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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

Who's block from high prices?
Riebe Jewelry Store. 306 Main Ave.
--(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20
USED CARS Fer SALE

FORD TON TRUCK. LATE MODEL. IN
good running condition.; good rubber:
this truck ready to work. bargain
going al $3.50 cash or terms IL wanted.
CLIFTON GEORGE MOTOR co.
Crockett $50. 720 h. Houston
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20
AUTO Bus LINES
AUTO PAiNTING-TOPS


Ford Tops Recovered-Sl0
AUTO & CARRIAGE TOP CO.
Crockett 134. sos n. San Saba.
SPECIAL PRICES ON AUTO ToPs.
seat covers and painting during An
gust Anton Hannich Jr.. 1880 Victoria
St Mission 1885.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

Big Novelty Dance at West End
Lake Sunday night. White Rose
(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

Swastika fancy lump coal. Clean.
no dust or slate. Satisfactory. Ira
Perry Coal Co. Tr. 719I. Or. 323.
Tr. hG4-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20
LIVES rOCk
~~0-~N-N~-N------N~~~-N-
HAULING

cows. hulls or feed. c.
1888 or Woodlawn 1850.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

Get Hens and Fryers-ln raid on
coop ut the home of Raymond
Russell. 93l East Cincinnati avenue,
early Sunday morning. thieves stole
- Rhode Island Red hens and fryers.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

DIR. Scott App!ewhite has return
cd Adv
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

FORD ROADSTER WITH SLIP-oN
body. in excellent shape. new paint
and gooa rubber. 800 cash. terms $40
down, $3.50 per month.
CLIFTON GEORGE MOTOR CO.
Crockett $40 72O l.. Houston
1921 FORD ROADSTER, HASSLERS
and good top. See Nautis Motor Co,
s21 Avenue G for price and terms.
1928 BUICK FOUR-PASSENGEkC COUPE
that has not been run enough to loos-
en- the motor up Looks like new car
n real buy. Lindsey Through Motor Co.,
ia East Travis St Crockett 1895.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

Seagler VIII Speak.--R. T.. Scag-
Ter. speaker of the House of the
Texas Legislature. will address The
regular meeting of the Technical Club
of San Antonio at the Menger Tues
day noon. on "The Legislaiurc-An
Intimate Study"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-20

Ice cold melons at fee plant, Caro-
lima street and s. =. tracks, Adv
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin S. Cobb

An American tourist, while on a fishing
trip in Glengarry County, Ontario, happened
upon a decrepit spinning-wheel in the home
of venerable Scot. Priding himself upon
being somewhat of an antiquary, the Amer
lean fancied the wheel and asked the owner
to name his price. The old man slowly
filled and lighted his pipe while the visitor
waited expectantly.
I'm thenken'," said the Scot at length,
that you no ken yon auld bit O. junkie is
vera dear tae me. My gran mither, when
she was but lassie in Dumfermline, wur-
rked her bonny fingers nigh tae tn bone
tae buy it an when she lay deem she said
tae her eldest dochter, ma mither: 'Kirsty,
l wudna THOUGHT We shud ever part wi it. -
The tourist quickly contrite, apologiZed.
I'm no b1amin ye," went on the Glen
garrian. Its not for a stranger tae knaw
that every NIGHT [ have sat an smoked me
auld pipe VII ma eyes on tn wheel, thenk-
in O. ma mither bendin over it at wur-rk,
an her mither before her, till l see TIL
heather an tn hills like when I was a lad
die in Dumfermline. TIL auld wheel is as a
PART O myself an tae let it go wud be like
tearin my heart oot."
II repeat that [ am very, very, sorry"
said the thoroughly repentant Yankee. Had
known of these sacred associations I would
never have made the Offer.
"Ah, Weel, let it pass" said the old man
with sigh; "but after what I've been telln'
We, We can see | wudna be justified in lettin'
IL 90 LOT less imam SIX uOIlarS an a half.
On the day following the announcement
that the Ku Klux Khan intended to take over
Valparaiso university in Indiana, the sport
ing editor of one of the Chicago papers was
attending a ball game On the wire from the
office, the telegraph operator received a per-
sonal message directed to the sports expert
1t was from the exchange editor, a scholar
Iy old gentleman who had strange passion
for witnessing or reading about physical COM
bats, and it ran as follows:
Dear Mac: Ordinarily, I don't care for
football; it's too tame for my tastes. I pre-
fer prize-fights as you know. But before
somebody else beats me to it, want to file
my request that you save me a good seat for
the first game this fall between Valparaiso
and Holy Cross
Haunting the farmers in the western sec
ton of Kansas about the scarcity Of water
on their land has been commonly practiced
for years.
A party of autoists was passing through
this section of the country bound for the
Pacific Coast. One of the drivers, in need
of replenishment for his radiator, stopped
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
THE COUNTRY HOME

