Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
SOUTH PREPARES
FORPR0SPER|TY
HIGH TIDE
BUSINESS Men and Industrial
Plants Flooded With Orders
Despite Election Year.

-,ts e The story of the story the
exporter didn't get.
Ia was sent out for interviews with
.-,.,s. men on what they think about
~. nemocratic victory. He didn't get
them
sorry but haven't time now" said
.,e arst merchant he saw. TN just
.,sbing a bunch Of buyers to the New
york market FOR the biggest lot Of or
lave mn, house has ever placed. Then
r,.o gor 10 hurry down to the bank and
..,o,oa for big loan for enough to
,,,oount NV bills, and then I've Gus
man n see about e large sized prop
o.i.ion. I really haven't had time to
hother about politics"
That's the way It went all up and
d,,,n the street. Everybody was glad
wilson had won. but gladder still that
tb. election was over and everybody
was back at business. If any OF them
sr,icipatad the country was bound for
the bow-wows, they didn't show it.
Election Had No Effect.
THE best forecast of big business
ord general prosperity / have seen is
tho scarcitv Of political talk for the past
three months" said Forrest Adair.
$40. If wasn't apathy. The big vote
moves that. 1t vas just that the peo-
nile have outgrown the idea that a
presidential year means a general tear
iag I'm Of business. Why, the fact that
.1is was election year didn't cause any
,rooble at all. The people thought
things over, made up their minds and
voted when the time came, but they
didn't let it interfere with business"
one Of the leading cotton mill owners
vas asked for his opinion of the eff
feet Of Wilson's election.
The output of our mill for 1913 is
almost completely sold in advance he
replied. 1T was sold before anybody
knew who would be elected, and the
buyers figured that prices were going
up no matter who won out. You can
ask all the other mill men and they'll
tell you the same thing. We shall hard
Iy be in position to Ill any new orders
for many, many months. 1t looks like
A big year all round"
Bradstreet's Sees Great Year.
Money won't be extra plentiful
among Georgia planters" said a cotton
buyer Cotton has reached SIS a bale
more than last year at this time, and
that's good for those who have it, but
there was hardly more than half crop.
0f course, that's one reason the price
IS good. But still ] look for a good
Year all over the state"
]. Z. c. Pedder, division superin-
tenjent Of the Bradstreet company.
keeps in touch with business condi-
lions all over the South. In sizing up
the general situation, he said:
We find our manufactures loaded
down with orders. and some, notably
N iron and cotton lines, have enough
business sold ahead TO keep them going
10. months TO CONF. III wholesale and
looolng lines we find practically the
same condition-liberal orders and more
Of them than for the same season for
Years past
For the past three years there has
been very unsettled feeling. Orders
We're scaled down 10 the minimum. the
Fetal, trade simply living from hand to
mouth, being willing apparently to
SEND filing in orders when actually
needing necessities instead Of carrying
y"eir usual stocks. The natural result
3I this repression is that now that the
'emand has arrived, they are making
'ueh liberal orders that manufacturers,
wholesalers and jobbers are being
-aAeu 10 their utmost to keep up with
them.
Auto Trade Never Better.
Inc South today, as a whole, I con-
Soer Is in the best possible shape to
axe advantage Of the prosperity that
% already upon us. She is improving
a" along the line-every hamlet. viii
age town and city is building up rap
'uIy and forging ahead, and her prog
i ;gSS Is the envy and marvel of the civ
'.lzed world
'e Atlanta Steel Company. it is re-
~. 'eq' has sold its output far ahead
..I ms Indicates a great deal OF con-
- - 4 ., work for the future, as one
80. '"- company's principal outputs IS
'''' nails and railroad material
.'"'ohobile dealers say their bust
..,.'. never was better and that the
ING automobile show will bring a
Isl o. orders for 1913 models
..,,... say that the craze for auto
..S mas ruined the jewelry trade"
. .'.'tNeo one jeweler We'll. our bust
." diamonds and expensive silver
." 'utN per cent aheod % 49,; -,