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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
COMPENSATION INSURANCE

To The Editor:
I am wondering il any one has
called attention to the fact that our
Compensation Bureau at Austin has
increased the rate on CONF ensation
insurance either by actually increased
rates on certain specified occupations
or by changing the occupations in
such manner as that the same results
and increased premium are secured.
l think the attention of employ
ers of labor should be called to this
fact. and that a concerted move
should be made looking to the show
ing to the Compensation Bureau at
Austin that the increased rates are
unjust. unreasonable, without Justl-
fication and without necessity. The
insurance companies have, L believe,
been prosperous on past rates ana
classificatiOns.
My understanding is that these in
creased rates or changing of classi.
fications were secured i'll behalf OF
the insurance companies on their APP
plication or through some other chan
mel, and without the insurer having
an opportunity to meet the case and
proposition in the court or in equity,
the insurer having. offered no chance
to be heard by the bureau.
I think all chambers Of commerce,
manufacturers associations and other
organizations of employers, as well
as Individual employers should take
this matter UP unitedly and agrees
sively. with not only the Compensa-
ton Bureau at Austin, but also the
insurance companies with whom the
employer is doing business.
If you see anything in this let
ter worth while publishing, calling
the attention of the employers TO this
fact, you are at liberty to do SO, in
your publication.
Sincerely yours.
San Antonio Sewer Pipe Works.
G. s. McElroy, Mgr.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
NO EUGENIC LAW WANTED

To the Editor:
1 read with interest, in the letter
column OF March II, the criticism
of the failure to enact bill at Austin,
making pre-marriage examinations
comulsory.
The writer Of that letter apparent
~ has a good heart, but a very mea-
zsEag knowledge of the worlds ways
What a wonderful world this would
be, in the newt fifty years, if such q
thing were possible. AS the writer
of that letter stated, disease would be
put down to a minimum, very few
babes would pay the penalty of their
parents errors, and marriage would
be the beautiful institution it should
be, in the next fifty years, if such a
with a clean mind and without fear
of the results. But what a forlorn
hope it is at this time. How many,
many people have been hoping for
such a law for many years past.
An idea Of what the passage OF
such a law would mean can be CLEAN
ed from the study of conditions in
this city alone; and this is clean
city from the standpoint of social dis
ease, compared to the rest of the ma
ton, or the world, for that matter
It is true it would stop marriage by
those who were unfit; but with what
a result. There would be more girls
robbed Of Gods greatest gift. virtue
more illegitimate children, than the
state could care for. 1t would mean
little short of social revolution.
Such q law would be gift from
Heaven if it could be carried out sue
cessfully; but it cannot at this age
Of the world.
Whoever caused such a bill to be
put before the House, no doubt had
the interest Of the people at heart,
but it was well that Texas had
enough level headed men in office to
prevent its passage, for the sake Of
every man, woman and child in the
United States.
II the couple who are about to en-
ter into a contract of marriage, are
SO base, so low and filthy as to
knowingly hold their mate open to a
disease, and worse, to permit children
to be born of their marriage, then it
is matter to be settled between
themselves, on earth, and their Maker
when they leave this earth and is not
q matter for a few men or women
in office to settle, unless one or the
>vtnSr of the married couple sees fit
to appeal to the courts for the little
satisfaction (there could be no JUS
tice melted QUIT that the courts might
give the complainant.
What has been the reult Of the So
called vice crusades that have taken
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

