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Akron Register Tribune in Akron, Iowa

19 Aug 1920

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Akron Register Tribune

Location

Akron, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1920

Page

6

West Point under fire from Harvard leader and defense

Harvard president Emeritus Charles W. Eliot criticizes West Point as ill prepared and too fixed in curriculum. Secretary Baker defends the academy and cites long admission records, the need for general and technical education, and the place of West Point in national defense. The piece lists notable West Point graduates across wars and public life to argue for its enduring value.

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Harles W. Eliot Harvard University Harvard Teachers’ Association United States Military Academy West Point Bilot Congress Secretary of War Fred A. Britten Mlindlg House War Department Julius Kehn California Committee On Military Affairs Newton D. Baker Haker Kahn Jong Eliot Baker Trom Accademic Board Medical Board Academe Board Anya Ednpihiu Naval Academy Annapolis Goldier Hugarian United States Confederate States Coast Survey States Territories Hfto Sta Ufe National Guard Commercial Industrial Organization of America Weat Point Mirot Military Academy Quster Grooke Wright Mackenzie Cooke Johnston Jefferson Davis Abercrombie Casey McCall Canby Swift Sherman Totten Bragg R. E. Lee McClellan Beauregird Huger Reno Grant Sheridan Schofield Buell Burnside Gillmore Halleck Hancock Heintzelman Hooker Howard Humphreys Kilpatrick Lyon Meade Merritt MecKellan McDowell Ord Pope Porter Reynolds Rosecrans Slocum Thomas Warren Beauregard Cooper Hood A. S. Johnston J. E. Johnston R. B. Lee Kirby Smith Anderson Buckner Early Bwét Hardee A. P. Hill D. HB. Hill Holmes Jackson D. Lee Longstreet Pemberton Polk A. P. Stewart Wheeler Fitz Lee Lovell Pickett Greene du Pont Ludlow Meigs Griffin Holden Black Goethals Sibert Gaillard Hodges Lee Briggs Pershing March Bliss Bullard Depert Summerall Jarvey Scott Sraves Riddle McAndrew Rirherdson Conner Et al
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Mrs Bass Makes Burlap Pants For Dolly The Cow

National Democratic women leader Mrs Bass, while active in campaign work, crafted burlap pantalettes for her cow Dolly to keep files off the animal. She visited Manitowee Wisconsin before leaving for San Francisco and said politics interferes with farming.

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George Bags Dolly Bass San Francisco Manitowee Wis
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Senator Ashurst Sees $8,000 Book Scam Mention

Arizona senator Henry F. Ashurst kept an $8,000 volume titled Encyclopedia of Great Men in his senate desk. A solicitor convinced him to pay $125 for a photo and biography for 12 volumes, but only one volume arrived. The fly sheets record the money saved as his greatest investment.

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Henry F. Ashurst Arizona Senate Washington Bowery
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Suffrage Debate Lets Women State Age At Polls

Portrait introduces Rose Young of the League of Women Voters arguing that women over twenty one should be allowed to vote without revealing exact ages. The piece cites Mrs Helen Eill McCarter of Kansas City who opposed sharing precise years and planned to fight for voter ages to be listed as more than twenty one. Kansas officials reportedly threaten to bar Mrs McCarter from voting in November if she does not disclose her exact age.

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Rose Young National American Women's Suffrage Association League of Women Voters IAYS Women’s Uncle Sam Helen Eill McCarter Kansas City Kansas
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Bourgeois Bolshevist Leonid Krassin in Soviet leadership rank

Leonid Borisovitch Krassin earned notice as a moderate invited to high Soviet posts after going to London to press reopening of trade with the outside world. Expelled for student protest, he plotted against czarist rule, then pursued engineering. After October 1917 he declined a ministry seat, joined Lenin and Trotsky in Brest Litovsk talks, later became commissary of food in the Red Army.

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Leonid Borisovitch Krassin London Russia Krassin Petrograd Bolsheviet Krasaln Red Army
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Improved Highways Should Withstand Heavier Truck Traffic

William A Brush, chairman of the Detroit Automobile Club good roads committee, says highways must be built thicker and wider to handle rising commercial traffic. He notes current roads fail under heavy loads, calls for heavier construction and wider lanes, and advocates pneumatic tires to protect pavements and extend vehicle life.

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Wiliam A. Brush Good Roads Committee Detroit Automobile Club Brush
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Minnesota Road Plan Requires 17000 Tons Crushed Rock

The proposed road-building program in Minnesota this year needs about 17000 tons of crushed rock or gravel or nearly 20000 carloads of aggregate. The Bureau of Public Roads reports a significant scale for the program as states undertake highway construction.

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Minnesota Bureau of Public Roads United States Department of Agriculture
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Equalizing Cost Of Roads In National System Plans

In states with long highway programs the proposal is to compensate for highways to equal national mileage value. These roads would stay under state control while the federal government bears maintenance costs for the national system.

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Material Wear Tests At Engineering Lab In Manhattan

In the broad testing laboratory of the engineering experiment station in Manhattan machines record wear on road material over a few hours to simulate actual use expected over 30 to 100 years. The study measures long term durability and behavior of materials under simulated traffic conditions.

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Engineering Experiment Station Manhattan
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Liabilities Roads Wasteful Bonds Go Unpaid

The text argues that roads funded by bonds are unproductive when those bonds mature, representing liabilities rather than assets. It calls such costly waste to a stop in many places, urging cessation of further useless expenditure.

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Ashurst Bourgeois Bolshevist Adamant Highway Bulldera
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