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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1901
Page
4
The regulation New Year editorial is a long standing annual piece urging a broad community-wide progress movement. It praises growth in the town and calls for action across commercial, industrial, social, and educational fields as a good yearly tradition about to appear in papers.
Rev. Dr. Horace Bumstead argues that rapid productive power and machinery will outpace physical needs, creating a surplus labor force. He contends civilization must redirect surplus wealth to uplift the race intellectually, ethically, and spiritually, or face stagnation or decay.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century column argues sentiment declines as society tilts toward organization. It laments impersonal systems of labor and capital, religious sectors, and state or collective power, claiming genuine human empathy is lost to mechanized structure.
R Keir Hardie argues capital should be a partner not a master, favoring profit sharing, cooperative production, and especially municipal ownership of land and capital in essential industries to align interests, reduce strikes, and improve worker conditions across cities. He claims land and capital public ownership eliminates conflicts between labor and capital and serves general welfare.
Sir Evelyn Wood faced thousands of enemy across a ravine in Cape Colony. A Scottish irregular rode out of sight under cover and drew fire by pretending to camp. Zulus charged, shrapnel fell, many killed, rest withdrawn. The general praised the man, shook his hand, and gifted a bottle of thampeen, then swapped it for whiskey.
General Alger cites a Spanish American War tale of a Boston woman who asked to delay a regiment’s embarkation to send birthday treats to her brother, arguing it would not matter to the government. Booker T. Washington recalls a Boston visitor who sought more talk after an evening speech.
An English newspaper recounts a seven year old American child on a liner who refuses every offering at saloon dinner. The steward asks for cheese or other items and is met with polite refusals. The child asserts with dignity that she would like champagne, spelling the incident as a playful clash of cultures.
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