Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 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,
WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD,
Member of Congress Fifth
Georgia District.

al center for the operation of the
many useful functions of the Federal
C;overnment. 1t will become more
important as a center for Govern
mental activities year by year, be-
cause Of it's wonderful commercial
wealth it's healthful location and the
great railroad facilities which 1t af-
Efords.
seventy-flve years ago the ordinary
4 citizen Of the United States did not
come into intimate relation with the
Government except through the Post
ofice 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
resentatives, Is finding new avenues
Through which the people can re-
celve 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
#ernment maintains a Federal prison
here with approximately 1000 pris-
oners and 100 civilians who are fed
land clothed by the merchants of our
section. and that within a very short
while the capacity of this great prison
Twill be doubled and it will be one of
the largest prisons in the world. The
|Government in this prison is doing
IA great work, in that it seeks to car
By out in spirit and in letter the real
object of punishment, to wit, refor-
matiOn.
Postofiee a Huge Enterprise.
The United States Court has its
headquarters in Atlanta with it's able
Judges and a score of clerks and
Eourt attaches. The Atlanta postoffice
Sl.000,000 structure with 500 clerks
#busily engaged in receiving and de-
vering the mail of the people of At
anta. The receipts of this office
hlone amount to $1,3OO,0O0 per an
hum
The railway mail service of the
Fourth Division has its headquarters
IN Atlanta, with over $50 clerks run
ping in and out of our city The
parcel post, engaged in an express
business, receiving and delivering
Packages, will multiply its business
tenfold within the next Ave years as
10 its employees and volume of bust
hess% The rural delivery going out
Prom the city of Atlanta touches the
Farmer in the rsmotest district of the
great county in which Atlanta Is sit
raed.
The Agricultural Department main
PAINS bureau OF animal industry
here. whose business IT is to eradicate
contagious diseases among cattle and
20 instruct farmers as to the proper
method of coping with disastrous dis
bases 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
occurring the hills and valleys of our
great State searching for precious
pres to enrich the State and the ma
Llon, and their discoveries are daily
disclosing the heretofore unknown
DRESSINGS that our State enjoys. The
Interstate Commerce Commission has
is chief inspector here for the pur-
pose OF inspecting the safety appi-
Rnces used by the railroads for the
protection of human life and prop
.erty.
\ The Agricultural Department has
US statistical agents gathering sta
llstcs of our agricultural products in
Every county in Georgia The Chill
1ren's Bureau will soon have its
agents in Atlanta for the purpose of
gathering vital statistics as to the
condition of our children as compared
.wltn those Of other cities and States
ri the Union.
The Department of Commerce win
Shortly establish it's agents in At
ANITA for the purpose of gathering
fata to inform the world of our great
manufacturing resources and to in
fTuct our manufacturers in the
scientific production of their manu-
Pactured products, giving them the
toSt or production in the other coun-
pres of the world.
Ihe Bureau of Soils of the Agricul-
tural Department has its agents here
lor the purpose of making surveys
OF the ascertainment of the character
IL the soil of each land lot in each
county in the State, that the farmer
PGay have scientific knowledge of the
uaracter of fertilizer most needed
~ the soil he works for a livelihood.
Revenue Office to Grow.
ne Internal Revenue Department
ds its headquarters in Atlanta, with
Is agents going from one end of the
state to the other engaged in the
SoAection of the internal taxes i'm
posed by our Government. This de-
|p@ftment will soon double its force,
|Thich Is made necessary by the impo-
|'ltlon of an income tax
90 II will be seen that Atlanta plays
no unimportant part in Governmental
transactions. There is no measure by
Ilch we can predict the future of
ms great city as a Governmental
renter within the next decade.
! teel absolutely assured now that
Mlthin the next four or five years
ttlere will be stationed at the present
or Mcpherson a brigade of soldiers,
winch will necessitate the expendl-
ure Of hundreds of thousands of dol
Lets monthly in the purchase of sup
tles for the men, and the men in
urn Will spend thousands of dollars
hble.
This scheme of the Government for
ne enlargement of Fort Mcpherson
predicated upon sound business
ss0gment, having in view the purpose
economy, in that it will concen-
.dIe the mobile forces of the army
seven large forts throughout the
|Nvuntry, where the man can he train