Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-07-15

its chance TO deVetop arc
forcefulIv in a second volume OF a
series entitled "What Shall Georglans
10 With Georgia." just published by
the Utilities Information Committee
of Georgia. Ten thousand copies Will
he distributed directly by the COM
mittee to individuals in every part Oh
the State. 1t forms a further part
of the effort being made by the gas,
mower. street railway and telephone
companies to promote the material
advancement of the State.
Salient quotations from the con-
tents of the volume follow:
II. NJ. Stanley, State Commissioners
of Commerce and Labor, declaring
Georgia has all Industrial require
ments, says: "The time has come
when we must bring these advantages
directly before the people who are
engaged in industrial expansion, ana
Georgia can get in ahead of her rivals
if she carries out an intelligent pro-
gram of. encouragement to new In
dustries to come to this State for To-
cation"
Charles S. Barrett, president OF
the National Farmers Union, an
nounces that the farmers of the cold
er states are hearing eagerly OF
Georgia and declares: "There are
thousands of progressive, anxious
farmers of the thrifty kind who will
come and can be brought to our
State as permanent settlers and good
citizens if Georgia will just get them
interested and show them some of
the States adyantages-no the theo
retical ones, but the practical advan-
tages."
+. H. Abbott, secretary of the
Georgia Association, speaking from
the farmers standpoint, declares that
Muscle Shoals power should be dis
tributed throughout the Southeast
because Georgia in every county
possesses climate combined with
transportation and resources of soil
or mineral or forest that make posi-
BILE tie economical production and
concentration of an infinite variety
of raw materials for manufacture or
conversion into marketable form
provided abundant economical and
widely distributed power can be
made available"
The late Thomas W. Loyless, urg
ing that Georgia needs an honest and
thorough self-examination, declares:
"When you stop to think of it, the
very people for the most part, who
have the least claim to speak for
Georgia, nor the best equipment for
doing so, have been, in the main, the
most vocal And the result of all
this has been, that the former-the
folks who make the most noise
have, by their very insistence and
assertiveness, assumed power and
dominant position which, to say the
least, is not warranted by what they
are or what they stand for"
Richard II. Edmonds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record, inveighing
against petty politics, insists that,
eff this great State can ever catch
the same kind of enthusiasm and of
doing things and of putting aside
cheap politics, from senatorship and
governorship to the petty offices of
cross roads towns, that dominate its
life, and turn its attention to real de-
velopment with the same energy that,
of recent years it has given to poll
tics-and politics Of the cheapest
kind-it will be possible once again
for Georgia to be known as the lead
rof the South"
Walter C. Taylor, City Clerk of
Atlanta, and formerly city editor of
The Atlanta Journal, urging a cure
of the causes Of crime among youths,
declares: "Officers carrying out the
laws of Georgia in recent months
have executed number of youthful
murderers. In prisons over the State
as write are other young men await
ing fulflment OF death sentences for
murder or completely. These execu-
lions take place by authority of the
people of Georgia. This fact places
squarely on the people of Georgia
all of us-the responsibility to change
the conditions which bring about
murders and cause executions"
c. Murphey Gambler, formerly
head of the Public Service Commits
sion and trustee of the University
OF Georgia, declares: "Our educa-
tiohal system should be rebuilt from
the, common schools up to tn euni-
versities. Our higher institutions are
in state Of starvation. Some of
themthem have dormitories which are
too crowded. Others have dormitoi
RES which are in condition hardly
mt for human habitation. Necessary
equipment in laboratories is lacking.
FACULTY members are poorly paid.
maintenance is sparse and meager
and nothing is provided to amount to
anything for permanent improve
ments. A student to obtain a higher
education must almost forego the or
binary comforts of life if he expects