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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
6
An editorial criticizes San Antonio officials for sacrificing proposed city improvements to protect the re election prospects of certain commissioners. It argues public interests should prevail when politicians are not at stake and notes taxpayers spared a higher tax rate despite losing anticipated benefits.
House statisticians estimate the impeachment inquiry will cost the state between 15000 and 20000 dollars. Readings of Representative Davis suggest mansion expense totals may reach at most a few thousand dollars. The taxpayer faces a shortfall of 12000 to 17000 dollars, with further outcomes uncertain.
The piece argues the Texas House aims to spend 15 000 to 20 000 of public funds for an unwarranted investigation. It criticizes attorney fees of 1000 each as excessive, says the probe will delay adjournment, and laments the drain on scarce resources while essential needs like hospitals roads and public health suffer. The governor is faulted for policy breaches seen as political, and taxpayers are urged to hold the Legislature accountable.
The Austro-Hungarian note defending submarines argues a ship could be sunk with warning and crew safety considered, while adding numerous conditions and hypotheticals. It reads as a legal treatise aimed at backing Germany's submarine campaign without angering the United States, though the reasoning appears blundering.
The inquiry asks if the United States intends to murder civilians on the high seas. Austria-Hungary responds that concern is warranted, signaling heightened tensions and potential threats at sea.
A conference battle over the State Highway Commission bill pits Senate with no salaries for members against a House push to provide salaries. Supporters argue federal funds require a commission and a capable engineer, while opponents warn of bloated state payrolls. The Senate favors a no pay model. House insists on salaries, demanding action from good roads advocates.
A New York court holds a wife has a perfect right to go through her husband's pockets for money. Chicago hotel staff form a military company to enlist if war comes. The British royal commission blames the dead for the Dardanelles wreck, a tactic that may be correct.
A New York World snippet hints at a proposed scheme to subsidize twenty five newspapers to push war. It questions whether Rep Callaway of Texas and Rep Moore of Pennsylvania are withholding a child as a test proof or if Tom Lawson revealed the secret.
A Macon Daily Telegraph reflection on how people shrink from hard humanitarian tasks despite their necessity. It notes history records show policy as cautious, acknowledging the avoidance of unpleasant, complicated work.
The Galveston Tribune highlights British tenacity in war noting the capture of Kut El Amara and advances on the Ancre as examples of dogged spirit. The piece argues the British excel in persistence even if not brightest or fastest.
The Beaumont Enterprise questions why local grocers in the rice belt do not imitate a Germantown Pennsylvania store that displayed a long sign praising rice as better and cheaper than potatoes. The piece suggests customers should support such community minded advertising.
Governor Manning advocates a law to suspend or remove negligent sheriffs to curb lynching. He asserts such a measure would empower the governor to back faithful officials and break mob connivance, joining Kentucky’s Hanley in fighting the South’s dark blot.
The Outlook quotes Mr Bryan advocating non resistance while on the sidewalk and facing a drunken chauffeur. It argues he would not step aside if children were present and would interfere, risking his life and leaving his widow to face consequences.
Tonight at the Majestic Theater the regular show features a high profile bill. George Damerel will dance The Merry Widow Waltz with Myrtle Vail from Temptation, backed by a stellar company. Allan Dinehart appears with Mary Louise Dyer and John Alexander in The Highest Bidder. Deira the piano accordion master wow s crowds, and Santos and Hays present The Edge of the World.
Marie Empress star of B. S. Moss photoplay sermon for parents appears at the Grand Opera House today and weekend. She is a niece of the late English tragedian Edwin Keene and has acted in Johannesburg Cape Town and Pretoria before coming to America where her film career made her popular.
Acting on her physician’s advice Miss Emma Bunting will not perform with the Bunting Players at the Majestic Theater next Monday and Tuesday. The company led by G Emmett Whitaker will present The Three of Us with Miss Margaret Ryan stepping into Bunting’s planned role.
Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne headline at the Queen Theater in The Yellow Claw a thrilling Great Secret story. The plot follows William with Wee See aiding a rescue from opium den threats and a secret chamber escape as Detective Ackerton guards the plan. Saturday adds a Beatrice Fairfax feature The Stone God.
Edith Storey brings star power to the Empire Theater today and tomorrow in Money, Magic with Antonio Moreno and William Duncan. She plays a ranch girl who marries a wealthy miner and learns to navigate cultured society while teaching etiquette to her in law family.
Max Wardall of Seattle spoke in the Gunter Hotel pink room on Esoteric Christianity. The lecture, part of a Theosophical Society series, urged mystic truths behind Christ's life and ministry and criticized materialism and the church for neglecting Theosophists.
Senora Hermilia Galindo, the woman suffrage party's candidate for Congress, wrapped up her campaign with a mass meeting in Mexico City attended by about 3000 supporters.
General von Bissing the governor of occupied Belgium issued a decree seizing 60 listed items including silks wool yarns and blankets for removal to Germany. The move aims to empty Belgium of goods deemed useful to Germany as advices say the country is being emptied under this order.
The Second Florida infantry, last guard regiment on duty in Laredo, began its march to home this morning leaving Texas after duty in the border post.
In a San Francisco Bay setting Sergeant Taggart of the U S N wireless unit pursues a mysterious high pitched spark linked to disasters at sea. He begins and ends with a failing mission, finding instead a lover and a hidden plot involving foreign agents and a federal court case.
A customer orders a large ornate clock with two distinct features. At 10 AM a bells chime and a bird sings a carol, and at 11 PM a milkman bell rings followed by a newsboy shouting morning papers, timed for the daughter’s entertaining room.
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