Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
ALL VIRGINIA
AID. CAMPAIGN
State Chamber of Commerce Advo-
Gates Unified Movement


An all-Virginia advertising CAM
paign in which the business interests
of the entire State would unite to
place the Commonwealth in the fore
front among her sister states, was
the keynote of an address delivered
in Newport News by Major Leroy
Hodges. managing director of the
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce,
speaking at the annual meeting of
the Newport News Chamber of Com
merce. First Virginia." the State
whose history is one of the founda-
ton rocks of the American Repub-
lie, must be placed effectively before
the people of the United States. Once
she has obtained acceptance. local
community and special business adj
vertising will double in effectiveness
and not until she is properly adver-
tised will community advertising
bring the maximum results.
Virginia has more to offer the
word than any other State, Major
Hodges said
Where else" he asked, "can be
found 100000 native-born, forward
looking Americans, with 25,000,000
fertile acres, % Independent and pro-
gressive cities and 100 agriculturally
prosperous counties? Here, within
500 miles of 50,000,000 people, north
of the south and south of the north,
Virginia lies, sea and mountain
bordered. all-year- playground,
reckoning the pleasure seeker. Here
lies Hampton Roads, potentially the
worlds greatest port, Americas
greatest harbor and the logical port
of the middle west. The nations
most valuable coal resources lie in
and adjacent to the great southwest
section of Virginia. The Valley of
/ Virginia has an unequalled beauty
\ the Shenandoah National Park in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
the nations greatest eastern play
ground; and the largest national for
est in the south, are in Virginia
jamestown, Yorktown and Appomat-
tox, the three great, outstanding
events in American history, the
founding of the first permanent Eng
climax of the Revolution and the War
Between the States, are all located in
Virginia.
Goshen Pass, Mountain Lake, the
Natural Bridge, the Dismal Swamp,
the Natural Tunnel, the Peaks of OF
ter, the sand dunes of Cape Henry,
and the caverns of Virginia add to
her scenic wonders.
I'm her streams lie a million poten-
tial horsepower waiting development.
Here is Mount Vernon, home of
Washington; Monticello, home of JEFF
ferson; Arlington, home of Lee.
Americas finest oyster and sea foods
come from the waters of the Chesa-
peake Bay, in Virginia In hundreds
of orchards are grown Americas best
apples. On a thousand blue grass
hills tens of thousands of range-fat-
tened cattle are grown for the world
markets. Millions of dollars of ag-
ricultural truck products go annu-
ally into the markets of the nation
from the farms of the Eastern Shore,
and the Tidewater The best ships,
the best locomotives in the world,
are built in Virginia. Here is made
tobacco products, peanuts, fertilizers,
textiles, paper. shoes and steel prod
! ucts.
Bear. deer and wild game of the
forest and of the fields and marshes
and fresh and salt water game fish.
are all to be had by the sportsman.
Nowhere in the world is there
such combination of opportunities
for agricultural, industrial, and COM
mercial development as in old Vir-
ginia."