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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
SUPERSTITIONs OF LOVE.

The rose-strewn path that leads unto
the altar
With steps of superstition are truly
haunted:
And more thickly cluster as they near
the lovers goal
And enhance the feelings Of an inner
soul.
Herein lies charms of wooing and of
being wooed .t- .'.--- 0'i
And previous considered steps are
either lucky or tabooed.
These delicious doubtings and such
pleasing fears
Feed the flame Of love in advancing
years. {!
And add greater brightness to its halo
of romance
And particularize the time, thus avoid
ing any chance:
For if, in this crucial question, maid
accept the month of May,
Happiness is hers to be and she'll sure
ly rue the day.
But if for the greatest promise of nup-
tial bliss
You seek month that will bring forth
this,
Wear the bridal veil in October or in
June
And blithely enter the matrimonial
cartoon.
So if you are superStitious, get nup-
tial calendar first
As a landmark for your guidance, and
the time rehearse.
1t will show days of i'll omen and the
ones that promise most;
Tie the knot and then of your sue
cesses you can boast.
MRS. JOHN W. TAYLOR.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
AN ANSWERED PRAYER

I'm just a little flower,
Waiting for a shower
Of rain, or anything that's wet.
To make me grow, you bet.
/ have been so dry here lately,
That its made me awful shaky;
If l don't get some moisture soon,
l can't last another moon.
For weeks I've scarcely seen cloud,
Or heard it thunder very loud;
All l do both night and day,
Is wish for rain and hope and pray.
! can't see what harm I've done
To beast or bird or any one:
That / should witt and suffer too.
Both day and night, just as 1 do.
All, now I look into the west.
Its clouding up its very best
And lightning flashes through the sky,
Ill feel some moisture bye and bye.
Now its close, so very near.
The patter of raindrops, do I hear !;
M. at last I'm wet and dripping,
Isn't it great? I'll say its ripping.
SGT. W. r. GIBSON
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
AMBITION.

There's something else I'd like to be,
A man and something more.
Ny ambitions Id like TO realize,
Behind an office door.
So far I've always been content
To let the other fellow take,
The positions far above me,
which 1 thought l couldn't make.
Year by year I've just hung on,
While others have made their goal.
Now at last I'm wiseing up,
I'll play my little role.
In education I'm efficient
OF common sense I've got enough,
III work my way up to the top,
And show the world I've got the
stuff.
SGT. w. IT GIBSON
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
THE RISING GENERATION.

To the young men of America,
Rests the future of our nation.
Gradually it comes to you,
As the rising generation.
Slow but sure you fall in Line,
To do your fathers work,
So try TO do your very best,
And never try to shirk.
Some one must be bankers,
And some the soil must till,
No matter what your lot may be,
just do it with a will.
If sometimes you get discouraged,
And think it doesn't pays
Remember you're the rising generation
And pick your footsteps day by day
OF our nation and our people,
We are proud, immensely so,
Up the ladder always climbing,
You'll continue to go.
SGT. W. T. GIBSON.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
NEVER SATISFIED.

Sometimes l stop and wonder why,
The discomfort o. our race,
Just stop and look around you,
Read the signs on every face.
Of some we know, we realize,
That hey have cause to worry.
It's hand TO mouth from day to day
To live it makes them hurry.
There's some that should be happy,
With family home and cars,
And a moderate monthly income,
They're not satisfied, they seldom
are.
There are others who have millions,
Anything they want they buy.
True they should be satisfied.
But they're not, and Why?
The more you get the more you want
That's human nature, it must be.
But why a millionaire's not satisfied,
Is more thal. you and | can see.
SGT. W. T. GIBSON.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
The Poets Corner
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.

am Just a silver dollar,
With an eagle on my back.
Everybody seems to want me,
I'm very proud of that.
| am always, always moving,
From one person TO another.
Sometimes I'm dropped within a
Beside my silver brother.
The farmer likes to spend me,
For machinery, stock or TOOLS.
And occasionally sack of oats,
For his old gray team of mules.
The working man he spends me,
For groceries, shoes or clothes,
And other necessities of life,
Including his wife's silk hose.
Young men do not keep me long.
On their lady friends I'm spent,
For a matinee or flowers,
Or a service car to rent.
The women do not value me.
I'm only a dollar to spend.
They use me for most anything,
As if l weren't their friend.
The banker likes to get me,
And lock me in his vault,
As if at me he held n grudge,
And for his troubles l were at
fault.
So pass along from day to day,
I'm always getting wiser.
I'll keep on helping every one,
Until / meet a miser.
-SERGT. w. 7. GIBSON.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
JUDGMENT DAY.

