Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-20
MAKE EVERY DAY A GEORGIA
PRODUCTS DAY.

Tomorrow is Georgia Products Day,
by proclamation of the governor OF
Georgia and by the plan OF the Geor-
gia Chamber of Commerce. 1t is a
most worthy custom and one which
has already done untold good in edu>
eating the people of Georgia, as Well
as the nation, to knowledge and
realization of the wonderful empire OF
food products existing within our
boundaries.
Thanks to the campaign that pro-
duced crop diversitication in Georgia,
we now can say that our state is dis
tinctly self-supporting. This was not
true net SO many years ago, when
nearly every farmer was busy making
his money crop of cotton year after
year, and depending upon the other
section of the country to supply him
with the expensive shipped-in foods he
required, and for which he spent
most OF the money made by growing
cotton. But Georgia is awake-or in
the advanced stages of Weakening.
She is raising foods of all kinds IL
vast quantities and shipping them be-
ycnd her boundaries. That is one of
the blessings of war to Georgia-the
war that has forced Georgia to be self
Supporting.
Georgia products day is celebrated
by the holding of public dinners in all
cities and towns, as well as in rural
districts of the state and this Novem-
Der marks the sixth annual event in
Georgia. It has been urged that as
there is still a great need for conser-
walton that the menus be simple ones
again this year, consisting of fruits,
vegetables, grains, fowls, nuts, etc.
However, Georgia products abundant
ly of all these things, as we'll as pos
sum. rabbit, games, etc, that would
go to make up a meat course for the
occasion
The Georgia products day celebra-
ton for 1917 surpasses even the hopes
of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
and the day was fittingly observed in
all sections of the state, as well as in
New York, where a dinner was held
under auspices of the Georgia Society,
and Detroit, Mich. under the auspices
of the Detroit Board of Commerce,
sponsored by Georgians interested in
seeing their native state develop to the
fullest extent agriculturally.
Georgia. further possibilities for
diPersification are the greatest i'll the
world. Within her borders is grown
practically every variety of fruit and
vegetables. as well as all the more
stable crops, and during the month of
October a Georgia exhibit of meat and
forage crops secured six blue ribbons
and six purple grand champion rib
bons, and a Georgia ham won second
prize of 500, first prize having gone
to Maryland, another southern state.
Too much cannot be said urging our
people to celebrate November q this
year in > fitting way, by holding Geor-
gia products dinners. consisting ex-
clusively of articles grown in Georgia.
Other parts of the nation are look
ing to the South for, the greatest de-
velopment during the years of recon
strnction at hand. The South, with
its open seasons, bountifui annual
rainfall. cheap land, and resources all
but untouched, offers opportunities
| which the outsider. with broader
perspective, can see from afar but
.hieh too often we pass by ourselves.
our sight grown dim by constant see
ing.
More outsiders are going to come in
and Georgia's undeveloped resources
are going to be developed-and that
before many of us expect it. The
South. and Georgia in particular. are
an the eve Of a great era of progress,