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Evening star., 1923-03-11

buy their musical instruments. The
difference IN the methods of doing
business. as he explained. was due to
the fact that in the case of autono-
biles the finance company extends the
time privilege, whereas the phono-
graph dealer finances his customers
directly and IS. in turn, financed by
his bank. 1t makes all the difference
in the world.
Some Exceptions Notea.
There are some exceptions, to n.
sure--cases in which a dealer is A..
nancially strong enough to extend thS
tine-payment privilege to his cus.
toners. but he is Just as much in th.,
minority as the dealer who still ads
heres to a strictly cash business. In
30 per cent of the cases the finance
company is the money lender, and In
naturally unconcerned as to how the
car behaves
The phonograph dealer, on the other.
hand, is interested in getting the bal.
ance OF his money and he feels that he
fs still selling the instrument until
II ts fully paid for. But the autoro-
bile dealer gets his cash and calls It
a sale. II the dealer happens to be one
OF the sort-and they are numerous,
who is wide-aWake enough to look
ahead to the repeat sale he will, of
course evidence interest in any sub
sequent kicks by the owner. To the
CONTINUED on Seventh Page.)
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ranged on a sort Of triangle basis.
whereby the dealer occupies one
point. the buyer another and q financ-
ing company the third. The financing
company accepts the buyers note for
the unpaid balance on the car. plus
premiums for tnsurance-which Is
compulsory-and arranges for pay
ment of the note on n monthly basis
ranging from ten to twelve months,
using the car itself as collateral.
The cash payment required to be
made at the time Of the sale seldom
runs to less than q third OF the de-
livered price OF the car, and thus
represents the amount Of the FIRST
years depreciation. The financing
company is. therefore. amply pro-
tected In case the buyer defaults and
the car reverts to their hands.
Always Ready to Loan.
Tie dealer is then paid in cash. Tho
finance company apparently has
Niagara Of money somewhere and is
always ready to loan Il out at legal
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far fewer who have to lament, ~ do
not see why suggestion has not helped
me as it has so many people of less
educational advantages TIN / have
had" For when educH ton becomes, so
to speak. spiritualized, ability to re-
spond intellectually to healing sug-
gestions will DO much more common
than it now is, and consequently more
people will benefit therefrom.
Though. to be sure, absence of faith
and insufficiency of faith are by no
means the only impeding influences on
therapeutic suggestion, rendering it
vaIueless even in the case of maladies
wherein it has repeatedly proved its
value.
Persons capable Of the most ardent
faith-and perhaps having ardent faith
may uncOnscieusly adopt mental at
titudes otherwise making them non-re-
ceptive to healing suggestions, however
skilfully given. But discussion OF this
further aspect of the subject must be
reserved for some future day.
copyright, 1928. by the Associated
NewsDaperS.l
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
THE COLD FACTS

