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AMERJCUS TIMES RECORDER.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1919.
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City of Amsricus.
Sumter County.
Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional
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I AMERICUS NEEDS AND MUST HAVE
INDUSTRIES.
f Americus is NOT a well-balanced city,
r No city—or town—can be that is dependent
■Sfe and entirely on one industry, or rather only
ioBC source of income, as we are.
Dependent entirely upon cotton, our eco-
independence depends entirely upon cot-
on. When cotton is prosperous, we, too, are
When the tables are turned—as is
case this year—the whole body politic suffers.
And-the remedy is simple—so simple that it is a
wonder that any city or town should place its entire
T well-being on one single source of income.
* For years we business men of the city have
' oried "DIVERSIFICATION" to the farmers, yet
j we have neglected the beam in our own eyes while
t andeavoring to remove the mote in the eye of our
' brother of the farm.
* A few afternoons ago a number of prominent
ad progressive Americus merchants—business
•were in conference. One asked this ques-
THE STORM.
1'HE clouds are black, the thunder roars, there
are big doings out of doors. The winds like
dippy demons shriek, the universe has sprung
a leak; the rain is pouring in a flood, and all the
landscape turns to mud. The storm is not a
thing of chance, my name is Ebenezer Pence,
and every time 1 plan a jaunt, or picnic in some
woodland haunt, inviting friends to go along and
make their lives one grand sweet song, the ele
ments remark, "Nay, nay I" and bring along a
beastly day. The skies are dark, the winds are
bleak; this thing will last at least a week. Oh,
other men abroad may ride and tour the smil
ing countryside; for them the well known sun
will shine, the stars will not take in their sign;
the winds will whisper, soft and low, and not
like merry blitzen blow; the skies, an airy, fairy
blue, will seem to them aa good as new. But
when I make vacation schemes to sally to the
burbling streams, and spend a day, and maybe
four, far from the bughouse city's rosr, the ele
ments remark, "The toffl We'll show him
now where he gets off I" And then the streaks of
lightning fly; the sable clouds obscure the sky,
with awful pomp and circumstance; my name
is Ebenezer Pance.
HERRMANN GIVEN
ADDED FAME BY
VICTORYOFREDS
“What does our city need above all else right
■t, this time—what would do us the most good)
The answer came quickly and from more
one present—A WEEKLY PAY ROLL.
"Give Americus an industry of some kind—
a matter how small the beginning. Give us some
isng beside cotton for our dependence.
"As a beginning. I suggest a packing plant,"
me of those present said. "A plant with large cold
Utorage facilities and a smaller killing capacity, to
with. .There are hundreds of things we
•mold raise in this section if there was a place to
Aire them where they woud be preserved. There
are many items of diet that we could have that
mom we must do without. There are thousands of
dollars that our merchants would make that they
aaa not have because of this very serious lack.
"Look at Moultrie—at Tifton—at a number
j of towns that are outstripping us, for the simple
: season that—
I” "THEY HAD THE COURAGE TO GO
I AHEAD. They had the spunk, the get-up within
| B—dves to do these things that we are eternally
I talking about but accomplishing nothing.”
1 "Our greatest trouble," another of those men
j mad, “is just as you have expressed it—we TALK,
f lot we accomplish little. Let's tum over a new
Blmf end stop the talking—but DO SOME
THING.' I care not bow small—let's mi
isk}
tat, here and now."
After the suggestion of the packing house
The Times-Recorder began to make some invest!
prions along the packing house and cold storage
fee.
We And, from Chamber of Commerce figures,
hat within the last year the State of Georgia ad-
from twelfth or fifteenth to THIRD place
Bg the states in the production of pork.
We find that Sumter county had only twelve
i to the farm last year, but this year hat
ge of 55 or 60. Some jump that. And yet it
t only the beginning.
We find that the old razor-back has entirely
peared from the county and that a very large
ntage of the hogs in the county are thorough-
Some jump that.
Do you tee where that is leading to? Simply
i Sumter county has the hogs to supply a
ning—the raw material to keep the wheels turn
ing.
But can Georgia compete with the great hog
raising West? you ask. Well, the hog-raising
West is now being transferred to the South—to
Georgia—for the very simple reason that THE
WEST CAN NOT COMPETE with the South.
There are many reasons why it can not.
For instance: The freight rate from Chicago
or Kansas City or Cincinnati, to the Southeastern
seaboard—Savannah, Brunswick or Jacksonville—
where the big South and Central American trade
is going, is 69 cents. The rate from Americus is
about 35 cents. It requires eight or nine days to
ship from the West. Each car must be iced five
or seven times at a cost of $14 or $15 per car.
Americus is only eight or ten hours from these
ports and the cars require only ONE icing. Some
saving there. And when it is taken into considera
tion that these big packers figure on one-half of one
cent profit on the meat the/ ship .you readily see
why the West can not compete with us.
Another item—and a big one. -We have an
open season of twelve months in the year, when
hogs and cattle can be fed out of doors, when food
stuffs can be raised for them to fatten on. In the
West six or seven months is the limit and expensive
bams mutt be maintained to house hogs and cat
tle for the other half of the year and to store for
age and grain for their feed.
Very recently a man came from the West to
Georgia to go into the packing house business. His
Western friends gave him the laugii. A little later
he returned to Chicago and was asked how he was
getting on down here in the South.
"Where do you get the water for your plant?”
he was asked. “It is terribly dry down there."
"Out of the ground,” he replied.
“How are the hogs you are getting? *
"Bad.” (That was three years ago. )
"Well, what's the prospects?'*
"Better."
What is the logical conclusion of your ex
periment?”
The best hogs in the world,” he replied.
