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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
4
The editorial argues for careful public spending in Lawrence, urging citizen support to avoid waste and maximize returns from tax dollars. It links prudent city finances to broader prosperity and cites Mayor Kreeck's plea for economical budgeting. It notes Harding's Canada visit and fleet review as context for public accountability.
The piece notes lawmakers hesitating to heed Governor Davis in a proposed special session focused on the bonus, with farmers’ woes cited. It contrasts past unity under one party with current partisan divides, asking why legislative members differ on ratifying the eighteenth amendment in an odd-year session.
The text cites lawmakers weighing their stance on a Kansas bonus and other public concerns while avoiding a special session. It notes delays as Congress does not meet until December, hints at Magnus moving fast, and mentions German red and royalist demonstrations on World War I mobilization anniversary. The government warns against outbreaks and ponders allowing extremist factions to clash to spare the population.
Senator Johnson returns from Europe convinced his stance against the world court is correct. Some congress members who favor the world court say their observations abroad affirm their position. The trip left both sides firm in their beliefs, questioning whether the journey changed anything.
Count Harry Kessler, a prominent German Socialist leader and former minister to Poland, is chosen to lecture at the third annual Institute of Politics session at Williams College. He helped organize major Nie Wieder Krieg protests in 1921 1922 and later edited Deutsche Nation. A steam shovel built in England for Panjab irrigation weighs 200 tons and lifts twenty tons per minute, replacing 600 workers.
A.P. report from New York notes President Harding endorses shifting National Father and Son week to Armistice Day period around November 11 18. The change, urged by national and international Sunday school bodies, aims to unite fathers and sons nationwide in schools churches clubs and communities to foster companionship and uphold world peace.
The piece argues most actions are habitual rather than fully thought out, citing routines like seat choice at meals, which leg first to dress, or door handling. It warns that reliance on habit curtails initiative and can enslave thinking, comparing routine to harmful vices and urging awareness of automatic behavior.
A jumble of light notes and quotes on winter foods and daily life. Mussolini telegrams Rome officials urging planes to cover the sun. he says we must fly next year. Snakes bred for leather novelties and medical uses. snake venom valued by physicians and chemists.
Paris July 26 AP A small group of Americans has run the reparations commission’s accounting bureau for four years led by George P. Auld. The staff of about 20 Americans handles balances across currencies for ships, livestock, coal, and other goods plus cash payments. By end of 1922 the team reported Germany had turned over 1.982 billion dollars in various forms, with detailed totals for cash, commodities, and ceded state properties.
The memo outlines personnel at the reparations commission handling arts treasures of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and other duties. It names J Nochary of New Orleans as chief assistant in the personnel department, Reginald Norris of Oregon heading the dyestuff bureau, overseeing 3000 tons sold to the American Textile Alliance, and Guy Eu Greer of Kentucky as second in the coal bureau led by an Italian.
In Portland, Maine, a hitherto unpublished Longfellow four line verse written at age 16 appears tied to a clay plaque crafted by potter Benjamin Dodge. Rufus Lamson recovered the panel during a search for an elusive pottery plaque linked to Dodge’s Brattle Street shop.
Readable segments show an international planning conference beginning in Gothenburg Sweden on growth of communists across ages and city planning. President Harding returns from Alaska to review the U S navy fleet in Seattle harbor then speaks there in the evening. The Missionary Education movement holds its fourteenth annual conference at Lake Geneva Wisconsin through August 6 with invited statesmen from England France Germany and Argentina. Researchers from Williams College Institute of Politics in Williamstown Massachusetts join its third session opening today.
Anna Stewart transfers lot 167 Perry St North Lawrence to Snow for 600 dollars. N P Dodge transfers lot 2 block 3 addition to Lawrence for 229 dollars to Dr W F Sawyer. Announces opening of offices at 900 West Sixth Street Topeka Kansas for the authorized practice of The Electronic Reactions of Dr Albert Abrams. Consultation Arce Telephone 8472.
Local residents report gatherings and visits across Fairview and nearby towns. People helped Charles Howard stack grain and several families shared meals and teasers while discussing Frontier Day plans in Cheyenne. Attendees included the Schwalm, Wells, Griffin, Schulmeyer, Koehler, Frisbey, Young, and McArthur families among many others with travel to Lawrence, Kansas City, and California noted.
Valley Grove items note visiting relatives from Kansas City Nortonville and Lawrence. Poultry activity highlights 337 White Leghorn hens with culling of 129 birds by Dr Bunnell. 136 eggs next day and buyers Poultry Packing Company of Lawrence. Several residents travel, birthdays celebrated, and Marian Nowak undergoes surgery for acute appendicitis with post op recovery hopes.
A stream of short items records visits, travel plans, births, illnesses, and local movements. Bernita Bidinger stays with kin while oil-casing work moves to Garnett. Ed Elkin discusses moving to California. Twin girls born to Elmer and Mrs Nichols. mother and babies reported fine. Various relatives visit, travel to Topeka and Desoto, and health updates include Ruby Boehringer and Cecelia Koehler. An essay on poise promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Straw hat factories in a city employ 2,000–3,000 workers with 400,000 dozen hats produced annually.
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