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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1927
Page
6
In a Amarillo Globe editorial the writer laments the decline of manners in the automobile age. The piece notes drivers honk yell curse and cut off others, urging a return to courtesy and calm, even suggesting etiquette belongs at home as well.
John H. Hill urges courteous treatment of visitors by officials during the Amarillo Fair and calls on businesses to grant two half days off for employees to attend. He notes attendance drives gate receipts and external support helps, but local turnout is crucial.
In England hotel bills over three pounds bear a receipt stamp paid by the hotel, while in France the customer pays a small timbre stamp. Passport visa transfers differ: Britain relocates unexpired visa months to a new passport as a business courtesy. France demands payment for the untransferred balance, likened to a hold-up. A clergyman notes France makes Americans bear more of the debt.
The article portrays Thomas A. Edison moving toward starting a rubber plant in the United States to gain domestic supply. It notes his physicist research methods and repeated trial and elimination approach used in lamp filaments and storage batteries as a model for developing a temperate zone rubber plant.
A humorous dialogue explores the law of compensation with quirks of fate. Characters discuss prosperity, fortune, and unfairness in distribution, contrasting personal vices with wealth gaps and examples like Rockefeller, money, and a deaf friend with keen sight.
Sonia's life in San Francisco spirals as she struggles with work, love triangles, and looming concealed truths. She clings to Franklin Crane while Don Stillwater waits, and fear of scandal grows as her health, finances, and social prospects deteriorate amidst shifting loyalties.
A jumble of anecdotes notes long lived women and odd facts. A Tennessee woman aged 82 has never ridden in an automobile, while reports tell of Charles A. Levine flying the Atlantic and a California recluse binding her corset will. Other items joke on cars fashion tax and science.
Old Mother West Wind story recounts Mrs. Coyote waking from a dream of Buster Bear. A cub push triggers a chase, the two bear cubs quarrel, and Mrs. Coyote prepares to teach them a lesson, unseen by the little bears and observed by Sammy Jay and Mother Bear.
London reports MPs urge reducing government and municipal inspectors amid claims Britain hosts over 48 000 inspectors costing 60 million dollars yearly. Details cite overlapping duties across ten ministries and numerous local agencies with inspections reaching schools shops and public facilities.
Rodney Dutcher surveys the Republican field as Coolidge exits. Dawes, Hoover, and Hughes emerge as top contenders with Hoover seen as strongest party machine, Hughes as a potential compromise, and Dawes favored by business and farmers in the uncertain race ahead.
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