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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
ARCHES JOB

Voting Archie Roosevelt had a Job
with Sinclair that paid him $4,000 a
|year. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant sec
rotary OF the navy obtained the lob for
him. 1t now appears that these young
gentlemen are much distressed that any
one should question their motives.
We have no doubt that the Roosevelt
boys did not realize fully, just what
they were doing. 1t has become so
common for young men, with pull to
secure snecures. to receive salaries out
OF proportion to service. TO occupy posts
that some men achieve if ever, only after
long years of work. to be put into high
places for no apparent reason.
1t is possible that Archie Roosevelt
is $4,000 man. We do not know
the young gentleman. There are few.
very few $4,000 jobs in San Antonio,
Texas Such jobs here 60 with bank
presidencies and general managerships
and entail a vast amount of detailed
training and experience and a confidence
begot of years of business associations.
There are many Archie Smiths, Bill
Jones, Tom Browns and other Young
men in San Antonio honest, alert. ca
pablo, we'll educated Most of them are
very glad to begin lifc's treadmill round
of work at SIS a month. When one OF
them is so fortunate as to land posi-
ton paying him $3.50 or 5000 month,
he is the object of universal envy.
Just what was it that made Archie
Roosevelt worth $4,000 to the Sinclair
corporation or to anybody else?
Granting that he had plenty OF ability
that he was industrious and efficient ard
well educated as we know is the case
why was his opportunity so much great
err than the average American young
man?
Archie Roosevelt was a son OF great
American, a former President of the
United States and a world-citizen o.
international fame. He came of fam
| lily of much political and social prestige
1t was this prestige that placed Roose
welt in the Navy Department and tina
permitted that Roosevelt to place an
other Roosevelt in $4,000 year job
Unfortunately for the Roosevelt boys
an oil scandal broke unexpectedly anC
the $4,000 year job became untenabl'
and had to be resigned. 1t too, received
publicity that it might otherwise have
escaped. 1t called attention TO the fac
that a young man bearing name tina
was almost sacred in many parts o
America was drawing $4,000 year II
Job that never was open to the othe
Arches, Toms, Bills and Petes OF Amer
lea and never will be.
1t demonstrated the fact that youn'
men sometimes think too lightly ct &c
cepting unearned income. 1t pointed t
the obvious fact that in America Their
is class distinction OF sort-good job
for some fellows and no jobs Tor Others
We very much fear the Roosevelt boy
have sold their birthright for mess q
pottage.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
FEBRUARY CIRCULATION

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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
A Puzzle a Day

A man was walking with his
fathers brother-in-law, his brothers
father-in-law. his father-in-law's
brother, and his brother-in-law's
father.
What was the smallest number OF
companions he could have had with
him?
Yesterdays answer:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22

Motion Pictures.
Palace-Corinne Griffith in "Lilies
of the Field.
Empire-Monte Blue in Marriage
Circle"
Princess-Conway Tearle in "The
Next Corner"
Rialto-Colleen Moore in Through
the Dark"
Royal-Charles Buck" Jones in
"Boxx of Camp ~
Stock.
Grand-Jimmie "Slats" Allard in
"Jinglc. Jingle"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
WESLEY'S RULE.

Do all the good you can.
BY all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22

The tin can contained lima beans.
The same letters that formed Beam
Snail'' may be arranged to form
Lima Beans"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
MENsEss OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 20 tne
ose FOR publication OF all news dispatches credltea 20
a. a, NOT otherwise edited in this paper and also mat
ioosI news published herein All rights OF repuolica-
;ion Of special dispatches herein are also reserved
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
Where to Go
Motion Pictures.

Vaudeville.
Majestic-Big Time Vaudeville.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22

Colonel Holes and the woman ne
he'd sought so passionately long years
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22

Yesterdays answer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Hand Writi,.g Lesson
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

