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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1911. 3 Mid-Week Bargains in Bass’ Mill-End Sale Second Floor tong; Kimonos of fancy embroid- ered Swiss; extra CQa special at 0$fC 14 of Ladies’ Short Kimonos to SE£ -10c Indies’ lisle-finished Vests on ttle tomorrow S ^ at, only.. ladies’ Mnslin Gowns, lace and embroidery- QQa trimmed. ■.WwU Dresses and Waists Another big lot of Wash Dresses and Lingerie Dresses, including the prettiest styles of the season; am np to $7.50 values | ,gQ Stylish Dresses of taffeta, mcssaline, foulard and' .novelty silk; .... $4.95 beautifully trimmed and worth up to $15.00. Take choice for only 100 dozen Sample Waists in lingerie and colored embroidery styles; up to $li50 values 55c The sensation of this Mill-End Sale has reached many more manufacturers anxious to dis pose of surplus lots at next-to- nothing prices. They are send ing us big shipments in every line. More and greater bargains will be offered you tomorrow. Come! Sale of Skirts Our.New York buyer has just expressed to us 200 Sample Skirts which he secured at about one-th ird real value from a leading maker. Included are voiles, Panamas, fancy mixtures, white and striped, serges, etc. All are new styles. To be sold in two lots, as follows: . $2.90 $3.90 87c Up to $7.50 values at.... Up to $12.50 values at.... White Linen Skirts in good styles; in this sale at Second Floor Lot of Ladies’ Fancy that were up to $3.00; choice. Parasols 69c Mercerized Petticoats with deep embroidered ruffles; up to $2.00 values Ojf C Linen Coat Suits in splendid styles; up to $7.50 QQ 54-inch Linen Automobile and Traveling Coats; £4 QQ special at ^ I Furniture Department Babies' High Chairs as Illustrates at left; solid oak, natural or painted red 69c Rolld Oak Porch Sarins as Illustrated above; natural or mission flnlsh; com plete with chains and CJ1 CQ hooks; tomorrow, only “ ■ *ww Pnuarcs; 125.00 value t by 11-root All-Wool Brus- CO QA acts *20.00 Art Squares t by 11-foot Japanese Mat- C4 CA tins. Art Square# IgfcnWV Domestics, Wash Goods, Linens Good, heavy Towel Crash will be ...3C bold tomorrow at, yard w8v U Full double-bed size Bleached Hemmed Aft. ,...3C Sheets at only www Q_ Good size, well-made Bleached Pillow A. White silk-fiuished Persian Lawn, P. ,.. OC worth 25c a yard; only wC Yard-wide, soft-finished Sea Island Domestic; per yard Yard-wide Bleached Cambric, like Lonsdale; per yard All-linen Brown Dress Linen; on sale tomorrow at, yard English Rep in white, blue and natural linen color; yard See These Extra Specials Furniture Department All-.teel Sanitary Folding Couch a» Il lustrated; 17.50 value. iSwT...$3.98 black, whlta and colors Ladles' 12-button length Black 39c Silk We Give Green Trading Stamps BASS , Men's, women's and hrellna, real $1.00 values, at Ladies' 811k Hose In colors; tomor- [row children', tfm- 39c black, white and 39c i f 18 West Mitchell, Near Whitehall All-steel and leather one-motion collapsible Ao- f'art. as pictured; 116.00 CA QC value s|» ■ »wW Recllnlng-back Folding Oo-Cart, with nibber- tired bicycle wheels, $2.98 A few regular 11.00 Folding tfjl QQ Go-Carta to sell tomorrow, at ...;.. V l, “ u Oriental Footstools as illustrated OQ« below; special .*▼* THE TRUE INWARDNESS OF IT A STATEMENT AS TO THE POULTRY SITUATION IN ATLANTA Ordinarily I believe It to be had business policy to advertise a competitor’s business by tak ing public notice of it. How ever, so many questions have By H. G. HASTINGS, President Georgia Poultry Association $3,000 for the privilege of back- Mr. Howell, of The Constitution; ing-such a show as the one just Mr. Gray, of The Journal, and Mr. pulled off. I replied to him dently deeming the poultry busi ness of too small consequence to be worth encouraging. Shortly after this, a represen tative of The Atlanta Georgian, keen asked mo during the past which had been giving encour- ( fow weeks as to the Atlanta sit. uation and the relation between the Georgia Poultry association and the newly organized South ern International Poultry associa tion, that I deem it best at this time to make a plain statement of facts as to he Atlanta situation. There is absolutely no connec tion whatever between the Geor gia Poultry association and the other organization. In explanation, I can do no better than to outline poultry chow history in Atlanta for the past eight or ten years. The old Atlanta Poultry asso ciation was, to the best of my rec ollection, the original poultry or ganization. During its existence it held several shows, all of them financially unau&easful, except one. During its existence sev eral disgruntled members formed a competitive organization, which held one show and then died a natural death. The Atlanta Poultry associa tion also died, but a year later the present Georgia Poultry as sociation was formed, and has held annual shows ever since. The show held last January in tho Atlanta Auditorium was the firat financially successful show held by the Georgia association, it being necessary for our mem bership to finance a deficit on each of the previous shows. Fol- lowing the next to the last show, it was a very serious question as to whether another show should he attempted. Most of ns had flatten tired of going down in oar pockets and footing the bills. Baring all these past y?ars *tth the financially unsuccessful shows, we had had very little •npport from the daily press, of Atlanta. During the summer of 1910 several meetings of the Georgia Poultry association were "Id, and it was finally deter ged to hold a show if suffi- support could be obtained. A number of our members pledg- 3 » certain amount, conditional ?