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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
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STANDING I P FOR GEORGIA.
Under the caption "A Georgia Editor Gets Gay With
California (spelled that way), the Sonoma, Calif., In
dex-Tribune attempts to take the hide off the Times-
Recorder of some recent comparisons in these
columns between Georgia—and especially Sumter county
■—and California.
We might as well let you know right here what the
Californian has to say—not about Georgia, for he evi- :
dently KNOWS nothing about Georgia, but about the '
seeming audacity of one who would venture the asser- j
tion that there is another state in the union outside of
California. Here is what he says:
A YOUNG CALIFORNIA .soldier who has
been located at an aviation Camp in Georgia
since he enlisted in the army from Sonoma is all
riled up because a newspaper there has burst in
to flowery song extolling the merits of Georgia
and comparing it to California, of course to our
disadvantage. The California boy who has
lived in a real state is glad the Georgia Editor
has got off his chest all the hot air about
the Sunny South, but he writes to us and encloses
the ravings of the “Americus Times-Record” ad
monishing us to let its Editor know a few things
about California. Well first of all we admire
the spirit of the Georgia fellow, the spirit of
being a good booster. In fact we didn’t think
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the southern states had it in ’em. Our impres
sion has always been that the enervating climate
of that section precluded all the real pep that we
Westerners know. The ozone of California
particularly that section about San Francisco
bay and the breezy Pacific ocean and that sec
tion where rugged mountains loom and the smell
of pine or redwood is swept down the canyons is
the real natural booster climate. The individual
who can rise above Georgia’s climate and burst
into a paeon of praise has the makings of a good
promotionist but he should not linger in Georgia.
He should come West that his spirit may soar,
despite the advice of the St. Pau-l man who wrote
to the commercial secretary of Georgia to stay
. Where he was because Georgia was coming into
its own. It may be coming but it won't get
far in a race with California. In fact it never
can catch up although the scribe that riled the
California soldier boy says, “California cannot
hold a candle to Sumter county.” That fellow’s
bump of conceit is only exceeded by his ignorance
of California. California has outgrown the
candle stage long, long ago. We shine with
an effulgence now that is limited to no candle
power and it would make the average Georgia
man, black or white, blink with confusion and
consternation to gaze upon our richness, produc
tivity and natural beauties.
The Georgia paper says, “California soil
demands irrigation.” We respectfully invite
the author to visit Sonoma county and particu
larly Sonoma calley whose verdant fields and
productive orchards yield bounteous crops with
out a drop of water other than the gentle rains
from heaven and when it comes to crops that
will interest Georgia perhaps it won’t be digress
ing too far to point with pride to our chickens
of Sonoma county (yes both kinds if you will).
We honestly believe that if some of the colored
folks down South would visit Petaluma and see
“them” chicken roosts over there, lawdy lawdy
they’d think it was heaven on earth. Millions
of chickens and eggs! And then there are our
Sonoma valley vineyards and our wines rivaling
old world vintage as any soldier who has had
to drink vin blanc or rouge “over there” will tell
you. The garden spot of the world is Sonoma
county and her vinyards. No moonshine about
that. How crude the soul which knows nothing
but the fumes of gin. How far removed from
idealism is the individual who cannot know the
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bouquet of our famous California wines.
The Georgia Editor says he is going to keep
plugging away day after day and month after
month to let the whole country know Georgia’s
attractions. Plugging is a good word, brother,
, for your argument in which you lug in the
California comparison is so full of holes it needs
, plugging. Come West, squire. Come to‘Cali
fornia. Come to Sonoma county. Let us show
you our golden grain fields, our orchards and
vinyards, our contented cattle in verdant fields,
our olives and orange trees, testimonials enough
of tropic fruitfulness and a climate of all year
charm. Then and only then will you realize
how ridiculous you must appear when you take
a flier on Pegasus while there are sons of Cali
l fornia in your aviation camps Or otherwise
marooned within the border lines of your long
since famous state.
Now that we understand our California brother
I thoroughly, we will ask to be permitted to make these
few remarks in reply:
I First, the writer, “the Georgia fellow, with the spirit
1 of being a good booster,” didn’t have the good fortune
to be born in old Georgia, but, like the California writer
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s| is a westerner, by birth. However, if he hadn’t been
1 any farther away from Georgia than the Californian
evidently has been away from California, he may not
have had the effrontery to write so “extollingly” of the
virtues of Sumter county. But, having been reared in
the great prairie country, and having lived at various
times in the great states of Montana and California, in
the far west, as well as several other states in other
. sections of our nation, he feels he speaks with some
( thing akin to authority in comparing the natural advan
tages offered by the various sections.