I am moved to set down few earnest words | in rehandwriting. What moves me Is the number of correspondents Il have, and some of them dear friends, whose letters plunge me into despair. They are not letters they are problems; they are spasms. The worst of it is, these people are hopeless. They will never change. They would as soon think of alter ing the shape of their nose or straightenins up their ears as of remedying their chirog- raphy.
 l A beautiful penmanship is not to be de | sired, It goes along with lovely head of hair or gorgeous whiskers. Nobody cares to be able to make the. swans, adorned with scrolls and twirls, which the professor at the business college professes to teach. Few aim to reach the proficiency of the artist who sits at his little table on the sidewalk and writes calling cards. But for the sake of ones cor respondents, ones friends and humanity in general one should learn to write so that the writing can be read.gss
 | And this can be done Anybody can writs plainly if he will try. And, not to talk into the vacuous air, I will tell you exactly how. Follow me. and I will not say that your writing will be striking, distinguished or pretty, but will say that people can read it. And one of the objects of writing is that it. may be read.
 Rule 1. Separate your letters. Nine-tenths of the illegibility of manuscript is due to jamming letters together. When you have made one letter, move your pen over and put distance in between that and the next letter. 2. Watch the six letters-i, e, n, m, and W. They are the curse of writing. Get the habit of making your not with loop, but like reverse 3, so that it will never be taken for an l. The letters n and u are nothing alike if you practice wfiting them correctly always make the with the shoulder up and the with the shoulder down. Practice the word minimum if you can write that legibly you are good penman.
 a. Don't forget the littles tails on your b, V, o and W. Make, the bottoms of your V and W sharp-cornered.
 As 4. Distinguish between a and o. Always bring the last stroke down along the body of the letter in a, never in o.
 5. Curve your over; don't leave it stick ing up straight like an i. |@.6. Don't write like ct
 q Never loop your t always loop your l. Make your tall and your short. Cross your t; don't slap the cross, down anywhere; put it on the t. And put the dot directly over the and j, not somewhere else.
 8. Give plenty of abdomen to d. g and q.
 9. Always loop the g tail; never the q tail.
 TO- Keep the hinder part of h, and close up to the stem; don't separate F. II. Settle on one kind of an and k and stick to it.
 F. Give the letter sa distinguishing fea- ture. Don't write it. so that it may be taken for almost anything.
 Adhere to thess. dozen rules
 Remember thSt English words are com posed of separate LETTERS they are not Chinese worl-sgns.
 Do this and bring little joy and peace into this already too troubled world,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Ride DudIey's Rhymes

Said Silas McGuggin; in Peeweeple's store "NOw, fellers, be quiet, for I've got the floor. l just want to say that the girl of today is brainless and acts like a regular jay, My daughter one time got dream in her bean that sine could write stories for some maga- zine. She wrote one she called The Romance of Tack She sent it away, but they hustled it back. I laughed when I seen it, and Sue muttered low: Shut up, you old fossil! It's little you know chuckied again and my wife said to her. The brains he possesses won't get that fool fur
 "The story was turrible silly and weak. It had such big words it was mostly all Greek. Nobody would buy it; I'm certain of that. It's one of them fiction that always fall flat" Elisha O. Pertle, who runs the BazoO, came in at that point and said "How do you do!" He added "Oh, Silas, pur- chased today story your daughter brought in. By the way, she surely has talent. The story is great. I paid her $10, my regular rate" Said Silas McGuggin .SF1lisha, I'm proud. That stOry's pippin, I've always allowed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
LIBRARY TO BE INCLUDED

With a majority of the city commission faSorable to the inclusion of bond issue for &650,000 for a central library building in the school bond-issue election soon to be held, there seems no doubt that formal ratification of this attitude will be made at the regular meeting of the commission Tuesday. None of the members of the commission is op- posed to the erection of q new library. The only hesitation has been based on the danger of, sthwarting the success of the school bond issue, if anything but schools were included on the ballot. The only criticism is that the afhount asked for library may not be suffi- cient.
 .sUndoubtedly there is a very strong senti ment for new library building to fill the pressing and growing needs and to eliminate tRe fire dangers threatened under present conditions, responsibility for which members of the library board have expressed their con- cazn. The public library is widely regarded assan important part of the school system and an essential factor in public education. The splendid work which the library board and those identified with the institution have done has earned proper public recognition of tfo service unselfishly rendered the com fn6nity. The compromise whereby the orig
 
