Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-12
Predicts New Postoffice and En-
Iarged Army Post and Shows
How Government Departments
Help Both the City and State.
Representative From Fifth Dis
trict Praises Business Men Here
and Expresses Appreciation for
Chamber Of Commences Help.
VILLA MSCHLEY HOWARD
Member of Congress Fifth
Georgia District.

Atlanta is now a large Government
tai center for the operation of the
many useful functpDns of the Federal
Government. IL will become more
important as a center for Govern
mental activities year by year, be-
cause Of its wonderful commercial
wealth, its healthful location and the
great railroad facilities which it af-
fords.
Seventy years ago the ordinary
citizen Of the United States did not
come into intimate relation with the
Government except through the Post
office Department. Very few OF our
citizens stop to think of the many
useful ways in which the Federal
Government is serving its people.
Each year Congress, through its Rep
through which the people can re-
ceive the benefit Of the generous
bounty Of the entire country.
Not even the citizens of Atlanta
busily engaged in their daily pursuits,
know that the United States Gov
eminent maintains a Federal prison
here with approximately 1000 pris-
oners and 100 civilians who are fed
and clothed by the merchants OF our
section. and that within a very short
while the capacity of this great prison
the largest prisons in the world. The
Government in this prison is doing
a great work, in that II seeks to car
~ out in spirit and in letter the real
object OF punishment, to wit, refor-
nation.
Postoffice a Huge Enterprise.
The United States Court has its
headquarters in Atlanta with its able
judges and a score OF clerks and
court attaches. The Atlanta postofiice
is $1,000, 600 structure with 500 clerks
busily engaged in receiving and de-
livering the mail of the people of At
lanta. The receipts of this office
alone amount to $1,300,000 per an
mum.
The railway mail service OF the
Fourth Division has its headquarters
in Atlanta, with over $50 clerks run
ming In and out of our city. The
parcel post. engaged in an express
business. receiving and delivering
packages will multiply it's business
tenfold within the next five years as
TO its employees and volume of bust o.
ness. The rural delivery going out
from the city of Atlanta touches the
farmer in the remotest district of the
great county in which Atlanta is sit
uaed.
tains bureau of animal industry
here, whose business II is to eradicate
contagious diseases among cattle and
TO instruct farmers as TO the proper
method Of coping with disastrous dis
eases which have caused such a great
loss on account of the ignorance OF
the people in treating such diseases
State Searched for Ores.
The Geological Survey has head
quarters in Atlanta, whose agents are
securing the hills and valleys Of our
great State searching for precious
ores to enrich the State and the ma
ton, and their discoveries are daily
disclosing the heretofore unknown
blessings that our State enjoys The
Interstate Commerce Commission has
its chief inspector here for the pur-
pose of inspecting the safety appli-
ances used by the railroads for the
protection of human life and prop
erty.
The Agricultural Department has
its statistical agents gathering sta
tistics Of our agricultural products in
every county in Georgia. The Chill
dren's Bureau will soon have its