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COTTON PRICES
Large Spot Houses Heavy Sellers.
Good Weather and Labor
Troubles Are Blamed.
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NEW YORK. April 22.—In the face
of bit-May cablethe cotton market
opmied barely steady to-day, with prices
4 points off to 1 point higher than last
night's close. Room traders were In a
bearish mood, particularly as to near
months, and offerings became heavy
enough to force prices off some 7 to If*
points from the opening range. May
and July were heavily sold Many of
the most conservative spot houses sold,
which encouraged freer offering from
the ring and Wall Street.
May dropped to ll.M, against an open
ing of 31.71: July fell from 3.1.72 to
11.59; August followed by losing 11
points from the initial ftamre. The new
crop* followed, but their losses were
smaller.
New Orleans and Liverpool were lib
eral sellers
The continued liquidation is chiefly
based upon the continued favorable
weather conditions in almost every sec
tion of the cotton belt. In almost every
section of the belt preparation is al
most complete and planting is In full
swing The majority of traders say
It is a weather market, and if veatli-
er developments are good durh.g the
next few weeks, It will give the planter
ainple time to plant a large aorcHg*
Trie attitude of the market during the
next month will he governed by the
course of the weather.
In addition to Ideal weather, a po
tent factor, which Is causing consid
erable unfavorable apprehension, is the
weakness in the Southern spot situation
Spots all over the belt are reported
cheaper, with little demand. Such fac
tors cause hesitation among the bulls.
Many recent bulls arc now the most
TWdlcaJ hears. A few of them are pre
dicting 11c cotton for July and August
snd October as low as 30%o.
The weekly weather report was favor
able., except it showed some moisture
Is needed in Texas. Indications are
That this will come This, with a cable
from Monchester stating that the labor
trouble was becoming more serious,
brought out heavier selling during the
afternoon session. The market was
given no support, and May increased
its decline to 11.62. July to 11.54. The
entire list made declines of 9 to 19 points
from the initial level.
Commission houses were good sellers,
while the buying was mainly from
shorts and scattered buying of the new
• rops. This buying, however, was not
effective.
At the close the market was steady
witli prices at a net decline <>f 13 to 16
points from the final quotations of Mon-
*RANGE IN NEW YORK FUTURES.
Futures opened quiet.
NEW YORK, April 22. J. M. Ander
son says: “The cotton market has re
celved very little or no support to-day
Waters, Shearson and Geeran sold the
market off shortly after the opening. It
looks like the uptown crowd Is selling
and Wall Street also, it is generally be
lieved that prices will work lower.’’
Today's New York
Stock Market
The weather continues favorable and
the local crowd seems inclined to sell
Business is very light. There has been
business is very light. There have been
July and October to change hands.
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RANGE IN LIVERPOOL FUTURES.
LIVERPOOL, April 22.—This market
waa due to open 1 to 2 points higher,
but opened quiet 1 to 1% points higher.
M 13:16 p. in. the market was quiet,
at a net advance of 1 1o 1% points
higher
Fair business doing in spot cotton at
4 points advance; middling 6.93d, sales
* 000 bales, including 7,000 American
bales; Imports 5,000 bales, including 3,000
American bales.
At the close the market was easy
with prices at a net decline or 3 to 4
points from the final figures of Mon
day.
Futures opened quiet.
Opening Prev.
Range. Close Close.
April ... .0.57 -6.56% 6.53% 6.55%
April-May . . 6.53% G.‘49 6.52
May-.Tune . . .6.63 -6.52 6.48% 6.52%
.lune-July . . .6.52 -6.51 6.47 6.50%
July-Aug. . . .6.48 -6.47% 6.43 6.46%
Aug.-Sept . . .6.36 -6.37 6.32% 6.86%
Sept.-Oct. . . .6.25 -6.24 6.20 6.23%
Oct.-Nov. . . .6.16%-6.16 6.12 6.15%
Nov.-Dee. , . .6.13 -6.12% 6.08% 6.12
Dec.-Jan. . . .6.12 6.07% 6.11
Ian.-Feb. . . .6.11 -6.10 6.06% C.10
Feb.-Mch. 6.10 6.07% 6.11
Closed easy.
