Gadsden County Times

By C. W. WILLIAMS

A check-up on the many newspaper editors located in Florida cities along a route covering some 400 miles reveals the fact that most of them will attend the convention of the Florida Press Association to be held here May 16-17.

The writer returned last night from a trip made for the purpose of purchasing sweet potato draws. Along the route visits were made to newspaper offices. Found that Quincy is on the tongues of the owners and their employees. They are anxious to come here and look us over.

The convention will no doubt be one of the largest from point of attendance ever held by the Florida Press Association. The editor of this newspaper is president this year. It is a distinct honor to have the president of this worthy organization a resident of Quincy. This city has secured untold and valuable advertising through this fact.

If the citizens of Quincy and neighboring territory get together and put on wholesome entertainment for the newspaper editors, their wives and friends, these good folks will return to their home towns and write us up like newspapermen like to do. Some of the editors are ladies. They also like to tell in their home newspapers that they saw, did and enjoyed, while here.

Sometimes I think that we do not pay enough attention to home newspapers. However, we pay a lot of attention to them when we have got something to kick about, but they seldom hear about the good things they are doing for the community.

They are subject to the whims of the whole people, just like a public office holder.

The farmers and business men of Gadsden county who are participating in the sweet potato acreage being developed by the chamber of commerce are doing something for which they are justly entitled to much praise. Gadsden county, for some reason or other, is looked upon by a great many of our own farmers as purely a tobacco producing territory, and this is exactly why poultry, trucking live stock and general farming has not developed as it should.

Here is unquestionably one of the best counties for general farming endeavors to be found in the entire South. The sweet potato acreage, when harvested, will give the growers ready cash during the summer. This county should raise a half dozen specialty money crops each year, instead of pinning faith on one crop—tobacco.

Let those who wish to raise tobacco only, carry on their particular line of work, but the average farmer is not financially able to swim in the one-crop pond. He might be caught with his clothes off. That's just what has happened during the last two seasons.

Let's put our heads together and figure out on a common sense basis what's the best thing to do. There are numerous things that can be done to remedy the situation. The chamber of commerce is here to put over any legitimate development program you might decide upon. Without a live chamber of commerce, you couldn't get very far.

Appreciation to the producers of sour cream. The little army of faithful dairy folks in Gadsden county also belong to the pioneers in the establishment of the dairying industry here. Tuesday was another good sour cream day at the chamber office.

Why not bring your week's skimmings to the office next Tuesday and get a check for it on the spot?