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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
3
A Georgia and Texas banking vision portrays bankers as builders of rural prosperity. Credit to farmers for cotton, livestock, and silos backs growth while ensuring controlled supply and gradual market sales. Prominent voices urge diversification to avert financial distress and boost export readiness.
The piece argues for biennial legislative sessions as a reform for Georgia and the nation. It asserts annual sessions breed overproduction of laws and that biennial timing would reduce waste while acknowledging the measure has come close to passage several times.
Editorial argues Georgia should meet once every two years to curb wasteful spending. It praises a two year appropriations framework and contends annual sessions keep state business in a constant stew. The piece claims biennial sessions would gain efficiency and public approval.
The Houston Post ridicules Georgia fiscal policy, noting country teachers have endured rising costs as pay remained delayed. The satire highlights forty four years of suppressed wages, costing Georgia’s education system millions and exposing state miserliness as a national joke.
Atlanta business leaders praise the Fifth Regiment National Guard of Georgia for the July encampment at St Simons Island. Employers cooperate by granting leave. a leading firm even telegraphed support, asserting duty to allow soldiers to attend maneuvers and summer camps. The article notes the militia as a key local asset with all twelve Atlanta companies. It emphasizes the nation’s reserve role and urges broader employer support for duty and national defense.
A Kansas City Star feature profiles Jed Perkins, described as homeliest man, who attends a revival meeting where a preacher and elders urge salvation. Jed muses on life in the better land, jokes about appearances, and contemplates the afterlife amid humorous rural reflections.
In a heated public discourse critics credit Dr Friedmann for faith in promoting Dr Henry Van Dyke and tease President for sending poets abroad. The piece notes heat records elsewhere and questions why specific blame is attached while lamenting high prices and crowded political budgets. It also ironizes corporate lobbying as too modest to act themselves.
In a speech dated July 3 1913 STER RADFORD of the Texas Farmers Union urges national cooperation in marketing cotton starting in Texas. He notes bankers are advancing farmers funds at low rates to hold cotton off the market and redeposit in banks, shaping a system intended to stabilize prices, reduce distress sales, and lift farmer profits. He cites warehouse capacity 350 interior facilities and port storage, the need to slow marketing to improve price, and projects a potential saving for farmers while highlighting extensive Texas cotton production and yields.
A reflective excerpt celebrates summer leisure in the woods away from city heat. The speaker recalls childhood streams, oaks, and the calm, renewing power of nature. He longs for the perpetual quiet of the grassy stream and the simple joy of a tranquil morning in solitude.
A reader letters page notes that men should be allowed by custom to wear jewelry including bracelets earrings and even nose rings if they desire. The writer argues such adornments would reflect true American heritage inspired by natives of the country.
Berlin June 12 Harvie Jordan reports on the American and federal commissions touring Europe to study land mortgage banks rural co operatives and agricultural finance. He explains the origins and mechanics of Prussian Landschaft banks and the long term 4 percent loans secured by land mortgages with bonds guaranteed by banks and sometimes by government. He notes cordial European reception and the widespread use of land mortgage bonds as safe investments and the vital role of state aided rural finance in agriculture.
A Georgia reader from Sylvania addresses the paper praising editorials on diversified farming. He argues cotton focus harms prosperity, citing higher cotton prices raise crop imbalance, rising labor costs, and costly consumer purchases like automobiles. He urges farmers to diversify, cut extravagant spending, and build surplus before investing outside farming. signed How White.
In the Loaded Chronicle a passage mocks colonial geography misnaming of Damaraland as Damaqualand due to misinterpretation by explorers. Native guides misread a gesture, thinking two Dama women stood in distance, yielding a playful yet telling etymology of the land’s name.
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