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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1919
Page
2
A collage of editorial snippets and social commentary reflects wartime attitudes, political tensions, and local quirks. It cites figures from copper’s weekly to Oregon voters, notes on Haywood and IWW, race tensions in Chicago, and a plea to moral conduct, with scattered jokes about prices and newspapers.
The State highway commission will elect Water Street. Main Street merchants show no resistance. A sign at Main and Water proposes DRIVE ONE BLOCK EAST AND GET A DRINK, to be removed when Main Street downtown uses fountains.
The piece argues that self serving senators seek their own way, sidelining league unity as Chicago and Washington battles fail to revive the beaten Hyns. It notes risks of taking a smoke in Chicago amid volatile competition.
Government policy allows discharged service men to reinstate lapsed insurance within 18 months without back premiums. Applicants must be in good health and pay one month's grace premium plus the month of reinstatement. Secretary Glass signed the order.
A plan to honor fallen service members by returning bodies from Germany and interring them in national cemeteries was introduced in the House by Representative Caraway of Arkansas with a proposed 55000.00 appropriation. In Chicago a 15,000-strong traction strike halted service as workers rejected a 20 cent per hour wage offer, despite mediation efforts by Governor Lowden.
Favorable report on the Colombia treaty was ordered without dissent. A motion to cut the price to $16 million failed 12 to 2. Armory board sweep and National Guard unit organization announced by Governor Olcott and Adjutant General Atafrin includes infantry regiment artillery cavalry engineers and ambulance company.
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