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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1923
Page
15
Governor Hardwick delivered a vigorous address to the Georgia assembly detailing the state’s agricultural troubles, tax issues, and public finances. He urged strict economy, coordinated agriculture and industry, and reform of pension, education funding, and state departments while calling for modernized taxation and targeted support for farmers.
The article emphasizes outdoor exposure for infants across seasons, arguing summer is not the only time for air but the baby benefits from year round fresh air. It covers wind protection, eye safety from sun, appropriate clothing, heat production by babies, and cautions against excessive layers especially in heat. It also advises hot water bags for cold days, recommends light fabrics, and notes no footwear before learning to walk in hot weather.
Robert C. Benchley lists ten favorite books in a playful column. He names Jerome Dickens Twain Carroll Wells Ade and others, noting the list is not in order and mocks the idea of ranking books while highlighting their varied appeal.
Bayonne N Y June 29 New police chief Dan Cady warns against street sheiks lobby flirt types and amorous young men flocking to Bayonne The chief calls innocent flirting OK only if it stops short of danger and urges women to beware while promoting a Back to Broadway slogan
Henry Thomas Ross Post No. 78 American Legion named delegates and alternates for the Athens convention after a recent meeting. The list includes David Meyerhardt as chairman, W. W. Macrae, Archie Mitchell, Estel Doreman, H. Saunders, Joseph M. Hirsch, Stephens Mitchell, C. Davis, R. Cousey, A. Rousey, J. H. Abley, J. D. BeKibben, Q. Webb, Howell Doreman, George Normandy, Otey Mitchell, Philip Banga, W. A. Johnson, L. Owen, O. G. Bay, A. Warren, J. E. Borman, Joseph Leeser, Julian Tindall, and many others.
Rome Georgia announces consolidation of the Home News and the Rome Tribune-Herald. A single newspaper will publish as The News-Tribune, issued every Sunday morning and on weekday afternoons except Saturday, starting immediately.
New York notes describe layoffs among theatrical performers as Broadway chic decays. Chorus girls face bleak futures with only scant cabaret openings left. Stage Door Johnnie swamped with job requests for waitresses while beauty and talent markets sag. A curious pawn shop, with curtained windows and hidden stairs, mirrors tragedy behind commerce as Minnie Maddern Fiske’s star rises and a promoter confesses doping to win fights.
A newspaper page invites readers to submit tight jokes for the Pithy Paragraphs section with prizes. Winners Mrs. Victoria Brown and Miss Leonora Strickland are noted, while lines from Shakespeare and various humorous snippets appear, urging concise wit for the Loew's Grand Theatre program.
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick is denounced by Dr. Lucian Lamar Knight for urging abolition of the state archives department. Knight dismisses the plan as venomous and vows to keep his office, citing personal slights and past letters advocating an archives department. Knight accuses Hardwick of targeting enemies, notes the archives budget and rot among records, and claims he funds part of maintenance from his own pocket. A separate note reports a Southeastern Board discussion on potential freight car shortages this fall in New Orleans and Charleston, July 10 meetings.
Friday's House roll includes measures by Moore Appling Wingate Baker Mann proposing repeal of tax equalization and new occupa tion taxes on motor fuels. funding for peaches and pecans on prison farm. commissions to sell prison farm and regulate motor vehicles. charter changes for Arlington and Calhoun county seat moves. education and fire hazard protections. pool hall bans. tax and office consolidations. city manager repeal. school contracts. two year county officer terms and fishing restrictions. and new circuits, governor term length, and voter registration system.
Senate bills proposed Friday include No 4 by J M Spence to prepare the calendar of cases for supreme and appellate courts. No 5 by J R Phillips would vest unowned property in the state. No 6 by J H Kinnon would create a state veterinarian in the agricultural department.
Chicago June 29 Application for wage rises for clerks and station staff on the Southern railway system was filed with the U S railroad labor board by E H Fitzgerald president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers Station and Express Employees The group requests a flat nine cent an hour raise for covered employees.
Boston, June 29. Eleven girls were arrested as the telephone operators strike entered its fourth day. Service was near normal except in Providence and nearby Massachusetts cities where many lines were disrupted. The arrested girls were held on incitement charges after clashes with police last night.
A Washington bureau question column answers queries on topics from blue moons to Volapuk and Titan, with brief factual notes. It covers wedding hours, historical figures, hot springs, piano wire care, neck aging tips, bee stings, and forms for married women signatures.
Asheville NC June 29 recommendation that Bright tobacco markets begin July 24 in South Carolina and districts bordering North Carolina. Other openings proposed Gear-Bid July 23 Rahegh east August 21 Old Belt territory Danville Win aton Salem Durham September 25. Committee report to be adopted tonight. Kentucky Tennessee Indiana West Virginia not included.
Paris reports the government deposited for ratification the Washington naval treaty provisions on neutrals seas protection and use of asphyxiating gas. The bill includes a single reservation on interpretation of surface versus submarine rules. Ratification will follow standard agenda and is seen as first step by Briand and Sarraut.
In Jones County near Gray a car carrying Mrs. Georgia Burdick of Sparta Mrs Hyde of Sparta and Macon traveling man Guy Colling overturned shortly before noon. All three were hospitalized with injuries. Burdick suffered a broken arm and the others minor injuries. Transported to a local hospital, the prognosis was not yet clear.
In Eufaula Alabama on June 20 at a large public meeting several thousand residents adopted resolutions calling for the removal of postmaster Mrs Lilian Maughans. The protest concerned a letter she wrote to an Ohio paper allegedly attacking Southern traditions. Resolutions were sent to Alabama members of Congress and the U S Post Office Department.
Lumber interests mobilize crews to battle a forest fire sweeping five by eight miles in Dismal Swamp near Deep Creek and Portsmouth. Smoke blankets Hampton Roads and heavy rain is needed to check the blaze as companies backfire to protect timber holdings including Arbuckle camps and feeder ditches.
Savannah Electric and Power company, a Stone and Webster corporation, bought from Mills B. Lane the physical property he acquired from Savannah Lightneg. The price was 1,062,000 dollars. The two companies will operate under one management.
Ware County Georgia June 20 local hunters push to align state and federal hunting laws. The Ware County Gene and Fish Protective association calls for a bill to increase use of license sale proceeds for fish and game propagation and urges representatives to support the change.
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