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


status Of affairs by diversifying his
crops He has had that preached 10
him for many years and he has Of
late shown some inclination and dis
position TO accept the advice ana sug-
gestions. Whatever he has done in
that direction, however. the price OF
food steadily has advanced, never
theless
Maybe rents are iittle stin in At
lanta. but landlords are not going TO
lower rents so long as the demand
for store space In Atlanta is growing
more and more insistent. and no
body wants to throw any obstacles
In the way OF progress In the city
particularly that quality OF progress
indicated in continuously increasing
real estate values
Many Atlantans are high livers,
I relatively speaking, but the average
I citizen will deny the Impeachment
T vociferously when put 10 the test,
and no doubt his denial viii be right
tcous enough, and his ability TO prove
f 1t ample
/ Maybe freight rates are too high.
( The Chamber Of Commerce might
! look Into this. maybe
Maybe lot Of things. Of course
and yet no one maybe thus far
/ thrown out appears To suggest rem
/ edy guaranteed to produce material
results
/ old High Cost OF Living remains
/ right on the job, griuning in mockerv
and derision, the while Atlanta hens
and haws over the whereforeness Of
| Old High Costs why!
Estimates Are Truthful.
This writer has talked to many
I persons OF late concerning the prob
. Ian Ia
more or less disconcerting Govern
ment figures with respect to the high
cost Of living.
The Governments estimates are
truthful-they were based upon hon
est Investigations scattered ali the
way from Maine to California No
body undertakes 10 dispute or uues-
tion them. They concern themselves
with various staples Of hfe-house-
4 hold 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 antici-
4 pate any considerable reduction ia
I the cost OF living because Of the
/ enactment Of the new tarif law. Per
/ maps that viii save a few dollars here
/ and there. taking the years outgo as
I a whole, and perhaps II will save a
good many. II the latter comes true
/ II VIII be pleasant and agreeable
surprise TO Mr. and Mrs Atlanta
: who are hoping.
Not very many households are hg
uring next years expense account
/ upon the new tariff schedules. how.
ever. Ask the first ten persons YOU
meet ana see II any one of them Is
taking the new tariff law seriously
/ into consideration as possible factor
in relieving perceptibly the present
expense OF living
4 What then, II anything. CAN De
I done to bring down the expense Of
living in Atlanta?
Well, there is one housekpeper in
Atlanta who has some notions about
/ things, and her ideas are worth con
sidering, for they suggest methoi
whereby conditions may be remedied
in a measure in Atlanta, II not ire
mendously relieved
Work Of Aousekeeper.
This woman, who is the wife Of an
Albanian receiving a monthly salary
+ of $3.50, and the mother OF three chill
dren, talks after this fashion:
The questions Of freight rates. di-
/ versihCation of crops and the like are
things for the business men to set
/ tie, | think, and no doubt each has Its
specific bearing upon the cost of liv-
Ing. lnasmuch as the men are as
/ deeply concerned in this problem as
the women-the one the bread win
ners and the other the bread dis
tributors inside the family take II
that they will not shirk the roSpon-
sibihty Of regulating those things in
due season.
My business is to distribute the
money my husband gives me for
. housekeeping purposes intelligentlv,
economically and with as great re
suits as l possibly can manage. Notn-
ing diStresses me more than to thinl;
that | have frittered away or used TO
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 income
every month. | know exactly what
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 20
into the savings bank for life insur-
ance, taxes and fixed charges Of that
kind
My husband puts. and rightruI'v,
the responsibility OF shopping ana
marketing on me. / should not r.
Spect him SO much as 30 If he didn't
And then, having put the responsible
ity there, he turns me loose and he
never makes holler' II I fail to get
the maximum OF result from the min
imum OF financial effort That. pee
haps, is one thing that makes ne
feel so bad when ] know. away down
in my heart, that / haven't done the
very best that might be done with NY
household money
The worst obstacle ! find in dis
J pensing my household funds intelli-
gently IS the apparent impossibiity
Of really intelligent marketing I'm At
lanta.
/ Good Food Hard TO Find
/ Il do not think the quality Of food
sold in Atlanta always is an that /.
, should be. Now. ! do not mean nv
! that that I think II is not possible 10
! obtain the very best Of food in At
! lanta--fOr | think Il is-hut what ] 10
mean is that II is next TO impossible
/ for the average markater. which l. an
/ 70 locate the best that may be hal
/ FOR given sum
/ Take the average display Of fou7-
| stuHs in the average Atlanta mar
ket and ~ pery store. Is IL ur 20
| hiEa water mark ! think not. 1t
maybe that there has been a scarcity