Red Cross appeal and postwar need to fight disease
The author urges Red Cross funding after war losses of twenty billion dollars and fifty thousand lives. Disease at home killed 200000 in six weeks, four times the toll of the war, and the Red Cross could have saved more with more money. Emphasizes joining and supporting the Red Cross to combat dirt, filth, ignorance, and poverty. Questions about past propagandists and justice department revelations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WM. Hamilton Osborne
United States
Red Cross
America
The
Reconstruction program proposals and congressional outlook
The piece argues the sixty sixth congress will enact broad reconstruction laws yet fail to pass much of the National Voters League plan. It endorses a responsible budget system, elimination of pork barrelling, stricter committee rules, full public proceedings, and payroll transparency while noting business leaders want continued rail regulation but private ownership return without specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Voters’ League
Congress
Uncle Sam offers jobs for a million men with merchant marine
The piece describes government jobs for a million men paying 55 to 90 dollars monthly including board and clothing. It notes employment offices at army cantonments to recruit discharged soldiers for merchant marine work, stressing patriotic action and government-led national service against profiteering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Busines
Why Isn't It Listen to England on Armies and Navies
The passage cites Lloyd George warning giants armies tempt war and Sir Eric Geddes defending naval supremacy. It questions why a large navy should be excluded by the League of Nations while armies are warned against. It comments on Treasury figures, McAdoo, Baruch, and a quoted line about preserving meats, and notes chilly Chile Peru relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Lloyd George
London
Admiralty
Eric Geddes
League of Nations
Pooling of Wires and a National Secretary of Communication
Theodore Vail advocates pooling telephone telegraph and cable systems under a single executive to place the United States at the center of a global network. He proposes merging mails wireless and cables under government leadership, renaming the post office department to secretary of communication, with Uncle Sam running the system in national interests. He argues government control can ensure service over profit and highlights wartime rail and telecom takeovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pool Telegraph
Theodore Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States
Post Office Department
Secretary of Communication
Uncle Sam
Vail
Stepper
South America
Orient
Wall Sr
Post Office
Department of Communication
Wartime Echoes and Local Notes from 1918 Panel
A collage of brief items includes reflections on the war and influenza dangers from Marshalltown mayoral proclamations, nostalgia about Kaiser Wilhelm II, and light notices about housework helpers, advertisements, and a village mood. It also cites early 20th century humor on crowds and gardens, plus a note on future war gardens.
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Seattle Star
Seventh Ave
Asien St
Memser
Scripps Nort
Met League
Newsfarhns
Telegraph News Service of the United Piege Association
Seattle
Wash
City
Washington
Gabe
Star Publishing Co
Lume
Wm. Bayard Hale
John J. Archibald
Edward Lyell
Department of Justice
Trotsky
Braunstein
Kurt Eisner
Kosmanowsky
McAdoo
Baruch
Treasury
Glass
Chile
Peru
Herr Hohenzollern
Senator Sherman
Illinois
Germany
Josh Wise
Gladys Thornton
Barnes
Porkey
Marionville
Herald
Chicago
LIL
Tribune
Treasury Department
JOY Killer
Marshalltown
Ourself
Mr. Hohenzollern
William Hohenzollern
Kaiser
J. R. Eminyon
On Earth
Northweat
First Ave
Binyon Optical CO
Wirst Ave
Feneca St. Hone Main
Union Street
Wanda Loren
BY Wanda Lyon
Anay
Navy
the Royal Boot Shop
GROUP
Carniva
Royal Boot Shop
Boyden
Hoyt
Hoyt’s Hot Doughnuts
Pike
New York
Vincent Astor
W. K. Vanderbilt
Mary Garden
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Carter
U. & Pat
William Carter
Needham Heights
Springfield, Mass
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