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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
SAM AND PAUL WHlNIHAN, OF
Buffalo, y. Y.

ID IN Buffalo live sam ana liu
Whinihan, brothers, who are selling
a quarter of million dollars worth
of tires and automobile accessories
yearly. Not so remarkable in itself
| perhaps. but because it excmpllfie>
opportunity in America ii is wei
worth further scrutiny.
Some five or six years. ago SAM
name was OH the payroll of a great
Akron tire factory. Paul was EN-
ployed somewhere roundabout; most
Akron people work on tires. Then
one night
1T seems 10 me we ought TO get
more money from our knowledge OF
| tres" Sam observed.
I'm with you," said Paul. Tires
look good to me-"
However. there was one little hitch
ia Their starting out for themselves
in The tire business-or in any ota"r
enterprise. They dug down into Their
jears and counted their cash, AMI To-
gether they could scrape up only $40
aside from n few "singlcs" for cur
rent needs.
This problem called for inventive
genius; but after looking around and
cogitating some they settled on u
scheme. They'd observed quite a
traffic in secondhand photograph
records, and so they went down 10
Detroit. rented n small room on credit,
and started in with meager stock
of used records. There is quite a
story here, but to make it short, six
months later they parted with their
record exchange for $500.
Now this may seem pcnnywelght
foundation for tire business, but
Sam aud Paul Whinihan had learned
their lesson in starting at the bot
tom.
Back in their home town of Buffalo
they rented tiny store space and laid
out most of their five hundred dollars
for tires. Personal expenses were
close-shaved,
There is a story. too. in the high
pressure methods pursued by these
up-and doing brothers in selling that
original stock-and all subsequent
stocks. In the first place. they under,
stood tires and everything connected
with them, and it wasn't long before
word was passed around that sam
and Paul Whitman could install tires
fast and skillfully, and were about
the most obliging and useful chaps
to be found: Customers began COM
ing from all over Buffalo.
That first year their sales were
around $4,000.
This seems TO be an instance in
which personal service played a vital
part. CLANS seldom get ahead, but
good mixers. who can "deliver the
goods" often walk away from men
with more capital but less liberality
of fellowship.
1t was about year after their
start that the Whinihans established
their second store in Buffalo. and
since then. at intervals of about a
year. they have opened others. Now
they operate five-all in Buffalo
and handle automobile accessories as
well.
Although Sam and Paul employ no
outside statesmen. no small part OF
their uuarter-milliOn business is
gathered up outside their store doors.
Many motorist drives up for oil or
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
The Romance of
Small Business
By EDWARD MOTT WOOLEY
Copyright. by The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
Copyright 1923 by The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.

air. and drives away happy in the
long-deferred ownership of tire
gauge, perhaps, or some other glad
some appurtcnance of motor sport
The Argus-eyed Whinihans are ever
alert for these sales openings.
Not that we believe in overload
ing customers for the sake of a sale.
says sam. I'VE aim TO deliver &
real service along with the goods
Show man you're really concerned
in his needs, and in keeping down
his motoring costs, and you won't
need TO cannonade him with solicita-
lions. Nine chances TO one he's been
intending to get a tire gauge. or a
motormeter; and the right word a,
the right time will clinch the sale. -
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
NEW YORK BONDS
New York. Oct. e;.-Followinr =.

New York, Oct. e'.-Following I. a:
official list of bonds traded in on the
New Yor! stock exchange today with
prices up TO and including the close of
the market. Total sales today were 50.
1866 against sl0,2io. 900 Yesterday, s5.-
100000 a week ago. sS.63e0 900 a year
ago and s5.637.000 two years ago.
From january / TO date S252s05I. 600
against s3,450.74t.0 900 a year ago and
Ss,56l, 504. 600 two years age. IS,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Charge No Exhibit Fce.-No er

Charge No Exhibit Fce.-No en-
try fees will be charged San An
ionic manufacturers who exhibit at
the Colorado County Fair. according
to information received at the San
Antonio Chamber of Commerce from
Il. il. Faber OF Columbus. secretary
Of the fair association. The trades
extension department of the chamber
has distributed a circular letter con-
veyoing this information to the
manufacturers. Exhibits of farm
implements, household articles and
foods are especially invited by Mr..
Fabcr.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Effective October list our rate for
repair work will be SLID per hour.
Open Shop Plumbing Co., Travis
fo20.-( Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Lemon Weighs Over a Pound

