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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1925
Page
7
Washington February 20 Congress seeks a uniform national approach to marriage and divorce and child custody with Capper leading a plan to empower Congress to pass uniform laws. Debates note ground differences among states and warn that rising divorce rates threaten national family life.
Chicago reports Dr. John H Williams leads a YMCA marriage class with 100 plus students. He argues women should propose, blaming men for dull courtship and praising marriage as the key economic social intellectual and religious union. The six week course covers love philosophy heredity birth control eugenics and sex questions.
Dimmitt February 20. The chamber of commerce approves a trades day held on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Local merchants offer special bargains and farmers bring items to auction. Old time horse trading will be a feature. A committee will finalize the program details.
Harrisburg report from the state tax commission projects the commonwealth will require eighty million dollars more each year in ten years to run its affairs. It recommends net profits taxes and a state income tax to cover the increase.
The Amarillo Globe marks its first birthday with a forward looking list of aims for Amarillo. It calls for better citizens, improved roads and infrastructure, more home ownership, increased local business, gas pipelines, greater publicity, and a brighter, more prosperous community. It also desires fewer out of town catalogs, more readers and advertisers, and larger civic enthusiasm.
Paris reports a French ward finds cross word puzzles too much for inmates. Harry McAlhone sent puzzles to a hospital. a note replied there is nobody crazy enough there to work them out. Grapeland notes the Crockett line nearly finished and a high tension link to Palestine to start soon.
Chicago reports three million people sick year round and a national loss of about 1.5 billion dollars from preventable illness and premature deaths. Dr. Frank E. Leslie of Gorges Institute released the survey detailing earnings losses due to sickness and preventable deaths. Temple notes extensions of the local telephone system to reach new customers.
Martin Sher, four, lies in a Rathmore Maryland hospital with a knife wound to the back. The injury, caused by a playmate the same age, pierced the spinal column and doctors warn of possible complications affecting him for life.
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