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4 B 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. Commencement Exercises of Bap tist University at Macon A Master Production in five (S) complete reels. Hsstory’s greatest battle shown in moving pictures that cost $75,000.00 to produce. Peachtree BRING THIS AD Examination Cleaning Painless Extraction Until June 10th we have decided to make lar $10 set of whalebone teeth for $3.00. Lightest and strongest plate known. Guaranteed for 20 Call early and avoid the rush White Crow Special Opei Crown §2.00 OUR OFFICES ARE COOL AND SANITARY Eastern Painless Dentists 38? PEACHTREE ST ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR NEAR W ALTON 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 EXCURSION RATE TO THE EAST VIA SEA- {j BOARD. $20.85 Baltimore and return from Atlanta, proportionate rates from } other points. On sale June 5. 6. 1 7. New steel dining cars, a la \ carte service, steel sleeping and 5 observation cars. Full informa- \ tion and reservations at City ) Ticket Office. 88 Peachtree. White City FarkNovv Olmi