Now that the war is ended,
It's easy to look back,
And wonder what we've mended
It's very little at that.
OF course we fully understand,
Our choice We could not take,
We were forced to take a hand
For our honor's sake.
But when we stop and realize,
The cost to this great nation,
In dollars and human lives,
It's beyond our Imagination.
It's very hard to place the blame
On any certain one.
But the hereafter knows the name,
And that he cannot shun.
SGT. w. L. GIBSON.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
KEEP ON SMILING.

When the weather's not so fair.
Why be grabbed as a bear?
Why the frown?
1t won't help you any more.
You'll just be called a bore.
Write that down.
When the weather's nice and sunny.
Then its easy to be funny.
Always gay.
Everything that's done is right,
When the sun is in our sight.
All the day.
When it's cold and dreary too,
And there's nothing else to do
Try to smile.
When the rain is pouring down,
And you think you ought to frown,
Smile all the while.
-SERGT. w. Il. GIBSON.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
THE BROKEN PINION.

i walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing;
And / found on a bed of MOSES
4 bird with broken wing.
i healed its wound and each morning
1t sang its old sweet strain
But the bird with the brokne pinion
Never scared as high again.
i found young life broken
by sins seductive art;
And touched with a Christlike pity,
| took him TO my heart
He lived with noble purpose
And struggled not in vain:
But the life that sin had stricken
Never scared as high again.
But the bird with the broken pinion
Kept another from the snare:
And the life that sin had stricken
Raised another from despair.
Each loss has its compensation,
There is healing for every pain.
But the bird with the broken pinion
Never scars as high again.
--Hezekiah Brtterwori
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

seller of food and the slayer of fools
for anybody who undertakes to make a
living by killing and robbing is fool.
Being grateful to the man who had per-
formed so great a service, the police
bought a medal of merit-gold was
highly appropriate-and notified the
grocer that it was his for the coming.
But the grocer would not come. He
would not step down to police head
quarters to be decorated for his heroic
act-not even when appraised of the flat
tering fact that His Honor the Mayor
was there to make the presentation.
Why not?
The slayer of bandits was too busy
not in killing bad men or in receiving
congratulations but in selling groceries.
He positively had no time to go col
lect the golden evidence of his service
to society. No, he was not opposed to
medals; he simply wasn't demoralized
by the public'S recognition of the fact
that he was hero. Yes, he would ac->
cept the medal if the police cared to
send it out to his place of business; he
might be there, or he might not; if he
should be, the chances were that the
medal-bearer would have to leave the
bit of gold at the order desk, or turn
il over 10 the boy who draws molasses
and vinegar and covers the drippings
with sawust to prevent tracking-up the
front of of the store.
So, motorcycle cop, leaving His
Honor the Mayor, the police commits
sioner and the police chief feeling bit
taken down, delivered the medal to the
busy grocer-and the incident was
closed.
Was this denouement an anti-cli-
max? In form, yes; for medals arc as
ISOLATED with flowery speeches and other
expressions OF formality. But in reality
In reality the grocer-on the assump- |
ton that he was not putting on"-dis- |
PLAYED an attitude that often goes with
Unborn heroism. There are men who,
though having an aversion to ostenta-
tious recognition OF meritorious conduct
on their part, nevertheless fail to evlnce
it because they have an equal or greater
aversion to the sort of conspicuousness
that comes from an apparent flouting OF
The two kinds of an
tipathy are similar; they may proceed
from exactly the same qualities of mind. |
If the Kansas City grocer was not
putting on" his failure to become eX-
cited, and to put on his Sunday raiment
and rush down to the police station to
be told how great he was, should not
be regarded as discreditable to him.
Rather should it be regarded as add
tional evidence in support of the belief
that the courage he displayed in facing
the bandits was inherent; that his hero
ism was not such in form only, but was
a thoroughly representative expression OF
his invariable nature. He had been a
cowboy on the Texas plains. Doubtless
he was accustomed to the performance
of courageous acts without being arti-
ficially rewarded. ...
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
NO DIFFERENCE IN LAWS