HAYWARD «t CLARK’S
DAILY COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, April 22. The Liv
erpool board shows a narrow market
following the changes in New York.
Political news shows that no progress
Is being made toward peace. Another
ultimatum was sent to Montenegro.
Phe allies have practically accepted the
proposed terms of the Powers, but have
reserved for themselves the most im
portant question of division of territory.
Liverpol cabled: ‘ Labor troubles in
East Lancashire coming. Keeling very
bitter.”
The Journal of Commerce says that
reports from New' England states are
that trade in cotton goods is beginning
to show' a steady decline.
Our market to-day was ease from
the start and sagged to 32 05 for July
m the second hour.
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A little '‘WANT
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gian will ring the
bell_ and take down
the sign. These ads
bring results, as the
people read them
every day.
Two breaks close together, which last
night had widened Into one three hun
dred-foot crevasse, occurred yesterday
afternoon in the levee at Woodlawn
plantation, several miles north of May
orsvllle, Miss., midway between Vicks
burg and Greenville The break will
flood all of Sharkey uqd hsaquenna coun
ties and nearly all of Washington and
Warren. Federal engineers say 1,330
square miles will be affected by over
flow.
Last night rain was threatening all
along the lower river section.
AH records wen* wiped out last night
when the gauge at 4 p. m read 51.6 feet
with the river still rising.
The Journal of Commerce says: “The
weather in a trifle cool west of the Mis
sissippi River. Western Texas needs
rain. Estimated increase of acreage in
that State 5 to 15 per cent. Very favor
able crop reports from many sections.’’
Following are 11 a. m. bids: May,
11.60; July, 11.62; October, 11.24; Janu
ary, 11.22.
NEW ORLEANS, April 22.—Hayward
A Clark: The weather map shows
cloudy in Texas ansi Oklahoma, with
some light rain In West Texas; fair in
Central and Eastern States. Indications
are for unsettled weather, with rains in
Texas and Oklahoma; cloudy, becoming
unsettled in the Central Btutes; contln
ued fair in the A Rarities.
River News: Cairo, 45.2: Vicksburg,
51.7; Memphis, 49.4; New Orleans, 19.4.
Liverpool cables; “American mid
dling fair, 7.37d; good middling, 7.03d;
middling. 6.83d; low middling. 6.67d;
good ordinary, 6.33d; ordinary, 5.99d.”
Spot cotton brokers here say nothing
doing in spots and the market is lower
to trade.
The weekly weather report at 31
o’clock is expected to he unfavorable,
owing to the cold weather beginning of
last week.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
says: “After declining in the early ses
sion on a favorable crop report from
Texas the cotton market advanced in
the late session on steady spots, unfa
vorable reports from Texas, a serious
break in the Mississippi levee below
Greenville, Miss., and the anxiety of
shorts to get under cover. May con
tracts were bought in New Orleans by
the same people who have been buying
them recently. New Orleans May is not
very far below a spot parity, but New
York May and July are way below a
Southern spot parity. Once the market
began to advance resistance melted
away. As a matter of fact the corpse-
stahbers ran when the corpse showed
life, then hurled epithets at it from a
distance.
“Yesterday's break in the levee will
inundate many of the best cotton plan
tations in Mississippi, some of which
were inundated lust Spring and again
in January this year and again in April.
It is yet early enough for the waters to
recede in time to make a cotton crop,
but three inundations within twelve
months will probably restrict operations
because of the damage done farm equip
ment.”
The following table shows the
highest, lowest and close, to-
Shorts Cover Their Lines Early, K ether with 1he previous close:
but Prices Ease Off Later in
Absence of Support.
Stock quotations:
By C. W. STORM.
NEW YORK. April 22.—The inter
vention of the government in the Min
nesota rate cases had a good effect on
the stock market and general gains
were shown at the opening to-day.
Among them were Amalgamated Cop
per %, American Can •%, Anaconda %.
Canadian Pacific Chesapeake and
Ohio %, United States Steel common
STOCK—
Amal. Copper.
Am. Ice Sec..
