The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-05
GEORGIA CHAMBER
DOING. fine WORK
FIELD SECRETARY SOUTHWICK.
IN CORDELE ENLiSTING SUP
PORT IN LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Eugene Southwick, field secretary
of the Georgia chamber Of commerce,
arrived in the city Monday from an
extended tour through the south-wes-
tern portion of the state in behalf Of
the. organization work of the cham
Der. When interviewed relative to
general plans of the state bureau and
it's reception by the people Mr.. South
wick spoke enthusiastically of the
hearty cooperation received and the
undivided support rendered by the
cities and counties visited.
Said he: "The people of Georgia
are becoming very much alive to state
advertising and are cheeEfully willing
to support a movement tending to give
general publicity t. their resources
and bring to the state desirable home
seekers and investors. Regardless of
the fact that local interests are de-
veloping home markets and other
wise improving their general civic, in
dustrial and agricultural conditions,
yet it is we'll understood that the To-
cal reach and grasp of affairs are not
sufficient to bring the larger results
desired. To fulfill such a need the
local interest must be served by the
cooperative effort and longer reach of
the state chamber Through this I'M
I11jf mr. iC
resented by the officials and exhibit
cars who for period of five years will
represent Georgia through the north
ern portion of the country.
"In order that the people of the
state might have opportunity to OBJ
serve both the resources and the
method of publicity adopted by the
Georgia chamber the exhibit cars were
placed upon he track and are now be-
ing shown in many cities. In order
to favor this section, the cars were eX-
| hibited at Cordele. For two days OPP
| portunity was afforded for the people
of this section to see and learn both
| the methods of procedure and the char
acter of the exhibits. The reception
| to the cars in all sections has been
cordial and the patronage liberal,
while the press has been unstinted in
praise of the effort.
with much larger and more va
| ried exhibit, the cars will leave the
state during the early fall for five
years tour to the north. However be-
fore the departure it is the desire that
| each city and county shall find rep
the state should be equally represent
| ed with an exhibit of its best products
| and thus find both market and an
| introduction to the farmer and inves-
| tor seeking an agricultural home or
business setting. 1t is to this end that
am directed by the president, Chas.
J. Hayden, and secretary-manager, e.
Y. Clark, to secure from each city or
| county the support of such exhibits.
It is found that membership in each
town is the best medium of operation,
for the members at once begin active
effort to place their town or county in
a CONSPICUOUS place in the general pub
licity plan.
| Gust now Florida, one of the best
advertised states in the union, is rails
| ing a campaign fund of 900 to fur
| Their boost that state under the slo
gan "See Florida First" This fact has
awakened new interest in Georgia in
as much as the average homeseeke1
or investor must pass through this
state to reach the soil of the state to
the south. Fifty thousand dollars sub
scribed for publicity purposes in Geor-
gia would pay an enormous dividend
on the investment and raise the state
to the first in the union through the
intensive effort to show the resources
now lying dormant in the soil. That
| this end will be obtained by the state
chamber before the end Of the five
years period is reasonably assumed
and it only waits to be fully verified
by the combined efforts of all the peo-
pie of Georgia"