Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
BETTER MARKET CAMPAIGN
GETS STATEWIDE APPROVAL
BY RALPH SMITH

try Bankers Association of Georgia
has aroused widespread interest, and
directed attention to one of the big
gest and most complex questions
that is today vexing leadersK in ev-
cry line of industry in the state.
Upon the satisfactory solution of
the problem OF better markets, it is
agreed, depends very largely the hap
piness and material prosperity of
people in every walk of life. Facili-
ties for marketing the diversified
products of the farm are no less es-
sential to the development of Geor-
gia than was the invention of the
cotton gin to the development of the
cotton growing to it's present magni-
tude,
SO thoroughly recognized is the
importance of the marketing prob
lem to the state of Georgia that the
question is today and has been for
some time the subject of individual
study and investigation by many
leading influences.
The state itself, through the state
college of agriculture at Athens,
headed by DR.. A. NJ. Soule, and a
corps of efficient experts, and the
state bureau of markets, headed
by Lem B. Jackson, and a staff
of able assistants, has cen wrest-
ling with the problem of markets
month after month, and year after
year.
These agencies have made prog
ress, but their leaders recognize the
opportunity for still further progress.
and the campaign started by the
Country Bankers and The Atlanta
journal appeals to them as move.
ment designed and calculated to pro-
mote a solution of the marketing
problem in Georgia
Il congratulate you upon the under-
taxing you have in hand" reads n
letter written by DR.. Soule, upon
learning of the better marketing
campaign. II am sure you will he
able to elucidate much useful infor-
nation relative to the acceptable mar
ketlng Of our principal farm crons
ana place 1t before the public in
Sucn happy and effective manner
as to aid materially in promoting the
campaign of education which must
or Necessity be associated with anv
successful statewide marketing
movement"
Market Bureau Assisting
Mr.. Jackson, as head of the state
market bureau. has supplied The
journal with the files of the market
bulletin, which is published by the
state department of agriculture az a
means of helping the farmers han
die their problem Of marketing. The
bureau stands ready to cooperate in
helping the campaign of The Journal
and the Country Bankers.
Robert F. Maddox, president OF ths
Atlanta National bank, which insti-
tuition has conducted an advertising
campaign designed to arouse an in
terest in the marketing problem, Sat-
urday morning expressed his pleas
ure at the campaign started by The
Journal and the Country Bankers as
ISOLATION.
Il was very glad to read of the
movement started by the Country
Bankers association and The Jour
nal to bring to the attention Of the
people the Importance of co-operat-
ing in the development of some
practicable means to facilitate the
marketing of crops other than cot
ton," wrote Mr.. Maddox.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Maddox re-
marks he addressed a letter to
bankers throughout the state upon
the subject of marketing, enclosing
questionable designed to obtain an
abundance Of information relating to
crops other than cotton and the
means being used in the various To-
calities for marketing these products.
The Southern Bell Telephone and
ter marketing campaign. and through
its officials expressed a desire to CO.
operate in every way possible with
It's purposes. The Bell company has
heretofore and Is continuing to mani
fest an unflagging interest in the de-
velopment of better markets for the
products Of the Georgia farms.
Plan Commended
J. r. Smith, prominent Atlanta real
estate man and capitalist, Saturday
morning vol2ed his communication of
the campaign not only to the farmers
of the state. but to every line es-
business development. Mr.. Smith es-
pecially called attention Of the arm
ers to the importance of improving
the present opportunity for sewing
winter wheat.
NJ H. ABBOTT. secretary Of the
much time and thought to the mar
keting problem. commended Tho
Journal Bankers campaign as splen-
did enterprise.
1T is one of the most important
movements that could have been un-
association and The Journal" said
Mr.. Abbott. TT is an enterprise
that should receive encouragement
from every class Of our citizenship
and from every section Of the state.
It offers splendid opportunity for edu-
cational wo~k that will bear fruit in
the years to come"
The campaign will get under way
in earnest beginning Monday. Rep
resentatives or the Country Bankers
association and The Journal have
been In conference throughout the
week. studying the marketing prob
lem as 1t relates to different sections
and a variety of ommodities.
Within the next month, it Is the
purpose Of the writer to visit hun
dred or more cities and towns in
every section of the state, and to
study for the purpose of publication
every angle of the problems involved
the marketing of the various prod
ucts of the farms.