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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
BUSTING CLOUDS TO GET RAIN

4 Despite repeated official announce
fnents that ut can't be DONE" less ortho-
dox meteorologists continue to produce
rain by artificial means-according to
their own admissions. A few days
ago the United States Weather Bureau
issued q statement declaring, for the
nth time, that it was useless to try
to force the hand of Nature in the
ways attempted by the so-called rain
makers. At about the same time The
Literary Digest published an article
an which 1t was asserted that by arti-
ficial means rain had been produced
almost at will.
The Weather Bureau may be right
But what killjoy! Think of the TO-
mantle possibilities in making it rain"
by sowing sand from an airplane. To
appreciate those possibilities fully, one
5has but to consider some of the details
eof the latest process of rain-making.
2 To make it rain" in the latest fash
ion, at least three factors are required ::
An airplane, some electrically charged
sand, and a cloud. The sand, it is
stated, must be fine; but no reason
for this is given, nor is the layman
given to know whether the sand should
be of the SHARP" variety.
y Mounting above the cloud with his
load of fine sand, the rain-maker pulls
trigger, or something, and the trigger
opens trap in the cockpit, and through
the opening thus provided the sand
sifb down upon the cloud. Coming
into contact with the pillows of sus-
pended moisture, the electrified sand
gets into fairly quick action-and,
prestol rain falls upon the farm or
orchard below.
h Farm or orchardi OF course there
must be farm or orchard directly be-
low the eloud-there simply must! No
careful, economical rain-maker would
pick out cloud that was above spot
where rain would do no good. If
there was only one cloud within the
zrain-maker's field Of vision, he would
mount his airplane and do little round
up work, preliminary to the main show
He would not let 60 the electrified
sand until the cloud had been herded
into exactly the right position-pre-
cisely above the patch of ground upon
which the rain should fall.
F But the Weather Bureau continues
TO issue formal, official statements cal
.culated to discourage rain-making. 1t
may be saving the credulous and mex
perienced a lot of money, but for the
Somantically inclined IL is taking consid-
.-srable joy out of life.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
THE COYOTE.

This morning as 1 strolled along,
A coyote crossed my way,
Returned from nightly ravages
At mornings first dull gray.
Lean and agile and drab was he
Swift as a passing shade
With muscles moving in unison,
Fleetly and flexibly made.
Looping easily through the brush,
The cowardly hunter goes,
Vanishing silently into the dusk
Of mornings calm repose.
Where does he hide, / wonder,
All the long, hot day through,
Does he meet his comrades yonder
In some shady rendezvous?
And what makes the lean pack howl
When the moon sheds golden light,
through the shuddering leaves
Wild, weird music of the night?
Why such mournful voices spreading
Eerie echoes DER the land?
l listen with enchanted fear,
/ could understand.
NEAL. GARRY.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
MOTHER GOES TO BED

I wonder if John put the bolt on
the door
And is the alarm clock wound?
Good gracious, the man is beginning
to snore,
Poor dear, he does sleep so sound.
Oh my, I'm so achingly tired tonight
The dag has seemed terribly long !;
Nothing I've tried has gone halfway
right.
I'm sure Betty's dress is too long.
I'm sorry I scolded poor Johnny so
hard
For dropping the basket of eggs;
He stumbled against that big rock in
the yard
And it's lucky it wasn't his legs.
My Johnny! My Betty! SO sweet
when they sleep
And so noisy and bad all the day.
Getting in dirt from the time they
could creep,
No time to help me; they must play.
I think I must see if they're covered
up warm
There, Johnny, don't flop around so.
I feel very sure-that it's going to
storm,
The thermometer registers low.
l must get settled now and try hard
to sleep.
I'll turn over on my right side
Little grave near the willow-why do
l weep?
These years-my baby that died.
That sponge for the bread-the yeast
was not new
I must pray-too tired--can't think
Oh. ! mustn't forget the half-sole
for Johns shoe
What. darling? yes. here Is a drink.
''He shall cover thee and under
Els wings"
by noon I can-finish--the seams.
Good night Johnny babes-precious
things
Dear Lord in Thy arc-rest-dreams.
CORALIE LAWSON.
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mouth of the harbor and busted herself
about other things.
After that, the days of the Iowa as
strong factor in naval affairs was
over. She remained in commission for
a time but never left Our own waters
for any length of time. Of late years
she has been used as training ship
and now her days are over. She was
a fairly good ship of her kind and in
her day but she was literally nothing
in efficiency compared to the fighting
ships of today.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
LIFE.