San Antonio-rased 4 lemon that is ar
proximately sixteen inches in diameter
and that weighs about a pound and
a half is on exhibition at the Chamber
OF Commere. The lemon was rsised
by Mrs. A. BuscEhardt at GIG Broad
way. Mrs. Buschhardt mas three of
the Texas lemon trees in or yard.
One Of them grew 60 lemons this year.
They are especially good TO use in
making lemon pies. she says.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
TODAY'S CURE MARKET
BONDS

New York. Oct. s5.--Folowing Is an
official list of bonds and stocks traded.
in on the New York curb market today
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
CHICAGO STOCKS

Chicago. Oct. 21.-Followins is a re-
port of today's sales. high. low and clos
ing quotations at the Chicago stock ex-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

We buy or take in trade your old
gold. silver. diamonds and old coins.
Alamo Jewelry Co., 31J Alamo Plaza.
-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Hoover Vacuum Cleh1ers and
electric Washing Machines. KIRK
wood & Wharton. Or. GIL. "-iAdv.D
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Make your OVID plumbing repairss
We will sell you the supplies. Open
Shop Plumbing Co.. Inc. 20S Losoya
St.-(Ady.l
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Kirkwood and Wharton. Crockett GAL
-(Adv.l
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Prize Masquerade Ball at Parker's
Tuesday, Oct. 30. (Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Fuller's Halloween masquerade ball
X. c. Hail Wednesday. Nice prizes.
-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Dancing tonight. Eagle Hall. Mrs.
Krisch, Rain Bow !. (Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Dancing tonight at Parker's Twi-
light Five Orchestra. (Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Numerous Auto Parts. Phone TT.
%. Select Auto Parts Co.-(AAdv.D
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Dance-Martinez, Sun, Oct. IS.
Music pavelka Alamo Five. (Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Admits Stealing Kuives-Tound

Halloween cash prize mask bali.
Eagle Hall, Oct. 81. Krisch's (Ady,l
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Transactions in Stocks and Bonds
NEW YORK STOCKS
STOCK MARKET AVERAGES.
Sales $1,000.

Close Close Week Days
Today. Yesterday. Ago.Ch'ge
industrlals $3.50 s3I4 $50 "a
10 railroads =. Sis 500 5S.7l x.12
- stocks ..... 1000 1910 72e0 --.o6
New York. Oct. 2s.-Following is a
complete list Of stock sales today. Total
PICS OF each stock and the high, low
nd closing prices are given.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

1924 net cash for each 1000 letter
heads. envelopes or business cards.
Dullnig Printing Co., Crockett 1888.
-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Charge Theft Of Lip Stick.-A .

Charge Theft Of Lip Stick.-A .
cent lip stick landed Mexican
woman in the city Jail at { o'clock
Saturday evening as Il Shoplifter.
Officers were called into a downtown
variety store. where. it was reported.
the woman had been detected steal
ing. She had appropriated the hP
stick. it was claimed. Placed in the
police patrol the woman was taken
20 headquarters TO be booked for
theft. '"'
.u.H
Dance Sunday 2Sth. rain or sun
shine. Highland Social Club. Souther-
land Spring road. Thanks Novelty
Four.-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Grand Prize Mask Ball. Brunhilde
Sister Lodge. No. {. Saturday. Mo-
vember 3. Hermann Sons Hail. so
cents. (Adv.l ert
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

McAiester. Alabama, Camel coal
and Ignite. Ira Perry Coal Co., TT.
46i. Cr., 500. Tr. 119i.-Alv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Admits Stealing Knives.-Found'
asleep in a downtown park. a IL
year-old white boy. who told detec-.
lives he was an orphan. was welt
supplied with pocket knives. He was
arrested Saturday afternoon and
when questioned by detectives said
lie had stolen the knives in Mexia.
4 fountain pen found among his
personal affects. he said. he had
stolen from Il coat he found hanging
in waiting room at a railway depot
in Houston. 49,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

