Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
AtIantu Cited as Model
For ReC0nStructiOn W0rk
acknowledgements

In the pages OF the saturday Eve
ming Post this week, be:ole the eyes
of 100000 reading Americans, the
city of Atlanta is held up DIS an ex-
ample to Europe of "how to recon-
Struct."
The answer is--go to work. That
was what Atlanta did in 1864, the
Post points out, and by inference II
by nothing else, the Post advises
Europe to do the same thing today,
taking Atlanta as a model.
Atlanta has probably never had a
finer story written about her Or a
better advertisement to the world
at large than this article in the Post.
DEMONSTRATION, or Take Atlanta, for
Instance"
The article spreads over two full
pages toward the first part of the
magazine, and runs over about six
columns in the back. 1t is illustra ted
with old photographs of Atlanta dur
ing the war and by new photographs
Of Five "ints. Fes om"ee and White.
tall streets as they are today.
Edward Lowry Is Author
The author is Edward G. Lowry, a
native Albanian and resident here
for many years who for some time
past has been one of the leading
writer's on the Posts staff. spending
practically the entire period of 1914
industrial and economic articles for
the Post. Thus, he knows what he
is talking about when he takes At
lanta and Europe and compares
them.
Many Atlantians will remember
that Mr.. Lowry was here about two
months ago, preparing his Post ar
ticle. He consulted old records at the
Carnegie library and the library at
the state capitol, and he talked per-
sonally to many of the elder genera
ton of Atlanta's citizenry.
AS he says near the outset of his
article. after poking bit of fun at
all sides for reconstruction prob
lens:
{ "All this discussion of reconstruct
ton problems is old stuff to me. /
was raised on such talk. l have
heard it ever since I can remember
after Lees surrender. My people
were in the path of Sherman's march
to the sea. They were refugees. They
were still talking about it when
was a boy. Their stories are as vivid
and real to me as the things I saw
with my own eyes in France. =.
The French or the Belgians cannot
accuse me of lack of understanding
or lack of sympathy with their pres
ent plight"
Praise For Atlanta
Mr.. Lowry says that Europe has
a reconstruction problem. He says
that Europe, stunned and dazed, Is
saying: I'VE can never get on our
feet again. We must have help.
You Americans are rich. You must
cancel our debts to you and lend
us your money We can do nothing
for ourselves without your assist
ance."
T,I,;s E,,ronaoo orol,leyo COW, MI.
Lowry, has a solution which he has
discovered, solution which he
describes as Incredibly simple" He
has found it, he says, in the south
after the War Between the States.
Take Atlanta, for, example" he
is the story of the recovery Of the
south. She is conspicuous type
case. The town was shelled for
more than month while filled with
civilian population of men, WON
" Mhe ana fine eo taken bH the enemy
the civilians were deported. Then
when after a brief occupancy, Sher-
man left the town and took up his
march to the sea, he utterly destroy
ed it by fire and explosives. France
can offer no more complete case of
the ravages Of war. All cities have
personalities. Paris is no more dis
tinctive than Atlanta, or Madrid than
Montgomery. Atlanta has always
been from its earliest days self-con-
fident and enterpr1sing-a thruster,
unafraid and ready to try anything
once
Bombardment Described
Mr. Lowry then launches into
vivid description of the lombard
ment, capture and destruction of At
lanta, giving his facts from the rec
ord and interspersing them with
first-hand accounts of old residents.
He shows that Sherman deported all
but few hundred of the inhabitants
and then destroyed three-fourths Of
the buildings, or all but about 400
houses out of $500, leaving the city
nothing but an ash-heap.
Then he tells of the return of At
ianta's citizens, beginning with the
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