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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
A LEGAL UTOPIA

Dreams are common, but for reason
not altogether strange one seldom if ever
has or hears of blissful dream wherein
one of the most important and frequent
ly discussed factors in human affairs pro-
vides the chief incidents or even affords
a background. This factor is "the law
whatever that may mean. The trouble
is that its meaning is so variable that
any dream concerning it would likely be
a nightmare.
But suppose one should have pleas
ant dream OF government in general and
of laws in particular. What might the
details be? Consider the following as a
sample:
In Everyman's library, or on stand
alongside that which supports the family
dictionary, or in Evcryman's office or
other place of business, there is large
but not too ponderous book entitled "Ihe
Law, 1928 to 1926" (Or the period Of
years specified might be longer-say
five instead of two) The book contains
an index, each item of which refers the
reader to "the law on given subject
There is no other law on such subject
besides the one contained in the book
To get that result the Legislature,
meeting at such times as may be pro-
vided-once every two or five years, or
whenever called on account of real
emergcncy-uses sort Of loose-leaf sys-
tenn of legislation. The latest enactment
on any subject is the entire law on that
subject, and all previously enacted
statutes pertaining to it are automati-
cally repealed.
Thus "The Law" published every two
or five years, or oftener in case of emerg-
encies, is in practice more largely what
the term implies. 1t is not necessary to
dig up old statutes Every statute in
the book is "the law" of today on the
particular subject treated. If, in effect,
a law is amended, then "the law" as
a whole on that subject of legislation,
and not merely the amendment, is print
ed in the book. There are not scores
of laws on the same subject, each to be
considered separately and many of them
in conflict. With each successive enact
ment on any matter, the old law is lifted
out and the new one installed in its place.
And when a law on a new subject is
passed it is added, as an entity, to the
others.
Lawyers and judges are not put out
of business. There is still much work
for them TO do. Even in his dreams man
has no faculty for fabricating perfection
But the least governed country is the
best governed; and is it humanity i,npos-
siblc to adopt and practice the somewhat
Utopian system of legislation suggested:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
Watching the Parade
By John Pilgrim.

Ever since / can remember ole
Nance Bell has owned her own homo
on our street. We have tried TO gel
rid OF her by buying her out. :/t
by cumming the water and gas az
electric services. and by the Other
little tricks that respectable house
holders know how TO play. Unfor'
tunately. old Nance is not respect
able. AIetaphorically speaking. old
Nance has trust her tongue out at
us.
This morning the Board of Guard
ians of the Poor-I think that is tho
name of this body-rode down in an
automobile with pair Of policemen
and took the little boy away from
old Nance. No doubt this was a
good act. The boy is getting old
enough to notice. The other children
Mt school do not make him very
happy, either. They know about old
Nance. Maybe he will be happier
in the big, red brick Children's
Home.
| can remember when she first got
the boy. The boy and his mother
came to old Nance's home in the
middle of winter. She was dying
then Of consumption, or perhaps of
a broken heart. If old Nance ever
learned her name she kept the secret.
She kept the boy, too. after the
mother had gone. and looked after
him in queer scattered, inept way
that was Kindness itself.
Even the impersonal mothcrliness
of a children's home is better than
old Nance. j suspect. Fewer scars
will be. left on him when he has
reached manhood. He will soon for
get. By and by he will only re-
member old Nance as queer, fat.
old woman. who used to sing in a
screechy way when she was quite
drunk.
The boy looks like a nice little
chap. Good blood in him. probably,
however he may have come by it.
There are many better homes than
old Nance's on our street that are
childless, but that has not&'ng to
do with the case. We are nice peo-
pie. Old Nance isn't. Though she
has not been noisy since the boy got
old enough TO notice.
The policemen who held old Manor
said it was a dirty shame. l Won
der il the policemen were nice?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
Why Accidents Increase
BY III. AddingtOn Bruce.