Kriseh's Prize Masquerade and Hall
lowe'en Ball tonight. Wes End Pa
wilton. Schutze's No. 1 Orchestra.
-(Ady.l ....
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Halloween Novelties. Mic Tengg.
-lAdV)
Evening star., 1923-01-21
Democrats Talk Presidential Candidates
While Bryan and McAdoo Are in Capital

cies than to candidates.. He wants to have
his say in the framing of the platform, al
though of course he will have his personal
predictions. as to candidates. Prohibition
and progressivism are his two hobbies. He
will fight the wet movement in the party
now being engineered by New Jersey and
New York democrats, and as to progressiv
ism he has more planks than enough to
offer.
Mr.. Bryan, it is believed, will not attempt
to repeat his performance at the Baltimore
convention sin destroying a potential can
didate.
Woodrow Wilson can annihate any as
pirant for the democratic presidential nomi-
nation whom he openly assails," was another
statement made by the democratic leader
mentioned aforegoing.
Many politicians are wondering what
Mr.. Wilson's attitude will be toward his
son-in-law. Mr.. McAdoo, and whether he
will give him his active support, which, it
is believed by the politicians, would go far
toward being the making of Mr.. McAdoo
by the time the actual contest opens, or
whether he will merely leave him TO hoe
his own row."
X X u X
The Borah chain-link by link and vote
by vote-will carry him into the White
House"
This is the statement on a printed post
card sent out from San Diego by Marcus
W. Robbins, proposing Senator Borah for
President in 1924 as a progressive. He pro-
poses to repeat the thought every day. to
write ten post cards and thereby reach
100000 people DO not break the chain
the admonition concludes.
X * x
Henry Fords candidacy for the presi-
Dental nomination on the democratic ticket
Evening star., 1923-01-21
Railroads Planning to Spend
A Billion Dollars This Year

experiment If the experiment paws.
further extensions may be expected.
4. Upbuilding. as rapidly as possi-
Bile. OF the rundown motive power
equipment Of the roads, at present
slowly emerging from its lowest con.
dition, and intensive repair work on
disabled cars, placing a maximum
number Of freight cars in service to
meet the rush of business expected
with the reopening Of the building
boom and other activities in the
spring.
In line with the foregoing program.
mine OF the leading railroads Of the
country have, either ordered this
year, or expressed their intention of
ordering shortly. 37.4oo freight cars.
These roads operate about $4,000 miles
OF main line, or one-seventh of all In
the country. The same roads and
two others. operating $4,000 miles, or
little more than one-fourth of the
country's rail. systems, have. either
ordered or contemplate ordering So4
locomotives.
Ihese roads and their equipment orr
ders are: Pennsylvania, 800 locomo-
tives; Baltimore and Ohio. 5000 cars
and 81 locomotives; Mobile and Ohio,
$50 cars and 9 locomotives; Minneap-
oils. st. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie.
1880 cars and 6 Locomotives; Western
Pacific. 2,1oo, cars; Norfolk and West
ern, 5000 cars and ls locomotives:
Illinois Central, 7.7oo cars ana 100
locomotives: Chicago. Rock Island
Evening star., 1923-01-21
BIZ HARDEN CoLFAx.

Buying plans Of the railroads for
1923, revealed through applications
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, and budget announcements by
the roads themselves. indicate that
the carriers will spend approximately
$1,000. 100000 during the year <ef new
cars and locomotives and for addi-
tions to terminal and trackage facil-
ities Some Of the leading carriers
already have launched their pro-
grams. which look toward the fol-
lowing developments:
/. A material increase in the VOL
ume Of freight transported over 1922,
the second highest year on record
During last November, for instance,
frafiio increased. in ton miles. the
unit of measurement approximately
81 per cent over November. 1921. A
further increase Is anticipated
.. Elimination. so far as possible,
OF the distressing shortages Of freight
cars and motive power which period
ically have hampered the growth Of
business and curtailed the earning
power of the roads themselves.
g.. Tho addition of 1000 miles or
more Of main line to existing systems.
For nearly ten years the railroads
have virtually ceased to grow. The
chief carriers now believe that tho
time has come to extend their lines
and add to their trackage. The
snovsmsnt will be cautious at first
and somewhat in the nature of an
Evening star., 1923-01-21

