Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
STATE WEALTH
SET FORTH AS
NEVER BEFORE
Cornucopia Of Good Things Made
and Raised in Georgia Is
Years Surprise.
BY Charles D. Mckinney.

Everything is in readiness for
Georgia's first observance of Georgia
Products Day BY midnight Mon
day the barbecue pits viii be gleam-
ing their rudy forecasts Of feasts to
come, and in many a kitchen there
Will await the coming Of morn plen-
ty of good things that good cooks
will transform into luscious viands
for the consumption by patriotic
Georgians
Tuesday win witness the most re-
markab.e demonstration of a States
possibilities this Union has ever seen
BY nightfall IL will have been demon
strated that within the confines OF
Georgia there exists potentialities
that can make life worth living for
millions Of people. Georgia will prove
to the whole world that of herself
alone, without assistance, she can
support her people in plenty and in
luxury, She will have shown, not
only that she can, but does produce
the foodstuffs that are grown in every
State OF the nation Her eight eli
matte belts will have poured from
the cornucopia of her resources such
an array of viands as never has been
equaled.
To Feed $4,000.
Reports indicate that not less than
$4,000 people win be served. In the
larger cities the service will begin
usually about p. m, but In the
towns with a large rural population
noon has been selected instead, as
more convenient for the farmers.
Every big city, with the exception
Of two on the eastern shore of the
Savannah River-Augusta and Sa-
vannah-will have dinners, circum-
stances preventing at those cities
proper observances of this day. Many
OF the affairs will be county demon
STATIONS and in some instances towns
are taking advantage Of the moment
to show how many things they man
ufaCture.
When the idea was first promul-
gated 1t was the opinion of the Off
GERS of the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce that II would be a good work
to thus forcibly bring Georgians gem
orally to understand how great the
State is in its ability to feed and
clothe and otherwise care for its in
habitants. But not even the most
optimistic officer dreamed that GeOr-
gia grew and produced as much as
this campaign has shown. In making
menus 1t was almost ludicrous to
hear somebody at first discard this or
that dish because the menu-writer
thought 1t was not produced in the
State, only to add It later when it
was discovered that in some part 1t
was well known
Take for instance the item of
cream cheese. 1t was stumbling
block to the trainers of the Atlanta
dinner menu. Nobody on the COM
mittee had any idea it could be had
in Georgia, and it was at first left off
the menu. A visitor laughed at the
Idea OF its omission. why" said
he, Miss Lille Reynolds, at Lithia
Point, manufacturers the finest cream
cheese you ever ate and she can fur
nish all you'll need"
Tropical Fruits Found.
Then there was the question OF So
called tropical fruits. Few believed
they could be had outside of some
conservatory or dollhouse, but it has
been developed that cambridge at its
great dinner Tuesday--at which, by
the way, 5000 persons will dine-will
serve bananas to all 'comers, and or
angcs grown in Decatur County and
lemonade made from lemons raised
in the same corner of the State, while
the cigars will be made in cambridge
from tobacco grown nearby.
From the hills of Habersham, with
its incarnadined apples, to the wa
tiers OF the Atlantic, with its luscious
oysters and toothsome terrapins
Georgia is given up to consideration
of things gastronomic.
The value of it ali is not that people
are taught to eat. but that this State
is an empire TO its citizens.