The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-02
TELLS HOW STATEPORT
WOULDBENEFIT FARMERS
HEAD OF MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
OF GEORGIA SAYS IT'S MEG
ESSARY TO PROGRESS.
CAN'T AFFORD TO HOLD BACK
Would Provide New Market for
Georgia Products, and Open OPP
portunities for Business Expansion
For Interior Towns and Cities.

GSOl gid EIOuuSlSJ diid open Op-
portunities for Business Expansion
For Interior Towns and Cities.
Establishment, operation, mainte-
nance and development of great port
terminal system on the coast of Geor-
gia is a step as necessary to the fu-
ture progress of the state as any that
can be taken at this time, according
to Gordon Saussy, of Savannah, head
OF the Municipal League of Georgia,
prominent lawyer and publicist.
Hand in hand with the other big
things that are to be done in this state
goes the port development proposal"
Mr.. Saussy declared. This proposed
port expansion is ndissolubly linked
with any progressive program which
is to be carried out in this state at
any time, and this development must
come soon if the ambitions of alert
Georgia citizens for their state are
realized"
Mr. Saussy said the port develop
ment idea is far past the tentative
stage. He pointed out that other
states having ports located on the
Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the
Pacific oceans as we'll as on the Great
Lakes are already grasping their OPP
portunities and that Georgia cannot
afford to hold back any longer
Construction of a great port on the
Georgia seaboard, equipped with all
modern storage wharves, loading and
unloading facilities, warehouses, trans
portation systems with ample docking
space for the biggest ships means
wonderful opportunities for business
expansion for the interior cities of
Georgia as we'll as for the port city
itself, according to Mr.. Saussy.
"In the first place it will provide
Immediately an entirely new market
for Georgia products which is limited
only by the capacity of the state to.
produce agricultural crops and man
ufactured articles. In the second place
such system will bring to Georgia
buyers from all parts of the world and
in the third place it will bring num-
erous additional carrier systems to a
Georgia port which hitherto have
passed by this section of the south"
Mr. Saussy declared that the build
ing of this port system is of vital inn
portance to the future growth of many
of the towns and cities OF interior
Georgia
The law of supply and demand is
an memorable law" he said. IF we
have the supply OF goods and farm
products it is necessary that we find
the demand If the creation of a port
terminal system will add to the de-
mand for our products, provide us
with an outlet TO the great trade ports
of the world and put us in a position
where we can compete with other
ports, then let us by all means create
the port.
Suppose for instance, that a group
of farmers in middle Georgia agree to
raise poultry and eggs. As conditions
are now they have virtually no chance
OF storing such products and must ac-
cept the market prices for their prod
ucts and usually must sell them when
the supply is greatest and the de-
mand is the lghtest. In this one re-
spect a port system with ample stor-
age facilities would enable this group
of farmers to store their products,
keep them in perfect condition until
market prices reached fair and
equitable point when they could be
sold Applying this idea to the whole
of interior Georgia it readily can be
seen that this is a plain dollar and
cent proposition and one that cannot
be overlooked if we expect to make
the further business progress we all
desire to see come.
Such a port would in itself become
a market for all lines OF business, in
dustrial and agricultural activity and
its effects would be to multiply many
times the trade now enjoyed by Geor-
gia. Trade is the vital blood OF ex-
pansion and progress and without IT
any community naturally lapses INTO
stagnation We can do nothing great
er for Georgia in this generation than
to make possible the building of this
great port terminal system which IS
so necessary to such commonwealth
as Georgia. Kansas, Nebraska, Ken
lucky. Oklahoma, the Dakotas West
Virginia and numerous other states
have no seacoast and are compelled
TO utilize their rivers and railroads TO
get their products to the great ports
on the coast Georgia has ports OF
limitless potentialities These ports
are strategica1ly located in relation to
the great markets of the world. Geor
gia has before her very foot oppor
tunities which must be grasped and
which must be grasped in the next
lew years if the state is to continue
to progress and is not to suffer tate
OF stagnation and decay. 1t is the zero
hour now for Georgia and it is ques-
ton of now or never if the unlimited
benefits of port development are to
be realized. The surprising thing about
the situation IS that this port has not
been built long years before this.
There is always a lot of talk heard
about doing something for the farm
er, but much of the talk is unsound
and the farmer knows it. Here IS
something that is going to bring GUS
TONERS for the farmers goods, and
that is what the farmer wants. The
farmer is doing his best in Georgia
and if vie give customers chance to
get his goods the farmer viii be able
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