is worrying some of the conservative lead
ers in the party, especially in view OF the
expected extension of the list OF states
which within the next year will have pro-
vided for the selection of delegates to ma
tional conventions at the primaries.
A rational convention made up largely
of delegates chosen directly by the voters
might show a~formidable array for Mr.. Ford,
they realize.
In the House of Representatives next
Tuesday battle will be staged over the
proposed amendment to the Constitution OF
the United States relating to tax-exempt
securities. 1t will be contest mainly be-
tween state rights advocates and uphold
ers of the proposal that constitutional
power should be given Congress to control
all taxes, even those which states and
inequalities now exempt.
Before the Senate committee there is pend
ing another proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution which would prevent the rathca-
ton of submitted amendment until after
new legislatures have been elected. 1t is
sponsored by both democrats and rcpubli-
cans and the necessity for it is claimed to
be that the action of some of the states on
the eighteenth amendment and also on the
woman suffrage amendment showed that
too hasty Judgment, in the face of public
opinion, is possible under the existing sys~
tenn.
In support of the: contention that "the
country needs a rest from Congress" it is
. set forth that Congress has been in session
three-fourths of the time since 1913
When. March 4 arrives the accountants
figure that Congress will have been in ses-
sion 2742 days out of 5000. Many observ-
ers at the Capitol predict that it will not
be long in the future until Congress will
have TO remain in practically continuous
session. :.
Evening star., 1923-01-21

II is that measures az we'll as men
have their resurrection. Lame ducks
come back into power: discarded ideas
builders rejected so ofteh becomes the
arch of tho temple. Nothing illustrates
the revival OF the lama duck idea,>so
well as the recrudescence of the old
populisf subtreasury scheme, which is
now practically an administration
measure.
Thirty years ago the populists ap-
peared with strange wild schemes for
making the wheels of the world go
around. They advocated. among other
things, lending money to the farmers
upon warehouse receipts for the farm
er's crops, and for extending him credit
upon his live stock. Naturally this
money would have 10 be issued by the
government, and the wealth OF the peo.
pie would have to be the basis of the
currency issue.
The scheme was denounced as stark
mad. How the Wall street papers
hooted. With wlrat jibes the metro
politan press attacked the subtreasury
scheme. What a box of monkeys was
turned loose upon the poor old pops
to bedevil them to death. And what a
death of ignominy the populfsts died
because they could not get their ideas
into the hearts of the people. PETER.
Jerry Simpson, Bloody Brides Waite
of Colorado. Pettigrew and Mrs. Lease!
What capers they cut before hixh
heaven with their talk of lifting poo
Pile UP by their own bootstraps. lsnd-
ing the farmer money on his crops,
with the wealth OF the crops as the
basis of the currency issue
Yet what real difference u thsrs BE-
tween that idea and the idea Of the
Capper bill, which Secretary Mellon.
the hard-boiled financial egg OF the
Harding administration, has indorsed.
The lame duck may limp, but he often
lives, which is political vernacular for
the saying, Truth crushed to earth
will rise again.
1t is just as we'll never to laugh to
ribaldry at anything just because 1t
happens to be new.
Evening star., 1923-01-21
TOOTHBRUSH RARE
AMONG KENTUCKY
HILL CHILDREN

Three-fourths Of the children ex-
amined in a mountain county in
Kentucky by experts. of the children's
bureau of the Labor Department were
found to be either poorly or only
fairly well nourished. according to q
report just made public.
The survey. was made at the re-
quest OF the kentucky board OF
health to- determine why state
famous tho world over for its pros
per1ty should turn out 30 large q
percentage Of physically defective
mon. AZ tho draft. records showed
Only 16 per cent OF the children
studied in this section were,of fami-
lies liable to provide the modest re-
quirements of adequate living" and
improvement of the soil and farming
methods. with education OF mothers
in special requirements Of children, was
recommended.
l. Four-flfths Of the children examined
were said not to own a toothbrush,
and 81 out Of 104 between six and
eleven years. OF. age had decayel
teeth, while SO per cent Of the total
were found TO have enlarged or dis
eaSed touAIe and many had Rdenoids.
Only about one-fourth had clothing
adequate to give protection from the
weather.
Evening star., 1923-01-21
Sketch of Memel, New Center
OF International Squabble

the blue ,cornnowers and crowned her
young son. whose heritage had seem
ed to have been wrested from him,
with a wreath of the blue flowers. He
was king of all those vast fields of
yellow wheat and blue cornflowers.
Later, when he became the great
Emperor William. Memel felt as
though she had possession Of him,
and when I was there, just 100 years
later, enjoying the beauty of the
blue and golden fields, ! was told
the story again and again.
A wealthy man named Consensus
gave up his house to the Queen and
as record has 1t, MIR. Plaw from
England. <as requisitioned as tutor
to the boys.
The house of Consensus is now
the town hall, and contains the
queens couch and other pieces of
furniture used by her. There is
also a large family of Plaws-seven
elderly daughters of the last and
mother (no doubt also defunct by
now). who had to play duets with
MendeIssohn when young woman,
She would sit propped up at the an
cient piano and play the Songs With
out Words" as I've never heard them
played
The town, as in the time OF the
Scotch settlers, still existed for its
wood exports. 1t was the collecting
station for all the wood along the
Baltic shore. and the wood yards and
sawmilis were a great sight. Eng.
land got her sleepers for her we'll laid
railways from Memel. The best am
Der was found on her shores too.
Another thing for which the town
- 1lsnn,finlIed .or TTnird TSaUn <
Evening star., 1923-01-21
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

