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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., ST T NDAY, MAY 1R, 1013.
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Atlanta Families Are Brought Up Cheaply
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$4,000 a Year Too Much to Spend, Say Mothers
Mrs. John A. Spalding and hor children in the garden at the
Homestead, 53 Ashby Street. As they stand from left to right,
Mary Brown, Constance, Frances, Sally and Elizabeth.
General Board Favors More Bat
tleships on the Grounds of
Common Sense.
BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, May 17.—."Battle-
ships—battleships as the price of
peace!” This is the shibboleth of the
United States Navy; of the General
Navy Board; of the officers; of the
great body of the American people;
of the stalwart American Senate, and
of an increased number of the Amer
ican House of Representatives.
The General Naval Board prompt
ly denies the rumor that it had de
cided to ask for only one ship of
40,000 tons in lieu of two more bat
tleships every year.
“Never before,” said one of the
most potential members of the Gen
eral Navy Board, “has the board
been more unanimous and more em
phatic in favor of the 'ample navy’
which the common sense of the sit
uation demands.
“It does not matter whether we
have a war with Japan or not, the
practical consideration of war has
brought this nation face to face with
the most dangerous and shameful
condition of unpreparedness that ever
confronted a great people.
Humiliated Before World.
“If we were forced to war at this
time and in our condition the results
would humiliate us in our own
self-respect and in the eyes of all
nations. The ignorance, the blind
ness and the parsimony that brought
our people to the verge of this hu
miliating experience cannot be too
highly condemned and too carefully
avoided in the future
“This country will never forgive
and ought never to forgive the blind,
stingy statesmanship that will ever
permit our people to be caught again
in the condition that we are to-day!
“The spirited international nego
tiations of the last ten days have
brought the American Republic fax'©
to face with the fact that we are not
exempt from war. This the people
realize now from Maine to Califor
nia.”
Said a great Republican Senator
to-day: “We have now’ a definite and
damaging argument that Democratic
parsimony, Democratic blindness and
Democratic pork-barrel politics are
responsible for the criminal unpre
paredness of the American nation to
defend itself.
“We shall hold the Democracy
sternly responsible In the next elec
tion for this deficiency. They cannot
escape that responsibility unless they
use their great majority to enact a
great battleship policy before the
next general election.
“This Japanese flurry has put the
Democratic party sharply on the de
fensive. It is distinctly on the un
popular side. If this war had come
and Japan had done to us what our
helpless condition would have made
possible the Democratic party would
have been buried in another twenty
years' retirement from the Govern
ment.”
Four Bs tleships a Year.
The General Xaval Board is utiliz
ing this spirit to present its vigorous
program for another year. Some
of its members feel and say that in
order to regain our magnificent sec - j
ond position among the world’s
navies, lost by parsimony and the
pork barrel, that instead of one bat
tleship w’e ought to build at least
four battleships a year until w© get
back into second place.
They believe that the country will
enthusiastically sustain them.
One great battleship, says the
Naval Board, no matter how many
thousand tons its displacement, does
not increase the strength and pres
tige of the navy like two battleships.
There is an objection, too, to these
dreadnoughts of the greater class
because it is questioned whether they
could pass through the Panaca
Canal. The proposed new’ warship
would be one-tenth over the Penn
sylvania measure, and even the Penn
sylvania, with its mighty weight of
thirty thousand tons, would have
a leeway of only six feet on each
side of the canal.
Nothing is clearer now to the Naval
Board and to the whole country than
the fact that we must have a navy
for the Pacific as well as for the
Atlantic, and that each must be kept
to the standard type.
The awakening of the whole coun
try by this Japanese contention has
unquestionably reflected itself upon
the American Congress.
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer’s Statement!
Ridiculed by Many Prominent Women.
Examples Disprove Theory.
By. MIGNON HALL.
Four thousand dollars in the
minimum annual income at which,
under modern conditions, the
American head of a family can
properly rear, Support and edu
cate the average American family
of five children.
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer,
from life because they are busy work
ers. Pour thousand dollars is not
necessary for education and Joy and
health—for hospitals and district
nurses and free dispensaries will look
after the last if necessary.”
Sent to Public Schools.
Mrs. Gay had sent her own c hildren
to public schools and found them ex
cellent. The little fellows made sat-
Atlanta Estimate on
the Cost of Families
Here are some rough estimates
Atlanta folks with big incomes and
who are able to give their children
whatever they want, have named
as being adequate, they would con
sider, for the well and substantial
upbringing of five children per
year. Luxuries have not been
counted. All have children of their
own.
Fitzhugh Knox $2,500.
Mrs. Sanford Gay $2,300.
Mrs. John Spalding $3,000 or
more.
