Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CENTRAL CITY MARKET
IS URGED To CUT HIGH
PRICES ATLANTA PAYj
Government Estimates Show Gate
City Second Only to Boston in
Living EXpenses---Sh Shopping Condi-
tions Barrier to EhectiveEConOmy.

shots iu the dark
Maybe the farmer might relieve the
status of affairs by diycrsifying his
crops He has had that preached 20
him for many years and he has of
late shoWn some inclination and dis
position TO accept the advice and sug-
gestiuns. Whatever he has done iu
that direction. however. the price Of
food steadily has advanced. never
tneless
Maybe rents arc ;;ttle stiff in Al
lanta, but landlords are not going Gal
lower rents so long as the demand
for store space in Atlanta is growing
more ana more lnSistent, and mo-
body wants to throw any obstacles
IN tho way Of progress In the city
particularly that quality OF progress
Indicated In continuously increasing
real estate values
Many Atlantans are high Iycrs
relatively speaking. but the average
citizen viii deny the Impeachment
vociferously when put 20 the test
and no doubt his denial viii be right
ieous enough, ana his ability 10 prove
il ample
Maybe freight rates are too high.
The Chamber Of Commerce might
look INTO this. maybe
Maybe a lot Of thing. OF course
and yet no one maybe thus far
thrown out appears 10 suggest rem
ody guaranteed 10 produce material
results.
old High Cost of Living remains
right on the Job, grinning in muckcry
and dcriSiDn. the while Atlanta hens
and haWs over the whereforeness of
Old High Costs whyi
Estimates Are Truthful.
This writer has talked TO many
persons Of late concerning the prob
lem revealed to Atlanta in the recent
more or less disconcertinR Govern
ment figures with respect to the high
cost OF living.
The Governments estimates are
truthful--they were based upon hon
est Investigations scattered all the
way from Maine to California. No
body undertakes TO dispute or uupS-
ton them. They concern themselves
with various staples of life-housc-
mold necessities that can not be dis
pensed with in the average house
hold without serious discomfort both
to health and happiness.
Very few people expect or anticl-
pate any considerable reduction IN
the cost Of living because of the
enactment Of the new tarin law. Per
haps that will save few dollars here
and there, taking the years outgo as
a whole. and perhaps il Will save a
good many. If the latter comes true.
II VIII be pleasant and agreea bic
surprise 10 Mr. and Mrs. Atlanta
who are hoping
Not very many households are A.
nring next years expense account
upon the new tariff schedules. how
ever Ask the first ten persons Won
meet and see II any one of them is
taking the new tariff law seriously
into consideration as a possible factor
In relieving percepubly the present
expense Of living.
What then, II anything. CAN be
done to bring down the expense az
living in Atlanta
Wen, there is one housekae IN
Atlanta who has some notions about
things and her ideas are worth con
sidering. for they suggest mcthpl
whereby conditions may be remcdtsd
in measure in Atlanta, II not ire
meudously relieved
Work of Housekeeper.
This woman. who is the wife Of an
Albanian receiving a monthly salary
Of $3.50, and the mother OF three chill
The questions of freight rates IL
vcrsltiCation OF crops and the ike are
things for the business men to SET
tie, | think. and no doubt each has it's
specific bearing upon the cost OF liv-
ing. lnasmuCh as the mon are MS
deeply concerned in this problem rs
the women-the one the bread Win
ners and the other the bread dis
tributors inside the family take Il
that they viii not shirk the rospon-
sibility of regulating those things IN
due season
My business is to distribute the
money my husband gives me for
housekeeping purposes intelligeutly
economically and with as great re
suits as | possibly can manage. Notl-
ing distresses me more than to thinl;
that have FILTERED away or used 10
small purpose SO much as "a dime Of
the hard earned salary my husband
provides for the home and its up
keep.
we have just so much incon,
every month l know exactly wnat
house rent is, approximately what
lights and fuel viii cost. what mus,
go TO the church and the SUNDAY
school, what pleasure is To have
awarded TO it-for We spend some
thing that way--and what must &c
into the savings bank Tor lie insur-
ance, taxes and fixed charges Of that
kind
My husband puts, and rightfupv
the responsibility of shopping ana
marketing on me. ] should not re-
speet him so much as ! do II he didn't
And then, having put the responsible
ity there, he turns me loose and no
never makes a boiler IL ! fail to get