Redfield Criticizes Grocers as Prosperity Lies in Finance
Secretary Redfield voices sharp critique of grocers and allied groups claiming true prosperity rests with financiers. He argues policy should favor financial interests and industrial growth.
01 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1915
Page
1
Secretary Redfield voices sharp critique of grocers and allied groups claiming true prosperity rests with financiers. He argues policy should favor financial interests and industrial growth.
Secretary Redfield of the Commerce Department urges merchants and manufacturers to act now for prosperity. He cites improved conditions after the war and urges starting shop additions, contracts, and farm expansion while prices are low. He recalls Edison and other examples of pluck as signs of recovery and dismisses gloom.
German Socialist Reichstag member Carl Liebknecht, who voted against a new war credit, appeals in a New Year message published by The Labor Leader for workers worldwide to unite in a war against the war. He asserts broad opposition among German workers and claims masses despise the conflict.
Senator Dean Worcester urged a Senate committee to designate Philip Pines as a naval base. He argued strategic value and defended the move amid regional opposition and military planning discussions.
Dry leaders in Columbus forecast bitter battles as measures on license decentralization and prohibition face fast tracking. Backing speakers include Peter Durr and Wayne Wheeler, with aims to curb liquor and pursue broader state and national prohibition.
Special Dispatch reports Ada Ohio observing the inauguration of its notable son. General Speaks of Columbus to lead a parade with all current and former Ohio Northern University students marching. About a thousand students expected to attend. Cadets to escort the Governor from the hotel to the State House on January 11 at 11 o clock. University faculty to attend. senior leaders including President Emeritus Lehr and President Smith to participate.
A chaotic December 31 report from Porthcawl Wales notes drifting British troops helmets washing ashore. Copenhagen reports a Berlin dispatch stating over thirty French and British ships bombard Pola and Jouigne near the Adriatic coast with submarines active nearby.
The Danish steamer M. C. Holm, carrying cotton from Savannah to Christiania, hit a mine off Flamborough Head England and sank fifteen minutes later. All crew escaped in lifeboats and narrowly avoided mine fragments. Flamborough Head lies on the North Sea in Yorkshire.
The Ohio State Teachers Association at its Columbus meeting adopted resolutions endorsing the new Ohio school code, keeping agricultural instruction, proposing a statewide teachers pension system with current workmen’s compensation assessments funneled into the teachers’ pension fund, and creating a State Board of Education. It also opposed eliminating the state levy for communication purposes as proposed by Auditor Donahey.
San Francisco dispatch describes cannibal feast remains from Nuka Biva Marquesas Islands. D H Armstrong and Marus M Marshall of Los Angeles brought photographs and details after arriving from Papeete. Tahiti gendarmes arrested ringleaders and sent them to lengthy New Caledonia terms.
Thirty state governors take office as new year begins with inaugurations at state capitals. Of the 30, 21 are new governors and 9 are incumbents. party mix includes 10 Democrats and 11 Republicans, with several switches between parties.
In Washington on December 31 the Senate defeated Martine's motion to strike the literacy test from the immigration bill 47 to 12. Amendments passed include excluding Africans and prohibiting polygamists, while other literacy exemptions were rejected. The debate touched on Mormon polygamy and religious persecution amid a tense roll call.
Governor Cox pardoned Walter Diehl, serving a Locking County sentence for participation in the lynching of Carl Etherington, a dry detective, in the final New Year clemency before leaving office January 11.
A Reuters dispatch from Cape Town reports Walvis Bay on the southwest coast of Africa was reoccupied Christmas Day by a strong British force with no opposition.
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