 reduced was in line with the wise decision 1ksthe school board to consider the financial 9s well as the educational conditions of the community, and manifested a spirit of CO., operation which is both constructive and com mendable.
 That any fear of endangering the school bond issue by including the library needs in the program to be voted on was not we'll founded is borne out not only by the way in which the library proposal has been worked out and received by the public, but also by the almost complete absence of opposition to the bond issue as reduced from the amount originally requested by the school authorities. At the outset there were scattered expressions of opposition to any bond issue which did carry the larger amount. With analysis of the financial situation, as well as study of the school needs, that opposition has almost completely disappeared, and there is strong sentiment in favor of the program which has been determined on.
 The people have been so we'll informed through the surveys, reports public discus sions and the press that they have a com prehensive view of the situation and realize that the proposed school bond issue is not intended to be final, but is to take care of the most immediate requirements In short while-probably two or three years from now additional school funds will have to be provided. The amount to be authorized by this bond issue will be sufficient to carry out an improvement program during that period. By that time the city's financial con- dition IS expected to justify such further ex- penditures for schools as may be needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS

z Sessions of the convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, which will be held for five days in this city, commencing this morning, promise to be among the most interesting and helpful in the history of that organization. Birmingham welcomes this progressive body, which includes in it's mem bership some of the most distinguished cleo trical engineers in the United States. The eight hundred or more delegates will not only find hospitable citizenry here, but will see much in electrical engineering development that will be informing and helpful in their work. Not only this immediate section, but the entire state, is signally favored with con- ditions for the expansion of electrical en- gineering, especially water power develop ment. The turning of coal into current is also field of broad invitation in Alabama The visit of these representatives of one of the greatest sources of industrial progress will be beneficial to the community as well as to them. In these days of efficiency and economical operation in industry, electricity IS playing an annually more important func- tion. The electrical engineer is the herald who ushers in better day for American in dustry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
About The Hereafter
By WICKEs wAMBOLDT

Everybody is eager to know about the hereafter. There are people who can, give us these things in detail. They can tell us just what is going on there, what people are doing, what they are eating, how they are dressing, what they are thinking about and all that sort of thing. They even persuade them to come back and tap tables for us and rattle chairs and write meager mes sages on slates. These things may all be true. I do not know. But the whole affair is so far away, and communication is so uncertain, that doubt the wisdom of anybody's going crazy about it.
 When it comes to this world, let alone the next, we get awfully fooled in dealing with things we know about, things we can see, taste, touch and smell. If you do not be- lieye that, just try to pick a good cante- loupe.
 In this world, for instance, we believe that India ink comes from India but it doesn't t. When we see the ermine robe, we think of the little white weasel with a black tipped tail, and yet much of this "ermine" is bunny fur. We associate violin strings with the cat, but here another romance is shattered. They make them from sheep. When 2 man kisses the fragrant hair of his beloved, he does not dream that the delicate net which keeps her coiffure tidy is made of the comb
  theless, it is true.
 However, these things are neither here nor there. India ink serves it's purpose, no matter where it comes from and if rabbit fur looks as good as erhine, what of it? And if the virtuoso can produce as sweet music saving away on a sheeps intestine as on a cat's what's the odds? And certainly a man s beloved is none the less adorable because she presses celestiars queue into service.
 
 does us no harm, and what we do know will do us no good. We are not living in the hereafter now, neither should we try to do so while we are here. The Bible, with studied determination, stays away from the details of the life to come. It is the here that should concern us, and it is in the pres ent that our responsibility lies5 Live this life we'll and the details of the future life will take care of themselves. That is a fact about the hereafter. ae
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
The Omnibus

Last month saw the birthday of the omni- bus. It was on March IS, 1862, that the first omnibus line in the history of the world was started in Paris. It was one of the first expressions of that liberty, fraternity and democracy that was to result in the, revolu- tion. The very name is significants for the word is derived from the Latin and means flor all.'' s.5ys:
 In the seventeenth century in Paris there were many carriages for hire, but they were beyond the reach of the poor, so a company of benevolent men, with three nobiemen al their head, secured from Louis XIV. a. char ter to operate a line of public vehicles,
 Under the charter each omnibus, was tC have a capacity of not less than eight peo ple and to run from fixed points in the outskirts of Paris through certain streets al certain hours, ''fOr the benefit of great number of persons i'll provided for, as persons engaged in lawsuits, infirm people and others who have not the means to ride in chaise or carriage which cannot be hired under pistole or a couple of crowns day
 The fare on the pioneer bus line was centimes. Seven coaches were built and put into operation, elaborate ceremonies marking the inaugural of the service.
 All Paris was curious about the new ve. hicles and soon the wealthy and. fashionable began to ride in them. They demanded great CT exclusiveneSs, and manual lab0rers, private soldiers and domestic servants were forbid den to ride in the vehicles The coaches which were intended for all became to the masses but symbols fer oppression, and stones were showered upon them. so that troops had to accompany and guard them. Soon the omnibus fad among the rich died out and the pioneer bus company ceased op- eratiOn. <. vsit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
RESULTS OF ETGHf-HoUR DAY

