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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
2
A satirical piece mocks Prohibition and shipboard boozing abroad, recounting a Marinin vessel with unloaded barrels and fumes making the French crew cheerful yet reckless. It warns that Congress may inspect vessel holds and questions McAdoo on railroad costs and government control after the war.
The piece argues Americans will do much for the nation and humanity, but demand clear justification for wartime measures. It notes McAdoo advisers proposed a 25 percent rail rate rise and urges explanations of why such increases are necessary for the port and shipbuilding effort.
After World War I European nations end favored nation treaties. The old trade system dissolves as markets open and the United States emerges as a key commercial power. Allied talks explore reciprocal pacts and enemy product boycotts with the U S likely to steer postwar world commerce.
The article argues that Europe should rely on the United States first for supplies and later for capital and transportation for manufactured goods. It states it is reasonably certain no world commercial plan can exclude the U.S. and that there is no evidence of any intent to exclude. It expresses a desire for the United States, with its vast resources, to be included.
The article argues that future global trade schemes will likely avoid formal economic leagues or exclusive blocs. It forecasts the United States insisting on safeguards to preserve peace and predicts no new trade alliances until Prussian influence is eliminated, with policy contingent on unforeseeable conditions.
The second German assault gains ground quickly after the Chemin Des Dames ridge success, with 15,000 Allied prisoners taken. Allied plans remain in question as civilians wonder about targeting killings and the overall war aims. Commentary notes German ambitions and calls for a broader focus on U boats.
The Majestic features Harry Green in The Cherry Tree and George Washington Cohen with other acts including Great Lester ventriloquism Beucraft and Breske in Get Off My Carpet Reynolds and Donegan in dances Capt Jack Barnett and Lea Carlisle and Momer in The Composer and the Cycling Brunettes in Delving Gravity Telepathy demonstrations headline the Royal Theater with Norman Jescott and Miss Lippe Eden mind reading Frescott tests and card calls plus Bobker's Arabs Whirlwind Wonders Joe Barton tramp cyclist Bayle and Patsy Nifty Nonsense Scott and Christie Catch in a Storm and Alice Brady in Woman and Wife.
Beginning next Sunday one week run of My Four Years in Germany dramatized from Ambassador Gerard's book appears at the Empire. The film depicts his four years in Germany with scenes showing America’s entry into the war and includes a noted scene where Von Jago scoffs at American resolve. The New York Sun praised opening night. Also at the Grand is Over the Top with Sergt Empey recounting his war experiences and remarks from Vitagraph head Albert Smith on the actor’s realism and method in re-creating actual episodes.
Starting Sunday for one week Fheda Bara will be seen in one of the greatest pictures Cleopatra. The article suggests what a fellow would naturally do if he could in relation to the film.
A boarding house scene shows a temperamental woman complaining about sugar, white bread, and daily meals amid wartime shortages. The tale hints at women social roles from nursing to wartime labor as a backdrop.
In Oklahoma City Peaches Wallace a schoolgirl at Putnam Heights smiles as aviator Billy Parker, 23, invites her to fly. The warplane lifts from a field near the capitol with Parker at the controls and returns the girl safely to the ground.
Professor Paul Rohrbach argues in Berlin that Russia has ceased being a world power. He says Petrograd loses western provinces and Ukraine, leaving a vast peasant state with weak cohesion and no strategic danger to Germany. He views Ukraine and Poland as potential developmental areas for postwar Europe.
A second Y M C A school for men to be secretaries in army camps has closed at Camp Travis. Graduates will be assigned to association buildings in the U S and overseas. A third class will open June 13. The program aims to prepare men for employment in military camps as association workers. K K Kitchell H C Phillips and I W Rankin leave Kelly Field for Europe. Berberton Ohio engineer's 1917 food spending averaged 62 cents daily for a year with meat and milk only occasionally. An Indiana inventor develops a coupling to convert pump rods from hand to mechanical operation with one bolt change.
Western front questions moral duty aboard, editors urge booster spirit and war support. Columns from Temple, Clarksville, Bardwell, Waco, El Paso, Matagorda, Calvert, Williamson, Leak, Corsicana, Yoakum and Fort Worth discuss patriotism, prices, recruitment, unity, motherhood of nations, and inevitability of victory with calls to action and critique of antiwar sentiment.
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