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

r. = Rranson. president of the State
x,rraI school, in a statement TODAY
Il ... the advantages Of city market
Atlanta and praises the Atlanta
civic leagues campaign to have one
...ob,ishAd. He declares that it would
Il .tar;aIiv lower the cost of living. MI.
n,o,or who is leader of the Georgia
,,b which is working for the same
,hiect. declares:
.crha increased cost of living makes
49,, citv market everywhere a pinching
oassitv Last June the Atlanta pa
osrs announced that the cost of living
sore had reached the highest point in
=, ,aars. that the general advance in
A. r.hoIesale price of foodstuffs had
Ian IN per cent during the previous
n,or4b and that the wholesale price of
lots had advanced from "a to 40 per
H ant in 40 DAVIS The New York papers
.anortad during the summer that the
raonle of that city were paying from
,ono 600 TO 100000 a day for food sup
niles more than they were paying a
GEAR ago: that is, from seven and
,na~ter million to a billion dollars or
more during the year. Relatively the
n anne thing is true of Atlanta and every
orber American city
n And no relief is in sig. despite the
h,mper crops of the preseh year.
oTn Georgia our population has in
n creased two and half times over in 60
"A ,sors INT there were fewer hogs
raised in Georgia in 1910 than in 1850,
while the cattle on farms and ranges
n rare barely more than so years ago.
n 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
ID cities are. therefore, forced willy-ntily,
as Uncle Remus says, to adopt the old
world remedy of open, well regulated
Il city markets.
NashvIIe's Market Boon.
IN April two members of the Geor-
gia club spent nearly a week studying
the Nashville city market. Each day
they clipped the market quotations
n from the Nashville newspapers. Upon
comparison with the market report of
e Atlanta for the same days, 1t was found
that the farmers we're getting nearly 80
per cent more for their home raised
products. while the buyers in Nashville
IA we're paving 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
b suffs in Davidson county, Tennessee.
High prices are making the farmers
n Of Davidson county prosperous and
contented. While they are getting more
n Nashville are paying less for these
things than the buyers in Atlanta. City
Nj markets give the farmers a chance to
h share literally in the general prosperity
RI Of the community
But, on the other hand look at the
Il Ianguishing state of agriculture in Full
ton county The census returns of 1910
N SHOW 20 per cent fewer cattle, 80 per
b cent fewer sheep. 20 per cent fewer
" hogs and 43 per cent fewer poultry
raised in the county than in 1900. While
Inc city grew at a 70 per cent rate dur
II Ing the census period the farm regions
OF me county lost more than per cent
n or heir population. Twenty one hun
II 'reo and sixty three OF the people on
II Inc farms of Fulton county moved out
N or the farm regions, bag and baggage,
NJ scrip and scrippage Tie farms Guilt
'aled by owners in Fulton county de-
creased from As to Il per cent. The
'ouhty lost in the ten years 36 per cent
OF It's corn acreage. per cent of its
oats acreage and 65 per cent of its
4 wheat acreage.
and while campaigning a city mar
NET Atlanta might as well take the lead
!" me United States in another inpor-
,anl matter There ought to be in this
Uu"oing rest room for the farm
ives with lounges, chairs. tables for
NJ ,'pe's' periodicals and books, lavatory
"u toilet room facilities, a comforta
attractive place that the farm
ives may call their own. A similar
wi" ought to be provided for the
.''''efs. Al present these facilities
provided for the farmers by the
''''-Oeer saloons in the city! Would
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