Year by year the accident rate rises
especially the rate of automobile acci
dents. In 1921, according to census
bureau statistics, 10,16S persons were
killed b.; automobiles in the death reg
istration area of the United States
This was at rate of 11.J per 100000
population. an increase of IL over the
rate for 1920.
The 1920 rate, for its part. was an
increase over the 1919 rate. And when
| the figures for 1922 are compiled
you may be sure they will show Il
higher automobile accident rate than
that of 1921.
How account for this? Still more
important, how effect lowering of
the rate?
One way. obviously. would be to
put a check on the manufacture. sale
and use of automobiles. That hardly
seems practicable. Though. TO be
sure. seriously restrictive laws may be
enacted if no other way is found to
lessen the slaughter wrought by auto
mobiles.
And, even then. unless automobiles
were completely banned.'a deplorably
high accident rate light persist. Ger
tainly it would persist in the absence
of systematic educational effort to
make people more thoughtful and care
full than they now are.
Thoughtlessness and carelessneSs
are. indeed, the chief factors in caus-
ing the automobile accident rate TO
rise rs it has steadily been doing. 1t
is not merely the numerical increase
in automobiles that is to blame. 1t is
that this increase makes more neces-
sary the exercise Of thought and eau
ton. and this need is not met.
Automobilists-and pedestrians. too
often traverse the streets in sim
gularly absentminded way. One might
almost say that they go about like
people in trance. At all events.
they neither keep their eyes really
open nor their minds vigorously
alert.
And. il might be added. this failure
TO observe and to think enters as the
principal casual agent in accidents
generally. As one close student Of
industrial accidents has put it. "mind
as affected by some abatement or per-
version Of its powers plays lead
ing part in the sad accident toll of
our factories. mills. mines and stores
So prevalent is thinking failure that
one is tempted to say that most per-
sons most of the time are in state
of dreaming-awake. Ideas fit through
their minds in the haphazlrd. ungud-
ed way of dream images. In man.:
cases this remains true even when
they are supposedly concentr ting Mt
tention on something they are doing
Such absence of idea control and
idea selection is usually the result Of
one thing-imperfect training in early
life. If children were schooled really
to think we should have both fewer
failures in the world of adult effort
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
Pointed Paragraphs

4 fool and his boat are soon rocked
apart.
There's nothing SO gloriously uncer'
tain as the law.
Mother Eve was the original dis
coyerer of the curiosity germ.
And occasionally there is watercd
stock in the dry goods business.
Beware of the man who has good
story TO tell you in whisper.
Trying to please people is a matter
Of business with an office seeker.
Learning from the experience Of
others is like getting money in a let
ter. 'If ..| ....
Money talks and penny makes
more noise on n contribution plate
than 81 bill.
A man never knows what he can do
until he tries, then he is often sorry
he tried.
When man has had occasion TO
employ n first-class lawyer you can't
convince him that talk is cheap.
If "a girl can pass her thirtieth birth
day without detection she begins to
think that the dates in the family
record may have been slightly mixed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

professed object-merely to exact repara-
tons from a defaulting debtor.
Developments now in process may
answer the question more convincingly
than any official reply on the part of the
French authorities could have done.
Those who proposed to call upon France
for thoroughgoing. definite, CARLSON
the-table statement had suspected that
the collection of reparations was not her
motivating purpose. They believed, or
at least feared, that her ultimate object
was the annexation OF Germany'S rich
est industrial region.
From the standpoint of the British.
who have believed from the outset that
any attempt to collect PREPARATIONS by
physical force would be worse than fu-
tile, the suspicion concerning Frances
motive was creditable to her intelligence
though an indictment OF her character
Whether that indictment may prove
groundless would now seem to depend
upon the outcome of Frances latest at
tempt to bring the Ruhr inhabitants into
subse1vienct--an attempt definitely rep
resented by General Degoutte's threat to
drive German railroad workers there, and
their families, into other parts of Ger
many. 1t is estimated that the families
of the railroad employees, now on strike,
will average at least three members
each-a wife and two children. If there
are 125,00Q. strikers. as reported, then
approximately 100000 persons, about
half of whom are children, would be al
fected by the execution of the French
threat.
But the execution of the threat would
not put the railroad employees and their
families in such bad plight as that to
be inferred from the details Of the an
nounced plan. 1t is this feature of the
situation which presents the prospect OF
a conclusive test of Frances real object
in invading the Ruhr: The German
government having announced that it
will make provision for the support of
ali whom the French general may actu-
ally Danish
Already representatives Of the railroad |
workers have announced that the latter
will not serve the French, come what |
may. In fact, that announcement ante
dated the German governments promise
Of support. If the threat of Punishment
should be carried out. the net result to
the French would logically be no coal
at all, and no shipments of other commod-
tiles for the obtaining OF which they
entered the Ruhr region. As
it is, they have been getting far less
coal from that source than has been find
ing its way into the interior of Germany.
In short, unless the French could re-
place the banished German railroad oper-
ltors the failure of their protested pur-
pose in occupying the Ruhr would be
complete. If such an outcome should be
followed by refusal on their part to
submit the reparaticns issue to arbitra-
ION, then the suspicion of the English
their underlying motive
would be universally regarded as having
occn confirmed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
TEST OF FRANCES MOTIVE