Prohibition Commissioner Haynes is
out in statement calling attention to
the fact that the Volstead law and the
eighteenth amendment are constantly
violated everywhere. In this statement
he is, of course, correct. He also de-
clares the never-ending violation of these
two laws issleading the public to disre-
gard other laws In this he is also cor
rect In conclusion, he calls upon the
people to obey the law in order that the
moral fiber of the nation be not de-
stroyed.
1t seems as though a person who has
been inoculated with prohibition virus
can thereafter see but in one direction
and behold in all the world but one OBJ
ject. That object is, necessarily, pro-
hibition and all that its name implies.
There is no particular sanctity attach
ing to the laws that have been passed
relative to prohibition. They have the
same standing in courts and before the
public as laws regarding the speeding of
automobiles or stealing bananas off
peddler's cart. They are no more or
less than other laws. All laws are en-
titled to respect and obedience but the
prohibition enactmentS have no stand
ing above any other law at any time or
under any consideration.
If Commissioner Haynes is so con-
cened over the non-observance of law,
why does he not take stand against
the repeated violations of law that are
perpetrated by prohibition officers every
where? Is disregard of the prohibition
law calculated to more deeply or more
surely undermine Our respect for all law
than is disregard of the law that de-
clares no mans house may be searched
without the production of a search war
rant properly obtained and issued by
competent authority? How many times
have prohibition officers broken that
law?
Is the law against prohibition entitled
to more respect than is the law pro-
hibiting the stoppage of peaceful citi
zens on public highways by men armed
with rifles and revolvers. How many
times have prohibition officers broken
that law?
Is the law against prohibition entitled
to more respect than the law that de-
clares that no legal search of an auto
mobile may be made after it has been
held up on the highway, unless after the
production of a.proper search warrant?
How many times have prohibition Of
ficers broken that law?
While the law against the production
and sale of alcoholic liquor has TIN
questionably been fractured a greater
number of times than have the laws re-
garding the safety and security of per-
sons and home, yet there is no doubt
that the greater number of laws have
been broken in the interest of prohbi-
ton. The total number of violators is
not far from equal.
If Commissioner Haynes is concerned
over the laxity of law observance let
him come into court with clean hands
Prohibition officers are not above the
law. They have no more right to enter
house without search warrant than
the owner Of that house has to distill
alcoholic liquor. a law is law and a
lawbreaker is a lawbreaker. 1t is the
act of breaking law that lowers the
moral tone of community. 1t makes
I,ffo-n,~o III, h. II, IL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
MEDALS AND MEN

A Kansas City grocer had killed two
men. But his act was not an offense
against society or society's laws. 1t
~-es in defense Of the peace and dignity
Of the state, to say nothing of the lives
Of law-abiding citizens. For they were
bold, bad men that this grocer slew.
They had given the police of Kansas
City 70 end of trouble Therefore the
Kansas City police in particular, and So
ciety in general, were indebted to the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
TOO LATE TO PLEAD MORALS"

In vetoing the Pope bill, which under
took to abrogate the Textbook Commits
sion's new contract awards, Governor
Neff exercised his legal knowledge right
exhaustively-if not exhaustingly. All
that it would have been necessary for
him to say "in the premises was that
the Legislature, in passing the Pope
measure, was attempting to violate one
of its own laws-the law OF contracts, or
rather one of the many laws on that
subject. But the governor pursued his
premise long after the conclusion aimed
at had become plain. He wasted many
words on the obvious-that is, it is OBJ
vious if the Textbook Commission has
final, supreme authority TO make con-
tracts, and spend the peoples money,
as it may see fit. If the governor men
toned this phase of the question press
summaries of his avowcd reasons for
vetoing the measure fail to say so.
His over-exercise of his legal .nowl-
edge, considered in conjunction with the
fact that he had part in the enterprise
which the Legislature condemned, sug-
gests the possibility that he was glad Of
the opportunity to confirm the contracts
by using his constitutional prerogative.
In other words, he was not an entirely
distinterested judge OF the proceeding
and this fact affords relevant retort to
one of his professed reasons for vetoing
the bill. --
"rhe courts" he is quoted as saying,
'are the proper forces to determine the
legality of contracts, not the Legisla-
ture"
True enough. But the governor, in
the over-exercise OF his legal knowledge,
invoked the matter of morals. It is not
only unlawful, but wrong, he said, ito
cancel a contract when neither fraud,
collision nor improper influence is al
legged" True again. But the governor
himself was known to be in favor Of
making the new contract awards, in
volving the expenditure Of about $1,000
900 more than the extension Of the old
contracts would have cost, long before
the controversy over the deal Tor the
more expensive books arose. In short,
the governor himself was, in effect, 4
party to that controversy-on the side
of the Textbook Commission
Was he, under such circumstances, a
proper authority to decide the issue from
the standpoint of morals?
Although Governor Neff may have
taken the right course in vetoing the
Pope bill, his fidelity to law-and, if he
pleases, to morals" as well-cannot save
him from whatever charge of disservice
the taxpayer may entertain against him
on account of his previous approval Of
the extravagant contrasts. The time for
him to invoke morals" was when the
proposal to spend $1,OOO,0OO of the peo-
pies money, against the advice of the
superintendent of public instruction, was
first made. If it does violence to good
morals to abrogate contract which,
though not facilitated by fraud, collu-
sion or improper influence, then what
is to be said about the reckless vicarious
expenditure of the money of people who
are already over-taxed?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
What Do You Know About That?

