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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1916
Page
19
New York reports inspectors general detail severe shortfalls in the National Guard. Shortages include artillery, machines guns, ammunition, searchlights, and trained personnel, with many units unfit for immediate service and mobilization delays extending beyond 18 months.
William Waldorf Astor now Baron Hever has paid British taxes totaling 1 680 000 dollars, more than his New York City taxes of 1 250 000 dollars. His New York holdings are valued at 50 000 000 dollars with extensive railroad and other stock. He also earns about 4 000 000 dollars a year from New York City real estate. total income and American income tax are not disclosed.
An editorial notes the militia’s improved readiness and cites a humorous image of placing troops in the Yale bowl if needed, asserting small arms and weapons are available for defense without compromising activities like football games.
The piece argues current manufacture at 698,000 cannot sustain a second volunteer army. Experts recommend a 1,250,000 small arms reserve with adequate uniforms, tents, ammunition trains, and transport. An army of 1,000,000 would need 25,000 trained officers. It contrasts with 527,000 in 1812 and notes National Guard members are well staffed but undertrained after recent trials.
In Oakdale, Texas, forty students and the teacher were trapped at Langworth school for half a day as a swarm overran the building after dislodged hive activity. Parents returned with sulfur to drive off the bees while many pupils and nearby animals suffered stings.
Census bureau figures show 204 large U S cities with populations over 30 000 ran deficits in the year ending July 1 1915 totaling 339 775 815 or 4 48 per capita They report 156 cities increased indebtedness by 147 470 954 while 48 cities ran an excess of revenues over expenditures totaling 7 715 139 The aggregate revenue was 940 385 811 and total outlays 229 535 561 with taxes providing the main input and water system earnings forming a major non tax revenue source. The report notes Boston leads per capita property tax at 34 67 while Portsmouth Va pays 4 56.
A chaotic zoo caption recounts a zoo superintendent planning to feed a 27 foot python and seeking a strong helper. A nervous applicant questions the task, prompting shouted insistence that ten keepers are needed though nine are present.
In a July issue of American Magazine a Dutch army officer appears in public with his chest full of medals. When asked where he earned them he points to the largest medal and says he got the others because of that one, a humorous misstatement about merit.
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