High.
78
26%
77*/.
26%
Last Prev.
Sale. Close.
77/4 77/2
%, United States Rubber common L,
Union Pacific %, Reading %, Pennsyl
vania %, Northern Pacific %. Mis
souri Pacific %, Great Northern pre
ferred V Atchison shaded and Union
Pacific lost part of its advance after
half an hour.
The curb was steady.
Americans in London were strong,
•specially the Uarrlman group. Cana
dian Pacific in London moved up
sharply.
Although the market was inactive
during the forenoon stocks showed a
fractional improvement. Pennsylvania
and Reading rose %. Union Pacific
gained H to 155%. Steel common was
ji> % at 63%. Missouri Pacific, Great
Northern preferred and Canadian Pacif
ic were up The tone in the late
'orenoon was steady.
Call money loaning at 2%.
Trading was dull in the last hour and
price changes were without importance.
• 'hesupeake and Ohio gained slightly,
but fractional recessions from the noon
level were, made by Amalgamated Cop
per, American Can, Steel, Southern Pa
nic and Missouri Pacific.
The market closed steady.
Government bonds unchanged. Other
bonds firm.
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.
NEW YORK, April 22.— Money on call
2%<fV2 7 H- Time money unchanged, sixty
days 4@4% per cent, ninety days 4%Cg
4%, nix months 4%(S'4% per cent.
Posted rates: Sterling exchange 4.84
6/4.87, with actual business in bankers’
hills at 4.8665(y.4.8680 for demand and
: 83to(94 8845 for sixty-^lay bills.
Prime mercantile paper unchanged.
TRAINMEN HOLD CONFERENCE.
NEW YORK, April 22.—Conductors
and trainmen on fifty-four Eastern rail
roads will hold their first conference
with railways to-day over wage de
mands.
METAL MARKET.
NEW' YORK, April 23.—The inetal
market was firm to-day. Copper, spot
to July offered 16%; lead, 4.58 (bid);
spelter, 5.606/5.70; tin, 49.39(^49.50: zinc,
5.50(a 5.70.
Following are 10 a. m. bids May,
12.25; July, 12.07; October, 11.34; Jan
uary. 11.38
Estimated receipts for Wednesday:
1913. 1912
New Orleans 3.700 to 4,700 2,441
Galveston 4,200 to 5,200 589
SPOT COTTON MARKET.
Atlanta, quiet; middling 113-16.
Athens, steady; middling 12%.
Macon, steady; middling 12.
New Orleans, quiet; middling 12 7-16.
New York, quiet; middling 12.15.
Philadelphia, quiet; middling 12.55.
Boston, easy; middling 12.15.
Liverpool, steady; middling 6.79d.
Savahnah, easy; middling 12%.
Norfolk, quiet; middling 12%.
Augusta, steady; middling 12%
Mobile, steady; middling 12%
Galveston, steady; middling 12%.
Charleston, steady; middling 12%.
Wilmington, quiet, middling 12c.
Little Hock, steady ; middling 12c
Baltimore, nominal; middling 12%.
Memphis, steady; middling 12%.
St. Louis, quiet; middling 12%.
Houston, steady; middling 12 9-16.
Louisville, firm: middling 12%.
Greenville, quiet;
Charlotte, steady
middling 11 •*.
middling 12c.
TO-DAY’S PORT RECEIPTS.
The following table shows receipts at
the ports to-oay compared with the
same day last year:
1913. 1912.
New Orleans .
5,021 2,236
Galveston
7,033 9,244
Mobile
185 5.19
Savannah
4.285 3,362
Charleston . . .
70 559
Wilmington. . . .
267 599
Norfolk
1.114 2.982
Baltimore ...
210
Boston
84
Philadelphia. . . .
Various. .
6.122 40
Total
24,506 19.751
INTERIOR
MOVEMENT.
1913. 1912.
1 louHton
4.045 3.277
Augusta
67 869
Memphis
482 1,154
St. Louis
1.215 2,835
Cincinnati
297 837
Little Hock. . . .
154
Total.
6,106
92jf
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS.
Logan & Bryan; We look for lower
prices.
