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Upon What Are We Waiting?
The impression sc. ms to be abroad in the land tnat
the boll weevil and trying circumstances brought about
from other causes have us eonqured and that there is no
reason why we sho id attempt further to accomplish any
thing for ourselves.
Yes. it appears that a great many of us have given up
Pad reached the decision to sit back and watch the
old ship go down without any move to reach out for any
object to save us. Here of late it is nothing unusual
to go out through the country and find a farm home sur
rounded with weeds and bushes an.l all the occupants
of the piece sitting around breathing the air of despair,
us if all possible methods calculated to accomplish any
thing had been resorted to without avail.
AVe are not exaggerating when we say that quite a few
people are expressing thtnuelves as being of tho opinion
that all chances of making even a decent living have gone
overboard. Honestly, it would seem just as reasonable
to contend that we'are as high and dry as the deserts of
Asia and that we will do well 'hereafter to obtain half
pure water end scarcely anything to eat.
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It would be a. wonderful revelation for us if wo would
wake up to the possibilities that our surroundings us.
Here we are living upon a garden spot of the world. In a
land where can be grown almost anything and everything
that can be produced anywhere In the world, though in
spite of this fact a great many of us are allowing ourselves
to labor under the impression that the soil and climate of
Georgia are adapted to the growing of cotton alone. We
are simply off of everything that might mean our ad
vancement, if wo are to judge tho situation by what we
hear and see, and certainly hearing and seeing ought to
be accepted as quite conclusive evidence,
We simply need to ask ourselves a few questions. First
of all, arc wo the only people in the country experiencing
a set-back as a result of the natural depression that fol
lowed the great world war? We say no. Since the boll
weevil invaded this section, is there a chance for us to
grow anything else such as are grown in other states of
the union? In answer to this question we would say that
there Is hardly anything grown In any other state in Amer.
ica that cannot be grown Just as successfully here
We ask tho question, are there any crops grown regularly
in other other states that can be grown here with as great
a yield as in other places? In roply to this query, we
cm safely state that there is hardly any crop of market
able va!' e grown anywhere in the world that cannot be
grown here on a competitive basis.
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For our own good we ought to arouse ourselves suffici
ently to realize that our natural reusources in Georgia,
and Baldwin county, are just about equal to the most
favored spots on the globe and really surpassed by none
Wo are all quite ready to admit that Georgia will this
your yield the biggest fool crop in the history of the state,
yeL in this very commodity we have barely exerted oursel.
ves to the ext-nt of carrying on all experiment.
if a teat was made we would not fear to venture the
assertion that any dozen connecting counties in Georgia
would produce as many vegetables of popular varieties as
can be grown in any twelve counties in Florida. Maryland,
Delaware or any other vegetable growing state, the pro
ductions being based upon acreage yields. Are we not
aware of tho tact that none of these three last named
states in the Union, not growing cotton, that surpass
Georgia in wealth, barring our natural resources? It we
will ask ourselves over and over again these questions
and a great many more of equal importance, unquestion,
ably we will soon or later wake up to the 'fact that we
have for a, lcug time been having night mares or laboring
under some stupefying influences.
As an illustration of our possibilities here, we are told
that a widow Mdy living in the vicinity of Milledgevllle is
now gathering around three hundred dollars worth of snap
beans from an acre of ground at this time, even though
we ae expenetcing one of the most severe droughts known
of here in many years past. Certainly we ought to ac
cept this as .cncretc evidence that we are not trying to
get away from the fire that is burning our hands and so
long as we hatg on to an instrument charged with misery
so long can we expect to suffer. We are complaining of
being unable to make sales of any commodities tnat we
might raise, other than cotton, yet the fact is laid bare
before us that a widow woman is harvesting right now n
crop grown i less than eight weeks time more valuable
than any cotte l that was ever grown on the same ground.
Until this widow woman brings her crop to the markets
our appetites '■ r the vegetables she is raising will have to
go unsatisfied.
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The Value of Good Roads to Communities
Tli ! • ping up of good reads i.i a matter of paramount
'importanto to any community far the reason that good
roads go a long ways toward the enhancement >f • oal
estate and ull sorts of property.
it is but reasonable to presume that improved high
ways and good roads as a whole are bound to appeal to
the stranger. Especially Is tills true when we have come
Into our midst one who ha b on accustomed to tho ease
of travel u« afforded by sections making it a special caro
in seilng that roadways are kept in the bast shape possible.
