Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-09
Tn TURN CAPITOL
INTO SHOW ROOM
Building Will Be Filled With
Maize Exhibits, Work of the
Georgia Corn Clubs.

seldom that state capitol build
,.,- Is turned into an exhibit hall, but
w. is inst about what is going to
nappen to the Georgia capitol building
hon the exhibits are spread over It's
,.,,,.s and under its dome for the second
,.,raI Georgia Corn show, December )
fl, 6 inclusive.
Nor could the capitol building be de-
,..+a5 10 a better purpose, as Governor
,..sarb NJ Brown himself has stated,
.s.a, the encouragement and uplift Of
..ra Of Georgia's most substantial and
most promising agricultural industries
-tna growing of corn.
When he gave his consent to the use
.,f the capitol building for this purpose
Governor Brown remarked that it made
,,. difference who was governor, that
There was nothing which he or any
other man could do to encourage the
.orr club boys of Georgia that ought
,.ot be done.
To Give Them Banquet.
And 80 the capitol has been turned
aver TO the 10000 corn club boys of
Georgia wherein to exhibit the products
,f their industry and energy and to the
.Ils canning clubs to display their tai
,lr in building a collateral industry
that is going to grow in the aggregate
into a big Georgia business.
Not only that, but the capitol build
ing also is to be the scene of a feast in
which the 1000 or more corn club boys
who will come to Atlanta for the show
lis the representatives Of the 10000 will
participate-the dinner on December 4
which will be rendered them by the At
anta Chamber of Commerce.
In the capitol building the corn and
canning snow will be free to every Wis
..or and they cordially are invited to
come and see what Georgia boys and
g.rls have done ana can do.
officers of the Georgia National
Guard have expressed a deep interest
in the movement to organize the visit
ing corn club boys into a regiment of
boy scouts, in charge Of Captain w. H
Leahy, of the Fifth regiment In this
work will be laid the foundations of a
military training, the Importance OF
WHICH Ndl llOL NC wv 81 OAlS ~ Cillplld
sized
To Urge Boy Scout Work. d"
From the Boy Scouts thus organized
will come the future recruits for the
National Guard organizations of the
state; more than that, it will it is be-
ieyed, tend to the development of Ma
tional Guard organizations nearer to
the rural districts of the state, where
police protection is most needed.
With the Boy Scout idea, which is
the military drill in its first stages, car
ried by these 1000 boys who visit At
lanta, TO the 10000 all over the state,
in the organizations whose membership
Will within few months be double that
number, the important and far-reach-
ing influence Of such a movement can
not be estimated. Moreover, Boy Scout
training means a dissemination of re-
spect for law and order, which must
essentially have a widespread moral in
huence throughout the state
big parade Of corn club boys, head
ed by Governor Brown and his staff
and escorted by the Fifth regiment in
lantry, will conclude the corn show
program. In this parade the boys from
each county will carry a banner upon
which will be inscribed the county's
record in corn production