wrong with law that causes as much
trouble as the Nolstead law. Pro
hibition may be decidedly desirable
but judging from the reactions we are
getting 1t seems that W. are not quite
ready for so drastic a measure.
We should not violate the law C.
cause it does not suit us. If II does
not suit us then why not try 10
change 1t.
1t does not necessarily mean that
the majority rules. IL The minority
is more aggressive it has a good
running handicap.
At the time this law was put
across" thousands of our men were
under arms and had no voting power.
They should have some Say So on
this subject. If it was an emerg-
ency measure necessary at that time,
then it should have become void
with the ending of the war, and II
necessary put up to" the people
after these boys got back their vote.
More people resent this measure
because they feel that the principles
of fair play have been violated than
from any real objection to prohibi-
ton.
Last summer when l was in Aus
tin. a woman showed me list OF
names of some of our law makers
as honorary members of some sort of
temperance club. These men were
asked to put their names on the pa
per and donate $1.00. Those who
had already paid were very carefully
marked Pd. Whether the dollar or
the name was more desired i can not
say.
On looking over the names l saw
some who were alleged to have looked
upon wine when it was red and
/ had not heard of any change in
their point of view. asked her II
She did not know this and she said
she was sure that they did not drink
any too much. This woman told me
that she had spent twelve years IN
different universities. Maybe she did,
but / still think that she omitted
logic from her course Of STUDY. she
felt sure that sne would get all the
names of the men in the Legislature
and also the Governors. She had an
optimistic vie wof the subject for j
think / know some she won't get.
One of our national weeklies has
some good "stuff" on wet dry" poll
ticians with their clay feet dripping
mud" all over everything. If we
force politicians to live up to the
principles that they espouse we will
come nearer to getting at what peo-
pie really want. A 'wet" is. wet as
long as his cash holds out. but you
can't always tell about a dry
1t seems that We have thrown the
"lure of the forbidden" about drink
ing. which appeals to the adventure
instinct, that is especially strong in
youth.
1t also seems Tin all reverence) that
I read somewhere in the Bible about
Christ serving wine to the wedding
guests-but it was not against the
law of the country.
Drinking is hot the only way of
being incorporate. You can debase
virtue By ,intemperance.
1t is not often that / "sit on the
fence" but on this question I'm still.
NEUTRAL.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
THE UNEMPLOYED.
To the Editor /:

To the Editor:
One writer in The Lihgt last Sun
day put it APPLY when he referred to
the necessity of providing work for
the unemployed. He said that the
unemployed man is prone to become
the worst enemy Of society or words
to that effect.
1 haven't the copy of The Light and
therefore cannot use his exact words.
But that's what he was getting al
and l believe express the idea. Then
there is also William X. Winter, who
has been saying some very good things
about the necessity of providing worH
for the unemployed.
Now / want to tel you, Mr.. Editor,
there is the whole cruX OF the sltua-
tion-providing WORK Tor the unem-
ployed. OF course, there are some
who will say that there is no neeu
for anyone being idle if he has any
hustle and energy about him. L I'M
derstand that perfectly, and 1 want to
say right here that everybody would
not do things that some fellows will
do to get job, just like there are
Ssuge statesmen who would not do
Things to put over a sale that others
are doing. l know statesmen Who have
told darned lies to make a deal and
then go around and brag about their
salesmanship. But i don't call this
salesmanship. i call it swindling, and
man who will pull that kind of stuff
ought to be put behind the bars.
Now about this unemployment.
That is something that every bust
ness man should interest himself in.
1t is something a business man owes
to himself for his own welfare and
protection. Shoy me a community
where there is no unemployment and
] will show you a community where
there is no crime-Or at least where
crime is at q minimum. "ldleness is
the devils workshop" and that goes
in San Antonio as everywhere else
and speaking of unemployment, for
heavens sake, don't make it a case
of working at pauper wages. Make
it q decent living wage. And then
when providing employment see to
it that the employees save their money.
That is where Henry Ford has the
right idea.
He requires all his employees to save
their money. Don't infer from this
that l would want them to be tight
wads. Far be it from so. 1 believe
everybody should have good time
20 to the theaters, movies, ETC., but
at the same time 1 don't believe that
people should set an automobile pace
Of living on a wheelbarrow salary. But
the first and principal thing that our
business men should do is to provide
work for the unemployed and keep
the idlers out of mischief.
JEFF BARTHOLOMEW.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
A PERTINENT QUESTION.

