Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-10
WHY BUY THESE
AWAY FROM HOME?

MILLEN, Ca, Jan. 7.-That the
people Of Georgia are overlooking
their advantages and opportunities
in not living and boarding at home
was brought out forcibly in one Sec
ton of the report of W. r. Critics,
secretary of the Millen and Jenkins
County Chamber of Commerce, made
to that body at it's first meeting
of the new year. What Mr.. Critics
SAYS in regard to Millen is typical
of every town in the state, and IN
fact the entire southland. 1t In a
large measure explains our present
financial depression, it. was pointed
out.
The section of his report referred
to follows:
"Last week made a canvass OF
cur stores IN the desire to learn some
of the things that are holding back
Georgia development. I found stu
alton that to me was appalling, and
one which in large measure ex-
plains the financial situation OF
Georgia today. I give below list
of items found in our stores that
should be purchased in Georgia. and
purchased from Georgians, and this
money kept in our own state. Any
other procedure is fatal to our own
development. Listen to this and see
what we are doing to our own det-
riment. I find that we are buying:
Imported Into Georgia
Peas from Maine and Maryland;
beans from Michigan, New York
and California; sweet corn from
Maine, New York and California; po-
tatoes from Maine; sweet potatoes
from Maryland and New Jersey; to-
mato catsup from New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, New York and Indiana;
pickles, "57 varieties" from Pitts.
burg; peaches from California;; with
a country overlooking with Georgia
cane syrup at anything from rs cents
gallon up, we are paying high
price for corn syrup from New
York; with twenty million surplus
bushels of corn. we are buying grits,
I've honiny, corn meal and corn
starch from iowa, Illinois, Pennsyl
vania and New York; English wal
nuts from California; tomatoes from
California and New York; sauer
kraut from New York; vegetable
soups from Indiana; red beets from
Maine; honey from New York and
California; apple jelly from Missouri
and Maryland; Peanut butter from
New York, peanuts from Virginia;
tobacco from all over the world;
soap from Cincinnati made from our
own cotton seed oils; mules from
Kentucky and Missouri; cereals from
Michigan, Ohio and Illinois; cheese
from Wisconsin and New York; rice
from New Orleans, China and Japan;
brooms from Florida, Alabama and
Ohio; apples from New York, Oregon
and Washington; matches from Ohio
! and Michigan; pimentoes from Spain
and New York; meats, all kinds, from
Chicago and South America; sausage
from Green Bay, Wis; crackers
| from Virginia; gingerale from Wis
| consin and New York; grape juice
from California and New Jersey
vinegar from Virginia; condensed
milk from California and Washing
ton; oysters from Maryland and New
Jersey; hay from the central states
cotton goods from Massachusetts,
Georgia cotton coming back to us
with three or four profits and ex-
orbitant freight rates added over
and above what we receive for il
on a spectators market; wooden
| goods that should be made of wool
| from Georgia raised sheep; furni
ture from Michigan and Pennsylva
MIA, made from southern lumber
| and there are still other items in the
| list.
Think of the economic loss from
| long freights that we are paying on
| these articles that should be pro
duced at home.
Right Here in Georgia
There is not one single item in
this list that could not be produced
in Georgia. We could even go fur.
| ther and include articles of iron
| steel, aluminium, clay, asbestos, mica
| cement, slate, lime and other mineral
products. With the exception OF
| certain distinctly tropical fruits
| drugs, rubber, teas and coffees Geor-
| gia could furnish the entire list OF
our needs. 1 might even go further
and say that / am not sure but
| what we could produce some of the
| drugs and the teas and coffees. We
| could build a wall around our state
and go on living as comfortably as
we are now if we would properly
| develop our natural resources"
Mr.. Critics further made an appea
to the women of Georgia to give
this serious thought in their house
hold purchases. He plead with then
to consider the millions of dollars
of good Georgia money going Out
Of the state annually for goods thai
should be produced right at home.
He further states: 1.-THE farmers
are hungry for markets for things tt
take the place of cotton, and yet
we handicap them and our own prog
ress by buying articles from Other
states that they could produce at g
| profit. Please think what this
means. Let us build up Georgia anG
make it not only the empire state
Of the south in name, but in fact
Our prosperity iss within our own
hands. Let us make the most of it.
| Private Steel Plant