"Live!" cried the World, as ht
reveled,
"Time and its pleasures flee.
When dust to the dust is leveled
You cannot romp with me.
When the feast of life is ended,
Back to the earth man turns;
Clay with his clay is blended,
A prey to the mold and worms
"Life owes you a debt of pleasure =
/ hold the fund in trust.
Collect to the fullest measure
In sin and greed and lust.
The bird and the grain and flower,
With no thought of the future
or past,
Thrill with the joys of the hour
Live cried the World, and
laughed.
Tempted was I by his greeting,
And wondered-could it be
That life, true life was fleeing
Unrecognized by me?
/ asked a nodding flower,
Sweet blossom, tell me true,
As you smile from your leafy bower
What does life mean to you?"
"Life to me is a duty
Divine assurance, blown;
For man must know my beauty
Sprang not from sod alone.
l cheer the sad, soul weary,
Heart-sick with sordid things;
For the joys of the World turn
drcary
When an empty heart he brings. ="
And then a wonderful trilling
From the throat of a passing bird
My lonely heart was thrilling,
For this was what / heard:
"God made me as setting
For pure and holy things,
Lest man should be forgetting,
l take the news on wings"
Then a gentle. happy signing
From a field of waving grain
To my questioS las replying
That naught God made in vain.
Eternal Life was speaking,
For all Nature told its part;
And-most holy joy! by seeking
i had found God in my heart.
Then life took n deeper meaning,
As the fires of my soul were lit
In fair celestial beaming-
The light of the Infinite.
All earth seemed bathed in glory
As the hand Of Nature wrote,
And | learned the wonder-story--
And thus to the World I spoke:
"Vain is your life, and founded
On the shifting sands of Time.
Ny life is immortal. uhbounded,
For it sprang from a Source di-
vine.
Empty, your life. uncaring
For the purpose or end thereof ;
Ny life shall be full in sharing
Itself in faith and love-"
For life, true life is undying
When built on love and faith.
Which shall live when the World
is lying
Inert and cold in space.
To make man immortal God lent
them
ITO return to their heavenly goal
As pure rs the day He sent them
And ''live, ali, live!" cries my
soul.
NELLIE SUTLIFF.
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What Do You Know About That?

III
SITTING IN BOX SEATS COSTING 81 week
of the tourist bessar who allowed
city sidewalks They playing the uelder game in which
takes the visiting outfders specified for each
the puOus made by the home And they
putout.
classified section last Sunday adj
vd prospective buyers follows "YOu should
elsewhere Just why not made Plain
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE SAFETY boaa
bicycle who holds onto motor car and coasts.
WITH BLOWING and the temperature flirting with
the freezing mark last Monday mendicant musician
chair Looa street and ground the rokng strains of
a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
BUNCo HARMLESS GAME that it is sanctioned by some
churches opposed such pastim but unco party recently
downtown restaurant broke in with several fist fights
L. K. RESIDES NEXT DOOR and
writes in that he has observed Pullman
tel hanging his neighbours clothes
of counting imaginary sheep lay
He distinguished the nOes of 50 different birds between II D. M and day
break and then the wondering when the ROSTERS Sleep
SEVEN WERE WALKING ALONG Navarro street. One car
red baseball bat and another carried basket ball. wonder that's
companion
you going?" and one of them answered: "swimmin'"
AFTER MIDNIGHT ON HOUSTON STREET
tales comedy tragedy their moods dictated about dainty white
satin slipper. lying in the middle of crossing
J MYERS 1907 NOLAN STREET a pulet
which he claims the bgggayng championship of this section To
eight inches other. weighed and
ne-fourth
THEY WERE RIDING ALONG ROAD parallel the railroad
suddenly
looked laughed enlightened her and then she refused speak the
of the home
GIANT training a confirmed pessi
him the title he Sour that
Glooms in the Spring, blah-bah"
THE POLICE STILL WONDERING kind liquor
by recently. had
when found pull the tarvia topping
him for a covelet
COUNTY MOTORCYCLE OFFICER appreciated quick wit of
speeder limits the other day and
officer
you think a
farmers home IL miles buy good country sausage
POLICE HEADQUARTERS RECEIVE eempsfnE
about nehbors chickens scratching back yard but isn't
made II
don't get mixed up in a neighborhOOd row."
RECENTLY ATTENTION patrons
building which
NOT building
caught sObeyng few days and the sign taken down.
THE WEEKS MEANEsT MAN Drank NJ Lewis will know
meant the who lost when his opposing him
hoed from off
arbitrarily fined the boy
monthly allowance
LOUD Walls HEARD vicinity following
from faith
of the seed houses who didn't
THOSE WITH PENCHANT poker serial
numbers of automobiles much the five numbers make
poker
han the value n game.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
NO SUBSIDY FOR DOCTORS

