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1 A ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1013. PRDSPERi I f ERA SEEH Georgia Is To Be Envied, Declares Governor Slaton DYGEORGIA Biggest Money Croji in Years Ik Already Assured Farmers, While chants Are Jubilant. ieved To Be City Mer-| - Continued From Preceding Page. mules. In pus! years he has done this, but this year Georgia this year produced the largest corn crop in crops also were good. It would In The hav and oat he will not. its history, ruinous to •'or- >pend the proceeds even from 14-cent cotton for 77 cent corn, tunately, in 1913 Georgia will not. There is some difference of opinion just now as to the proha- Ole size of the crop in thin State. Gentlemen otherwise calm and serene are wont to grow purplish of fare and thump desks when the subject is argued. J. D. Price, Commissioner of Agri- ulture for the State, nays Georgia will gin 2,000,000 bales of cotton. He believes dry weather has lopped 400,000 to 500,000 bales from the early prospect. A. I*. Coles, who has made the es timate for the Central Hank and Trust Corporation for seven years and missed it not more than 50,000 bales in the seven, puts the crop at 2,600,- 000 hales. A favorite estimate is 2,- 500,000 bales. Other figures stand in >rder between these two extremes. GREAT PROFIT ASSURED Just to stay out of the argument, 15,250,000 hales has been selected as the basis for computations given here. It does not affect the argument. If Ihe crop is 2,000,000 hales, Georgia still will make an enormous profit If Georgia's crop is 2,600,00 bales 4.11 the better. As to 14-cent cotton it is not in impossibility, but a probability Thirteen cents now is being paid at Savannah for middling That part of the crop which has been ginned is being sold freely. Although little has been said about it. there undoubtedly is a good deal of "distress cotton" on the market —cotton sold to pay debts which are pressing. With continued reports «*f bad weather In the West, or anything like an early frost, and consequent shortened yield, the mar ket may Jump again. And there is little cotton left for the milTs of the world to use. The visible supply at the end of the cot - ton year. August 30, was in round figures only 2,0**0,000 bales. The crop has been estimated at 12,900,000 bales. That leaves 14,900,000 hales for the world to use, and the mills of Eu rope, Japan. India, China and the United States want 16,000.000 bales yearly now, the best authorities agree. It looks like a “bull" year. \«eorgia has been through the test of fire. The year has been an ordeaL But harvest time finds sagacious business men in Jubilant mood Cheerfulness amounting almost to exultation Is the keynote of senti ment to-day among the shrewdest. Expressions of the city’s recognized perity dispensed collusion to makt Georgia this ^ ^ KOKGIA is to be envied. The season now opening will bring to this most favored State the blessings of plenty and pros- with lavish hand. Kvery circumstance is in this a record year. year will make a reasonable cotton crop. The other States will have short yields. Georgia’s, then, will he big in relation to the total, and every Georgian should get good prices for his cotton. Hut that is not all. The best pi lions which come into the State for for hay, corn and oats. Georgia this year raised what seems con- largest corn crop in its history rt of it is that not all the mil- cotton will go out this year ceded to he the It has hav and oats in large quantities as well, while the nation s yields of all these feed stuffs is short, because of drouth. Georgia lias every climate from the cold winters of North Georgia, which serve to perfect the apples of Habersham County, to the almost tropical mildness of the coast, where you can see rice fields. Between are corn and cotton, oats and hay, peaches and melons, sugar cane, yams and potatoes. \\ e depend, not on ditches which may go dry. but upon the kindly Almighty, and are not disappointed. And in State live the nation’s finest people. What more could Georgia ask if —GOVERNOR JOHN M. SLATON rains from the this wonderful* Hivi mood in the spring, Mr. Moore has been converted into an optimist of the extreme type, j "Everything looks good to me," says Mr. Moore. "The Chamber of Commerce foresees unrivaled prosper ity for Atlanta, and remarkable ex pansion. Plans and projects in sight, new factories and business house 1 Inquiring for locations, and a dozen other hopeful signs give rise to our optimism. "Business done by life insurance companies is ay good a barometer of And without making any unusual ef- I fort we are doing a greater volume of business than ever before. "Reports to us from our agents all J over the South show the crop condi- | tlons in this section to be exception- ' ally good. Coarse grains and cotton promise great yields, and this, too, in a year when the yield of other sec- J lions will be curtailed, and prices consequently go higher. There will be business this coming year for every j man of energy and enterprise, anil i the South will g<> straight ahead with • Its development." e Suffragett +#v -!