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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1913
Page
4
The 1913 White House address urges cautious tariff changes to boost prosperity without upheaval. Wilson stresses gradual reform, funding foreign trade, and building industry while avoiding reckless haste. He points to banking and currency reforms as important next steps.
The extra session called by President Wilson opens with Democrats holding full legislative power. The tariff tops the agenda as lawmakers, largely new to prominence, debate the form and scope of a revised measure. Currency, income tax, Philippine independence, and Panama Canal issues follow, with focus on a national tax likely limited to incomes above five thousand dollars.
A Richmond project named the Battle Abbey of the South nears completion as a grand memorial for Confederate soldiers. The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Confederate Memorial Association oversee construction and fundraising, with Indiana limestone exterior and an interior planned for extensive murals by Charles Hoffbauer. Groundwork includes a terrace, lawns, and a central memorial hall designed to display architectural and historic panels and reproductions of Confederate battle scenes.
The article outlines the rise of commercial colleges high school commercial courses university schools of commerce and vocational and continuation programs. It notes private and corporate schools anchor practical business training while public and university efforts broaden access with balanced liberal and professional studies. It argues these paths complement rather than replace each other and call for closer private public university links.
A Washington dispatch reports that Congressman Hardwick named Boling Moore for Milledgeville postmaster with possible removal of Athens postmaster William Fleming. The Athens case centers on Jep Rucker as a potential candidate if Tribble pushes Fleming out. The piece notes party patronage, Senate confirmation, and possible Republican retaliation over Taft era nominations.
New York April 7 The United Textile Workers executive board met to begin a campaign to organize cotton mill workers in the South. The old-line union grew from 12 000 to 17 000 in a year with about 3 000 additional members since October. Previously strongest in New England and the Middle States, leaders now plan immediate action to keep the Industrial Workers of the World from entering the southern textile field.
New York April 7 veteran manager John J Mc Graw of the New York Giants receives numerous well wishers on his fortieth birthday. He began in Oreon New York before advancing through minor leagues to Baltimore and St Louis, later returning to Baltimore for the famed Orioles.
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