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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1922
Page
4
E S Jordan of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce states 326000 people were injured in auto accidents last year. He notes that about one car in every 32 involved in crashes caused an injury, and urges caution as workers in dynamite mills regard automobiles with dread.
In Atlanta Judge Samuel H. Sibley denounces mass minority tactics by unions, the Ku Klux Klan, war dynamiters, and anti dipping activists. He says violence and coercion undermine government, urging peaceful labor rights within the law and warning mass control can lead to oligarchy or anarchy.
From the Athens Banner 1895 clipping the tale recalls a minister visiting local students who hear of a game called Sweeps. The pupils vow to hide the sport, cigars vanish when the minister leaves the room, and the room ends in a chaotic, cyclone like scene as Sweeps is declared and cigars disappear. Other notes mention Mr. T. M. Hall of Ellerby and Col. Thomason of Man son visiting Athens, with Thomason noted as an ex-lawmaker and local military officer.
Society notes a summer entertainment the Children Pageant directed by Miss Mary Ellas Perry of Brenau to be staged July 31 in Lucy Cobb Chapel. Perry, famed for King Cotton, presents an original production with costumes of her own design, supporting the Manassas Memorial Park project through Daughters of the Confederacy.
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