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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
New York Day by Day
BY o. o, M'INTYRE.

ppys Up very bme and Across the town and nesting Lillian Isffery
ace fairfax talked awhile and thence to the office of r. Davis the
mag
tax Of h play Rsgsn and and its dsRoisas influence
nhtions this
plays anatomical exhibits.
where letter Ripley Inner
All the evening doing stint faish we'll and then either
playing Clemnsne" Long Long Ago."
Brown all sweet and far better than the jazz straegem
of the. day. SO to bed
They
floods them they glide the floor ballroom
evidently his dinner table
asked the lady she would do the honor of dancing with him She
blame her." he o
professional dance about foolish inviting mail carrier
TO take walk.
line of
of Chiefly the blind halt and the Not
word appears to be passed them They stand dqb awaiting
of the is following the Caruso
On the ftieh Of her
with which
daddy used sing her to sleep Someone asked her. Where is your
daddy nowT
That's in the sky And he with the angels He Marta
of employed
illicit The board
of directors decided chances
Somewhere the shining but for Greek hat aer in one
gaudiest gentleman poerd him cent
nd sadw and
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
6 ACCUSED FLOGGERS
Officers Arrest Two Others Suspected
Of kidnapping Doctor.

Birmingham, Ala, April 2.-The
round up of alleged members of the
band which kidnapped and flogged DR..
j. d. Bowling, city health officer,
last May, was begun in earnest Sun
day when city detectives took two
men into custody.
The men arrested were Sam Cargo,
of Tarrant City and J. +. Ford, of
Mount Pinson.
The arrest of Cargo and Ford brings
the number of alleged members of the
band whose identities have been made
public to six.
Three of this number have been in
dicted and the remaining three are be-
ing held at the city Jail on suspicion.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
BREAK, BREAK. BREAK.

That he shouts with his sister at play.
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, o sea
And / would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
o well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play; .
o well for the sailor lad
That he sings in his boat on the bay
And the stately ships go on
TO their haven under the hill:
But q for the touch of vanished hand,
And the sound of voice that is still!
Break. break. break.
At the foot of thy crags, o sea!
But the tender grace OF day that is dead
VIII never come back to me.
ALFRED Tennyson
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

games, SUBJ, etc. Please send 1t on
as soon as possible. Your affection
ate SON."
The father replied
my Dear SOM received your let
ter today and am sending you the
check you asked for. ] was at col
lege myself once, you know. With
love. DAD.
''P. Sis she good looking"
Certainly" said the minister, III
come and see your sick daughter if
she is so very ill, but don't think
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
GIVEN TEN YEARS
Accused Principal in SOL, 900 Robbery
Found Guilty at Second Trial.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 2.-Wesley
Gibbon, "a, was found guilty by a
jury here yesterday of first degree rob-
berry in connection with the holdup De
cember II of messengers of the
Drovers' National Bank. and sem
fenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
This was Gibbons second trial for
the robbery, the first resulting in ac-
quittal.
Gibbons is the third man to be
found guilty in connection with the
robbery, which netted S97, 900.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
ORIGINS OF BRAVERY

