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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
NEAR THE LAKE.

Near the lake where dropped the willow
Long time ago!
Where the rock threw back the billow,
Brighter than snow,
Dwelt maid, beloved and cherished
BY high and low;
But with autumn's leaf she persisted,
Long time ago.
Rock and tree and flowing water,
Long time ago,
Bee and bird and blossom taught her
Loves spell TO know.
While to my fond words she listened,
Murmuring low,
Tenderly her dove-eyes glistened,
Long time ago.
Mingled were our hearts forever,
Long time ago.
Can | now forget her?-Never!
No-lost one-no!
To her grave these tears are given.
Ever to flow:
She's the star | missed from heaven,
Long time ago!
George Pope N
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
VANDALS

The ancient vandals swept down over
Rome and destroyed it. The modern
vandals now sweep out from the city
and devs state the countryside. One who
is not vandal need not take cXccp-
ton to that plain statement. One who
is. need not take exception. either, for
vandalism can be cured like anything
else.
The citizens of Alamo Heights are
taking steps to protect themselves how
ever, and not waiting for any reforn,a-
ton that might come. Everywhere,
signs are stuck up. "Private property
"Do not pick the blue bonnets." "Do
not pick the laurel" Should people fail
to pay attention to these signs. as peo-
pie often do, the Alamo Heighters have
a peace officer who arrests trespassers.
Ir New York state, drastic steps had
to be taken, also, to protect the coun-
try from the vandals of the city. In
the spring. they poured out by thou
sands, stripping blossoms from trees,
uprooting flowers. Peach trees, pear
trees in orchards. nothing was safe from
their avidity for the green and Towering
things of the earth. Locusts could not
do job more thoroughly than people
turned loose upon the unoffending coun-
try with no regard for the havoc they
left behind AS a result OF all this, a
law was passed in New York state to
protect the wild flowers. Anyone who
gathers wild flowers is arrested and fined.
This seems terrible. If people cam
not 60 out and pick few wild flower,
what can they do? But there's the rub.
They do not stop with few. Day after
day. since the flowers have begun to
bloom, professions of automobiles line
the roads out OF town: All those return
ing are loaded with flowers. Great
branches of laurel. red bud, and wild
plum have been stripped from the trees
and stuck about on the automobile to
be whipped to pieces in the wind. Along
the roadsnles are Jagged and broken
stumps of what were once shapely flow
erine bushes. Fortunately. the huisache
protects itself somewhat with its thorns
or else it too would be torn from off
the face of the earth. AS for the other
flowers, they are uprooted and tramped
and crushed under foot. Happily there
arc quantities of them. but they may not
continue SO plentiful if they are proved
upon without any regard to the appear
ance of the country OF the future of the
flowers themselves.
Is it possible that people are vandals
at heart and care for nothing except to
tear up and haul into town great quaint
ties of flowers, left to wither on their
cars. mid more than they can use in
their houses, or is it that they are mere
ly thoughtless? They have not stoppec
to think that the beauty of the country
is just as important as the beauty of
the flowers they carry into their homes.
1t is time now for them to think.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
WOMEN WEAKER THAN MEN?

