Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-09
The South Will Owe Much
to the Panama Canal
Therefore the South Should Overlook Golden Oppo
tuny Bring Marvellous Possibilities to the Attention
of the World at the Francisco Exposition in 1915

AS wonderful the material progress of the
of Civil record Of supreme
prosperity is yet be written.
From prostraon poverty and the awful aftermath Of
reconstruction the South has joueyed far but the journey
has led only to the borderand of the South ultimate
Presently the opening of the Panama canal will be
pishd the worlds business adjusted itself
that remarkable achievement the South Will be found perhaps
its greatest beneficiary.
Today, Southern half the
they grow. Five years after the opened the
South will ali of its crop 1t will ship that
manufactured crop all the world and the shipping will
routed through the Souths ports.
With the pending development of the Souths great
waysor it nconcvabe that Democratic administration
in Washington will hesitate give the everfaithfu South all
the helping hand she needs in that pecthe South with the
Panama canal at her door, will have advantage in freight
rates and qucness of ransportao that be arreachng
and tremendously satisfactory in result
And the manufacture of taken more and
surely by the triumphant South will the manufacturing
of all her other products apace and play its part
ing the South the richest land and the happs land under
For fifty years South like an ambitious athlete has
been in tranng-vng frugay denying herself much keep
ing regular hours both work and play and cuvatng op
mism-for the great battle ahead.
Anticipating the day when the United States should
its unquesioned place world power the
to take that measure of commercial and material leadership that
eventually must be conceded to her.
The South should emphasize its understanding appreca
ton of the opening of the canal by making itself great
in the forthcoming Panama exposition in Francisco will
overlook important point if neglects to play COM
handing part in that International show
The South should impress there that visitors not
only from abroad but from home inevitably will the ex
position mindful above all thin of paramount importance
of Georgia Alabama Mississippi and South Carolina
Louisiana Florida Texas and all the Southern to the
worlds enterprise and its significance opening of the
Panama canal,
The exposition is short years ahead Whatever is done
there must be delay Whatever has been started must be
pushed trelessly and with ever increasing energy.
Is The SOutha Ike To the r+1nitv
exposition in California; If So it may stretched its
limbs yeti not have shaken off entirely sweetness Of
passing sleep 1t may be indeed tempted, in this
and snatch another little nap security of on
ion that there remains still plenty of time do the thing con
templates!
The South be in magnificent and completed presence at
the Panama exposition in San Francisco.
That exposition much to the South may be that
it to Dixie than to any other section
For every thousand the South there way of exhb
it's confidently upon return in early
years. and mllionfod return time runs on
Let the South reign supreme in Francisco in 1885,