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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02
SlGUE EN- PIE FL CONEL!CTO DE
LOS cHAuFFERES.

Tr.<r -amG EsprriGi para Id PRENSA-'
CIUDAD DE MEXICO. mario /
Ell conflicto surgido entire los chauf
feres el Ayuntamiento met"opol!ta
no continGa sin rcsolverse tndavia.
pues 81 es verdad que el citado cuer-
90 conceiil accedi6 4 la derogacl3n
de Ia tarjeta horario, causante de Ia
sangrienta manifestation del lines.
tambien es verdad que al proceder
asi no hizo otra cosa que SUBSTITUTE
Ia por otra tarjeta, llamada de Sc
guridad", y que seSin los chauffcres
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02
LAS PRlNERAS
DilIGENClAS

Las nr:4neras diIigencias del pro-
ceso. Sc efectuaron aver. El primer
testigo que torno n palabra. fua g!
hiio de Ia muerta. quien acus6 al an
ciano de haberle dejado en- Ia orfan-
dad. Isafas. nientras Sc hacfa la de-
cIaraci0n. escuchaba muy atento, J.
de vez on cuando daba seRales de ex-
traneza. moviendo Ia cabeza de IL
ruierda derccha. V hacienda osci-
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02

debiGo n reciente legislation apro-
badl anc resrrinje las inversiones
extranjeras en- esa industria.
Las piantas dc coke Y fierro, han si-
do clausuradas en- Sama, por tres me-
ses y los embarcaderos y piantas meta
lurgicas en- Bilbao, tambien han sido
clausura dasy debido 4 las huelgas. FL
ntimero dc trabaJado-es sin empieo, 81
que auTentan3o cada dfa Ell TODD el
pals
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02
PARA ESCLARECER E ASES|NATO
De IN hEXCANO Sc ORDENA Ia
APPREHENSION De VEINTE PERSONS
La justicia obra actvamente para flar la
responsabilidad de la muerte de Manuel Duarte
Ell Gran Jurado de Cameron acusa veinte ndivlduos
como responsabes directos de conspiracon contra
la vida de un humilde trabajador mexicano

Que lueSn podria abandonar e. lugar,
81 asi 10 deseaba.
La mariana del d.a de- febrero, a
ana hora tgmprana. puarte Salid del
establo de Ia seIora karnes. para el
campo Segin declaration rendida a
qui, por Ia joven Nellie Karnes, hija
de Ia senoya luea del rancho donde
Q! compatr:ota trabajaba.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02
DEPRESSION INDUSTRIAL.

Las industrias espauolas Sc encueu-
tran por 10 general, en- un estado
de depression. La mineria. especialmen-
tie, Sc ha..a entcranente par.lizada
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02
TO ADVERTISERS

We guarantee LA PRENSA has
a larger circulation than any
other Mexican newspaper in the
United States.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02

iPasa a IL Pag. 81
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1922-03-02

Compre usted sus libros en- espa-
mol, a la Casa Editorial Lozano,
11S n. Santa Rosa Ave-, San An
tonic, Texas. Els la mas barata.-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
Government Eiqht-Rour Day.

An order putting government clerks on an
eight-hour work daylight hours of actual
| time the job exclusive of Iuncheon-is under
consideration by President Harding. 1t is es-
timated that if this sound business practice
were established in the administrative DEPART
ments they would require 10000 fewer clerks
than they require to 40 the governments
work. AS the average clerk is an annual cost
to the national taxpayer of $780, salary and
overhead items taken in. on this basis the
eight-hour working day would save the treasury
$Z5,00O,000 year. But large as a single item
OF $25.000000 year is, something vastly more
important is involved in the question of what
constitutes fair and square working hours for
government employees that have work to do.
There is involved the question of working hours
for all men that have work TO do. A job that
does not deserve eight hours of earnest dill
gent, faithful effort is not going to be
worth much to the man that is it. And
man that is not willing to put in eight hours
worth while job is not ever going TO be
worth very much to the job.
If Presidnet Harding issues his order for a
working day of eight full hours he will do more
than to put the working force of the United
States government on a solid basis; he will set
a standard of honest work for the whole coun-
try. Such a measure of the working day is
neeOeu To-Day OUTSIDE the government as well
as in the government. The un-American ten
dency to want to hold a Job without working
on it and to expect living without earning it
has been widely and dangerously INDUCED in re-
cent years. The workers who built up the
nation did not achieve their incompatible re-
suit of making it the worlds first industrial,
financial and moral power by putting any time
limit on their work In their way of going at
the job they did not know what clock was
They put into their work the time they needed
to put in to get it done right-put in the time
and kept up the steam ali through the time
Under the impetus the American manhood of
the past century gave it this country may be
able to move ahead for years, but without the
unyielding purpose and the driving energy that
these giants of work gave to their nation build
ing, America cannot set the pace for the world,
while the French, the Germans and others.
with their minds fixed on repairing the war
ruins. bend to their work with all that is in
them.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
Work and More Work.