contracts, and no woman was privileged to
obtain, or sign, marriage contract who did
not swear she did the same of her own free
will and accord, and what would her 1nd1-
viduality amount to when the WHOLE family
moved from Maryland to Georgia, and then
he could sell it off ad libitum?
The woman of today can get along when
the husband does not complain or forbid her
from following an individual career for hes
self, but I'd wager a good deal as to whether
she did not pay dear for the privilege and
fight a continual battle to maintain the indi-
viduality, sO-called.
Next few words on early marriages, as a
hOme-making experience. | have seen too
many good mothers broken down in health
because of rapid child bearing to accept
this modern formula of getting better &C
quainted with her children by the early mar
riage.
[ was acquainted with a splendid wife and
devoted mother who had six living children
inside of eight years, and passed away at the
close of the eighth year. Those motherless
children did not get the opportunity to hs
reared with the loving care of their own
mother. There was no question as to her
complete acquaintance with her offspring,
but she soon became a stranger to the minds
of those motherless children after she was
sacrificed.
Why not face the sex question fairly?
Marriage that is worth the name, is a lifetime
partnership. If the contracting parties are
will recognize the rights of the other A
mother will bear her burden bravely, nine
times out of ten, if she holds respect for her
husband and vice versa.
The misfortune is there are bad people as
we'll as good people. No law can be made
to secure domestic felicity by force, nor by
the sheriff's hammer. The best that can be
done is to take the chances after a thor
ough understanding can be reached be-
tween the partners before marriage After
a failure, as in bankrupt courts, you may
be able to get what is left small in value
and badly damaged.
In my early days I read two famous Eng
fish novels. One was titled, "The Brave
Lady" the other, EAST Lynne" The latter
has been more than once dramatized. 1.-THE
Brave Lady" was we'll born, well raised and
OF purest character She had to deal with a
bad husband and later, bad sons. She was
faithful to the end, preserving her integrity
to the last.
EAST Lynne as you know, deals with an
unhappy wife, who followed her impulses
Nothing finer than these two books has ever
been written on the marriage problems The
seamy side is well portrayed, as well as the
other side. Mother Eve gets 'blessed out"
as rule, and Father Adam was more of a.
coward than hero. They have many de-
scendants-too many to count at this writ.
ing. 1t is what is inside folks that only
counts.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
Copyright, 1929

the violence of their stings: hornet, wasp,
honeybee and yellow jacket.
A. The sting of the hornet is most Vlolent.
More poison is injected into the wound tnan
in the case of the other insects. The yellow
Jacket wasp and honeybee follow in the
order named. Only the honeybee dies after
the act of singing. Death is not 1nstan-
taneous. but occurs within day or two.
@. What state is called the state of the
three C's, B. II.
A. Arizona is sometimes known as the
state of the three C's-Copper, Cotton, and
Cattle A fourth is frequently added for
o. Why do Paisley shawls have Oriental
patterns? M. j. A.
A. Paisley shawls are copies Of Persian or
Indian shaws. The Oriental shawls are
made, however, of Asiatic wool or camels
hair, while the Paisley shawls are made of
the fine native wool of Scotland.
O. What is the derivation Of the word
"yeoman?" D. 7. g
A. "Yeoman" is a later form OF the Mid
die English ''yoman" which was used to des-
ignate an attendant, especially one of a royal
or noble household.
@. How long was Paul Bevere's famous
ride? w. P. p.
A. The Massachusetts Historical societ5
says that the ride is estimated as having
been about ten miles.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean;
but much increase is by the strength of the
OK. In all Iabour there is profit, but the
talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and
hath nothing; but the soul of he diltigent
shall be made fat. The slothful man
roasteth not that which he took in hunting;
but the substance of the dilgent is pre-
cious. Wealth gotten by PANTY shall be
diminished, but he that gathereth by labour
shall increase. He that oppreSseth the
honoureth Him hath mercy on the poor.
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath
nothing; there is that maketh himself poor,
yet hath great riches-Proverbs.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
An Interference Fo71u