«•»!- Keith Bars Jokes Them Under Ban in Theaters leaders are cast of pr< unanimous perity. in their fore- Looks for Huge Crop, Easily 2,600,000 Hales Country Hanker Expects Moderate Crop, Hig Prices It is interesting to know what the country hanker thinks of all this. P. I* Rich, of Colquitt, was in Atlanta the past week. The country banker, as typified by Mr. Rich, does not believe Georgia is going to make such a wonderful crop. He doesn’t think it will go to 2,500,- 00ft bales. He does think prices for cotton will he high and that Georgia, with two million, or, say, two million end a quarter bales, will get more money than it has In some years for huge crops. . The country banker finds himself able to get all the money he needs in New York and Atlanta at a rate which is not excessive. lie believes that the remarkable ginners* report of September 1 does not spell a great crop so mutii as it does an early movement. 4. P. Coles, of the Central Bank and Trust Corporation, Is convinced here will be a huge crop In Georgia, ind he never before has missed it ar. Ho writes to the country hanks: "We have made careful Inquiry and onsiderable personal inspection of lie crops of Georgia. Information ompiied from reliable sources leads as to believe that we are on the eve of harvesting a bumper crop in Geor gia, not only of cotton, but of corn. We believe that with an open fall and a reasonably late frost the cotton crop in Georgia will easily roach 2,600,000 bales and that the corn crop is prob ably by far the best that has ever been produced in this State, all of >rgia which means prosperity ir at least temporarily. "There is no reason why a suffi cient amount of funds can not be ob tained to move the cotton crop, pro vided the bankers, farmers and mer chants work In harmony. Country bankers, especially those located In the cotton districts, should endeavor to-educate the farmers to the habit of depositing che< ks received for the sale of cotton and paying their debts by check. This would go a long way toward relieving the currency strin gency during the cotton-moving pe riod. "We confidently expect a prosper ous fall and good business.” ('rushers Foresee Busy Season in Southeast Cotton seed crushers are prepar ing for one of the greatest years in their history in Georgia. They ex pect a crop of 2,500,000 bales, and ex pect to crush, in round figures, 900,- 000 tons of seed, or just about the same urnount as was crushed in 1911 when the banner crop was grown. I a G. Neal, vice president of the Empire Cotton Oil Company,* one of the largest corporations in the Geor gia cotton seed trade, says the Em pire’s mills in South Georgia, number ing seven, have been operating about ten days. "Seed now is bringing about $20 a ton." said Mf. Neal, "and Is yielding about 39 gallons of good quality oil to the ton. With the exception of the fact that there is considerable mois ture in the seed, there are no unto ward factors to be considered this year. We look for an excellent sea son. City Hanker's Views Give Cheerful Analysis Wholesalers Are Husy Replenishing Retail Stocks "I see no reason," says Robert F. Maddox, vice president of the Amer ican National Bank, "why 1914 should not find the whole United Slates en tering upon a period of unsurpassed prosperity. "Now, just take stock of the year just closing Notwithstanding the fact that the cotton crop for 1912 was 1,000,000 bales short of the 1911 crop, there have been no failures of im portance among bunks or business houses. The failures were few and. in Georgia, of comparatively little im portance. That shows the banks and mercantile houses were In good shape financially and could take care of their customers who have gone through a j>eriod of depression which was more or less world-wide. "The fall season opens with every assurance of a cotton crop 500.000 bales larger than last year and raised at less expense than any previous fall collections. The farmers will he able to pay their obligations to the country’ merchant. He will bo able to pay the wholesalers In the clt les, and the wholesalers in turn will reduce their indebtedness to the city banks. This is sure to make money easier after the crop moves, and all lines of businetw are bound to feel the good effect of the splendid period of pros perity now so promising:. “I believe the further consideration by the Senate of the currency bill and the expressed desire of the Senate committee to ttel all the facts con nected with the proposed legislation Is certain to lead to the passage of a wise and conservatively planned rnea sure.. "if this Is true and suelt a bill Is passed, it will eliminate for all time the