The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-06-01
A RICH ASSET FOR GEORGIA
STATE PORT A DIRECT SOURCE OF PROGRESSIVE
PROSPERITY TO IT'S People OF ALL CLASSES

The proposed State Port and Term
inal for Georgia is the one project 'ha'
II carried out will be a working agency
for the material welfare of every per
son in Georgia, regardless as to MS
business or occupation.
It's consummation means such .
broadening of the sources OF produc
tive wealth throughout the state tha'
every man, woman and child in Geor
gia will share in the flood Of BENEFITS
accruing.
State built, State owned, State con
trolled, State managed, the State Por'
and Terminal serves no community, Nc
class, no business, trade, or industry
alone. It is the servant of~all, with
out discrimination or favoritism.
-hnongh 1t the farmers and stoch
raisers OF Georgia will be enabled &c
increase their prosperity and assure
their economic independence by the
opportunity 1t will afford them, large
and small, of warehousing and mar
keting their products of every kind al
minimum of cost and a maximum OF
resulting income.
Through it the manufacturers Of
Georgia will be in position to handle
the output of their mills and factories
at q lessened cost and under condi
lions that permit of their disposine
of their commodities to the buyers Of
the world, or of carrying and ship
ping at their own convenience. such
as they cannot otherwise hope to en-
joy.
Through it the merchants Of Geor
gia will find their trade steadily in
creasing. A greater population, with
more varied avenues Of productive
wealth, means a wider diffusion OF
prosperity and an increased demand
for the comforts of life. The whole
sale and retail trade of our State are
absolutely dependent for growth or
the expansion of activities that will en-
sue from the establishment of a mod
ern State Port and Terminal system.
Through it the workiIgmen OF Geor
gia will derive the benefits which
come from enlarged opportunities fol
profitable employment, resulting from
the diversification of agriculture and
of industry and the building up Of
Georgia in population and wealth..
These are not mere idle statements
THEY ARE STATEMENTS BASED
ON THE INDISPUTABLE FACTS
OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS ELSE
WHERE UNDER THE CONDL
TONS THAT GEORGIA NOW PRO
POSES TO CREATE FOR ITS FRO
DUCERS. Given the handling system
the State Port and Terminals is tc
provide, given the opportunities it pre-
sents for warehousing and cold stor
age at the lowest possible cost, given
the aggregating of marketable mer
chandise to bring together the buyers
Of this and other countries, given the
minimum expense of shipping OF
Georgia raised products that comes
with such a modern economically
handled plant, and the results referred
to are inevitable.
The bill to permit the people OF
Georgia to vote upon the question OF
State Port and Terminals might
well be captioned "A Bill to Enable
the Farmers and Other Producers OF
Georgia to Escape from the Disad-
vantages Under Which They Labor
in the Marketing of Their Products
and to Place Them on a New Plane
Of Economic Independence" An ex-
pressed determination on the part OF
the producers Of Georgia to have a
State Port and Terminals. a warehous-
ing, marketing, shipping system owned
and controlled in their interest, Is IN
EFFECT A NEW DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
Placing the farmers and otlser pro-
ducers Of Georgia on this new plane
does not mean placing burden OF
debt on them and others of Georgia.
For selfish personal reasons some may
be antagonizing the idea Of a State
Port and Terminals and seek to Gre
ate that impression from sinister mo-
tiveS. 1t is regrettable that any-no