The situation in Europe as between
France and Germany, is commencing toI
show some ugly features. The German
coal barons have announced that they do
not intend to confer with the French and
the French have informed them that il
they do not come, they will be sent for.
There have been demonstrations, the
French have been fired upon, have re-
turned the fire and killed one man. Al
together, the situation is not reassuring.
1t is quite necessary in view of the
situation and of the possible developments
that the world look upon the situation
calmly and in the light OF reason.
In the first place, Germany is dcclar-
ing that the invasion of the Ruhr district
by the French is a violation of the treaty
.of Versailles. This is not true. The
treaty provided for precisely the action
that is now being taken by France and
Germany signed that treaty of her own
free will Under the terms of the treaty,
Germany agreed that she would make
certain payments for the devastation she
had created in France and BELGIUM. She
has not kept her word. She has con-
stantly defaulted on the payments she
agreed to make. France is now using
methods of collection which Germany
agreed should be taken if she dcfaulted
on her promises to pay. Under the terms
OF the treaty, Germany has no right OF
complaint.
In the second place, can anyone doubt
that if the case was reversed Germany
would collect what was due to her and
collect it in the most ruthless manner
If anybody questions that probability, LET
them look back at what Germany did
in the period following the war of 1870,
III.
When Bismarck was at Versailles ii
1870, he demanded that the mayor of that
city raise a municipal loan. The mayor
replied that he had not the authority
to do so. Bismarck replied: "The French
forget that we are the stronger and tina
we take what we want" There is NJ
mistaking language of that sort.
Later, when word was brought to Bis
marck that the German authorities in Ger
tain occupied French territory were hav
ing trouble in the collection of taxes i'm
posed by the Germans, he strongly advo
Gated the use of force as method OF col
lection. He said:
of we cannot supply garrisons 10
every place within the sphere OF occuPa
ttion, we should, from time to time, sem
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a flying column wherever they show
themselves recalcitrant and shoot, hang
and burn. When that has been done a
couple of times they will learn sense"
That is what Germany would do in
France today if the shoe was on the other
foot, if history is to be accepted as a pre-
cedent. France is not as severe with
Germany as Germany would be with
France and moreover, the French are act
ing in full accord with the terms of a
formal treaty to which Germany willingly
affixed her signature.
1t is somewhat refreshing at this time
to hear Germany denounce France as a
breaker of treaties. Who was it, not
so long ago, who denominated treaties as
Scraps of paper" 1t certainly was not
France. Is any nation to be allowed the
right TO break treaties when she hopes
to profit by so doing and then complain
of violation of treaty by others? Not
if there is any sense of justice in the
world.
More than that, it must be remembered
that about one-thirteenth of the manufac-
turig resources of France were destroyed
by the Germans, her lands devastated
with the deliberate intention of making
them unproductive and that at the end
of the war the need of France for food
was so urgent that she commenced the
planting and raising of crops before she
even commenced the restoration of her
buildings. In Germany, no damage was
done. A large part of the money she
agreed to pay for the ruin wrought in
France has been sent by her millionaires
to Switzerland where it is held in finan-
cial storage and for the purpose OF put
ting it where France cannot reach it.
Germany is building ships and railroads
and France is striving to regain her in
dustrial and financial 'balance-and the
crime of the war cannot be charged
against France.
If France sends for the coal barons
of Germany and gathers them in, Ger
many established the precedent in a far
more infamous way by dragging women
and girls from Belgium and northern
France during the war.
There is no possibility that France will
ever collect from Germany all that is due
to her. There may be strong doubt that
her present course is wise in the light
of expediency, but we must remember
that France is proceeding in Strict ac-
cordance with the provisions of the treaty
of Versailles to which Germany agreed.
These are the cold facts of the situa-
ton and we must not lose sight of them
in sympathy for either side to the con-
troversy.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
FIGHT ON OPEN PORT
Commercial Associations Plan to OPP
pose Repeal of State Law.

Concerted efforts to have the Open
Port Bill repealed are arousing the
various commercial and industrial in
terests of the state and they are band
ing together TO block such action at the
present meeting of the Legislature. A
wire received at the Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday evening from tn Calves
ton Commercial Association. asks that
the merchants and the industry lead
ers of the city have their representa-
tives oppose any action against the bill.
At the time the bill. which gives the
Governor the right to maintain any port
in the state open in case of strikes or
other disorders, was passed the local
chamber gave it its support, and went
on record as being in sympathy with
the measure. The message from the as
ISOLATION at Galveston was Wednesday
turned over to John Cunningham, chair
man of the legislative committee of the
chamber. with the power to act on the
request in any way necessary.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
Watching the Parade
BY John Pilgrom.