S Arthur Balfour of Great Britain was ap-
plauded by the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States in convention at Washington
when he advocated WORK and more work as
the panacea for all political and social ills.
Another Balfour, the earl, told the European
nations the same thing last week. Pretty sound
advice but to be effective the work must be
with the definite objective of service to So
eiety.
Humanity has been overtaken by Micaw-
Der mood. We are reluctant to buckle down
to hard work for at least three reasons We
are in the reaction from strenuous destruc-
tive We have an inclination to gayety
tdleness and distraction. But the chief reason
is that multtudes of people have developed an
abnormal sense OF the futility OF attempting
anything constructive. The conflict of labor
and capital. the many political and social ills
the economic struggle. the educational and re-
ngious unrest and the many elements that have
changed living conditions so rapidly have left
us in state of uncertainty.
: Humanity waits for conditions to improve
We have feeble idea that when they do we
well get back on the serious job of hard work
The big thing that the world is overlooking at
present is that learn BY doing and the
sooner everyone does his full share of work the
sooner society will reach an equilibrium.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27

"Godey.s Lady's Book" and father read the
news from Washington. close up to the smoking
oil lamp squirting his eyes as he peered
through his spectacles. We laugh at that at
mosphere now. But il produced some mighty
substantial folks. Changed conditions of home
life-autos, movies dancing, uplift clubs-have
developed new problems, says John ]. Tigert,
United States commissioner Of education. He
says:
when I was boy the basis for education,
morals and good citizenship. was laid in the
home. Home was the center of the family's
interest and affection. There was taught good
old-fashioned dogma Each family felt and
recognized its responsibility for the ideas and
ideals of each of it's members But to a great
and growing extent, that is not true today. Now
the boy and girl, the young man and young
woman, in morals and ideals, are shaped more
and more by the community, and less and less
by home influence"
To meet this situation parents pay greater
attention to community life. They must see to
it that all community enterprises are the
supply the viewpoint and attitude toward life
which the family circle formerly supplied. Wo-
men instinctivey have sensed this. That is the
real reason why they have insisted voice in
politics and the affairs of the community All
this is an expression of their desire to produce
better citizens. That too, is why womans place
still is the home-but only part of the time.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
The Man With the Child's Mind.

At one of the eastern gorilla died,
after some months in captivity, and he re-
search doctors held an autopsy on the deceased
link between the human and the strictly ami
nal. The conclusion is that the gorilla had
the mind of a 2-year-old child. Another au-
topsy held a dead chimpanZee put the chin
panzee slightly lower in mentality. The goril-
la, strong as Il horse and with the mentality
of infant, was carefully guarded and re-
stricted. So the chimpanzee. Physical
power to do great harm and mentality, of a
babe too dangerous to turn loose together.
1t is like giving the baby looking glass and
a hammer to play with.
Yet turn human gorillas and chimpan-
gees loose and forget them. The moron, with
a child's mentality and the strength of a power
full man, is potential of constant danger. The
mentality of those unfortunates is readily clas-
ssified. Many of them have the mind of a s.
year-old child backed by the physical strength
and animalism of the gorilla. That is enough.
1t should set thinking, and thinking should
result in action. The moron, whose acts ap-
pal US, is less to blame than we whose care
lessness and neglect of the obvious does not
lessen our horror when the animalism rules
the Child mind of the moron
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
The Case of Mr.. Watts.

