The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-04-20
made in Georgia" Week
lFrom dc Georgla. Magazinel

! (FfOm the georgia MagaZlne)
trip through the State of Georgia undertal
by members of the Georgia Association it was ouia
common subject of conversation that, although we Co.
gians progressing in it very STRANGE
to find that really cheaper to paint than not 70
What by this is that, coat of paint everv fer
years will preserve and protect oubudings barns and
implements for indefinite number of years while once
rot and decay start, it the life of the article or
building is not to beof very long duration
Thevarious manufacturers interested in the manufa
tureof paints adopted slogan year or two 400
'Save The Surface and You Save ALL" and we can on
precate quite well the moral of this slogan after we have
the condition of of the dwellings and farms IN
Georgia. The expenditure of few dollars these build
ngs few years would have saved them from their
present dapidated appearance Then up to the ci+
of each community to take personal pride in tho
appearance of their One almost tell the snr
and possibilities of each town that visited on tb
trip from the number of buildings that painted and
the way in which the gardens and streets kept
Paint might be compared somewhat to the automobile
in much at time the automobile was considered
luxury but every has his Ford these days. and it
should be the way with paint, for it is assuredIv
necessity and economy and not luxury We might
say that while Ford is time saver, paint defes time
When consider the cost of lumber and other buldno
materials to-day, it surely is duty to protect and
preserve them at small cost by the application Of
little paint
The writer recently saw fine old colonial home in
Georgia. that had been given coat of paint 10 years
previously and the surface condition of the house was
still good Now easily appreciate and agree that
this would not have been the if the Surface had
not been saved" by coat of good paint We are not
advertising recommending any particular brand of
paint but Uncle SAM by the aid of test fences through
out the country has demonstrated what constitutes
paint and there is for any of our citizens in
Georgia being stung" by purchasing whitewash in can
disguised by fancy label the outside of the can
Then again many of the States have Pure Paint Laws
We believe there is paint being sold in Georgia
than before the situation is encouraging to say
the least Why is his Well it must be due to the fact
that people reize that paint is economy and we
war; Then again the automobile traffic all over the
country and especially in South Georgia. increasing
from year to year. Do want Northern visitors
going to Florida to back and tell their friends that
we do not to understand the value of paint
and that we ignorant that do realize its
economy We surely do not and the farmers, sure
are gradually putting their places better shape making
them sanitary and beauty spot the roadside instead
of an have travelled in most of the Southern
States and have always noticed that the towns that do
not use paint literally the that have the most
epdemlcs, and this is also proof that paint sanitary
measure against diseases. Then again have been
told that It pays advertise and we do not know any,
thing else that will advertise any community or ndvid-
ual more as being progressive than new coat of pro,
tectve sanitary paint, where needed.
| We have all heard about the annual Cleanup and
Flht-up campaigns that are held throughout the
try during the Did your town or city have one in
l92l II not not progressive we hate to admit
that Georgia is not keeping up with her neghbors We
know that our fair state has everything necessary in
way Oh natural resources but friends from other
prosperity and progressiveness by having an annual
cleanup and Paint-Up Campaign. Some Of the towns
IN our State, we must shamefuly admit look as if they
needed good family wash day. If your town is guilty
et US try and remedy this in 1922, for paint is cheap
and II you cannot afford to paint for the love of all
that decent and clean, whitewash and do not let
visitors see our unceanlness God has always been
most liberal to Georgia in the annual amount of sunshine
that we enjoy but let do duty and assist with
niue paint which next to sunshine is the worlds great
est cheer producer and health conserver
recall reading somewhere the following which I
think is worth quoting:
Weather and Sun, Time and Weather
once went on ont spree together,
Made farmers buildings gray and old
| Then Weather said to Time "behodp'
smell something that smells like paint
Let's go before it makes me faint
80 they pulled up stakes and went awav-
scared by can of paint, they say
lie us use more paint if we want to helm and aid ma.
lure IN making Georgia the progressive and fairest
state IN the Union, but this advice not applicable to
~ ""cS ana daughters for they need no artificial aid
| % improve their beauty and appearance