n recent QlSpdlCn from CAlCdSO lS-
ports how one Frank Tusac, Jour years
old, gave his life in a heroic and sue
cessful effort to save the life Of his
brother, Joseph, 81 months old" The
younger babylon both were babies in
age-bccame envelopcd in flames as a
result Of the igniting OF matches with
which the two were playing. After a
vain attempt to beat out the flames,
Frank carried his brother to sink and
turned on the water, but was himself
burned so badly that he died few hours
later.
A few days previously another young
ster of about the same age as this hero
showed the stuff that was in him by
rescuing his baby brother from pond
into which the latter had fallen.
Both of these incidents suggest the
old saving, Blood will tell" 1t would
be impossible to disprove that almost
universally accepted judgment of human
actions. For the qualities that express
themselves in heroic acts are like certain
maladies in that their nature cannot be
defired in advance of the final test. In
the case of such maladies, the proof of
their nature is the outcome of the crisis
life or death. And persons blood"
is appraised, so to speak, accordingly
as he meets an emergency in the way
that spells heroism or turns his back
upon the opportunity
But quite frequently one bcholds acts
of apparent cowardice on the part of
persons whose forbears, through genera
ton after generation without break
were regarded as courageous in a de-
gree unsurpassed by their contempor-
aries. What is to be said of the blood"
OF an apparently cowardly person with
such ancestors?
On the other hand, those who go by
the blood rule alone are surprised by
the commission of some daring, useful
and, by all standards, praiseworthy act
on the part of one whose parents and
more remote antecedcnts had been re-
garded as being devoid of any of the
traits which define heroism. What is
to be said of the blood" of such a
person?
Albeit these questions may be perplex-
ing, even to authorities on heredity in
general and biology and psychology in
particular, it has been fairly well DEM
onstrated that teachings, environments
and associations exert determining in
fluence upon human behavior in the
presence of peril. This does not mean
that blood" is not factor in the char
acter-forming process through which all
growing minds and bodies pass. Some
children seem to be courageous by sheer
instinct; the influence OF heredity is so
strong in them that they could not be
cowardly.
But if that instinct can be developed
by training and proper associations,
would it be illogical to assume that chill
dren born with less fortunate tendencies
may acquire courage through the same
artificial means? 1t is not necessary to
make such an assumption. Experiments
not only with children but with lower
aniipals as well-notably dogs-have
confirmed fairly well the conclusion
mentioned.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

going to handle about S250,O00."
"Not as much as that" returned
the bridegroom.
what do you mean-not as much
US that?" asked the friend. why,
old Joseph must ha' left that at the
very least"
"Yes, but the wedding is going to
cost me 49," returned key, SOM
brcly.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

berger, widow of
old Joseph Gelt-
berger, the money
lender. After the
ceremony one of
keys friends
congratulated him
ON his good for
tune.
why, key" he
axaIo,p,o,l tsxntt'ro
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TTBRUARY CTRCULATION

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copies OF any nature.
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Circulation Manager.
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Business Manager.
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Of March. A. D. 1929.
(SeaD r. V. WHITE,
Notary Public.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

iaSl udy TUG Nait
er had their table
decorated W i t II
flowers.
"A pretty touch
of sentiment" COM
mentcd ma.
M ore likely
good business,
declared pa.
Huh y asked
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

you belong TO my
p a r j S h. What
church do you at
tend y
NO, we don't
go to your chuSil.,
we're Methodists.
Then why don't
you send for your
own p a $ t o r:y
asked the puzzled
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

1atner lne 1OllON-
ing letter:
Dear Pater -
/ am writing for
a check rather
sooner than / ex-
pected, but you
see, several bills
have come in at
once books, la
boratory ( e e 5,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

Nov, you We're
on this sub-com-
mittec:'
Yes" said the
man.
"A great deal of
time h as been
taken up" pro-
ceeded the other.
M a y b e So"
agreed the con-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

minister.
"Oh, we couldn't risk him." ex-
planned the caller, its scarlet fever
They had spent some happy weeks
in California. The sunshine was bril-
liant and the hotel was good. On the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

Have you noticed what these flow
ers are?" said the obseryant pa.
mo. What are they"
''Forget-me-nots."
A new congressman was called be-
fore fussy floor leader. who pro-
ceeded to interrogate him.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

Old Poscy, who shot the sheriff's horse
out from under him probably muttered
as he fled to the hills, that's horse on
him."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
A Laugh or Two

Young Hugheson, at college, found
himself rather short of money.
After deep thought, he wrote his
20 tha, Tho fn1Iou.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

The bootlegger's list discovered by en-
forcement officers in Washington was
later declared to be list OF motor car
prospects. Probably it should have read
Suspects"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

A mastodon's tooth weighing more than
fifteen pounds was unearthed the other
day. We didn't know mastodon would
bite.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
Stock
Motion Pictures

