A Clear Track for Cotton
The piece argues that cotton policy has flipped, with demand shifting from price support to market-driven outcomes. It notes current high prices would hurt farmers and users if a government minimum price were imposed, urging letting economic forces and legitimate incentives guide cotton production rather than state intervention. The wartime and postwar context underscores falling supply risk if acreage is forced into crops and calls for avoiding speculators while supporting farmers.
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South
Land and Liberty in Bolshevik Echoes and French Revolution Parallels
The piece draws a parallel between Bolshevik cries of Land and Liberty and the French Revolution’s Liberty Equality Fraternity. It argues that both revolutions mask enduring aims beneath violent upheaval and autocratic excess, suggesting peace with such forces is illusive and the outcomes may mirror past revolutionary remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danton
Robespierre
Russia
Louis XVI
Lessons From Revolutions On Land And Liberty
The piece argues land reform as a core driver of liberty in Russia and equates equality rhetoric in France with landlord favoritism. It discusses Turgot’s failed French tax plan, Bolshevik possibilities, and cautions that Russia’s natural resources and minds may drive future socialization, urging global view on Bolshevik programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Turgot
Louis
France
Danton
Robespierre
Lenine
Trotsky
Charles M. Schwab
Fighting the Church in Russia and the Greek Rite
The article argues Bolshevik efforts to secularize Russia threaten the Greek church, urging caution in church state separation. It compares to the French Revolution and notes church powers in baptism marriage and death, plus church property tax exemptions, warning of wide public pushback if priests wield influence to oppose Bolshevik policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
France
Earth
Heaven
Paris
San Antonio
Labour minds to take church property and divide among people
The article states Labour plans to seize church property and distribute it to the populace. It also notes worsening weather predictions for Russia with increasing cloudiness and likely storms affecting Bolshevik regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Bolsheviks
Allied Harmony and Central Power Discord Mark War’s Early Stage
The piece asserts Allied unity versus Prussian propaganda, noting full allied accord at the Supreme War Council with both civil and military representation. It contrasts this with growing distrust among the central powers, especially Bulgaria’s doubts about Germany. It also mentions American unity, submarine warship ideas by Henry Ford, and an eastward winter forecast predicting warmer temperatures to zero by day’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme War Council
United States
Bulgaria
Germany
The Vale of Hope and My Wife's War Cake
A pair of verse items recount resilience and endurance in hardship. The Vale of Hope extols concealed strength amid defeat with a call to stoic spirit and hopeful action. My Wife's War Cake humorously shares an eyeless eggless cake baked during wartime shortages, praising effort over result and wartime ingenuity.
War talk, taxes, and small-town cheer across Texas papers
A collage of snippets from Texas newspapers notes rising taxes with government growth, spring signs in peach trees and eggs, wartime spirits, political hints, and local concerns. Farmers in Gillespie County organize cooperative marketing, while Fort Worth and Dallas papers hint at campaigns and civic notices.
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Eagle Pass
Dallas News
Chamberlain
Gillespie County
Fredericksburg
Anegu
The
Houston Post
Taft
Yorktown News
For ‘Ort Worth Star
Fort Worth
Locomotive Production For Expeditionary Forces
New York February 9 News reveals that 1650 locomotives were ordered July 24 for the American expeditionary forces in France and completed in September and October. The American Locomotive Company reports six months to December 31 profits of 6,010,009 with 459,576 earned from munition business and unfilled orders totaling 75,624,319 at year end.
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New York
France
American Locomotive Company
Mide
Sympathy From Tuscany Over Tuscania Sinking
Reports from Rome show widespread sympathy for America after the Tuscania disaster. Pope Benedict and Cardinal Park discussed the loss at a daily conference, with the papal secretary noting the incident as the main topic and urging fervent prayer so the war might end sooner.
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Tally
Rome
Wriday
Web
America
Italy
Pope Benedict
Cardinal Park
Tuscania
Pontitt
Jay
The Majestic GE Closes As Vaudeville Ends
The Majestic theater closes today ending Billie Reeves engagement with Mhcater bit plays. The bill features The Right Key But the Wrong Mat with the drunk character, The Wail of An Eskimo musical comedy drama, Saint or Sinner Dramatic sketch, and Bon Voyage musical panorama with Jimmy Gildea. Additional acts include Floriest and Flannigan Myrtle Jona Jessie and Dolfie Millar and The Avenging Trail photo play. At Princess Theater An Air plane Elopement musical playlet leads, with The Four Normans Orren and Drew Markee and Montgomery and The An tics of Ann Paramount picture. Camp Travis Theater presents Mel Campbell Washington society girls final performance, The Headliner Three Golden Nuggets Spencer and Ward Niblo’s talking birds and pictures.
