Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1934-07-01

Farm Board OF the acreage of cotton in Soutnen STATES
the time ripe the proptious for other
productive ventures.
Men With Ideas.
The Pittsburgh Courier of several weeks ago carried
detailed formulation the plan of the Hon. Ben Green
mayor of Mound Bayou Miss, in which he with several
ether experienced business colleagues propose to launch
COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE GROCERY enterprise
which would solicit the patronage OF not Negroes alone
but grocerymen the country An enterprise OF TINS
nature would require personnelo of udcious and WELL
trained business men.
The object in the organization of such proposed VEN
ture is got primarily the dividends which would be reaz
ed AS MUCH AS the larger ends to which such corpor
alton could in employing capable, efficient and pre-
pared young who could creditably engineer such
venture and young who could manage company OF
tbs type to the ends of PUBLIC SERVICE.
striking example of what the courage to grasp OPP
portuny by the forelock when such opportunity pre-
sents itself is related in recent account OF Negro snft
manufacturer in Chicago who is supplying some OF
the most exclusive haberdashers in Chicago with his pro-
duct With start at the bottom rung OF the ladder IN
which just he and his wife manufactured the shirts now
just three years he has achieved the phenomenal
Of being in position to employ fifteen workers.
not including his wife himself This man is the model
Of that kind Of which it takes to succeed IN the
face of insurmountabe odds.
Another recent account of the commercial perspcacty
into hitherto unexpored fields by few Whites and no
other known Negroes has it that jobless and penness
John Doe, of California, while cogitating method by
which he could his next meal sought the nspr-
ing" vicinity of wharf and dump ground and was favor
by the dynaon that he could salvage the silver and
other vauables of hotels and make it business From
this germ idea has sproued of the largest salvaglng
companies in the city of Chicago to where John Doe has
immgrated and his flourshing business makes possible
the employment Of several other men,
Pioneering Spirit Needed,
1t is Just such pioneering spirit this, if there is any,
which is the panacea for the economic and CONNER
s,;l,, Of tho Dark he
the willingness to the hardshps and the handcaps
by which all pioneers confronted is necessary quality
for those who would succeed as business executives IN the
future Too many of the ambitious and aspiring business
men of Hams descendant to lack the courage to be-
gin in small way Their idea is for an suspicious dis
play at the very outset They fail to realize the we'll &C
cepted axiom that to start at the bottom rung OF
the ladder definitely letters and assures the way for
the ability to do Big Business in commanding way when
the top has been reached. ts -
/ Nev Products Ventured.
Although cotton has been the staple product of the
South the present overproduction and National Farm
Board legislation of limited cotton acreage, will in the
future necesstae the production of something which Will
effect an immediate monetary realization in order that an
individual can exc out existence during the present
economical crisis.
Nothing was ever gained unless something risk
ed The proverbia mother inventons-which is
sy-has already manifested itself in new productive at
empts and ventures in various sections OF the warmer
Chimes Some have In for chicken farming and nave
specialized in various breeds, finding propnquious
kets for sales Others directed their energies toward
truck farming and have been successful Still others
centered their attentions in other seasonal products
such Strawberries and pecans and there is
in the nearby vicinity who ships persmmons to
ons where they and has thereby established
seasonal market for this fruit.
1t is the who has vision-the man who has the
courage who get farther than the next fellow and
who give the world something Every inventor of to-
day iculed yesterday What if the derisons of the
limpossibe' radio on which Thomas Edison had worked
years had dampened his couragethink of what the
world would have been deprived What if the repeated
and continuous eers of his friends had discouraged Watts
and deprived of the multtudinous machines which
steam What if the lack of comprehension of
the theory which the telephone to operate had OBJ
struced the experiments of Alexander Graham Bell and
had left bereft of that convenient mechanism nstru
ment which the commercial world depends These
had vision and these men had faith their vision and
these succeeded