This is an age in which too many
people are trying to live en- the labor
of others, presumably in the belief that
the world just naturally owes them a
living. But there are many exceptions
to the tendency, and not least among
them is that described in a report from
New York which says that committee
of physicians of that state protested to
Governor Smith against the legislative
proposal to subsidizc. country doctors.
The idea of the authors of this measure
was that there were not enough doctors
in various rural communities of New
York, and that the alleged shortage
could be made up by giving city doctors
monetary inducemcnt to move to the
country.
AS a matter OF fact, there are fewer
country doctors in most states, il not in
all, than there used to be. This decrease
does not, however, mean that the num-
Der is insufficient to give proper atten-
ton to the sick-in so far as country
doctor, without hospital facilities as
most rural practitioners are, is able to
render full measure of service. The
automobile has greatly increased the
doctors field of practice. The mortality
rate, too, has decreased, thanks largely to
medical science as a whole, which has
made great strides during the last two
or three decades, and particularly to ply
scians who have devoted their lives to
the task of keeping their respective
neighbors in good health.
A good doctor-and good" means
honest and conscientious as we'll as
learned in medicine and surgery-must
necessarily practice against his own
monetary interest. If his neighborhood
is inhabited by healthy people, his purse
will be slender; and it is his duty as a
doctor to keep sickness down to a
minimum.
To propose a subsidy for such men, as
means of inducing them to do that to
which they have consecrated their lives,
may not be regarded as an insult, for
the chances are that it would never be
intended as such, but it pays no great
tribute to a profession which for human
i4lo llNNSl DSSil SUI pdSSCQ
OH this earth.
A doctor has many temptations to
make money at the expense of his pro-
fession. Some doctors yield, but
the majority continue to walk as up
rightly as though they had never heard
whisper of promised gain. They have
to make quick decisions, too, choosing
between their own personal interest and
the welfare of their patients. A good
doctor never vacillates when the time
for such a choice comes. His decision
is made even before the occasion for it
arises. His is life of self-sacrifce
This applies to members of the medi-
cal profession in general, and particularly
to country doctors. 1t is the latter who
have to face the greatest obstacles and
employ the highest degree of ingenuity.
To offer them a subsidy for doing what
they regard as their unconditional duty
is to express ignorance concerning the
lives of the men who have administered
to the sick since time immemorial.
----OO-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25

With prohibition agents raiding in
Washington daily, no wonder Congress
adjourned and the President went to
Florida.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25

A Georgia woman has been sent to
prison for poisoning her husband. a lot
Of ncwlywcds cook like that too, but
usually escape punishment.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25

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The above totals and averages for paid cir
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copies OF nature.
2 We hereby swear that the foregoing statement OF
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daFS Business Manager.
~ BwcfH 70 and subscribed before this 3rd day
~ March A D. 1879,
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S. Notary Public.
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The story about that girl who had a
temperature of ia degrees was hot
stlff-while it lasted.
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paper changed. to give both old and new addrrsses
EhoCd delivery be Irregular, please notify the oice
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SITTING IN COSTING 81 game
of the tourist begg who allowed their
city sidewalks They playing the oudr game" which
takes the visiting specified puut against
the made
putout
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REAL ESTATE ADV. IN THE classified section last Su
Used prospective buyers follows You befor
Elsewhere" just why made Plain
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BUNCO rs SUCH HARMLESS GAME chat it is sanctione,

churches opposed to such pasmes but bunco given
downtown restaurant broke with fist fights
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25

ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE SAFETY last club
bicycle who holds onto motor and coasts.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25

L. K. RESIDES NEXT DOOR to who travels a good
writes in that he has observed Pullman
tel hanging his neighbours clothes line wash day.
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TERTIARY CIRCULATION

The paid circulation OF The san Antonio Light
during the month OF February 1928, day by day was
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25

WITH COLD WIND BLOWING the flirting
the freezing mark Monday mendn
chair Losoya and rockng
la Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
c. 0.P.OUT|NG
FOR CARTERET
Republicans Have CIambake
candidates Address Gath
ering Largely Attended

CARTERET, Sept. 1.-THE Car
teret Republican Club held a most
successful clambake at East Railway
yesterday afternoon. 1t was attend
ed not only by Republicans, but
Democrats as we'll. After a delight
full menu was served, talks were
made by county and local candi-
dates which included Freeholders
Walter ~Quakenbush, Fred J. Orpen,
Clarence NJ. Haight and William S.
-Dey, assembly candidates, John A.
Smith, Assemblyman Thomas l..
Hanson, Assemblyman Harold G.
Hoffman. David Brown and Fred
Gowen, candidates for sheriff: Her.
eules Ellis. candidate for member
of the council.
The speakers dwelt chiefly on the
/ political situations in the county and
expressed confidence that this years.
candidates will win by a large mar
gin of votes. Mayor Thomas J.
Mulvihill was very optimistic as to
the future of Republican administra-
ton in the borough placing much
confidence in council candidate Ellis
to win over the Democratic selection.
why, Ellis will win," the mayor
said, there is no question about 1t.
His popularity is growing, he holds
an important position in a local
plant, and what is more they elected
him Thursday as chief of the Car
teret Fire Department."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
SPEEDING AT METUCHEN
CAUSES SEVERAL FINES


METUCHEN, Sept. IA number
of autoists in passing through town
yesterday fell into the clutched of
the law for failing to reduce their
speed to the legal limit entering the
borough and in each cast fines were
imposed by Recorder Weber.
Milton Frank, of Virginia, and
Charles Pleisse of Ohio, each paid
fines of SIS and costs for maintain
ing a thirty mile speed on Middlesex
avenue and Walter Z. Messig. of Ho-
boken, was assessed $40 for driving
at twenty-five miles. Marshall Bow
ers made the arrests.
Seigfried Maier. of New York, was
fined $40 and costs by Justice of the
Peace Robert Mallory, on the COM
plant of Motor Vehicle Inspector
Frank L. Snyder, who testified that
the defendant driving at a high rate
of speed was -endangering the lives
of other autoists ON the highway by
cutting in and out of traffic at n
forty miles an hour gate.
Peter PARENT, of Newark, was
summoned to appear before the re-
corder next Wednesday night for
driving a car with swinging license
plates and for the failure to have a
registration card.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
MATAWAN

-Four traffic violators were arrest
ed by Traffic Officer Haycock yes
.terday and fined $40 and costs each
by Recorder Gustav Gesswein: The
cost and fines amounted to $3.50.
Those fined We're: George B. Crook,
Toms River: Stephen Svizenni, Nor
ganville; William Conklin, Newark
and Charles NJ. Butler. Keyport. All
the men were charged with driving
their automobiles at more than thir-
|ty miles an hour.
Mrs. Alice l.. Dave and daughter
Gladys were Perth Amboy visitors,
Saturday.
While returning to his home here
on Thursday night, Councilman
frank Howard Lloyd, superintendent
of the Middletown Township Schools
lost a wheel from his automobile
when passing through Keyport. The
fact that Mr.. Lloyd was driving slow
ly at the time probably was the
means of not having a serious ac-
cident.
MIR. and Mrs. William G.. Bedle Sr.
were Perth Amboy visitors Satur-
day.
Miss Edith Magee has taken a po-
sition in the Home of Sweets.
James Van Brackle is enjoying a
three weeks vacation.
Miss Katherine Foley has returned
to New York after spending a few
days in town as the guest of Post
master and Mrs. Forman R. Thomp-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett McISeen were
Perth Amboy visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Bell, who have
been visiting Herbert A. Bushnell,
have returned to their homes in
Brooklyn.
The Matawan police are searching
this vicinity for two boys reported to
have escaped from the State Home
for Boys at Jamesburg last night.
Miss Addie Sisco and Miss Arm
strong have rented a house i'm Broad
way, Keyport an dwill reside there
this winter. Miss Sisco who lives in
Asbury Park is employed as physical
training teacher in the Middletown
Township schools.
Miss Lucy Miller is taking a sec
~retarial course in a Newark business
college.
According to latest reports Mata-
wan now has a membership of 149
in the Social Service. The quota for
this borough Gas 100.
Mrs. Howard Lloyd was a Perth
Amboy visitor Saturday.
Several persons from this borough
and township went on the excursion
to Luray. Va, which was run over
the Central railroad yesterday.
Work is progressing rapidly onethe
new garage being erected in Jackson
street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
GENERAL CERAMICS MEN
HAVE ANNUAL CLAMBAKE

