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The CITY BUILDER * » Published Monthly by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce \ Atlanta, Georgia, May 10,1917 Vol. II, No 3 50c the Year * * * * i * * Woodrow Wilson RURALIST PRESS THE CITY BUILDER WE MANUFACTURE SPECIAL RULED and PRINTED FORMS LOOSE LEAF BOOKKEEPING SYSTEMS CATALOGS and BOOKLETS STEEL DIE EMBOSSED and PRINTED STATIONERY COPPER PLATE ENGRAVING WE WILL APPRECIATE A PART OF YOUR BUSINESS WEBB & VARY CO., Inc. PHONES: Bell Main 846. Atlanta, Main 868 YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY WITH AN OFFICE IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING : Good Service •• SEVERAL DESIRABLE OFFICES AND ONE STORE FOR RENT See H. H. ROBINSON, Assistant Secretary, Room 202 Bell Phone Ivy 5716 Atlanta 1345 Huto Oil anb <®a£tolme Company HIGH GRADE GASOLINE, LUBRICATING OILS AND GREASES OUR SPECIALTY OUR NEW FILLING STATION just Completed Corner of Poplar and N. Forsyth Streets—near the postoffice ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES J. L. CARROLL, Atlanta Phone 2773 67-69-71 N. Forsyth St ATLANTA Bell Phone Ivy 2549 Day School Evening School For High School Graduates For Business Men College Campus Walton Building College Courses in Accounting, Banking, Finance, Spanish, Law, Management Advertising, Selling, Business, English, Journalism Leading to a Degree J. M. Watters, Dean Georgia School of Technology Atlanta, Georgia THE CITY BUILDER CONTENTS FOR MAY The Food Campaign 5 Atlanta's Grand Opera Season 7 Public Health in Atlanta 9 Important Changes at Cox College 13 War Will Not Stop Conventions 14 Knoxville Boosters for Preparedness 16 Atlanta Convention Bureau 18 Publishers' Statement 20 Changes in School of Commerce Faculty 21 Training Camp for Officers 25 Meetings Held in April 28 Activities of Bov Scouts 30 2nilllllllllllimilliniMIUMIIMIIIIUIItllininillMlin[IIIIIIINIiniNI[UIIMIMIIIIItMini[llllllllll(llllllltllllllllllilllllllllllllllllMlltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllltllll]IIIHIIIIIIItlllMllllllllllllllllllHlllll UNDIMINISHED Have you prudently appointed The Central executor of your legally correct will—thus providing those you have designated with an estate undiminished by costly errors? Or will your possessions be thrown on the courts for settlement when you are gone ? Central Bank and Trust Corporation Candler Building, Atlanta, Ga. ASA G. CANDLER, President JOHN 8. OWENS....Vice President A. P. COLES Vice President WALTER T. CANDLER....Cashier H. 0. HEINZ Asst. to V. Pre*. CARL H. LEWIS Asst. Cashier JAS. P. WINDSOR Asst. Cashier FONVILLE McWHORTER, Assistant Cashier —iiiiiiiHiitiiitiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiitjiiiiiitiiitiiiiiuiiHiiiiMniitiiiiiijitiiiiiiiiiiijiitiiiiiirtiiitiiiiiiiiiitiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiitiiuiiiiiitiittiitiiiiiirtiiiiiiiiiiTiiiiiiiiiitjiiiiiitiiitiitiiifiirtjiiiiitjittfr THE CITY BUILDER 'Tthe {F}uict\ iftCotor Company take great pleasure in announcing to its friends, and the public in general, the production of a U\ew Seven Passenger model, known of­ ficially as model E-6-49, specifications covering which are noted below. "Cbis model is distinctively {BUICK in ap­ pearance and mechanical excellence, and is especially) commended to the discrimi­ nating among motor car purchasers. CONDENSED SPECIFICA TIONS Seven Passenger Touring Type Body, streamlike design; folding and disappearing extra seats; glove lockers, door pockets apd tonneau step light. Wheel Base 124 ins. Motor 6 cyl., unit power plant; 3?£ in. bore by 4H in stroke, de­ veloping 60 actual brake horsepower. Deloo sys­ tem starting, lighting and ignition; automatic spark advance. Special Buick multiple disc clutch, smooth in engagement and positive in action. S4x4H tires, straight side non-skid tires on rear wheels. Special "one man" type top, gipsy curtains, opening with doors. New type speedometer, keyless rim wind and set clock, motor driven horn, and every other desirable at­ tribute of the first-class car. DESCRIPTIVE MATTER UPON REQUEST TRICE $1,475 f.o.b. Atlanta BUICK MOTOR COMPANY 241-243 'Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. THE - CITY - BUILDER PUBUSHED MONTHLY BY THE ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Volume II MAY, 1917 Number 3 The Food Campaign Atlanta Chamber of Commerce the First Organization In the Country to Take Up the Subject—$100,000 Will Be Subscribed for the Work By WALTER G. COOPER I accuse the Atlanta Chamber of Com­ once put forty policemen on duty there. merce of taking up the food campaign Later they were relieved by two companies before any other Chamber of Commerce of the National Guard. in the country; I also accuse the Atlanta The committee has given a great deal of Chamber of Commerce of dong more in time to securing a Concentration Camp this direction and doing more for the which will bring to Atlanta anywhere from agricultural interests than any commer­ one to five army divisions of recruits to be cial body in the United States. trained as soldiers during a period