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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1912
Page
58
A speaker lauds Atlanta's army of daily wage workers numbering around fifteen thousand plus countless clerks. He argues the city’s prosperity hinges on labor, not capital alone, citing diverse local products from woodenware to autos and furniture. The piece extols labor’s role in attracting capital and shaping the New South skyline.
An Atlanta essay celebrates the city’s 14 000 plus workers across trades from carpenters to mill operatives who rise with dawn to toil. It credits organized labor for wages growth, notes the movers of the streetcar rush hours, and posits the city’s welfare hinges on this disciplined workforce.
A poem protests labor unrest urging whistles and alarms to awaken workers and expose oppression. It portrays masters, toil, and the vow of workers to rise, sacrificing sleep and comfort while criticizing idleness and complacency. The speaker calls for relentless dawn alarms until toil and solidarity prevail.
New York on March 9 reports a city of diverse tongues with eleven distinct races under the East Side Settlement House on East Seventy Sixth Street. Miss Mary deG Trenholm says many immigrants never shed foreign ideas, causing clannish tensions that education must ease.
A man claiming deafness and muteness visited a Atlanta army recruiting office performing a vaudeville bow. The sergeant dismissed him, the man pressed a note asking to join the army, then left. The story sits among notes on North Carolina wealth, grocery prices and the army’s recruiting efforts including negro enlistment and Columbus training.
The Carnegie Library in Atlanta reports February broke all service records with 25 668 volumes circulated for home use averaging over 1000 daily. 3126 to children and 434 to adults. 169 new members joined, total 543. Reference room assisted 1865, with lists on Men and Religion Movement and municipal ownership. Magazine reading room drew 7044 visitors, nearly 200 on a dreary Sunday. About 1990 new volumes added, including a complete Cesar Daly and Georgian architecture set.
Tangier reports twelve travelers and twenty three horses owned by Caravan L were overwhelmed and drowned while crossing the Hexra el axis river during a severe interior storm. A cloudburst and torrents swept the region destroying crops as floods spread.
Washington March special reports Speaker Clark defends college rah rah culture amid campaign talk. He argues yelling and athletics aid youth development, cites his Marshall College days, and notes Roosevelt impact. Political analysts count delegates for Democrats and Republicans, weighing Clark Harmon Underwood and Wilson prospects.
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