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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
TAXATION IN TEXAS

10 The Editor:
wish to congratulate The Light on
TWO rather extraordinary editorials
AS a matter of fact. it is hardly fair
TO say two, because there have been
number of strong editorials on economic
conditions in Texas since the LegisIa-
lure convened. have. wondered how
many would understand "A Tomb of
Civilization" in SATURDAYS paper II
seems pretty sure that not many bust
ness men understand it. They will prob-
ab'y catch your point Of view in "Fren-
zled Taxation" in a recent issue. os II
is announced in the press that strong
protests and representative delegations
are going to Austin.
pur leading citizens seem TO reser1o
all their energies for protests. We never
he5r of them offering a constructive
program between sessions. The interests
directly involved, and business organiz9-
tons viii be able TO kill the major TART
OF the proposed tax measures. Do thev
realize That this same scene will he re-
enacted two years hence and they will
have to maintain a large lobby then rs
now, and that it will require more force
to resist such enactmpnts? There &c
nothing TO be done right now but nro-
test. There is mich that can be done
between now and the election of another
Legislature. That is when effective
work must be done.
If our commercial organizations vouId
make taxation one of their chief themes
IL every chamber of commerce in Tevos
insisted upon knowing facts witb 70
CARDS to this important question If
they would not rest until they found
what was being done elsewhere to relieve
the burdens on business: if they would
start upon a program Of thorough in
quiry into the whole system; two years
hence l believe they would have q
Legislature that would understand some.
thing of the subject beyond merely
trying TO get the money.
+. A. LINDNER.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
NO NEW CONSTITUTION
TO The Editor (:

To The Editor:
The present Legislature is agitatinc
file question OF new constitution. Let
them submit the question to Che peoplp.
rhey will Take short work Of il. Go
among the people and you will find very
Jew that are not either schemprs or pic-
hunters that want n new constitution.
The people are satisfied with our pres.
en-. constitution and they know that a
new constitution, under present condi-
ions. would be full of wooden horses.
But il the Legislature will submit
an amendment limiting legislative SEES.
sions TO one in ten years, or at most one
in. sIyc years. / am sure the people will
ratify It with whoop.
There is no question that every legiS.
latIve session that we have had in tho
last ten years has been a detriment IL
the state. All these Legislatures did
nothing but increase the tax burdens q
the people and then squander the moncr
thus derived in legalized graft. 1t Seems
Impossible for the idea to enter tht
heads of our sO-called Representatives
4hat the proper thing to do is to Gu
off all legalized graft and reduce eI
penses.
No doubt the third House has die
tated the reyenue laws passed by tn,
LEGISLATURES of this state for the nas
ten years and from the revenue bill
introduced in the present Legislature i
seems that they are on The high road t,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
THE INEFFECTIVE CHURCH.

To the Editor:
/ am hoping that some day n real
big man will come into the world
one who will do things that will set
the world by the ears, a man something
on the order Of Jesus Christ. n man
that will make our successful bust
ness mon" and welfare workers look
like n bunch at pikcrS. This world is
50 cheap. 50 small, The people arc 50
ridiculous in their greedy desire to have
IA good time 10 provide for their
comforts and Happiness" that We
need some big men and women to set
an example on the real purpose of life.
The chief desire of the people seems
10 be to draw a circle around them
selves and say TO the world 1--WE got
everything in this world to make me
happy, so what do / care what be-
comes of the rest" But how small
these pe0rie become when suddenly .
calamity or disaster overtakes them
Then they forget all about their proud
and naughty spirit. Then they become
| very humble and doCilc-when they feel
| that their turn may be next.
Picture to yourself n great disaster
| like the San Francisco earthquake or
the Galveston or Corpus Christi storms,
and then picture the successful bust
ness man with his worldly posses
SiOns. What will his earthly posses
SIons amount to when they are swept
away by the tide or are swallowed up
wheE mother earth yawns? 1t is then
We realize just how small the "big"
fellow is 1t is the same way when
death stalks-the big fellow has to go
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Our Unofficial Observer

