Art Education Urged by Western Drawing Association
The Western Drawing and Manual Training Association urges increased art education in U S schools. Resolutions call for better training in freehand drawing design and color, equal credits for art, higher art instructor salaries, and publication of art education material by the Bureau of Education. The group appeals to boards of education and the press to support these measures to boost American artistic and industrial prestige.
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United States
Western Drawing and Manual Training Association
Athens
Bureau of Education
Department of the Interior
Itt Conversion
Chicago
Board of Education
Washington
Bureau of Education At
Natonal Educational Association
America
Association
Boards of Education
German Opera House strike forces director to resign
Berlin report says the German Opera House at Charlottenburg ended a five day walkout by its director general Otto Neumann Hofer after workers including principals chorus and stage hands struck. Socialist town council members backed the strikers demanding leadership changes. Hofer resigned amid long standing disputes over reforms for employees.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Charlottenburg
Otto Neumann Hofer
One Year Enlistment For Young Men In Army Corps
Emergency call offers a one year enlistment in the U S Army Quartermaster Corps or Medical Department with full discharge at year end. Training spans trades from harness making to carpentry and nursing to stenography. Pay ranges from 30 to 100 dollars monthly with living expenses covered. apply to Recruiting Sergeant in room 202 Shackleford Building Athens.
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Quartermaster Corps
Medical Department
U. S. Army
Fisher
Athens
Shackleford Building
American Hospital For Russ Is Open In Russia
The American Red Cross opened a large hospital at Chelkiabinak to treat wounded Russians from the army fighting the Bolsheviks. Heavy fighting on the Ufa front sent many wounded to Russian military hospitals and Dr. Henry W. Newman was sent from Chellabinsk to support Red Cross work as the area becomes a major station this summer for relief efforts.
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Omsk
Siberia
American Red Cross
Chelkiabinak
Ufa
Red Cross
Chellabinsk
Henry W. Newman
Georgia Chamber Plans a National Campaign for a Greater Georgia
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce plans a statewide fundraising campaign to finance a broader effort to advertise Georgia and its resources. The plan includes establishing county councils, agriculture and immigration bureaus, and highway systems bureaus with expert leadership. Governor Dorsey and other leaders endorse the county council expansion, and a statewide publicity drive will follow the initial fund effort.
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Atlanta
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Georgia
Georgia Chamber
W. J. Rudland
Rudland
Hugh M. Dorsey
Chamber
Examinations for Civil Service Jobs to Be Held in City
Hundreds of civil service exams will be held next month with listings of open positions including practical optician and glass workers helper, commercial aid and chief auditor, metallurgist, draftsmen, metallographist, senior and junior cost accountants, departmental service in Washington, Navy and Treasury departments, mechanical engineer in experimental work, tariff clerk, research operator metallurgical, forest superintendent, penitentiary guard, cotton classer helper, inspector mechanical, photographer, cotton classing specialist, assistant agricultural technologist, agricultural economist in charge, stenographer typist, with exam dates in August 1919 and locations in the Fifth district and Washington.
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Athens
Lighthouse Service
Washington, D. C
War Department
Navy
Treasury Department
Navy Department
Penitentiary Service
Saint Johns Day Bath Time Fiesta Waning in Mexico City
Mexico City July 19 reports show St John the Baptist day observance shrinking. Bath houses reserved early crowds, but this year business and holiday spirit were notably down in the Zocalo with few stalls and scant promenades.
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Mexico City
Zocalo
Automobile Buyers Should Look Deep
Buyers should look beyond price to signs of quality endorsement and reputation. The Busex is praised for performance beauty luxury and smooth riding by over 500000 satisfied customers, built by a leading automotive organization with years of industry experience.
Hunger Strikes Czech Schools Absent From Hunger
Prague reports one third of Czech schoolchildren miss class daily due to hunger. Red Cross investigators Miss Edith Hoyt and Mrs. Ethel Barte describe widespread undernourishment in Erzgebirge towns, with 90 percent of children starving, undersized, and unwell. Public kitchens planned. Americans oversee food distribution.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Associated Press
Red Cross
Edith Hoyt
Washington, D. C
Ethel D. Barte
New York City
Erzebirge
Will Make Savings Department Permanent
Washington reports that the government will permanently issue thrift stamps war savings stamps and treasury savings certificates as depositories for labor and fraternal funds. The move follows AFL resolution and supports unions in building funds paying long standing debts and providing financial independence through savings security.