Palace-"The Christian
Rialto-"Jassmania."
Empire-"Adam's Rib"
Princess-"The Kentucky Derby"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02
Where to Go
Musical Comedy

Musical Comedy
Maiestic-Raymond Hitchcock In
"Hitchy-Koo 1929"
Grand-"The Merry Whirl."
Stock
Royal--Edna Park and players.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-02

Always on the spot when business
was TO be done, key Ikenstein went
under the canopy with Rachael Gelt-
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gresham.
Are you ready TO report your find
ings:"
Personally" said the new member,
81 have no findings. We did nothing
but play poker. Shall | report my
losings?"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14
New York Day by Day
BY o. o. M'INTYRE.

York, of
umph after residing Europe Fol-
McAlister abter Wall
New Yorks Beau Brummen
fashions
wardrobe those nothing
first Diamond Jim Brady had 80
Thought nothing of it.
Harry 600 has order
changed all Of the hauns where ouished
lhurrying throngs
He mixed tweed plain black
know of fashion charm
The fact is that in New York today
Ward dressed who stand out their
efforts the art being we'll dressed There hundreds who
clothes than these old time sartoi
Among who considered
Sailing Bauch Gene Buck Karl Kin
Now and then have the
Workers. and visit to the tailor and hadashe
Of building and tenth
the hud Before wearing apparel arrives the styles
will tell with certain pride that
cab for 30 He sits his sucking
Of the hotels the Fifth the
other night midnight after he his
without fare for hours he rubbed his
the horses head and said Well old podner will
ucked to the horse and moved the drzling
and the shiverinr roasted chest
most pathetic
chestnut vender rarely makes sale beaming
pleasure OF his service is something He will
the night in the winter hopefully the
that seldom is made - 49, ~
The Turkish vend who hawks his
usefulness
it misplaced Their not hesitate
advantage IN any ordinary transaction One the
ABOUT the street with
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14

which at first was expected to result in
quick DEATH
This case is exceptional if not quite
unique, so far as superficial indications
go. But in principle it does not seem
to vary greatly, if at all, from thousands
OF other cases of which medical books,
available to any layman, give account.
person afflicted with neurasthenia is
very queer animal. 1t is wcll-nigh inn
possible to forcsce just what he will do
under gwen circumstances, because there
are no two minds exactly alike But it
may be put down as general rule that
the neurasthenic is most likely to do, I'm
der any circumstances, something that is
adverse to his own welfare when there
is choice between doing that thing and
Its opposite. He almost always works
against himself, albeit unconsciously.
The neurasthenic may want to get
well, but his entire nervous system is in
such condition that he may actually
fake" definite maladies, perhaps as a
means of gaining sympathy or of having
other people confirm what he saws or
thinks about himself. He is laborine
under subconscious fear; he would
make himself believe, by getting others
to confirm his diagnosis of his troubles,
that he has definite physical ailments
rather than a malady bordering upon in
sanity.
Once Texas country doctor was
called to see person who was ostensi-
bly, suffering from '1ockjaw." The pa
tents jaws were actually set hard and
fast, and could not be pricd open. He
had partaken of no food for several DAYS.
The doctor made various tests, particu-
larry on the reflex muscles, but got no
affirmative results. Suddenly he got an
inspiration: He would hypnotic the
patient That done, the person who was
supposed to be suffering from "lockiaw"
opened his mouth and talked volubly and
partook of enough food to last him
through another "hoax"
Such cases almost invariably enrich
the medical professions fund of useful
knowledge.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14
THE FEVER GIRL"

