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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25

universities, particularly within the last
few years, have become foot-heavy, sc
to speak, the student body manifestins
a greater interest in athletics than in
scholarship. Some educators have
seemed to regard this condition as more
undesirable than its opposite--the con-
dition of top-heaviness, as it were, AS
a matter of common sense, eitheA ex-
IRENE is unwholesome.
1t is for finding a happy medium that
Notre Dame deserves a distinction no
less than that which it has gained by
defeating the Army and Princeton on
The gridiron When Notre Danes foot
ball schedule was announced, revealing
that it would play its hardest games in
two consecutive weeks, some fans
groaned aloud. How could Notre Dame
hope to prove match for Princeton,
last years champion, so soon after meet
ing the Army's heavy plungers?
How Notre Dame could. and did, win
two hard battles in succession. without
doing violence to its reputation for
scholarship, may be explained by a prac-
tice which seems to be peculiar to that
school. En- route to the battle grounds
the members of the Notre Dame team
applied themselves to studv-as usual.
They took along their books. and were
accompanied. by their instructors. Glasses
were held daily, likewise cas- usual"
Every member OF the team. it is re-
ported, made" his courses-and no
favoritism was displayed. '......'...
In this light it is no wonder that Notre
Dame, although nominally sectarian
school, draws we'll regardless of re-
Iigious convictions. 1t is reported that
so per cent of its students represent
denominations different from that in
whose name it was established.
Isn't Notre Danes apparent solution
Of the old college problem worthy of
by other schools?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
A CUE FOR COLLEGES

Colleges and universities that have
been unable to reconcile athletics and
scholarship in such degree as to attain
distinction in both might do we'll to
take a tip from Notre Dame. That
Notre Dame University has solved a
problem which has vexed many a pro-
fessor and athletic council is indicated
by an allusion in a news dispatch to
a peculiar practice which may have been
regarded by some football fans as irrcle-
want to the outstanding fact that the
school Won its gridiron battles with tie
Army and Princeton this year.
In order to appreciate the probable
significance OF that practice, one should
first consider the problem referred to-
If he ever attended "a college or uni
versity he will have only to open the
flood gates of memory to deluge his
mind with arguments concerning the
proper proportion between study and
play. There are.champicns-raostlv stu
dents-of the idea that a school which
does not go in for athletics on a large
scale, and to win, is no school at all
inasmuch as many students with athletic
proclivities choose the school they will
attend, there is a tendency toward prac,
teal confirmation of this appraisement
a university that discourages athletics
does not "draw" as we'll as one that
makes liberal provision for the popular
sports. If the greatness q a school i:
to be measured by the fumber of it.
students. then the non-athletic institu
ton gets the BOBBY prize.
On the other hand, many colleges anc
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
IF THE DREAM COMES TRUE.

The straw stack on the farm may
prove the solution for the increasing
shortage of gasoline. In Kansas. where
straw stacks grow in greater profus-
ion than elsewhere in this land, gov,
eminent chemists are conducting ex-
periments in the destructive distilla-
tion of wheat straw into fuel suitable
for heating. lighting and for driving
internal combustion engines. The proc.
ess hitherto used is too expensive TO
make the fuel commercially profitable.
but it is hoped to cheaper it so that
it may be produced rs cheaply as the
present price of gasoline. 1t has been
demonstrated. according to reports
given out. that one ton of straw will
produce 40 gallons of fuel. On the
basis of the estimate of this years
crop of straw there is enough in
Kansas alone to produce 45.000,000
gallons, and the Sunflower state is but
one in galaxy of states that grow
wheat in somewhat lesser quantities.
|. 1t is the dream of the chemists that
the day will dawn when the Kansas
farmer will have his own still to turn
his straw. now valueless. into fuel TO
drive his sedan. The straw stack pro-
vided the fodder for the yoke of oxen
the motive power of an earlier day.
In harmony with progress it is fitting
that it should feed the modern method
of Observation-Disclosures Commercial.
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UTTERLY HOPELESS

