Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-18
Georq;a S Industrial Tour

"HE industrial tour of the North and
East for which one hundred and
fifty representative Georgians are
to leave Atlanta Wednesday is rich in
promise both of constructive results for
the Commonwealth and of a deepening of
cordial relations between the South and
the regions to be visited. 1t is peculiarly
fitting that such an enterprise should be
conducted under the auspices OF the move
ment for ga Greater Georgia Tech and a
Greater Industrial Georgia" The upbulld-
ing of that institution and the develop
ment of the States material resources are
as intimately related as a dynamo and
the machinery which it drives to produc-
tive ends. From the Tech come the engi-
neering power and skill, the trained mus
cles and the trained minds that can trans
form the crude treasure of stream and
forest and mine and soil into the vastly
heightened wealth of manufactures.
While Georgia has made remarkable
progress in this respect, it is clear to even
casual observer that she has but blaZed
the first pioneer paths of the industrial
empire that is hers for the working. 1t is
we'll therefore that a company of leading
citizens, especially devoted to the idea of
increasing the capacity and serviceableness
of her far-famed archaeological institution,
should go upon a tour of the great manu-
featuring centers of the North and East,
to study their methods in the light of
Georgia's needs and resources. Among the
points to be visited are Cincinnati, Pitts
burgh, New York, Niagara Falls and Bos-
ton, all noted for their wealth of manu-
featuring interests and all waiting with a
hearty welcome.
In the last mentioned city is the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, which
has done for that State and, largely for
New England, what the Georgia Tech, if
adequately financed, is eminently capable
of doing for this Commonwealth and for
tha
dustrial development of our region had be-
gun, there was a national meeting at
which a spokesman for each of the States
was called upon to tell of it's special ad-
vantages. When it came the turn of Mas
sachusetts, as the Manufacturers Record
relates, her representative said: 81 have
listened to the story of the natural adj
vantages of the Pacific Coast, of the West
and of the South, but I am compelled to
tell you that Massachusetts has none of
them. We have a rugged soil, we pro-
duce comparatively little of what we eat
and nothing of what we turn into manu-
featured products We have, however, taken
the cotton and the coal and the iron and
the timber of the South, we have drawn
upon the West for our food supply, upon
California for the products of it's soil, and
based on this wholly artificial foundation
we have created an industrial development
the output of which far exceeds the total
manufactured product of the entire South
We have utilized our brain power and our
energy, and, having no natural advantages
we have made them do our wokr"
Brain power and energy! They are the
open sesames to the vast treasure which
nature has stored in Georgia. They are
the magical touches that transfgure crude
materials into the riches of loom and
forge. They are the incalculable assets
which the Georgia Tech turns forth. They
are the motive and the end of the pres
ent industrial tour.