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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1927
Page
2
The Atchison Weekly Globe is published by The Globe Publishing Co. at Fifth and Main streets. It is entered at the Atchison post office as second class matter. Subscription rate is $1.00 per year.
W Y Morgan argues that Western missionaries in China face discouraging conditions as China shifts to Chinese governance and religion. He questions Western methods and suggests religion should be taught by spiritual means, not force, and that withdrawal of Western military influence could push missionaries to a non Western role.
The Globe item about Bert Wells receiving a city manager inquiry stirs Atchison residents. Business leaders urge keeping Wells as the city approaches expansion, tax cuts, debt reduction, and ongoing improvements.
Timely Films plans to show a Globe sourced quotation from Topics of the Day in 3,000 theatres across the United States and Canada. The line credit will read Atchison Globe, reaching an audience of two to three million readers. The editor notes the joke is unfamiliar to Globe staff.
Hiawatha World notes 25 Democratic lawmakers in Kansas whip the Republican majority on issues due to lack of leadership. It argues the state never guaranteed deposits and that responsibility lay with bankers and the state association. It questions paying deposits in failed banks and dismisses calls as froth in the legislature.
The late Kansas legislature approved about 19,784,427.30 in appropriations plus four million for bonus bonds payments facing ex service members. Deficiency items amount to about 600 dollars to finish the current fiscal year. State schools receive the majority, with 84 million for two years, including a new building at each of five institutions. A filibuster near the end nearly would have delayed many bills.
J Frank Smith of the Kansas City Journal-Post Good Roads Club says the recently adjourned legislature added two road laws that, if properly administered, will speed Kansas road construction. He contrasts this with prior propaganda and prior criticism of hard surface road plans affecting counties with existing paved roads.
The 70 year old father of Donald Muir, a governor candidate, is accused in a neighbor’s suit of alienating the wife who is 80 years his junior. The husband seeks 50 000 dollars in damages.
The text argues that Americans abroad should come home from nations in internal conflict until stability returns. It questions the need for American money and presence if these states can manage without foreign support.
A Kybridge man faces conviction on multiple charges after a trial where defense assertions of innocence were rejected. Prosecutors argued the evidence linked him to the alleged crimes, while jurors weighed testimonies from witnesses and the state's case. The judge set sentencing for a later date.
A patchwork of light verse and social asides from Atchison, Kansas. Pieces note a woman with no car or radio, small town characters named Kubridge and Kuhridge, and reflections on fashion, church seating, summer, and everyday quirks. The column mingles humor about family life, work, and consumer tastes with wry remarks on modernity.
The column covers incidents in Atchison including a jail count with no prisoners for the first time in two months, local medical and civic updates, thefts and vehicle issues, community events and upcoming elections laws, as well as social notes and local business activity.
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