The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-20
MAKING PLANS ID
 AID AGR|CULT TURF Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
 Is Busy on Project To HELP FARMERS UNION President Charles s. Barrett Will Be Asked to Discuss Location of
 the Proposed. Farmers
 Union University.
To HELP FARMERS UNION

the Great Northern railroad, about the inroads upon our natural resources, are responsible for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce turning to agriculture.
 Mir. Hill has way of putting the situat ton so as to make 1t appear serious a seriousness which, possibly, Is well founded.
 At any rate. the Atlanta chamber feels ton of the problem which must come. as MT. Hnl points out. through the great CT productivity of the soil.
 While the Atlanta chamber is not a pioneer in this movement in Georgia for it must yield that palm to the Savannah Chamber of Commerce, which has all ready arranged for the establishment of model farm, it proposes, nevertheless, to do great things.
 The Atlanta chamber proposes to add to it's list of committees, now covering al- most every other subject one on agri- culture of which Vice President David Woodward will probably be chairman. Two plans for carrying out the project are under consideration; one Is the estab- lishment of an experimental farm near Atlanta for practical farming on a sci entific basis, and the other is the offering of prizes for the best yield per acre of various products, somewhat on the order of the corn prize contests of southwest ern Georgia.
 Definite decision as to plan has not yet been reached and it is the purpose of the chamber first to inquire into the project of the Farmers union looking to the establishment of a great national agricultural university, for which it is said the union leaders already command large funds, and the chief question now is one of location.
 To this end National President Charles s. Barrett has accepted an invitation to appear before the chambers committee at early date, and to tell them just what the unions plans are.
 It is the ambition of the Chamber of Commerce. if possible, to secure the To- cation of this institution near Atlanta, so close as to make 1t practically part and parcel of the city, or one of its suburbs.
 MT. Barrett who is a Georgian. is not adverse to the idea and really wants to see the institution located here. if any thing like equal advantages offered by other sections are forthcoming.
 It Is expected this matter will be taken up next week when something more deh- nite may be known.
 Dry or Wet Banquet.
 Whether are legislature of 1sS4-S5 which passed Georgia's first local option law, will have a local option banquet, is question which the committee of arrange ments, now preparing for it's reunion here. has not yet decided.
 If a cocktail were placed at each plate. 1t would be purely matter of local option whether 1t were disposed of by the diner, or allowed to remain harmlessly in the glass. If the cocktail and all other drink ables of that class are omitted, 1t will look like a case of local option legisla- ture Hopping over to prohibition.
 In the meantime the committee is busily at work on the plans for the extraordi- nary session of this legislature of quar- ter of a century ago. Henry H. Caba- miss, who was assistant secretary of that senate, will convene the upper house. while the lower assemblage will be called to order by Mark Hardin, who was its clerk. Dr. H. H. Carlton of Athens was president of the senate and Judge w. A. Little of Columbus was speaker of the house.
 Both bodies will convene, after which a Joint session will be called. on the day of meeting, December 22. Judge John W. Lindsey, state pension commissioner, is busy perfecting the programme, but in a general way it has been determined that at the morning session full and free discussion will be allowed and indulged under the rules of the house. At night there will be a banquet at which there will be half a dozen set speeches of a patriotic, reminiscent. and no doubt, highly humorous nature. Responses re- ceived indicate there will be pretty near a full attendance of the surviving mem- bers.
 Seeds for the Many.
 Christmas packages are coming with rush-the kind sent out from Washington containing garden seed.
 The Atlanta postoffice is having quan- titles of free seed added to It's usual heavy holiday mail, and many of those in this meek O the woods" who have vote, are the recipients.
 In fact it is reported that the new city directory has been taken as a mailing list, and that practically everyone whose name appears in it, unless preceded by a Mrs. or a Miss or followed by a "c" will probably receive one of these little Christmas remembrances.
 This outpouring of kindness is attribu- ted to Hon. l.. r. Livingston, famiiarly known as Uncle Lon.' congressman from the Fifth, so that possibly there is nothing unique about it, and tho chances are that many other congression- al districts which are likewise being sup piled with the material for spring plant ing.
 The only trouble is that it is coming at rather an inopportune time, when it is liable to get mixed up with the baby's playthings or chewed up by the family dog before planting season comes around,
 All the same it is evidence of the fact that Uncle Lon is on the job and that he would no doubt, like to be remem- bered when primary time comes around, For there are several others who have gotten the notion into their heads that they could give the Fifth good service in the lower house of Congress
 Regenerating Street.
 In the process of regeneration a new name for the regenerated Is among the first things sought.
 Merchants and property owners on At lantas Decatur street have regenerated that thoroughfare at least to the point of getting the city to put down a new street pavement; they have also rid it of some if not all, of its objectionable characters.
 Therefore they want a new name. as if the change would brush out of Pecol- lection all It's accumulated disrepute of several past decades. In fact, some seem 10 think the change of name will assist in the riddance from it of what of bad remains.
 So they are preparing to ask the coun- ell 10 change it, and with the petition numerous suggestions are forthcoming.
 Decatur street was named from the fact that 1t is the avenue through which the town of Decatur, the county seat of DeKalb, and an eminently respectable community, Is reached.