The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-10-01
A eEORe|AN'S VIEW
Of CALIFORNIA PEP
Georgia has all the Advantage in
Comparison with California but
it fails to Advertise the Facts
to the World.
By J. X. Simmons.

,PreSSS Association and editor of the
ITefair Enterprise, who is spending
several weeks in California as the
representative of the Advertise Geor-
gia Enterprise. He has found that
California has absolutely no natural
advantage, but she has built herself
up out of arid sandhills- and ad-
vertised
TO the Newspapers of Georgia:
Sacramento, Calf, Sept.-In a
previous letter told you of having
come nearly 5000 miles to California
to study her manner and method of
development and tell it the people of
Georgia through the Georgia news
papers, in order that Georgia might
become as we'll known as California.
Youwill remember l told you in the
opening paragraph that the story
could be told in one word-ADVER-
TISING.
/ have now been in the state about
three weeks, and l am more firmly
convinced than ever that my first es-
innate is correct have been pretty
we'll over the state, and | can't help
but think what a wonder-state Geor-
gia would be if she were to put forth
the same effort that these California
people put forth. For, you must re-
member California is a sand desert
until articifcial moisture is secured.
Irrigation is the only way they can
raise anything out here.
Georgia farmers have no obstacles
to overcome. All they have to do is
to put fence around their acres, do
little preliminary clearing up and go
to work. No bother about water.
Nature provideds that The Californ-
ian will tell you, with water every
thing is possible in California. With
out it, nothing is possible.
1t was my first intention to draw
comparison of Georgia and California
but there is no comparison. Georgia
is too far ahead in her natural re-
sources. There is only one thing that
Californians have that we haven't
and that is her climate. And come
to think of it, was talking with a
young man a few days ago who is
not a native of this state. When
asked what he thought of California,
he replied very promptly that cit was
all right, except the blooming climate
is too monotonous."
intelligent statistics on the tempera
ture of the state, because it varies so
widely in different parts of the state.
But / take some data gathered in Los
Angles. the most favored part of the
state from climatic standpoint. l
learn that it occasionally freezes that
far south, and that the thermometer
some times goes over 100, so, it will
be seen that they DO have hot and
cold weather out here sometimes.
But, as l have already said, we are
not going to try to compete with Cali
fornia. What Georgia must do is to
wake up and take advantage of the
wonderful natural opportunities that
confront US. WE HAVE FIRST
GOT TO SELL GEORGIA TO GEOR-
GA PEOPLE, and then the selling to
outsider will be the easiest thing in
the world, just as it is for the Cali
fornia people to sell California to
outsiders.
| have been much encouraged by
talks with some of the large farmers
and truck growers out here. So long
as | talked with chamber of COM
naerce representatives and land de-
velopment agencies, / got only the
most glowing accounts of successes,
but when l finally decided to seek
out the "sons of toll l then began
to get down to rock bottom and get
the unromantic side of California
life. And l found these farmers to
be about as interested in Georgia as
we have been interested in Califor-
MIA. They all, without exception,
tell me that a Georgia farmer on his
Georgia can make as much or more,
on his peaches, watermelons, canta-
loupes, cane, potatoes, peanuts and
live stock, as the California man
does on his acre. True, we can't
raise oranges and lemons and other
such like crops, but we don't have
to. The California people them
selves admit that California peach
will not compare with Georgia
peach, sand when | mentioned Geor-
gia watermelons to a man here few
days ago, his face lighted up and he
told of having once been in Georgia
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