France has not answered Great Bri-
tain's unasked question concerning the
formers intentions in the Ruhr region.
But though it was not asked in the Of
ticial sense-one nation making a formal
inquiry of another-it was in the minds
OF nearly all Englishmen, and of many
Americans as we'll, and probably still is.
Perhaps the only end which such an in
quiry would have served would have
been to place the French government
and in that sense the French nation. on
record for future reference. For it is
TO be presumed that the French would
merely have reiterated their originally
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
A Puzzle a Day

4 florist had twenty pots of gerani
ums, arranged as shown above. He
wished 10 set them in n more unusual
order. which he finally did. In thJ
new arrangement the pots formed just
thirteen different. perfect squares, the
plants serving as corners. Can YOU
duplicate the arrangement! Each
square is to be composed of four
plants as illustrated by the dotted
lines above.
Yesterdays answer.
The values of hat. shirt and pair
Of socks added together give the price
Of a pair of shoes. S6.15. Multiplied
together they produce the same result.
The hat and shirt are equal in value.
The hat and shirt are each worth
three dollars. The socks are worth
seventy-ficc cents.
3 plus plus - equals S6I5
3 X 3 x 10 equals $3.50
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
To Probate Coleman Will.

Application for probate of the will
Of Thomas A. Coleman. prominent
stoclrnan and land owner who died on
March 80. was filed at the county
clerks office Wednesday. No definite
value is placed upon the property left
by Mr.. Coleman. the application mere
ly listing it as in excess of $1,000.
Under the provisions of the will. which
was signed on December %. 1896. all
property is left to deceased's wife.
Mrs. BERTHE X. Coleman. who is named
as independent executrix.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

and fewer lives needlessly cut short
by accidents.
Always education for real thinking
has been human necessity. In these
DAYS of increasing hazards to life and
limb it is more of a necessity than
ever. And until this is fully appre-
ciated in the home and in the school.
all other measures looking to acct
dent prevention will avail compare
lively little.
copyright, 1928, by The Associated
\cWspapers)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

ly. At football
you blow n horn.
At a baseball
game, / under
stand. you yell.
THE chess fan
is different from
all of Them" COM
mented a devotee
of that game.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05


picked up a copy
of Howard Pyle s
Men of Iron"
Said he: bill
where shall we
put this?"
Bill looked over
the title page
thoughtfully, COM
mining with b;r-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

htAt III AultIlNd
because the Amer
lean spirit is so
democratic. 1 n
Europe now.
In Europe one day
a clerk remarked
to his employer /:
L think we are go
ing to have rain,
SIR 'We?' snarl-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
An absent-minded clergyman havil

preached I h e
same discourse
three times, one
Of his congrega-
ton plucked UP
courage and said
"Dr. Jones, the
sermon you gave
this morning has
had three read
ings. i move that
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

At the close of
n story, in which
he flattered him
self that his point
had been well es-
tablished. he turn
ed confidently to
a tcn-year -ol d
pupil and in
quired:
"\ow Alipo
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
MARCH CIRCULATION

