Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-06
The Voyage Of the Savannah:
It's IMPORT to Georgia Today
. ATRIOTIC vision and practical sense
alike bid the State Of Georgia give

~ ATRIOTIC vision and practical sense
alike bid the State Of Georgia give
heart-whole response to Savannah's
invitation to join her in concentrating an
event forever to be treasured in the annals
of this Commonwealth and ever mean1ngful
In the story of mankind.
It was little more than century ago, one
momentous morning in May, that a quantity
rugged craft of some four hundred tons Dur
den. fitted both with airy sails and Win
iron paddle-wheels, dropped slowly down the
river of Oglethorpe's shining tradition and:
with destiny at her PROV, put out to sea.
Four weeks later watchers on the coast OF
Britain saw far to the horizon heaVy CLOUDS
of smoke, from which at length emerged the
lines Of a vessel whose like tney never pc
fore had beheld and whose fate they lament
ed supposing her to be afire. Swiftly she
came on. with no flutter of canvass but
smoking like Vulcan himself-as well she
might, for her engines were roaring, not
with coal or oil, but with Georgia pitch pine.
Into the harbor of Liverpool she came, amid
murmurs of establishment and shouts OF well
come. the first steamship that ever crossed
the gusty Atlantic or adVentured the I'M
harvested sea-"
Though many a windy year has blown
since that deed of the gallant SAVANNAH
and her sineWs long since have surrendered
to the wave, she lives in every pulse OF pres
ent-day ocean commerce, she voyages still
with the irnmortals-with the Mayflower,
with the Santa Maria, with Cretan galley and
Viking sail, and all ships brave and beaut1-
full that have pioneered great waters. 10
celebrate this achievement it is that the
Savannah Board of Trade now proposes an
international maritime exposition to be held
at that city in the year 1925 or '26 and,
moreover invites the State of Georgia
Through its Governor and General Assembly
and public press, to sponsor this information
al movement and to memorabilia the Con-
gress of the United States of America to
participate therein and to invite all nations
interested in maritime commerce to lend
their encouragement and support. 1t IS
pointed out that during the century and
more since the SAVANNAH'S epochal voy-
age steam navigation "has brought closer to-
gether all the nations and peoples OF the
earth has wrought fundamental and far
reaching changes in the habits and condl-
lions of living of virtually all of humankind,
has promoted commerce, education, religion,
the arts and sciences, and civilization
wherefore "the initial act, source, and
origin, and the beginning-point of the navi-
cation of the seas by steam should be suit
ably commemorated."
Surely the Commonwealth will respond high
heartedly to suggestion so inspiriting! The
Journal, for one deems it a privilege to serve
In such a cause; and Atlanta may be counted
upon for enthusiastic cooperation. In
launching this enterprise the States mother
city opens way to opportunities the like OF
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which If turned duly to account will mark a
golden cycle in her prosperity and forward
faring. AS the sailing of the SAVANNAH
was an event of world import, SO will it's
adequate celebration be an event of world in
terest, fixing upon Georgia the eyes of all
commencing, all investing, all thinking peo-
ples The tentative plans for the maritime
exposition, as set forth elsewhere in these
columns, show something Of how wide and
distinctive will be it's appeal. Around rep
cd
models of the earliest and specimens of the
latest steamships of all sea-trading nations.
There will be the MAJESTIC, mightiest of
ocean-goers today; there will be craft from
the four winds, both merchantmen and men
OF war, and aboard each display Of the
products of the country represented, together
with delegations of business and civic lead
ers; there will be such swarm Of shipping
as "the river of ten thousand 'masts' never
harbored, such panorama of history and
of life now athrob as no tide Of the seven
seas ever lifted.
That all this will attract multtudes of Wis
itors is not to be doubted-and they will be
visitors to Georgia. Woven into the whole
fabric of the exposition afoat and as well
into that ashore will run the story Of the
Commonwealth-her upbuilding, her re-
sources her industries, her wealth of dis
tinctions and of opportunities nowhere else
to be found. Every county, from the noun
tains to the sea- can show forth it's special
talents in the light of a world event; and
each of them, if it will, can draw throngs Of
worthwhile inquirers to it's own flourishine
vine and fig tree. Much has been said Of
late years, and rightly so, of the importance
of advertising Georgia. Here are the occa
sion and the means unparalleled. Let III
make the most Of them. He was
shrewd philosopher who counseled, "Hitcl
Z YOUR wa gon to star" And assuredly Geor
gians today can serve no enterprise at once
SO high and splendid in its ideal and so ricl
in practical possibilities as the exposition t.
commemorate the SAVANNAH'S historic
voyage.
If the microscopic blood cells of health.
adult were arranged side by side the.
would make a ribbon that would completed.