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have been made to excite popular senti'
ment to the point of demanding that
the United States go to the aid OF
Europe. Just what sort of aid was
desired? The propagandists have been
bit vague on that point.
Secretary MELONS visit 20 Europe
may be of value to this country in that
it has resulted in the official statement
of some simple facts. For one thing,
Mr.. Mellon makes it reasonably plain
that about the only thing the United
States could do Gin the premises" would
be to cancel or reduce the Allies debts
to this country. Although the Allies
have abandoned overt attempts to get
such concessions from the United States,
they do not seem to have given up the
notion that they could gain their OBJ
cct if they could draw this country into
the reparations middle.
America will have to wait. Mr.. Mellon
indicates, until the Allies get enough OF
quarreling among themselves. He does
not say that they could not meet their
obligations If they SO desired; he says.
in substance. that they cannot pay their
bills until the reparations dispute is
settled. This might easily be interpreted
as implying that the Allies are dissi-
pating their resources. If they are not
doing that. then MANY an unbiased OBJ.
server has lost the ability to draw ac-
curate conclusions from concrete devcl-
Opments.
If the French, for example, would
devote TO the payment of their debts
the vast sums they are spending cpon
their army, their need for reparations
would be greatly reduced. French states
men continue to talk about integrity,
but it is difficult for other nations to
accept at par such professions i'll the
face Of Frances avowed plans FOR mill
tary expansion.
How the Allies extricate themselves
from the dilemma of their own making.
or whether they do. is their concern,
not ours. If they should decide to de-
clare themselves bankrupt, that, too, is
their business. They have incurred GER
tain obligations; they incurred Them
when their very existence was at stake
They cannot truthfully, or even plau-
sibly say that their present troubles are
due in any measure to any fault of the
United States. The final test OF their
integrity will be whether thew keep
the pledge they made in the hour of
dire need
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furore in small town. in fact great
deal more. 1t would cause near riot
But likewise too, the other babies in
New York, that is most of them, would
not be compelled to live under such
conditions. The small town sentiment
would not tolerate it.
But big city is always superficial.
1t will fly into action over something
that appeals to its Imagination or that
catches its fancy and ignore other condi-
tons just as serious and far wider reach
ing. Just now New York is seeking
a kidnapped baby ard plying dis
traught mother. 1t hasn't any time for
the miserable little waits that throng its
slums.
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CHAPTER ri.
MIR. Peter Cams.

Mark BrendOn received with ming
led emotions the long letter froI
Jenny Doria. 1t awaited him at New
Scotland Yard ard, as he took it from
the rack, his heart leaped before the
well-remembered handwriting.
She reminded BrendOn of his good
will and declared how personally she
should welcome him sand feel safer
and more sanguine for his companion
ship. She also contrived to let him
know that she was not particularly
happy. =
Brend0n sought the famous Amer
lean and found his direction without
difficulty. He had already visited New
Scotland Yard. where he numbered
several acquaintance. and Mark
learned that he was stopping at thu
] Grand Hotel in Trafalgar Square. Ol
| sending in his name n messenger boy
babe Brendon follow to the smoking
| room.
His first glance, however, failed to
| indicate the great man. The smOk-
| ing room was nearly empty on this
June morning, and Mark observed no
| body but g young soldier, writing let
tcrs, and a white-haired, somewhat
corpulent gentleman sitting with his
back to the light reading the Times.
He was clean shaved, with heavy
face modelled to suggest rhinocerOs.
The features were large; the nose
swollen and little veined with pur-
pie. the eyes hidden behind Owl-likc
spcctacles with tortoise she'll rims and
the brow very broad. but not high.
From il abundant white hair was
brushed straight back.
Brendon extended his glance else
where, but the messenger stopped,
turned and departed. while the stout
man rose. revealing massive frame,
wide shoulders, and sturdy legs.
"Glad to meet you, Mr.. BrendOn.
he said in genial voice; then he
shook hands. took off his spectacles,
and sat down again.
This is pleasure 1 had meant to
give myself before quilted the city,"
declared the big man. I've heard
about you and I've taken off my hat
to you more than once during the
war. You might know me, too"
Everybody in our business knows
YOU. Mr.. Cams. But I've not come
MISUNDERSTANDING to waste your time.
I'm proud you're pleased to see me
and it's a great privilege to meet
YOU: but I've looked in this mornin""
about something that won't wait: ana
your name is the big noise in a let
ter l received from Italy today.
The elder stared, took a golden box
out Of his .waistcOat pocket. opened
it. tapped it. and helped himself to a
pinch of snuff. The habit explained
his somewhat misshapen nose. Ii
was tobacco, not alcohol. that lent its
exaggerated luster and hypertrophied
| outline to that organ.
Brendon produced Jenny's letter.
Peter put on his spectacles and
read slowly. Indeed Mark had never
seen a letter read 50 slowly before.
At last the American spoke.
what about you? Can you go!'
"Yes: I've appealed to my chief
and got permission to pick this mn
again. My holidays due and | will
90 to Italy instead of Scotland. l was
in it from the first. you know"
AZ 90 know know all about 1t.
from my old pal, Albert Redmayne.
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~. co'|KteHV ITS< TINE NEWMAN COMPANY
RsltAstp eS heA SERVICE iAe.. Aassrhtr. Nswse 5vs

