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TTUAHST'S SUNDAY XMERTCAN, ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, .TUNE 1, 101T
U.DBO GROCERY
Workers From 980 Stores Will
Join in March Celebrating
The Men Who Found the Bodies of Captain Scott and His
Comrades—Memorial Cross Erected to Dead Heroes
I N the photograph on the left are shown pictures of the four men who actually discovered the
frozen bodies of Captain Scott and his fellows. From left to right, they are T. Gran, assis
tant commander of the Scott Western party; T. S. Williamson, petty officer; F. W. Nelson,
biologist of the Western party; T. Crean, petty officer. Crean and Williamson are both of the
British Royal Navy. Gran, as the photograph shows, holds in his hand a quantity of hardtack,
of which the rescuers were about to make a meal. Suspended about the neck of Petty Officer
Williamson may be seen the snow glasses with which Arctic and Antarctic explorers protect
their eyes from the terrific glare of the reflected rays of the sun.
At the right is shown the cross erected on Observation Hill by the rescuing party in memory
of the immortal five. Observation Hill was used as a minor food depot. The cross, as the photo
graph shows, was made of rough timber. Upon it may be seen the words “In Memoriam’’
carved by rescuers, and beneath that the names of Captain Scott and men who died with him.
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moving pictures that cost $75,000.00 to
produce.
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Half-Holiday Pact.
Now in Progress.
Two thousand delivery wagons and
automobiles, gayly decorated, forming
a parade three miles In length, will
pass through Atlanta Wednesday aft
ernoon. The caravan will be com
posed of the wagons used by the re
tail merchants of Atlanta and the pa-
rade will mark the establishment of
MACON, GA., May 31.—The an
nual commencement exercises of Mer
cer University are now in progress,
beginning last night with the recep
tion tendered by President S. T.
Jameson to the faculty and senior
class.
The commencement sermon will be
th* Wednesday half-holiday among
the grocers.
Nearly every retail grocer has
agreed to close each Wednesday aft
ernoon during the months of June,
July and August. Only a few Insig
nificant stores are said to have de
clined to Join in the movement to
give their clerks a breathing spell
during the week. In the parade will
he the wholesale Jobbers and packers
and the ioe dealers of the city.
The parade will move from the cor
ner of Mitchell and Washington
Streets at 1:30 o’clock and move down
Washington Street to. Fair Street,
along Fair and Brotherton Streets to
Whitehall, and along Whitehall and
Peachtree Streets to North Avenue,
along North Avenue to West Peach
tree and back West Peachtree to Five
Points, where it will disperse.
Police to Head Lino.
A squadron of police will head the
parade, followed by Harry L. Sohles-
lnger and Nym McCullough, who will
bo marshals of the day. They will be
followed by the Marist College drum
corps, in a mammoth automobile. The
Greater Atlanta Boys' Drum Corps
and every' band in the city will be
scattered along the line of a thousand
wagon® of the retail grocers. Those
will be followed by the packing houses
and jobbers’ wagons Four largo uuto
trucks, each containing a band, will
follow, while the wagons of the bak
ers and cracker manufacturers and
the pickle manufacturers will come
next. The Atlantic Ice and Coal Cor
poration will be next with each of
Its 66 auto® gayly decorated, their
leaders on horseback and four bands
playing
Participating in the parade will be
the 10,000 employees of the 980 gro
cery stores 1n Atlanta and kindred
line® Joining in th«- celebration. Great
quantities of confetti have been or
dered and the streets and persons
thereon will be liberally' sprinkled
with it.
Joining in with the Atlanta mer
chants will be the retail grocers of
East Point and College Park, while
all the other suburbs are expected tu
join in the movement.
Establishment of a regular weekly
half holiday for the grocery clerks
has resulted from the untiring ef
forts of Harry L. Schlasinger. D. J.
Simmons, president of the City Sale*,
men's Association: E. L. Adams,
president of the Wholesale Grocers’
Association, and W. O. Stamps, who
is prominent in the Jobbing trade. It
will come as a pleasant break to the
grocery' clerks who work from 12 to
14 hours a day, against other trades
working days of 8 to 10 hours. Many
of the dry goods merchants have a
half holiday on Saturdays. An ef
fort will be made to have them change
the day to Wednesday and thus make
that day a general holiday.