Daily Average. 1886
The above totals and averages for paid circu-
istcn. exclusive OF all spoiled copies and any free
ccpiee Of any nature.
We hereby that the foregoing statement Of
paid circulation 10 correct.
Fl. c. BROWN,
Circulation Manager
c. L. BUCHANAN.
Business Manager
sworn and subscribed before this md day of
April. A D., 1923.
?. V. WHITE
Notary Public
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He was asked to explain.
well, the more excited you get, the
stiller you keep"
A Sunday school teacher had been
impressing upon his pupils the ulti-
mate triumph Of goodness over beauty.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

would you rather be beautiful -
good?'
Well. replied Alice. after a mo-
ments reflection. Il think I'd rather
be beautiful-and repent"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
A Laugh OF Two

A couple of men more addicted to
golf than TO books agreed to cata-
logue the library at the coqntry club.
One of them
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

ed the employer. we are going to
have rain? How long have you been
a member Of the firm?"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

Sir Auckland Geddes, the British
ambassador, said at a recent dinner:
"Young men rise easily from the ranks
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

tt HUW De pHSStu.
Various games, various customs. At
cricket" said an Englishman, "you
say. Jolly well played" At golf you
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

self audibly the while:
" Men of IrCn-iron men. Hum. Put
it under finance"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

Luncheon Clubs.
Friday.
Rotary Club at the st. Anthony.
Kiwanis Club at the Gunter.
Conopus Club at the Menger.
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Fixed Prices for Cotton Growers.
Adelaide. South Australia, April 5.

The South Australian government
has agreed 10 cooperate with the COM
monwealth government for the pur-
pose of guaranteeing cotton growers
fixed prices for a period Of three
years.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

Where to Go
Vaudeville.
Majestic.
Musical Comedy
Grand-"The Merry Whirl."
Stock
Royal-Edna Park and players.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

Motion Pictures
Palace-"The Christian"
Rialto-"Jassmania."
Empire-'Adam's Rib"
Princess-"The Kentucky Derby"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05

me Associated Press exclusively entitled 20 the
use for publication OF all dispatches credited 70
II or not otherwise credited IN this and also that
local news published herein. All rights OF republlca-
ton Of special dispatches herein also reserved
Evening star., 1923-06-01
EXCHANGE HEAD
ADMITS LETTER
Silkworth Now Says He Was Re
plying to Request for
Information.

NEW YORK, June Nv. ). SILK
worth, president of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange, after a previous de-
niai, has admitted having written a
letter expressing the opinion that the
brokerage firm of Kardos & Burke.
which failed in February. 1922. for
$4,000, 900, could be reorganized and
continue in business, a month after
the crash.
The letter was broadcasted by at
torneyS for the bankrupts, in an ef-
fort to induce creditors TO withhold
their claims.
Mr.. Silkworth said his letter had
been written in reply to a communi-
cation from the chairman of credi-
tors committee asking for an opin-
ion on the possible reorganization Of
the firm. Copies OF both letters were
produced, but were not admitted TO
evidence by the referee. upon motion
OF counsel for the defendant brokers
The books of three failed brokera
frms-kardos & Burke. Charles Fl
Clarkson & Go. and r. H. Clarke &
Co.-were made available for inyesti-
CATION by District Attorney Bantou
yesterday when Judge Goddard. in
United States district court. vacated
a restraining order which had here
torore prevented the receivers from
turning over the records.
Evening star., 1923-06-01
FLETCHER SEES BIG
TREATY PROSPECTS
Reports to Secretary Hughes on
Pan-American Farley at
Santiago, Chile.

Predicting that important treaty
agreements would result from the re-
cent Pan-American conference at
Santiago. Chile. Ambassador Henry
P. Fletcher. who was head Of the
American delegation, submitted his
report Just filed with Secretary
Hughes.
During an hours conference with
the Secretary OF State, Mr.. Fletcher
supplemented his written account of
the conference with an oral express
sion of appreciation Of the treatment
accorded him and his colleagues and of
the spirit Of frankness and desire for
cooperative effort in the western
hemisphere evidenced throughout the
sessions. Mr.. Hughes was said to be
deeply gratifled at the nature of the
report.
Mr.. Fletcher announced that he
would remain in Washington a week
or more to make certain Qualifications
Of his report before returning to his
post in Brussels.
Evening star., 1923-06-01
PROBE ACCOUNTS
OF BROKER FIRM
Jones & Baker Bankruptcy
Case Causes Big
Stir.
By the Associated Press