increase In volume of business and decla- ration of extra dividends by the United States Steel Corporation as recently published are vindication of the change by one of the worlds greatest industrial enterprises from twelve-hour to an eght-hour working day. For years there was a strong public senti- ' Dent for the change, but it was vigorously Eesisted by the Steel Corporation on several ecenomic grounds. Less than a year ago Chairman Gary of the board read report be- fore the American Iron and Steel Institute op- posing the change from the long working-day with the contention that it would be to the interests neither of employer and employees nor of the public. He presented figures to support this view; but figures are frequently interesting in theory, and do not bear prac- tical tests.
 Widespread protests followed Judge Gary's contention. Meantime experience of a com paratively small independent iron and steel industry demonstrated that the eight-hour day, accompanied by certain operating econo- mics, was more profitable than was the twelve-hour day. It was also demonstrated That the argument against the eight-hour day on the ground that sufficient men for a shree-shit basis could not be obtained was not well founded. It was further claimed that abandonment of the twelve-hour day would increase the cost of production about fifteen per cent. Experience also proved that this was erroneous. The increased cost of steel products has advanced less than ten per cent.
 Public sentiment for the eighthour day became so strong a few months after Judge Gary's adverse report, that not even the worlds greatest iron and steel industry could resist it. and the eight-hour day was adopted opposing the change from the long workng-day with the favorable results referred to. The theories of the economic dangers of the change were shown to be untenable. Operation of the shorter work-day has not only been wise and practical as regards the Steel Corporation s interests economically and financially and by removing much of the former friction srfong it's operatives; but it has conformed to an enlightened public sentiment by abol- ishing relic of indusTial serfdom which had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
RULES FOR STUMP SPEAKING

Announcement by one of the political par ties of the establishment of training school to coach women workers in practical politics has created additional interest among women participants in the campaign since it became known that there will be a department to prepare women for appearance on the stump Up to recently spell-bindins has been mo- nopolzed by men folks; but more and more since obtaining equal rights in matters po- iitical, l,,women are taking active part in caml paign work, and some of them have earned distinction as stump speakers.
 One of the instructors in the training school for female campaigners, herself a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
THE NAMES PEOPLE BEAR

The Milwaukee Journal declares that there is some merit in the suggestion that we ought to have a Society for the Prevention of Infants From Awful Names'' It seems to be worth considering, in view of the bur dens which so many men and women have to carry through life because their parents gave them picturesque, bizarre or stylish" names instead of selecting good, old-fashioned or family names that would help to identify the stock while not attracting undue atten- tion.
 Around about Milwaukee and that section there are many; ''jaw-breakers' in human nomenclature; but that is more because of racial conditions than of social ambition, and hence not many James, Ruths, Marys, Johns Williams and Josephs are heard in that re- zion. Nor is the tendency to name girls for flowers adhered to. Rose, Lily and Violet do not incite a smile. Even this worthy practice, that formerly was widely adopted, has it's limitations. Petunia and Lobelia are likely to bring humiliation upon their owners. And the habit of naming children for famous men carries it's disadvantages. Imagine the handicap to the child who has to lug around such a combination as Napoleon Washington Lincoln. Not a few youngsters have been burdened with such a three-cornered obstruc- tion.
 Back in Puritan England they used to choose names from long-winded moral or spiritual injunctions or warnings, and were frequently forced to abbreviate with ludicious results. negro woman in rural Virginia who had two children killed by railroad trains! named her third hopeful Schedule" and ex- plained that she was actuated by a desire to choose something that the train would not run on. That was little less ridiculous than the purposes of some more intelligent parents who fail to realize that it should be no less duty than a pleasure to select for their children names suggested by more serious considerations that euphony or fashion.