Inferior road... roads that nuke travel difficult, stand
out only a a condemnation to a comnunity. A condition
that tends to hamper means of travel is nothing short of
a liability in which everyone stands a chance to lo.s ! .
Farms, city property and all are lessened in value
wherever undesirable roads exist. The very sight of j
reads that are not kt pt up cieates the impression with I
visitors flint a lack of progress exists and as a consc. I
quence prospretive investors pass up sections where s oli a|
state of affairs are in appearance. One should not lose
sight of the fact that demand governs tho price of one
property the same us another.
The south would do well to dress up her roads and keep
them dressed. Attractive roads serve in creating an Im
pression of a community or section the same as a suit of
clothes of good material and well made helps in the Cor
matlon of an opinion of the man so attractively attired,
with the exception of the fact the actual worth of a road is
easily ascertained in all instances.
Hon. Pope Brown
By n. v. s.
We, together with a large number of friends in this sec
tion, wish sincerely to felicitate the Prison Commission
upon its selection of Hon Pope Brown as Superintendent
of tile State Farm.
We have watched with increasing interest the political
history of this worthy gentleman for some years, and
have admired his sane and practical decisions, as well
a3 his sense of justice and integrity.
His increasing years we hope have only added largely
to these desireuble qualities, and in bringing them to his
assitance in tho management of this institution, we pre
dict a brighter future in its affairs..
pJ'fercA’h as been <a tendency in tiliese late years, both
by individuals and our legislatures to criticize the manage
ment of our convicts, and much lias been 'here and there
about the Prison Farm particularly, so much so, the in
coming Superintendent 'has quite a problem to face.
We feel sure however, that with Mr, Brown’s intimate
knowledge of state affairs, coupled with his mature wis.
dom and practical sense, he will saon have order out of
the existing chaos, and to this end, we, with all good citi
zens pledge him our hearty support.
We welcome him and family to our community, and we
fervently wish that his supervision of this important state
Institution will be the bright star of his active life, and
that his "sunset days" spent with >cs may be replete with
the association of frionds and employees who are loyal
and work well performed—which needs no higher reward.
Witty And Wise
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The saving grease of common sense lubricates the
squeaking wheels of daily life—Chicago Journal of Com
merce,
The War Department will save $40,000,000 this year
We would like to learn their system.—South Charleston
(O.) Sontinol.
A cheerful man goes home at night and makes lemonade
o» t of the lejnons handed him du.ing tho day.—Claremont
(Va.) Herald.
Those Pilgrim fathers were in luck. They got here be.
fore English quota for 1620 was exhausted,—Winona Re
publican-Herald. T
Another inportant problem i s that of reducing the
habitual bootleggers to a state of unremunerated employ
ment.—Washington Star.
Passports no longer are necessary for an American
citizen going into Mexico. All he needs is the dinero.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
The resident portions of cities of the future will consist
of grages with a sleeping room connected with them —
Eaton (Colo.) Herald.
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THE STATE SANITARIUM
From The Macon Telegraph.
The latter of James Barnwell Heygood to Governor
Hardwick with reference to the conditions at the S ate
Sanitarium is written with the freedom and ease that in
dicate he is trying to say just what he thinks. For such
an intelligent and sincere critic to find no more to criticize
really speaks well for the Sanitarium.
As to the criticism that people hold responsible positions
at the Sanitarium who are not Georgians and that a few'
Catholics a*e officially connected w-ith the institution, it
goes without saying that this is an appeal to prejudice,
or at least an expression of prejudice. Just so long as
there is no effort made to fill the positions with Baptists
or Methodists or Episcopalians or Catholics as such, the
mpst natural thing would be that representatives of all
these would he employed. If the time should ever come
when any sect should make an effort to get Its own re
presentatives in a State institution rather than the people
who are best fitted, then would he the time to call a halt
But we feel confident that this time has not arrived, and
is not likely to arrive. And if Baptists and Methodists
and Episcopalians and Catholics, ect.. etc., are to live to
gether and pay taxes together, it is very unfortunate for
any question to be raised except who is best fitted.
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