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A thought on keeping speech clean and edifying. Morality and restraint in words are urged as easy obligations and costly silence.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1925
Page
4
A thought on keeping speech clean and edifying. Morality and restraint in words are urged as easy obligations and costly silence.
The Federal Trade Commission urges Department of Justice investigation into the post dissolution oil market. President Coolidge is briefed on the report by Senator Trammel who argues price hikes eight to nine cents per gallon lack justification by reserves or production stats. The commission says dissolved trust members still dominate the industry by influencing independents.
Courts uphold that officers may stop vehicles with probable cause to search for contraband liquor. The ruling distinguishes autos from stores or dwellings and notes warrants are impractical for ships and motor vehicles.
The essential thing in prohibition enforcement is to stop transportation of liquor, then manufacture will take care of itself. The court remarks this decision will likely spur a stronger effort to halt transport by the most common and popular method.
The author argues public education should favor citizenship over textbook publishers. He cites hundreds of male students training as wood and metal workers and hundreds of female students learning to sew, cook, and provide home skills as essential real citizenship. The aim is to equip youth to earn a living with hands and brains.
Germany proposes direct peace with France including mutual security guarantees and arbitration. France's reaction remains uncertain amid lingering resentments. The two powers may need a bilateral accord before Geneva backed League of Nations machinery gains full impact.
The United States Board of Tax Appeals has functioned for several months, receiving 1900 petitions and disposing of about 600 cases. It offers taxpayers first chance at decisions before the Internal Revenue Service, with about 60 percent of written decisions favoring taxpayers. Appointed twelve members in 1924, the board operates independently under the President, supported by a dedicated staff.
S W Straus owner of the Ambassador in Los Angeles New York and Atlantic City argues California has not yet moved and predicts a second and third population boom. He notes the state’s climate location and fertility attract population and capital pouring in from the United States.
The federal government begins a six and a half million dollar program to improve the Los Angeles Harbor. Officials boast that the harbor already ranks second in U S traffic after New York, highlighting its growing importance and federal investment.
Citizens of California undertake large scale textile work with the Imperial Valley expected to yield 13,000,600 dollars in long staple cotton this year highlighting self reliance and regional development.
The piece notes Egypt grows food, plans to spin cotton into cloth locally, and hints at California expanding industry to provide living chances for new citizens. It projects population rising from two to twenty million this century and signals Ard California's determination to develop industries.
The piece notes Germany’s late President Ebert to be buried as a Roman Catholic despite a life as a socialist hostile to religion. It says he will receive Catholic rites by Father Mass of Heidelberg, reflecting death’s pull toward a guiding power.
William Andrews Clark, once a Montana senator, died in his New York palace after rising from humble beginnings to immense wealth. He exercised vast influence, employing thousands and shaping politics as he commanded. His money was his power.
A terse note warns that even vast wealth and top doctors cannot avert a deadly microscopic pneumococcus outbreak. The statement underscores limits of medical power against infectious diseases and the vulnerability of the ruling class.
A stray fragment urges vigilance against a tiny pneumonia germ and links health to vitality. It contrasts money with wisdom and emphasizes sunshine sleep wise eating and peace as the true keys to well being.
Harry Sinclair warns of dwindling oil. 800 million barrels stored above ground.
Colonel William M. Acheson, state highway engineer, reports that automobile traffic on New York highways doubles in three year intervals.
A dense roster lists programs on WEAF WNYC WGBS WARY and more. The guide covers orchestras talk shows and performances including the Happiness Boys Meyer Davis Orchestra and college broadcasts with detailed times and guests.
Station schedules across Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville feature Orchestra performances lectures and dance programs. Notable acts include Thelma Halorano and Dick Long's Orchestra with midnight hours and insomniac club. other stations list organ concerts and weather market updates through the evening.
In Mountain Standard Time the Wednesday program features Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience. The event is staged by the Wednesday Musical Club at 8:10 P.M. with orchestral support.
A scratched listing shows Pacific Coast time slots for KGO Oakland San Francisco and Portland stations with multiple evening programs including orchestras children stories markets lectures and late music blocks. The note says station management may alter programs.
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