"One of pathology's greatest hoaxes,"
says a dispatch describing the case Of
the "fever girl who for three weeks
practiced a queer kind of deception upon
Michigan physicians. In a restricted
sense the girl did perpetrate hoax upon
the attending doctors. That is, she
played trick to make them think that
her temperature was liza point which,
experience has taught, would be almost
Immediately fatal. A temperature of 10S
is regarded as mark of grave danger.
But from a broader pathological
standpoint there was no hoax in the
girls behavior. She was ill, and ex-
tremely so, in an uncommon way. The
dispatch referred to reports that her
condition became actually serious
visibly, when she learned that the doc
tors had uncovered her secret-her trick
of using hot-water bottle to raise the
mercury in the thermometer with which
they were trying to take her tempera-
ture. AS matter of most probable, il
not quite obvious, fact, her condition
was actually serious" at the outset. APP.
parently the doctors were unable to read
the symptoms.
If any human being, however SOUND
of mind he might be regarded should
undertake to fool his doctors as to the
condition of his health, there would be
something wrong with his "menta
health" No perfectly sane person will
fake" illness simply for the purpose o
deceiving a physician.
After the hoax" OF the fever cir
had been exposed, she became so excitec
that her temperature--her own, verify
not the hot-water bottlc's-rosc TO 104
Then, "pathologically," the doctors hat
something to work upon. The girl wa
suffering from hysteria. The chance
are that the same diagnosis would hav
been correct at the outset; the difficult
was in tire popularity of the symptom:
particularly the extremely high feve
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14
Watching the Parade
BY John Pilgrim.

My old man says that if he were
ever to yield to the temptation to
bring up another child-particularly
of the male sex-the one thing he
would impress upon the brat would be
to have a mind of his own. He says
! that have always been disappoint-
Dient to him in that respect. I'm 100
apt to find out what the other fellow
is thinking and yes him, no matter
what my convictions may be.
I'm not looking for trouble" is my
defense.
you're not getting it," says my
old man. Nor very much respect,
either. tell you, the most valu-
able quality a man child can have is a
reasonable quantity of don't-give-a-
damness. Look around you and OBJ
serve that whenever a public man be-
comes sounding-board he is on the
toboggan. 1t isn't necessary to do q
dervish dance about your principles,
but you ought to have courage enough
to stand up for them"
When my old man was youngster
he lived in a city ward whose resi-
dents ran the sartorial gamut from
caps and canthooks to silk hats and
white kids. His best friend belonged
to the silk hat division by birth but
thought along the lines followed by
the canthooks. One year he was NOM
mated for alderman, and in order to
win votes he discarded his good
clothes, expunged the crease in his
trousers, wore denied derby and
smoked a clay pipe. He was licked
by a majority that seemed phe-
nomenal. Every one voted against
him.
Hes a poor fish," was the gem
eral report. Hes not ON the level. ="
Every one thought he was out OF
politics. Four years went on and the
principal issue of the campaign was
one on which he was perfectly in con-
tradiciton with most people in his
ward. The few who thought as he
did bedeviled him into making Il
speech. He was sour, angry, defiant,
and he gave it to he voters hot aud
heavy.
You are lot of FOOLS" he said.
"Ill prove it to YOU" He did.
I'm not candidate for anything, ~
he said. "You knocked that non
sence out of me. So I'll tell you the
truth. The most you can do is to
throw bricks"
They elected him county clerk the
next fall.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14
Study Does 1t
BY II. Arlington Bruce.