W. o. Watts, a special agent of the depart
ment of justice, has lost his job because he
gave Representative Royal Johnson of South
Dakota information to the effect that 100000,
900 of Liberty bonds had been duplicated and
put in circulation. Representative Johnson
made the disclosure the floor of the house
and it started a congressional investigation.
Watts insisted that the story is true and that
the truth is being suppressed. But truth tell
ers in public life-inconvenient annoying
truth teIIers-sometimes are rewarded this
way.
1t will be recalled that Joseph L. Bristow,
while acting as fourth assistant postmaster
general many years ago, unearthed condition
of graft in the postoffice department that star
tied the country and some of the ugliest
charges were laid upon the front door step of
men then high in politics. Bristow received the
commentator of the public in the highest
terms, but he lost his job as a result of the
fight made upon him by the men who were
dabbed with scandal During the Taft admin
istration Clyde M. Reed was appointed to po-
sition in the postoffice department at Wash
ington. One evening while out walking with
Victor Murdoch, then a member of the house,
Reed incidentally told of the case of a railroad
president who had been on the payroll of the
clerk at 81 900 a year. The incident was not
related for the purpose of publicity, but one
day in the house Murdoch related the fact, de-
nounced it as one of the many petty gratis
that had grown up in the department and the
story kicked up a mess The graft was stopped
of course, result of b1urdock's disclosure
and the railroad president removed from
the payroll. But Reed was denoted and sent
out to Cleveland a division superintendent
in punishment for his having been the cause
of embarrassment to the government
There is an ironclad rule in the departments
at Washington against the practice of subor-
dnates giving information to the public touch
ing the affairs of the department, and there is
reason in the rule. A laxative subordinate
could cause more trouble than a really eff
cient department head would be able to over
come. Still there should be reasonable limi-
tations, in the enforcement of such rule Pub
lie officials should not be punished for doing
what honest men in office could hardly refrain
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
The Old-time Parlor.

The parlor of generation back was great
show place. with its frail gilded chairs, set
tees upholstered in horse hair, family album
stereoscope, china parlor lamp painted in gor-
geous colors. and the footstool made of six
tin cans covered with carpet Over in the cor
ner was the what-not, its shelves Uttered with
sea shells. souvenirs from the Philadelphia
centennial and the jug covered with an amazing
collection of junk embedded in putty. Awe
stricken children used to peek into the parIor
when mother was out IN her new ALPACA leav-
ing cards on the bankers wife and other social
lights. For allowed in the parlor
only on state occasions-funerals when the
minister called, when company came or when
sister entertained the young fellow who drove
up in side-bar buggy. Shades were drawn
IN the day time or shutters closed to keep the
sun from fading the brussels carpet
Next to the parlor was the sitting room, CEN
Ter OF home life. where Willie read "Rollo in
Paris. mother darnedtne socks and later read
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
The Daily Short Story

told her where she was going, Mrs.
| Moore thought it a fine idea. 1t
| was only 10 minutes ride, and
Rose would have a complete rest
before starting on her thousand
| mile honeymoon trip.
While dressing, Rose penned a
short note to drop in the postoffice
| DIS she passed it on the way to the
train. 1t was very simple:
Il have discovered that you pre-
fer someone else. Goodbye.
ROSE"
Rose did not even tell her sister
of the broken engagement, and her
serious manner was attributed to a
maiden's meditation over approach
ing matrimony. Rose had no tor
turing hopes.
Hadn't she seen with her own
eyes and heard with her own ears /?
She would be like Betsey But
terfeld-with her wedding fnery
and linen packed in a chest in the
attic-yellow and ridiculous in
style"
Will was packing his camera
when the postman arrived. He was
surprised to see his address in
Roses handwriting, for he had sup
posed she was at home but had not
been up because she was busy and
tired. After reading the note, he
pondered with wrinkled brow
Rose was as happy as usual just
before supper; what could she have
imagined SO soon after?"
! At last his face registered the
solution of the problem. His mouth
widened from its tight Fuckers. A
convulsing laugh ended in a roll
on the lawn. Quickly gathering
himself up, he hurried into the
house, put a picture into an en-
velope with note as short as
Roses:
Dear Rose: Come home on the
8 p. m. and be introduced to your
rival. Yours. WILL"
The O'Clock train brought
very disconnected young lady to
Mapledell. Will met her at the
station and tried to make the af-
fair as little embarrassing as pos
sible. They stopped to speak to
Roses mother, who was much as
tonished at her quick return. AS
the couple continued up the road
~ w Al . AOAS, WI 3 A1OOE6 remark
ed to herself:
Il didn't suppose they were so
infatuated they couldn't stay apart
two days! I don't believe they will
ever quarrel"
viii led Rose from the path to
the spot where she had viewed her
terrible revelation of the night be-
fore. The graceful young lady was
there-as tightly yelled as then.
Will tipped his hat with great dig
nifty.
ALLOW me to introduce nv
charming scarecrow. Isn't she the
peachiest one you ever saw? She's
gotten up over mothers dress form.
She has certainly fooled all the
ninny crows, robins and wood
chucks; they let my peas, beans,
corn and cherries alone. But /
played you a terrible trick, sweet
heart; what can you do to punish
me-"
Suddenly cry came from a ma
pie close by that made VIII and
Rose jump into each others arms.
Whip-poor-will! Whip-poor-wilI!
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
DYING WITH THE HEAT.

