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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
8
The Washington Bureau notes an idle yet bustling Capitol mood as Congress debates tariffs and reform. Mentions Champ Clark, Bryan, Diaz, O’Gorman, and President Taft amid jokes about pensions, coal and literature, with troops enjoying Texas strawberries.
A critical editorial attacks Washington for demoralizing postal workers through harsh orders banning secret group affiliations. It denounces Hitchcockism as tyranny, cites Seattle and Quackenbush cases, and calls for a congressional probe to restore civil liberties and trust in the post office.
The Van Dyke screen ordinance and garbage can regulation, unanimously passed, aim to eliminate the typhoid fly in Atlanta. Enforcement will be strict, with garbage covered and foods screened to protect tables from flies. The rapid sanitary reforms reflect citizen intelligence and aggressiveness.
Former President Roosevelt urges Reno audience to lift YMCA from sectarian structure. He argues that the organization should welcome Catholics and Jews in leadership, since its core aims are upright manhood and good citizenship, not sectarian doctrine.
The article argues that Y. M. C. A. branches in Catholic countries and the Panama Canal Zone admit members of all faiths but deny them voice in governance. It urges that equality be extended to management, noting tolerance demands full inclusion and reform in the association’s fundamental law.
A fragmented column blends verses and notes on weather, politics, and rural life. It mixes songs and quips about Congress, weather prophets, peace talk, and farm toil with local humor and dialect reflecting a bygone regional press voice. The piece weaves poems, snippets, and commentary into a rural mood card.
In Cordele Georgia April 4 a beggar named Claude McElwaney was fined 10 dollars for begging under city ordinance and released to await an outgoing train. He was rearrested at the station after a telegram from Fayette County sheriff requested holding until he could contact him. Since yesterday he has given officers varying stories about his past.
A Confederate veterans meeting in Perry Georgia reorganized the camp in the superior court room. Chester Pearce was elected commander and C H Hardison elected clerk. Pearce named as delegate to represent the camp at the Little Rock Arkansas reunion.
Seattle officials protest post office methods as inspectors in Washington tighten control. Carriers face discharge and demotion amid claims of unfair charges, with business leaders urging Congress to act.
A compact Georgia humor column cites Dave Lunceford’s bareback mishap with Charley Crossley’s broncho and recalls a matrimonial advisory note urging cautious courtship. It also notes the Methodist cemetery’s growth, a new horse trough at the public well, and mentions young operator J B Ards at the Alpharetta exchange.
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