Il What Do You Know About That?
and accepting returns on Easter hats which approval
and failed to meet
MANY WHO WERE OF THE the of Flowers
was the main drawing card of the annual Fiesta San JantO
when they received booklet shows appearing
the MAJOR attraction for ten consecutive years"
laid off for a week the column my
scnts puzzle of its and will
tons accompanied by suitable
to go to picture show He
wants to attend at the Princess To which show they go?"
popular and in such general use the
Public Service reports noticeable increase in electric light
cep The radio fans seldom seek the midnight
BANK TELLER EXPLAINS WHY the pens on the counters for
of always the points
the equipped with
before the bank closes for the day.
INFLUENZA ATTACKS BRAIN WOMAN necessarily
chronic bachelor the of the afternoon telling hearing
that there neither indication of disease in that
conner in his employ walk down King William street for
architecture He the houses wider field
on any other street in the city.
ROYCE, COMMANDER of Field, an
@ Of conditions but when he real thrill he dends
and takes a ride on his motorcycle.
shaking smiling Suddenly
h voice from the edge of the crowd Murray fer Jawn Go son.
McGraw 1878.
THE SAN ANTONIO BASEBALL TEAM a triple play a
Friday Saturday telephone
editor of triple plays If they don't become
fail agenting when they
Ink n n15 P1fsT no R Ss n %DS T mE
school teachers but Louis B police sergeant still treasures composition
he wrote 80 while student at St Marys.
VOLUNTEER ~wATcHMEN" of MOTOR CARS reap quite harvest
parking space the tribute
in personally a
to justify his job
THE POLICE REPORTER -
defending the haess victims of
police zeal
PIECE OF HEAVY BINDING porch
es of adjacent officers Argonn
as barometer
fair weather. Of the officers
know it has shrunk due
dampne atmosphere bad weather
ONE EXAMPLE OF AN .oPTnIIsT
$079 pound recorded
dispatches days
HERE ARE obtained from library Of
in Washington pntran
phoprogenven anthropeph
genaan a off and look their meanings
I'M NoMINATEs FOR club "the bOzO who took
his long ones eff any time during Marcht year.
WITH SUPREME CONFIDENCE marksmanhp watch
Commerce street used an an
off their roosn place the tops of valuable CLOCKS
Friday The birds had flown into the door OF the place anu
shelf display of clocks The matchmaker killed a
birds hit a clock.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

3 The above totals and averages for paid cir
cuatIon exclusive all spoiled copies, and any free
copies OF any nature
We hereby swear that the foregoing statement OF
- II. c. BROWN,
Circulation Manager.
c. J.. BUCHANAN,
Business Manager.
sworn to and subscribed before this 3rd day
OF March. A. u. 1925.
(Seal) F. V WHITE.
Notary Public.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

THE MILLINERY STORES big business Monday exchanging
failed o
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

NJ NJ. NOMINATES FOR THE SAFETY last club "the boz
his long ones eff any time during March this year."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

MANY WHO WERE OF THE OPINION Flowers
the main drawing card the
when they received booklet shows appearing
the MAJOR attraction for
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
WITH SUPREME CONFIDENCE IN

WITH SUPREME CONFIDENCE HIS marksnanshp watch
Commerce street used an aun
shoot valuable clocks
the door of the place and
display of clocks The matchmaker killed a
birds nd a clock.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