Thompson, Towle & Co.: We are very
conservative about the long side, though
as far as weather is concerned these
conditions can change very quickly.
New burger. Worms A. Newman: We
still maintain our belief in ultimately
lower levels, unless the elements Inter
fere too long or too much with the crop.
Miller A- Co.: It is a weather market.
Norden & Co.: We feel It Is better
to buy on breaks than to sell.
Hayden, Stone & Co.: It is difficult
to see what can arouse a favorable opin
ion as long as weather continues good.
Atwood, Violett & Co.: While the ral
ly may go further, we look for lower
prices.
STOCK EXCHANGE BILL.
NEW YORK, April 22. The stock ex
change incorporation bill will be consid
ered at the executive session of the
senate judiciary committee to-day at Al
ba ny.
BAR SILVER.
LONDON, April 22.—Bar silver steady
ut 27 ll-16d.
NEW YORK, April 22.—Commercial
bar silver, 60c; Mexican dollars, 48c.
MINING STOCKS.
BOSTON, April 22.—Opening: North
Butte 30%, Smelting 41, Superior Bos
ton 4. Wolverine 61, Calumet Arizona 67.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO EARNINGS.
NEW YORK, April 22.—Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad earnings for March shows
a net decrease of $1,009,000. For eight
months earnings show an increase of
$981,600.
ATLANTA MULE AND
HORSE MARKET
(Corrected by the National Stock Yards
Commission Company; C. G. Tur
ner, President.)
Mules.
14 to 14% hands, rough, good ages,
$115 to $130.
14 to 12%, finish with quality, $156 to
$180.
14% to 15 hands, rough, $130 to $170.
15 to 15% hands, finish, $180 to $205.
16 hands, with quality and finish, $205
to $230.
1« hands, heavy chunk, weighing form
1,250 to 1,400 pounds, $255 to $330.
Horses.
Southern, chunk horses, from $75 to
$110.
Southern chunk, finish. $110 to $135.
Good driving horses, quality and finish,
ranging in price from $160 to $210
Heavy draught horses, rough, $160 to
$210.
Heavy draught, horses, finish, $210 to
$300.
Am. Sug. Ref.
Am. Smelting.
Am. Locomo...
Am. Car Fdy..
Am. Cot. OIL.
Am. Woolen...
Anaconda .
Atchison ....
A. C. L
American Can
do, pref. . .
Am. Beet Sug.
Am. T.-T. .
Am. Agricul...
B. R. T. .
B. and O
Can. Pacific .
Corn Products
C. and O
Consol. Gas. .
Cen. Leather.
Colo. F. and I.
Colo. Southern
D. and H
Den. and R. G.
Distil. Secur. .
Erie
do, pref. . .
Gen. Electric.
Goldfield Cons.
G. Western ..
G. North, pfd..
G. North. Ore.
Int. Harvester.
III. Central. ..
Interboro ....
do, pref. ..
Iowa Central.
K. C. Southern
K. and T
do, pref. . . .
L. Valley.
L. and N. . .
Mo. Pacific
N, Y. Central
Northwest. . .
Nat. Lead .
N. and W. .
No. Pacific. .
O. and W.
Penn
Pacific Mail .
P. Gas Co. . .
P. Steel Car .
Reading . . .
Rock island
do. pfd. .
R. I. and Steel
do. pfd..
So. Pacific . .
So. Railway
do. pfd..
St. Paul. . .
Tenn. Copper.
Texas Pacific.
Third Avenue
Union Pacific.
U. S. Rubber
Utah Copper.
U. S. Steel . .
do. pfd.
V. -C. Chem. .
W. Union. . .
Wabash. . . .
do. pfd.
W. Electric. .
W. Central . .
W. Maryland
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RECENT BUYERS
SELLING WHEAT
Good Rains Favor Crop Prospects
and No Support Is at Hand
in the Grain Pit.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
Wheat—No. 2 red
Corn—No. 2 red ..
Oats—No. 2 red ..
