The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-16
TO ADVERTISE GEORGIA
Trades Boards Join in Move to
Boost This State.
GREAT MEETING IN ATLANTA
Halt Hundred Georgia Towns Were Repre-
scented at Organization Meeting---PIsns
Outlined and officers Elected.

Atlanta, Ga.--Thoroughly aroused,
to the fact that the south and par
ticularly Georgia is not receiving the
notice throughout the country to
which her natural resources, her eli
mate and her natural development en-
title her, more than 100 men repre-
senting more than half a hundred
Georgia towns, met in Atlanta and
inaugurated movement by which it
Is planned to exploit throughout the
width and breadth of the country the
almost matchless opportunities and
unrivaled attractions which the state
offers, both to homeseekers and CAPT
talists
Preliminary plans for the organiza-
ton of federation Of the CONNER
cial bodies Of Georgia we're made, a
president and vice presidents elected,
and provisions made for the appoint
ment of an executive committee which
will, in the immediate future, begin
the work Of perfecting the permanent
organization. AS soon as the organ
ization can be completed an active
advertising campaign, embracing in
Its scope practically every part of the
y
view Of making known to the world
what Georgia has to offer to the pros
pective nome-seeker or capitalist.
The meeting was marked by I'M
bounded enthusiasm. Many of those
present had Travelled a considerable
distance to attend the meeting, and
! it was plain that they were thorough
ly in earnest about the matters for
the discussion Of which the meeting
had been called. Many of them had
already had opportunities to see the
vast benefits to be derived from even
most limited advertising campaign
and, as a result, were eager for more.
Those from towns which have not up
until this time taken any steps look
ing to the exploitation of the particu-
lar advantages which their own sec.
tions offer, seemed also to have
caught the enthusiasm and apparent
" were seeking to know only the
best method Of getting into line.
W. G. Vereen, president Of the Moul-
trie Chamber of Commerce, was elect
ed president by a unanimous vote
One vice president from each Of the
judicial circuits Of the state was
elected.
A motion carrying with it the en-.
dorsement of the body of the bill Of
H. A. Alexander Of Fulton, which pro-
yides that city or town may spend
any part of its funds for advertising,
was passed. This bill will come up
for its third reading and final action
at the next meeting of the legisla-
ture.
Another motion endorsing the work
now being done by the Southern -
mercial Congress at Washington s.
c., was adopted, as was one instruct
ing the executive committee to at
tempt to secure from the legislature
permission to carry to Cincinnati the
state mineral exhibit to be used there
during the coming Ohio Valley expo.
Sition.
The convention also passed a reso.
luton to the effect that the members
Of the association use their best ef-
forts in behalf of securing for New
Orleans the Panama Exposition in
1915. The work now being done by
the Georgia Conservation Association
was also promised support in reso-
luton adopted
"A NUMBER OF snort talks along the
line Of the benefits to be derived from
advertising Georgia's advantages,
were listened to-
Mayor Maddox Of Atlanta made
talk which was one of the features
Of the meeting. He stated that he
recently made a tour through the
northwest and was told that within
the past four years more than $780,
600 residents of the United States
had moved into Canada because the
farming lands in that portion of the
United States had become so high
that farming was no longer profitable.
Hundreds Of these, the speaker said,
might have been brought to Georgia
had the state been advertised as it
might.
Roll call showed that 1O5 members,
representing 81 Georgia towns and
cities and every section of the state,
were present at tho meeting