Athens Banner Publication Rights Notice
The Athens Banner lists its publishing details and AP affiliation. It states exclusive AP news use rights and reserves republication of special dispatches.
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
4
The Athens Banner lists its publishing details and AP affiliation. It states exclusive AP news use rights and reserves republication of special dispatches.
Effective July 1 1921 the Daily Banner and Sunday issue raise subscription rates. Old subscribers paying in advance may renew at old rates for up to one year. Rates cover Daily Banner durations and Daily and Sunday combinations, with city and mail subscribers treated the same. Note subscriptions are paid in advance and will be discontinued at expiration.
The article argues against cutting 1921 state salaries and institutional appropriations. It warns such cuts would breach faith and contracts, violate laws protecting salaries during the term, and insists on raising revenue to cover deficits instead. It notes institutions run on budgets and would face repudiation if appropriations were reduced.
The Georgia General Assembly will consider the work and funding of the State Highway Commission. While some lawmakers seek to investigate or abolish parts of the system, the piece argues no audit is needed and asserts confidence in the commission and its spending. The editorial emphasizes the scale and importance of road improvements and the propriety of funding already allocated.
A debated stance defends the state highway commission against county takeover. Advocates argue the current system with Dr Charles M Strahan at the helm aligns with federal funding and produces lasting roads. Opponents warn wholesale repeal risks loss of federal aid and disrupted progress across nearly five thousand miles of planned highways.
Poem by D G B reflecting on ideal neighbors and neighborly virtues. It praises sympathetic, confidential, companionable neighbors who attend to their own affairs yet share joy and sorrow. Ends with Faith's messenger being Prayer, credited to D G B in Faith's Messenger.
Reproduced questions and solutions from yesterday's quiz touching geography biology and science. Items include largest city in New Mexico Alburquerque notes on Defoe author Solomon and more. Also mentions seismograph use and various trivia about rivers races and sponges with several quoted opinions.
The Bureau of the Census reports Clarke county agriculture in 1919 1920 with 1381 farms. White operated 467 and colored 914. owners and managers 360 tenants 1021. Land totals 61980 acres with 43127 improved. Principal crops corn 3402 acres cotton 26710 hay 1154 dry peas 663. Harvested corn 70864 bushels cotton 781 bales peas 2863 bushels. Domestic animals likely undercounted due to January 1 1920 census date.
The University of Georgia hosts a regular summer session for teachers and college students while Dr Paul Weatherwax conducts botany courses independently. To accommodate the demand, student M A McCrainy arranged with Dr Weatherwax and notified interested students to form a separate offering outside the university program.
Dr Weatherwax opens his independent university in LeConte Hall offering a single botany course. About twenty five students enroll. Einstein sails away leaving America no wiser, per the Washington Post. Dempsey plans to wear a forget me not under his belt for the Carpenter fight, while the Frenchman targets a chin shot, per the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Moss lecture by Dr. W L Moss of Harvard Medical College and the U S Public Health Service, planned for LeConte Hall on the University of Georgia campus tonight, has been indefinitely postponed.
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