Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-19
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DAY 4 BIC
SUCCESS
independence Of State Is Graph
icaIIy Shown by the Dinners
Spread in Many Cities.

A great day for Georgia has passed
into history.
Throughout the State merchants.
manufacturers, farmers and profess
sional men awoke Wednesday to a
keener appreciation than ever before
of Georgias wonderful possibilities,
as a result of the Georgia Products
dinners that were served the night
before in rs cities and towns.
Atlanta. as befitted the capital city
and the States metropolis, held the
most splendid and the largest of the
banquets. The dinner was spread in
the spacious Auditorium, in which
the elaborate decorations of the au-
tomobile show had been left at the
request of the dinner committee.
Eleven hundred persons sat down
at the banquet tables heavily loaded
with Georgia's toothsome articles of
food, according to the count of w. H.
White, Jr., chairman of the executive
committee There were represented
the leading business men and the
leading commercial organizations of
the city. At the speakers table sat
the Governor of the State and other
men who have been prominent for
years in the financial, industrial and
social development of the Empire
State of the South.
Truly EpochaI Occasion.
1t was true as remarked by Will
mer L. Moore, president Of the Cham
Der of Commerce, that it was an
epochal occasion 1t was significant
Of Georgia's awakening to her own
powers and possibilities.
By the delicious foodstuffs on the
table and by the exclusively Georgia
made clothing worn by some of the
diners was impressively demonstrate
ed the truth Of the assertion that a
Chinese wall could be erected around
the borders of Georgia. cutting off
communication with all the rest of
the world, and yet Georgias popu-
lation could feed themselves and
clothe themselves with virtually the
same ease that it is accomplished
now with the marts of the nation and
the world open to the South.
1t is doubtful if any other State
in the Union ever established so con-
clusively and so indisputably it's own
/ independence as Georgia did Tues
day night by its banquets in Atlanta
and other cities of the great South
ern Commonwealth.
The idea that Georgia must send to
the West for one commodity, to the
East for another and to the North for
still another was never more effec-
tually crushed to earth. If that idea
ever rises again to infest the minds
of Georgians, the products dinner will
not have taught it's lesson
Banquet Wonderful Affair.
1t was a wonderful affair What
State ever spread such a banquet
from its own products? In what other
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Lady with her own hands make hum
dreds on hundreds of delicious beaten
biscuits. the which were speedily de-
voured by her ravenous subjects?
There will not be another such oc-
casion until the next Georgia Prod
ucts Day, and each is to be more won
derful than the last, and each will en-
force it's lesson more effectively until
Georgia ceases entirely to place any
dependence on any other section of the
country for It's supplies where it more
easily and more economically can sup
ply them itself.
Getting away from the significance
of the great banquet, 1T was a spec
tacular and wholly joyous occasion in
itself Pride kindled the eyes Of the
hundreds Of diners when they march
ed into the vast hall to the strains Of
Dear old Georgia" played by Wede.
meyers Band. A toast and three
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