Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-18
BY HUGH NJ. DORSEY
Governor of Georgia

Georgia's foreign trade possibilities are so
far in excess of Georga's foreign trade
realities that in the margin between them
lies much of the impending development of
the state.
Possessed of two ports whose capacity
never yet has been strained, and possessed
also Of of the most magnificent harbors
the Atlantic coast. at st. MaFy's, which
has not even come into the beginning of its
possibilities as a port of entry, Georgia has
the fundamentals of communication upon
which the possibilities of her foreign trade
are to be developed Railroad communica-
tiOn between Savannah and Brunswick at
tidewater, and the whole rich interior of the
state, already is ample for much greater
service than it has yet been called upon to
deliver.
1t is pertinent, therefore, TO consider Geor-
gia's foreign trade possibilities from the
viewpoint Of attaining those possibilities
not through other ports but through those
that Georgia herself possesses; the econ
omy thus being effected of the much longer
and unnecessary freightage of cargoes in
both directions between Georgia, and more
distant parts.
This point is particularly appropriate in
the matter of freight rela tions between Geor-
ia s industries and the buyers of tin Amer
lea, and between Latin American producers
and the consuming popula tion of Georgia. II
has been said that the ma tural foreign trade
field of the entire southeast, the field whose
opportunities are waiting and ready for the
progressive southeasterner to realize, lies in
La tin America.
There can be little doubt of the tsuth of
this. The catastrophe of war in Europe
turned the eyes of Latin America to the
United States and inaugurated in our di-
rection a new tendency on their part to
trade with us.
The conclusion of the war finding pros
trate and exhausted those countries of ELL
rope to which our South American neighbors
formerly had gone for their purchases. this
tendency toward the mutual interchange OF
trade between the two neighborng continents
that in former years have known so little of
each other now is being emphasized more
even than those who foresaw it had da red
to hope.
Encouraging that. tendency, fitting right
t.. with the need for direct communica tion
which will avoid the long haulage by rail
up the Atlantic seahoard to one of the
north Atlantic ports and the long haul,
past the very ports that are hte natural
outlets for his region. the South Atlantic
Maritime Corporation recently was formed,
already is being organized for practical
work, already has received from the United
States Shipping Board the alloca ton of six
ships with the promise of more ter, and
already is Inaugural ting its service be-
tween the ports of the South Atlantic and
those of Latin America.
Numerous other indications are to be
seen fthe new and growing apprecia ton
n the southeas tof the opportunities that
are awaiting the industries of this section
in South America. The Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce, for instance is or
Eanizing a new department for the service
of those manufacturers whose interest calls
them toward Sout hAmerica.
The Atlant ALEXANDER Of Commerce has
lnaugurated a department of foreign trade
which is deyoting itself to the very i'm
"ortant work of training young men in the
theories of this little understood phase of
modern commerce, with the view of fit
foreign trade within the organization of
industries who hereafter may seek or al