Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
SLATON URGES
STATE EXHIBIT
At CANAL FAIR
Wants Commercial Bodies to
Unite to Show World Geor-
gas Matchless Resources.
BY JAMES 3. NEYIN.

BY JAMES 3. NEVIN.
VIII Georgia have an exhibit at
the Panama Exposition in San Fran
cisco in 1915?
viii Georgia have building that
will do her credit, that visitors to the
big show may inspect the many ex-
hibits this State may set up therein.
to her own future greatness and
glory?
Surely, if the Panama Canal is of
Importance to any people or, any
community, it is Of the highest and
most far-reaching Importance to the
South!
II it is of importance to the South.
it is, of course, of supreme impor-
lance to Georgia
Governor Slaton announces in ad-
vance his entire and hearty sympa
thy with any sensible and construc-
tive work inaugurated with a view
TO Georgia's proper representation
in San Francisco in 1915.
Governor Urges an Exhibit.
ut will never do" said the Cover
nor, discussing this matter Saturday.
for Georgia not to have a building
of her own, filled with her natchless
products, agricultural and otherwise!
Il hope the public may be awak-
ened to the vast importance of this
matter. 1 stand ready and willing to
cooperate to the limit of my person.
al and official authority and inf1u-
encel"
Charles ]. Haden, president of the
recently organized State Chamber of
Commerce, feels the same way about
it.
Il propose to make this matter of a
State exhibit at San Francisco an
object of my best endeavor," said Mr..
riaden.
II hope to interest the State Cham
Der in it and through the State
Chamber every county in the State.
Georgia has tremendous inter-
est in the Panama Canal. Its open
ing likely will add millions to the
wealth of the South. Georgia must
he on hand in San Francisco to let
the glorious truth concerning herself
be known of all men!"
Governor Describes Products.
Georgia no longer Is an agricultural
State only. She is the largest State
in area East of the Mississippi River,
and she stood fourth in agricultural
products in the Union in 1911. Illi-
nois stood first. Her manufacturing
enterprises have multiplied amazing
ly within the past twenty years, and
still there are thousands who think
and think rightly-that Georgia as
a manufacturing State yet is very
much in her infancy
On Georgia soil may be grown any
thing and everything without one i'm
portant exception, that may be grown
anywhere in the Union.
CoVarpor SIaton commenting uDOn
Georgia and Georgia products, and
the San Francisco Exposition, said:
Georgia factories supply overalls
TO workmen in Panama; her marble
quarries furnish material for mag
nificent buildings everywhere, not
ably for the new Capitol of Minnesota
and not long before that for hand
some public building in Philadelphia;
she has the only solid mountain OF
magnificent granite in the whole
world.
Sounds Praise Of Atlanta.
Georgia kaloin mines supply
crockery manufactures everywhere,
and of a quality unsurpassed; her
cotton is a tremendous factor in pre-
serving the balance of trade of the
world; her agricultural resources are
Incompatible; in Georgia Is located
the second largest mule market in
the world; her capital city is the
pride of her citizens and the greatest
city in the South!
There Is now going on in Barlow
County a splendid county fair. There
will be dozens of them held in Geor-
gia this fall. The little Barlow fair,
relatively small and inconsequential
beside a worlds exposition, such as
the one in San Francisco will be,
still would make, within itself, cred
table show at the big fair.
From the dozens of county fairs
to be held in Georgia, think what a
magnificent exhibit could be framed
up for San Francisco in 1915.
But this Georgia exhibit must be
assembled through the efforts of citi-
zens individually, and through trades
and commercial bodies. Georgia's
Constitution prohibits Georgia from
making direct appropriations to ex-
hibits such as this must be. II the
State Chamber of Commerce will in
terest the counties and the local
trades bodies in Georgia, arouse our
citizens to a realization of the great
Importance of this work, then there
will be no difficulty in the way.
Thinks $4,000 Enough.
81 do not know, but l should say
that a creditable and effective show
ing might be made with $4,000
If trades bodies generally will back
the movement Georgia might exhibit
her agricultural department as part
of the exhibit at San Francisco. That
Is a problem that necessarily must be
worked out. / hope the movement
will be put in motion properly.
There is now a State commission
having this. matter in hand, author
ICED by the Legislature. | take 1t
the Legislature meant business when
1t authorized this commission. 1t Is
made up of good men and true-ap-
pointed by Governor Brown.
"If citizens, through their various
organizations will arouse themselves
and get things going, l presume this
Legislative commission will be ready
to make such recommendations 10
the Legislature eventually as seem
fit and proper and warranted in law
IN the meantime, let's all think
about the big show soon to be opened
in honor of the completion or the
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