Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-05

w IlTHlN the next Few "eehs tnoie Will 10
M given to all Georgians an opportun-
w ity to advertise Georgia in way
that will win for the State the admiration
and high regard of the nation. AT the same
time thew will have the chance to benefit
themselves and particularly the Georgia OF
the future to an incaluculable degree.
Announcement is made today Of the details
of the campaign to raise Atlanta's quota OF
the five million-dollar fund for Greater
GeorgAC Tech and Greater Industrial Geor-
gia.
The campaign begins in Atlanta April IS.
#. by its close the word can go forth that
the people Of Atlanta have given million
and a half dollars to the cause OF education,
20 build in Atlanta an institution OF engl-
neering that shall be second to none on earth,
nothing more effective could occur to coun-
teract unfavorable Impressions spread broad
cast within the last few months. II, at the
same time, 1t is known that the State OF Geor-
sia and other friends OF Georgia Tech have
matched that splendid sum with an equally
great contribution, the State will boast
prestige that will rebound to its lasting credit.
We're this alone the object Of the Greater
Tech movement, it should be sufficient to
enlist the interest and unstinted financial
support of every Georgian. Yet this effect of
he victory-sure and forceful though it
would be-is but an infinitesimal item Of
The greater issues at stake.
Not simply Tech, but the futures of thou
sands of young men Of the South, the very
industrial future Of Georgia ITSELF stands or
falls in this campaign. Consider for one
moment the crying need for an expanded
Georgia Tech, let alone the vista Of develop
ment and progress it opens up.
Here Is an institution built to accommodate
less than thousand students and struggling
against heavy odds to give an education de-
manded by nearly three thousand earnest,
ambitious young men Of the type to form the
sinews, the backbone and the brains of an
empire. Should it continue another year
under it's present heavy handicaps, it Is in
evtable that thousands more will be turned
away-denied the career their splendid spirit
urges them to; sent, some of them, to other
parts of the country, their gain as it will be
he South's loss; sent, more Of them,
alas! back to the farms, the streets, the
stores, halted abruptly at the very outset of
their forward march. And why? Because
Georgia refuses few millions to educate it's
sons where it is spending many millions to
breed its cattle and it's hogs, to amuse it's
people, to pave it's roads? Surely not! For
no one of these. important though they be,
should take precedence over the paramount
duty of our people to give their youth
chance in life. Nor is it eXaggefation, but
solemn truth that, with the present meager
facilities, that chance is refused to thousands.
These young men, be it never forgotten,
make or break Georgia and the South tomor-
row. On what they become, the ideals they
in large measure, the prosperity, the happi-
ness. the position Of our children and our
childrens children. When we fail them we
are falling ourselves; when we thrust them
forward, we and all we hold most dear go
with them. To shirk the responsibility. to
lodge ones share in the movement is to hurt
not them alone, but to injure ones self.
There is less altruistic side to the Greater
Tech movement that is nevertheless of prime
consideration, especially for the practical
business man. He knows, If he has studied
even cursorily the business development of
America, that it has been builded in large
part on its technical universities and their
graduates. Illustrations without number
could be pointed out in the North and East
Of great industries developed through the re-
search laboratories of technical institutions.
and more especially through the men trained
there as skilled executives who have gone
forth and given their knowledge to the profit
OF their employer and their community.
Through such assistance have Che Pennsylva-
MIA steel mills waxed mighty the textile mills
OF Massachusetts and other New England
States, the power projects Of New York, the
great automobile factories Of the Middle
West. They have had fruitful field to draw
on where the South has been less fortunate
May not Georgia Tech. plant producing in
dustry's greatest asset-trained men enough
tor all-mean equally as much to the South?
1t will If the men and women, the indus
tries Of Georgia, answer now this truly
clarion call to their patriotism their loyalty
their obligation to the South's young man
hood, their interest In their section. their
interest even in themselves. No movement
more all embracing in it's appeal. more over
whelmingly worthy Of unanimous public sup
port, has ever been launched in the State.
Let Georgians rally to it's support with an
enthusiasm and generosity to achieve for
it a speedy and complete success.