That old bugaboo of woman's physi
cal weakness promises to be disposed OF
for good Dr. Celia Duel Mosher OF
Leland Stanford University in her re-
cent book "Woman's Physical Freedom"
claims that Increased scientific knowl-
edge of woman's physiology has shown
that the physical weakness and inca
pacity supposed to be inherent to sex
are not due to sex at all. but to re-
movable causes. With her characters
tic directness. the modern girl has
grasped this fact and proceeded to re-
move the removable. She has done this
by exercise, sensible clothes and SEN
sible diet"
One can never sufficiently applaud the
modern girl. and while she has had in
sight and directness enough to grasp
these essentials, she is still not so much
a cause as an effect. One may go back
to the sweet, languid creatures of Dick
ems and Thackeray, fainting and weep
ing and sitting on that same old pedes-
tai; to the hooped-skirted damsels of
the sixties and all the slaves of tight stays
and long skirts, high heels, heavy i'm
possible clothing, that came before their
time and after, and enquire the reason
for styles and customs so detrimental to
health.
Thorstein Neblen in his Theory of
the Leisure Class" explains this social
phenomenon, going back to that old
moot question of mans possession Of
woman. AS man advanced in the So
cial stage and began to acquire prop
erty, he wished to give evidence to the
world of his surplus. Slaves, ire
mendous establishment. wives. concu-
bines. all served to display to the world
his wealth, in that his household be-
longed to him and was dependent on
his largess.
Various religions crystallized these
. social ideas and supplied authority for
homogeneous or polygamous develop
ment of this manner of displaying wealth.
Where monogamy prevailed the wife
had the place of Importance, but she
was none the less the possession in that
she was dependent economically. This
social system found its highest express
sior.fin this country in the South before
the civil war, with slaves to do the house
hold work for the women who were
completely an expression of the leisure
that wealth gives.
Such vicarious leisure was reflected in
the women's clothing. In the east,
where the women were confined in
harcms, the need was not so much for
them to be made helpless by their cloth
ing as to be concealed; SO these women
were yelled when they stepped outside
their homes. The women of the west
ern nations wore tight stays, hoped
skirts, heavy and hampering garments
in which they were about as helpless
as the Chinese women with their bound
feet and long finger nails, which was ar
expression of the same idea.
Women became literally the weaker
SEX and many generations have suf
fered and been invalids because Of tina
organization of social values. Fortu
nately for the race, economic condition.
do not ever remain as they are. /
became necessary for women to worl
and earn wages in order to live. Blu
this. after all, may be an effect, rathe
than cause, merely an expression Q
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of April. A. D., 1924.
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Defeats South American Champ

Havana, April s.-AngeI ID
former Cuban featherweight champl
was awarded the judges decision OF
Jose Maria Lombardo. featherweid
champion of Central and South AM
lea, at the end of hard fought /
round bout here Saturday night.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
X. c. Elect Supreme Doctor.
Montreal ApriI DIR. Il.

Fahey of st. Paul, MIMI. was
pointed supreme physician of
knights of Columbus TO succeed
late DIR. Il. w. Buckley. also of
Paul. at a meeting of the SUPERB
international board of.directors of
order today. Charles McAlvey
Providence. X. l.. was appointed
supreme director TO succeed Will
ID. Dwyer of st. Paul.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07

Maybe another reason why there are
more murders than there used to be is
because there are more guns than there
once were.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07

Both parties have men who have been
connected with the oil scandal, but the
only party out of luck is the party who
has presidential aspirants among them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07

1t now appears that maintaining oil
production in the United States depends
more on the legal profession than on the
drilling crews.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
A Puzzle a Day

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lines of letters shown above. a vel
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Where to Go
Vaudeville

Naudevllle
Majestic-Big Time Vaudeville.
Motion Pictures
Palace-"When a Mans a Man"
Empire-L Wilson in "Ice-
)ound."
Flaming Barriers"
Rialto-Lila Lee in Loves Whirl-
,ool."
Royal-Tom Mix in do and Dare.
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MEMBEas OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The Associated Press IL exclusively entitled TO the
for publication of all news dispatches credited 70
o. not otherwise redited In this and also thai
local published herein. All rights OF republica
zion OF special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1924-10-25
COUPLE TRACED
TO SWAMP SHACK
Virginia Posse Expects to
Capture Farmer Who Stole
Bride in Shooting.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NORFOLK, Va, October 2J.-Posse-
men found traces early today of
Frank James and his prisoner bride
in an abandoned shack deep in the
Businesses of Buck Trout Swamp, near
here.
James shot his father-in-law and
brother-inla law. J. Il. and Hugh
AIahan. and struck down Mrs. J. P.
Mahan with the butt of his gun in
their home Thursday night, fleeing
with his wife Of twelve days. who had
left him. The wounded men are in
a local hospital, somewhat improved
and with the prospect of recovery.
James probably believes them dead,
and it. is feared he will kill his wife
and himself if cornered
Farmer Gives Clue.
r. +. Thrasher, upon whose dairy
farm James had been employed, told
the police yesterday he believed the
fugitive had cached Il supply of food
in the swamp and was prepared for
d long stay.
A smoldering fire in the shack in
dicated that the couple had spent
the night there, but there were no
traces of food. The shack is far re-
mote from highways and surrounded
by brush, in which the couple could
remain hidden during the daylight
hours and return to the shelter of the
Evening star., 1924-10-25
NOTRE DAME CHAPEL
AFFAIRS DEDICATED
Conservation Exercises Held This
Morning on the Campus of
Trinity College.