Mrs. P. F. Clarke, less than
$4 000
H. W. Campell $2,500.
Rev. C. K. Weller $2,000.
Actually demonstrated.
Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. Henry, 269
Washington Street, 7 children
$1,200.
meals. But I have always been just
as careful to see that they had plenty
and all they wanted, for children
must be fed well to build up strong
bodies.”
Food Measured Out.
Mrs. Henry said she had always
measured the food out for the cook
when she began a meal, and did not
allow her to throw away the "left
overs,” or take them home with her.
“Cold biscuit and bread are good
for puddings,” she said. "And cold rice
or grits may be used In various ways.
And foods like that are just as whole
some the second time they aro put
on the table as they were at first.”
She has sent the ohlldren to the
public schools and her oldest daugh
ter Is now In college.
"If you save on children’s apparel
and other foolish things when they’r j
little, you’ll have something laid by
for their college education when they
are grown. I expect to give all my
children the advantage of college."
It was a mistake for a woman to
think that because she married with
out knowing how to manage or how
to do things, she couldn't learn.
"I couldn't sew when I was mar
ried," she said, "and knew very little
about housekeeping. But I soon
learned it after I set my mind to l*.
Children don't have to be rich children
to be properly reared and educated
Lincoln's family never had $4 000 a
year.”
Hammonds Purchase
$500,000 Residence
Palatial Pullman House In Wash
ington To Be Occupied
for First Time.
WASHINGTON. May 17.—Mr. and
Mrs. John Hays Hammond hafe pur
chased tlie princely residence of Mrs.
George M. Pullman on Sixteenth
Street, N. W., and will spend next
season there. This house, which is
one of the Rhow palaces of the Na
tional Capital, has never been oc
cupied since its erection several years
ago by the wealthy Chicago widow.
It is understood that the Ham
monds paid a half million dollars for
the Pullman house, including the fur
nishings.
It was the defeat of her son-in-law*,
Representative Frank Lowden, for
re-election to Congress that dissuad
ed Mrs. Pullman from living in Wash,
ington, although she had spent $500,-
000 in preparation for such a resi
dence.
The house typifies to the minutest
detail the period of Louis XIV. It
is distinguished by eighteen bedrooms
and baths ami a famous Italian gar
den.
Bryan Punch Causes
Grape Juice Ache
After Effects of Temperance Drink
Secretary Favors Drive Official
Washington to Apple Juice.
WASHINGTON. May 17.—The
Bryan grape juice punch does not
ngree with the "490" here. A myste
rious sickness follows the using of
the grape juice. Among the victims to
the new disease, which one Jovial dip
lomat who escaped calls “the grape
Juice ache,” are diplomats, officials,
debutantes and members of resident
society, not to mention several epicu
rean members of high Judicial sires.
Washington Is turning \#lth relief
to apple Juice, which has come Into
favor.
AGED 92, SHE CUTS TEETH.
PRINCETON, IND, May 17/—Mrs.
Johann Tlbbett, who yesterday cele
brated her ninety-second birthday, has
reoently cut three teeth which are as
sound as those of earlier years. She
suffered much while cutting them.
STODDARDIZE!
Mens Suits Dry
Cleaned and Pressed
For $1.00
A Wagon for a Phone Call
We pay Charges (one way) on Out-of-Town Orders of $2 or mora.
Stoddard
126 Peachtree Street Dixie's Greatest Dry
Bell Phone. Ivy 43
Atlanta Phone 43
Cleaner and Dyer
U.S. RUSHES TROOPS TO
POSTS IN THE PACIFIC
Continued From Page 1.
ent station because of the belief that
every move would be construed as
part of a general war plan. He said,
in part:
“Reports that this Government Is
facing a crisis because of the Calt-
fornia-.Tapanese situation and Is has
tily preparing for an international
struggle are Justified only so far as
the public will permit itself to be
misled by the image making power of
a certain and unscrupulous portion
of the press.
“If there has been the slightest
justification for the publication of
these war scares, I would be the first
to want the people to know the truth.
However, there is not, and I protest
against the highly-colored misinfor
mation which the people are now be
ing fed by some publications."
BANKRUPT SALE
WHOLESALE stock groceries, fix
tures and accounts, Jacob
Chomsky & Co., Atlanta, Ga. Geor
gia, Pulton County—By virtue of
an order of the Hon. W. T. New
man, Judge U. S. District Court,
in the matter of Jacob Chomsky,
bankrupt, I offer for sale the stock
of groceries at 55 East Alabama
Street, Atlanta, Ga., invoicing
$7,141.51, fixtures $263.25, mule,
wagon and harness $175, and ac
counts amounting to about $4,000.
