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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
4
The Athens Banner Daily weekly edition lists Clarke County as its official organ and offers subscriptions by mail with yearly rates of $100, six months for 60 cents, and three months for 25 cents. All subscriptions require advance payment and may be sent by express, post office money order, or registered letter.
Confidence returns as war ends, reviving building and industrial activity. Athens shows strong prospects with lumber demand surging to meet new construction, while labor and material costs rise but remain reasonable beside living costs. Industrial indices cite broad revival, with May incorporations totaling 900 and capital near 750 million dollars, led by oil, gas, coal, export shipping and chemicals.
The Mondell bill to provide cut over farm lands for soldiers to start agricultural settlements earns wide support in Congress and among Southern governors. Proponents cite growth in land values with cultivation and the vast available acreage in the South including North and South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Florida.
Nearly 1,000 teachers have applied and enrollment is expected to reach 1200. The success reflects the school’s excellent program and the capable leadership of Dr. T. J. Wootter.
The article highlights the value and breadth of courses at the Georgia summer school. It notes that teachers from other schools attend, finding this program more complete than university offerings, and credits local merchants for funding the early years while the state now sustains its existence.
A 1920 presidential nomination discussion notes Major General Leonard Wood as front runner for the Republican ticket while President Wilson’s renomination by Democrats is considered possible. It cites polls from Grand Rapids showing Wood ahead among eleven choices and discusses party dynamics, public sentiment, and the likelihood of a Democratic victory in November 1920.
A fragmented verse reflects on the passing of nineteen nineteen as June looms large. The speaker muses whether the year is remembered by what we gave or what we received, noting crops and harvest time approach and time itself marches forward. The tone is nostalgic and reflective.
Albanian mountaineers desire liberty from the peace conference not mandates. They welcome American uniforms and associate them with relief and independence. The Red Cross runs dispensaries in Tirana Scutari Elbasan Kroja Berat and mobile units travel across the mountains. Albanian doctors and nurses are being trained in American methods for postwar aid.
A bombing air plane piloted by Nieut Colonel H B Claggett struck and killed two children and injured another during landing at Franklin Field Boston today. Captain William Chandler observer of the machine was slightly hurt. The plane came from Albany on the final leg of its flight from Dallas Texas.
Avants Ga June 23 Special to The Banner three German officers and sixty eight enlisted men will leave Atlanta this afternoon for Charleston to sail to Germany. The departure reduces the prison camp population to about 1,400 men with no word on when they will be released. Three soldiers will stay in the US. The Germans were paid for their work and today was pay day. one captain may take as much as 1200 dollars.
The Orange Dee-Light fruit drink debuts in Athens and proves popular. Ira L. Miller, vice president, and R. Lissett, sales, spent several days in Athens promoting the bottled tea drink. They arranged for local sale, emphasizing its pure, cold orange flavor.
The National Security League announced a nationwide program forming state units to lead an intensive drive against Bolshevism and anarchy, culminating in a constitutional celebration on September 17, 1919, with major committees, governors, mayors, and education leaders mobilized nationwide. The plan engages 50 national speakers and 190 governors, mayors, and educators in a broad patriotic campaign backed by prominent figures and organizations.
Washington reports Prof. R L Gn of the Smithsonian claims a French Congo specimen resembles a talking ape 400,000 years ago in a stage between beast and true man. The account traces progression from Heidelberg to Piltdown and Neanderthal, noting shifts in race and intellect, with Croagnon and Tasmanian lines cited as pivotal milestones in human evolution.
Washington reports the House passed the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill authorizing 408 million dollars in expenditures, sending the measure to the Senate as the last of several money bills blocked in the previous Congress.
Washington June 21 with a record vote the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill proposing federal and state cooperation in vocational training for workers injured to identify and rehabilitate others through programs and aid.
Special to The Bann Washington reports May exports totaled 606 million dollars, down 108 million from April but 55 million above May 1912. The Bureau of Foreign Commerce notes for the eleven months ending May exports reached 6.308 billion dollars, an increase of 872.9 million over the previous year. The excess of imports over exports remained a major factor in the year’s monetary picture.
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