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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., ST T NDAY, MAY 1R, 1013. 5 A Atlanta Families Are Brought Up Cheaply +•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +#+ +e+ +•+ +•+ +••:• +•+ +e+ $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 CATARRH OF THE 4 BLADDER< L , Relieved in j 24 Hours j Each Cap- J , »me bear* the (mIOY) 4 ► name 4 t Beware of counterfeit* i 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 White City Park Now Open LOOK AT THESE BARGAINS! TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR PLAYER PIANOS Second-hand Stock on Hand Steinway, mahogany, good condition, upright $265 Stein way, ebony, good condition, upright $225 Stetson, mahogany, good as new, upright $185 Everett $500, slightly used, upright . . $315 Everett $450, slightly used, upright . . $285 E. E. 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