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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1914
Page
4
The notice urges item agents to gauge demand for the afternoon paper in Mobile and surrounding trade area. Place orders by 10 a.m. daily if the needed quantity changes from the previous day to avoid shortages or excess.
The supreme court upheld the solvent credit tax as constitutional but Mobile mobilizes against it. A public meeting launched a state wide tax reform league and calls for a commission to overhaul Alabama tax laws. Commissioner Schwarz argues the tax harms business by raising costs and driving wholesale trade to neighboring states.
Nebraska tests a new mail voting law for state officer elections in November. Absentee ballots will go to the county clerk with a sworn statement of qualification and no prior voting in another county. Critics fear fraud and abuse without recounts, as traveling voters may misuse the measure.
The state agriculture chief Captain Reuben F. Kolb is quoted urging farmers to hold cotton in the seed until the European war ends or market demand returns. The piece warns against uninsured ginned cotton and favors warehoused, fireproof storage with banking support to secure loans and prevent loss while awaiting higher prices.
The Item reports Merrill correspondence with Pratt Consolidated Coal and Iron about Mobile's hurt from the river and harbor bill failure. It notes the Pratt barge line withdrawal, local lumber and mill impacts, and a potential large port loss unless Mobile is included in a provisional river and harbor appropriation. Citizens signatures and a letter to Congressman Underwood back mobilization efforts.
Expressions of sympathy pour in from across the nation and abroad for the president after the death of Mrs Woodrow Wilson. Her concern for the poor and the congress action in response show a sterling, full hearted woman who earned the title.
Uruguay offers vast agricultural potential and a rising foreign trade with the United States as a key supplier of iron and steel manufactures textiles and furniture. With Montevideo as a modern hub 400000 residents and direct Munson Line service from Mobile expedite shipments. Banking expansion and a gold standard strengthen reliability while planned rail and port projects promise broader access for US exporters.
Four major European powers hold colonies and protectorates worldwide while Austria-Hungary and Russia lack colonies. The piece details Britain France Germany and Italy holdings in Africa Asia and the Pacific, plus specifics on military strength and populations of many colonies and overseas territories. It also notes scattered minor holdings with limited forces and key strategic sites like Gibraltar Malta Hong Kong and Singapore.
The American Society for Christ plans an international congress in San Francisco next year and tabulates U S expenditures as extravagances. Cars cost $600 million yearly, cigars and tobacco $850 million, intoxicants $1.7 billion, soft drinks $825 million, chewing gum $25 million, coal $87 million, theatres $600 million, hotels and restaurants and tango teas $400 million, totaling over $4 billion. Per capita about 60, per family $200, about one fifth of total spending.
Victor Elliott reports the census bureau urges kinder terms for the poor and the shift from pauper to indigent in public and private care. States create boards of charities, extend state aid, and supervise institutions from hospitals to homes, aiming to protect those unable to support themselves.
The Philadelphia Ledger reflects on emergency money issued by banks during panics, noting past redeemability of 250 million and comparing intrinsic metal value to acceptance. It emphasizes that public trust makes notes valuable regardless of metal content and recalls Bank of England notes once rejected in London.
Editorial argues for federal action to support cotton farmers amid European war. It favors treasury advances of 50 dollars per bale or bank-mediated aid, noting emergencies override precedents. Emphasizes banks as treasury agents and low interest, with Southern lawmakers watching the cotton situation.
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