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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
2
A brief note from the paper thanks subscribers in Spring Valley Illinois for cooperation and items phoned in to improve the publication.
The first daily newspaper in Jerusalem printed in English appeared under the date December 9, 1919 with the title Jerusalem News. Elizabeth L. McQueen founded it while W. D. McCrackan served as editor and manager. The piece notes foreign millionaires buying estates from Hungarian nobles amid a Hungarian counter revolution.
The piece argues Pershing should not be named chief of staff by Congress and critiques the idea of legislative appointment, urging executive appointment only. It notes the dilemma if Wood becomes president and questions wartime prisoner risks, citing Red Cross reports on Austrian captives dying of typhus and smallpox in Siberia.
The manuscript of Charles Lamb's Essay on Roast Pig sold at auction in Philadelphia for 12600 dollars, a price that compares favorably with the pig itself.
A new intake scheme would admit 100 students each year from preparatory schools on general merit, matching a third of the total applicants. The plan, praised as widely applicable to colleges with high applicant excess, faces scrutiny. The Travelers' Aid Society of New York plans a February 12 campaign to raise funds for continued work aiding 250,000 people, many of them inexperienced women seeking opportunities. The effort's importance is emphasized as crucial for ongoing assistance.
The Nobel for chemistry to the German inventor of a deadly war gas is viewed as a scientific achievement without ethics, while questions linger on Nobel's own beliefs. He also endowed a peace prize. A Connecticut bill seeks a probation system in federal courts, aligning with state practice. Spain, despite labor troubles, could expand loans to France, reconsidering its prewar status as a real power.
A humorous jab in a cartoon about Germany denying immunity to its president and officials highlights the tense wartime standoff. The piece notes 400 tons of Russian butter heading to English ports as a broader effort to support civilization, reflecting ironic sentiment.
The Danube reaches its highest level on record, turning muddy as flooding escalates. Meanwhile President Carranza grants provisional permits for American petroleum producers to resume drilling in Mexico, signaling potential economic and political tension across the region.
Premier Hara reports to the Japanese Diet that a thousand lives have been sacrificed to maintain order in Siberia, but there is little order to show for it. The Cape to Cairo air link, once a dream of Devil Rhodes, is now actually established and likely exceeds that vision.
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