Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-18
ALL GEORGIA At
FESTAL BOARD,
BOOSTING
Seventy-eight Towns Observe
Home Products Day With
Banquets and 0ratory.

AND the speakers, TOO, are ready
They have spent the morning in silent
meditation, engaged in the tremen-
dous task OF thinking OF all the things
that have made Georgia the Empire
State OF the South; they have evolved
their rounded phrases, their brilliant
epigrams. and their choicest jokes
and nothing now remains for them
but to mount their steed OF fine Ian
guage and scale the slippery heights
OF oratory.
everything is ready!
Whole State Prepared.
The committee that procured all
the good things to eat; that has
stirred up enthusiasm In Atlanta until
the city Is filled almost to overflow
ing with the new Georgia spirit; that
has made 1t possible for 800 Allan
tans to sit down to a feast OF broth
erly love, put the finishing touches to
the arrangements at meeting in
the Chamber OF Commerce rooms
Tuesday at noon. They met to do
some work. and found there is moth
ing more to do.
Everything is ready.
And all over Georgia
Is ready. For this is Georgia Prod
ucts Day. made an official State wide
celebration by Governor Slaton and
14s Georgia Mayors, and Georgians
have gone ahead with the prepara-
tons with such vigor that there re-
mains nothing to do but sit down
and eat and hear the speakers and
get up with a new knowledge of the
greatness of their State.
In rs towns and so counties din
ners will be served between noon and
thing eaten will have been raised or
manufactured in Georgia; when al
most everything worn will have been
made in Georgia, and when every
thought and expression will be of the
State and its resources.
Speakers who have achieved the
lasting fame that Georgians accord
only TO Georgians will scale the
heights of oratory in an attempt to
do justice to the greatness of the
State.
The dinners will bring to a close
one OF the most popular and most
widely discussed campaigns ever
inaugurated in Georgia. Over at the
office of the State Chamber of Com
merce in the Hurt Building, where
the plan for Georgia Products Day
and the all-Georgia dinners we're con-
ceived. enthusiasm is rife. President
Charles J. Haden, who speaks at the
Macon celebration Tuesday night, de-
clared Tuesday morning that the day
will be one OF the greatest in the
history of the State.
Il have been all over the state
since we started the movement" said
Mr.. Haden, and everywhere there
was constantly growing enthusiasm.
Georgia Products Day can not help
but be a success, because the people
Of Georgia are behind 1t, and when
ever the people OF Georgia get behind
any movement the success of that
movement is assured. We expect great
good to come from the all Georgia
dinner and celebration idea. There
will be born new spirit of friendship
and cooperation. Georgians will
awake to the fact that II is not nee
essary to have the Eastern or South
ern or Northern or Western tag on
things for them to be good-all that
Is really necessary Is that il be made
In Georgia"
While the big celebrations will be
In the cities and towns that have ar
ranged the public banquets, the stay
at-homes are preparing to celebrate
with as much enthusiasm as those
who are lucky enough to have ticket,
TO the feasts.
Most of the good Georgia house
wives are expected to serve all Geor-
zia dinners in their homes, and even
the casual stranger VIII celebrate, for
every hotel IN the State. almost, will
have an all-Georgia dinner on its BIZ
of fare.
There will be so many features tc
the Atlanta celebration that It is vir-
tually impossible to enumerate them
all or course. everything will be
Georgia made, and a great deal OF II
Atlanta made.
Many OF the bsnqueters are plan.
ming TO wear clothing made in Geor-
gia, and to the man who succeeds n
appearing with an entire Georgia out .
Mt a prize has been offered by w. II
White, Jr.
Souvenirs for Diners.
Valuable and attractive souvenir
will be placed at each plate, and the
tickets will bear coupons that may be
exchanged for Georgia made articles
at various places. A band will he
rlaced on the stage to furnish IN
music that must necessarily accompa
ny such a feast. And IT will be
Georgia made band too.
The menu looks as though IL Nigh
have been ARRANGED for a birthda,
feast of the gods Everything IN
most exscting opicure could desire I
on the list of good things-but Their
aren't words enough to describe tn,
menu, SO here II is
PURGE OF Tomato
Whipped Cream
Mixed Pickles la Dixie Company
White Plume Celer,
Barnesia Young Onions