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.

Atlanta is now large GONeTHInen-
tai center for the operation of the
many useful functions of the Federal
i government. 1t 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
gr.a+ railroad facilities which it af-
f0ris
seventy five years ago the ordinary
Hr4zen 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 it's people.
i Each year Congress, through its Rep
i resentatives, is finding new avenues
through which the people can re-
ceive the benefit of the generous
bounty Of the entire country.
Not even the citizens Of Atlanta,
i busily engaged in their daily pursuits,
know that the United States Gov
eminent maintains a Federal prison
here with approximately 1000 pris-
i oners and 100 civilians who are fed
and clothed by the merchants of our
section. and that within a very short
i while the capacity of this great prison
will be doubled and it will be one of
4 the largest prisons in the world. The
Government in this prison is doing
d great work, in that it seeks to car
ry out in spirit and in letter the real
object Of punishment, to wit, refor-
81 nation.
Postoffce a Huge Enterprise.
The United States Court has its
FL low r+sa in A &c oil
q Judges and a score of clerks and
4 court attaches. The Atlanta postoffice
4 isa 1000, 900 structure with 500 clerks
blslly engaged in receiving and de-
q yering the mail of the people of At
anta. The receipts of this office
E alone amount to $4,000 per an
n num-
The railway mail service of the
& Fourth Division has its headquarters
q in Atlanta, with over $50 clerks run
& Ming in and out Of our city. The
B parcel post, engaged in an express
q business, receiving and delivering
& packages, will multiply its business
n tentold within the next five years as
II 70 its employees and volume of bust
4 ness, The rural delivery going out
from the city of Atlanta touches the
4 farmer in the remOtest district of the
s used
The Agricultural Department main
#-1lns a bureau of animal industry
& here, whose business it is to eradicate
e contagious diseases among cattle and
ii 70 instruct farmers as to the proper
method Of coping with disastrous dis
q eases which have caused such a great
E loss on account of the ignorance of
the people in treating such diseases.
State Searched for Ores.
The Geological Survey has head
A 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
ION, and their discoveries are daily
Fl disclosing the heretofore unknown
blessings that our State enjoys. The
Interstate Commerce Commission has
It's chief inspector here for the pur-
pose of inspecting the safety appli-
& ances used by the railroads for the
B protection of human life and prop
e erty
81 The Agricultural Department has
Us statistical agents gathering sta
ustics Of our agricultural products in
every county in Georgia. The Chill
orens Bureau viii soon have its
agents in Atlanta for the purpose of
gathering vital statistics as to the
condition Of our children as compared
WIN those of other cities and States
q 2I the Union.
The Department of Commerce viii
shortly establish its agents in At
ahJa for the pJrpose of gathering
laJa to inform the world of our great
manufacturing resources and to in
s. SIucl our manufacturers in the
scientific production of their manu-
laelured products, giving them the
,os' Of production in the other coun-
Tries Of the world.
HE Bureau of Soils of the Agricul-
.1fai Department has its agents here
.oF the purpose of making surveys
U lgf the ascerIainment of the character
The soil of each land lot in each
'Anty in the State, that the farmer
may have scientific knowledge of the
laFacter of fertilizer most needed
ny the soil he works for a livelihood.
Revenue Office to Grow.
me Internal Revenue Department
.as IT'S headquarters in Atlanta, with
agents going from one end of the
s,s.r to the other engaged in the
,'-ec,lon of the internal taxes i'm
Fused by our Government. This de-
En- .menJ will soon double its force,
".lt1A IS made necessary by the impo-
''D"n of an income tax.
80 1t will be seen that Atlanta plays
10 Ahlmportant part in Governmental
4 1aAsactions. There is no measure by
s 4.ah we can predict the future of
l@ great city as a Governmental
4ter within the next decade.
l. reel absolutely assured now that
IlHIn the next four or five years
plefe win be stationed at the present
ct Mcpherson a brigade of soldiers,
"Alea VIII necessitate the eXpendi-
oIt of hundreds of thousands Of dol
a. monthly in the purchase of sup
s,.es for the men, and the men in
IN VIII spend thousands of dollars
a. very channel of trade mention
~ MS scheme of the Government for
s enlargement of Fort Mcpherson
E pfelicated upon sound business
,oss3sfnent, having in view the purpose
4 ~, eaanomy. in that it win concen-
a.- the mobile forces of the army
seven large forts throughout the
''-sIy, where the men can be train