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Newspaper
Mckean Democrat
Location
Smethport, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
1
Smethport Pa June 20 1920 edition of the Me and Kean Democrat notes editor Russell Lindlsey at the helm. local paper lists community notices and brief items from Smethport and surrounding townships.
The piece notes high campaign costs and influence of special interests in the Republican race. It reflects on faith as a guide against death's onslaught and argues for divine justice after death rather than before, in the home circle’s bereavement.
The community notes that Smethport High School will award diplomas to its largest ever graduating class. The piece reflects on the students as future leaders and calls for stronger teacher support and expanded curricula including manual training and agricultural courses. The author urges consistency in valuing education from youth through advanced study.
The second anniversary of air mail service was celebrated on May 15. Routes already operating connect Washington to New York and New York to Chicago and Chicago to Omaha, with plans to extend to St Louis and San Francisco as a survey proceeds. Coast to coast service is expected after the new fiscal year begins in July with necessary equipment and landing fields ready. Postal planes logged 498664 miles in the second year with an 87 percent average performance, proving weather can be handled. The piece argues towns should build landing fields to join the aerial commerce era, noting Smethport is near charted cross continental routes and land is readily available for a field.
A critical reflection urges Americans to question motives behind foreign meddling in Mexico and Latin America. The author warns that campaigns for civilization may serve powerful oil interests and corrupt financial ties, echoing past imperial actions against Hawaiians and others. The piece laments Republican entanglements with financial elites and warns of human cost.
Bernard M Baruch tells the Senate that normal production and living costs cannot be restored until world peace returns and the United States acts. He notes hundreds of thousands of Europeans are under arms, making employment and productivity impossible while fear and military status persist.
Chairman Hays of the Republican National Committee argues Americans care more about the stomachs of our own liberty than the hearts of the world. He blames minority Republican Senators for blocking broader sympathy and notes unsettled foreign affairs reduce employment and strain grain supplies. He says wartime talk has skewed priorities and worsened domestic discomfort.
A patched page item mixes doggerel about paws and a stray venting tale of a Texas exchange noting a girl burned by a red hot stove. It also markets 06 cent dal summer weight suits, a bachelor seeks a wife with children, an ad requests no snuff users, and a Miss Woods burned by hot water.
The article cites Senator Lodge as a Senate majority leader who once called a separate peace a crime in a Forum piece from December 1918. It quotes his warning that peace without allies would dishonor the United States and ruin it, arguing no peace while a broader war aims remained. The piece asserts there is no stronger argument against the Knox Porter resolution than Lodge’s own stance.
A Smethport resident voiced a critical opinion in a hearing about a local citizen. He warned that there will never be premium pork with that fellow running at large, arguing that advances in talking machines and affordable cars have not improved the world, and that poverty and procurement issues continue to affect the community.
Senate Democratic leader Senator Underwood exposed private interests trying to defeat the nations nitrate program at Muscle Shoals Alabama. The great plant could produce thousands of tons of nitrate yearly to ease fertilizer shortages and secure munition supply, helping reduce reliance on Chile. An amendment sought to stop government operation, but Underwood's disclosure led to its withdrawal.
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