~ o sound an authority as DR.. Benjamin
Anderson, economist Of the Chase Ma
tional bank, describes protective tariffs
on wheat, corn, hogs and other agricultural
products of which we produce more than we
consume as worse than futile" Making
the statement in the course of recent ad-
dress before the Academy of Political
Science, in New York he proceeded with apt
instances of the truth. Since the exclusion
of Canadian grain by high import duties,
Minneapolis and other American milling
points have had heavy losses, while dairying
interests in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and other
regions have suffered from the absence of
the "cheap by-products of wheat" AS Can
ada raises little corn, canadian cattle do
not compete with American corn-fed cattle;
rather, they constitute raw material for our
cattle feeders. The tariff has prevented I'm
used ranges on the American side of the line
and unfed cattle on the Canadian side from
getting together, as the natural course of
world trade would dictate"
Herein lie the folly, the danger and the
damage of the Fordney-McCumber tariff act
That measure, by ignoring economic law in
a desire to aid special interests, has done
the country incalculable harm. 1t has in
jured, and continues to injure, not only the
rank and file of consumers, on whom it lays
tax burden of hundreds upon hundreds of
millions of dollars year, but also the farm
ers, whom it's promoters unctuousIy promised
to help. It has done worse than fail in that
pledge; it has actually deprived agricultural
interests in the West of business which they
would have secured and profits which they
would have earned, if the natural course of
international trade had been left undis-
turbed.
Well does DR.. Anderson declare that we
shall solve our own and the worlds prob
lens by no narrow policy, but by treating
them comprehensiveIy. 1.-The solution is to
be found in the restoration of sound money,
sound finances, open markets, and a liberal
internal trade plan, and then in letting pri-
vate enterprise alone to straighten things
out" If American business could teach
present American politics 1.-THE of this
truth, the country would be vast deal bet
ter off.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
CAUSES OF FAILURE
BY H. Addington Bruce

YYv HAT are the principal reasons for in
wv ability to get on in the world? AS
sistance in answering this question
specifically is provided by some figures from
large business firm.
The figures relate to the involuntary drop
ling from employment of men working for
this firm. OF about two hundred discharged
during a given period it appears that:
Thirty per cent were dropped because of
lack of industry"
Sixteen per cent failed to follow directions.
Twelve per cent found themselves obliged
to seek employment elsewhere because they
were conspcuously lacking in courtesy and
tact"
Eight per cent may have been courteous
enough, but they were devoid Of a sufficient
amount of "stick-toit-iveness" to Justify their
continued employment
Eight Ler cent lost out because they did not
have confidence holding qualities"
Add these together and you will find that
more than two-thrds of the discharges in the
period covered by the figures resulted from
faulty personal habits which, in most cases.
would never have been acquired had the early
training been what it should have been.
In some cases, it is unfortunately true, in
born defects of mentality and personality
make the winning Of business success an i'm
possibility. But the proportion of these cases
is very, very small.
To account for the remainder we need not
look beyond trainingfailure in the schools
and. still more, in the home.
Do parents make it rule, both by precept
and by example, to train their children to be
ambitious, amenable to instruction, courteous,
tactful, and persevering? The majority, 1t
may unhesitatngly be said, do not make this
the rule.
On the opposite, the influence in 1nnumer
able homes is distinctly in the direction OF
intoxicating the pleasure rather than the effort
principle of deadening ambition, of fostering
lack of consideration for Others of making
patience and thoroughness seem tedious abb
surdities
GAS the twig is bent so the tree 1ncllnes.
HaDDily observation shows, many worker
handicapped by training errors, discovers ere
it is too late that he must break old habits
and form new ones If he is to prosper. and
does succeed in re-making himself to his great
advantage
But there are those who never make this
discovery, or, if they make 1T, take 1t 1or
granted that they are "too old to learn new
tricks" and supinely continue in their failure
insuring ways.
Hence the safe course, the only sure course
is the course Of good habitformat1on IN YOUTH
Until parents in general appreciate THIS IL
NAV confidently be predicted that the world
If business will remain strewn with debris OF
human wreckage.
downright. 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
HEADLIGHTS

~ ESPITE the law providing a heavy pen
atty for driving with bright head
lights on public highways, the prac-
tice continues and a large number of the
accidents daily occurring can be traced to
this cause.
While the majority Of autoists endeayor
to obey, the law, there are many who pay
no attention to it and who force others to
disregard the regulation in self-defense.
Anyone driving with lights legally dimmed
on a dark street at night is compelled, when
meeting another car carrying binding
headlights, to turn on his own lights to
full power in order not to be completely
blinded.
On the other hand there is something
to be said for those who appear to be
violating the law. When the nights are
very dark and the autoist is not familiar
with the road, the rays from legally dim
med headlights are not powerful enough
to enable him to drive with safety. 1t is
for this reason that many people drive with
their lights full on.
1t seems, therefore, that these facts,
known to every automobile owner and driv-
err, should be taken into consideration by
the lawmakers, and that these gentlemen
will invoke the aid of some experienced
drivers to the end that the laws on the
subject of auto headlights may be made
safe and sane and practica be
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08