To the Editor:
In line with renewed agitation for
enforcement of sanitary ordinances,
and. being a speculative sort of cuss,
/ beg to rise and inquire why, with
the state and municipal requirements
and the existence of inspectors TO see
that such laws and ordinances are
complied with. we still have TO con-
tend with the careless manner in which
food puryeyors handle their products.
Please understand that / am not
opposed to such establishments or
their edbles. On the contrary, l am
strongly for them-when they observe
the elementals of sanitation. How
ever. when as has frequently been my
experience of late. / enter store TO
purchase some "delicatessen" variety
of food and find such food uncovered
and unprotected in any way from
flies and street dust-to say nothing
of finding the floor in process of be
ing swept too, / must confess that /
have Immediately come out empty
handed and with a feeling Of nausea.
If it be a little more costly to keep
food under glass covers or in closed
show cases. would it not seem that
this additional cost might be largely
offset with patronage from those
squeamish persons like myself. who
prefer that flies, dirt and food be kept
separate? SANITAS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
NO SUGENICS WANTED

To the Editor:
Mr.. Alvin Padilla, writing to Tn.
Light last week, it appears is out
Of sorts because the eugenics law was
not passed in the Senate House. If
one will really consider what the law
is, and who was mainly behind the
law, they will feel the better for it
not having been passed u.Jon. In a
common sense, eugenics is as ancient
as the hills. 1t was written by n
medical surgeon in the northern army
at the time of the Civil War in or
der to save the great multitude of
soldiers that were allowing them
selves to be dragged down By vice,
and their characters ruined. 1t was
also. at the time of the Spanish
American War, written again. 1t
was copied again before the World
War, but the churches Y. NJ. c. AS.
Bible Tract Societies and other re-
lgious organizations Lad done so much
good toward reforming the moral
standard of the army, that by the
time the war ended, no surgeon could
find a better bunch of men. We all
know that the majority Of the mar
riageable class of men were in the
army.
Now. how far back can we trace
the first unfortunate white birth in
the statistics of Bexar county? COM
pare the record with that back in 1907
or 1908 when crime and vice were
runninp ramnant Doesn't IL go 70
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
THE CASE OF APOLINAR.
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
Providing there are some OF us
who did become "infuriated" over the
publicity given the legal execution OF
a recent murderer. and providing our
opinions were contrary to those held
by others. nevertheless it must be
understood that we are within our
rights as free born American citizens.
and / wish TO know why Golden
Rule" should imagine that our opin-
ions should run in the same rut as
his. or hers:
Anyone possessing the smallest iota
of common sense or brains knows
very well that every article publish
ed in a newspaper is supposed 10
be considered "news." But one must
also understand that each article as
printed is offered to certain class
Of readers to gain their support or
sympathy SO as to enable its author
to accomplish what pet scheme he
may have up his sleeve.
Now then, the publicity given this
man before his death was offered to
you, "Golden Rule" and those of
your kind so as to win your, or their
support or sympathy so that those
who had begun a movement in behalf
of the dead man might. providing the
governor showed tendency to hesi-
tate as TO what they thought his duty
should be in this case. force him TO
act favorably by employing political
pressure.
But how would leaders of this
movement employ political pressure!
This is quite simple. Adding you to
their rapidly increasing numbers as
new convert as their radical propa-
ganda swept throughout the city en-
quilting many others Of the "cramped
brain type" it is easily to be seen
that within a short time they could
control. or rather act as spokesman
for a large number of voters. or West
Side politicians of both races.
Thus a petition signed by those
dopcd into believing they had done
right and placed before the governor
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
I LETTERS TO THE LIGHT

