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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1913
Page
6
The April 1 1915 issue outlines The Mobile Item Company Inc address and staff. It features a long discussion by Col Gorgas on tropical health and the Panama canal zone plus a critique of modern education by A Maurice Low.
Poem speaks of April bringing both smiles and tears and advises dressing for rain even as sunshine returns. It suggests wisdom learned from experience and notes that April’s birthday is a time for lighthearted fooling.
The Embassy Association seeks three million dollars to fund permanent U S embassies in major capitals. It opposes palaces or rentals and argues government owned offices with residences ensure dignity and democratic equality for ambassadors. The plan targets three hundred thousand dollars per embassy, averaging over all stations. It urges Congress to act in the next session. The Alabama Board of the National Conservation Exposition in Knoxville has formed, listing forty six conservation leaders with John H Wallice Jr as head and Mrs J W Hunter as Mobile rep. A Spokane lowering contest winner is noted after a citizen vote. A market blurb ends with a remark about hair tonic demand and references Pike Kigs Waltz.
An amendment to New Jersey’s commission law proposes a single executive city manager to run day to day affairs while the board retains policy control. The plan, modeled after Des Moines, is backed in several cities including Dayton Sumter Staunton and recognized in Whittier Hickory and other locales. It has endorsements from commissions in St Petersburg Bisbee Owosso and has bills filed in Minnesota New York and Ohio.
J Pierpont Morgan Jr succeeds to control of the Morgan bank after his father's death. He is described as genial and urbane but lacking his father's driving power while showing strong will to direct the firm. An observer notes Morgan methods may not be fully analyzed by him and will require other contributors and legislative action.
In The Century series Robert Hichens and Jules Guerin describe Athens on the eve of war as crowds fill Constitution Square and the hill before the palace. The late King George arrives in an open carriage with the crown prince amid shouts of War War.
A Washington report notes President Wilson runs a punctual cabinet with eleven o’clock sessions on Tuesdays and Fridays. McReynolds Houston Daniels Garrison Redfield Wilson Lane Bryan and McAdoo are tracked arrivals with McAdoo often using a private entrance. The piece contrasts Taft delays and details routine departures to meals at the Cosmos or Metropolitan Club.
A Memphis Commercial Appeal editorial snarls at Cuban ingratitude toward the United States over American interests in Cuba. It opines annexation of Cuba would have been wiser than acquiring the Philippines, arguing ongoing costs and bloodshed from oriental possessions.
A crowded Paris meeting on women’s suffrage devolves into farce when Mme Yvonne shares a tale of training her husband Gaston. The ruse collapses as Gaston reveals himself, ending anti suffrage leadership and causing suffragists to depart in disgrace.
New York April 1. Before the provisional Chinese republic, Willard Straight negotiated a fifty million dollar gold loan for currency reform. An American syndicate planned with Britain France and Germany to back the loan for rail and fiscal modernization. The revolution shifted plans and the loan was abandoned while six nations eyed future involvement and US government support.
Governor Sulzer stood firm in Albany urging independence from any political boss dictates on principles policies or patronage. The stance is described as unassailable and likely to gain broad public support in the state according to the New Orleans States.
A reinforced concrete pier is under construction at Santa Monica California featuring a revolving cafe on its deck. The circular building will be 110 feet in diameter with a dome 55 feet high. The first story remains stationary while the second floor revolves to offer diners a continuous panorama of land and sea. The projectors aim for the novelty to draw a large crowd of spenders.
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