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

This is the story of the story the
..oorter didn't get.
II. was sent out for interviews with
,,.iness men on what they think about
.., Democratic victory. He didn't get
them
.corrv but | haven't time now" said
-. aret merchant he saw. I'm just
-,sbirq bunch of buyers to the New
work. market for the biggest lot of or
ders my house has ever placed Then
pca cot 10 hurry down to the bank and
,,rsnoa for big loan for enough to
4ts,ount my bills, and then I've GUS
tanner TO see about large sized prop
osition. really haven't had time to
bother about politics"
That's the way it went all up and
dawn the street. Everybody was glad
Wilson had won, but gladder still that
fine election was over and everybody
was back at business. If any of them
go-iripated the country was bound for
the bow-wows. they didn't show it.
Election Had No Effect.
The best forecast of big business
and general prosperity 1 have seen is
fine scarcity IF political talk for the past
three MONTHS" said Forrest Adair.
"Nc; It wasn't apathy. The big vote
proves that. 1t was just that the peo-
pja aav. outgrown the idea that a
,..,iLo.tial year means a general tear
Inc ND Of business. Why, the fact that
-lis vas election year didn't cause any
trouble at ali. The people thought
ls.ngs over, made up their minds and
totco when the time came. but they
didn't Let il interfere with business"
one Of the leading cotton mill owners
sas asked for his opinion of the eff
f-,c of Wilson's election.
"T output of our mill for 1918 is
Amos completely sold in advance" he
ley'iel 1T was sold before anybody
M.,N 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
" be in position to fill any new orders
for many, many months. 1t looks like
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
nor" .Aan last year at this time, and
tL2 good for those who have it, but
.' hardly more than half crop
OF rso, that's one reason the price
IS sood. But still 1 look for a good
a3r all over the state"
j. T.. c. Pedder, division superin-
'endent Of the Bradstreet company,
i1 in touch with business condi-
'.as al over the South. In sizing up
Tie general situation, he said
I'VE find our manufacturers loaded
Gown it'll orders, and some, notably
III ron and cotton lines, have enough
''s.7 IS sold ahead to keep them going
Ff.'3s to COM. In wholesale and
'oobing lines we find practically the
same condition-liberal orders and more
Of them than for the same season for
wears past.
'o' the past three years there has
oeen a very unsettled feeling. orders
Fefe scaled down to the minimum, the
retail trade simply living from hand to
'3e'th' being willing apparently to
SEND filing in orders when actually
Lreo.ag necessities instead of carrying
5''.H usual stocks. The natural result
oI inns repression is that now that the
'emano has arrived, they are making
SV'A LIBERAL orders that manufacturers.
E"oIesaiers and jobbers. are being
.'"ea to their utmost to keep I'D with
'aem
AUTO Trade Never Better.
INe south today. as a whole, l con-
Suei ls in the best possible shape to
take advantage of the prosperitv that
"'Ie7oy upon US. She is improving
~" along the line-every hamlet, viii
80 town and city is building up rap
ana forging ahead, and her prog
less Is the envy and marvel of the civ
i.ized world"
Ihe Atlanta Steel Company If is re-
ported, has sold it's outnut far ahead
o '' lhls indicates great deal of con-
~ ur''on work for the future, as one
''e companys principal outputs is
Hails and railroad material.
"'oiIooiIe dealers say their bust
oo@@. never was better, and that the
hoa.s automobile show will bring
a NEST OF orders for 1918 models.
.,., 'Iey say that the craze for auto-
no.
re.,, y,,gS mas ruined the jewelry trade"
mo Neu one jeweler well. our busi
! - IN diamonds and expensive silver
last year. ''' 90 VI 'lis time