I equal measure of surprise and delight
Signor Poggi, small, fat man with
bald head. broad brow, and twink
ling eyes, grasped their hands AMI
listened with wonder to the reason for
their arrival.
At o'clock next morning Mr.. Red
mayne and Jenny were rowed home
again, only to hear that no intrude,
had broken upon the nightly peace OF
Villa Pianezzo. Nor did the day bring
any news. Once more they repaired to
Bellagi0 before dark, and for three
days lived thus. Then there came a
telegram from Turin TO say that Doria
was returning Immediately TO Como
and might soon be expected via Milan !;
while on the morning that actually
brought him to MenaggiO, his wife re.
ceived brief letter from Mark BreE.
don. He had found Mr.. Cams and
the two would set forth for Italy
within few days.
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Mr.. MELONS REPORT

Secretary Mellon, recently returned
from Europe, says that Americas Euro
pean debtors are in no condition TO pay
their bills just now, and that there is
and has been nothing that this country
could do to improve the situation. There
fore, he concludes, it would be useless.
and perhaps unwise, for the United
States to press its claims "at. this time -
Some people may think that Mr.. Mel
Ion might better have been employed
at home. Didn't he, as head OF the
Treasury Department, know beforehand
the basic facts which make UP his re.
port? OF course he did. Then why
did he take that 3000-mile trip to dis
cover the obvious?
Probably it was partly because some
Americans had not been satisfied will
reports from other sources. In way
such people are not to be Llamed, a
there has been no little propagand;
afloat in this country. Many attempt
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-24
Pungent Paragraphs

"What n Grass Widow Knows" is
the name of n new book. 1t ought to
be the seasons best teller.-Toledo
Blade.
A taxi driver friend of ours de-
olarcs that when the woman on the
back seat says Stop" she is seldom
talking to the Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel.
Londons popular game now is
guessing mt the number of leaves on
pineapple. Pingpong held sway for
while. but got too strenuOus.-The
New Orleans Times-Pieayune.
"Ex-Soldier. Amnesia Victim, For,
gets He Is Married and Webs An
other" gasps headline. And our
Old Maid says all the married women
who believe, that yarn will please
stand on their head for fifteen min
utes Petersburg Progress.
1t is a pleasant thing at early dawn
to go forth into the open and to hear
the young tractor whinny with JOY
Mt sight of the oil can.-Lafayette
Journal Courier.
We read that they are filming the
Ten Commandments in Hollywood.
We. didn't suppose they knew but two
or three of them.-Delaware, OKLA,
News.
The flapper looks into the mirror,
shakes her bobbed head, smears on n
little more paint and says: well.
clothes. I'm going down town. If
YOU want to come along-hang on. =
The Yates Center. Kansas, News.
Man is too often n slave. according
TO a local pastor, and, likewise and
to the contrary. some of them don't
ever get MISUNDERSTANDING Banner,
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He wrote me the most lucid dispatcl
that ever l read"
"You can 20, Mr.. Ganns?"
"Brendon, said Mr.. Cams, "rur
round and find when the night boat
sails from. Dover or FOlkstone. Wei
reach Paris tomorrow morning,
guess, catch the Rapidc for Milan
and be at the Lakes next day. You!
find we can do so. Then telegraph
to this dame that we start a weeE
hence. You take me?"
"You want to get there before we're
expected?"
Exactly" :,
He took another pinch of snuff
and picked up the Times. will you
lunch with me here in the grill room
at . o'clock"
with pleasure. Mr.. Ganns.'
Some hours later they met again
and over n steak and green peas Bren-
don reported that the boat train left
Victoria at IL and that the Rapldc
would start from Paris on the follow
ing morning at half-past O.
ave reach Vevano some time after
noon next day." he said. "and can
either 20 on to Milan ana then come
back to Como and travel by boat to
Menaggio. where Mr.. Redmayne lives.
or else leave the train at Bevano, take
steamer on Magiore. cross to Lugano.
and cross again to Como. That way
we land right at Menaggio. There's
not much in it for time"
GWe'll go that way, then, and I'll
see the Lakes"
Peter Cams spoke little while he
partook of light meal. He enjoyed
the spectacle of Brendon's hearty ap-
petite and bewailed his inability to
Join him in red meat and a pint OF
Burton.
They entered the smoking room
presently and then Brendon, very
much to his surprise. heard an as
tonishing lecture which left him under
the emotions of a fourth-form school
boy after an interview with his head
master.
Mr.. Cams ordered coffee. took
snuff. and babe Mark listen and not
CONTINUED in Our Next Issue.)
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ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEF

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure l rest upon the wave,
For thou. Lord hast power to save.
/ know thou wilt not slight my call,
For Thou dost mark the sparrow's fall;
And calm and peaceful shall L sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.
When in the dead Of night / lie
And gaze upon the trackless sky,
The star-bespangled heavenly scroll,
The boundless waters as they ROLL
i feel thy wondrous power to save
From perils of the stormy wave;
Rocked in the cradle of the deep,
/ calmly and soundly sleep.
Aud such the trust that still were mine,
Though stormy winds swept DER the brine,
Or through the tempest's fiery breath
Reused me from sleep to wreck and death.
In ocean cave, still with Thee
The germ of immortality.
And calm. and peaceful ] sleep,
Rocked ia the cradle of the deep.
Emma art Willard.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-24
Poets Corner
THE GIFT OF THE BREEzEs.

More precious than the treasure
OF Golconda famed of old
Are the gifts the zephyrs bear me
AS their mysteries unfold:
For n wondrous Transformation
Makes the earth paradise.
And the magic wand that touches it
Rides on the breezes' signs.
When they pass. all things of nature
Pause moment to commune.
And then in sweetest symphony
They set the world atunc
With the story, sweetest story
That can touch the listening ear
In an echo of the breezes.
And tits this, II love you. dear"
Though the breezes do not tell me
Whence come the gladstone words.
Still L know. for on my heart-strings
They sound the answering chords
Like some fair, celestial music
Far removed from world of man.
And the distance unto Heaven
Then becomes narrow span:
For they touch the earth to glory
And the joy of life enhance
AS they tell the old, old story
That can make the pulses dance
With the sweetest throbbing music
That the yearning heart can bear
When it beats in answering measure
To the words, II love you, dear"
So l gather up my treasure
From the breezes' gentle Groom
And / clasp it while my heart-strings
Beat forth their answering tune
To message that hath power
To transform the sea and land
With a glorious, heavenly radiance,
by loves magic hand.
Precious words! God must have sent
you
Down the earth, lest We forget.
That fairer, dearer region
Ever known to mortals yet
Waits our coming. for foretaste
Makes one feel that it is near
When the heart returns it's answer
To the words, 81 love you. dear"
NELLIE SUTLIFF.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-24
BABIES IN NEW YORK