°. * sufficient additional amount eiI) g raised to successfully nance a creditable show. Com- ittcej were appointed to make tk! Deees * a ry canvass. One of •■ese committees called on both * Atlanta Journal and The 0f>j *“j a Constitution, but re- eiik ^ no ’“tteouragement - from r ' T them, the gentlemen P r *s»nting those papers evi- agemept to the poultry business in general thru its columns for several months previous, came to the officers of the Georgia, Poul try association with a proposition to back the Atlanta show, both financially and with publicity thru its columns, the condition being that the show be known ns The Georgian’s Poultry Show, held under the auspices of the Georgia Poultry association. The proposition of The Geqrgisn only covered one year, or rather one show, the one so successfully' held last January. This proposition was taken un der advisement, and after much discussion it was agreed that if The Georgian would sign a two- year instead of a one-year con tract, it would be accepted. The Georgian’s representatives de murred at this, but finally amend ed their original proposition to two years, and it is my recollec tion that the vote to make this two-year contract with The At lanta Georgian was unanimous. Aa soon as this contract was signed, The Georgian gave the show almost unlimited publicity thru its columns, and was instru mental in securing many cups for prizes and also numerous cash contributions. Without going into details, the result of this contract was that there was held in the Auditorium last January the best and largest high-class poultry show ever held in the South, many exhibitors of national reputation stating that it was second only to the New York and Chicago shows, and an impetus was given to the poultry industry throughout the South eastern states such as it never had before. Instead of no show, we had one of the great shows of the country. Not only was it creditable to Atlanta, but it was a great financial success. Now, incidentally, thru the impetus given the poultry indus try thru the show and by the printing of a great deal of poul try news daily by The Georgian, that paper secured a great deal of poultry and poultry supply ad vertising. A few weeks after this Jan uary show, one of the gentlemen who is now an officer of the Southern International associa tion came to me with the state ment that one of the other pa- would be willing to pay to that the paper in question had been asked to help us in the past and had turned the Georgia Poultry association down cold. Furthermore, we had a contract with The Georgian for another year that was both morally and legally binding. From time to'time suggestions were made to me as an officer of the Georgia association that it would be a good thing to get rid of our contract with The Geor gian, so aa to secure the support of the other papers. This ac tivity was confined to some three or four who seemed to be in close touch with the other At lanta papers. Some time later, notices ap peared in The Journal and The Constitution that a new poultry association was to be formed in Atlanta, the names of Mr. Loring Brown, Mr. Poole and Mr. Sim mens, who were members of the Georgia association, being men ♦ioned. Following these notices, called a meeting of the Georgia association. Mr. Brown and Mr. Poole were present, and were asked to state why they took this position, and responded, but hard ly to the satisfaction of the other members present, who, without exception^ condemned their course as suicidal, and it was repeated ly stated that, with the possible exception of New York, two poultry shows in a town have al ways proved disastrous. In my personal capacity I have done eveiything possible to avoid any conflict. Every opportunity has be6n given the few who con- situte the Southern International Poultry association to come to gether with the Georgia associa tion, without result. The demands they make on us could not be complied with and retain our self-respect I believe the time has now come to call a spade a spade in this poultry association matter. Here in Atlanta we have three daily papers of large circulation. The rivalry between them as newspapers is very keen and each tries to outdo the othors in enter prise. In addition to this, there seems to be some personal feeling between the responsible heads of two of them. With this rivalry and personal feeling the Georgia Poultry association has nothing to do. Of these matters the mem bership of tho Georgia Poultry as sociation and the public generally knows little and cares loss. Per sonally, I am equally friendly with Seely, of The Georgian, and I be lieve that the same is true of most of onr membership. I sincerely regret that my official position necessitates, my. taking, so far as this poultry matter