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Majestic GE
Bille Reeves
Royal
Edna Earl Andrews and Company
Royal Theater
Jimmy Gildea
Floriest
Flannigan
Myrtle Jona
Jessie and
Dolfie Millar
Harold Lockwood
Princess
Frank Gardner and
Princess Theater
Orren
Drew
Markee
Montgomery
Ann Pennington
Ann
Paramount
Camp Travis
San
Niblo
Talking Birds
Intolerante at Grand promises grand epic six days
Film listings announce Intolerance from David Wark Griffith opening Sunday at Grand Opera House. The six day engagement features a vast production with an estimated two million dollar cost, 125000 actors, 1590 horses, 1200 chariots, and four interwoven love stories across ages from Babylon to modern slums with orchestra and chorus. Bessie Barriscale stars at Empire in Madam Who? a Civil War era mystery from Harold MacGrath with raid scenes in the South and secret service intrigue.
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Grand
David Wark Griffith
Grand Opera House
Tts
Babylon
Judea
Jesus Christ
France
Madan
Empire
Bessie Barriscale
Empire Theater
Monte M
Nattejohn
Harold MacGrath
Pengene
Mystery Husband in a Veiled Marriage Plot
A tale features eleven masked men believed to be enemy agents forcing a woman into marriage. The unknown husband’s identity remains a secret until after a swift sequence of pivotal events, culminating in a final climax where she unites with the man she chooses.
Boy Scouts Celebrate Eighth Anniversary at Brackenridge Park
San Antonio Scouts marked their eighth anniversary with a long program at Brackenridge Park from 4 PM to 3:30 AM. Paul Steffler led a tug of war winner. Curtis Coffman Troop 15 won equipment and potato races. Supper was cooked over campfire then chocolate ice cream and cake were served from the Ala mo Council. All took the national scout oath at 8:15 PM. A service is planned at Westminster Presbyterian Church Sunday evening.
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San Antonio
Boy Scouts
Brackenridge Park
Paul Steffler
Curtis Coffman
Alamo Council
Fifty Dealers Face Charges Over Fresh Egg Claims
Fifty retail egg dealers charged with selling cold storage eggs as fresh will appear before Judge William P. Gemmull in municipal court. Assistant attorney general Charles F. McKinley says the cases are clear and federal prosecutions may follow. The Food Administration cites fresh eggs at 63 to 70 cents a dozen, with carton add-ons, as prices, while executives note cost differentials and middlemen fees. A nationwide campaign to place Irish potatoes on tables and a weekly potato day is launched to ease wheat-saving efforts amid transportation bottlenecks.
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William P. Gemmull
Charles F. Mckinley
State Bureau of Food
Chicago Tribune
Mr. McKinley
McKinley
God Administration
Secret Service
Food Administration
Samuel Livingston
Mr. Livingston
Chicago
America
Fond Administration
Letters to The Light clarify publication policy
The Light warns letters intended for publication must be signed or initials by the writer. Anonymous or typed signatures may be deemed anonymous and not published. Publication does not imply endorsement of the policy stated by the letter writer.
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The
Light
Soldiers and Civilians to the Editor Letter Seeks Social Boundaries
A reader recounts his wartime experience from Camp Stanley and his wish to separate soldiers from civilian society. He argues soldiers feel outside civil law and should not enter elite circles, noting limited contact with the best society and personal sacrifices while serving.
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Camp Stanley
21St Field Artillery
San Antonio
Jellicoe fears bad time before submarine menace ends
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe warned in Hull that Britain faces a few months of hardship before mid August, when he believes the submarine threat will be killed. He urged no optimistic speeches until then, citing recent Irish Sea losses due to shoal waters near Heligoland Bight.
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London
John R. Jellicoe
The
Naval
Hull
Jellicoe
War-Cabinet
Irish Sea
Helroland Bight
May Remove Machinery Tax in Mex City Proposal
A cabinet proposal seeks to drop all import duties on machinery from the United States. President General Candido Aguilar approved the plan, and a new foreign minister outlined a taxation scheme for industry. The plan would raise customs duties with half benefiting the nation and the remainder shared with municipalities and states.
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Menico City
Mex
United States
Candido Aguilar
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