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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1922
Page
2
Published by The Graham Leader Company Bowron and McLendon proprietors with post office mailing certification in Gra ham Texas. Subscription rates section appears incomplete and truncated in the supplied text.
A civic motto emphasizes self reform before criticizing town institutions. It urges residents to invest time money and effort to improve the town before judging officials churches schools businesses or other entities. The quotation promotes personal responsibility and constructive community engagement.
The International Reform Bureau reports rising divorce rates in 1916 with the United States surpassing Japan. Nevada shows a rate of one divorce per 1.54 marriages while some Texas counties exceed one divorce per three marriages. The study warns if trends continue, three fourths of marriages may end in divorce by century’s end and calls for a constitutional amendment to standardize marriage and divorce laws.
The piece argues that farmers can no longer operate freely from milking cows to selling hogs, shipping wheat, cotton, or onions without U.S. government permission or tribute through freight rates. It singles out the Texas railroad commission as unable to regulate effectively.
A Texas farmer voices fear that federal regulation blocks markets, rots farm produce, and raises freight costs. Clarence Ousley criticizes federal involvement in road building and education while supporting federal troops for state disorder, warning of centralization and ruin.
The Lubbock Avalanche criticizes Austin state offices for noon daily closings in summer, arguing taxpayers deserve full service and proper pay. It contends half the staff is unnecessary, proposes trimming payroll or increasing duties, and urges returning workers to productive roles on farms or in commerce.
The piece cites Theodore Roosevelt in The Foes of Our Own Household, 62 to 64, arguing there is no fifty fifty allegiance in America. A true American must be wholly loyal to the flag, distinct from European nations, and ready for unified national action in international crises.
A brief quoted line calls for judging every foreign nation solely by its behavior during the crisis, emphasizing a principle of conditional engagement and accountability without exceptions or generalization. The fragment suggests a policy stance favoring strict response linked to actions shown in the emergency.
Graham and Young County plan a bronze memorial hall to honor every man in service. The project will include a bronze tablet bearing all names and a cornerstone with those killed or died of wounds or disease, funded by forward thinking citizens to ease realization. The tale then shifts to an advertising parable about stars, stars as market guides, and the lasting value of reliable branding.
A Beecher anecdote about a sleeper watcher ridicules shifting blame in organizations. The piece suggests leaders and workers alike blame superiors or subordinates instead of self–examination, urging reflection on accountability in management and personal conduct.
The text catalogs slang terms such as CHARLIN to describe uninvited partygoers, CRUMB GOBLER for tea crashers, and DEW DROPPER as a lazy Bease Hound, plus definitions like EGG for a hard boiled cake eater and DINCHER a half smoked cigarette. It also reports a major steel industry merger between Bethlehem and Lackawanna, with six potential joiners, signaling a challenge to United States Steel's dominance.
C. O. Prest of New York has departed by airplane on a 6000 mile journey aiming for Alaska and Siberia. He intends a rapid cross continental flight with long overwater segments, seeking adventure and records in the era of early aviation.
A missionary report from Roumania for 1921 lists usual evangelistic metrics plus remarkable details: traveled by foot 1,449 miles, was jailed twice, summoned to the courthouse eleven times, visited by police four times, once examined for sanity, twice stoned, and cast away from home once.
The speaker bids graduates God bless them as they go forth to run the world. Wisdom is infinite and the road of art is long. In life, deeds count more than dreams, and though they’ve left college they’ve just begun.
Lloyd Hughes stars in Mother O' Mine as news breaks of his engagement to Gloria Hope. The pair, first linked during filming of an Ince production, are reported to be preparing for a real life union.
In a four page Manufacturer's Record editorial on South of Yesterday Today and Tomorrow a string of regional firsts is listed. The South is credited with the first Atlantic steamship crossing the first American built for an American railroad The Best Friend the first artificial ice the first self binding reaping machine the first ocean current charting by a southerner and many other bold claims including milestones in threshing giving gas lighting locomotives gas mining orphanages slave law reform women’s industrial schools and more.
Congress considers an appropriation of at least 2.5 million dollars to buy seed and furnish it to farmers in flood struck areas of the Mississippi Valley and parts of Texas.
Miss Jean Allis Davis is four weeks old, the daughter of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis and his wife, the first child born to a cabinet member in President Harding's administration.
Construction has begun on a temporary wooden chapel to be erected on Baylor University campus with an estimated cost of about $20,000.
The Majestic of the White Star Line departed Southampton on May 10 for New York on its maiden voyage. The liner is about two thousand tons larger than its nearest rival, the Leviathan, in size.
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