danger to the country which •rises every fall from the fear or having insufficient currency to move crop ever grown; better and more j the crops. This will, therefore be of scientifically cultivated. Front every special benefit to the South and the point of view this augurs a splendid ' West, and 1 see no reason why IttM trade for fall. : should not find the whole i'nited "If the crop experiences no backset, j States entering upon a period of un- we can reasonably expect excellent I surpassed prosperity." ’Flush ' Year Is Time To Learn Economy Frank Hawkins, president of the Third National Bank, is not given to yperbole. Yet he waxes enthusi astic when drawn into conversation ibout the crop outlook and the busi ness prospects for Georgia thi® sea son. “There is a general cheerful feei ng." he explains. "Some of the coun try merchants and the city whole salers report the best business they nave had for several seasons, and. of ours*', they expect to do even better >vhen the cotton crop moves "Outstanding obligations—some of them, to tell the exact truth, older than they should be—will be wiped out by the present crop and settle ments pausing from hand to hand up the line shov'd make money easier all around. "Hut this i® the time when 1 would preach thrift it is something of an absurdity to preach thrift to a man who is ’broke.’ But now that the Georgia farmer and the Georgia mer chant have money in their pockets, or at least have money in sight, they should practice thrift. They should fort f> themselves for the possible lean years. I hope there will be no lean year®, but history teaches us to believe there will be. "Remembt-r recent history. That is all 1 would ask. Remember the ban ner crop of 1911, the extravagances which followed, and then the short crop of 1912. and what befell. If only the farmer will keep his money from burning a hole in his pocket, this rea son will result in permanent good for Georgia.” Mills E. Ragan, one of the city’s prominent wholesalers and holder of extensive real estate, believes the South is entering upon one of the most prosperous eras It has known for years. "We have a splendid ‘house trade,’ ” said Mr. Ragan. "Buyer* both from the city an t country are thronging into the wholesale houses to replen ish stock® with the advent of fall re tail buying. "It seems to me the South is en tering upon one of the most pros perous eras in its hisloiy. The cot ton crop look* fine, and the price does, too. All indications are that the farmers are selling a® quickly a® possible and paying their debts. Ev eryone is feeling good and looking forward to the best business in many years. The outlook is excellent.” "Business is good. It has increased greatly this season, and show's every promise of growing eVen more," says Ernest L. Rhodes, wholesale milliner. “The Atlanta houses in our line have had a remarkable volume of sales. How much of this is due to general business conditions and how- much to the energy and enterprise of Atlanta jobbers, continually invad ing new territory, territory which al ways has been conceded h* retofore to other cities, I can not tell without close analysis of sales records. But In all probability, the greater business is due to both factors. "At any rate, sales are larger. That’s the main thing, after all. "If the farmers, the retailers and the merchants who sell to them will now only take advantage of theii prosperity to liquidate their obliga tions, then we shall have ideal condi tions. And 1 believe this will be done." Whitehall Street Filled With Autumn Shoppers Vaudeville Magnate Won to Performers From Making- Cause Forbids Light of Tt. Once upon a time, and not so long ago as six months, you went to a vaudeville show and found yourself laughing—or frowning, according to your convictions—at the merry jests that were cracked in the name of woman suffrage. That was truly once upon a time. It occur® no more at the Forsyth Theater in Atlanta, n_»r In any of those show-houses on the Keith vaudeville circuit. The secret of the new order is that Mr. B. F. Keith, magnate of the two- a-day world, has been converted to woman suffrage. Ar so it seems. Pos sessing at least some authority, he posted the notice that in his theaters all jokes tending to make light of the "votes for women" movement would be barred. Suffragettes everywhere were glee ful. No person likes to see the cause that is near and dear to his heart placed in the class of the mother-in- law and the hobble skirt for actor people to make fun of. The order of Mr. Keith does not apply to the Forsyth in Atlanta di rectly. He owns personally a string of houses in the East, and it is only these that he can command. But be cause he is Mr. Keith and the head of what is probably the most extensive booking agency for vaudeville people, hi® wishes are somewhat like com mands. No actor who travels out of the Keith offices, whether he