110
57%
34 \
CHICAGO, .April 22.—Wheat was % to
;! gc lower this morning on the more fa
vorable weather throughout the North
west for seeding, coupled with cloudy
conditions in the winter w’heat belt,
where rain is most needed. Northwest
ern cars were more liberal and there
was a big Increase In the European vis
ible supply for the week.
There was a disposition on the part
of the big longs to continue on 1he sell
ing side of the market, and the July,
which has been given such great sup
port during the past few' days was not
as strong as yesterday.
Corn w'as strong, the principal cause
of the strength being buying by shorts
and tlie smaller offerings.
Oats were firm with corn.
Hogs at the yards were 10c lower and
the feeling in provisions was easier.
Wheat closed with losses of % to %c,
and sentiment w-as favorable to the
bear side. The fact that a round lot of
wheat is now on the Lakes, destined to
Chicago from Duluth, the amount being
placed at 2.000,000 bushels, coupled with
cloudy conditions in the Southwest and
scattered showers there, caused heavy
liquidation on the part of holders. It is
also said that increased receipts of
wheat are expected at both Duluth and
Chicago.
There was considerable May wheat:
sold by influential concerns, who bought
the deferred months instead. Cash
sales here were 35.000 bushels wheat;
315,000 corn, and 125,000 oats. Vessel
room was chartered for 250,000 bushels
corn at l%c to Buffalo.
Com closed % to %c lower and the
feeling was weak.
Oats were off %to%c.
lfog products were lower on liquida
tion by longs.
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO. April 22.—Wheat, No. 2
red, 1.076*1.1014; No. 3 red. 1.006(1.04:
No. 2 hard winter, 93@95; No. 3 hard
winter, 9l(&94 l 4; No. 1 northern spring,
$26/ 93; No. 3 spring, 886(91.
Corn, No. 2, 56% (oi 57; No. 2 white,
59; No. 2 yellow, 67@57%; No. 3.
586/
556?
56%; No. white, 57% 6(59: No. 3 yel
low. 556/ 57%; No. 4, 546055%; No. 4
white, 566(57; No. 4 yellow’, 54% @55%.
Oats, No. 2, 33%; No. 2 white. 36%@
37; No. 3 white, 34%6/35%: No. 4 white,
33%6/ 34%: Standard, 35%@36.
CHICAGO CAR LOTS.
Following are the receipts for Tuesday
and estimated for Wednesday':
(Tuesday. iWedn’sda?
Wheat 1
Corn 1
Oats
Hogs |
137
84 1
173 1
! 12,000
44
4o
119
24.000
I. 0. 0. F. SPECIAL
SAVANNAH, GA.,
MAY 27TH.
PRIMARY MOVEMENT.
WHEAT—
1913.
1912.
Receipts I 471,000 231,000
Shipments 2,442.000 281,000
corn- n |
Receipts 346,000 ! 383.000
snlpments 1,183.000 376,000
In order to properly 1o.ke care of I.
O. O. F. delegates and their frlemla
who will attend the Convention at Sa
vannah, May 28th-39th, the Central of
Georgia Railway will operate special
train, to leave Atlanta 8:40 a. pi., May
J7th, stowing only at Griffin and Macon,
and scheduled to arrive in Savannah 5:00
p. m. This train will be composed of first
claes coaches and parlor car. A passen
ger representative will accompany this
rraln to render the delegates every nec-
easary attention. In addition to this
special train, there are two other daily
trains eaoh way through without change,
leaving Atlanta 8:00 a. m. and 9:36 p. m.
Returning, trains leave Savannah 6:45
a m. and 8:00 p. m. Those leaving on
night trains, and desiring sleeping car
reservations, can make same now by ap
plying to
W. H. FOGG.
District Passenger .Agent,
Marlatta and Peachtree Streets., At
lanta. advt
OPINIONS ON GRAIN.
CHICAGO, April 22. Bartlett, Frasier
& Co.: Wheat The strength in Liver
pool and continued dry weather in the
Southwest are likely to give us a firm
market to-day.
Corn -Do not look for any advance in
prices.
Oats Very little outside buying and
May continues to be liquidated slowly.
Provisions—We look for a little firmer
market.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
NEW YORK, April 22. -Petroleum,
firm: crude Pennsylvania 2.50.