Grocery Industry Important.
What the retail grocers have in
vested i|i Atlanta, the amount of
business they transact and the
•amount of money they pay out, 1h
interesting. They employ In their
business more than $12,000,000 of cap
ital. They pay to the Atlanta land
lords annually more than $3,000,000
in rent. They pay out every' Satur
day night to their clerks and other
help more than $80,000.
They buy more horses and mules
than any other single industry in the
city, as well as more wagons and
and harness. They distribute more
than $30,000,000 worth of food prod
ucts each year. Collectively, it is the
largest business organization in the
city.
The retail grocers will form on
Washington and Mitchell Streets,
along Washington Street and the
Washington Street viaduct, on Eas*
Hunter Street, on Capitol Square and
! the streets east of Capitol Square.
The packing house wagons will form
on Mitchell Street, west of Washing
ton Street, and Contra! Avenue and
East Mitchell Street. Commission
merchants will form on East Fair ami
Trinity Avenue. Bakery wagqns will
form on Washington Street, south of
Fair Street, and on Woodward Ave
nue. The ice and coal corporation
wagons and manufacturers will form
on Pulliam and cross streets.
The parade will assemble promptly
at 1:80 and move promptly at 3
o'clock.
Decorations to Be Showy.
During the afternoon there will be
many features of interest. There will
be special performances at all of the
theaters, while the Motordome will
have Wednesday' for its opening day,
In honor of the grocerymen.
Every wagon in the parade must be
decorated and the merchants are
bringing all of their artistic temper
ament to the fore In the planning of
the decorations. The dry goods stores
already have found themselves
swamped with orders for bunting and
flags and extra quantities have been
laid In for the occasion.
Among the retail merchants will be
found owners of many magnificent
horses and the appearance of these
well-bred animals will be one of the
features of the parade. Several of
the owners will decorate their traps
with flower*.
The postal savings bank established
by the United States Government is
not the success in Atlanta that it is in
other cities. Relatively few of its de
positors are citizens or natives of At
lanta, according to the statement of
B. W. Farrar, who Is in charge of the
postal savings department of the local
post office.
Almost any fine Saturday afternoon
a line of men can be seen threading
its way along the lobby on the Plum
Street side of the postoffico. The line
in motley, even cosmopolitan in ap
pearance. and interesting. The men
who form it are depositors in the pos
tal savings bank, and are for the most
part wage-earners whose deposits are
relatively small.
Deposits in the Atlanta branch of
the postal pavings bank aggregate lit
tle- more than $25,000, with not quite
600 depositor®.
"I don’t think that many native® of
Atlanta know’ that the bank is here or
understand its functions,” said Post
master H. L. McKee yesterday, but he
Postal Bank Grow; Here
Despite Atlanta’s Neglect
B. W. Farrar, in Charge, Says Institution Es
tablishes Confidence of Strangers.
sees possibilities for great usefulness
in the institution.
The mission of the bank, as he and
B. W. Farrar, clerk in charge, out
lined it, is considerable.
“We should like for one thing to
promote the interest and the confi
dence of foreigners.” explained Mr.
Farrar. "Then probably would stop
the steady stream of money’ that is
sent back to the old country. The
sale of international money orders is
enormous, and a large portion of the
money of these sons of other lands
goes away from the United States.”
Mr. Farrar thinks the amount of
deposits in the postal savings bank
everywhere is lessened by the restric
tion placed on depositors, by which
not more than $100 a month can be
deposited. This, he prophesied, would
be changed, and the limit of deposits
removed altogether.
Few of the depositors in the At
lanta branch are women, fewer even
than the boys. There are a number of
boyg mostly Boy Scouts, who, to ac
quire standing in their organization,
must have a savings deposit of at
least one dollar. But by far the most
of the depositors, almost 90 per cent
of the total number, arc men, and
most of them wage-earners.
Evidence of the great variety' of
personalities among the depositors in
Atlanta is borne in the records of the
local branch. The first depositor aft
er the organization of the bank was a
painter, the second a mail carrier;
others, in the order of their deposits,
were, respectively, engineer, modeler,
bookkeeper, merchant, rabbi, printer,
lawyer, school teacher, railroad man,
machinist, w’ire worker, cook,, tailor,
meter repairer, blaster, housewife and
plumber.