is concerned, an antagonistic attitude toward the poeition of The Journal and The Constitution. hore in Georgia one of the catch phrases of the campaign was “Watch the lino-up.” It is well to watch the “line-up” in this new association. Poultry departments in the At lanta papers became quite popu lar after our January show. The Journal added one, also The Con stitution, so that all three now have them. Incidentally, Mr. Pos- tell (Uncle Dudley), who had been conducting The Georgian’s Poul try Department, had a business disagreement wVh The Georgian and severed his connection with that paper. With this disagreo. raent between Undo Dudley and The Georgian wo have nothing to do personally, nltho Uncle Dudley There is not a shadow of an ex- J expressed himself to me as feeling cuse for the organization of the Southern International Poulry association in Atlanta other than newspaper rivalry, in my opinion, and that of the great majority of the members of the Georgia association. Several who have taken a share of stock in this new association have stated to mo that they did so under a misapprehen sion. It was announced at the time of its formation that Governor Hoke 8mith was to be its president. Governor Smith, as soon as he learned how matters stood, posi tively refused to let his name be used. During its organization the names of others were used entire ly without authority. In a recent political campaign very bitterly against Mr. Seely. Now for the “line-up.” In the latest announcement of officers of the Southern International asso ciation we find the following: President, Uncle Dudley (a man who has had a business disagree ment with The Georgian). Josepil Warden, vice president, . (poultry oditor of Tho Constitu- tion). Loring Brown, chairman exec utive committee, (poultry editor of The Atlanta Journal), whose activity in connection with the formation of this new association was practically coincident with his employment by The Journal. My understanding is that both Tho Journal and Tho Constitution disclaim officially that as business organizations they are connected with the new organization, but I believe that the poultry public can reasonably infer what’s what and who’s who from the “line up.” , Personally and as an officer of the Georgia Poultry association I have no ill-feeling toward either The Journal or The Constitution, neither do I hold any brief for The Georgian. As a -business man of Atlanta and an advertiser in all three papers I have always been personally friendly toward all of them. I believe that the position of The Journal and Tho Constitu tion, cither officially or thru their employees, is’ absolutely unten- able and that they ant dead wrong in their attitude. Both of these papers have had ample opportu nity to promote the poultry busi ness in the past and refused, and in my opinion ha\e no right now to bring on a competitive move ment that la antagonistic to the Georgia Poultry association be cause it chooses to fulfill a busi ness contract with The Georgian that it made of its own free will after aid and support had been refused by the other papers. The Georgia Poultry association will hold its annual show in Jan uary. If possible to make it so, it will be a larger and better show than last January. We absolute ly decline to be dictated to by em ployees of firms or corporations that turned us down cold in the past, and in this we expect and will have the support of those.in the South who have the real in terests of the poultry industry at heart. ,With ail due respect to the backers of the new organization, I believe they have no right to attempt to use the poultry indus try as they are now doing. The Georgia Poultry association is an established institution and has the prestige of holding tho largest and most successful show ever seen in tto South. It has worked faithful^ to promote the industry in the South. It has never defaulted in payment of premiums, has money in hAnk and owns its own coops for exhibi tions. It is on a solid basis and makes no promises that it can not carry out. Against my wishes I have been elected prcsidnnt of tho Georgia Poultry association for several years, and so long as I am with the Georgia association I shall in sist that it keep a clean business record, make no boastful prom ises impossible of fulfillment and carry out any and-all contracts that it makes. In this I ask on behalf of the Georgia Poultry as sociation the support of every fancier and poultryman in tho South. II. G. HASTINGS, President Georgia Poultry Asso ciation. Publicity Bill 8tnt to Conftrcnco, Washington, Aug. 1.—The cnmpaljrn publicity bill was tent to conference today. Putting It Up to the Legislature Photo by Mathewenn. SCENE AT COMMI88ION CHARTER HEARING IN HOUSE QF REPRESENTATIVES ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. Tha hearing before the house committee drew eo many intaraeted listeners that it was held in the large hall of representatives. Present office holders * in th# . city government were conspicuous bytheir number. The committee heard arguments for three hour*, but decision on tha bill was delayed a week thru tho effort of Representative Walter McElreath, of Fulton county, who professed that ho had not read tha bill.