Turpentine, firm; 43% bid.
Rosin, easy; common 5.00 bid.
Wool, quiet: domestic fleece, 2S<&30;
pulled, scoured basis, 40(a60; Texas,
scoured basis, 486(62.
Hides, dull: native steers, 16%@19U;
branded steers, 154 4 (g)16%.
Coffee, steady; options opened 1 to 5
higher; Rio No. 7 on spot. 11%.
Rice, steady; domestic, ordinary to
prime, 4%6(5%.
Molasses, steady: New Orleans, open
kettie, 35@50.
Sugar.raw. steady: centrifugal. 3.366/
3.39: muscovado, 2.866/2.89; molasses
sugar, 2.61 @2.64.
New York Dental Offices
28(4 and 32i/ 2 PEACHTREE STREET.
Over the Bonita Theater and Zakas’ Bakery.
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% Gold Crowns . . . $3.00
Bridge Work . . . $4.00
All Other Work at Reasonable Prices.
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, April 22. Wheat opened
% to %d higher. At 1:30 p in. the
market was % %d higher; closed %
to %d higher.
Corn opened unchanged. At 1:30 I
p. ni. the market was % to %d higher. (
COTTON SEED Ol
Cotton seed oil quotations.
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L.
Closing.
7.07(^7.10
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads i
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will seii :
goods. Try itl
Crude Southeast
Crude Valle j
Texas crude
Closed heavy; sales 11,909 barrels.
MEW YORK COFFEE MARKET.
Coffee quotations;
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1 Opening. Closing.
11.206) 11.25 11.306/11.
. .11.216? 11.25 11.31:6i 11
• • 11-24 11.35(0 11.
10.75® 10.
. . 10.69 10.806(10.
. • 10.80 10.926/10,
• -10.95 11.056/11
. 11.056(11.15 11.176/11
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l Closed steady. Sales, 93,500 bugs/
GROCERS.
SUGAR—Per pound: Standard granu
lated 5c. New York refined 4%e, plan
tation 4.85c.
COFFEE — Roasted (Arbuckle’s)
$34.50, A AAA, $14.50 in bulk; In hags and
barrels. $21; green 20c.
RICE—Head 4%($5%c. fancy head 5%
@6%o. according to grade.
LARD—Silver leaf 13c pound, Scoco
pound. Flake White 8%c pound,
Cottoleiui $7.20 per case. Snowdrift $5.85
per case.
SALT One hundred pounds. 53c; salt
brick (pialn) per case, $2.25: salt brick
i medicated) per case, $4.85: salt red
rock per hundredweight $1; salt white
per hundredweight 90c. Granocrvstal,
per case, 25-lb. sacks, 75c; salt ozone,
per case. 30 packages, fOc; 50-lb. sacks,
30c: 25-lh. sacks 12c.
MISCELLANEOUS — Georgia cane
«vrup 37c. a?;le grease $1.75. soda
crackers 7%c pound, lemon crackers 8c,
°> ster 7c. tomatoes (2 pounds; $1.05
case, (3 pounds! $2.25, navy beans, $3.25;
lama beans 7%e, shredded biscuit $3.60,
relied oats $3.90 per case, grits (bags)
$2 40. pink salmon $7. cocoa 38c. roast
beef $:;.80, syiup 30c per gallon, Sterling
ball potash $3.30 per ease, soap $1,506*
4 per case, Rutnford baking powder $2.50
per case
DECATUR
ITS EDUCATIONAL
ADVANTAGES
A SECOND NEW Public School Building, costing ap
proximately $25,000. will be erected in Decatur before Sep
tember. The site lias been bought, plans have been ae-
eepted by the Board of Education, and work will be begun
in a few days. This is the SECOND new public school
building erected in DECATUR in three years, made neces
sary by the growth of population from 2.400 in 1910 to
about :i,ti00 to-day.
For the past year DECATUR lias operated a public
HIGH SCHOOL of three grades. Beginning in September
there will be added a FOURTH HIGH SCHOOL grade,
making if. so that boys and girls may be prepared in DE
CATUR for the best college and universities in the United
States and for LIFE ANYWHERE.