It is not so very long since a man
rushed into the office of THE LIGHT an
nouncing that he had come to inform
the editor of the existence of a good
thing" The" thing" was the purchase
of the German mark which was then
selling for about four cents in American
money. According to this friend it
would be only short time before the
mark would be back to its former place
in the worlds financial market. would
be redeemed at its full value and the
return on the investment would be IN
the neighborhood of six to one. The
good thing" was declined with the ex-
pressed belief that the mark would DROP
much further, although of course its
tumble into the abyss in which it now
abides was not then believed possible.
Today that mark can be purchased at
the rate of 56OOOO0O,OO0 for one dollar
Omitting the Russian rubles the total
amount of money in the world Ian /.
1922. was S170,275.716,000 With the
exception of the ruble and the mark the
amount OF issued lawful money is TODAY
probably not far from that figure.
This means that any person with $40
of American money can purchase the
German governments promise to Day
him in the future the unbelievable sum
of $4,000 100000 which is S5O,O0000O
900 more than all the money in the world
outside the mark and the ruble.
It is manifestly impossible that Ger
many can pay this between now and the
end of the world. There. is nothing
therefore, ahead of her but reputation
OF her enormous issue of paper money.
She can never redeem it. If she pos
sessed all the money in the world she
could never pay her money debts.
What the future of Germany will be
nobody can guess but her present finan-
cial condition is utterly hopeless.
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Pungent Paragraphs

More people prey than pray
Springfield Illinois State Journal.
| All the necessary ingredients of a
thlrd party are now at hand except
feed trough.-Rochester Times I'm
| ion.
Bodied hair may be all out of
style, but heNgirls' heads will still be
6obbing up serenely.-Philadelp
Bulletin.
If he sits and dreams and whites
ne Is loafer. If he omits the whit
ting he is foreman.-Indianapo
Star.
A physician says that the best
way to reduce is to eat apples. This
method reduced Adam very rapidly
Syracuse Herald.
Jud 'Tunkins says a "crisis" is one
of those occasions in which eyery-
body, thinks he knows what ought to
be done, but nobody seems able to
do it.-Washington Star.
Great wars of the future, SCENT
list declares, are to be fought with
ELECTRICITY. And every time you want
nice little war of your own all
You need do is press the BUTTON
Springfield Union.
The los Angeles Times declares
that woman is the greatest furbear-
ing animal of all times. Having
noted some women on a recent hot
and muggy day we pitied them much
as we pity the polar bears on parade
in mid-summer.-Lowell Leader.
The teachers are going to pretend
that they are glad to see the pupils
back, but the children generally are
more honest; beside. they are not
paid to put up a bluff.-Detroit Free
Press.
"What did you do, Sam, when big
Brudder lump called you a Harp"
We'll sah," replied small Brother
Stink, "as de gem'man am six feet
high an weighs mighty nigh a ton,
what could All do but move dat we
make it unanimous? "-Boston Trans
cript
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
TO JESSIEs DANCING FEET

How, as a spiders web is spun
With subtle grace and art,
Do thy light footsteps. every one
Cross and recross my heart
Now here. now there, and TO and fro,
Their winding maZes turn;
Thy fairy feet so lightly go
They seem the earth TO spurn.
Yet every step leaves there behind
A something in thy dance.
That serves TO tangle up my mind
And all my soul entrance.
How. as the web the spiders spin
And wanton brceZeS blow.
Thy soft and filmy laces in
A swirl around thee flow.
The cObweb meath thy chin that's crossed
Remains dcmurely put.
While those are ever whired and tossed
That show thy saucy foot;
That show the silver grayness Of
Thy stockings .siken sheen.
And mesh of snowy skirts above
The silver that is seen.
How. as the spder!<from his web,
bangles in light suspense,
DO thy sweet measures flow and ebb
Sway my enraptured sensei
Thy fluttcring lace. thy dainty airs,
Thy every charming pose
There are not more alluring snares
To bind me with than these.
Swing on Sway on With easy grace
Thy witching steps repeat
The love | dare MOTTO thy. face
] offer at thy FRET
William De Lancey Ellwanger
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Monica uttered a deep sigh of con

Monica uttered deep sigh of con
tentment.
II don't see that there's much io
bother about, then. You're bound to
get him."
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
used to think so-once. But that
was when l allowed myself to be car
ried away by youthful enthusiasm
There's something about Chai-Hung
that battles one at every turn. He's
a past master Of cunning, an enthus-
iastic student of every diobOlical crima
in existence, but, beyond all that, he's
gifted with an intuition-a sort of
second-sight, that borders on the super
natural"
Capt. John Hewitt swung into view
bare half hour after the fall of
darkness, and found his sister waiting
for him on the threshold.
Have you got it," she whispered.
The commissioner looked down at
her and smiled reprovingly.
Got what?"
She reached up on tip toe and
whispered something in his ear.
you've been hearing more state
secrets than are good for you," he
laughed. "Why do you ask"
She stood looking out into the
trOpic darkness.
CONTINUED in Our Next Issue.)
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SHOPLIFTING AND CRIME.