For months past the Professor mas
been puzzle to me. 1t has been SUI
ficiently evident that he is man OF
education. His voice tells me be is
intelligent-and not every edueateu
man is-and his manners are those OF
gentleman. Yet he visits offices with
a basket Of apples on his arm.
"Why do you not get around more
often?" 1 asked him. '.... :.
II do not want TO become a nuisance,
he said in his gentle. refined, kindly
way.
So / made bargain with him. i
agreed that for one week l would BUY
exactly twice as many apples as he had
ever sold. Then 1 made him my agent
to sell them again. My one condition
was that for that week he should enter
every office in the buildings he Is ac-
customed to frequent. l did not be-
lieve he had been working his terri
tory. g,
Sometimes" he said, in tone so sad
that | could almost have wept, "they
are not very kind to me in some OF the
Offices"
"That doesn't make any difference.
You are in business, and a business man
who insisted on being loved in addition
to being paid might have a hard time
establishing his trade"
The old man in that trial week sold
not twice, but three times as many ap-
pies as he ever sold before in the same
time. Some louis ordered him out OF
their offices and told him they did not
want him bothering around. Under his
contract he was obliged to enter their
offices the next day, just as though they
had pinned a rose on him. He sold ap-
Piles eventually even in the office in
habited exclusively by ten-minute eggs.
By the end of the week he had worked
up a trade that was really worth while.
Yet he had been going through the same
territory in an apologize, meek, gentle
way for q year.
There are lot of us who, like the
old man, insist that our business con-
facts shall Ony be pleasant ones. If we
are not kindly treated we feel like
crying about it. But that does not pay
the rent. The comforting thought is
that nature furnishes a protective coat
ing. We continue TO resent boorishness,
but also we can do business with the
boors
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18

Washington, ID. c., Jan. 18.-It
would be immensely interesting to
see Monty Norman and Andy Mellon
in solitary conference. Immensely.
Like watching total eclipse Of the
sun from the wings or looking at the
Judgment Day through the wrong
end og the telescope. No one ever
will. Perhaps the sight would be too
much for mortal mind. Perhaps it
would blast the eyes, as did the un-
bearable beauty of Lady Godiva when
the unwise villager peeped.
Think of it.
Here are two of the most important
men in the world of finance. An
drew Mellon, Secretary of the United
States Treasury, the sixth or seventh
richest man in the world, owner of
railroads and mines and distilleries
and manufactures. Slender, gray,
family irritable, very reticent, some
what embarrassed by the publicity of
his position, as becomes a man who
has spent his life in the most private
Of private offices in a defended, shell
tered, and barricaded bank. Montagu
Norman, governor of the Bank OF
England. the worlds greatest finan-
cial institution, reared in all the aloof
conservatism of the British system,
plus that added aloofness-naturally
gained by contact with billions. A
man who never talks. He was able
to visit Washington during the sum-
mer and not be heard of.
If they were to get right down to
cases in their conversation one could
take the words as they fell from their
lips right down to the mint and cash
them in. But they will not. They
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Pointed Paragraphs

