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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1922
Page
2
The Graham Leader explains a proposed amendment creating a State highway system and road excise taxes. It would transfer highway construction and maintenance to the state, relieve counties, allow roads to be taxed separately from schools, and require future legislature action on county compensation for roads. A federal deadline for highway systems is noted.
The proposed July 28 state constitutional amendment would authorize the Legislature to create and maintain a statewide highway system funded by specific excise and ad valorem taxes to retire bonds and compensate counties for improvements. The Senate struck out the bond issuance language, but an ad valorem tax reference was overlooked in the rush.
The article notes the United States produced 2,659,000 motor vehicles last year, an increase of about 1,000,000 from the prior year, and consumed around 4.3 billion gallons of gasoline costing about 1 billion dollars. It ranks third in value behind meat packing and petroleum, with the country manufacturing ninety percent of the world’s motor vehicles and home to eighty-four percent of those in use.
Jeremiah W Jenks, a leading authority on world conditions, reviews European affairs in the July Current History. He notes discontent among minorities including Slovaks in Czecho Slovakia and Slovenes and Montenegro amid postwar adjustments.
The article notes lingering hostilities among Bulgaria Serbia Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia alongside shifting attitudes in Italy Austria and Hungary toward self reliance. It cites currency recovery in Czecho-Slovakia, Austrian reforms and a $130 million international loan, and the challenge of Germany’s reparations to France with calls for possible France adjustment and greater U.S. cooperation.
An American Pharmaceutical Association official contrasts cocaine and opiate addiction. Opiate withdrawal is physical and tied to medical prescribing, not moral failing. Citing Treasury data, he notes many addicts are made by legitimate treatment and circumstances, estimating about one million Americans affected.
Investigations in several farming states show education boosts earnings. In Kansas a survey of 1,237 farms found annual farmer incomes average 422 dollars with common schooling, 554 with high school, and 1,452 with college training. Another state shows 20 percent owner cars for common schooling, 25 percent for high school, and 29 percent for college graduates.
A stranger rides into a bustling Western town and asks a local if a criminal law man exists. The resident replies after fifty years he thinks such a figure may be present but cannot prove it. The exchange highlights cautious legal skepticism.
With lumber prices in the local market about 30 percent lower than three years ago, the Argus Leader argues that those considering building should proceed. The paper says home ownership makes citizens and promotes national safety, urging the good work to continue.
Henry B. Walthall stars as Robert Stevens in William Foxs The Face on the Barroom Floor at the National Theatre Monday and Tuesday July 16 and 17. The drama shows a man’s downward drift into drink and his struggle to win back a lover with pathos and a subtle humor, delivered by a vivid, convincing performance.
A traveling man stayed in a small town awaiting a 24-hour train and loudly booed the home-team pitcher. He shouted that the pitcher was wild and useless. The pitcher retorted that the taunter wasn’t much better, noting the taunter had missed a train yesterday.
The article notes camphor gear in industry with uses from celluloid to photography and explosives. It states annual exports about 3,000,000 pounds of camphor and 2,000,000 pounds of camphor oil, underscoring its worldwide importance.
Fox special The Face on the Barroom Floor is set for a two day engagement at the National Theatre starting Monday. Henry B. Walthall stars as the artist who descends into drink and rises again to happiness with Ruth Clifford Alma Bennett and others in support. Jack Ford directs the Fox feature after prior successes.
In a court scene three men the Irishman a Swede and a Hebrew face theft charges the judge asks each where they acquired their stolen items the Hebrew and Swede answer they have had the animals since infancy the Irishman adds I’ve had it since it was a wheelbarrow sharing a lighthearted old joke with no explicit wrongdoing.
Mrs J R Alexander of Brecken ridge was the guest of Miss Betty Dawson Sunday.
In Young County Texas J C Lovelace as president and F F Parrish as cashier affirm the accuracy of a bank ledger totals digits shown including thousands and hundreds. The affidavit sworn July 5 1923 before Notary Dell Wilson attests to the statement’s correctness with directors J J Gallaher F F Parrish and J C Lovelace signing.
A prominent news paper publisher defines legitimacy as spreading truthful information about public concerns without personal gain, while propaganda is selective opinions or pleas aimed at influencing belief for the taker’s advantage.
Mr and Mrs G C Masey have returned from an extended visit to several different places. They visited multiple locations and plan to resume daily routines at home.
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