DO MARRIED WOMEN DIRECT THEIR
IIXES2

r asst Sunday, in prominent Georgia pa
| pers, were two articles on women their
0 status and their individuality, their at
| titude towards child-bearing and their in1u-
ence on the husbands, a help or a him
| drance, etc, etc, written by two of the high
| est-paid women writers in America, These
articles were we'll written and in manner
! illuminating, but I do not think they found
| the of the subject, even the cream
| on the top of the milk jar.
Women must retain their individuality
after they marry, said one. They must al
ways be themselves.
The other said young people, twenty or
whereabouts, find the best time to marry, be-
| cause with youth they grow up with their
children, thus securing closer acquaintance
with the juniors.
If I read or understood them Alright they
took it for granted that married women
should order their own every days lives,
and hold fast to the identical order. An old
body, nearly ninety, may have nothing to
bring forward wisdom on a subject so
important, but she has had observation and
experiences which will count for something
| am here to say early women had no more
liberty to direct or order their own lives
than the slaves they carried to the
home they lived in in Georgia until 1857,
when some legislator rose up to say, women
should be known as owners of the property
given her by her father after she married.
and such property could be transferred to
her children when she died.
But the movement remained only a move
ment, and not fact, until constitutional
convention met in Atlanta during 1868 and
made it certain that a woman could hold her
property in her own name and thus own it.
And then the men who were so unfortunate
as to have grasping creditors could put his
property in his wifes name" and could thus
hold it.
Less than eighty years ago a man could
sell his wifes belongings given her at mar
r1age and she could be thus brought to beg
gary, no matter how refined, cultivated and
luxurious her life had been at the time of
marriage. [ saw old will made in slavery
times, which assumed to give his wife, at his
death, only the property her parents had civ
en- her, and he called it my property" He
left the wife not a dollar of what he had
owned or gained by the use of her slaves
and the money she turned over to him at
marriage. That womans individuality was
Obliged to be nil. If she left him because
of cruelty or injustice she was not privileged
to own the clothes she wore at the time of
leaving, nor could she claim the slaves that
had been her marriage portion, nor even
claim her children that had been born to
such marriage.
The individuality feature was an 1mpossf-
bility. There were such things as marriage
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08
DREAMS
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

u UESSES, dreams, vague notions, fleeing
glimpses, and all such ghost-timber
are as valuable as clear and exact
ideas
All great deeds are made of this stuff The
mysterious cloud of misunderstood ideas
concentrates into the actual thing.
A poem of Tennyson was once but some
thing dim1y felt; he made it concrete.
The novelist makes his flesh-and-blood
characters out of fugitive visions that have
been peeping and lurking in his mind.
The bridge builder, the inventor, the trust
maker, the statesman and every doer in like
manner gives to airy nothings a local habi
tation and name" quite as much as does
the poet.
A mans greatness is tested by his power
to make something out of nothing, or out of
half or quarter something's.
One who can do this is a genius. He Is
the person who makes good"
All perfectly clear ideas are secondhand
We borrow them from others who have
formed them out of the formess Only that
idea is our own which we have moulded out
Of dream-stuff and guess-stuff into solid,
understandable thing.
Won Huegel, in his "Mystical Element IN
Religion" says, "Without much dim appfe-
hension, no clear PERCEPTION; nothing is more
certain than this"
So do not despite your dreams, your vague,
fitting visions half caught or gllmpsed as
they vanish. These may be the very best
the most real and original thoughts you
have.
1t is we'll to jot down these evanescent I'M
pressons when they come to you; put some
catch-word in your note book that Will re-
call them And then when you have leisure
for meditation, when you have an hour to
wait for a train, when time hangs heavy on
your hands for any cause, take out your
book Call to mind the fleeing impression
and try to develop it into something clear
and concrete.
The very best things in life come to us by
the way. They are not the things we plan
for and go after, but the things that come
over our shoulder and surprise us.
No one really believes in God unless he
believes that the universe has something bet
ter for us than anything we could Imagine.
! Give the universe a chance. Welcome the
things that come and do not pin all your
happiness upon the things you go after
Remember Wordsworth:
"Those obstinate Questioniugs
| Of Sense and outward things,
Falings from us, vanishings,
Blank misgivings of creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal nature
Did trembe like guilty thing surprised"
(COpyright, 1929