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Washington
America
Secretary of the Treasury
Carter Glass
The
Treasury
Treasury Savings
American Federation of Labor
Atlantc City
Mexico Plans Check Move For Radicals
Mexico City July 19 active measures to prevent radicals with monarchial tendencies from spreading their doctrines in the republic are being taken by the element which has deported several persons charged with pernicious conduct. Federal employees at all ports of entry have been instructed to keep a watchful eye for suspicious persons.
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Mexico City
Republic
Packard Firm Expands Georgia Packard Agent in Athens
Mr. W. Miles Chisolm arrives in Athens to represent H. B. Odell of Atlanta, Packard distributor for Georgia, Florida and Alabama. He will sell Packard cars and trucks in Athens and vicinity, basing temporarily at the Y M C A, with plans to share space with Lumpkin street dealer Jardine Lumpkin. Chisolm invites individuals and firms to consult on passenger and freight transportation needs and to learn Packard offerings, including existing Packard equipment owners.
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W. Miles Chisolm
Athens
H. B. Odell
Atlanta
Packard
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Chisolm
Jardine Lumpkin
Apperson
Paterson
Lumpkin Street
Resex order book marks steady after refined upkeep tone
In a description of the Resex program the text asserts premium materials and workmanship ensure reliability and long service. It notes demand remains strong with orders filled in rotation, all booked and ready, reflecting confidence in production and upkeep standards.
Women Candidates Rise as Bar Suffrage Expands in Atlanta
Atlanta reporters note a growing number of women entering law, raising the bar with night study at Atlanta Law School. The co‑educational, night‑only program draws many working students. Fall term starts October 1, with about forty veterans returning from service.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Law School
Yank 13, Held In Germany Four Years On Way To U S
Paris dispatch reports 13 year old Herbert Seidel arrives in Paris en route to Fort Bliss Texas to rejoin his mother and sister after four years in Germany with his grandmother in Saxony. He has forgotten English but remains loyal to the United States. His release followed months of Red Cross negotiations.
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Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Herbert Seidel
Fort Bliss
Texas
Saxony
United States
Herbert
Carl Seidel
France
Red Cross
French Women With Yank Hobbies To Go To Chattanooga
French women who married American soldiers and plan to stay in the regular army will be transferred to the Sixth United States cavalry and to Chickamauga Park. The move affects those from Fort Oglethorpe and is part of assignments involving Chattanooga area.
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Chattanooga
Associated Press
Fort Oglethorpe
Sixth United States Cavalry
Chickamauga Park
North West Forest Fires Spread Across Regions
Fires across northern Idaho, western Montana, and eastern Washington threaten thousands of acres of cutover and virgin timber. Federal forest service officials reported hourly new fires and issued appeals for men to join the firefighting effort to curb the spread.
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Associated Press
Spokane
Idaho
Montana
Washington
Federal Forest Service
Fatherless Girls College Opens in Philadelphia
The Chas. E. Ellis College for the Education of Fatherless Girls begins operations in Whitemarsh Valley, four miles north of Chestnut Hill. Founded by Charles E. Ellis who endowed five million dollars, the college offers free education to girls unable to afford schooling.
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Philadelphia
Chas. E. Ellis
Whitemarsh Valley
Chestnut Hill
Ellis
Girarg College
State Takes Hand In Potash Fight
Atlanta July 19 Director L B Jackson of the Georgia Bureau of Markets has made public a letter to the Washington attorney for potash interests. The note exposes a plan to impose a 2 50 per unit duty on potash imported to the United States. It argues farmers should pay the world market price unfettered by duties as peace returns and Germany and France resume potash trade.
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Atlanta
L. B. Jackson
Georgia Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Germany
West
United States
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Low Power Dollar To Be Worth More Soon
Bankers caution about the rising value of the dollar and explain a war savings plan. Canadian posters urge investing in government securities to redeem later for higher value dollars. The piece explains wage and price changes, and how War Savings Stamps return greater value over time. Includes example of daily earnings and the conversion to future dollars.
