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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1915
Page
10
A harsh critique rails at Atlanta's city administration. The speaker denounces a stuck finance system, demoralized schools, and pervasive wrangling at city hall. He warns of wasted time, lost employment opportunities, and a recurring biannual breakdown causing public punishment.
The report details a North Sea running fight where one German armored cruiser was sunk and two damaged. British patrolling squadrons intercepted raiders attempting to strike the English coast, underscoring enduring British naval superiority. The victory, achieved by numbers and speed, boosts British morale while depressing German spirits.
The Constitution publishes Edwin I K Ward's analysis of longer school hours. He argues city must provide adequate accommodations and condemns the current double sessions that give most children only four to five and a half hours of instruction while a minority receive four hours. He says extending hours without proper resources is misguided.
A passage laments that 26 000 children face only four hours while 500 miss even the standard five and a half, urging practical action by the finance committee and council to address the injustice rather than promoting an unpopular method.
Atlanta women organize a state aid plan for crippled children focusing on surgical care medical attention and vocational training. They propose selling pencils in Atlanta and across Georgia with profits funding treatment and rehabilitation transforming dependent children into productive contributors.
The administration defends its policy toward belligerents amid the European war and insists on equal treatment, noting it refused permission for munitions of war to cross Alaska. It stresses firm but fair lines with England, highlighting sea power as the reason, and laments widespread prejudices and pressures in Congress and the public.
The State Chamber of Commerce pushes farmers, bankers and merchants to unite to retain Georgia’s $150 million in state foodstuffs. Efforts focus on standardized packing, local resacking, and merchants accepting Georgia products on equal terms with western goods, ensuring markets and finance stay in state.
A fragmented Georgia verse and prose fragment mix poetry about storms, thunder, and night dwelling with a prohibition remark from The Adams Enterprise man. The passages reflect weather imagery, road travel, and a philosophy of making the best after a hurricane, warning of continuous prohibition across towns.
A collage of quips poems and cartoons from The Camp bell News The Bentztown Bard The Mountain Patriarch and The Whit sett Courier notes on life faith war greetings and a sheriff portrait with Uncle Sam a child and a bulldog humorously implying protection and resilience amid the era's worries.
Edwin K. Ward of Atlanta defends Major Guinn s plan for longer school hours with the aim of improving facilities and scholar outcomes. He argues against home lessons by inexperienced parents, urging districts to arrange schools so children study under trained teachers for six hours with balanced recess and recreation. He backs mothers working with their children and supports Mrs Manson Wilson in leveraging professional guidance.
In a 1918 Hoghton Georgia letter editor L C Allen argues a coming small cotton crop is likely due to a shortage of horses and mules, reduced fertilizer use, and a shift toward grain. He notes farmers sold livestock abroad to Europeans, less buying at Atlanta, and warns acreage and cultivation will suffer, prompting corn and hay emphasis.
Satirical verse urging Americans to purchase locally made goods and avoid imports. Eyeing domestic products from hats and cloth to groceries, the speaker laments foreign trade and duty costs, condemning reliance on ships bringing European luxuries while praising home manufacture. References include France, Greece, and nonlocal wares with a call to patronize domestic industry.
The Holland Letter recalls Max May of the Guarantee Trust, a foremost foreign exchange expert, and charts his influence since the early days of Brown Bros. It argues May helped steer large exchange flows, predicts New York will supplant London as the global financial hub, and notes related shifts in global currency and gold movements.
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce pledges cooperation on Mr. Frank Mebane's proposed livestock exhibit in Atlanta. President J Haden says Georgia has vast idle lands suitable for grazing and cites favorable cattle economics, urging other cities to host parts of the exhibit to reach farmers statewide. January 25, 1913.
A humorous piece describing the dangerous and comic life of hotel sheets in travel inns. It jokes about sheets strangling guests, names a legendary Virgil reference, and notes superstition and laws about sheet lengths while lampooning the hotel trade and traveling men.
The Augusta Chronicle rebukes Representative Heflin of Alabama for claiming cotton could reach 20 cents a pound next winter. It warns such talk misleads farmers, may spur overproduction, and risks harm to the cotton economy and level-headed farmers who should not heed inflated price forecasts.
A Chicago woman, Lena Sutherland, saved from begging by freezing her feet rather than ask for aid, will be crippled for life. The piece notes her delicacy and nobility and urges charity to seek out such cases, arguing there are more Lena Sutherlands to help.
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