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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
2
A sprawling 1919 era digest reports war era policy debates, naval program proposals, labor unrest, and international upheavals. It notes potential repeal of wartime measures, shipbuilding plans, cattle shipments, pardons and deportations, and European peace talks with numerous named places and entities.
Vice President Thomas Marshall argues the United States faces perpetual turmoil while Congress treats symptoms, not disease. He calls for business leaders to value workers as brothers and for a patriotism centered on common good over personal gain.
An editorial argues for large training camps to foster citizenship through physical training, industrial skills, and cooperative values. It states camps should educate rather than prepare for war, producing citizens who support national life in peace and defend the homeland in danger.
The article discusses housing scarcity and forecasts that the 1920 census may show about 60 percent of Americans living as tenants. It notes proposed tax bills to aid mortgage loans, and mentions figures and quotes from Sophie Irene Loeb and John D. Rockefeller Jr. plus senator remarks on housing policy.
In a narrow vote the United Mine Workers general committee approved Winon's plan for an immediate return to work while wage talks continue. Operators anticipate rapid resumption of coal production and shipments starting Monday. Government officials praised the agreement as peaceful and vital to avert further distress.
Two campers in wild country wake to a ghostly warning and then discover a cave entrance opened by a landslide. Inside lie a skeleton with a gold ring and papers dating from 1650 to 1860, describing a buried treasure later stolen by the finder.
The fragmentary note mocks inflation and social pretensions, with garbled dialogue about money, wares, and capitalist greed. It spins through conversations on increases, human foibles, and the ease of exchanging appearances for profit.
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