The status of the American Unofficial
Observer on the Preparations Commits
sion and the position assumed thereto
by certain members of the Senate For
cign Relations Committee and the so
called "irreConcilables" has renewed
editorial discussion of the administra-
tons foreign policies.
The demand that Mr.. Boyden be "re-
called" the Brooklyn Eagle (lndepcn-
dcnt), says, lis significant because it
indicates a distruSt of the State De
partmcnt. The President and Mr..
Hughes have shown an extraordinary
reluctance to take the public INTO their
confidence. They now find that the
Senate, speaking through the Foreign
Relations Committee, condemns the
policy Of secrecy quite as strongly as
public opinion outside of the Senate
condemns it. The action of the COM
mittcc will doubtless embarrass them.
but they have invited embarrassment
and they deserve it" The emphasis
placed by the State Department on the
fact that Mr.. Boyden's utterances
were purely personal" is significant.
in the opinion of the Atlanta journal.
independent Democrat.), which sug-
gpsts, Having helped to win the war.
why did we not help to bulwark ana
cxaIt the peace? The Secretary of State
is sensitive, the chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee is
techy. the President. for all his wonted
optimism. is bcgloomed as the chickens
of their diplomacy como home to roOst
as ravens" The various Contradic-
tinnS II, connection with tho Rnydpu
episode likewise are characterized by
the Knoxville Sentinel. (Democrat), as
"smacking of something secret and sub
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
ARE GIRLS THE sMARTEsT

1t seems that every generation
to learn all the old lessons for its
The Junior College of Detroit has ].
made some tests, and learned WHAT
would seem almost everybody ought
have known already-that girls
smarter than boys.
Those students will learn many thi
between now and then, but if the boyit
the Detroit Junior College have fir
annexed the idea that girls are sinai
than boys, they are already equip
with a strong weapon. No man N,
ever amounted to anything did it W
out some wOman's help, and not m
of those same men ever gave the won
credit for it, either.
There is one good old hearty past
in which boys and girls engage, and
former days it was known as court
An occasional sheik might arise-t'l
were, poetically called Young Loo
vars in those times-whO could Z
the hearts of all the maidfolk. !
whichever girl really and truly set
heart upon him. brought him TO
knees. sure as fiddlin'. And as for
majority of the young fellows who 5
ed up in store shirts on Sundays
wore tight shoes to the dances,
were just putty in the hands Of e'
girl they met.
The weaker sex? Huh. the brai
sex. Ask the boys of the Detroit ]
ior College, Ask the boys Of any
school for that matter-Paterson
Guardian.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
OUR WEATHER BUREAU
To The Editor :

To The Editor:
Please permit me to say n few words
about the San Antonio Weather Blu
reau. A few weeks ago, The Light
stated in an editorial that the weather
forecasts for San Antonio were made
by the New Orleans office. If this is
the case, what is the use to have an
office at San Antonio? Is not a sta
ton of the Weather Bureau supposed
TO be of great benefit to the public in
so far that it forecasts rain, storm or
heavy frOsts?
The San Antonio office has come to
be known as big joke and justly so {;
only last week unsettled weather was
forecasted several times, for Thursday
heavy rains were predicted and colder
weather two or three times, although
it was not until Friday evening that
it really turned colder. Again. in the
Saturday evening edition of your valu-
able paper, Mr.. Jarboe said that Sun
day would be clear 1t is almost n
safe bet that just the opposite will
take place.
Major Allen Buell., the former head
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Coal Truce Extended