"You fellows in the West will be coming; down in
South Geor&a to buy me out before very Long.'
And they have Already Armour and Swift
have bought the plant* at Moultrie and Tifton.
They are adding hundreds of thousand dollars in
larger buildings and more equipment. Moultrie'
is jumping forward by leaps and bounds Moultrie 1
expects to have 20,000 people in ten years'
—a jump from ten or twelve thousand.
Within the last few days one of America's
leading packers came into Georgia—just to see.
He visited several places. He went into the hog-
raising possibilities very exhaustively. He made
the most thorough investigation. As he boarded
a train for home he said:
"It is from this section that the world will be
supplied with pork. [
"I have thought for some time that these
possibilities existed, but they seemed to be in the!
rather distant future. I was wrong. Your lead
ership of this great industry is already here. We
of the West will be getting pretty busy from
now on.”
What of Americus? Are we to ait tight and
let another good thing go by? Are we to wait
until the gigantic packers have taken what they;
want, going into the towns around us and leaving'
us out in the cold?
Are we to raise the hogs and then ship them
to Moultrie, or Tifton, -or Albany, or Macon,
swelling their weekly pay rolls?
Are we good TALKERS and nothing more?
Today Americus and Sumter County face one.
of its greatest opportunities. ' Have we the grit and'
the determination to CQ AHEAD, or shall we!
CINCINNATI, Oefc 1.—(By As
sociated. Press.)—Sixteen years ago,
on September 11, 1803, the name of
August Herrmann mas heralded
throughout the width and breadth of
the land where baseball flourishes as
the Chief Justice of the national
pastime. At that time he was inci
dent)}^ known as the new owner of
the Cincinnati Reds. This condition
of public mind had not changed un
til late in July of this year when
the Reds assumed a.lead in the Na
tional League race.
Today “Garry” aa he is known, not
only to his intimates but to the base
ball public in general, is chiefly re
cognized as President of the Reds
champions of the National League,
and only incidentally as Chairman
of the National Baseball Commission.
In this city Herrmann numbers
his friends by the tens of thousands
and there are a large majority of
these who do not hestitate in saying
that when baseball gained s leader
in August Herrmann, polities lost
one. He was associated with the late
George B. Cox, as a member of the
executive council of the Republican
party in Hamilton county and while
in late years he has taken no active
interest In guiding the destinies of
the G. 0. P., he still is able to wield
an inflaentjnl arm in the party con
ferences. \
How He Started.
It was while Hhrrmann was on of
Cox's chief lieutenants that the ques
tion of purchasing the Cincinnati
baseball club from the late John T.
Brush, was broached to him. While
he had always been interested in base
ball, purely from a fan’s viewpoint,
he never had been interested in the
club financially. The plea that the
club should be owned by Cincinnati
people only (Brush being from In
dianapolis), appealed to Mr. Hferr-
mann and he was induced to form a
company with the ohject of pur
chasing the Reds. He succeeded in
putting through the deal and this led
to his study of baseball political con
ditions as they then existed, the cele
brated war between the National and
American leagues bringing up a sit
uation to him that he had by no
means anticipated.
Mr. Herrmann was really the prime
mover in bringing abon the peace
between the two leagues and was the
man who suggested and did th 0 most
work on the now renowned peace
agreement which really put baseball
on an organized basis.
Plugged Ahead, Losing.
For years both Mr. Herrmann and
his associate in the Cincinnati club
staunchly supported a losing proposi
tion but despite this they erected a
magnificent concrete grandstand
which is known as Dedland Field.
While numerous fans have insisted
that the team would do better with
Herrmann off th’e National commis
sion no one ever has accused the
Beds’ president of not doing all in
his power to gather together a pen
nant winning combination. During
his presidency, he obtained such men
as Bid- McPhee, Joe Kelley, Clarke
Griffith, Hank O’Day, John Ganzel,
Joe Tinker and Christy Mathewson
to lead his team, but it remained for
Pat Moran to succeed where the oth
ers had failed.
Herrman probably is the best
known man to baseball men, inas
much as he has had much to do with
both major leagues as well as having
become familiar with the owners and
players of every minor league in or
ganized baseball through his position
as chairman of the commlsison. He
was born and raised in Cincinnati and
during his early career was a printer
on the Cincinnati Enquirer. He still
belongs to the union.
Not Superstitious, But—
While Garry Herrman never has
bdon accused of being superstitious
he let it be known during the lat
ter part of July that all plans of
the fans to do wonderful things for
the Reds if they won the pennant,
would most certainly be frowned up
on by the club management lhis
brought to mind a little sidelight to
the league race of two years ago
when the Reds Were almost daily al
ternating hr I ween first snd se.und
positions during the middle of Jnly.
At that time a bunch of enthusiastic
rooters started out subscription lists
to have money pledged to send the'
team on a trip around the worlid
and it had hardly been started be
fore $36,000 had been pledged. No
one ever will know to what propor
tions this pool would have grown,
for at this stage the team began to
lose on their return from a disas
trous eastern invasion they were
practically out of th e race and the
pledgers never were troubled for the
money.
L. G. COUNCIL, President
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier
T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
J. M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashier.
INCORPORATED 1891.
The Planters Bank of Americus.
Resources Over One end Quarter Million Dollars.
With an unbroken record
. pf 28 years of conservative
and successful banking, wt
respectfully solicit your
business. We especially call
your attention to our Sav
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per cent, compounded «*<nl-
annually. Why not begin to-
dayand lay the foundation
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re old e fashioned
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Purchase one today and be
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DATE OF CHARTER:
Oct. 13, 1891.
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■e if we hadn't the commodity to keep it run- Wake up. This is 1919.
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216 Lamar St Over Gatewood's Old Grocery Store.
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