In the first place, let it be understood that nothing
. deprecatory has ever been said in these columns about!
I California. On the contrary, time and again California’s
i achievements have been held up before the people of
I this section for emulation, for it has been realized and
believed by the writer since he first set eyes on Sumter
county, after nearly seven years of residence in another
part of Georgia, that if Calofirnia had become the great
state it is with what natural advantages it offered, how
the people of Georgia were sleeping on their birthrights in
occupying a place in the rear of California in reputation
and achievement.
We give California her due. Everyone who sees
California does that. But the amazing thing to the 1
•visitor to California is that she has been able to make
such a wonderful showing with so little, with apparently
only a little valley here and there between mountains or
deserts in cultivation.
The fact is that California is populated with a dis- j
resent class of people than Georgia. California is a:
state that has boosted itself from the biginning—a state 1
that is a living example of the power of advertising—and
delivering thegoods. Her people are no better, no abler
than thv people of Georgia; they merely are different
and long ago they learned their lesson in advertising.
Tlie truth of the matter is, they were forced to work '
hard and boost to beat the band from the first to exist.
Soon boosting became a habit and a business. The re
sult is that today, despite the almost intolerable egotism
of the average Californian, that state is one of the very
j greatest, if not the first state in the union in actual
i achievements. Certainly she leads the country in paved
i highways, and that is one respect in which we now
are attempting to emulate her example in Georgia.
It is true there are parts of California where irri
gation is not required. Sonoma, as may be surmised
from reading the foregoing reproduction, is one of them.
But, although the Sonoma editor may not know it, his
county is only a small bit of California, and he should
know, and probably does know although! he carefully
conceals the fact, that here are millions of acres of
California soil—that portion of California best known
to the remainder of the nation—where nothing could
exist, much less grow and thrive, without irrigation.
California has secceeded IN SPITE of natural' con
ditions, while Georgia has sat idly and peacefully for
years and years with opportunities unfathomed waiting
within her borders.
It is pleasant to see a fellow stand up for his own
state—all of us that amount to anything do that. But
some have a great deal more to stand up for than others.
And that is why this “Georgia fellow”—Georgian by
adoption because he sees more chance here than any
where else in the world and because in his roamings he
has never found a people so congenial, open-hearted and
open-handed Teels no strain on his “boosting” powers
by getting a frequent effusion about Georgia “off his
chest.” i
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Georgia is wakening and wakening fast to her
opportunities. She i 8 learning how to organize her
industries—as California learned long ago—and learning
to do the things that count most.
So, look out, California. Great as you are, your
soil never grew’ a peach that could equal Georgia’s
famous Elbertas, although you grow that variety, too.
Besides, you are far away from the great markets of the
country.
The Georgia watermelon is famous the world over,
tut whoever heard of a California watermelon, however .
many and however fine they maybe?
You have your grapes and wonderful wine, but of:
what are they now, with the nation dry, to remain so
forever? Yes, you can make some of them Into raisins.
And Georgia yams! Maybe you never heard of those.
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Neither have many other states, but they are beginning '
to hear of them, and, now that we have found a method
of curing and keeping them, the whole world will soon READ
be clamoring for them. miMTin
Perhaps you never know it, but Georgias apples 1 HuLu"
have taken numerous world prizes, and the finest apple DrpADDVD
land in America can still be bought among the North IlDvvlil/Ijl*
Georgia Hills for from $3 to ?10 per acre. WANT
We haven t mentioned the Georgia pecan. - You
grow the English walnut and tell the world of it. It ADS
does very well until one has tasted the Georgia pecan,
but after that, Good Night, California Walnut! Our THEY
pecan orchards are infants yet, comparatively speaking, nrim
but the day is not far distant when the great magazines *)£ j
of the country will be printing page advertisements in nTCITI TO
colors so inviting that the whole nation, which now knows ItEiuULldj
little of the paper-shell pecan, will be as familiar with it A KIA TAA
and as eager for it as the Sunkist fruit from the Golden 111X1/, 1 Vv,
Gate. I ynr PACT
Yes, California is a great state, but there are others. ! aHLi vVul
Georgia knows what she has, and is well on the way to TC VFRY
making the best of it. Laugh at Georgia if you will, but * ? 1,11
the whole nation will soon be paying tribute to her pro- • CM AI J
ducers in the way of fancy prices for many of her pro- '
ducts which cannot be equaled by the best in California.
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