Little Money Withdrawn,
Little of the money' deposited has
been withdrawn, and a number of the
depositors in the Atlanta branch have
purchased Government bonds. Ac
cording to the regulations governing
the bank, “a depositor will be permit
ted to exchange the whole or any’ part
of his deposits in sums of $20, $40. $60,
$80. $100. or multiples of $100 up to
and including $600, into United States
registered or coupon bonds bearing
interest at the rate of 2 1-2 per cent
per annum.”
“So, you see." remarked Mr. Farrar,
“the bank helps out the habit of sav- i
ing.”
A few of the rules governing the \
bank are:
No person undeT 19 years old may
be a depositor.
The name of a depositor can not be i
disclosed.
Deposits must be for $1 or more, al
though postal savings cards and pos- 1
tai saving® stamps may be purchased
for 10 cents each, to be redeemed later j
when $1 worth are accumulated.
Interest at the rate of 2 per cent per
annum is allowed.
A depositor may at any time with
draw the whole or any part of his
money.
Patronage of the postal savings
bank in Georgia is less extensive than
40 other States, according to the 1912
report of the newly established de
partment just given out in Washing
ton. Deposits in Georgia up to that
time were only $48,320 In New York i
$3,632,304 had been deposited. The
State of the lowest deposits was South
Carolina, with $11,258.
According to the report however,
the postal savings ban«\ is growing, j
and Uncle Sam rv.oidlv is becomirurt
the biggest banker in the world He
is adding deposit® at the rate of $1,-
000,000 and depositors by the thou
sands every 30 days.
From February 28 to March 31, 1918.
the deposits in all the branches in
creased from $32,500,000 to $33,500,000.
and depositors from 325.000 to 335,000^
and this rate of increase kept up
through April.
According to the report for Novem
ber 30, 1912, the deposit® by States
were:
New York ...
Ohio
Illinois
California ...
Pennsylvania
Washington .
Minnesota . .
Missouri
Massachusetts
Oregon
Michigan
Colorado
Indiana
Wisconsin
Montana
Kansas
New Jersey ..
Texas
Connecticut
Idaho
Nevada
Nebraska ....
Iowa
Arlaona
Kentucky ...
.$3,632,304
. 2.432,596
. 2,271,785
. 2.216.746
. 1,512.443
. 1.246.349
. 1.239.559
. 1.132.251
. 1.104,038
. 1,059.323
. 896,007
. 774.676
. 740,240
666,265
. 580,143
533,593
. 517,408
427.114
. 322.870
. 302.244
290,348
278,243
. 252,041
. 251,661
. 242,560
Oklahoma . .$
NVvn Hampshire
Rhode Island .
Dist. of Col. ..
Tennessee
Virginia
Florida
Maine
Utah
Louisiana
Arkansas
Wyoming
Alabama
West Virginia .
Maryland
Mississippi ....
South Dakota
Georgia
New Mexico . .
North Dakota .
Vermont
North Carolina
Delaware
South Carolina
227,541
171,770
158.459
187,588
137,139
131,378
125,217
122,131
113.324
105,315
93,355
90,863
SI ,983
71,715
66,085
65,511
51.508
48.320
47.532
36,932
36,163
34.533
33,655
11,258
•have more money on deposit, but none
has so many depositors.
Thursday, when the postal savings
division was transferred to the bureau
of the Third Assistant Postmaster
General, the head of that bureau be
came the chief officer of the most
popular bank in America.
Growth Has Been Steady.
The growth of the system i® told in
the following figures:
June 30. 1911—400 offices, 11,918 de
positors. $667,145 on deposit; $56.82
per depositor.
December 31, 1911—5,247 deposito
ries, 162,697 depositors, $10,614,676 in
deposits; average of deposits. $65.24.
June 30, 1912—10,170 depositories,
243,801 depositors. $20,237,084 depos
its; average, $83.01.
December 81, 1912—12,823 deposito
ries, 310,01)0 depositor®, $30,000,000 de
posits; average, $96.77.
January 31, 1913—12.823 deposito
ries. 315,000 depositors, $31,000,000 de
posits: average, $98.41.
