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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
12
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An editorial discusses postwar readjustment across allied and neutral nations. It notes Europe's financial strains, urges Germans and French to cooperate economically, warns against busting public morale, and calls on able-bodied Europeans to work for recovery while America continues aid and partnership. The piece emphasizes production and shared responsibility over indemnities.
A dramatic outlook on rapid long distance travel from Cairo to Cape Town and London to far British outposts. The piece notes the R-34 and Alcock’s plane shrinking Atlantic crossing times, compares past journeys from Caesar to Columbus, and envisions a connected world with closer economic and political ties. It also remarks on Abyssinian visitors and the pleasant Abyssinian weather provided by government wizards.
The Senate approved a resolution authorizing a ten member special committee to draft a plan for a national budget by December 1, 1917. The panel, six Republicans and four Democrats, aims to end wasteful appropriations and align revenues with expenditures, signaling a move toward businesslike government budgeting.
A critique arguing Congress and President Wilson blocked daylight saving repeal. farmers suffer as cows and hogs lose an hour’s rest and the public gains evening time. Rhetoric questions political changes, costs of gasoline and wheat prices, and warns Congress and Wilson to reconsider. cites Trotzky and counterfeiting as broader political ironies.
Lord Athlumney prepares for an arranged union with Mise Margery Boan, an Australian heiress and Pyports, Cobham connections, recalling a prior engagement to Muriel Wilson of Tranby Croft. His wartime service, travels, and penchants for cards mark a storied life amid family ties to Burke's peerage and Ripley Castle lore.
At noon both chambers met and adjourned late, adopting a Lodge resolution seeking information on a 1918 Japan Germany treaty. Senators Norris Underwood Phipps Borah urged or opposed the league covenant, while Edg e and Sherman attacked military exemptions and foreign policy. The Foreign Relations Committee backed Johnson on peace documents. House actions included veto considerations on sundry civil and budget matters, with various committee hearings and inquiries continuing on shipping, railroad legislation, and war-related issues.
Federal horticultural board decided against quarantine on wheat shipments from Wilinow Indiana West Virginia Virginia and Georgia. Hearings showed eel worm disease in Virginia West Virginia and Georgia can be handled locally by state authorities. If measures prove inadequate a quarantine may be declared. Experts noted Illinois and Indiana diseases likely came from Europe or Australia via seed wheat shipments.
Secretary Lane signed an order opening the Yuma Mesa Arizona auxiliary reclamation Project for purchase and settlement. Eleven thousand frostless acres become available immediately with plans to bring forty five thousand more under irrigation. Bids for tract sales by the government to be accepted in November. Arizona representatives in Congress attended the ceremonies.
The Washington Post provides a condensed time table for trains from Washington to major cities. Times vary by line and day, with connections in Chicago for Western routes. Changes occur as schedules update, based on railroad administration data.
Directors Chambers and Thelan assured Southern and Midwestern representatives that export freight rates will be adjusted to give south Atlantic and gulf ports equal terms with New York and the East. They denied plans to cancel rates and said extensions would cover Mississippi River to Ohio-Pennsylvania lines, including Buffalo and Pittsburgh, with hearings continuing before the Shipping Board to secure better steamship facilities and favorable ocean rates.
The pay corps of the navy has been officially renamed the supply corps following a Friday navy bill approval. Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, the paymaster general, said the change aligns with the corps duties and marks a historic shift in naval nomenclature.
John J. Ridgeway and R. D. Browning of Philadelphia, former army lieutenants wounded in France, met at the White House to thank President Wilson for vetoing the sundry civil bill. They represented a group of disabled soldiers sailors and marines praising the veto which they said safeguarded vocational education funds.
Washington observers weigh Gen Pershing's return and possible resignation from the army as a path to a Republican nomination while Georgia politics swirl around moving the state capital from Atlanta to Macon. Local business and agricultural notes touch on egg prices, poultry breeds, and protective tariffs affecting daily life.
An official release reports 387 339 American officers and men abroad on July the total including 109 000 troops en route home. Meanwhile 383 600 servicemen were stationed in the United States. The figures reflect troop deployments and the scale of forces overseas and domestically.
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