Infants do really die from the eff
fects of excessive summer neat.
particularly in households where
crowding is the rule. This does not
necessarily imply poverty and tene-
ment dwelling conditions; too
many families these days put up
with close crowded living condl-
lions, for which they pay exorbitant
rent, merely to be near father
work" or perhaps just to be in the
center of the excitement Of the city
for you know it is so lonesome
far from the movies and the noise.
Yes, the babies ole off like flies, or
rather unlike flies, more's the pity,
in the dogdays soon to come.
On the other hand, people who
are always threatening to succumb
to the heat, who declare solemnly
and lugubriously they are just "dy-
ing with the heat" never do what
they threaten to do, more's the pity.
They are all right, a good many OF
'em, but not from the heat. Rath-
er they succumb to too much mas
/ sage-massage of the esophagus
with proteins, fats, carbohydrates.
Speaking of heat and folks just
dying with it, the dog days are GER
tanly hard on big eaters, though they
all seem to have birdlike appetites,
to hear them tell it: they wouldn't
be so fat if they didn't habitually
eat more than their output of energy
calls for. Very well, then, it is not
because folks are too fat that they
suffer so with the heat; it is be-
cause they eat 90 much.
Take the items of proteins alone,
that is, the heterogeneous substance
in foods, both animal and vegeta-
BILE foods Scientists engaged in the
great work of wrestling from nature
the secrets of human nutrition talk
learnedly of the specific dynamic
action of protein" meaning an ex-
cess of heat produced when high
protein diet is taken, and the body
has to rid itself of this excessive
heat somehow other than by mus
Icular or organic work So there
you have secret worth knowing
that it is much easier for a near
vegetarian to keep cool in the hot
season OF course vegetables and
fruits contain some protein, but the
principal sources of protein are
cheese, eggs, fowl and meat. Most
people who overeat owe their i'm
paired health and lowered efficien-
cy rather to an excess of the carbo-
hydrates sugars and starches)
But in the dogdays it is well to
give the butcher a vacation and to
go as easy as possible on the eggs
and cheese.
Milk contains protein material,
but only a moderate amount as
compared with meat, cheese and
eggs. Milk, or rather the germs
with which it is always more or less
contaminated on its way from COW
to consumer, is injuriousy affected
by the heat. The summer heat en-
courages more rapid multiplication
of germs present in milk. The
heat employed in pasteurization,
provided this process is properly
conducted (and sometimes it is
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
WHP-P0OR-WILL.
By Addie Graves,

Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, 1nc.)
The last dainty piece of inery
had been finished and carefully
laid on the bed in the front room.
The dressmaker's threads, rags,
and patterns and spools had been
cleaned away, and the nerve-rack-
ing planning, fitting and hustling
were over, releasing the tension of
wearing weeks OF combining toll.
Rose had closed the door and gone
down to the piazza for a breath of
fresh air.
What a relief" she sighed, sit
will be so nice to have few days
of rest. All the other girls have
the last minute. l think l will go
over and call on Wills mother. It's
fine to have congenial mother-in-
law-and Pa Parker, as he already
calls himself-is such a dear. It's
like having two sweethearts, he is
SO considerate."
Rose walked slowly up the ma
ple-shaded road until she came to
a little white cottage behind some
locust trees in full bloom. 1t was
nearly dark, with baby moon just
disappearing behind Peaked hill.
How perfect everything was on a
June evening, and what a lucky
girl she was to be marrying the
best boy that ever lived. AS she
turned up the path, bordered by a
bed of perennials backed by shrubs
and two small fir balsams, she
| thought she heard his voice. Glanc-
ing through an opening, she I'M
mistakably saw Wills form-and-
female figure with hat on, tight
ly yelled His voice continued:
You are graceful enough to
please an artist-and your poise is
perfect. We will fool them all-the
ninnies! You're darling!"
His head was very near now,
while he carefully buttoned her
sweater.
I'll see you again in the morn
ing, honey; don't be afraid of the
dark"
Rose did not stop to hear more,
but fed in her silent-soled Sneak
ers down the now lonely road. How
things could change in five min
utesi When she came up, each
bush and tree was a sociable COM
panion; now, they Knocked her in
hideous, threatening shadows, wav-
ing their branches like engulfing
arms preparing to draw her into
the now approaching darkness. A
lone whip-poor-will screamed from
some nearby bush:
tWhip-poor-will. Whip-poor-will!
Whip-poortwiIl,"
How absurd, Ridicule heaped
upon insult! Imagine me whipping
Will He can never be anything to
me hereafter-and / am not the
breach-of-promise kind of girl
What fool l have been to think a
boy who has known me all his life
could be in love with me- Of course
he needed some new personality to
interest him, l am like a sister,"
Rose ended her EXPLANATIONS by
deciding to take the O'Clock train
to the next town to visit her sis
ter. Looking at her mothers tired
face, she hadn't the heart to un-
burden her trouble. When Rose
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27

Q. Do any of the railroads build
their own cars? R. B. W.
A. Many railroads build some of
the cars they use. These are
usually in the nature of work cars.
Q. What salary do the members
of the House of Lords in Great
Britain draw? W. c.
A. The new members of the
House of Lords are unpaid.
Q. How much water does a per-
son consume daily? r. NJ. G.
A. The average amount of wat
er consumed daily per individual
is about four pounds, much more
than the dry weight of all the 9TH
er foods combined
@. What state has most of the
high mountain peaks? G. A. R.
A. Forty-two of the SIS highest
peaks in the United States are in
Colorado. g
Q. What is the difference be-
tween hard wood and soft wood?
r. S.
A. Hard wood is wood in which
the cells have thick walls and are
closely packed together. Soft wood
has large cells with thin cell walls
@. Who were the comprachicos? ?
A Comprachicos was the name
adopted by a nomadic affiIiation
famous in the seventeenth century
In Europe. This band of persons
made practice of buying and SELL
ing children. These children were
by means of surgical operations de-
formed and disfigured so that they
assumed certain peculiarities,
which provided the humor demand
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27

NJ question by writing The Argus Informs
Washington. d. Z. Give fun name ans
70 each individual 40 astsEuUn ~ u
ed at the time. The organization
had its own laws, oaths and form
fulas and was found principally in
England, Spain, France and Ger
many. The name is d compound
Spanish word meaning buyers Of
little ones.
Q. What part of the world was
first called America? a. NJ. D.
A. The name America was first
applied to Central Brazil in honor
of Amerigo Yespucci. who claimed
its discovery. 1t was first applied
to the whole known western world
by Mercator, the geographerr IN
1871.
Q. Who appoints the employees
in third class postoffice? I Z.
P.
A. The Postoffice department
says that the employees in a third
class office are personal appOiuteeS
of the postmaster who is at liberty
to appoint anyone over 16 years Of
age who is competent TO take the
oath of office The postmaster
may require bonds, but the depart
ment does not, except in the case
of an assistant postmaster.
Q. How many words are there
in folio? P. NJ G.
a. The number of words in
folio varies in the states; thus IN
some of them, as in England, IN
law documents, conveyances, deeds
etc, the folio is " words; in chan
Gerry and parliamentary proceed
ings, 80 words. In New York ana
other states 100 words constitute q
folio
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27

1.-THE Sins of Hollywood" a newly published
book, having been barred from the mails, prob
ably will now become the years best seller.