Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-18
Georgia Steadily Developing Foreign
Trade Possibilities Into Realities

ready seeking the outlet in Latin Amer
lea that awaits their product.
IL Savannah, Brunswick and st. Marys,
the eyes OF the men who do things have
Deen opened anew to the opportunities
that lie Immediately ahead, and those COM
nunities ais putting their most in
telligent an determined efforts tehind the
movement that is to eliminate in the per-
formance by, those ports of larger func-
On all sides there are to be seen manifes-
tations of this quckening of the old spirit
o. reaching out INTO broader fields that has
been dormant for many long years. Port de-
veopment ship lines that go directly there
and directly back, serious and intelligent
study OF the many problems entering into
the matter and the training of young men
for the service they will be rendering next
year-almost, one might say, tomorrow-as
foreign trade experts-all these things
show that Georgia stands just on the
threshold of developing her foreign trade into
real, substantial, and an important factor
in her industrial life.
These are essential, yet they constitute but
one phase of the matter. Alone, they would
be worthless They are but the machinery
and the process. The raw material that is
to be made into the finished product is yet
to be perceived.
This raw MATERIAL exists and is actual
IN the indlsputable industrial growth that
is going OH in Georgia. 1t has been asserted
by H. G.. Hastings, president of the Georgia
chamber Of commerce, that Georgia's manuS
featured productions have attained propor<
ten! tens Sret.t, tlc1; the. demand of the whole
United States, and that the disposition of thS
surplus Is engaging the attention of men
VINO realized long aga that the question
eventually would ariS' and that the only
anSwcr it would h, foreign trade
Probably one of the greatest factors i'm
thls development of Georgia's manufacturing
interests is the service by several private
companies of cheap industrial power-ol
hydro-electrlc power obtained from the hare
Messing of the Georgia rivers and water.
falls This one thing alone has attracted
TO the state great deal of the capital
that now Is invested In manufacturing, and
mas encouraged the investment in maDufac-
turing of a great deal of home capital that
otherwise might have been invested elses
where or in other lines
OF Other factors, powerful in their influ-
ence toward the creation of this surplua
that now is about, to seek foreign demand.
are climate, the availability Of raw mate-
rial, large and ready supply of native.
born labor of the best type to be found
| anywhere in the country, good railroad fa-
cilities unexcelled anywhere, and the close
proximity Of coal fields for the service
Of those who haven't been able to locate
within reach of hydro electric power.
All these elements, combined with thu
growing appreciation that never in the
states history have there bee nsuch ops
portunities for developing to their fullest
the resources of Georgia and for making
of it a great manufacturing state, backed
by the community's wealth In agriculture
and the almost limitless possibilities of her
further development of that resources all
these things are the components of the
matchless situation to which Georgia has
attained
Today Georgia is a great state, but only
the rudiments of foreign trade are hers
Tomorrow Georgia will be greater state.
The rudments are reaching toward their
fullest growth. Georgia's foreign trade pos
siblities are being developed persistently
and qlCng sane lines into Georgia's foreign
trade realities of tomorrow-New York Com-
mercial.