of one —Gifford Pinchot. year. It is expected that this camp will soon bring to the city from 50,000 to 100,000 N ITS food campaign, which aroused the men, having a monthly payroll of several I Cotton States from North Carolina to million dollars a month, besides an immense Texas, in organizing this territory to meet expenditure by the government for supplies. the emergencies arising from the war, and As the result of efforts by this committee a in a vast amount of other work incident to supply depot for the Southeast has already the crisis, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce been located here. has undoubtedly been the leading factor in The committee is now taking steps to put the South. the manufacturers and merchants in touch This is due to the organization on March with the purchasing agent. 29th of the Committee of Public Safety, un­ It seems likely that the Committee of Pub­ der a resolution adopted by the Board of lic Safety will have to spend some money to Directors following the call to service pub­ provide facilities requisite for the army lished in the last City Builder. They author­ camp. One requirement is 260,000 gallons of ized the appointment of the committee with pure water per day, delivered on the grounds. plenary power to use the machinery of the This means the extension of an eight-inch Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of water main several miles, and with iron pipe meeting the emergencies arising out of the costing over $50.00 per ton and connections war, and President Allen appointed the fol­ $90.00, a large expense is evident. It is be­ lowing committee, of which he and the Sec­ lieved that by the co-operation of the City retary are ex-officio members: Mell R. Wil­ and County, this work can largely be done, kinson, chairman, J. K. Orr, P. S. Arkwright, but in order to guarantee it and insure Forrest Adair, A. M. Schoen, H. Y. McCord, prompt action, it became necessary to raise Tull C. Waters, E. P. McBurney and J. M. B. a guarantee fund, subject to be called for as Hoxsey. Later J. Oscar Mills and Lee Ash- needed. To this end seventy-five public- craft were added to this committee. spirited men met in the Chamber of Com­ Much of the work of the committee relat­ merce on Friday, April 13th, and in a few ing to information, protection, etc., was nec­ minutes subscribed $35,000. A few days later essarily executive. An information bureau at a second meeting the amount was raised was organized with ramifications in every to $56,000 and subsequent additions have part of Atlanta and includes in its member­ brought the total up to $64,000. The fund ship hundreds of loyal and dependable men was handsomely led by Mell R Wilkinson, in every walk of life. The work of this com­ Asa G. Candler and the Georgia Railway and mittee has important results. Power Company with subscriptions of $5,000 .A member of this committee received in­ each, followed by John W. Grant, Capt. J. formation from a reliable source Indicating W. English, E. H. Inman, Mrs. Hugh T. In­ the absolute necessity of guarding the wa­ man and J. Oscar Mills, Chairman of the ter works. This information was immedi­ County Commissioners, for the Board, with ately communicated to the mayor, who at $2,500 subscriptions. THE CITY BUILDER The committee is endeavoring to raise the tion of food. Mr. Pinchot declared that if amount to $100,000 in order to make the the war lasted another year it would be assessment as reasonable as possible on all decided by the food supply and that ques­ subscribers. It will call for only 10 per cent tion would be determined by the South, be­ at present and further calls will be made cause in the South there is the largest oppor­ as actually needed and only for the amount tunity to increase food crops. that is absolutely necessary to meet the Following this, Dr. Henry Alford Porter, emergencies arising from the war. pastor of the church, suggested that a simi­ Committee Begins Work lar appeal be made from every pulpit in the South. The next morning, on invitation, Mr. Early in the history of the work the Sec­ Pinchot spoke at a meeting in the Atlanta retary of the Chamber of Commerce tele­ Chamber of Commerce, where 150 represen­ graphed several cabinet officers advising tative business men were present and a new them of the organization of the Public Safety impetus was given to the food campaign. Committee and asking them to suggest how That afternoon Mr. Pinchot presented to of­ it could best make itself useful to the gov­ ficers of the Chamber of Commerce a letter ernment. he had prepared for the pastors of country Secretary Houston telegraphed that every churches. Mr. Pinchot had no organization effort should be put forth to make the South to handle the propaganda and the Atlanta self-sustaining by increasing the food crop Chamber of Commerce volunteered to un­ and that he would send Assistant Secretary dertake that task, suggesting that the let­ Vrooman to the Southeastern Food Confer­ ter should be signed by bishops and lead­ ence.

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