Many a homely woman has posed as
beauty SPECIALIST.
Figures may not lie, but figures OF
speech are often misleading.
Nothing provokes a proud woman
like lack OF pride in her husband.
Never judge man by his stylish
clothes; maybe his wife paid her
them.
A woman is never satisfied with her
self until she has put it all over her
neighbor some way.
Life is merely game of chance
and fate seems to have stacked the cards
against most of us.
A woman runs almost as fast when
she sees a mouse as a man does when
he hears baby crying.
Wise is the man who knows when
to turn the other cheek and when to
knock his opponent down.
When a woman is getting the worst
OF it in an argument with a man she
says: "Oh, that's just like mani"
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nizcd sound business or economic Princi-
pies.
Accordingly, the people Of Texas IN
general, as we'll as those of West Texas
in particular, should be gratificd by the
report that a plan for saving the ORIENT
has been agreed upon tentatively by the
receiver of that system, officials OF South
western trunk-line railroads and repre-
sentatives of the Interstate Commerce
Commission This by no means assures
success: there is possibility that even
the tentative arrangements will not be car
ried out. But the agreement marks the
first actual step yet made along lines tree
from the suspicion of economic tallacy.
Other propositions have been presented,
but none of them has been even tenta-
lively adopted by authorities empowered
to act.
The plan now in prospect OF execution
is notable not only because OF its adoption
by such authorities, but also because 1t
lies in direction opposite to the expert
ment which has already been tried unsuc-
cessfullv-an experiment that, even in the
abstract. ought to have been avoided as
being fallacious The United States gov
eminent loaned the Orient S2,500,OO0, and
of course that money did not Save" the
road. This experiment hardly deserves
such a designation, for the outcome was
almost foregone conclusion. The money
obtained from the government could not
have changed the nature of the Orients
plight: it could only be absorbed in the
process of prolonging the operation OF
The road. The roads needs have been and
are broadly economic, not narrowly none
tary.
Under the plan favored by railroad and
government officials, the other lines OPP
Grating in the Southwest would cooper
ate to improve the Orient's chances of
helping itself. In the aggregate they
would make a sacrifice in its favor, but
the extra burden which each road would
carry would be almost negligible Or,
even if their diversion of tonnage to the
Orient should appreciably reduce their
own income, that sacrifice, in case the
plan should be successful. would be i'll the
nature of an investment from which they
would ultimately receive considerable re-
turns.
By diverting to the Orient sufficient
tonnage to enable it to earn operating ex-
penses, the other southwestern railroads
would be contributing to the development
OF future source of revenue for them
selves. The project would be somewhat
like the building OF new railroad in
virgin territory OF great economic prom
Use The territory traversed by the Orient
is rich in potentialities. Some day-and
that day may not be far distant-the re-
gions which this road has endeavored &c
serve will be great source Of freight
and then the joint investment which the
trunk lines of the Southwest propose tc
make, in the form of aid for a failing
road, would yield highly profitable reve'
nues to all.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
Faith and Suggestion
BY ii. Addington Bruce.

1t may be true-it certainly is true
that we still have much to learn re-
garding the mechanism of suggestion
as an agent in the healing of disease.
But some of the conditions affecting its
potency are well established, and among
these none is Of more Importance than
the part played by faith.
Hundreds of years ago one of Emile
Coue's predecessors, Paracelsus, antici-
pating the findings of modern scientific
mental healing, thus drew attention to
this really basic factor in all successful
suggestion:
at is from faith that Imagination
draws its power. Any one who believes
in the secret resources of nature re-
ceives from nature according to his
own faith. Let the object of your faith
be real or imaginary, you will in equal
degree obtain the same results"
Compare with this, Coue's own obser-
walton:
when you make conscious auto-sug-
gestiOns, do it naturally, simply, with
conviction. BE sure that you will
obtain what you want, and you will
obtain it, so long as it is within rea-
son."
Now, one of the most difficult of
things, to the average educated man OF
today, is to have this unquestioning
faith, this fcrvent faith urged by all
healers since the remote times when
mental medicine had its beginnings.
1t is difficult for many reasons. not
least among which is education itself.
In proportion as men become familiar
with modern knowledge, and particu-
larly with the materialistic implications
of much modern science, they are in
creasingly inclined to doubt, question
and reject the immaterial, the intang-
IDLE. the spiritual.
Even while processing faith and in
all honesty insisting that they have
faith, they may entertain in their hearts
, reservations that make them skeptical
without being aware OF it. So true IS
this. and so serious are its consequences
| from the point of view of drawing on
the healing powers which demOnstrably
are the possession of mankind, that one
of the wisest of physicians, the late
DIR. James ]. Putnam, exclaimed short
| ly before his death:
"We are too science-ridden, and real
| ize too little that science has its limi-
| tations and that intuition has Its
rights"
Happily, among scientists themselves
there is n growing tendency to recog-
nize the limitations of science. Ultra
materialistic dogmas are losing their
hold in the scientific mind, and the eff
feet in time must be most salutary so
far MS education in general is concerned.
When that time does arrive there VIII
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From a Seat in the Gallery
BY HERBERT COREY.

