Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-05
MADE
GOODS EXHIBIT
IS CERTAIN
Manufacturers in Meeting Decide
to Organize and Set Up
Permanent Display.

Atlanta manufacturers will estab-
lish in a downtown building an elab-
crate permanent display of articles
made at home
-Four sites are offered, no one of
them more than five minutes walk
from Five Points.
Twenty three of the 100 manufac-
turers who gathered for a banquet at
Hotel Ansley Thursday night pledged
themselves to take space in the ex-
hibit hall.
Within four days an Atlanta man
ufacturers' association will be organ
ized.- to handle the exhibit and to
wrestle with problems of interest to
factory men. Within ten days, one
of the four offers of a building will
be accepted. Whether the building
will be leased, bought or leased with
privilege Of purchase, is to be worked
out
1t was Mr.. Morgan who laid the
plan before the gathering, after a
years study and preparation. Neces-
sary to the success of the plan is
a pledged revenue of s22,5OO a year
for five years, he said.
Factories Make Realty Values.
Atlanta should have four times
the payroll it now has" he asserted.
The maintenance of real estate val
ues and the future growth of Atlanta
absolutely depend upon the growth
of manufacturing. We have 500
manufacturing plants in the city
now. I doubt if we need more. My
idea is that we should build those
we have into giant industrial estab-
lishments. Some people deny this
but | want TO say that Atlanta made
goods can be sold right in Atlanta.
1t only is necessary to let the people
know what we have here"
Boiling II. Jones told the other
manufacturers that Evansville, Ind,
established such a display, and found
that goods could be sold through it
at a selling cost of 8 per cent.
This convinced me-" said Mr.
Jones. Did any one here ever sell
goods at a cost of 3 per cent?"
@. s. Dobbs made a forceful talk
on the advertising value of the ex-
hibit. The man who makes good
products and doesn't tell about It,"
he said, "is like the man who winks
at a girl in the dark-he knows all
about it, but she doesn't Besides,
it doesn't get him anywhere"
Adair is Emphatic.
Forrest Adair was emphatic in his
approval
4 may not be orthodox" he said
but there is one subject on which
I am rabid That is the talk about
the smoke nuisance. l wish to good
ness some one would turn 500 more
smokestacks loose on us. We need
factories.
But the public does not know
about those we have. I met a bank
director to-day who did not know
that most of the railroad cars rolling
out of here roll on wheels made in
Atlanta-and another who thought
that Mr.. Orr had his shoes made in
Boston, and simply jobbed them here
The public must have things rubbed
in before it remember"
j. K. Orr. J. p. Stevens and others
voiced their approval.
On the call for pledges to take
space in the exhibit hall, the follow
ing manufacturers signed up"
J. p. Stevens Manufacturing Com
pany, J. K. Orr Shoe Company, f. E.
Block Company, Atlanta Stove
Works. Foote & Davies Company, L.
e. L. Manufacturing Company, Byrd
Printing Company, Nunually & Nc
Crea Manufacturing Company, A. NJ
Robinson Company, Southern En-
craving Company, Atlanta Paper
Company, Burnett, Bell & 'Klapper
Furniture Company, Van Wrinkle
Motor Truck Company, Norris, Inc,
White Provision Company, Empire
Cotton Oil Company, Mitchell Man
ufacturing Company, Atlanta Gas
Light Company, All-Star Manufac-
turing Company, Southern Spring
Bed Company and the Southern Saw
and Machine Works.