Two of the affairs of the Chapel of
Notre Dame. on the campus of Trinity
College, were consecrated this morn
ing. The high altar is the gift or
the National Federation of Notre
Dame tde Namur) Alumnae, an as
sociation of graduates of academies
and high schools conducted by the
Sisters of Notre Dame in the Eastern
and Cincinnati provinces.
This altar, which cost $27.500, is of
yellow Brescian marble, inlaid with
violet Brescian and trimmed with
gold. The chancel walls are silver
Sienna marble; the columns of the
baldachin are of violet Brescian, sur
mounted by white capitals beautifully
carved; the canopy is of marble and
gold mosaic, with central medallion
of the Queen of Heaven. From the
rear arch n large crucifix is suspend
ed. bronze cross with white marble
corpus. The arched ceiling of the
canopy is q symbolic mosaic of the
Holy Ghost on a blue field. The altar
rail, the gift of the Ladies' Auxiliary
board, is likewise of yellow Brescian
the sanctuary floor is laid in squares
of rose and dark green marble.
The altar in the west transept, dedi-
Gated to the sacred heart of Jesus, is
the gift of Mrs. Mary keene of Man
chester, y. H., in memory of her
daughter, Ruth, a 1913 graduate. This
altar, which cost $7,400 is of yellow
Evening star., 1924-10-25
BISHOP TO ATTEND
MASONIC CONCLAVE
Rev. DR.. Freeman Called to New
York to Address Fraternity
Gathering Tomorrow.

Rev. Dr. Freeman. Bishop Of Wash
ington, Will leave this city this eve
ming and on tomorrow will address a
large Masonic gathering in the Cathe-
dral of st. John the Divine in New
York City. This absence from the
city will prevent the bishop from
following his usual custom Of visit
ing on tomorrow morning in one of
the parishes in his diocese.
Today the bishop visited All Saints
Church at Oakley. in ST. Marys
County. Nd, where at the IL o'clock
service he administered the rite of
confirmation. The rector of All Saints
parish is the Rev. w. G. Branch, who
for time was the minister at the
Episcopal chapels on the Conduit
road, this city.
This afternoon the bishop will visit
and confirm a class at Christ Church,
Chaptico, Md. Christ Church is the
parish church of King and Queen
parish. established in 1892 and named
in honor of King William III and
Queen Mary. For four years the Rev.
Joseph z. Gibson has been rector, and
Christ Church has become one of the
best known of the churches in south
ern Maryland.
Evening star., 1924-10-25
Present Morality Play.

The Foundry Methodist Episcopai
Church Epwcrth League VIII presen
a morality play. "The Old Candle
Maker of st. Johns" written and di-
rected by Robert Moulton Gatke, di-
rector of religious education, tomor-
row evening at $50 o'clock. This
production has medieval setting
and costumes, but forcibly conveys a
modern message.
This production will be given in
conjunction with the regular Ep-
worth League service. Members or
the cast are ). W. Mcintosh. Donald
Ernst, Lester Nielsen, Ruth Wingert,
Elsie Dobb. Allen Gardner. Minnie
Gean, Merl Goff, Boyd Rohnback and
Edith z. Brown.
Evening star., 1924-10-25

shack or one of many other tumble
down farmhouses in that section.
James is supposed to be heavily
armed and the possemen are prepared
for q real battle.
Screams of a woman were heard
about midnight of Thursday in
neighborhood between the Mahan
home and the swamp, since which
time there had been no trace of the
fugitive and his prisoner until the
warm ashes were found in the shack
by members of the widely scattered
posse.
Evening star., 1924-10-25
VISITOR TO PREACH.
Rev. F. T. Holland to Appear at
Emmanuel Baptist.

