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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
2
The Athens Banner appeals to Clarke County readers to raise larger crops, conserve food, and cut waste. It urges protecting livestock, notes lightless nights due to coal shortages, and praises local towns for efforts while contrasting with raids. It mentions Christmas trade editions in nearby cities and coal relief efforts across counties.
In the Outlook article Joseph Odell lauds southern country environments and camp locations like Augusta. He argues camps offer common sense benefits and better climate, saying he would place his son in a southern camp over a college course for safety and well being.
London dispatch reports a British airship destroyed by a hostile seaplane and another airship forced down in Holland. An official announcement also confirms a British destroyer has been sunk amid ongoing combat claims.
The cotton receipts figures for Athens this year show totals to Dec 1 by rail 61 606 bales and by wagon 15 453 bales making a total of 76 458 bales. Comparison with last year is noted.
The nation wakes to the true cost of war as it finances and feeds the allies, with England’s funding fading and the United States urged to bear heavier burdens. Public resolve grows, rail and transport limits threaten distribution, and a people ready to sacrifice advances toward a conclusive victory as Kaiser Wilhelm bets his last card against America’s might.
The University of Georgia boasts seven hundred twenty seven students this session, with over two hundred already in the service of the country. Most volunteered rather than were drafted, and five hundred officers from the university reportedly serve in the new army. The university’s future contribution is likely to approach one thousand in total.
Thrift stamps are promoted as Christmas gifts with government stamps guaranteeing value. Available at banks, post offices, and merchants, a single stamp costs twenty five cents and a fiftennteen cost four dollars for sixteen stamps. sixteen stamps plus twelve cents buy a five dollar five year certificate with four percent interest compounded quarterly.
A wartime Christmas reflection noting altered conditions in stores homes and churches. Prices high and shortages bite at blessings while war looms large. The essay urges focusing on the poor and soldiers, with Santa Claus adapting his plan to meet the era’s needs.
The message asserts that citizens should not overexert themselves to keep others remembering, and that children will still have their Christmas as usual. Santa Claus remains unchanged in plans, possibly aided by outside help, and will make his rounds as usual.
A historic dispatch deplores the Houston riot by U S troops, stating officials swiftly convicted defendants. It urges harsher penalties to deter future disturbances and argues northern black soldiers should be stationed away from the South to avoid friction with Southern whites.
Federal Food Administrator Hoover drives nationwide conservation of wheat meat and sugar with weekly meatless and wheatless days. Soule’s Georgia leadership urges strict adherence, urging sacrifices at home to support soldiers and cripple the German menace.
A 1916 republication argues the crisis facing the United States tests duty to God and country. It cites the Scout oath and law, warns of impending trial, and insists government can endure only if the people sustain it through character and conscience.
A speaker argues that conscience can mislead if fed by flawed sources and asserts the Bible as the true granary of truth. He warns secular neglect of God invites moral decay, urging a return to Scripture and prayer to save the republic from ruin.
Mrs Nora Smith of Levinton Georgia dies at 71. Funeral Sunday at 11 from her residence, Clarke cemetery interment. Services by Revs P W Davis and M S Weaver. Survived by two daughters Mrs W H Deadwyler and Mrs W H Reynolds, brother J H McCommons of Athens, sister Miss Ella McCommons, and eight grandchildren. Local sorrow follows passing of Lexingtons grand old lady.
A meditation on empty houses and memories of past inhabitants. The speaker, Margaret Be. Sangster, reflects on lives once lived behind walls, considering joys fears and possible tragedies. The poem envisions echoes of soldiers letters prayers and mourners longing for days gone by.
Washington announces new government explosive plants to supplement private output. Secretary Baker names Daniel B. Jackling to head construction, with a total expenditure exceeding ninety million. A new war council is created to coordinate supplies for armies at home and overseas and manage military relations.
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