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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
11
The new Atlanta council faces a pivotal test on charter revision. Public sentiment favors overhaul, with ongoing delays blamed on pretended prematurity. Immediate action is urged to move municipal government toward metropolitan efficiency, replacing a forty year old charter.
The piece declares Atlanta as a pauper among cities, crippled by inefficiency despite growth and prosperity. It condemns municipal paralysis, cites idle credit over five million dollars, and urges the Council to seize a final chance to adopt a charter revision aligned with public sentiment.
The council authorized using 16000 from water bond premiums to protect the coagulating basin near the reservoirs despite technical objections. The move aims to remove surface closets polluting the water supply and safeguard over 150000 residents, with support from the Constitution against former vetoes. Mayor Woodward is urged not to block this life saving project.
Inman argues the simultaneous assembly in Atlanta of the three Presbyterian national bodies will bring 1800 delegates and 3000 visitors. The event, the first since the Civil War, signals potential unification trends and city leaders pledge broad hospitality for this epochal gathering.
Wisdom and public sentiment influence the expiring council to restore an ordinance penalizing contractors who fail to remove spilled dirt from streets. Originally repealed to aid a councilman-contractor, the reversal signals a lesson in avoiding self serving legislation.
The Constitution warns the new city administration that a revival of efforts to rename streets honoring Atlanta pioneers may occur. In past years council and public sentiment have quashed such proposals, and this time the paper hopes the lesson is learned.
Frank Hawkins of Third National Bank of Atlanta frames the South as financially robust and poised for rapid recovery. He cites the 1912 cotton crop near normal at about 1.8 million bales in Georgia, rising railroad traffic, bank deposits up 35 percent over five years, and growing manufacturing value to $246 million. Immigration, improved farming, and higher cotton consumption support continued growth. Georgia leads regional gains with optimistic prospects for the entire cotton belt.
A letter from S. Ominalan of Atlanta clarifies that J. K. Orr is the elected chairman of the committee to host the joint Presbyterian assemblies in Atlanta next May. He urges broad city support to raise funds and coordinate hospitality for 1800 delegates and 2000 visitors, stressing the city’s reputation if welcomed warmly.
In a Georgia letter dated January 6 1913 Edmondson of Brooks argues against a constitutional convention. He stresses the legacy of the 1776 charter and questions the cost and usefulness of reform via convention. He favors amending the existing constitution one subject at a time to honor Robert Toombs’s monument while preserving core rights.
A feature on probation as a reform tool using the case of Peter Stone. The piece contrasts life in jail with a probation system that offered work, guidance, and self-reliance, arguing for legislative reforms to suspend sentences under probation and treat first offenders with a balance of mercy and accountability.
Anecdote on Samuel J. Tilden from Edward s 1913 collection details his financial acumen and actions around elevated railroad stock and foreign exchange. It notes Tilden’s fortune, real estate moves near Yonkers, and a strategic use of foreign currency to safeguard the silver standard, with context from contemporaries.
A condensed account of the Man in the Iron Mask, detailing his luxurious but secretive confinement from Pignerol to the Bastille, the masked prisoner’s failed communications, and theories about his identity, ending as history’s enduring puzzle.
A humorous essay extols cooking as a supreme art and declares cooks essential to happiness and family bonds. It contrasts skilled and poor cooks, praises domestic arts, criticizes education’s neglect of culinary skill, and urges conserving the American stomach amid dietary concerns.
The text outlines a daily self-improvement pledge focusing on action, discipline, and service. It emphasizes dropping the past, tackling tasks, perseverance, and integrity to fuel personal and professional success. It mentions future discussion by Mr. Howards on the hardest working Secretary of State.
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