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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
4
The News-Star announces W. F. Pipes as a Democratic primary District Attorney candidate for September 14, 1920. Also listed are WM. B. Stuckey and David I. Garrett as candidates for District Attorney.
A Washington dispatch says war inflation may be subsiding as wholesale prices fall about 2 percent in thirty days. Luxury purchases drop with candy merchants reporting weaker sales and factories seeking licenses to sell surplus sugar to help reduce prices.
Admiral Snowden reports Santo Domingo revenues grow from 700000 to over 4 million annually, debt service improves, taxes rebalanced, and a public school system plus roads and buildings established. Order and peace replace chaos and fear, with prospects of early debt payoff and material progress.
A clipped passage discusses how nations might assert influence over debtor states. It warns that if debtors fail to meet obligations through police action, powerful countries may deploy warships to seize dues, effectively occupying the debtor’s revenue streams for years.
The piece argues that economic conditions risk a wool price drop as supply approaches demand. It cites profiteering, government pressure, and a shift in Henry C Demand’s behavior, noting declines in hides, leather, shoe production, and wool and cotton markets with widespread stockpiling and cancelled orders.
The State Department's stance on the Polish situation reflects broad American sentiment. Voters from Oklahoma Mississippi Arkansas and Colorado applaud Poland's fight for independence and oppose U S recognition of the Lenine Trotzky government as Bolshevik tyranny grows in influence.
Members of the Wilmington South Carolina police department are instructed to attend church each Sunday. The notice does not reveal whether the measure aims at improving morals or behavior among the congregation.
Arthur Jackson enters a Chicago shoe store and collapses when the announcer proclaims the price of $15.50 before tax. The report notes that people face shocking figures these days yet endure.
A front porch campaign strains supporters who want to see and hear their candidate and will be tougher when passenger rates increase on Thursday August 26th.
The text notes that Democratic voters largely back the Administration, with Reed of Missouri and Gore among those aware of this division within the party.
A Lake Charles American Press excerpt recalls William K. Vanderbilt speaking on happiness, ambition, and inherited wealth. He argues wealth hinders ambition, while labor and self-made effort grant real satisfaction, a view echoed by an old father who would not leave sons a fortune.
A humorous Victorian style passage suggests a morning routine for critics of government. It prescribes rising at 7 a m standing in a room center raising arms overhead and shouting Damn the government before lowering arms.
The Nations Business prescribes a stark morning routine to purge despair. It urges repeating extreme physical acts while focusing on railroads unions and the income tax, ending with collapse and groveling to start the day with most cares gone.
Monroe La August 24 1920 Editor News Star reader argues the Democratic fund lacks money but vows the Lodge Harvey opposing forces cannot buy the presidency. He stresses two issues domestic and foreign urging support for President Wilson era ideals and praises Governor Cox while criticizing Senator Harding and Senate dignity politics.
F. G. Hudson Jr. urges voters to resist party enemies and support Wilson era ideals. He warns that backing selfish agendas risks abandoning world justice, mutual trust, and liberal thought, and argues for contributing to a cause beyond the solid south. He encloses a fifty hour check.
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