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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1913
Page
9
Entered at the hosteuitic sand-clase mall matter. The Constitution offers daily and Sunday carrier delivery with monthly rates. Advertising management outside Atlanta covers the territory. Washington Bureau address provided. Subscriptions warned against unauthorized payments or agents.
Atlanta celebrates its fourth grand opera season with Puccini Manon Lescaut featuring the Metropolitan Opera Company. The venture, once experimental, has grown into a city institution with record attendance and international prestige, aided by Colonel W. L. Peel and the Atlanta Music Festival Association.
William Loeb Jr, retiring collector of the port of New York, is lauded as a model of meritocratic government service. A farewell dinner featured Mayor Gaynor, Seth Low, Justice Jenks, and Andrew Carnegie, with many leading importers in attendance, underscoring Loeb’s reputed efficiency and discretion despite earlier tensions with importers.
The article laments Loeb’s departure after uncovering widespread channels for dodging duties. Importers who arranged deals with higher-ups saw old promises voided, forcing all to declare goods or face prosecution. Loeb, famed for efficiency and incorruptibility, quits public service to join a western firm, described as a loss of a splendid servant and a model for future government personnel.
The piece argues vice president Marshall overstates socialism while noting a growing social conscience among big business and wealth holders like Carnegie and Rockefeller. It contends socialism will not dominate US politics and reforms will come through established political forms with cooperation between rich and poor.
The piece argues Georgia should reduce imports by expanding domestic meat and staple production. It cites Georgia beef from White Provision in Atlanta and advocates regional self-sufficiency in corn, peas, potatoes, grits, tomatoes, and poultry. It links this shift to stronger farm credit reform after the war and warns the current system hampers local wealth and industry growth.
A playful Appalachian style verse celebrates Georgia julep time as the sun blazes and shade trees hide. It extols the drink as a mood lifter for all, from a statesman to a judge, with lines about office seekers and a toast to springtime.
Washington observers state senators now seek direct public input on the Underwood tariff as popular elections heighten accountability. Lobbying shifts from Washington influence to constituent letters and telegrams, with many lawmakers briefing officials to gauge sentiment ahead of votes.
A narrator argues that parental authority is tyrannical and compares youths who disobey to future freethinkers, praising rebellion as a heroic trait. He recounts disobedient childhood and ties it to revolutionary spirit, while a landlady complains about pricing in a humorous aside.
In a Saturday Journal piece a narrator recalls meeting Franz Joseph I before his coronation in 1867. He describes a mountain trek, a sharpened gaze, and a later Budapest meeting where the emperor remembered the encounter. The tale blends memory and royal imagery in a nostalgic voice.
The reminiscence covers Amos J. Cummings, who served in a New York City district, worked as a compositor and reader, read Lincoln’s Cooper Union address, and rose after a Tribune discharge to become managing editor at The Sun under Charles Dana. He details career shifts, wartime service, clashes with editors, and memories of press politics and European affairs.
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