Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
CITY MART ONLY
WAY To FIGHT
HIGH PRICES
so Declares Leader in Cam
paign for a Public Produce
Exchange in Atlanta.

+ C. Branson. president Of the State
Normal school. in a statement today
-,,,.s the advantages Of city market
T.. Atlanta and praises the Atlanta
civic leagues campaign to nave one
.,+ob1ished. He declares that 1t would
,,atarialIv lower the cost of living Mf.
pm,n.on who is leader of the Georgia
.,,h which is working for the same
infect declares:
",rbe increased cost of living makes
rho civ market everywhere pinching
,.cassfty. Last June the Atlanta pa
.ors announced that the cost Of living
40 had reached the highest point in
Of wears; that the general advance IN
tho wholesale price of foodstufts had
nsan % per cent during the previous
.,o,+b and that the wholesale price OF
meats had advanced from "a to 40 per
cont in 80 days. The New York papers
,anorted during the summer that the
raor1e Of that city were paying from
com ooO TO 100000 a day for food sup
Mics more than they were paying a
year ago: that is, from seven ana
ouarter million to a billion dollars or
more during the year! Relatively the
same thing is true of Atlanta and every
other American city.
oAnd no relief is in sight, despite the
hummer crops of the present year,
.In Georgia our population has in
croa.ed two and a half times over in 60
wears. but there We're fewer hoSs
in,
while the cattle on farms and ranges
were barely more than 60 years ago
The cost of living makes ones top
knot stand straight UP already, but the
authorities warn us that it must be
greater still in the future, American
cities are therefore, forced. willy ni'ly,
as Uncle Remus says, to adopt the old
world remedy of open, well regulated
city markets
NashviIie's Market Boon.
"In April two members of the GeOr-
eia club spent nearly a week studying
the Nashville city market. Each day
they cluued the market quotations
from the Nashville newspapers. Upon
comparison with the market report OF
Atlanta for the same days, 1t was found
that the farmers we're getting nearly so
per cent more for their home-raised
products, while the buyers in Nashville
were paying about 10 per cent less than
Atlanta people were paying for the
same articles. The farmers get more,
the people in the city pay less for food
stuffs in Davidson county, Tennessee.
High prices are making the farmers
Of Davidson county prosperous and
contented While they are getting more
for what they raise, the consumers in
Nashville are paying less for these
things than the buyers in Atlanta City
markets give the farmers a chance to
snare literally in the general prosperity
of the community
But on the other hand, look at the
Ianguishng state of agriculture in Full
ton county. The census returns Of 1910
show % per cent fewer cattle, so per
cent fewer sheep. 20 per cent fewer
hogs and 43 per cent fewer poultry
raised in the county than in 1900. While
the city grew at a Y per cent rate dur
Ing the census period the farm regions
Of the county lost more than per cent
Of heir population. Twenty one hun
ored and sixty-t three of the people on
the farms of Fulton county moved out
OF the farm regions, bag and baggage
scrip and scrippage. Tie farms cult
waited by owners in Fulton county de
creased from As to II per cent. The
county lost in the ten years So per cent
OF It's corn acreage. ! per cent OF its
cats acreage and 60 per cent of its
wheat acreage.
And while campaigning a city mar
Nst Atlanta might as well take the lead
IN Inc United States In another impor-
,ant matter. There ought to be in this
ou'Lo'ng rest room for the farm
yves with lounges, chairs, tables fol
,"p7's' periodicals and books. lavator>
'uu toilet room facilities. a comforta
"s' attractive place that the farm
wives may call their own. smila
yum ought to be provided for the
''ioers Al present these facilities
provided for the farmers by the
''-oe'r saloons in the city, Would