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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1914
Page
7
Subscribers are urged to promptly inform the business office of delivery issues. The piece surveys wartime sentiment, neutrality, and anticipated European conflict, noting naval possibilities, American maritime potential, and public figures like Senator West and Rep Moon amid cautious news on Europe.
A call to prayer for peace on the Sabbath urging believers to petition for an end to war. It questions why war devastates the world and appeals for divine guidance to spare the nation from entanglement and to hasten a peaceful conclusion.
A preliminary report by Charles W. Eliot Moorfield Storey Louis Bradeis Adolph Rodenbeck and Coscoe Pound for the National Economic League outlines no single cure for judicial inefficiency. It urges proper training of lawyers greater bar influence in judges selection unified courts empowered by procedure rules improved legislative law making and study of urban industrial challenges with rural resources.
Amid global war, the essay urges the United States to boost exports and aid the world with food and supplies. It cites crop value, cotton demand, and strong federal support including crop funds and emergency currency. The tone presses confidence in U S finance and agriculture, urging calm and industrious action.
Verse reflects antiwar sentiment and calls for a future peaceful world after World War I. Poem envisions disarmament and reconstruction, with nations united as brothers, renouncing monarchies in favor of a common throne of peace. D G Bickers dated August 8 1914.
The federal government will place twenty million dollars in Southern banks to move the coming cotton crop. Georgia will receive a sizeable portion through Athens banks. The note urges farmers to plant wheat this fall, promising business regardless of the war's continuation.
The report argues for expert elected judges with secure tenure. It notes historic shifts after 1850 linking appointive courts to stronger judicial work and warns elective systems breed delays and weak jurisprudence. It calls for bar influence in selection and a professional civil service for judges.
The contest for the Georgia Court of Appeals centers on three Atlanta lawyers Judge Nash R. Broyles Alex W. Stephens and W H Terrell. Broyles leads in endorsements and plans statewide speeches as supporters predict an overwhelming win. Walker shifts to Kimball House headquarters aiding attorney general run while pledges no county canvassing by rival Warren Grice. Price backs Southern cotton relief and calls a Washington meeting of agriculture officials to shield growers from war induced price drops.
Campaign notes from Georgia outline Hon. W. A. Anderson and Randolph Anderson activity in Atlanta and Dalton with speeches in Calhoun and surrounding counties. Rainey leads prison board plans to continue reform efforts amid election chatter as Fulton county rally yields mixed turnout.
A series of 1914 political notices announce candidacies for Congress Senator Clarke County Representative and State Treasurer. Signatories include Samuel J Tribble A B J Stovall O H Arnold Jr J F Rhodes L C Brown H H Gordon H J Rowe and W J Speer. Charles H Brand seeks reappointment as judge of the Western Judicial Circuit.
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