Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-19
PROD UC I s
DAY A BIC
SUCCESS
of State Is Graph
icaIIy Shown by the Dinners
Spread in Many Cities.

Great day for Georgia has passed
| into history.
Throrghout the State merchants,
manufacturers, farmers and profess
siorsI men awoke Wednesday to a
keener appreciation than ever before
| of Georgias wonderful possibilities,
Is a result Of the Georgia Products
|dfrners that were served the night
|befare in Is cities and towns.
Atlanta as beftted the capital city
and the states metropolis, held the
most splendid and the largest of the
.barnusts The dinner was spread in
B the spacious Auditorium, in which
the elaborate decorations of the au-
i ,0mu1ile show had been left at the
request of the dinner committee.
Eleven hundred persons sat down
In the banquet tables heavily loaded
4 with Georgia's toOthsome articles of
Hood. according to the count of W. II.
White Jr. chairman of the executive
|committee. There were represented
the leading business men and the
BEADING commercial organizations Of
/ the city. At the speakers table sat
&the Governor of the State and other
|men who have been prominent for
ears in the financial, industrial and
&sociaI DEVELOPMENT of the Empire
State of the South.
Truly EpochaI Occasion.
1t was true, as remarked by Will
|ner L. Moore, president of the Cham
lier Of Commerce, that 1t was an
Hpochal occasion. 1t was significant
+ Georgias awakening to her own
bowers and possibilities.
BY the delicious foodstuffs on the
able and by the exclusively Georgia.
nnade clothing worn by some of the
insrs was impressively demonstrat-
the truth of the assertion that
hjnese wall could be erected around
p borders Of Georgia, cutting Off
COMMUNICATION with all the rest of
he world, and yet Georgia's popu-
tuon could feed themselves and
Fothe themselves with virtually the
me ease that it is accomplished
tw with the marts of the nation and
+ world open to the South.
N is doubtful if any other State
the Union ever established so con-
ESre.y and so indisputably it's own
aependence as Georgia did Tues
night by its banquets in Atlanta
ha other cities of the great South
m Commonwealth.
1 The idea that Georgia must send to
II West for one commodity, to the
ast for another and to the North for
dH another was never more effec-
la-ly crushed to earth. If that idea
Ver rises again to infest the minds
Ieorgians, the products dinner will
pot nave taught its lesson.
1 Banquet Wonderful Affair.
1t was a wonderful affair. What
Nae ever spread such banquet
'm ITS own products? In what other
- did ever the gracious First
- with her own hands make hun
'9 hundreds of delicious beaten
L MS the which were speedily de-
ea or her ravenous subjects?
"f.a viii not be another such oc-
"A until the next Georgia Prod
Day and each is to be more Won
." Ialn the last, and each will en-
us lesson more effectively until
ceases entirely to place any
""'.ao0 on any other section of the
.' for It's supplies where it more
'Hi more economically can sup
them itself.
t5 away from the significance
great banquet, it was a spec
-.f at wholly joyous occasion in
Fr.5e kinded the eyes of the
III "I diners when they march
Tie vast hall TO the strains Of
'.a Georgia" played by Wede.
T'S Band A toast and three
.2r the President OF the
states brought forth Amer
"'N lae Instruments of the mu-
. 8emOnstration was saved
a,., When a similar tribute
5'.' 2. the Georgia Governor
Marshall Slaton. As the cheers
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