All New York is hunting baby. The
baby was kidnapped from a baby car
riage probably by some half-demented
woman and the frantic parents have
suddenly emerged from obscurity into
the limelight of publicity. The mother
of the missing infant has been wander
ing the streets seeking her child The
father has waited for weary days be-
side the empty go-cart on the sidewalk
hoping against hope that the kidnaper
would bring the baby back. Meanwhile
the big city has joined in the search
until almost everybody is an amateur
sleuth. All of which indicates some
thing of the mental makeup of the
average city dwellcr. This babys case
has no unusual features except for the
manner Of its kidnapping. 1t is Just an
ordinary baby from commonplace par
ents suddenly snatched from its baby
carriage and whisked away to become
mystery in big city. The reporters
got the story. The newspapers gave
the story to the public and the public,
aroused by the unusual settings, in
Mysteries. The lost baby became the
topic of conversation on tramcars-. and
in cabarets. 1t crowded out stocks and
bonds, fall millinery and the latest song
hits. For day or so, New York gave
itself over to worrying about one little
mite Of humanity snatched from a baby
buggy on a busy thoroughfare New
York was all sympathy, all eagerness
to help. 3d.:
But what is one baby in New York?
The big city is full of babies Thu East
Side teens with babies. babies born in
slums and poverty, babies wan and
pale, babies that die every day, babies
that play in the midst of traffic in con-
slant danger of being killed, babies that
pobody would notice, much less -kidnap
There are lots of babies in New York
City and in every city, that never get
into the limelight. There are babies, al
least in years, who peddle newspapers
under the street lights at night, tired
worn little fellows who hang about the
entrances to lobster palaces and hotels,
seeking living
sions, some of them at least who are
little prisoners of convention, surrounded
by wealth but cut off from childhood
But to these babies New York gives new.
CT thought or if so, but half-hearted
sigh that such things are and must be
And the big city is never in moro
; striking contrast to the small town thar
in this very particular. There are ne
slums in the small town. There is otter
: poverty and not infrequently want bu
there is always an abundance of kindly
human sympathy and material aid. Th
small town has its poor too but a baby
is baby in small town, entitled t
=, its rightful place in the community ant
S accorded a place by somebody's fireside
4 A tragedy such as the New York kid
5 naping case would create just as nue.
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A WIZARDS VISION

Charles L. StelnmetZ, electrical wizard
visualizes the future in rosy hucs for
men who live by the sweat of their brow
The new era which he foresees will be
such, he says, that every man will be
able, from the economic standpoint, to
take five months vacation each year,
and that a five-hour day will be suffi-
cient for the worlds necessary work.
This is not new forecast. A year or
so ago Mr.. Steinmetz outlined substan-
tally the same possibilities. Since then,
however, some large industrial corpora
tons have adopted the eight-hour day,
and the results have been such as to
make the prospect described by the great
electrical genius seem less chimerical
than it did when he first pictured it.
And doubtless electric power has been
an important factor in the achievement
of such corporations, enabling their work
ers, to produce as much in eight hours
of labor as they had formerly produced
in ten or twelve.
However. the prophecy made by Mr..
Steinmetz should probably not be &C
ccpted literally. 1t might possibly be
fulfilled even now so far as some work.
ers are concerned. There are workers,
and then there are men who belong to
that class largely because they draw
wages. If it were possible for energetic,
efficient men to do all necessary work
in one hour, there would always be less
reliable AM capable men to be rcckoned
with
Apparently Mr.. Steinmetz did not in
tend for his remarks to be construed
literally. Certainly he did not intend to
create the impression that, under the
near-ideal conditions he visualizes. work
ers should 'loaf" during their five
months vacation. Their leisure time.
he said would be occupied in productive
diversions Satisfying the particular in
stincts of the individual" This implies
that many people are regularly engaged,
as a matter of necessity, in work which
does rot particularly appeal to them.
That is quite true. The proverbial
Square pegs in round holes constitute
problem everywhere. There are
many people who. if afforded an
opportunity, would bring their genius
to bear upon enterprises that are nor
mallv beyond their reach. These are the
people to whom a shorter working day
would be boon. Many of the worlds
greatest inventions have, been produced
by men whose regular" work lay in
other fields. Eli Whitney, school
teacher, invented the cotton gin. Ben
iamin Franklin, printer, drew electricity
from the clouds. And so on. Both
Whitney and Franklin had leisure time
in which to exercise their talents.
The time may never come when all
the worlds necessaries can be produced
in four-hour working day. with five
months vacation for each laborer. But
whatever progress is made toward that
idcal-and certainly electric power has
already brought much progress of that
kind-stould be regarded as distinctly
worth while.
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Where to Go
Motion Pictures.

