Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-06

Southwest Georgia day
here, says the editor of the A
bany Herald, and every editor i
this section of the State has sal
the same thing time and tim
again during the past six months
Never has a section faced
brighter future than is open nov
to Southwest Georgia.
The Albany Herald, in the fol
lowing interesting editorial, give
it's reasons for stating that this
Georgia s day.:
Years of preparation h V e
brought this land of rich endow-
n:ent-a land to which nature has
been prodigal in the bestowal of
natural gifts-to the threshold of
realization.
Through all these years of con-
servative development we have
been laying a foundation. We
might have done better, but on
the whole We have done fairly
well.
We have built progressive and
self-reliant communities. We have
linked them up with better high
ways, and many of these have
been paved. We have steadily in
creased the numb of cur indus
trial plants, improved our school
systems, increased efficiency in
municipal and county govern
ments and improved health condi-
tions.
Thousands of acres of land have
been brought to high valuation as
the cultivated pecan industry has
fulfilled the promise which pio-
neers in that industry foresaw.
More recently, our agricultural
system has been practically revolu-
tionized, with the result that we
are no longer dependent upon one
money crop for prosperity. Crop
Investigation has opened new
vistas through which the farmers
of this section envisage greater
independence, and the increasing
demand for farm lands is signifi-
cant of a new agricultural era.
No less important than these
material developments is the crys-
Utilization of sectional conscious
ness-a realization on the part of
Southwest Georgia communities
that their material wellbeing is in
dissolubly bound up in con:muni-
ty of interest which all must recog-
nize. No one town or county in
this section can prosper alone, and
the recognition of that fact is
making possible a cooperation in
which is the promise of enduring
mutual benefits.
All these developments Il 5ether
form the material foundation on
which the future of Southwest
Georgia is to be built.
And the reassuring feature of
our condition is the solidity of that
on which we build. AS Roger W.
Babson so clearly pointed out in
his thoughtful survey of South
west Georgia for the special edition
of The Herald of Sunday morning,
this sections economic position is
sound. The basis laia for its COM
ing prosperity and greater devel-
opment is solid, and those who
build may do so with full conf
dence in their foundation.
Today Southwest Georgia faces
the greatest development of its
history. Never before has the at
tention of Georgia and neighbor-
ing states been focused on this sec
ton as it is today. Never before
have so many investors and home
seekers been prospecting in South
west Georgia communities, and
never have as great developments
as now are definitely planned been
in prospect.
Newcomers are arriving daily.
Vacant farms are filling up. Towns
and cities are acquiring that new
blood which means enlarged bust
ness and manufacturing activities.
Bank deposits are increasing and
building records are being broken.
Partly as the result eff these
conditions, and at the same time
serving largely as their inspiration,
is fine spirit of confidence. One
meets it wherever he turns. It is
definite, positive and omnipresent
1t overflows county lines and ami.
mates all classes of citizens.
Verify, Southwest Georgia's hour
has struck. The faith of men who
have refused to be discouraged to
day is justified. The good shiI
Realization has come up over tbs
horizon, and she's headed for port
The faith of men who refu:
to be discouraged il usually r.
warded. 1t is the weakling, ii
gutter, the visionless who lag b,
hind and in the end lose OFT
LIES battles. The men of Soutl
west Georgia, always encourage
by their women, have carried o
through dark and gloomy years
The sun is peeping over the he
rizon and its rays of brillianc