The fact that the operatives and u
orators in the bituminous coal indus |
have reached an agreement, and thai
similar result in the anthracite fl
soon is expected, simply emphasizes
necessity for putting through in n
year of grace thus secured a peril
nent method of avoiding strikes, edit
believe. They emphasize that this
derstanding is only stop-gap; that 4
big problems in dispute have not b.
touched on. and that it now is up
the Federal Fact Finding Commiss H
and Congress to take such action
will compel future peace when the pr
ent contracts are ended.
Expressing warm satisfaction I
the "coal strike ogre" has been b.
ished for at least another twel
months, the Manchester Union sugge
that "if any criticism of the new agr1
ment were to be made, aside from
economic cock-sureness on the part
the two signatOry groups that AmeridI
economic conditions can stand the Phi
cnt price and wage scale for eight
months longer. it shoulu be made,
our opinion, along the line of ignoriI
the public with which the parties
dealing and on which they must alw,
rely for their income" The only TIL
to be regretted, the Williamsport 5
feels, is that this is not Il two VI
agreement which would thus h!
brought a longer period between stp}
threats" InasmuCh as there were
most as many bitches as have distur
the negotiations between Europe
the Turks" before the understand
was reached the Cincinnati CONNER,
Tribune thinks the public has ca
for qualification. 1t almost recOnc
the consumers TO the miserable qua
of coal they are privileged to
double price for TO their own impoS
iShment and the enrichment of coal
generally. the miners included" Il
view comedies with that of the Bos
Traveller which, in addition, insists
"the public would like to see TIL
contracts entered into for much Ion,
periods, with due provision for readjt
ing wage scales TO altered costs of
ing. But the only assurance the p.
lie has at present applies to 1923.
important question, still to
is whether there will b.
truce in the hard coal industry
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Voice of the Nations Press

tie if not of duplicity." The Syract
Herald, independently, is convinc
however, that the Bitter Enders q;
Fostering the Harding administrati
as they did the Wilson administrati
There is one way by which the Ha
ing administration can annihilate 4
senatorial enmity on its flank, and I'll
is by adopting and proclaiming. even
this late day, some frank, firm a
coherent foreign policy. But so far \
hope has been deferred to an exte
that 'maketh the heart sick"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
a MUNICIPAL PROBLEM.
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
In an account of the proceedings Of
the commissioners published in your
paper last Friday, ! think it was, ap-
peaped an item in which, rs | interpret
ed it, they voted $500 of your money
and mine to some one to go to Cleve-
land to see balloon race. Commits
sioner Pfciffer seemed to be the only
one to protest but his protest went
unheeded. Straws show which way the
wind blows, and if these men. supposed
to guard our treasury. waste it in
this way in small things how can we
trust them in large things?
& II LEWIS
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
"HAND.PICKED CANDIDATES. :
TO The Editor

TO The Editor:
This is to offer my objections t.
an editorial with above heading
against my principle which makes mud
singing sa objectionable offense. Thi,
dishing cut generous supplies of mud
pics Gin liquid form breeds strife
among the voters, but n newspaper
editorial, like money, should have nc
inflnential bearing on the minds OF
Intelligent. honest thinking people.
The tntee gentlemen whose names
are mentioned as the Hand Pickers =
arc all large taxpayers. Hundreds of
people entertain the same ideas and
views these three mentioned above have
exhibited. They are business men with
experience and are bound TO know what
IS best for tho city, and are striving
TO work for the ultimate welfare of
F, San Antonio.
The present city administration has
done well, and it is reasonably to be
expected they would do even better.
serving another two years. Does a
corporation, or large business concern
cnange servants whom are satisfactory.
whom they know are trustworthy and
doing their duty, because others want
their Jobs?
Those who have observed Mayor
Blacks accomplishments for the City
with the help of his able corps of
workers. will find that his term of
two years compares favorably with
the majority of public office holders in
TINS community. Mayor Black has had
the same opposition and hard problems.
In way, comparable to our last Demo
cratic President, Woodrow Wilson. But
one holding public office cannot hone
70 serve and please everybody. What
one can do, is stand by principles and
right
Only praise for Hon. William o.
aieden, street commissioner. has reach
ed my ears. He has done more for
san Antonio in the improvement Of
streets than all other street commits
sloners put together, and that for the
past 20 years.
Inc street commissioner is an hon
est man, and business man-but he
Is unacquaintcd with modern "politics."
he had faith in those who gave him
The friendly "pat on the back"-and
who knows but that his faith was mis-
placed?
There are just two kinds of people
who go under the name of Friend "
The real one, who takes insults and
Illumination, will bear all adversely.
and yet "stand by" you. The other
who masquerades with the smile of
treachery, and the kiss of Judas on
ms lips who uses one for his own
ends. Our street commissioner has had
too many of the latter, but the lesson
VIII only make him the wiser for the
experience, and will add to his ability
70 nandle the situation another two
years. And remembering another. who.
being despised and much wrongnd
sought refuge from the assaultinr mob
of stone-throwers and mud-slinscrs-
and bring to mind the sequel that "he
Is was without sin was TO cast the
first stone" let us also refrain from
mob violence of professional mud-slinr.
ing. 1''''e
PROF. B. T. HINTZE.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

