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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
2
In San Francisco delegates at the national convention cast aside business for praise as Homer Cummings lauded Wilson. A portrait display provoked a 30 minute roar of cheers repeating his name and sending a message of party faith to the White House. Arrangements for the first national convention in the Far West were well made.
Homer Cummings, temporary chair at the Democratic National Convention, calls the League covenant the Monroe doctrine of the world and attacks the Republican platform as reactionary. He defends Democratic wartime leadership and accuses Republicans of premeditated criticism and lack of constructive reform.
The credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention ratified seating Palmer delegates from Georgia by 48 to 4 and denied Senator James A. Reed a seat from Missouri's fifth district by 37 to 9.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, permanent chairman, condemned the Chicago platform and pre convention fund disclosures. He assailed Republican senators who opposed ratification of the League of Nations covenant in his Tuesday speech in San Francisco.
El Centro Cal Frank Valle 60 a native of Mexico became a father for the thirty fifth time Friday when his second wife whom he married in 1900 gave birth to her seventeenth child an 11 pound boy.
Federal and state officials estimate Nebraska will produce 56,129,000 bushels of wheat in 1920, down from 4,546,000 bushels below 1919 production. The report cites official figures from Lincoln, Nebraska.
The National Federation of Post Office Clerks plans a Texas state meeting in Fort Worth on July 4 and 5. Officials approve two Blanco County road bonds, and Breckenridge grants a $350000 water works franchise.
Houston reports the first bale of the 1920 crop reaching the cotton exchange on Friday. The San Benito bale weighed 680 pounds and was declared first, with the Edinburg bale weighing 57 pounds arriving three hours later. Two first bales on one day set a Houston record, and prices for prior years ranged from 1000 to 1025 dollars.
Indictments charged fourteen concerns and fifty individuals with fraud as government agents began a nationwide roundup. Promoters, oil companies, brokerages and their officers are accused of mail fraud and making gross misrepresentations. They allegedly paid large dividends from stock sale receipts to swindle the public.
The first car of the Texas wheat crop reached Fort Worth from Rochester on Thursday. It tested 60.7 pounds to the bushel and the quality rated better than usual. The price paid was $2.80 f o b Rochester, considered unexpectedly high.
The State Association of Veterinarians adjourned after selecting Dr. A. C. Burns of Cleburne as president and Dr. R. G. Allen of Wichita Falls as secretary-treasurer. The 1921 meeting location will be decided by the executive committee.
Geneva reports German wartime tolls showing 1 350 000 dead and 520 000 widows. The statistics also list 1 130 000 orphans and 50 000 maimed or consumptives supported mainly by charity.
Two Texas postmasters were announced in the bulletin on Monday. John P. Turner succeeds M. W. Doyle at Slidell Wise County and John F. Allison succeeds P. H. Reddy as postmaster at Stonebury Montague County.
President Wilson sent a telegram to Governor Roberts urging a Tennessee legislature special session to act on the federal suffrage amendment. The move aims to secure state action on national woman suffrage during the federal amendment push.
Washington announces Van Marle Smith will become third assistant secretary of state succeeding Breckinridge Long who has resigned.
Washington. Dr Edward B Rosa chief physicist of the bureau of standards cites a stark split in 1919 1920 appropriations. He lists five categories and shows research education and development totaling 57 million while war and navy expends about 1 424 billion and primary government functions 181 billion. Public works 168 billion. He and James W Good Iowa corroborate the figures.
A historical budget summary shows war expenses absorbing about 93 percent of one year’s revenue, with only 8 percent for normal government purposes and 1 percent for research and development. Agriculture took the largest share of that 1 percent, at 62.8 percent.
The piece catalogs federal appropriations for 1920 across multiple departments including Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Labor, Library of Congress, and Smithsonian, totaling 5.686 billion dollars with about 57 million in educational and developmental funding. It notes uneven state cost data for industrial accidents and discusses unemployment and compensation trends. The Red Cross opens a World War museum with Civil War relics and artifacts from the sanitary commission.
A fragmented note portrays idleness as a destructive force, comparing a man with a machine that ceases function quickly. The text centers on lethargy and a brief, incomplete mention of a maiden motif.
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