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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1915
Page
2
The Athens Weekly Banner surveys war markets in cotton and currency shifts, noting Germany's price bids and the U.S. loan outlook. It reports Porter Charlton’s front-page return from Como Italy, journalism school links, Armenian tragedies, and a Maui insur ance venture. The U.S. Geological Survey data compare predicted and actual mineral production with iron ore figures.
A tense domestic vignette shows a young wife urging her partner Gear to take their child Tiny. She requests a vow to act if a burglar is seen, highlighting fear and duty as a special constable prepares to go on duty.
A critique notes England spends heavily on primary education but results lag in preparing youth for life. It argues over-load of curriculum harms thoroughness and urges citizenship training and self discipline under devoted teachers. Universal high endeavor requires steering education past narrow knowledge to moral, civic aims.
A southern preservation push urges collecting Dixie era poems and Confederate ballads. Daughters of the Confederacy and Athens leader push the Mildred Rutherford Circle to assemble readable, valued songs for future generations to study and enjoy. The Florida Times-Union editorial supports making these Songs of the South known to children and scholars, to retain memory of the past and influence future convictions.
Georgia shows resolve to fund schooling as war and hard times bite. UGA enrollment nears last year’s total while state normal schools and Milledgeville’s Industrial College push capacity to meet demand. Brenau and Shorter report dormitory fullness as parents seek better life through education.
A government plan allocates nearly five million dollars for farm demonstration work this year. Georgia lands will be directed through the State College of Agriculture at Athens under the Smith Lever extension act of May City, shaping the nationwide agricultural outreach and education program.
The Smith Lever Act allocates funds to extend practical agriculture and home economics training beyond colleges. It sets $10,000 yearly federal support per state and an escalating federal appropriation reaching $4,580,000 by 1923, with state matching from rural population shares. Total joint funds rise to $1,680,000 in 1915-16, plus $1,025,000 from department of agriculture and $2,650,000 state funds for 1915-16 demonstrations.
An English paper from Athens notes Germany’s wartime wool shortage. It estimates 200000 tons of wool needed for another year of fighting, with 280 million pounds already allocated for 7 million soldiers. It contrasts Britain’s vast wool stocks and questions Germany’s winter outfits and supply security.
Nearly a dozen counties sent delegations to explore the college and its expansive plant. Athens residents, unaware of the scale and offerings, consider organizing an Athens Day to tour the farm, dairy, pastures, experimental plots, and demonstration fields beyond Lumpkin Hill. The plan aims to boost civic awareness of the college’s breadth.
Beverly Harris of National City Bank of New York just toured the South to assess business conditions. The Manufacturers Record reports a striking contrast to last fall, with some unease but overall progress. Harris concludes the region is on the brink of its best, most prosperous era, backed by data and solid business reasoning.
The speaker predicts a new prosperous epoch for the South and Southwest driven by improved methods, abundant capital, and cheaper interest rates. He argues the region will gain population and wealth as its real goods sustain demand and technology sharpens. He notes public sentiment oscillates amid war, tariffs, and currency debates, but sees gradual return to normal and rising prosperity ahead.
A Georgia chamber of commerce event echoed southern addresses urging easier farm credit. Hon. John N. Holder argued farmers need bank loans on par with merchants, calling for better land title and collection laws. Judge Andrew Cobb approved the remedy, stressing banks require solid collateral and prompt pay.
The Associated Press notes Britain's wartime indebtedness will total at least eleven billion dollars by year end, a figure part of a broader $30.13 billion allied debt with prewar levels at $18.54 billion. It cites leaders like Britain and France as top indebted nations, while warning totals cannot capture decades of life lost.
Manchester, Sept 25 Professor Arthur Schuster head of the British Association and its presidency role was confirmed amid press agitation. Born in Germany and of Jewish lineage his naturalized Briton father and British colleagues stood with him as he warned that war stalemate could push science toward militarism and commercial life, diverting minds from pure research.
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