for in
vesting the community advertis-
ing appropriation.
Those towns which have receiv-
ed the greatest returns from the
advertising appropriations are
the towns where advertising men
have been placed in charge of the
appropriation. Often the shrewd-
est business man knows the least
about the science of advertising.
He is not familiar with mass APP
peal; he knows nothing Of media,
rates or display.
The business world, however,
is fast coming to the point where
it realizes that advertising is a di- !
rect and definite science, the
lame as medicine, engineering or
aw. If properly expended. the
Idvertsiing dollar is an invested
tollar, otherwise it is wasted.
One of the wisest things our
national government ever did was
to establish the big national parks
in the west. |
For years these great areas of
land have been held as play
grounds for all America, barred
from exploitation by private in
dividuals, kept free for any citi
zen who cares to visit them.
You hear much criticism of DR..
Hubert Work, secretary of the in
terror, in the west. But before
you accept it, look we'll to the
motives of the people who are
voicing it.
Ism it just possible that DR.. |
Work S insistence on safeguard
ing our national parks against
encroachments by private inter !
ests has stirred up some of this
antagonism?
DR.. Work has defended the
parks. And that is no small serv-
ice to the country.
With the tide of population
sweeping South, it won't be long,
before the South will have its ma
tional parks, as the West now
has. In the Mountains of North |
Georgia, in the Sapphire country
of North Carolina, in ennesseei
and farther West, there are spots
as beautiful as those in the West.
These should be purchased now
preserved for the generations
the future.
Being on a direct line between
the East and the Central West
and Florida, Georgia mountain
country would be visited in time
by as many people as the parks
in the West. We have made a
OCSiAAIllIiS hh ga III O1ChHA5
this wonderfully beautiful section
by building the highway from
Atlanta to NeePS Gap,
The South must have her ma
tional parks. the same as the
West.
Gerald Chapman, notorious
bandit and killer, loses another
step in his effort to save his neck.
Chapman viii lobe his life for
the murder Of a New Briton po-
liceman.
He may or he may not have
fred the shot which laid low the
officers of the law Chapman 5
conviction was made certain be-
cause of his reputation, A bad
name seems to have convinced
those jurors that if Chapman did
rot kill, it was because someone
else fired FIRST. that he would