Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1925-09-24
BARRETT WELCOMES FLA.
EXPANSION AS CERTAIN
TO DEVELOP GEORGIA
Georgia Will Get More Than the
''Besk Wash," Says President Of
the -Earmers-' Union.

Georg1a Will get not only tne
back wash from Florida's great
movement, but more," says Charles
S. Barrett, president of the National
Farmers Union, in an interview fol
The Week.
"Our world of today is filled with
PEOPLE who are thinking more of liv-
ing than we used to. The CONNER
cial and busines side of life used to
be mans first consideration. Today
we are turing more to health, COM
forts, beauty and those things which
make life enjoyable to US.
"The great influx Of people into
Florida at this time illustrates better
than anything else can the turning
of our first thought to living
don't know that Florida is in real
danger of being overpeopled because
an almost unprecedented tide of hui
manity has turned that way, but ]
do know the rush to Florida is be-
cause of the human desire to have
comforts, to see the beauties of ma
t ure, to enjoy health and happiness
in Gods sunshine. Ad yet, Georgia
has all Florida can possibly offer a
comfort-seeking humanity, and more.
Indeed, there is but one Georgia in
all this great universe. No oen Of the
great Wesstates can claim the one
ness Georgia can; everyone of them
has a duplicate somewhere. Florida
~ not alone, in all its wonders.
eff there was one-half the human
excitement about Georgia there is
about FLORIDA this state wouldn't
have a vacant acre, not a vacant lot
or farm.
"Florida is a semi-tropical coun-
try, and the same semi-tropical seem
cry found in Florida is to be found in
Georgia. Down in Florida they fig
ure that the real Florida starts about
Orlando ond runs down to the end
of the peninsular. They do not
count from Orlando up their 'Flori.
da.' That upper part of the state
is, in a way, rather looked upon as
an extension of Georgia. The great
development; the grand rush for mil
lion-dollar homes; for water. 'front.'
age estates and all that kind of thing
is below Orlando.
Georgia has more of what those
people aretrying to find in all as they
do in Florida; in North Georgia are
grown the apples Florida can't grow,
and in all the intervening space be-
tween the orangse and the apples
Georgia grows everything else.
81 do not believe there is ever
coming any big break in Florida.
Florida as it is today is there to stay.
Hundreds of millions are being in
vested in improvements, in develop
ments, and that investment makes
sure there is no danger of any going
backward. The investment itself
sets up the necessity that Florida of
today and tomorrow stick. They have
their great highways, people are build
ing costly homes, wonderful groves
are bing cultivated, and those things
can't be taken away. They have
got to stayl there for somebody, and
somebody has got to have and to
keep them. There may be a pause or
a halt may be called by some cir
cumstance, but Florida developed is
a supremacy.
'It Is not going to be because the
state esecomes overpeopled that Geor-
gia viii catch the back wash Oh,
of course, some people kho go dcwr
there and don't find just waht they
want for what they want are going
to turn back and settle down else
where, but the consideration which
will bring most people here is diff
ferent. It is because what Georgia
has to offer seeking humanity is bet
ter and there is more of it.
81 have ben into every state in
the United States, and into every
part of every state. have travelled
in my capacitya little more than a
million, six hundred thousand miles
in this country of ours, and in my
travels have had occasion to make a
minute study of every state.I have
been in. No other state in al these
United States has everything for the
comfort and happiness of mankind like
Georgia.
eve have the sem-tropical.scenery,
the semi-tropical climate, the wonder
full water-frontage-all that Florida
has, and just a little better. Geor-
gia's wonderful east coast affords
those things just as Florida does,
anait is not as hot; just a little cool
er in the winter time, never too
cold. Nowhere in Florida is there
more beautiful handiwork of nature
than the islands off the coast of
Georgia. Nowhere can Jekyl and
Cumberland and other islands off this
coast be bested. And whit this state,
all that wonderful country; the semi
tropical section where the great gray
moss hangs like nature curtains from
he trees; where the climate condi-
u. are like nowhere else in the
whole country; where there are the
beach attractions, the fishing and
boating possibilities; the broad scope
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