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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1913
Page
2
A Chicago style array of notes touches on Georgia women’s suffrage activity with the state capitol in Atlanta, Governor Slaton’s fitness for office, and ongoing political debates. Articles praise Senator Bacon’s service, tax equalization as a legislative aim, and a Royal Commission proposal on industrial training funding for Canada.
Athens shows continuing interest as Brinson Railway Co. moves toward completion. A four year voting trust for common stock was agreed by stockholders in Savannah to secure $1,000,000 in new financing led by New York financiers James Imbrie. About $125,000 will fund summer track and grade work supervised by R. Morgan. The line currently runs Savannah to Waynesboro, with a partial extension to St. Clair linking to the Georgia & Florida Railway.
The Home and Farmstead notes rising strain from a growing Georgia population and limited home raised meat. Census figures show Georgia produced milk butter poultry eggs cattle sheep and hogs but per person supplies remain tiny. The piece cites reduced livestock earlier and strong cheese imports as evidence of expanding demand.
Athens to entertain the state by hosting Georgia’s officers for a day next Saturday. The town rallies with cheerful plans to be part of the event, inviting participation and highlighting civic hospitality as a public spectacle.
The passage argues that will determines action from wealth to crime, noting that will can lead to success or criminal behavior. It contrasts self interest with concern for others and reflects on how laws embody competing drives between individual advancement and broader care.
The text argues that while individuals choose actions, law and government should guide will through education. Education trains the moral side and lowers the necessity for court intervention, offering a cheaper, easier method than relying solely on judicial action.
A compact column blends folk remedies with religious counsel to endure heat. It cites water intake, fans, clothing choices, and a preacher’s advice from Dr Reisner. The guidance centers on faith as a cooling anchor and urges calm, temperance, moderation, and patient effort amid hot days.
The Children's Bureau publishes a bulletin urging U S cities to expand summer infant survival drives. It notes historic drops in urban death rates and cites New York and Philadelphia where targeted campaigns cut deaths of under two year olds by 30 to 40 percent. Limited funding remains the main barrier to broader impact.
A close observer argues Russia sought to provoke Balkan nations into costly feuds while Europe briefly feared a wider war. Yet nine months of conflict ended with Europe calm, a Turkish collapse, and Salonica under Greek control as peace conference efforts failed. Multiple fronts shifted, including Montenegro’s dash to Scutari and Adrianople’s fall, leaving a markedly altered near East.
The consular bulletin announces an international ploughing motor contest in Tunis slated for April 15 22 1914. Entries limited to one machine per type, foreign entrants receive at least 6 francs per gross ton transportation. Provisional applications by Sept 1 1913 final by Nov 1 1918 with a 50 franc deposit. Tunisian note highlights large estates, long furrows and rapid motor craft demand, signaling strong American agricultural machinery prospects in Tunis.
The University of Georgia hosts a summer school conference on rural school supervision running Monday to Friday. State and county superintendents gather to share problems, plans, and methods to coordinate statewide efforts for rural education. Dr Wooster receives heartfelt thanks for launching the initiative, which aims to involve nearly all counties next year.
The article urges local school taxes of at least one mill in each Georgia county to fund public schools, arguing this reduces burden inequities and improves nine month terms, teacher pay, and outcomes. Drawing on Minnesota's Svea example, it advocates higher local funding, longer terms, eight month school years, two teachers per rural area, compulsory attendance, free texts, and investments in farm education to prevent Southern lag. It emphasizes sacrifice now for a richer society twenty years hence.
A bill has been favorably reported by the Wit Women of the South to place county treasurers on a salary basis of 200 rather than the present commissions. Club women claim the change will save thousands and ensure adequate compensation for treasurers’ time and services despite health work concerns.
Gov. Blease agrees to cooperate with the U S War Department to obtain arms for the South Carolina militia. He promises to be compliant and supportive to secure the needed equipment for local defense efforts.
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