HERE ARE FIVE OF THE longest words obtalned
information in Washington d. c. Observation-Disclosures
substanationis dsproportionabeness phopogenveness
genaran Take rainy afternoon off and look up their
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
FEBRUARY CIRCULATION

The paid circulation Of The San Antonio Light
during the month Of February 1923 day by day was
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
THE POLICE REPORTER HAS FOUND one reason VIII

FUUlND redsUH
after He asserts that police court lawyers
rich harvest time by defending the hapess victim
police ZEAL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08

ONE EXAMPLE OF AN .OPTIMIST is the man who can
that adum has dropped S29O4I9 per pound
n telegraph dispatches few days
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1923-08-11
SPORTOVNl ZPRAvA.

Ultra o l. hodine odp. ko-
nan brde ma hristi Garfield
parku footballovy zapas Getty
Ceskoslovenskeho sportovniho
klubu Cleveland teamem The
White Motor, ktery jest cham
pionovym tcamem celeho anne
rickeho Zapadu. Nase spor-
tovce ocekava tudiz tuba pra-
&c a obecenstvo tohoto sportu
zajimavy pozitek. Cesky team
vybran byl "a soka nebezpec-
nemu druzstvu samou Ligou.
Hrati sc bude O cestny delnic-
Ky pohar. K neobvykle spor-
town. udalosti pozvhni byli
vSichni zastupci sportcvnich
organisaci. ucastnici zapasu
jsou vyzvani, aby Sc dostavili
urcit6 v 11.45 hod. do klubov.
nj mistnosti.
Pfejeme nasim statecnyn
faotballistIm, aby je Y zapasu
tax rozhodujicim neopoustels
sportovnf fortuna.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1923-08-11

Kult footballu dosahl u mas
takove vystrednosti, ze sc po-
hlizi ma kopanou jako ma uma
Proc ne? Vzdyt' Sc y
Praze kopaji i opery -. !!
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1923-08-11
HLEDA Sc ZLODEJKA S KO
cICfMA OCIMA.

V dubnu roku 1922 ukradla
v dome F. M. Nicholase Gle
veland Heights sluzka klenotil
v Gene $4,000, pachatelka je
as 4O.:eta, prostredni postavy
a jake zvlastni znameni ma
jedno oko modrc druhe hn9-
de. Vzdor tomuto napadnG-
mu znameni zm;zela j kori-
sti a nebyla vypatrana. Wee
ra byli zdejsi detektivove CO.
lumbuskym policejnim naGe!ni
KEN varovani, neb zlodeika $
"michanym zrakem" opetne
sc pi'ihlasila k cinnosti. Hle.
dana vystupuje pod rGznymi
jmeny a remeslo provozuje nb.
Zvlastni methodou. Dava sc
najmouti jake sluzka a jakmi
le nabude duv6ry a pon6xuC
Sc okoukne, sebere cenncjS
lveci zmizi. Krone kradezt
clevelandske shani Sc po n
pro podobne kousky policie ,
(St. Louis Baltimore.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1923-08-11
BvET''
DALSf OBETI KOUPACf
LETNf SEZONY.

V tGni Walters Grove; Par
ma township, utopil Sc vcera
17-lety Joe Volpe, 1454 Oran-
&c ave., jenz sobe vyse! spolu
Sc ctyEni mladiky ma vylet.
Ma zpatecni ceste sc osv6zuva-
Ii koupeli uvedenych mistech
kdyz pojednou Volpe prave u
prostred svych druhi zmizel
pod zradnou hladinou. Byl ST.
ce " deslti minutach vytazen,
ale ozivovaci pokusy pulmoto-
rem nem6ly po skorem hodino-
vem trvani zadneho vysledku.
23-lety John Jacobsen. stu
dent, jenz Sc chystal pocat-
KEN skolniho roku ma pravnic-
kou fakultu zdejsi university,
utonul vcera v louzi v lomech
" Berea. ucil Sc plavat, kdyz
pojednou pfisel as do 20-sto-
pove hlubiny. Volal zoufale
sve diva druhy, ktefi- Sc koupo.
Ii MIN o pomoc, ale drive,
nezli tito mohli prispechati
zmizel pod vodou. Ma mfsto
pfisp6chalo Timed as IL "a
chrancG, ale mrtvola nebyla
do noci naleZena. Rodice ne
st astneho jinocha bydli v
Echo, MINI.