Sale will take place at the first
meeting of creditors in the office
of P. H. Adams, Referee in Bank
ruptcy, 513 Grant Building, At
lanta, on Tuesday, May 20, 1913,
at 10 a. m., at which time sealed
bids will be received and opened
in the usaal manner, subject to
approval of referee. For inspection
of the stock and inventory inquire
of the undersigned. H. A. Ferris,
Receiver, 402 Rhodes Bldg., At
lanta, Ga. Moore & Pomeroy, At
torneys for Receiver.
Coast Artillery Is
Rushed to Honolulu.
PITTSBURG, May 17—Under se
cret orders from Washington, four
companies of coast artillery are be
ing rushed from the Atlantic Sea
board to Honolulu, by way of San
Francisco. Two companies accou
tered on a war footing passed
through Pittsburg at 6:35 o’clock on
a special train. The men were cheer
ing and waving their hats as they
passed through.
From sources along the line trav
eled by the train so far It was ascer
tained to-night that the officers had
instructions to do no talking as to
the purpose of the trip. T\vo com
panies of Atlantic coast artillery,
Nos. 143 and 144. left Jersey City this
morning over the Pennsylvania Rail
road.
questions are to be settled there. They
should be settled peaceably as pos
sible. But does any one suppose we
should submit to arbitration the land
law’s or the school laws of our Pacific
Coast States or the question of who
should be admitted thereto as citi
zens, residents or land owners? And
yet it is perfectly evident that unless
we have an adequate navy on the
Pacific Coast we either must submit
these questions and every other
foreign problem to international ar
bitration or adjust our domestic laws
and our national interests to suit the
interests or desires of any foreign
country which has a navy strong
enough to impose them upon us.”
“ U. S. Prey of Nations
With Present Navy.”
■WASHINGTON, May 17.—Senator
Poindexter, of Washington, to-day
declared that unless the United States
be prepared to permit other nations
to dictate its internal policy, a large
navy must be provided for the Pacific
Coast.
“We have no adequate navy on the
Pacific, so it is needed most there,”
said Senator Poindexter. “Our most
difficult and pressing international
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Capt. Hobson Says: ‘Japan
Is Supreme on the Sea. ’
CHICAGO, May 17.T-Captain Rich
mond P. Hobson, Spanish war hero
and Congressman from Alabama, said
here to-day:
“Japan is supreme on the sea
right now. It is impossible for the
United States to make the Japanese
come to terms.
“For two years I have urged send
ing a fleet to the Pacific. It is too
late now. The Panama Canal is not
opened and it is a long way around
the Horn.
“If we did have a large navy now
and if we had a fleet near Japan that
country would soon come to our
terms. All we can do now' is to take
what Japan wishes tb give us.
“Japan has a large army while the
United States has only a small
standing army and a smaller navy.”
“American Is Entirely
Right”—Sen. Broussard.
NEW YORK, May 17—Senator-
elect Broussard, of Louisiana, w’ho
made a speech to the Congressional
Committee, denouncing the opponents
of a greater navy for lack of patrio
tism, said:
"While I do not believe there is
danger of our having w r ar with Japan
the situation is sufficiently grave to
admonish the opponents of an ade
quate navy to turn about face and
join with us in expanding our naval
establishment to the proper propor
tions.
“The American is entirely right in
its attitude, and I congratulate it
upon its firm and insistent advocacy
of a greater navy.”
SPECIAL MUSIC FEATURES
CHURCH SERVICES SUNDAY
The musical program at the ser
vices to be held at the North Ave
nue Presbyterian Church Sunday will
be rendered by the following as mem
bers of the choir: Miss Mamie Cly-
burn, soprano; Miss Mabel Whitney,
contralto; C. N. Anderson, tenor; J.
R. Regnas, basso, and Joseph Ragan,
Jr., organist and director.
Special numbers will mark the
music at both morning and evening
services.
of Pennsylvania, member of the Ways
and Means Committee of the National
House of Representatives, made that
statement somewhere the other day
and got away with it.
But a whole lot of Atlanta folks
think he got his facts mixed or some
thing—his figures are too high.
Considering that most people, they
say, have an income of something
around only a thousand dollars a year,
and have to get along on that, they’d
be mighty few juveniles in this sec
tion being "properly” brought up If it
took $4,000 a year to do it.
A number of wealthy citizens, a
minister and an insurance man, as
well' as a mother w'ho has actually
supported and educated a family of
seven children on $1,200 a year for
several years, declare that Mr. Pal
mer's figures cheerfully subscribe to
extravagance.
Economical Management.
They say that beyond question with
economical management and under
the present system of public schools
and state universities, there is no rea
son why the children of the poor can
not be as w’ell reared and fitted 10
take their places in the world as the
children of the rich.
One man said that sentiments like?