Motion Pictures. ...,
paIace-"Scars of Jealousy"
Empire-'Hollywood."
Princess-'Human Wreckage."
Royal-Alice Brady in "Anna As
cends."
Rialto--Lewis Stone in The Golden
Snare"
Musical Comedy.
Grand-Jimmie "Slats"- Allard in
"Oh What Night"
Baseball
League Partisan Antonio VS..
Wichita Falls; game called at 4.
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Daily only average. .2734e
Sunday only average. -. .S6l5S
The above totals and for paid cir
culston exclusive Of all spoiled copies and any free
copies Of any nature.
We hereby swear that the foregoing statement Of
paid circulation is correct.
II. c. BROWN.
Circulation Manager.
c. l.. BUCHANAN,
Business Manager.
sworn and subscribed before me this End day Of
August A D., 1898.
FRED J. BONNER JR
Notary Public
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Champagne was seized following a
dinner given by the Fren h general
Gourauj to prominent Americans. That's
what comes OF allowing champagne to
wait until after dinner.
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A Puzzle a Day

Two captains were discussing the
relative sizes of their companies. One
said, "One-sixth Of my men are away
ON leave, II are in the hospital, seven
are detailed on special duty, and l
have 81 here on duty" The other re-
piled, any company is larger than
yours, for / have ~ men in my COM
mand." What was the difference III
numbers of the two companies?
Voe<ordaysc oucuor.
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When the IL squares of the cross
are, filled with the numbers 1 to L.,
inclusive, in the manner shown. the
Requirements are fulfilled. Each
horizontal row, Xxx, and each vertical
row Wy totals 26.. The four center
squares add up to &c; and the four
squares marked "y' each total PC.
Another possible arrangement is
ne follows
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England and France are engaged in
a note writing contest. When, oh when
will this Marathon craze cease?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-24

A man with a blue ska has been
found in New Orleans. Well things arc
bad enough these days to make anyone
blue.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-24

Probably the most worthless thing in
the world is counterfeit German mark.
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The Associated Press exclusively entitled to th1
Csc for publication of all dispatches credited
OF not otherwise credited in this paper and also that
loca news published herein. All rights OF repuhIica.
zion OF special disnatches herein rnserrnd
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JULY CIRCULATION

The paid circulation OF The San Antonio LIGHT
curing the month OF July 1923. day by day was as
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Yesterdays answer:
The Indianapolis times., 1923-10-05

The nineteen entrants have been
striving at Dunn Field two days and
the competition ended today with
game with the Bauer Meats of
Cleveland, champs in Glass A Of the
National Baseball Federation. The
individual winner will get a trip to
the worlds series at the expense Of
the NEA Service.
A banquet will be held this evening
and the climax to the affair will be
the announcement Of the national
winner. The judges in the tourney
are Big League scouts.
Besides the baseba8l the various
winners from the different cities have
been royalty entertained On Wednes-
Gay night they saw Keiths, featur-
ing Ethel Barrymore in a one-act
play. and Thursday night were guests
at the Stillman theater at movie
The Green Goddess featuring
George Arliss and Alice Joyce.
Todd Wilbur, the Indianapolis
Times contest winner, has been show
ing plenty of stuff, but he has the
very strongest of competition from
4 number of other entrants.
The Indianapolis times., 1923-10-05
On Big Ten Grid Fronts

IOWA CITY, Iowa--Coach Jones
allowed his team a nights respite
from scrimmage Thursday as he per
fected plays behind closed gates.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Forward pass
ing proved the best ground gamer
foi Michigan Thursday in scrimmage
against the freshmen.
COLUMBUS, Ohio-State gridders
were given a long signal drill Thurs
day night. Frequent changes were
made in the lineup.
CHICAGO-Expectin the Colorado
Aggies to fill the air with passes, Sat-
urday, Coach Stagg drilled his eleven
OH defense Thursday.
EVANSTON-The team that will
oppose Beloit was practically CHOSEN
Thursday when the same eleven men
that played In the last scrimmage
were put through signal drill.
URBANA-Aerial work was given
the Orange and Blue team Thursday.
Only light signal practice will be held
tonight on the eve of the Nebraska
game.
BLOOMINGTON Ind. - Indiana
again was forced to forego scrimmags