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Athens
United States
Canada
Georgians Help Earn Honor War Flag For Sewanee
Special to the Banner Sewanee Tenn July 19 The University of the South receives a new banner the Croix de Guerre with white star from the Sewanee Ambulance Unit for WWI service. The purple and white flag with gold fringe bears unit and combat details and honors.
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Sewanee, Tenn
University of the South
Sewanee Ambulance
Albion W. Knight
Henry D. Phillips
All Saints Chapel
D. L. Lorraine
Somme-Aisne
Sewanee
Newport News
Fort Oglethorpe
James K. Werner
Tracy City
Tenn
Frank Y. Whitfield
Meridian
Miss
Julien K. Moore
Waco
Texas
John A Catlett
Clarkenville
Charles D. Conway
Osceola
Ark
Rogers B. Tullis
Chattanooga
Herbert A. Tuell
Robert P. Hodge
Alfred C. Melanac
Joe Anderson
Harry E. Clark
Rossville
Rundolph L. Wilhelm
Jersey City
N. J
Hugh E. Nation
Blossom
Fred H. Oehring
Newark
William 8
William 8. Stoney, Columbia, 8. C. Stewart Phinizy, Jr
Augusta
James H. McMahon
Carl O. Klose
Long Island
N. Y
Arthur G. Murphy
Macon
John D. Anderson
Selma
Ala
Victor B. Atkins
Harold E. Bettle
Memphis
Robert B. Carter
Richard R. Cney
Clarksville
Morris K. Clark
W. R. Davis, Jr
New York City
George C. Demeter
Boston
Masa
Robert T Dobbins
Albany
William R. Featherston, Jr
Cedar Hill
N. V. Gerhart
Griffin
Greenville
Robert Francis Hodge
France
Rogers Bethune
Montgomery
William White Palmer
South Carolina
George Lake Inge
Mississippi
Ralph Nesbit Shannon
South Georgia Normal College seeks new dormitory
Atlanta July 19 Overcrowding at the South Georgia State Normal College of Valdosta prompts a request to the legislature for a $75,000 dormitory to house visiting girls. The school, the only state institution for girls south of a Georgia line, sees enrollment rise dramatically and would use a temporary arrangement until the new building is completed. President R H Powell notes the growing demand and urges swift action to avoid hampering the institution’s work.
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Atlanta
South Georgia State Normal Cotlege of
Valdosta
Valdosta College
South Georgia
W. S. West
Georgia
South Georgia Normal and Industrial
R. H. Powell
Tom
Back From France Kelley Plans Run For Congress
Atlanta July 19 congressional rumors stir the 9th district as Thomas M Bell faces a strong challenge. John S Kelley Lawrenceville attorney and Mercer 1914 graduate aims to run vigorously with solid backing. Kelley served May 1918 with the 325th Infantry S2d Division, fought in St Mihiel and Meuse Argonne.
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Atlanta
Thomas M. Bell
John S. Kelley
Lawrenceville
Kelley
Mercer
Norman Cox
Furman
325Th Infantry
St. Mehiel
Meuse-Argonne
Express Company Tax Doubling As Violation Penalty
Atlanta July 19 The Comptroller General W A Wright plans to invoke the 1902 act to double the tax against the American Express Company for failing to return franchise value. The notebook valuation could reach about 700000 with a disputed $23823 assessment on horses and iron safes, making tangible property tax totals rise from 286841 to 296799.
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Atlanta
American Express Company
W. A. Wright
General Wright
House Quits With Dry Bill Unpassed
Washington July 19 The house adjourned at 10 30 tonight after a session lasting from morning in 4 effort to pass the prohibition enforcement bill The measure will be taken up again Monday.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Love Affairs Tied To Officer Death By Own Action
Atlanta July 19 Lieut Dayton Burns Martin 23 of Princeton Ky found fatally wounded in his room here yesterday killed himself coroner verdict. He had just been placed in the reserves and was to be married Friday to Miss Mildred Peacock. Love letters from a Carrollton Ga woman and a Cairo Ill woman indicated each expected to marry the officer.
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Atlanta
Dayton Burns Martin
Princeton
Martin
Priday
Mildred Peacock
Carrollton
Cairo
Pomcer
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Russ
Saint Johns
Mexico
Packard Cy
Mary Wen
Yank
U. S
North West
Fatherless Girls College
I. E. McKellar
Wesleyan College
New York
Mise Ella Claro McKeillar
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