Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-03-30
EDITORIAL
MADE.lN.GEoRGIA WEEK.

THE opening gun Of campaign
formulated by leading women OF
Georgia, is being fired today IN
Moultrie. This is a campaign to
which the Times-R Recorder will hearth
ly lend its approval and aid, much as
it has been calloused to campaigns
and drives in general. The campaign
being launced today is a movement to
awaken Georgia people to the inn
portance to themselves and their
state of using Georgia-made pro-
ducts. To day the program is being
outlined before the Second district
meeting of the State Federation of
Women's clubs by Mrs. j. E. Hays,
of Montezuma, state president, and
Mrs. Newton C. Wing, of Atlanta,
state chairman of the Georgia pro-
ducts committee.
By special proclamation of Cover
nor Hardwick issued at the re-
quest of the state federation, the
week Of May 1929 has been set apart
and designated "Made-in- Georgia
Week" Appeal is made by the gov
ernor to all the people of the state,
producers and consumers, farmers
and manufacturers, merchants and
bankers-ev everybody in Georgia
during that week, to buy Georgia pro-
ducts, use Georgia products, study
Georgia products, think Georgia pro-
ducts, to the end that the annual
stream of gold approximating $780,
100000, now flowing to other states
to buy food and manufactured ar
ticles that could be grown and made
more economically at home, shall b.
turned back to stimulate production
and increase manufactures in Geor-
gia.
Supplementing his official procla-
nation Governor Hardwick' said
"Capital that climbs high into the
millions that could be profitably and
economically utilized to build and de-
velop factories to convert our raw
materials into available form for
Georgia consumers, as being expend-
ed annually in freight charges,
which the ultimate consumer pays,
and which represents a dead eco
nomic loss to the permanent wealth
Of the state. This huge loss to Geor-
gia from year to year must be
checked.
at is most fitting that the wo-
men of Georgia should assume the
chief burden of Analysing this ire
mendously important economic ques-
ton and of finding the answer for
themselves and for the people of the
state. For the women do the
shopping: they do ninety per cent of
the buying.
II shall bring every resource at
my command to aid the women of
Georgia in making the observance
and celebration Of this week of such
impressive character as will bring
producer, manufacturer, and consum-
err into honest cooperative study, one
with the other, of this great question,
so that there may be founded upon
the solid basis Of truth and fact, the
beginning Of real and ever-grow-
ing interest on the part of all Geor-
gians to buy and use Georgia pro
ducts"
"This is the first time this thing
has been taken up from the consum,
ers' standpoint" said Mrs. Wing
"We are entering upon this cam
paign, not as a flash-in the pan idea
to be dropped at it's close but are
taking up a study with producers and
manufacturers that may be solved to
the advantage of US all.
eve are approaching this big prob
lem with a question mark at every
step, and these are some of the ques-
tons:
+What are we not buying at
home?" Is it quantity production
we need in order to make assemb-
ling and standardizing and packing
and transportation cheap enough in
comparison with similar charges on
commodities raised elsewhere, to
force Georgia manufacturers of
Georgia grown commodities on the
market strictly on their merits,
Z strictly on economic grounds.
SIS it cooperative producers or