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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1913
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner notes Taft will give his first Yale lecture to students today and reflects on Underwood tariff history. It comments on tariff reform, bird and arbor day observances, and local concerns about delivery, politics, and nearby towns. It also mentions a Hearst fireworks damages case with New York suing.
The University of Georgia School of Education led by Dean Thomas J. Wooster moves to a new forty thousand dollar building donated by the George Peabody Trustees. The facility, hailed as the best equipped in the South, will train male teachers and prepare leaders for colleges, high schools, and districts, signaling a pivotal expansion of state education.
The article reviews voluntary state pensions for destitute mothers in Ohio New Jersey Pennsylvania and Idaho noting monthly sums up to 15 dollars with extra for multiple children. It weighs potential good against risks of graft administration and argues mothers should work when able while highlighting benefits of staying home to care for children. It cites New York World as praising tax savings and self respect gains and calls the law an interesting experiment to be watched closely.
A 1912 U S lynching total of sixty four marks the smallest per capita figure in history, with cuts attributed to education, stronger law enforcement, and wiser public attitudes. The piece praises court reliability and urges continued declines until lynching ends.
A distressed taxpayer pleads for tax relief and offers to sell land, livestock, and household goods at low values. He lists twenty acres of overflowed bottom, twenty-five to thirty acres uncleared, a crippled blind mare, two undersized mules, a cow, shoats, and worn household items with modest prices. He emphasizes severe hardship and inability to pay taxes.
The speaker argues current laws fail to encourage workers to own homes as taxes fall most on labor income. Renters and investors shoulder less tax than small homeowners. Calls for lower living costs and tax reform. The Hotel and Restaurant Employes International Alliance and Bartenders League set their annual convention in Denver next month.
May 2 entries cover historic events from 1775 to 1875 including Pennsylvanias plan of conciliation, Jefferson as minister to France, a Spanish revolt against Napoleon, Freemont expedition start, Jacksons Civil War action, a New York theater fire, and the Boston Cathedral dedication. The excerpt also notes Hallie Erminie Rives birthday in 1878 and lists several notable birthdays for today, with figures such as Jerome K. Jerome and James F Byrnes among those celebrated.
Reports from Cradley Heath Munich London and Jacksonville cover labor themes. The piece notes women blacksmiths earning five cents per yard, a new labor temple in Munich, a June transport workers congress in London, rising farm wages since 1866, 1875 and 1903, and a large ninth annual child labor conference in Jacksonville with delegates from thirty one states. It mentions a potential general strike by French teachers, past penalties for guilds, Chicago domestic workers forming the Household Workers Association, Ohio labor memorial fund for Harry Thomas’s family, a mine shaft collapse at Faliselle Belgium, Amalgamated Glass Workers in Toronto seeking five cent hourly raises and horseshoers asking five dollars weekly, plus a proposed minimum wage of twenty dollars per week.
An advertisement touts RHEUMA as dissolving uric acid and easing sore joints within days. A 50 cent bottle is offered with a money back guarantee.Recipient testimonials claim dramatic improvement after long-term pain, highlighting Prof. H. H. Kolling’s conversion and restored appetite. Also notes railroad unions total 200,000 members and Winnipeg painters’ wage dispute over 54 cents hourly.
The era’s two great battles will be recalled in summer commemorations. The nation, aging as it nears its centennial, reflects on the lasting impact of those wars and the evolving memory of early American history.
The piece outlines preparations for the fiftieth anniversary observances of the Battle of Gettysburg and related reunions at Chattanooga and Chickamauga. It notes Pennsylvania hosting, tents for 12,000, veteran-only catering, and schedules from July 1 to July 4 with speeches by governors and a President. It cites attendance expectations, transport constraints, and the dominance of veterans from Union and Confederate groups.
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