[Editorial from "The Constitution," Atlanta, Ga., Sunday, February 18, 1917]
THE WORK OF JOHN P. FORT
No man of his day accomplished more in the nature of everlasting benefit for the state in which he lived than the late John P. Fort did for Georgia.
He was a man of vision—a dreamer—but with the energy and the faith and the resourcefulness to push ahead, explore his vision, and make his dreams come true; and in the doing of which he made of himself a notable public benefactor.
Especially thankful should south Georgia be for the very revolutionizing of the health conditions of that section which he did so much to bring about.
South Georgia was once afflicted with a malarial condition which seriously impaired the many advantages of that part of the state. The development of the country had been held back through generation after generation, despite its fertility and adaptability to agriculture, simply because of malarial conditions.
John P. Fort turned his attention to the problem.