KEASBEY, Sept. 17:-The first
annual clambake of the employees of
the General Ceramics Works. held at
Old Bridge Saturday, proved to be
such a tremendous success that the
officials have already taken steps to
have a similar affair next year.
About seventy persons were present,
leaving here about IL o'clock by
autos. Various games were INDUCED
in until the dinner was served by
Patrick j. Rocks, the caterer. In
a tug-of-war the married men de-
feated the single lads. Quot match
es were held and a boxing exhibition
was included in the program. Paul
Boldolsky was chairman of the com
mittee in charge and is due eredi
for the success of the affair.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
JAMESBURG GIRL WINS
SILVER CUP At TENNIS

JAMESBURG, Sept. 17:-Miss
Virginia Voorhees,. youngest daugh-
ter of MI. and Mrs. Milton I. Voor-
bees, of Stockton street, has just
been awarded a handsome silver cup
by the Ocean Grove Tennis Club, de-
signaling this agile young lady as
the 1923 champion in the ladies'
singles. The scores were GO. 60,
showing that the victories were not
fukes but won after hard playing.
Miss Voorhees, competitor had
held the club honors for three con-
~secutive years and as this is the local
girls first serious attempt at tennis
Ter honors come doubly pleasing.
Miss Voorhees, is a student at the
Mt. Ida School for Girls at Newton,
Mass, and has been added to the
athletic faculty in her second year.
showing her to be adept at all de-
partments of athletics that he girls
specialize in.
The Voorhees, family summer at
Ocean Grove.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
WRECKED CAR ABANDONED
IN YARD At METUCHEH

METUCHEN Sept. 1.-THE local
police are conducting an investiga-
ton into the circumstances sur
rounding the wrecking and aban-
donment of a light sedan car bearing
Pennsylvania license number S24,953
which was discovered in the front
yard of c. L. Heartman of Middle
sex avenue, shortly after daylight
yesterday morning.
Nelghbors living in the vicinity
report hearing a crash in hat 10
cality before & o'clock in the morn
ing, but as it was dark at the time
the cause of the noise was not
learned,
The theory advanced by the po-
lice is hat the driver of the car IN
travelling north on Holly street was
unaware of the turn at the intersec-
ton OF the highway and rushed into
the Heartman yard instead of ne
gotiating the turn. The machine had
turned over and the wheels were
broken, but no trace of the oecu-
pants was found.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
SEFER T0RAH GIVEN
TO SHAAREY TlFIL0H

A large gathering was in attend
ance yesterday afternoon at the
Shaarey Tefiloh synagogue to witness
the ceremonies which marked the
presentation of a sefer torah to the
synagogue by Mrs. Rebeeca A. Levy
of 60 Madison avenue Mrs. Levy
also presented a gold crown and
front-piece to go with the torah.
Rabbi S. Rabinowitz and Rev. H. l..
Chain delivered addresses. The sum
of $103 was contributed by those
present which sum was apportioned
by Mrs. Levy to the following instl-
tutions: Congregation Shaarey Tefi-
lob, $25; Pe-th Amboy Hebrew
school, $2S; Keren Hayesod. $25;
Ladies Original Society, SIS; Y. NJ.
H.. A. furniture fund of the Daugh-
ters of Jacob. $50. N. Wilentz was
the chairman, recorder of donations
was H. Brody, and treasurer, S. Fine.