Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
HASTINGS SAYS GEORGLANS
MUST USE OWN PRODUCTS
President of Georgia Associ-
alton Cites Instances of
H ONE Manufactured
Goods Sold Under Foreign
Label

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eve Georgia people are damning
| Georgia industries by refusing to
| buy their products, even when they
are good as competing products
made outside of Georgia" declar-
ed H. G. Hastings, president of the
Georgia association, in his speech
Wednesday evening at the Made-in-
Georgia dinner held in the chamber
Of Commerce assembly hall.
1.-TWO months ago l made visit
to AShburn in Turner county, to see
the creamery plant. I found that
they had organized the creamery to
enable the farmers to make living
with something besides cotton, which
was hit very hard by the boil wee
| vii in that section.
1.-THE creamery was making about
| 1000 pounds Of butter a day. 1t
was good butter, first rate in every
particular. But to my astonish-
ment they were putting ON it the
| label of a Chicago packing house,
| in order, as they explained, to make
| the butter sell.
| 'I will mention another instance.
| Up at Marietta, our neighboring
city, there is a large chair factory.
! They make good chairs. Yet they
sell more than half their output, so
1 am reliably informed, to a Chicago
mail order house.
1--WE may talk about using Geor-
gia-made goods as much as we
| please, but we've got to use them to
make our conversation worth any
thing. Our merchants are going to
carry in stock what their customers
| want. They are not going to stock
their shelves with goods we pass up.
1--WE cannot prosper unless our
farmers prosper. We have lately
come to realize that fact more keen
ly than ever before. The problem of
our farmers is largely a market
problem-that is, finding a market
| for his crops other than cotton. The
solution of that problem depends on
the women, who do most of the buy
ing"
Other Dinner Speakers
Mr.. Hastings was one of several
speakers at the dinner, and several
other speakers stressed tae same
thought-that Georgians must pat
ronize Georgia industries, from field
to factory, to make Georgia pros
porous.
DIR. David Marx particularly en-
phasi2ed the sar.e thought.
1--WE can have speeches On a .or-
g1a products That are as perfect as
any that could be made said DR..
Marx. But We must nave some
thing more subst: initial than speeches
TO make this Georgia products move
ment an act"a; and tangi9 actor
in Ceergia prosperity. Wa must get
| together. The city must understand
the farmer and his problems; the
| farmer must understand the city
man and his problems. 1t is not
S lf'icient fcr US to advertise Geor-
| gL products ulG talk about them,
and make speeches. about them. We
| must use them, lot for a weak, but
every week. The boil weevil is not
such an unmit;gated curse as we
might suppose, provided we do cur
part in supplying our farnte's with
market for the new crops they aSe
| producing"
Hrs. B. M. Boykin, president Of
the Atlanta Woman's club, sounded
| the same note in her remarks.
| THE Atlanta Woman's club" she
said, sis proud Of the part it played
in getting a city market established.
The market has furnished the farm
ers, for miles in all directions, a
ready cash market for a great guam
! tity of produce. And the market is
now just small beginning compared
| to what it is going to be in the fu-
ture. I would like for every man
here to ask his wife if she is using
| Georgia products, and for every
woman here to ask her grocer if he
is able to supply her with Georgia
| products"
Mayor Key Speaks
Mayor Key in his speech, which
opened the program, laid special
| stress on the necessity for Georgia
people to use Georgia products.
1.-THE farmer will diversity if you
furnish him market for his diver
slfied products" said the mayor.
IF not, he won't. The farmer is
like any other business man. He
won't engage in a line of business
| unless it pays him profit"
The dinner was attended by up
wards of 200 men and women who
| displayed the keenest interest in the
| Made-in-Georgia movement. Mrs.
Norman Sharp, chairman of the
| Made-in-Georgia campaign for the
Fifth congressional district, presided
as toastmistress. A large number
Of ladies connected with the cam
| paign graced the occasion as host
esses. The hall was beautifully dec,
GRATED, and there was most inter
esting display of paintings by Geor-
ga artists, arranged by Mrs. E. w.
Moore.
The speakers besides those men
toned above were Mrs. Newton c.
Wing, chairman of the Made-in-Geor
gIa campaign for the Georgia Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs; Sam Roth
berg, president of the Atlanta Retail
Merchants association; Mrs. Annie
Stewart Flint, who furnished the
! Dixie dainties" for the menu; Mrs.