February 28, 1913—12.825 deposito
ries, 325,000 depositors, $32,500,000 of
deposits; average, $100.
March 31, 1913—12.823 depositories,
335,000 depositors. $83,500,000 of de
posits: average, $100.
Suspicious and timid persons now
bring their money from all sorts of
hiding places to deposit it with Uncle
Sam’s bank. Having learned that the
“faith of the United States is solemn
ly pledged to the payment of the de
posits made in postal savings deposi
tory offices, with accrued interest,”
they are not afraid to trust their sav
ings to it.
Foreign born white persons, who
used to hide their savings or send
them back home for safe keeping,
now bring them to the people’s bank,
as is proved bv statistics.
preached at the chapel tc-morrow
morning by thv Rev. W. W. Arnold,
of Buena Vista. The graduating class
will occupy reserved seats, and will
wear their caps and gowns for the
first time.
Monday morning at 10:30 o’clock
the oratorical contest for the Harde
man medal will take place in tho
chapel, with about twenty young men
participating. Monday afternoon at
5 o’clock the senior class will have
class day exercises on the campus.
That night the annual debate between
the Phi Delta Theta and the Cicero
nian Societies will take place.
Tuesday Alumni Day.
Tuesday will be alumni day. There
will be three addresses at the chapel
Tuesday morning by Rev. R. H. Har
ris, of Cairo, a graduate of Mercer
in 1861, on the “Memories of the
Past;” by A. W. Evans, of Sanders-
ville, on “An Inventory of the Pres
ent,” and by Judge W. H. Felton on
“The Cali of the Future.” At noon a
barbecue will be served on the
grounds. At 8 o’clock Tuesday night
Dr. John E. White, of Atlanta, will
deliver the annual literary address.
The faculty will lender a reception to
the graduates Tuesday night at 9
o'clock.
Graduation on Wednesday.
Wednesday, June 3, will be gradua
tion day, and also the occasion for
the diamond jubilee. An interesting
program has been arranged for the
latter affair. The law class of 1903
will also have a reunion on Wednes
day. Many of the State’s most prom
ising young lawyers were members of
this class. 1
The trustees will meet in annual
session Monday, with three matters of
general interest before them for con
sideration. These are the proposed re-
moval of President Jameson, the ef
fort to abolish the Greek letter fra
ternities, and the report of the special
committee on the alleged friction be
tween the president, the prudential
committee, the faculty and the stu
dent body.
Seventy young men will graduate
from Mercer this year, 24 being in
the law class.
ATLANTA GIRL RECOVERS
JEWELS FOR ROME MAYOR
ROME, GA., May 31.—A handsome
watch charm, recently stolen from
the home of Mayor Yancey by a
burglar, has been recovered and re
turned to the mayor by an Atlanta
girl.
The girl, whose name has not been
made public, wrote to the "Mayor of
Rome” asking If he knew Ben C.
Yancey, little dreaming that he was
the mayor himself. The letter prompt
ly vas answered and the charm re
turned. The girl found the charm on
a street In Atlanta.
WITH A’LA CASTE SERVICE
TO CINCINNATI & LOUISVILLE
More Changes Are Planned.
The act that created the system is
to be so amended as to extend and
popularize its most important fea
tures. Children under ten years old
will be permitted to have accounts,
and depositors will be given the privi
lege of drawing on their deposits.
A liberal interpretation, it is held,
will permit regulations that allow de
positors to check out their money to
pay obligations to the Postoffice De
partment. The law says that “any
depositor may withdraw the whole or
any part of the funds deposited to his
or her credit, with the accrued Inter
est. upon demand and under such reg
ulation® as the board of trustees may
prescribe.”
July 1, when the parcel post offi
cials put into effect the “collect on de
livery” feature, the Postoffice Depart
ment expects to make it possible for a
patron of a pqstofflce and a depositor
in a savings depository to draw on
his carrier Instead of having to hunt
up the exact change
The lawmakers feared to go too far
when the act was framed lest the op
position of the bankers hinder its pas
sage. Since this the bankers have
found that postal savings have helped
rather than hindered them. There are
now. 27 months after the establish
ment of the postal savings system,
more than 345.000 depositors and
about $34,500,000 deposited in the 12,-
160 offices. Some private banks may
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