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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
2
Surgeon General Gorgas notes Canadian war casualties total 89,843 wounded missing or dead. Sickness deaths amount to 1,240, about 5.8 percent of all deaths and 14 percent of casualties, with roughly 500,000 men enlisted. One in about 411 soldiers died of sickness over three years in camp and trench.
National City Bank president Vanderlip explains the initial two billion dollar war loan and future financings will largely be floated by expanding bank credit. He warns the public to grasp the meaning of the large issue and emphasizes financing the war from future savings using banking credit rather than past savings.
President Richard Cockburn Mac Laurin offers MIT to government as soon as Wilson breaks relations with Germany. He pledges the full staff and laboratories, arguing war requires skilled engineers as much as soldiers. Mac Laurin, born in Edinburgh, educated at Cambridge, led MIT since 1908 after long tenure at Columbia.
A. F. Kerensky, Russia’s justice minister and socialist, urges restraint and discipline to salvage Russia amid 85 ongoing affairs. He laments loss of faith in self rule and warns against mutinous slavery, while proposing a liberal yet firm patriot who can unite the country and army with Allied support.
Reports allege munition makers evade profits taxes totaling about 10 million dollars with expectations of rising by two million. Amendments to the federal reserve act seek gold reserve concentration and open access for state banks. Georgia and Texas headline peanut acreage gains while Alabama shows a 97 percent rise. The army navy and marine corps seek volunteers and new regiments form with NCO prospects. The Georgia railroad commission allows the Southern to drop fifteen passenger trains. Near five thousand Liberty sentenced individuals receive amnesty from President Wilson. Shipyard strike threats arise over closed shop, with Goethals and Denman in dispute.
The Belgian mission led by Baron Moncheur spends its first full day in Washington calling on President Wilson and key officials. Secretary Lansing and the mission members are escorted to the home of Larse Anderson. A China news cable reports civil war tensions, while reports say the Teusan Maru was sunk by a German submarine with all hands lost.
The article outlines mobilization for World War I including general enlistment, a planned selective draft with exemption boards, and a likely July lottery. It mentions 16 cantonments, strict contract terms, and a $250,000 profit cap, plus the Belgian relief mission and Canada’s debate on compulsory service. It also notes Liberty Loan support and a naval engagement where Moreni was destroyed by a German submarine.
Minister of War Kerensky abandons pleas for pacific talk and demands disciplined force to drive Russian troops to the front. The Pan Russian congress endorses expulsion of Swiss socialist Grimm amid fears of a separate peace. Allied capitals report sinking of the French steamship Mississippi by a German submarine and survivors reach Fayal. The Russian duma calls for an immediate offensive or a hard stance toward allies, while the cabinet contemplates an entente conference.
Hoover told senators the proposed food control bill relies on voluntary cooperation and aims to curb war profits, regulate export and distribution, and mobilize citizens to save resources. He warned that without controls Allied food supply would be 40 percent deficient and stressed measures to improve production.
Russia's special diplomatic mission reached Washington amid a welcoming display by U S officials led by Secretary Lansing. The envoy train toured past the Capitol to their headquarters at the David Henning Jennings home as crowds cheered. Ambassador Bakhmedeff led the group with officials Long and Onon nearby.
Across Germany crops burn under an unprecedented heat wave. Berlin endures one of the hottest Junes in 70 years as drought persists since May. Weather officials warn rain and cooler temperatures are unlikely to arrive.
German propaganda has entered the officers reserve training camp at Fort Sheridan. Army instructors say efforts will be made to identify sources of baseless reports about the risks faced by men going to the front in France. Maj. H. L. Cavenaugh cites a determined effort to spread claims that the average life in trenches is three weeks.
Butts county improves the Dixie highway linking Henry and Monroe counties with a double track bridge at Indian Springs Sandy Creek and better main roads. Macon hosts a war speech by L W Baldwin of the Central of Georgia railroad and Macon plans an injunction fight over Cherry street encroachment for a 5000-seat city auditorium. Waycross forms two war ship committees and Macon prepares for the Georgia Pharmaceutical Association convention with licenses examined including applicants from Cairo and Cuba. Athens hosts the UGA commencement sermon by Rev James W Lynch marking the institution’s 117th year.
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