play in the Keith theater 1 ' or not, is going to risk offending the great man. And so the suffrage joke has fallen Into lean days. The Keith mandate is one of a se ries that marks the regeneration of the variety stage. Some years ago Mr. Keith ordered that words bor dering on the profane should not be spoken in his houses. Last winter he barred the ancient mother-in-law joke. Now the suffrage prohibition. West Point Schools 'Immortals to Hear Break Roll Record Lecture on ‘Tango’ Great Growth Is Noted and Building | Jean Riehepin Will Address Academy Is Remodeled to Meet j on Subject, but It’s a Play, Demands. \ Not a Dance. T IT GOLDFIELD i Storm Sweeps Through Nevada Town and Thousands Are Lost in Property Damage. GOLDFIELD, NEV., Sept 18.—Two women were drowned and many thou sands of dollars’ damage dofie by a cloudburst and electric storm sweep ing through the center of this town, beginning at XI o’clock to-day and lasting three hour®. Scores of houses were swept down through the two principal gulches In the camp by tor rents several feet deep. Telegraph poles and bridges were destroyed and electric power cut off. Crowds of volunteers are helping in the recovery of damaged property belonging to the sufferers. No seri ous interruption, was caused to th 3 mines. The dead are Mr®. Degarmo. wife of a liveryman, and an unknown Frenchwoman. All the building" on First street were practically demolished. Ylany lives were saved by bravery of the rescuers. COLLEGE HEAD President of Franklin Declares Epithet Hurled at Mother Pro voked Assault on Aged Sire. Washington to Lose Most Noted Beauty Mrs. Spencer Cosby Accompanies Husband to New Post as Military Attache. Special Cable to The American. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Wash ington will soon lose (I its most beau tiful woman." for Mrs. Spencer Cos by, wife of the newly appointed mil itary attache of the American Em bassy in Paris will accompany her husband to the French capital in a few’ day®. Prince Christian of Prussia, during his recent American visit, saw Mrs. Cosby in Washington and exclaimed: "There is the most beautiful Ameri can woman I have ever seen.” Mrs. Cosby has a fragile, delicate beauty, and her arms and hands have been pronounced by sculptors to be fault less in proportion. TERRE HAUTE, INI).. Sept. 13.— With the Grand Jury ordered to in vestigate the attack made by I>r. I A. Hanley, president of Franklin Col lege. upon his father, Calvin Hanley, at the latter’s home in Middleton Thursday, excitement has become in tense. Dr. Hanley was threatened with violence by friends of his aged father to-day when he came from In dianapolis. Earlier Dr Hanley issued a state ment declaring the attack was justi fied because his father had treated his mother inhumanly, and that h- was forced to the attack when he learned his father "called my motho an unspeakable name and wished sh»- were in hell.” Dr. Hanley, a leading educator of Indianapolis, formerly pastor of the Rockefeller church in Cleveland, came, it is understood, to the home of his father and demanded an apology. When the apology for the alleged insult was net forthcoming, the son proposed whipping the father, and in resisting, the older man fell and suf fered serious injury. In his statement Dr. Hanley ad mitted striking the blow. "I tried not to hurt my father seri- ousty,” he said, "and I don’t think that I did. I was brought to the deed by my father’s continued cruelty to mother. "For 25 years my mother has suf fered inhuman treatment, arid I have stood by, but when I heard he call *1 my mother an unspeakable name and wished she were ‘in hell,’ I could be still no longer. "I owe everything to my mother When I was a boy. my father would w'ant me to leave school to help on the farm. But mother picked the ap ple® or gather*?- he corn that I might not miss a day from school. "But despite everything, I still love my father, and I will do anything to help him. Only he shall not abuse mother. “I know pot what effect this bitte: experience will have on my future- usefulness. Whatever that may be, I do not see how I could have done oth erwise. I now know I ought to have taken matters in hand years ago.” WEST POINT, Sept. 13.—The for- Special Cable to The American. . . , r. »• c , PARIS. Sept. 13.