The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
ATLANTA IS PLEASED BY OPERAS SUCCESS Georgia to Give Prohibition
 Laws Fair Trial BEGINS TOMORROW MouItrie, Ga., Now Has Packing Plant Which Shows What the
 People Can do When
 Aroused
BEGINS TOMORROW
By HERyEY W. LAIRD

Atlanta, April 2s.-(Special)-A success from any angle is the verdict with regard to the 1916 grand opera season in At lanta Artistically, 1t ranks along with the others, and financially it apepars to have made good in a remarkable way.
 People have been here from all over the south; as a matter of fact, from all over the country. Florida sent an especially large delegation, hundreds of northern and eastern tourists in that state running up for a taste of the good music.
 Atlanta has done a good part by the visitors. So far as can be ascertained they have been comfortably housed and adequately fed, as well as highly enter tained. The social programme was won derfully elaborate, the clubs taking par ticular pains to do good part.
 JOHN BARLEYCORN AN OUTCAST
 The fellow who hammered swords into plcwshares can find a job in Georgia now, though the work awaiting him IS perhaps rot so dignified as the aforesaid assig lnient of blacksmithing. He is want cd to find use for quite g. number of buildings that have of late been the habitat of beer saloons, John Barleycorn and his brewery associates having not legal where to lay their heads in Geor- ga.
 Prohibition becomes effective at mid night April 30 Georgia is in the dry column. Will it be good? is the question. Some think so, others are doubtful, but the dominant opinion is that there will be a genuine attempt to observe tho let te- and the spirit of the statutes. Sa- vannah, about which there was some doubt, has indicated it's intention to give the abstinence idea fair trial.
 GOOD RESULTS AT MOULTRIE
 The town of Moultrie, in Colquitt coun- ty, Is a fine example of what a commit nifty may do for itself when it wakes up About two years ago the citizens bu.lt a packing plant with a capacity of 1Jo hogs a day. Today this has been en- larged to 1Coo hogs a day, and 800 are be- ins slaughtered every 24 hours.
 Hut this is not all the story. Started OF an ul'-to-date theory, the people have gone on doing big things. They have juss raised $35, GOO for a new Y. M. c. A. building, crga nized a creamery with a capital of s45,9o put in an animal serum plant at large outlay and invested $25O0 in a franchise in the Dixie Baseball league.
 Besides this Colquitt county has built 1500 miles of 1rst-class road, and the farmers have agreed to raise hogs for the packing plant and cows for the creamery.
 Well posted men say that while there is going to be lot more cotton than last year, there will be no less of the grain crops, especially corn and wheat. There is, in fact. 9. special advancement of the wheat industry, with number of mills fitte1 cut to take care of 1t.
 The increased interest in hogs has helped the ca use of corn and propaganda has nci eased the amount of such things as velvet beans. A farmer at Doerun re- ports that he raised last year 150O bushels of these beans, sold them for $3.50 a bushel, and had lot of good COW feed from the hulls. a ~
 The reports say that the farmers are better off financially than for 50 years.