of the bureau was right almost every
time and it is hard to understand why
the present incumbent cannot make
forecasts with Il certain degree of ac
curacy, since the office is supplied with
many data, such as temperature, air
pressure and direction and velocity of
wind at other stations which should
eliminate the guesSwOrk. Here's hop
ing that in the future the forecasts Us
made by the San Antonio bureau will
be more accurate.
Chas. H. Biesele.
Seguin Rt. No. L.
Major Buell. received the forecasts
from New Orleans just as they are re-
ceived by Mr.. JarbOe. They have been
made at New Orleans for at least 10
years. Why, The Light does not know.
Major Buell. was emincntly qualified to-
make forecasts and Mr.. Jarboe is also
Il thoroughly competent man.
AS for the recent inaccurate fore
casts, they were. as The Light recent
ly pointed out in an editorial, due to
the presence of storm area in Mexico
of which the Weather Bureau could not
possibly be aware as there are no
means of obtaining information from
that country. The Light feels safe in
saying that any good forecaster who
had before him the data on which the
Weather Bureau made the forecasts to
which the correspondent objects, would
have predicted very much what the
Weather Bureau predicted. The trOu-
bic was in this case as it has often
been before; there were conditions af-
fecting the weather concerning which
the bureau knew nothing because it
has no means of getting data from
south of the border.
The real trouble lies with Congress
which does not make sufficient appro-
priations TO enable the Weather Blu
reau to perform its work as it would
like to do.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Strange that the banks have not
started a plan to save for your income
tax all the same their Christmas Club
System-Anaconda Standard.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

For 1000 years Europe has been fool
ing with the buzz saw and still acts sur
prised every time it loses a finger
Chicago News.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

If everybody keeps getting "bettcr
and better" what will the preacher, the
doctors and the undcrtakers do?-At-
lanta Constitution.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Bootleggers are now interested in see
ing how many deaths they can get to
the gallOn.-Ashevillc Times.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

The fact that S-year-old Jackie Coo
gan has been offered S1,JO0,000 year
is another great argument for college
Observation-Disclosures News.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Eventually the Nobel peace prize will
go 10 the man who invented the deficit.
Akron Beacon Journal.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Tulsa has this Observation-Disclosures are
no flaDpers here. At least, none Of them
will admit that they are flaPpers.-
Tulsa Daily World. BY the same token.
Little Rock has no old maids.-Little
Rock (Arkansas) Gazette.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Pungent Paragraphs

Generally speaking, too many people
are generally speaking.-Columbia Rec
ord.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
PROF. B. r. HINTZE.

