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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1915
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner reports subscription rates and delivery notes, warns carriers cannot collect or sell papers, and highlights world events from Armenia to Greece and Hawaii. It also mentions a geological survey error margin, a Maui insurance plan, and World War I milestones from the Niemen to Verdun.
Preservation of Southern poems and songs before and during the Confederacy is urged. Daughters of the Confederacy and Athens leaders push to collect and present Songs of the South to educate future generations, with support from the Florida Times Union on the need to know fathers and veterans and to keep living memory and honor.
Georgia shows strong commitment to student education with near record university enrollment and full dormitories at several state schools. Despite hard times and wartime pressures, parents pursue better life prospects through broader schooling and higher training across institutions like the University of Georgia and Milledgeville’s Normal and Industrial College.
Clarence Poe cites supposed racial hierarchies to argue the South favors white labor over Black workers. He compares Africans, Chinese, and Hindus to criticize perceived advantage of Black Americans and notes white laborers’ declining chances in rural power dynamics.
In a disciplined summer program civilians including mayors and ex-officials trained as soldiers. They studied infantry, cavalry, artillery, machine gun, motor transport, signal, medical and sanitary services, with motor cars introduced as an experimental asset under Captain R C Bolling.
Washington reports that war disruptions halved Latin American commerce, with Europe retreating and the United States urged to build long term ties. The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce urges US manufacturers to study markets, establish banks, and deploy investigators to lay foundations for future trade in Latin America.
The School of Commerce at the University of Georgia reports a total of 215 students enrolled. Coursework includes industrial geography, U.S. and European economic history, economics, banking, transportation, statistics, business psychology, selling, management, and business law. President Fairfax Harrison of Southern Railway offers $100 first prize and $50 second prize for top papers on Georgia’s industrial development, open to juniors and seniors.
A quotation extols Southern lineage as home to the greatest world figures in rhetoric poetry warfare and governance, naming Demos thenes Cicero Patrick Henry Isaiah Homer Virgil Dante Sidney Lanier King David Alexander Caesar Bonaparte Robert E Lee Joshua Solon Lycurgus Justinian James Madison Moses.
An advertisement claims health and mood depend on liver function and bile flow. It asserts that Dr King’s New Life Pills wake the liver, improve bile production, and stimulate bowel action to dispel moody days and dark moods.
Governor N E Harris proclaims September 28 and 29 as Dixie Highway Days in Georgia to support the Dixie Highway movement and a Georgia Florida convention in Jacksonville. A Florida proclamation mirrors Georgia to boost good roads and interstate cooperation.
Secretary R M Guess of the University of Georgia Y M C A says daily requests pour in from students who must earn their way through college. He asks citizens and merchants to report available afternoon or short day jobs to him at 111 so students and employers can be matched.
Last night the State College of Agriculture auditorium and basement hosted the first meeting of the year for the Agricultural Society presided by President W O Collins. D C Barrow, Andrew M Soule, W D Hasty, H W Harvey and M W H Collins spoke. many new members joined and faculty attended. Mrs Soule chaperoned and refreshments were served.
A series of political notices state candidacies for mayor of Athens and alderman in wards one through four. Names include E H Youngkin K A Hill A G Dudley T Be Jago Harold T Tuck Vincent Mathews Albert E Davison Hugh H Gordon and E K Lumpkin Jr. Also mentions endorsements for a cough remedy and a tea price note.
C. D. Wright of Rosemont Nebraska writes that frequent kidney action broke his rest. A 50-cent bottle of Foley Kidney Pills made him well. The ad notes they relieve rheumatism and backache and lists 4H and R. Palmer & Sons as distributors.
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