That psychology is nothing new i.
shown by shoplifting women, for thu
state of mind that impels many OF
them is not familiar avarice nor de,
sire to "get ahead" of someone, but
subtle and almost indefinable. There
is of course the common theft, and
refine as we may, the short ugly word
is the only one to apply to all who
take things that do not belong to them.
Yet one must pause for the mature
person who has the mind of child.
The. child who dreams dreams, who
lops the heads off flowers conceiving
that he is destroying his enemies, who
has fine time busted with his bits
of tinsel and round discs of colored
paper. is related to the woman whose
disordered mind secretly paints pic
lures of her wardrobe increased by
certain. treasures-appealing to her
feminine nature and fabulously beau
tiful as uncertain "finds" are which
cost us nothing. OF this treasure
trove there is no limit. In the an
ticipation, of possession and the fasci-
nation of the half-terror of detection,
the grown woman revels in her little
world of fancy, conscience Obscured.
1t is curious theory in the books
that conscience is less mordant in the
sex. There is good deal of the child
about many woman, and something
woefully pathetic as they 60 about
the streets or alone with their rou-
tine, imagination-that play house
left to comfort when much else Is
corresponding endless material to
divert and amuse. When the crime
is exposed and the rude hand of the.
law is laid on the offender in a public
place, it is more than the ancient
alarm "Thou art the woman" it Is
crashing of a wonderful fabric of fol-
ly. dream laid in shabby bits. souls
intimacies markedly exposed to the gap
ing croyd.-New Haven Journal Cou-
riar
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BETRAYING HIS COUNTRY

Turning against your own people in
the family or in the nation at large
is generally poor business. 1t may be
necessary at times, but generally speak
ing, the man who turns his back upon
his own folks unless under highly aggra-
waited conditions is making a mistake
1t is many fold a mistake when he
does this for money and money only
The chances are great that before he
dies his error will catch up with him
and take it out of his hide" in some
way or another.
Such being the facts, we have fears
for the welfare of certain British dis
tillers. They have turned their backs
upon their countrymen, left them flat
and they have done this for the sake
of money and for no other reason. This
too. when the British people have gener-
ously supported them for many years
and through their generous patronage,
made them rich.
These unprateful distillers have an
nouced to the British public that thew
intend to sell their whiskey where they
can get the most money for it and strange
to say, their high-priced market is the
United States OF America where we are
not supposed to either buy or possess
whiskey.
One of the most widely known and
consequently. one OF the best patronized
wMskey makers of Great Britain, has
run full page advertisements in NUM-
Der of British newspapers saving that
Great Britain can expect to have only
twenty-five per cent Of his product from
this time forth. He frankly admits that
ne is dealing this blow at the British
market because Americans will Dav him
more money. He puts his case as blunt
ly as this:
80 long as American and other ex-
port markets are willing to pay extra
for quality we must prefer to sell for
expectation"
Tactful, isn't he? Grateful too for
past favors and all that sort of thing !?
Britishers have a right to entertain a
grievance against that plain-speaking
Scotsman who so blandly tells them that
if they care to have any more of his
whiskey they must dig doeoer into their
pockets and raise as much money as the
American whose thirst so often outruns
his thrift and whose habit of life is to
pay pretty much of anything for any
thing that he cares to have. So long
as he gets it, the price is a secondary
consideration.
A far more tactful description of the
existing situation is given in a state
ment recently issued by His Majesty's
trade commissioner. who says:
Bermuda and the Bahamas are en-
joying exceptional prosperity at the
present time owing to their tourist traf-
fic and other resultants from proximity
to the United States"
There is the utterance of diplomat
The other fellow who says America
will get seventy-five per cent of my
whiskev bccause she will pay more than
you fellows at home" IS. Comparatively
speaking. cheap vulgar person. Some
day his countrymen will remember him
as one who deserted them in time
of need and cast his fortune with the
foreigner. The one fly in that particu-
lar jar of ointment is that his fortune
will probably be so large that he will
not care what his countrymen do.
We Americans appreciate his consid'
Grafton of us and, perforce applaud his
1
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AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY

| Among the many legal question
i (which should be unmistakably settled
lonce and for all, is whether the Govern
ment-state or nationals competen
to prosecute for alleged criminal acts t
which it has voluntarily. deliberately an
designedly made itself party as
means of working up case" Ever
now and then this issue arises in tn
trial of men accused of misdemeanor
or even of felonies.f
A few years ago the head of grea
detective agency made public speed
in San Antonio in which he described
with apparent pride, how he and hi
operatives, in the name of good govern
ment, had packed around rolls of cur
rency to bride whomsoever they could
The money would be 'offered to an in
tended victim; if he 'fell for it" he
would be nabbed and indicted for "ac-
cepting a bride" The famous deceive
glowed with dissatisfaction as he re-
called his clever exploits as bribery
tout.
A few days ago case of alleged
gaming" was tried in San Antonio
court. Witnesses for the state testified
that they had been sent here to get evil
dence for purposes of prosecution. How
had they fulfilled that mission? They
had gambled-that's what they had done
They had made themselves. and there
fore the state, which had employed them
tor this purpose, party to the very
violations of law that were alleged
against the defendants in the case.
Suppose certain citizens are suspected
of burning houses. or of committing
murders. Do peace officers go out and
propose little house-burning party, or
murderous expedition, and participate
in such enterprises if the suspects are
agreeable to the suggestion?
The jury in the San Antonio case re-
turned verdict of mot guilty" lust
how that decision was reached is a mat
ter into which it may not be proper to
inquire. Yet the layman cannot but
let his mind dwell upon the outstanding
fact that a part of the evidence pre-
sented to the jury was the statement
of the prosecuting witnesses that they,
as employees of the state. had actually
done, Jointly with the defendants, what
the defendants were being prosecuted
for. In short, they had helped the de-
PENDANTS to commit an act which the
state declared was violation of the law
There is in Texas federal Judge who
has the reputation of throwing out"
cases .sof alleged bootlegging in which
il. is shown that government operatives
PLAYED the role of "touts" soliciting vio-
lations and then filing charges against
those who ''fcll for their scheme. There
are other judges who accept any and all
evidence obtained by such means.
So, "the law" is most variable guam
tity. Is there any wonder that so many
people "take chance" on it?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
By EDMUND SNELL

Il. IL
nearly double before tne Ehglsh glrl
GOOD afternoon, Mrs. ihe!' no"
dyou do, Mr.. remington Is ms o., eA'
cellency the commissioner at nome :.
I'm AFRAID mes OUT MT Chai
Hung she said. ~ s
came IN by tne tram TINS aiter,
noon, he SAID, IN a rasping voice.
I came to suggest that httie more po'
lice vigilance might be exerted IN the
district IN winch my estate iles. AN
unpleasant incident occurred there last
night. Mr.. Ailison-an assistant on =
local pianIatloh--was tne victim Vi
what L beiieve you cali gahg-mur-
der;
remington Drain reeieu.
T TAlliSon ne gasped .o,,,,u
Inc oriental hodueu calmly.
" appears ne was the pea ;.r 1i u
considerable sum Oh money Win w tn;tln
70 pay, tne coelies' anu s.aHeu 'riiie
100 long at lrle1d punsaioM. s.;,u
Ihanks' , sald f Te, Oar . dfi,S'
Ill lnuch 3Diiseu; iueeI tnins'
Mr.. Ghal-hung, put "a always ways re- re-
gardeI your territory Tree tr9Gi .nis
sort OIL thing. l rather iahcieu IL was
because you were .nere Al.
r0r Iraction u secohu 'ne eyes
Oh Hhal,Hung llasneG llre'
Inc Cnlnahiah Prouuceu an eh'eiope
from ms tunlc pocket; a.
fernaps you woud pc KInd enou$
10 mana tnis 10 oaplain iie"itt: II
was io9hu near Tue scene VI the
Tragedy: -
af tate II that tbe crime was on
acted within reasonable distance of
your house, Mr.. Chai-Hung?
.onpie ASA 50. ,:.., /.
ana this-eiue WAS aisco'ereu W
one OIL your men!
NJ was Iound-Dy me.
,.,rn screwed up MS eyes.
l.. A !M iH,eressihs, ne saiu sui
~ wonuer II you coulu hlalase
10 pass .nls way asa ns,, say tonior'
roW morIiihs-apouI ~!
Cnal-Hnng shook ms mead Slowly.
III airaiu tnat "ou'u De utteri'
~,
Going away" inquired fennlns
ton casually.
Inc corners OF the Chinamans
mouth twitched.
Il may possibly be absent from
my residence-lor an INDEFINITE per-
100, ne announced ioltily. snail
be Obliged II you viii inform his ex,
reliency the commissioner that one OF
my secretaries VIII attend to any cor,
respondence he may think necessary:
he turned abruptly and made his
way toward the dusty road-a nun
1red yards below.
"Well?" demanded Monica eagerly, |
as SOON ne the Celestial and his bunch. |
oached sateillte were out OF ear-shot'
Pennington leaned back against the |
wooden rail.
ITS perfectly amazing" he ad
mitred. I'm dashed sorry for poor |
Allison, of course. but it's the main
issue that interests me at this mo-
ment. Look at the staff work. He
deliberately organizes tragedy al
most on his own door step, and calm |
Iy 8rranges things so that he will be |
thee first to bring the news to the
Then he presents us
with one of these delightful little SYM
bols, for all the world as if he'd never |
seen one in all his life before. Vel
Gods!" /
He slid finger under the flap Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
MORNING

Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could see il from the mountains
IL l were as tall as they?
Has it feet like water lilies?
Has it feathers like bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
OF which I've never heard?
Oh some scholar. oh some sailor.
oh some wise man from the skies,
Please to tell little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies.
EMILY DICKINSON
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Where to Go

Vaudeville.
Majestic: Big Time Vaudeville.
Motion Pictures.
Palace: Potash and Perlmutter."
Empire Gloria Swanson in ''Zaza."
Princess: "a Chapter in Her Life"
Rialto: Douglas MacLean in "A
Man of Action" and Katherine Mac
Donald in Money, Money, Money"
Stock.
Royal: Edna Park and Players in
Madame ""
Musical Comedy.
Grand: Bob Casey" Greer in "Un-
settled Weather.
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The President it is said is preparing
to engage in a campaign of strict law
enforcement in an effort to make the
Volstead act operative. Come on in, the
bootleg's fine
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e.. M
Sunday only sverage. 80. .s0.s77
The above totals and averages are for paid circr-
lstion. exclusive OF all spoiled copies and any free
ccries OF any nature.
We hereby swear that the foregoing statement OF
rs1d circulation is correct.
II. c. BROWN,
Circulation Manager.
c. L. BUCHANAN.
Business Manager.
Sworn and subscribed TO before me this End day
c. October, A. D.. 1928.
Notary Public.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25

A professor in the University of Wis
consin says there will be an intelligenc
test for marriage in the next ten or
fifteen years. All you fellows better
hurry.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25

President Coolidge's son is wearing a
pair of trousers of his dads, cut down
to fit him. What we need in the U. s. A.
are more of those kinds of sons-and
dads.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25

Smith, was reading in the paper
this morning about r Texas man who
was struck by lightning while he was
swearing. Remarkable occurrence. wasn't
It? Brown-Oh:. I don't know. II
lightning was to strike n Texas man
when he wasn't swearing. 1t would be
much more remarkable-Chicago News.
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we would dislike to have one OF our
people treat us in that manner. 1t is
always best to stand by your own under
all circumstances.
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A Puzzle a Dsy
NJ
OF equals MO

The first part of this question NAV
be interpreted to mean certain
word. After the word has been lis
covered. it will be found that tbs
second part, the MO may also he
read to represent the very same word.
What is the word!
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Luncheon Clubs.
fEridayl

Rotary Club at the st. Anthony.
Kiwanis Club at the Gunter.
Conopus Club at the Menger.
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Yes" said Miss Passeigh. II enjoy
the society of Mr.. Airyland. He keeps me
interested. He Is always saying some
thing that one never hears from any
body else" Realty rejoined Miss Cay
enne, has he been proposing to you,
too ?"-Washington Star.