The Light cheerfully makes room for
TINS letter, just to show how little some
people really know of the matters tbpy
attempt to discuss. my
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
MRS. HARDING NOW
RESTORED BY REST
Party Speeds South From
Fairbanks-Auto Trip
Plans Given Up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ABOARD PRESIDENTS SPECIAL
TRAIN. Alaska Railroad. July IL
Rest seemed today to have restored
Mrs. Harding from fatigue which
yesterday forced Mr.. Harding to turn
southwark over the Alaska railroad
from Fairbanks instead of following
a Characterised by the Alaskans
and enthusiastically urged by Mrs
Harding,-to proceed back by auto
mobile.
Nearly twenty-four hours We're
passed by the party in Fairbanks,
The President left there last evening
greatly impre ssed by the agriculture
and mining. of which that city. often
called the Chicago of Alaska, is the
pointed at missing the automobile
trip, which would have led for 325
miles over the Richardson highway
to Chitina, where train would have
been taken on the Copper River and
Northwestern railway to Cordova.
Returning to Seward.
At Cordova the party would have
boarded the Navy TRANSPORT Hender-
son. on which the President and his
party left Tacoma, Wash. July 5. and
by means of which they visited tho
ka The President expects to go upon
the Henderson at Seward, where the
party left the vessel, and to proceed
to Cordova.
The President attributed Mrs. Hard
ings fatigue to the earnest hospital
ity of the Alaskans and to the long
days of the season. This led to many
hours of activity, with shortened
sleep. The President told the people
of Fairbanks that Mrs. Harding had
been forced to go to bed worn out
She had received several gifts from
the people of that city earlier In the
day.
Gift for Laddie Boy.
. The Fairbanks folks ever remem-
bered Laddie Boy, the Presidents dog,
with a collar of moose hide decorated
with nugget gold and fossil ivory,
valued at $500.
While at Fairbanks the President
complimented w. F. Thompson. pubs
Usher OF the Fairbanks News Miner,
one of the pioneers of the territory,
on a special edition gotten out yes
terday in his honor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
NATIONAL ROW BLAMED
UPON INSANE ENVOY
Czech Minister at Warsaw Finally
Committed to Lunatic
Asylum.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
WARSAW, July 1.-THE question is
being discussed in diplomatic circles
whether recent political controversies
between Poland and Czechoslovakia
may not have been due to eccentric
reports by Prokop Maxa, Czech min
lister to Poland, who is now in an in
sane asylum.
M. Maxa during a performance at
the Theater Polski few evenings
ago, insisted upon putting his feet on
top of the chairs in front of him and
was forcibly removed. In disregard of
his diplomatic immunity. Later he
entered a vaudeville theater, where
he behaved so extraordinarily that he
was taken to his legation. Physicians
were called to examine him and de-
clared him mentally unsound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
Senator Ball, Author of Law.
Studies ProbIem-Present
Body Out Next May.
THINKS LANDLORD AND
TENANT ARE benefited
Sees Opportunity to Make Capital
Rental Model for Whole
Country.

The fact that there is now under
consideration move to make the
District Rent Commission a perma-
nent body was revealed today by
Senator Ball OF Delaware, chairman
of the Senate District committee. Un-
der existing law, the rent commission
Will go out of business May %, 1924
But there is a growing desire, Il is
said, to make the National Capital
a rental model for the country, and
the best way to do this is to keep the
rent commission on the job perma-
nently. 1t has been reported that
President Harding proba bly, will look
with favor on such a plan. For many
months after Congress had acted to
extend the life of the commission for
two years. until next May, the Presi-
dent failed to appoint the new COM
mfssion-with two additional mem
bers. But just before leaving for
Alaska the appointments to the COM
mission were made. 1t is taken in
some quarters that this action by the
PRESIDENT bears out the report that
he believes the commission should be
retained permanently.
Plans Indefinite.
Senator Ball said that he had not
yet made up his mind to offer a bill to
make the rent commission permanent,
but admitted he was thinking of 1t.
4 will, of course. be guided by cir
cumstances and conditions which
exist here during the next session of
Congress" said Senator Ball. The
present act and the act creating the
commission bear the name OF Senato
Ball.
The Supreme Court of the United
gress creating the rent commission
Delaware senator there is no legal
reason why the commission should
not be made permanent. He has
about reached the conclusion, also.
that landlords and owners of property
here, now that the city is catching up
with itself in the matter of building,
halted so long during war and post
war period, will see the benefit Of
continuing the rent commits sion in Of
flee. SO that the tenants and the land
lords may both. be assured square
deal when 1t comes to the leasing of
homes in the National Capital.
L. s. Is Interested.
The government is vitality interested
in seeing that its thousands of en-
ployes are properly housed here at
fair rentals. Senator Ball contends,
and this can well be accomplished
through such an agency as perma-
rent rent commission.