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
Grows steadily by every standard by which a great wom
an's, college is judged. To-day it ranks among the first
educational institutions of America.
BESIDES, residents of DECATUR enjoy ail the edu
cational advantages of ATLANTA, with which it is closely
connected by TWO ELECTRIC LINES, Georgia Railroad,
TELEPHONE and DRIVEWAYS.
SEND FOR BOOKLET.
DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE
DECATUR, GA.
BELL PHONE DECATUR 148
WEEKES BUILDING
MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN No. 55
Ninety Per Cent Jacob,
Woman's Wage, The Price ot Opera Seats,
And a Fee
“Thou fool, this night thy Soul
shall be required of thee; then
whose shall those things
LU KE 12:20
Friends found her in time.
BUT CONSIDER THIS: A madam of one of the houses which were
in our midst paid one of our City Fathers, a lawyer, one hundred dollars,
just twenty times the amount the girl lacked after thirty days of slavery.
Why did the madam pay the Alderman one hundred dollars?
To insure herself a peaceful residence with her mamma in the house—
never to get the lawyer to plead in open court with Recorder Broyles.
WHY did the Alderman take the fee?
Men are saying: “THANK GOD, we have in Atlanta NO one man,
three men or six men government at this time. There is safety in num
bers.”
The Chief of Police rightly closed the woman’s house. POOR DE
LUDED CREATURE!
She and those who prey upon her kind are learning at last that pro
tected vice can not be revived in Atlanta.
But the other problems—the barren and lonely room, the underpaid
girl—
These, too, will be quickly solved.
Bernard Shaw says:
“THE WAGES of prostitution are stitched into your button holes,
and into your blouse, pasted into your match boxes and your boxes of
pins, stuffed into your mattresses, mixed with the paint on your walls,
and stuffed between the joints of your water pipes.
“The very glaze on your basin and teacup has in it the lead poison
that you offer to the decent woman as the reward of honest labor, while
the procuress is offering chicken and champagne.
“YOU will not cheat the recording angel into putting down your
debts to the wrong account. ’ ’
To-day God is asking you:
“WHY do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your la
bor for that which satisfieth not?”
To-day Jesus is saying to you:
“Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me.”
You will pay her a living wage
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN
AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT
Jacob was a business man.
“If God will be with me,” he said, “And will keep me in this way
that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on —
“Then shall the Lord be my God—
“And of all that Thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto
Thee.”
Ninety per cent for himself! Ten per cent for God! Generous Ja
cob?
His favorite son, Joseph, cornered the world’s grain and enslaved the
old man and his other sons through their necessities.
And until this day we suffer from Jacob’s percentage ideas.
YOU are content if you get your ninety per cent, but you say:
“Touch not the tariff, it will lower the laborer’s wage!
“Name no living wage for girls. To do so would throw many un
skilled ones out of employment.
“If I have to pay women and girls enough for them to live upon,
why—I will employ boys and young men. Then what will become of the
girls?”
LO, THE PHILANTHROPIST! You pat yourself upon the back
for employing a woman at a wage upon which she cannot live.
To decrease your percentage, your dividends and increase her wages,
her living, might be wise!*
A factory owner said: “The average wage in my place is five dollars
a week.”
Five dollars? For that, her week’s wages, you may get a seat at the
opera, but she cannot live.
HER QUESTION is not:
“Shall I go to the Opera, and forget the barrenness of my room, the
loneliness of my life in hearing God-given music?”
BUT—
“Shall I have shelter to-night?”
For the grocer and butcher must be paid; the landlord must have his
rent; the landlady is compelled to collect the board bill, however kind
her heart may be.
One girl received four dollars a week; an inferior room and board cost
her three dollars and sixty cents a week.
The remaining forty cents a week would not meet her necessities.
For sevei*al weeks she did not pay the whole of her board.
The landlady finally said: “You must pay.”
The girl left her trunk with her and found board at three dollars a
week with the understanding that she would hold her trunk for thirty
days. At the end of that time the girl had saved three dollars; her debt
was eight.
For the lack of five dollars - ?