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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1916
Page
8
The electorate now weighs real achievements over party promises as the 1916 election looms. Democrats face scrutiny over rural credit, essential industries, and commerce, with laboring needs driving demand for action rather than rhetoric. Public trust hinges on concrete progress by the administration and Congress.
The passage argues that promises alone will not suffice before the November vote. It calls on Congressional leadership to act if the party seeks success, emphasizing that time remains for real action rather than rhetoric.
The Sheltering Arms urges Atlantians to support its annual Tag Day and highlights how the program aids about 250 mothers to earn roughly $100,000 yearly while caring for their children, training and educating youngsters, and running five nurseries with 200 to 250 daily enrollments. The effort is led by prominent Atlanta women and includes maternal support meetings, holiday drives, dental care, and a focus on turning dependent families into a self sustaining community.
Congressman William Schley Howard of Georgia proposes an embargo on gasoline shipments abroad until U S prices fall to a reasonable level. He has introduced a house bill embodying this remedy and plans to push it. The Democratic majority may hesitate, but the proposal deserves attention as relief for consumers.
The Georgia Children’s Home Society’s annual report reveals 443 needy children from 37 counties benefited in the past year. Since its four year existence it has cared for 820 children, with many under age five, as Superintendent Robert Howeford oversees an expanding, centralizing effort to place wards in safe homes across the state.
A mixed page features verses titled The Song of Home and other poems about home, love, and spring. It includes humorous observations and prose paragraphs on soldiers, singing, divas, and a broad collection of local verse and commentary. It also mentions events and figures in a folk-voiced, regional tone.
A Ga balance of juror impartiality is urged with a plan to select jurors like federal courts. The author argues neighborhood ties bias verdicts and suggests a circuit jury system to ensure decisions based solely on evidence, noting higher costs but potential for fairer outcomes. MC BENNETT amilta Ga.
Michael William Balfe, born in Dublin in 1808, showed early musical talent and learned violin. After his father’s death, he sought help from Charles Horn, who advised a journey to London. Patron Count Mazzora welcomed Balfe in Italy, sparking a dramatic friendship and Balfe’s rise in Italian opera in Paris, where he died October 19, 1870. Several Balfe songs appear in Heart Songs in today’s issue.
Alfred W McCany answers nutrition questions noting egg yolk supplies calcium and iron, beans provide high protein and minerals, sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes compared in value, and fruit and vegetables aid digestion and overall health.
An elderly narrator recalls singing old tunes under Canadian skies. She laments war and labor hardships, recalling neighbors taunting her treble and singing wistful verses about Heaven gates and vanished days. The verse evokes memory, home, and nostalgia amid hardship.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce advances a plan to form 53 trades councils this week from 88 member interests. Secretary Walter G Cooper says three councils remain to organize, and a general Atlanta Chamber Council will be formed early next week with Victor Kriegshaber as president.
Morrison tests optimism on southern farming in Atlanta visiting to study rural and financial conditions. He notes strong cotton resources and growing investment flow, citing federal reserve effects and a shift from wartime fears to future prosperity. He highlights farmers driving economic resilience and renewed confidence across the cotton belt.
The May festival queen contest at Cha College ends Saturday at College Park with final voting. Leaders include Miss Helen Smith of College Park and Miss Elizabeth Murray of Montgomery. The festival features folk dancing and games on the college campus and admission is free.
A sizable audience gathered for a free organ recital at the auditorium Sunday afternoon. The program opened with an orchestral arrangement of Martha's overture by organist Sheldon Jrery, whose performance was well received. The rest of the lineup featured bright, varied pieces as anticipation builds for an opera to be staged by the Metropolitan company later this month.
The piece shows a reader tracing unfamiliar world locations from a Russian map and lists towns across Asia and Europe. It notes the challenge of locating Bacabaklachic west or east of Chin bampo and reflects on familiar names like Przemysl and Vel vendor while learning to read maps for travel and navigation.
In a letter from Ocilla Southern Railroad General Counsel Qlincey & Rick the firm corrects a March 30 report claiming a drive to ruin the Ocilla Southern. They state the line from Wells to Irwiville is owned by the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railway, not Ocilla Southern, and note the lease expired long ago with Ocilla having no interest. The letter requests publication with prominence to rectify the record and reiterates Ocilla Southern as a robust part of the state’s railway system.
Contrasts speak of treasure and riches sought beyond human standards and the heart’s compass. The poem weighs whether truth or error endures, whether life’s harm heals, and where visions go when darkness falls.
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