birth is recorded? Then why submit
moral sons and daughters to bear the
humiliation and embarrassment of :
health ticket?"
Mr.. Padilla, in his letter, classes
the engenics bill with that of the
compulsory educational law. In the
compulsory educational law, there is
no selfish end to serve. We all know
that our children require education.
and that it is their .;ain wholly. The
eugenics bill would be n great adj
xertisement for the medical and sur
gerry profession of Dallas, rex. They
would begin to gain by selling" GER
tificates TO moral peol lie and the i'm
moral bunch that really need the law
would be hiking off 10 some other
state where the law was not known.
Wondering what city. Mrs. Will
liams, the inventor. took for her foun-
alton, that she was just now in the
twentieth century. finding out that
blinded and unfortunate children were
being brought into the world? Making
the state House n medical college, and
the gentlemen therein doctors and
medical men. instead of lawyers, is a
poor war of placing our state high
in the minds of men. First thing that
happens is lot Of northerners writ
ing home, and telling their kin that
Texas has got as low as she can get.
What il other states have the eugenics
law passed, are they Texas example:
Does Texas have TO follow in the steps
Of other states just because they have
such cities as Chicago. Boston. New
York and Philadelphia? Why hasn't
Arizona. New Mexico, Wyoming and
Idaho such law?
If eugenics was really clean study,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

| as is physiology and hygiene, then why
isn't it taught in our public schools!
Because there are two sides to it,
moral and immoral, and the child that
picks up a eugenics can learn more
rot, ana pollute AIS or he mind with
more indeceney tina they could find
in den of wee and gambling. The
moral is there, but it is as weak
as n joke. The Bible and Gods sun
shine will build Il woman and man to
greater selfreSpect OF character than
all the medical advice to girls and the
like that was ever written. Their
minds are off the bad. People of
elevated character do not care to bask
i'll eugenics, and the ones who really
should read it, late it.
If the medical profession of Da,-
las had got Mrs. Williams to pass that
bill, and she had succeeded, how long
would it have been before the land
inspectors would want bill pro-
hibiting people from building. until
their land had been examined for
reaches and ground-mice? Then mar
riage is one of Gods laws given to
free liberty-loving peoples. and soon
er or later a moral girl will find out
if her mate and companion is immoral,
or vice versa.
The world is improving every year.
The churches. the Y. NJ. C. AS show
this. The Christian teachings are
showing it, and we can't begin a
reign Of immoralities in this state
just as the vice squads and the like
are cleaning it up and women are be-
ing broken from dope and drug hab-
its.
Mr.. Padilla says, your sister and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

daughter, and mine, SO fSll of health
today, so sweet and pure" One can
or would take that 20 mean, l sso-
pose, that there wasn't a moral mas
on earth, that the sisters and dsugh-
ters are the whole cheese, and yet
there are men whose morals would
shame some womens' morals TO the
limits. In other terms, If it hadn't
been for the women who surrounded
the military centers in 1914. there
would never have been needed the
vice squads to protect the morals OF
the army standard in its men.
% Turning the county clerks office
into an examination den is out of the
question. Those who have brought un-
fortunates into the world have paid
the nenalty and costs, and moral peO-
pie want 10 be free of the thought
of eugenics.
In 1919, Leslie's Weekly. as a last
resort, was offering eugenics TO gain
circulation subscriptions. and a gear
later was penniless. bankrupt; as
empty as a horn. Eugenics was its
last resort, and the illustrations
copied from the designs of the Civil
War days.
\ moral and physically fit man
and woman wants the state Of their
birth TO have faith in them. Have
law with reinforcement minus bills
with reformations. The poor morals
may wish the eugenics bill, but the
morals of the people who have worked
and saved TO their positions of honor.
want no dishonor. and the dens OF
vice and those who inhabit them be
kicked out; the unfortunate be al
lowed TO pay and regret.
J. II. WHITAKER, NJ. ID.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
HE is TO LEARN ENGLISH.
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
I see by Sundays Light on Page O,
Column 3, that Timothy L. Donaghue
will tell the Ancient Order of Hibern-
ians on st. Patrick's Day, here, the
difficulties a foreigner has in learn
ing English. Read this over again and
let it soak in. / was gonna write a
whole lot of funny stuff about the
above item, but it is 100 per cent
funnier than anything l can write.
Collins, have you been asleep at
the switch? This is the browning
English infamy. trying to corrupt the
A. o. o. ii. Next thing you know
they will be walking out on the 18th
of July behind a banner with a
prancing white horse daintily picking
its feet out of the wet.
Sh-sh, you and Finncgan meet me
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

