San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-30
By JESSIE HENDERSON

copyIignt. b. The san Antonio Light.
New York, Sept. c9.-Jlst to prove
how co mopOlitan We are. the two
thi l5s that interested New Workers
most in the past few days were things
taking place outside New York. Where
ever two or three GothJmitcs were
gathered together OH street corners,
in office, or in theater lobby, GU heard
the words Ward case" o. Walton,
Oklahoma and the Ku Kirx.'
The Nu klux begins to be rathc-
interesting alsC, from local point
OF view. Now that the prcssmen's
strike HIS subsidized and the newspapers
are getting back TO normal, We lear.
with solie thrill that the ku Klux had
Kaukas and jubilation. right out in
the open on Long Island. Thare were
10000 people. 4O,OO0 of them being
klansmen, and all the kleagles.
kamelias and other khan fauna and
flora we've ficrily in evidence. Clergy
men arose ard denounced various
other faiths, and mayor and the COW
eTnor OF New York City 5nd state
were roasted 10 nice turn. and a
good tine scems to have Leon had BY
all.
The whole klalfest simply proves
what lot of brotherly lave and good
will is Topping around loose here
aboutg.
No Coal in Sigh.
Not nuc.l of this commodity. how
ever, is being scattered in the gen.
eral direction Cf the coal dealers.
There ere 100000 people In ROWE who
have put in orders for winter coal.
and whose orders are not within sight
Of being filled. This might seem
Strante. in view Of The fact that
plenty Jf coal is being shipped here if
it were not for the additional fact that
n lot of people suspect 10; Of coal
dealers Of plan to hold the coal
until temperatures go down ard prices
up.
Did you know that you actually
can't slap young girl, even at n NOV
ing picture show. and get away with
1t? y "Ouny man objected 10 the con-
tinuous applause arisii.s from the
young lady in front of him at an ex-
citing finn. lie told her 20 stol,. She
wouldn't stop and he .ha|1't slapped
her moe than five or six times be-
fore The thcatcr vas in an uproar,
two fights cere in progress. a stab
bing had occurred and tic police ar
rived.
NcT can yOu punish one Of your
children these days in this kind-hea
cd town without being in danger of
arrest. Hams Schramn lG,ked his
Ej-y"1r-old daughter in n small closet
and kept her there FOR ten clamor-
Gus minuoee. When they dragged the
father into court it developed that his
daughter hsd disappeared from home
two weeks ?go. that this was her sixth
runawav: that she was wanted by the
police SO that she could BE- landed over
TO the childrcn's rocicty and that for
a fortnight she had been wandering
the parks Ly day and sleeping in that
self-mada 'loset rt night. So the 20.
lice told Schr?mm 20 EXCISE it. please.
and let him 20.
Thugs job No Sinecure.
Being par"dt in New York City
is like hciHG landlord here. Every
ones hand il against you.
Its almost as bad 10 be thug. lime
was when % dup men were trcate.:
with the respect they deserved. Peo-
pie handed over watches and money
without resistance. badr the yeggs a
pleasant cad evaning-addressi
them as ''sir"-rnd scufticd off abort
their business. Tcday all is changed
Five thugs picked out th.cc n.or stand.
ing in front ( q ahon. fell IN them
with gfGff commands n1d rruffer
blows. and demanded casl. To the
utter horror Of the five. those three
mon fonghk lack. One in particular
assumed charge Of the ba lie, laid two