could sit in the same room with each
other, all alone, side by side, for hours,
and neither would say anything quo
table. One might possibly remark
that the room was too warm. The
other might say:
yes"
Here in Washington there is fear
that the governor of the Bank of Eng
land will get the better of the Secre-
tary of the United States Treasury. He
comes over here with the reputation
of being a mighty man, Norman does.
He has manner, fine, calm, cold.
composed, superior manner. One
might imagine, if ones imagination
were equal to the task, that Montagu
Norman and Andrew Mellon might sit
down facing each other, each strain
ing every nerve and sinew to establish
the mastery over the other. Billions
are at stake. The tax-rate of the
British Isles is being played against
the tax-rate of the United States. The
only salient fact in the situation-the
only one that is worth considering-is
that we Americans are for the mo-
ment richer than the British. There
is no doubt that the British can pay
the debt due America and will if
they must.
Whether they must or not will be
decided by that silent, intense, almost
terrible duel between these two great
men of the Gold Country-Montagn
Norman and Andrew Mellon. 1t will be
pressure against pressure, courage
against courage, the will not to col
lapse against the will not TO collapse.
Two human glaciers meeting in the
Ice Age.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
NINTH WANTS BANDSMEN
Organization Opens for Recruiting for
All Instruments.

The Ninth Infantry Band, Second
Division, now has a number Of vacan-
cies in its organization and will re-
cruit two solo cornet players, one first
or second cornet player. two solo clari-
net players, two second or third clari-
net players. two saxaphone players, one
good violinist who wishes to study a
band instrument, and one good pianist
who would like to learn a band instru-
ment, it was announced Tuesday by
Capt. Ernest John, commanding the ser
vice company of the Ninth Infantry.
Qualified musicians who pass the
physical examinations can be assigned
to the Ninth Infantry Band by desig.
mating their desire at the Fort Sam
Houston recruiting office. Recruits who
enlist away from San Antonio will be
furnished transportation to Fort Sam
Houston. where they can likewise in.
dictate their desire to be assigned TO the
band of the Ninth Infantry.
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THE SOLITARY REAPER

Behold her. single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
o listen! for the Vale profound
is Overlooking with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
OF Travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring time from the Cuckoo-bird,
breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings:
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old unhappy. far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is L some more humble lay, ...
Familiar matter Of today?
Some natural sorrow. loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again!
Whate'er the theme. the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
] saw her singing at her work,
And Ger the sickle bending:-
] listened. m6tionless and still;
And. as ] mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart | bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
William Wadswort
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FANNY
A Southern Blossom

Come and see her as she stands,
Crimson roses in her hands;
And her eyes
Are as dark as Southern night.
Yet than -Outhern dawn more bright
And a SOFT alluring light
In them lies.
None deny il she beseech
With that pretty, liquid speech
OF the South.
All her consOnants are slurred
And the vowels are preferred;
There's a poem in each word
From that mouth.
Even Cupid is her slave:
OF her arrows, half he gave
Her one day
In merry, playful hour.
lowered with these and beauty's dover,
Strong indeed her magic power,
So they say.
Venus, not to be Outdone
BY her generous little son,
3d.. Shaped the mouth
Very like to Cupd's bow.
Lack aday! Our North can show
No such lovely flowers as grow
In the South
Anne Reeve Aldric
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REAL AID FOR ORIENT ROAD

Just what the Orient railroad needs to
make it going concern" the average
citizen is not supposed to know-and
doubtless this negative supposition does
him no injustice. Experts in transporta-
ton and business could hardly be ex-
pected to know Enthusiastically whether
any given pan of Saving" the Orient
would be ultimately successful. But one
thing ought to be obvious to all-there
can be no harm in trying any plan which
does not on its face contravcue recog-
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To Dedicate Monument.

Corpus Christi, Tex, Jan. 1s.-All
the churches in Corpus Christi, through
their pastors and choirs, will have a
part in the services dedicating the mon
ument erected in memory of the uniden-
titles dead who lost their lives in the
1910 storm. and who lie buried in To-
cal cemetery. The services will be held
January 25 according to Miss Mildred
Seaton, chairman of the Nueces county
chapter of the American Red Cross at
the time of the disaster. The monu-
ment, large granite boulder, was pur-
chased by the national organization.
1t came from the Llano hills of Texas.