Thirty days ago two boys began
work in humble capacities in a de-
| partment store. One of the two still
is employed in minor position. The
| other is head of a store larger that
that which first gave him employ
| ment.
How account for the formers fail
ure to rise as compared with the lat
ter's astonishing progress? On the
score of difference in Unborn ability,
in inherited gifts?
Perhaps. Yet to attribute it to
heredity is surely mere guessing, in
view of the fact that no one can say
with certainty just what any individ-
ual inherits.
Besides which there is the signifi-
cant circumstance that in the con-
trasting attitude of the two boys to-
ward their work there conceivably is
adequate explanation of the differing
courses of their business careers.
Common sense tells that no boy,
however gifted by heredity, can get
very far if it declines to make any
use of his Wits. On the other hand,
we equally have the assurance of COM
mon sense that any boy, unless hope
lessly handicapped by heredity, should
achieve much through effort systemat-
ically applied.
In the case of the second of the two
boys in question effort was most sys-
tematically applied-as it distinctly
was not in the case of the first boy.
The first looked upon lbs work-as
do so many boys entering business
rs mere means of livelihood. His
great desire was to do his work sat
isfactorily enough to be kept on the
payroll. Beyond that he had no in
terest in the tasks assigned him.
Not so with the second boy.
From the start he made 1t clear
that he was more intent on working
to good purpose than on the money
his work brought him. Overtime had
no terrors for him. In fact, evening
after evening, while his less enthusi-
astic colleague was at play, he was
thinking out problems connected with
his work.
He studied the goods he had to
handle, he studied selling methods and
buying principles, he studied the GUS
toners that came into the store where
he was employed. Day in and day
out he was as truly student as any
ardent pupil in school or univer-
sity.
His study gave him vast fund
facts, it gave him original ideas. Also
it gave him-as study faithfully pros
ecuted always gives-acquireyl apti-
tude for the work he had undertaken
to do. Thus. little by little, he pro-
crossed. because he had taken pains
to fit himself to progress.
AS with him, so with all eminently
successful men in the world of bust
ness. Possibly heredity has had, as
so many believe, much to do with
making them successful. But as to
this, | would repeat, we have no posi-
tive knowledge.
We do know positively, though,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14
LAW REGAINING SANITY

Several years ago, when national "Dro-
hlbition" was novelty, THE LIGHT as
serted that it was absurd for federal Of
ficials to invoke the revenue laws against
violators of the Volstead act. Some peo-
pie laughed; most of them, it appeared.
were revenue and prohibition enforce
ment agents.
Now it is reported that Federal Dis
trict Attorney Hartman is going to find
out, Though the medium of test case.
whether the internal revenue act. SO far
as liquor is concerned Swas superseded
by the Volstead act Why doesn't some
body laugh now?
1t is serious matter with the federal
operatives. For Judge West ruled, in the
case which the district attorney has Sc
lected for his test, that the part of the
revenue law affecting operators or own
ers of stills had given way to the Vol
stead act.
Just what the decision of the higher
court may be, no one can pretend to
foresee. All that one can properly saw
is that if law and logic are not utter
strangers the ruling of Judge West will
be upheld.
The proposition is so simple that it
can hardly be propounded to one who
does not already understand it. When
the law forbids an act, and prescrbes
a penalty for its commission, govern
ment officials perform their full function
by applying that penalty to the guilty.
1t is no part of the function of govern
ment to collect revenue on articles or
commodities whose importation, manu-
factrre, sale, transportation or posses
sion is forbidden by law.
When revenue agents prosecute an al
legged violator of the national prohibi-
ton law they put the government in the
position, albeit negatively, of trying to
get revenue out of crime. If pure logic
were brought to bear upon their activ-
ities In such case, one would have to
conclude that the revenue agents would
be satisfied with moonshlncr's payment
OF the tax for whose non-payment,
theoretically, they proceed against him.
In other words, one might think that If
the moonshlner undertook to conceal
nothing and evade no taxation he would
be unmolested so far as the revenue
agents are concerned
But of course that is not true. The
revenue agents proceed against liquor
manufacturers, not to punish them for
failure to pay taxes, not to collect any
money due the government, but to put
them out of business. The government
has outlawed that kind of business
therefore what possible relationship car
there be between the revenue depart
ment OF the government and persons en-.
gagged in such business?
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Pointed Paragraphs

A mans good opinion of himself is
the real thing.
A man isn't necessarily q failure be.
cause he has failed.
There's enough happiness wasted to
supply the whole universe.
Honesty never has TO crowd any
body in order to make a living.
Girls would rather sing soprano
than alto because it is higher toned
The man with the largest library
usually has the least time to read.
A woman likes to go away for the
winter because most of her friends
can't.
1t might be well for visitors to re-
member that welcome quickly wears
out
The trouble with the man who
knows nothing is that he is always the
last one to find it out.