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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1914
Page
9
The Greater Grady Hospital bond issue failed in yesterday's election yet hints at strong public support for the improvement. It notes that registration neared 15,000 and argues a two-thirds of votes cast standard could assure passage, urging citizen turnout and reform to prevent abstention.
The senate revived the tainted money controversy over Rockefeller donations for farm demonstration and boll weevil control in the south. Critics claimed the funds were stained by blood, while Senator Martin argued Rockefeller money should be used to develop Virginia and that illegal accumulation would expose culpable names.
The piece argues against destroying wealth earned by large fortunes, urging sanctification of tainted money through farm demonstrations, boll weevil control, and funding for disease research and crime cure. It condemns doctrinaires and calls for sanity, restitution to the people, and rejection of radical blame.
Tomorrow marks Tag Day, the Annual Festival of the Atlanta Kiddies seeking a square deal in life. Proceeds fund free Sheltering Arms nurseries and allied kindergartens run under Mrs. W. S. Elkin, supporting mothers who must work. These facilities are seen as constructive civic assets, not mere philanthropy, shaping healthy start for thousands of children and promoting self supporting citizenship.
President Wilson names a strong, diverse group to form the federal reserve board alongside Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams. The appointees include Richard Olney Paul Moritz Warburg Harry Wheeler W G P Harding and Dr A C Miller with aims to have the system operating by August. Protests over regional bank centers are expected but deemed not to delay installation.
South Carolina advices suggest Governor Blease loses the first technical contest to Senator ED Smith, even in his own county. The result is uncertain and may not forecast the final Senate race, as patriotic sentiment and state friends weigh the data amid volatile politics.
A fragmented verse piece compiles calls to “Up to the hills” and “Go to the hills” with nocturnal shadows and starry hills. It drifts through shifting images of springs, valleys, and hills, ending with satirical musings on elections, boasting, and paying the fiddler for performance.
A stream of literary fragments and poems drift across a page, referencing weathered lines and distant muses. The text blends epigraphs from poets, comic snippets, and quirky asides about philosophy and rural life, creating a collage of reflective musings and cultural snippets.
The passage notes hope that South Carolinians are waking to the influence of a noted mountebank and that his latest defeat in South Carolina weakens his position. It urges repudiation of Blease and the Bleaseism movement to benefit the state and its people.
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS argues that true independence stems from within a person, separate from the crowd. He says independence requires mastery of self, balanced with what others offer, to build a daily life and identity, guiding future choices.
An analysis contrasts Ulster’s opposition to Irish home rule with the broader British crisis. It notes Ulster’s aim to stay under Imperial parliament, fears over an Irish parliament, and government missteps including a military show of force and resignations by key officers. The piece frames the North’s stance as preserving union amid constitutional strain.
A reflective tirade on the mob as an irrational force that destroys rather than builds, citing Dante Socrates and Fulton as examples. It warns demagogues appeal to passion and ignorance, predicting discord and empty pay envelopes. References include 1918 mobs and historical echoes from Salem to ancient Rome.
Uirom ne London notes the advent of a tiny wafer coin made from tree resin circulating in the Malay Peninsula with a value of 1 10000th of a penny. In southern Russia, peasants use vast numbers of minuscule coins with a quarter of a million equaling five shillings. The old Japanese mousen was worth a tiny fraction of an English penny. In Portugal reis are the lowest unit, with no 1 reis coins minted. reis equals 12 100ths of a penny.
Letters and telegrams flood Hugh Dorsey as Georgia’s political chatter centers on his possible bid for governor or Senate against Hoke Smith. Dorsey remains noncommittal while supporters, rivals, and friends across the state weigh the odds, with Hardman Slaton and others busily campaigning.
Tomorrow Atlanta residents support Sheltering Arms day nurseries through tag day. Donations range from one cent to 1000 dollars, with fifty cents funding a child’s week in the nursery and twenty five cents a child for a week in the nursery kindergarten. The effort sustains about 200 children daily across several nurseries and kindergartens, keeping them with meals, medical care, and clean clothing, while enabling working mothers to contribute to family income. Local volunteers and stores citywide will sell tags, with headquarters at the Southern Railway viaduct.
The Avances committee on the Biologic Status of Women led by Dr. Robert Lowe and Mrs. Leta Hollingworth concluded after extensive reading that she was not.
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