Mr. Palmer's wer$ calculated to be
positively harmful in making “aver
age citizens” who get small pay and
have large families discouraged and
unhappy with their condition.
The amounts given in the table do
not mean automobiles nor finery, they
said, but they do mean actuai com
fort, proper food and clothing and
good educations.
With these Incomes the following
things are necessary:
Economy in household affairs.
Inexpensive but serviceable
clothes.
Public school education in
younger years, with savings to
ward college.
“Four thousand dollars a year ,o
support five children leaves a big
margin,” said Fitzhugh Knox, who has
seven little folks of his own. “Cutting
off unnecessary luxuries, I figure it
wouldn’t cost me more than $500
piece a year to take care of mine well.
Besides feeding, clothing and school
ing them ” he laughed “that woul j
buy their tickets to the picture shows.
And it would most anybody’s chil-
dren.”
Too Much Bad for Children.
Mrs. Sanford Gay, whb has six
lovely children, three girls and three
boys, said she thought it much better
for little people not to be given ev
erything in the world they asked for.
“It makes stronger men and women
out of them,” she declared. “The less
money they have to spend that they
do not earn themselves is better for
them. A child cannot learn too soon
that work—service—is not slavery but
Is noble and dignified. For this reason
I make my children do some definite
task to earn what I give them, and I
do not give too liberally. This makes
them have to plan and put by for
a desired object.
“So many times when a rich man’s
son goes wrong, it isn’t just because
he is a rich man’s son—it’s because
his father gave him promiscuously
what he wanted and did not teach
him he had any responsibilities..
“The children of poor men learn re
sponsibility and their wives are their
helpmates and companions. The poor
also have the happiness of planning.
A rich man may fail in business be
cause members of his family are not
his chums and partners—they have
no conception of his burden. On small
incomes people may get great joy
isfactory and splendid progress ;n
them. She thought the greatest waste
with most people was in clothes. Chil
dren did not need fine garments. If
what they wore was clean and whole
and they had plenty of changes, that
was all that was necessary.
Mrs. P. F. Clarke said practical!/
the same thing. She also sent her
children to public schools. She dressed
them very plainly, usually In white
because she found it most economi
cal in the long run.
“If little folks are taught to be
perfectly truthful and honest, kind
and natural to everybody and to do
their school and other work well, it
will make thoroughbreds out of them,
whether they be rich or poor.”
The high cost of living with many
people she continued was that they ■
did not conserve the waste of their
households.
“There would be a difference lr*
saving of loose ends were watched.’’
she told the reporter. “Things should
be taken care of and made to last.”
Mrs. John Spalding said the trouble
with most people was that they took
children too hard. While it was not
possible to give a direct estimate of
what she considered adequate for the
maintenance of five children for th<-
year, she knew it could be done for
considerably less than $4,000.
Joy From Simple Things.
“Children get much Joy out of
simple things, usually than they do
out of expensive ones, anyway," she
said laughing. “A sand pile and a
bucket and spade are far more dear
to a youngster’s heart than a stack
of mechanical toys. And there’s real
health for the child in the sand pile. ’
She, too, advocated public schools.
A child grew to be more cosmopoli
tan, unselfish and capable by having j
to take its place among its school - '
mates than if always sheltered or I
pampered. Mrs. Spalding has five
beautiful little girls.
Rev. C. K. Weller, speaking df his
various pastorates, said the average
citizen made only about $1,500 a year, j
or less. But their children lie noticed j
—and they usually had several—were
not raised ignoramuses, or in want. I
“People get stranded only when I
they try to live beyond their Incomes
or try to make a better show than
their neighbors," he said. “This is
wrong, because it sets a bad exam
ple to their children who should learn
self denial. Luxuries are more ap
preciated when they come few and
far between.”
H. W. Campbell, insurance man,
said that with six in the family last
year—four children—his expenses had
been, not counting luxuries, $2,784.
Costs Only $1,200 a Year.
Mrs. B. B. Henry, who has proved
It possible to live well on $1,200 with
seven children said that that figure
also included the expenses of herself
and husband. She always maintained
a cook, a part of the time when
the babies were small, a nurse.
These were the secrets of her suc
cess:
She did not buy extravagantly.
She watched the kitchen waste
and utilized the “left overs.”
She did her own sewing.
And yet she did not stint—did
not have to.
• “I simply plan,” she said, “when it
comes to clothes, I make a note of
what I’m going to need and get just
that. I don’t buy promiscuously, I fig
ure from good, durable quantity—not
quality. If I find it cheaper to buy
material and make garments, I do
that. But if it isn’t cheaper, then
I f« t them ready made.
“I figure on good substantial, nour
ishing food, with meat once a day—
at 1 o’clock. My children have al
ways been well because I have taken
care that they didn’t overload their
stomachs at morning and evening
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