Rev. Floyd TalmadSe Holland lor-
merly of this city, lately pastor OF
the Adelaide Street Baptist Church
London. Canada, en- route to Nor
folk, Va, where he assumes the pas
torate of the Park Avenue Baptist
Church of that city, will preach at
the special Harvest Home service OF
the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Sin
teenth and Columbia road, morrow
evening. Forever Will be his SUD-
Evening star., 1924-10-25

Brescian, the table being of Poticini.
inlaid with medallions OF old convent
Sienna and trimmed with gold.
The altar in the east transept, dedi-
Gated to blessed Julie Billiart,
foundress of the Sisters of Notre
Dame, Is the gift Of Miss Marie Heide,
a former student, in memory of her
mother. This altar will not be con-
secrated until later.
Right Rev. DR.. Thomas j. Shahan,
Evening star., 1924-10-25

rector Of the Catholic University, con-
secrated the affairs, assisted by Very
Rev. William j. Kerby. students
chaplain: Rev. John NJ. Cooper, Ph. d.
Rev. Joseph v. Nevins, s. s.; Rev. Jo-
seph Molloy, c. S. P; Rev. William Nell
igan, Rev. Michael Frassand, c. s. p.
and 16 Paulist acolytes.
Right Rev. Mgr. George Doherty
was master of ceremonies.
Evening star., 1924-10-25

1t is estimated that there are g.
100000 negro women engaged in do
mestic and personal service occupa
tion in the United SEltes
Evening star., 1924-10-25

Sixty-two woman bankers, repre-
senting Is. States, attended the re-
cent convention in Chicago of the
Association of Bank Women
Evening star., 1924-10-25

Motor cars in TOXIC now number
over 10.400, which Is nearly three
times the pre-quake figure. Osaka has
$500 cars, and Kyoto, 1.2O0.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
PENSION FUND CONTROL
BY POLITICIANS FEARED
Argentine Bank Employees Petition
to Have Money Included in
Government Audit.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright 1924.
BUENOS AIRES, May 24-Bank
employees, who have been placed forci-
bly, under the provisions of the pen
sionS law promulgated about six
months ago, are alarmed over indi-
cations of a scheme by politicians to
control them. The politicians already
are petitioning the minister Of finance
to carry out the original provisions
of the law, which provide for the
holding of elections, participated in
by the employees affected, to choose
members of a directorate to control
the fund into which employees are
compelled to pay 10 per cent of their
salaries.
The election, originally called for
before June 80, was postponed indefi-
nitely. The employees are fearful OF
their future, since the politicians are
already showing interest in the fund
which now is accommodating. Elm
ployes of foreign banking houses usu-
ally are sent out here under contract
and do not expect to spend the re-
mainder of their lives here. But they
have been forced under provisions or
the law with scant security of bene-
fits or return of the paymens they
make when they leave.
The proposed system of elections is
incomprehensible, and the politicians
are getting intrenched in comfort
able berths and making profuse prom
ises of general benefits, which so far
seem doubtful of fulfillment.
The employees have peutioned the
minister of finance to have the fund
come under supervision of the gov
ernment auditors, with publication OF
a quarterly balance sheet, and also
request that the election to choose
Evening star., 1924-05-24
AGRICULTURE BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Fifteen Minutes Required for Ap-
proval of $50, 100000 Appropria-
ton for Departments Work.

In the record breaking time of fif-
teen minutes the Senate yesterday
passed the annual Agriculture appro-
priation bill, Ca rrying a total of $780,
600, 900.
Several items cut by the House be-
low budget estimates were restored
to that level by the Senate. The ap-
preparation for cattle and sheep
Quarantine was increased $4,000; for
meat inspection, $25,000; for invesu-
ga ton of tree diseases, $4,000. and
for the forest service as whole,
S65, 900
AS passed the bill sets aside s2,135,-
600 for fighting various crop pests,
SS92,O00 for the biological survey,
$4,423.000 for the bureau of agri-
cultural economics, $1,000,000 for ac-
QUESTION of additional forest lands,
S452,000 for enforcement of the pack
ers and stockyar ris act and S13,000,-
600 for federal highways.
Evening star., 1924-05-24