on the bridge at midnight, and we
viii kidnap this Donashue person and
take him to Martin Dooley in Chica-
go. We will tell Dooley he was lee
turing TO the A. o. o. III. on st. Pat
ricks Day of the difficulties for
eigner has in learning English. Mar
tin will repeat TO him first the beau
tiful poem of Tom Morris:
a Tarantula jumped on Centipede
And said, with ghoulish glec.
I'll poison you, You murtherous son
of gun,
II l don't you'll poison me.
And then adios Timothy l.. Donag-
hue. a. Sadly, .-.-.
JOHN Il. WEE.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

Al letters to this that intended publication be signed BY
the criter Name of the vit CH be published unless desired No
attention be IyPTtcg
e and those made H rubber edSed Pub
cdtn does not mean that policy outlined therein endorsed BY The Light
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-12-18
Stud ent is
Accused of
Fire
Wesleyan Chancellor Asserts
Stadium Blaze Was
of Incendiary
Origin:
New Structure Desired

Lincoln, Dec. 17.-Chancellor 7. B
Schreckengast of Nebraska Wesleyan
university today issued a statement
concerning rumors that fire which
destroyed the athletic field grand
stand was Of incendiary origin. He
declared. I'VE know nothing OF the
origin of the fire"
Rumors were current that students
who had been agitating for a new
stadium, had set the fire early Sun
day morning. The stadium was val
ued at only 800.
There was no insurance" ths
chancellor's statement says, "tht
main loss was in several hundred
dollars worth of athletic equipment
which belonged to the student body.
"A group Of students had organized
recently to offer their services to tear
down the old stand, IL the college
authorities would begin the first unit
Of concrete stadium this summer. u
The chancellor's statement declares
there was a tractor stored under the
and that oil from this
may have been the source of the fire.
1t concludes with the declaration
that "if this destruction was an act
of vandalism, the college authorities
will be very. glad to see the guilty
party punished"
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-12-18
=: SUNNY SIDE UP -:

Most actor folk are interesting off
stage. when they are acting natural.
II have the railroad schedule fig
ured out correctly the Sunshine Girl
we have been reading so much about
for several days, Is right now being
called upon to do her darndest. II
must be looking rather squally for
her and her paramour in the old
home town.
Friend Of mine out state who Is
rather interested in n matter that Is
not matter OF litigation between n
friend OF his and the Burlingtonf
asked ME to visit the roads general
solicitor and look up n particular
item in the papers and correspond
ence. Had no trouble in getting the
files, but one look at them was enough.
When get three or four weeks leisure
time with absolutely nothing else TO
do. I'll tackle that two-foot-hIgh stack
OF papers and correspondence and en-
deavor to locate the particular item
mentioned by my friend The strange
part OF this particular case Is that
one party Is trying to have done
what the other party wants to do
and Is trying to find legal way
OF doing 10.
Tom Porter admits 10 me that he
has purchased mechanical toy for
his son and heir that he Is certain
will interest himself II he can frame
up some scheme TO keep tho son and
heir from insisting upon playing with
lit all the time.
Came upon n friend of mine yes.
terday Just Ms he was purchasing n
'flinch" deck TO present TO his chill.
dren. Some 10 years ago this same
friend OF mine chided me when
I admitted that | now and then play.
ed pitch with the Missus and the kid.
dies In my own home. Haven't yet
succeeded In detecting the difference
between cards with numbers on 'em
and cards with pictures and spots on
EN-. Am wiling, however, 10 be en-.
! llightenef ~. NJ, M,