INTEREST in democratic presidential
politics was aroused by the presence of
i William J. Bryan and William G. Nc
Adoo in Washington during the week
and the resulting conferences and pow
vows among leading democratic politicians
who are found in Congress. 1t falls out
that many of the most active and influential
men in the democratic national organization
are also high in the legislative councils of
their party, so that the capital is in a double
sense the national headquarters of the
democracy.
Some of the conferences no doubt were
OF casual and non-constructive character
and by the same token others are expected
to bear fruit
X X X
When Mr. McAdoo came he plausibly
pooh-poohed the idea that his visit was of
political consequence. He must have had
his fingers crossed when he did So With
good-natured incredulity all the politicians
at the Capitol received. the disclaimer with
big pinch of salt, realizing that candidate
has at least as much license as a poet, and
is not bound to disclose his hand.
Mr.. McAdoo is recognized as not only
an active aspirant for the democratic nom-
nation for the presidency, but as probably
occupying the lead in that race at the pres
ent time. On this subject, one of the men
high up in the democratic national commit
tee, and who is not committed to Mr. Nc
Adoo's candidacy, said to the writer yes
terday: There can be no discounting the
fact that in the possession of political as
sets the accumulation of past efforts, Mr..
McAdoo is the most formidable candidate
for the nomination in the field"
X x x X
Mr.. Bryan's political activities in Wash
ington and elsewhere relate more TO poll
Evening star., 1923-01-21

and Pacific, $500 cars and 20 loco
so locomotives; Atlantic Coast Line.
1000 cars and as locomotives, and
Central of New Jersey. 5s locomotives.
The current year leads all its
pr edecessors within the past decade
in the volume Of new and prospective
period. The budgets OF some of the
chief roads for. 1928 include the fol-
lowing sums for railroad equipment
and improvements:
Pennsylvania. SIS. 900, 900: New York
Central. about s3o.ooo,o00 Carried
over from 1920; Illinois Central. s42.-
900, 900; Norfolk & Western. $4,000
coo, Union Pacific, s2o,ooe.o0 Louis
VILE & Nashville, s2o,o0o.ooo. Tho
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe eI-
poets to construct fs7 miles OF sec
ond track during the year. the Great
Northern about 80 miles of new line,
the Atlantic Coast Line. IS miles; the
Union Pacific, So miles; the Illinois
Central. 4S miles. the Pere Marquette.
16 miles, and the New York Central,
I'm q cutoff near Albany, about 20
miles. Including the foregoing, new
trackage to the extent of more than
far in January as part of the 1923
construction program.
Since January the Interstate Com
merce Commission has received appli-
cations for or approved the issuance
of about s30,ooo.00o in railroad Sc
ourities to finance tho purchase OF
new equipment This does not in
clude tho anticipated application Of
tho Pennsylvania railroad to cover
financing Of its order for 800 locomo-
tives, estimated to cost between s20.-
600, 900 and 100000.
Due largely to the intensive cam
paign to repair bad-order cars, as
we'll as to the seasonal decline IN de-
mand, the railroads have succeeded in
cutting down the car shortage to a
net $4,000 cars since November l last.
when the net shortage reached $4,000
cars. At the present time, the Ameri-
can Railway Association states, the
number Of bad-order cars in the
UnlIeQ bLhlSS 10 GlO,VVV Va S.o pei
cent OF tho total. Last summer bad
order cars totaled about $4,000.
The volume Of traffic continues un-
usually heavy, tho association an
nounces. Figures just made public
place the number OF loaded cars hand
led by tho roads during tho first week
of January at 77o,3oS. an increase of
170,soo, or 2s per cent, over the cor
responding week last year.
Final figures for 1922 earnings, now
in tho making. are expected to show a
return of little more than per cent
on railroad investment, taking the
carriers as q whole.