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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1918
Page
2
The author laments extravagant consumption of natural resources and warns that war highlights the need to conserve while noting shortages of black walnut and bird's eye maple for weapons and industry. He recalls past abundance and urges future careful use and stewardship.
The article notes a rare cabinet division under President Wilson as members split on making the United States bone dry for the war duration. It contrasts the current rift with Bryan-era resignations and highlights cabinet members with limited subject knowledge shaping policy.
The article recalls cabinet tensions over prohibition during various administrations. It notes how figures like Hurley and Hoover influence labor and food policy, while historic disputes involving Eaton, Jefferson, Hamilton, Seward, and Stanton illustrate recurring cabinet feuds. It ends affirming the country’s resilience.
Analysis argues Britain financed World War I by global borrowing and universal securities, while Germany kept money at home. Britain tapped international investors including Japan, securing vast funds without public ruination. Germany depended on internal finance, facing heavy taxation and limited external credit.
The piece contrasts Britain obtaining large funds from America and allies with Germany insisting it can finance itself. It credits Britain for appealing to global opinion based on merit while denouncing Germany's self-reliant stance as less favorable.
A critical look at two New York war time charities under suspicion, highlighting a broader risk of exploitation of patriotic sentiment. The piece contrasts limited U S evidence of graft with harsher European examples and discusses public response and authorities' role.
A German press dispatch notes despondent tones from Holland. The Daily Mail cites a Dusseldorf Nachrichten editorial saying an end to the war seems unlikely, though an end to terror could come. Voerwaerts Berlin reports recent events shattered the illusion of German invincibility.
The Hampurger Fremdenblatt reports Petrograd daily cholera toll exceeding two thousand. A former minister M Stesjenko was shot in Polana. A Swedish letter suggests the czar’s murder may be framed as martyrdom amid revolutionary fears.
Attorneys for Willie Perez seek a new trial alleging possible insanity during the murder trial of Anna Vernon Menton, a white woman killed near San Antonio. If denied, an appeal will follow. The jury returned a death verdict after about twenty five minutes of deliberation at the trial.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger summary from August 6 describes widespread mutiny, desertion, food riots, and civilian strikes across the Austrian Hungarian empire. Bands of deserters are forming in Moravia and Hungary, with allied brigands and Green Guards. German troops are needed to quell disturbances in Vienna, Budapest, and Wallachia.
White Guards assist Allied units pursuing Bolsheviks retreating south from Archangel as the new Archangel government arrests most Bolshevik leaders. Trotzky orders arrests of Archangel Soviet members and trials before a revolutionary tribunal.
London July 18 George Barthelme former Washington correspondent of the Cologne Gazette has finished reminiscences and now lectures about America’s war effort claiming the U S will save Europe by 1920 if submarines don t spoil the plan He says Americans will not organize or discipline adequately and portray Anglo Saxon leadership as hypocritical while some will work to liberate Europe from perceived perceived Anglo Saxon influence. Soldiers Injured by Grenade at Camp Beauregard report Lieutenant Joseph W Anderson and three others slightly hurt in a premature grenade detonation. A military inquiry was begun last night.
A jumbled miscellany of humorous observations, patriotic jabs, and urban vignettes. It mentions traffic and labor themes, political skits, and social quirks from wartime life, including barbers, telephones, apartments, and election chatter. The piece blends satire with daily life as seen through a city columnist lens.
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