he took the oath of Office. namely to
the major policies of the late
President Harding. In conversation,
Mr.. Coolidge refers to his own posi-
tion always as being in favor of the
proposal presented by Mr.. Harding
to the Congress. Under such circum-
stances can the Cleveland convention
repudiate the late President Harding
as well as the nominee, President Cool
idge? The outlook now is that Mr..
insert a plank favoring American MEM
bership in the present court with reser-
vations distinctly stating that this in no
way involves American membership in
the league of nations itself.
The President has an even more
awkward problem to handle in the
immigration question. Secretary
Hughes is opposed to the bill that has
been passed by Congress on the
ground that it offends Japan. Mr..
Coolidge tried in vain to persuade
Congress to change the wording of
Japanese exclusion but without Of
fense to Japan. In this he failed. To
sign the bill is to contradict his own
attitude.
Cannot Reverse Veto.
he Is weighing tne duNdn ldSeS 10
the country in signing the bill and
the disadvantages in an eStrangement
with Japan. If he could persuade
Japan to be patient until a treaty
could be negotiated to supersede the
pending bill he would be able to
sign the measure and negotiate later.
But it appears that the Japanese will
be deeply disappointed unless the bill
is vetoed. If it is vetoed it cannot
pass over the veto, because the oppo-
sition on other grounds is sufficient
to prevent a two-thirds vote in the
House.
The Presidents friends are saying
he will sign the immigration bill and
announce his intention of negotiating
a treaty to take the place of the
Japanese provision in the bill he signs.
AS for the tax bill to which Sec
retary Mellon has indicated his op-
position, Mr.. Coolidge will apply a
simple test. If he finds upon careful
scrutiny that the bill proposed is an
improvement over the present law,
he will sign it. A glance at the
tables showing the material cut in
taxes for everybody of large and
small income, under the measure
which has just come out of the con-
ference committee of the two houses,
is convincing evidence that the meas
ure is indeed an improvement. This
means signature and the enactment
enough Objectionable features in the
bill to warrant a veto, though Mr..
Melons opposition will lay the
foundation for further efforts at
revision in the next session of
Congress.
Evening star., 1924-05-24
EXPEDIENCY FAILS
TO SWAY COOLIDGE
President Seen to Choose Logical,
Rather Than Political, Path
in First Tests.
STANDS FIRMLY BY PLEDGE
Senator'S Plea for New World
Court Plan Is Rejected.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Coolidge does not intend
to become an expediency Executive.
On the first tests which are facing
him-whether to yield to party ext
gencieS or remain consistent with his
announced attitude-Mr. Coolidge has
chosen the path of logic and not
politics
MIR. Coolidges conferences with the
Republican members of the Senate
foreign relations committee have been
the subject of much talk during the
past week and details are just be-
coming known. Mr.. Coolidge had
been urged to abandon the position
he took on the world court and to
support another plan sponsored by
either Senator Lodge or Senator rep
per, both of whom object to the fact
that the present court was created
by the league of nations. and that
judges for it are selected through the
machinery of the Geneva institution.
Reiterates First View.
Mr.. Coolidge's reply was an asser-
tion of leadership that is nothing less
than a sensation. He told the sena-
tors that his first address to con-
gress last December was the pro-
gram on which he went before the
American people-namely, support of
the present world court, even though
created by the league-and that in
subsequent addresses he had reit-
Grated that view. During all tnat
time-since last December-Mr. Cool
idge points significantly to the fact
that he had in a sense gone to the
country on the issue and that tne
delegates to the next Republican con-
venion had been elected in the
primaries on the basis of the Cool
idge program as announced in the in
terval. The President says he can
not alter his position now and keep
faith with the delegates elected.
This means that Mr.. Coolidge feels
the Republican national platform
should correspond to his own view
on the world court even though action
may not be obtained at this session
of Congress beyond report from
the Senate foreign relations COM
mittee.
Mr.. Coolidge feels also that he is
bound by the pledge he gave when