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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
6
A satirical column pokes fun at German propaganda and wartime rhetoric. It mocks exaggerated claims about German actions and shipments, notes Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen visiting the United States, and teases public sentiment with playful lines about August as a German month.
The piece describes relentless wartime construction in the southern states. It notes camps factories ships farms and mines in ceaseless activity. It likens crop surpluses to Pharoah and Hoover as Joseph guiding food for lean years and portrays the South as wakeful and hustling to regain prosperity after the Civil War.
A controversial housing notice in Anniston warns that most rooms for rent are men only and women or children should not apply. The piece argues men move to the city to build its future and questions turning Anniston into a city without women and children.
The article contends the South shed stereotypes of laziness and is now industrious from the Potomac to the Pecos. It notes widespread activity from Mud Island to Key West and mentions a rising tempo described as a crescendo of industry.
The war department plans 506000 troops in new cantonments with theatres and live shows by Caruso Pickford Chaplin Fairbanks and Theda Bara. Boxing billiards dancing and language courses to be taught by experts, with Y M C A and Knights of Columbus facilities and local libraries.
A detailed look at military logistics for entraining and transporting large troop formations. It covers pre-move planning, car readiness, loading methods, speed, unit integrity, feeding, and the vast scale required for a 1.6 million man force plus mounts, wagons, and guns across long American rail lines.
The editorial argues that pacifists undermine war aims and praises moral resolve to resist German aggression. It asserts civilization fights imperial savagery and Boxerlike or Mullah threats, and that victory requires unwavering detestation of Germany and a lasting peace to prevent repetition.
A Springfield Republican opinion warns that control of food distribution must fall to the President to prevent a wild scramble by European powers over U S ports. World wheat supplies fell dramatically in May, with North American crops short, signaling an unprecedented national food emergency and urging emergency congressional action.
The text argues against economic overreach comparing food control to conscripting people. It questions whether restraining a food speculator is tyrannical versus sending a boy to battle. It asserts Congress already approved conscription and should accept government supervision of commercial food distribution.
Lester Hood Woolsey is 40 and serving as solicitor for the State Department since the war began. Other celebrants include King Haakon VII of Norway 45, Alfred Deakin 61, Dr. Augustus H. Strong 81, Lord Aberdeen 70, all marking birthdays today.
Recaps several historic events from 1801 to 1917 including Nelson’s 1801 Baltic action, 1914 Germany declares war on France, 1915 floods in Erie and submarine sinkings, plus a 1917 probate sale notice in Calhoun County Alabama announcing land sale in Aniston with administrator T D Mosteller.
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