| BY the Associated Press
| NEW YORK, June 1.-Thousands of
/ investors in New York and through
out the country and prosecuting on
cials here were awaiting today the
report of accountants who began yes
terday an investigation Of the broker
age firm of Jones & Baker after it
had been forced into involuntary re
ceivership.
| After their first conferences with
the directors of the firm. which did
! almost half of all the business CON
! Quoted on the curb market, officials
! said they believed investors would
get back more on the dollar than has
J been paid by any big brokerage firm
| in bankruptcy in some time. Com
pany spokesmen expressed confidence
| that 100 cents on the dollar would be
paid
The bankruptcy proceedings grew
out OF a secret investigation of the
firms mode of doing business started
by the law committee of the Curb
Association. Learning of the investi-
cation, investors began to withdraw,
impelling some creditors TO force ap-
| pointment of a receiver that orderly
liquidation might be brought about.
The creditors were to appoint a
committee today.
Jones, HMan of Mystery"
Behind the firm lies an interesting
personal story. II concerns William
r. Jones, the son of a Streator. Ills,
blacksmith the senior partner, whose
face was unfamiliar to the patrons OF
the curb and to many of the business
men with whom the firm did business.
About decade ago he was employed
by Charles A. Stoneham. now president
OF the New York Giants, who then had a
brokerage concern in Chicago. They
disagreed and Jones organized his own
firm and set it up directly opposite that
OF Stoneham, on La Sale street, Chi
cago, moving here later.
Jones, known to the street as "the
man Of mystery" preferred to remain
out Of sight, and neither he nor his
present partner. Jackson w. Sells, ever
appeared on the floor.
Very Heavy Advertiser.
The firm maintained an intricate sta
tistical department; il conducted a
school for statesmen; in an active mar
ket $4,000 letters were mailed weekly.
and it's ink bill was $50 week. Its
advertising budget was said TO have
been 81, 900 900 year.
While the assets and liabilities were
not given in the petition, unofficial csti
mates of the liabilities ranged from
So, 900, 900 TO $40, 900, 600.
Evening star., 1923-06-01
MARKS FALL RESTORES
CONFIDENCE OF AUSTRIA
Convinced Merger With Germany
Would Not Help Weaken
ed State.

By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1923.
VIENNA, June 1.-One Of the last
events necessary to re-establish the
confidence of the Austrian people in
the future Of their country occurred
Thursday. when the German mark fell
to the level OF the Austrian crown and
gave evidence of continuing still fur
ther in its downward plunge.
''If big and powerful nation like
Germany cannot manage it's finances
better than a small and weak nation
like Austria" say the Austrians, why
then II is better to stay Independent,
manage its own affairs and forget all
about the idea of uniting Austria to
Germany"
Reflections OF this kind form a daily
topic OF conversation in Vienna
Evening star., 1923-06-01
PENNSYL LvANIA'S NET
INCOME SHOWS GAIN

PHILADELPHIA. June 1.-The re-
port of the Pennsylvania railroad sys-
tenn for April shows net railway OPP
Grating income of $s.01s,444, an in
crease of s2.185,S91 over last year.
Revenues stood at S64,S33.9S4 an in
crease of $12.671,704. while expenses
were $52,4ss,054. gain of ss.37653U.
For the four months ended April 80
last. gross was $241, 1,076,727, an in
crease of $32,5s1 ,4l5: expenses. s202.
416.671, up S33,6s5.7s4. and net rail-
way operating income. $25,0S5.S65. a
decrease of $4,2s4,4s0 from the figure
for the same period last year.
The Pennsylvania railroad reported
net of $7.s23,S8s, an increase of So
511, SOC. Gross was s60.s1s.156. a gain
of s12,465,ss0. while expenses We're
S4s,e69,ss8, a gain of $S,a18,047. For
the four months ended April 80 last,
gross was S226,27s,ss5, an increase Of
S31, ,1o7,431; expenses, s1Ss,6s9,202. an
increase of $31,937,400, and net. SEA
s32.13s, a decrease of $3,7ss,sS5 over
last year.