Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-10-19
The South Is Coming
Into Her Own

From the Texas Panhandle t,
the keys of Florida propsreity i
on the march.
The eyes of the entire nation
are turned on the South. Til,
American people are discovering
a new and potentially wealthie
west. The croy of Go west
young man." has been changed tc
Go Southland take the fam
ily."
Ben Mayer, one of the bes
posted men travelling the South
has recently covered the cities
large and small-from Texas to
Georgia. He says it's difficult tc
select a State or section in the
entire South where new life, great
er prosperity and finer POSSIBLE
ties do not exist.
in my opinion, portions of
Texas are prospecting and building
as rapidly as portions of Florida"
Mr.. Mayer says. "Texas is not
making as much fuss about it as
Florida, but it is wonderful out
there, Good crops for the past
two years, with the immense wealth
that has followed the boring of
oil wells have made that State a
veritable FL Dorado"
From the mountains Of North
Georgia a friend writes us that
mountain farm lands along the
Scenic Highway are booming. He
says the North Georgia noun
talns will be the summer play
ground for those moving into
Florida.
Is it any wonder the South is
succeeding the West, asks the
Jacksonville Times-Unicn in the
following editorial, headed Nov
1t Is the South"
From, and even piror to the time
of Horace Greedy and his advice
to young men to GO West" there
to work out their careers and build
their fortunes, the great West has
been the magnet that has attract
ed many people, very large num-
Der of whom profited by Greely's
advice and because of their own
inclination to pioneer. Now, how
ever, it is the South that invites
III who aspire to success and to
wealth beyond the possibilities of
heir home communities. This is
quite natural, as is evident to
he student of conditions and af-
fairs.
Last Saturday newspapers car
ried an Associated Press dispatch,
sent out from New York, in which
it was said, on authority of the
National Foreign Trade council,
that "The South is succeeding the
West as the most rapidly growing
section of the United States in
originating American foreign
trade" Without in the least dis
paraging the West, or it's enormous
enterprise of great m srit, the Ma
tional Foreign Trade council
might have said that the South
also is succeeding the West in
progress and prosperity, and to
such a degree as to divert public
attention from the West to the
South, where are convincing evil
dences, in number and variety, that
the South has stepped out" that
this great section OF the United
States is forging ahead, phenon.-
enally, perhaps, but substantially,
none the less.
What just has been said is not
stretching the truth, nor is it sur
prising that the South should be
succeeding the West" and in very
much more than the foreign
trade. The reason is fundamen-
tai; it is based on natural condi-
tions and natural resources. While
the lure of the West was strong,
while it discovered mines of
wealth called to tens and hum
dreds of thousands and to others
who sought only adventure, the
South was out of consideration.
At that time the enormously val
liable natural resources of the
South had not been exploited. In
deed, these resources were but lit
tie known - their very great
value not at all. The South was
known as "the land of cotton" and
for its courtesy and its hospitali-
ty, both of which were appreciat-
ed and admired, but neither of
which had the drawing power of
gold and silver to be had fer the
digging. Then, as wealth accumu-
Hated in the North and West and
its possessors had more time for
recreation, eyes were turned to-
ward Florida as a playground. 9th
er eyes saw here horticultural con-
ditions and advantages, and their
owners came and Joined with those
already here in the growing of cit
rus and other subtropical fruits out
of which they made money. 9th
er industries and business enter
prises followed, naturally, with the