—Paris has been ty-fifth annual session of the West Point public schools has opened, with Along Whitehall street, the center of city retail trade, the sentiment has been brighter throughout the year than in some other localities. City retail trade has held up unexpectedly well. Atlanta has not felt the de pression reported from smaller cen ters. But the advent of fall weather, or perhaps just a foretaste of it, has put life into business in a way which has surprised even these merchants. “We are reordering certain lines already. That, to any one acquaint ed with the retail business, is the most emphatic presentation I ^ can make of business conditions in White hall street," said W. H. Brittain, president and manager of High's. “Our September business to date is much larger than it was at this time last year. People are eager for new things. Mail orders have started coming In rapidly. It is a regular revival of trade. "Shoppers are numerous. It is not a question of going out after them. They are coming to the stores. Peo ple are anxious for the new things, for the better class of merchandise. Stocks have been low'. Every one lias bought sparingly since the first of the year, and the result now is an active movement ail along tlie line." "Just a little more cool weather, such as we have had a few days this past week.” said J. 1*. Allen, "and fall business will surprise every one. People are anxious to buy. The stores are crowded. The salespeople are busy. The retailers have every cause to congratulate themselves.” the largest enrollment of pupils since their organization. The Board of Education, antici pating an overflow of pupils, had made every preparation in the way of room and teachers The building is equipped with san itary drinking fountains, electric lights, electric bells, electric clocks, telephones and all other modern con- i venlenees. The chair of English and history recently made vacant by the death of Miss Naomi Wells is being filled tem porarily by Mrs. C. F. Pattillo, of West Point. Mr. Walter P. Thomas, who is now serving his seventh year as super intendent, is devoting his time and efforts for the continuous growth and betterment of the schools. excited for some days past by the report that Jean Riehepin, the dis tinguished dramatist, wno in his younger days forsook his family hearth for the love ot a great actress, is about to defy conventions and stir up more scandal by addressing the immortals of the French Academy on the subject of “The Tango.” It now turns out that the "tango" of M. Riehepin is a new comedy which he has completed for the Theatre Marigny in collaboration w'ith Mad ame Riehepin. Next month, at a public meeting of the venerable academy, he will read extracts from the play. THIS WEEK BIJOU MATINEES DAILY 2:30 NIGHT SHOWS FOURTH WEEK OF THE JEWELL - KELLEY COMPANY PRESENTING THE THRILLING SENSATIONAL MELODRAMATIC SUCCESS A MAN OF MYSTERY The Most Mysterious Detective Story Ever Given the Stage. DON’T MISS THIS ONE. PRIEST WEIGHING 400 * POUNDS.FOUND DEAD DECATUR, ILL., Sept. 13.—Father H. Gesenhaus, a priest at Shelbyville, was found dead in bed to-day. He weighed 400 pounds and measured 72 inches around the waist. Early Trade Opening Amazes Col. F. J. Paxon ATLANTA’S BUSIEST THEATER r ADC VTU WEEK OF DAILY AT 2:30 r UKb I 1 81 SEPT. 15TH. AND 8:30 P. M. A COMBINATION OF KEITH STARS NEXT WEEK IDA BROOKS HUNT COMPANY OFFERING “THE SINGING COUNTESS” THE LADY DAINTY BESSIE WYNN THE SINGING COMEDIENNE AND OTHERS MME. BESSON METROPOLITAN COMPANY DANCERS BIG CITY FOUR T ,V«B£ l NOVELTY GRAHAMS MARTIN KENNEDY BERNARD REINHOLD GO. IN “HOW H0FFMEISTER DID IT" SECURE SEATS EARLY! C hamber of Commerce Prophesies Rapid Growth As he«!^ of a lite insurance com- and president of the Chamber ommeroe, Wilmer L*. Moore has exceptional opportunities t<> study the trend of events and the condition of buHiness Prom rather an apprehen- F. J. Paxon is amazed at the early opening of the fall trade. "1 was surprised," says Mr. Paxon, "to return here in August and And fall ready-to-wear goods moving well. Millinery is moving particularly ear ly There lias been a good increase in sales volume. Both the number of sales and the average amount of sales has increased. "We expect a remarkable year, a steady growth and a rapid one through the next year. "1 am speaking not only for the business with which I am most inti- \ \ mately connected, but also for other j enterprises in Atlanta of which I I have accurate knowledge, when I say j that the resumption of activity al- j ready seen, with the cotton crop not j generally moving yet. Is something . at which to marvel. "Georgia is to be envied, and noth- II ing at the conference of Governors 1 ! in the West attracted more atten- \ tion than Governor Slaton’s speech • in which he extolled *the virtues of 1 his State." AT BAPTIST TABERNACLE SEASON 1913-14 WILL PRESENT lO-TEN CELEBRITIES-IO KNEISEL QUARTET AND FRIEDA SIEMENS. SENATOR ROBERT M LA FOLLETTE. DETECTIVE WILLIAM J. BURNS, CHICAGO GLEE CLUB MALE QUARTET, RIHELDAFFER-GAILEY COMPANY. BENJAMIN CHAPIN IN “LINCOLN." THE DUNAWAY COMPANY. FRANK DIXON. ORATOR: SID W. LANDON. C H A R ACT E RI ST; SHUN- GOPAVEY, INDIAN MAGIC. SEflCON TICKET SALE SEPT. 19 TO 0OT. 4 AT CABLE PIANO COMPANY. POPULAR PRICES SI 09 TO $2.00 BiHBHBBBBHHiMUT THIS WEEK fWiHTX MATINEES--TUES, THIJRS., SAT. ARTHUR C. AISTON PRESENTS ESTH A WILLIAMS SUPPORTED BY EDWIN WALTER AND A SUPERIOR CAST IN OWEN DAVIS' STARTLING DRAMA “A MAN’S GAME” NEXT WEEK : THE CONFESSION :.l f r