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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29

Of white CASTLE soap mixed with
enough Fuller's earth TO make a fair
ly stiff paste. Work it into smooth
halls
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29

Moire Hats.
MORE hats are newer than felts,
satin or straws and are capable of
being worn with almost any type of
frock.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29
NIarabOut

MarabOut.
Borders of marabout are replacing
on spring and summer frocks, the
bands of fur that have been so smart
during the winter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29
NIGHT LETTER FROM LESLIE
PRESCOTT TO MRS. MARY.
ALDEN PRESCOTT

Jack will be home day after tomor-
row, dear mother, and we would like
i. very much if you would come down
and see us for a few weeks. There
isn't room for you and your nurse in
our little apartment, but f-you will
say that you will come, will arrange
for you in the one next door. Think
perhaps this will be better for then,
when you want to be quiet and alone.
you can get away from us all. I'd
like to have you come as soon as pos
sihle. I'm not telling Jack about IL.
because want 10 give him the incest
surprise possible.
Your loving daughter,
LESLIE.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
TOMORROW: Letter From Leslie
Prescott to Leslie Prescott, care the
secret drawer.
Black Hose Stylish.

Although most well dressed women
have been converted to light stock
ings, black ones are said TO be creep
ing back into favor particularly
very thin ones.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29
COlored Hats.

Milliners says that despite the fact
that colored hats are shown it
is difficult to get the average woman
to wear them, that she prefers black
or a combination Of black and white.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29

into very hot water because the heat
and moisture dissolve the glue used
to fasten the bristles. Immerse them
only for short time in ammonia or
borax water.
Securing Ball.
A good securing ball to use for
spots may be made of strong suds
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29

Man Dressmaker-Well what now !?
Apprentice--I have discovered a way to
make a woman's dress so that she will
bats wings. Man observation-disclosures,
II will become the rage.-New YORK
Telegraph.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-29
RengaIine FrOck.

The bengaline frock, which is the
most popular material of the moment
is probably at its best in black, com
bined with white.
Evening star., 1924-12-23
Oh, Luther

Now comes Luther Burbank, the
noted plant pathologist. creator of
new forms of vegetation, and SHES
his hat into the ring Of the great de.
bate on fundamentalism and evolu.
ton. He not only SHES his hat In on
the principle but he SHES it at the
most vocal IL not the chief opponent
OF evolution, William Jennings Bryan,
just as the late Woodrow Wilson once
did bit Of hat tossing with the same
objective. Mr.. Burbank, taking part
in discussion at a church in Santa
Rosa, Calf, said:
Mr.. Bryan is an honored friend OF
mine. yet this need not prevent the OBJ
servation that the skull with which ma
ture endowed him visibly approaches
the Neanderthal type. Feeling and the
use of gesticulation and words are more
according TO the nature OF this type
than investigation and reflection.
This is rubbing it in. AS If it were
not enough for Mr.. Burbank to take
the opposite side to his honored friend.
he must needs go further and liken
him to the Neanderthal man. He
must differentiate between feeling and
the use of gesticulation and words"
and Investigation and reflection" )"
Why, this is virtually libelous!
Evening star., 1924-12-23

bow and arrow the Indian. of our part
Of the world killed his turkey wild.
When Europeans came to settle
here they would hunt wild turkeys.
Spaniards had carried domestic Mexi-
can turkeys to Europe, and the bird
was known in England by the first
English to settle in the North Ameri-
can colonies. When they found bird
very much like the turkey of their
old home they chose it for their best
dinners. They seemed to think it bet
ter than venison or goose. They
domesticated the black turkey Of their
woods. and venison and goose came
to be harder to get. So the turkey
came to be the chief meat at a great
dinner, and the greatest dinner of the
year was Christmas dinner. The
turkey custom has come to us by the
ancestral way.
Why it is called turkey is a nut
to crack. Many Europeans forgot that
the bird had come to them from Spain,
whence it had come from America.
Its bronze plumage. breast tassel and
red wattles suggested the oriental.
Many things good to eat had come to
Northern Europe from the East dur
ing the crusades and the age of ex.
ploration following them, and the be.
lief became general that this bird had
been brought from the East. Hence
people took to calling 1t the Turkey
bird.
Evening star., 1924-12-23
Trotsky and Napoleon.

An interesting story comes from
Moscow. printed In The Star else
where today. giving the exact status
Of the case Of Leon Trotsky, who re-
Gently left the Russian capital for the
Crimea to recover from an illness 1t
appears that Trotsky Is genuinely Ill.
that he has not resigned, that he has
not been deposed or exiled. But he is
the object Of an intensive fight, main
ly in the form OF widespread publicity
conducted by the Soviet leaders. Stain.
kameneff, Bukharin, Zinovieff. Ka-
linin and others. They are using the
press as their major battery Of as
sault, and are dividing their efforts to
different groups Of the people to show
Trotsky's heresies, ambitions and
schemes. This is all for the purpose
Of discrediting him before the Com
munist party congress which meets in
March, and which, it is expected, will
pronounce final judgment upon his de-
parture from the orthodox Communist
principles and his violation of party
discipline.
One paragraph in this dispatch is of
particular interest:
Various bolshevik leaders have made
known for the first time that Trotsky
rendered his resignation many times
whenever the central committee of the
party attempted to interfere in any
branch Of his activities, especially in his
administration of military measures dur
ing the civil war. In no case was his
resignation accepted, but he was forced
TO submit to party instructions:
Has Trotsky been reading the life of
Napoleon Bonaparte? Has he been
patterning himself upon the great
Corsican? Bonaparte, it will be re-
membered, had a habit Of resigning
whenever the Directory at Paris un-
dertook to interfere with his military
leadership in the first italian cam
paign. The Directory feared him, but
he alone of the revolutionary military
commanders was getting results. He
was accomplishing marvels Of military
chieftainship. He was winning vic
tories, and collecting indemmties and
works Of art, subduing other states
and potentates. The people were be.
ginning to take notice of the Little
Corporal" and the Directory dared
not displace him. So whenever he re-
signed the Directory rejected his resig.
nation and gave him increased powers
Therein Napoleon differed from Trot-
sky. Whenever Trotsky resigned his
powers were curtailed. There are
other differences between Trotsky and
Napoleon,
Evening star., 1924-12-23
White Christmas.

On authority Of the Weather Bu-
reau Christmas weather for Christmas
Is indicated. 1t Is common knowledge
hereabout that the weather has been
Of good Christmas temperature. Ice
has formed on the shores of the river;
1t shines along slow-moving creeks,
and ponds have been frozen. The last
rose of Summer, left blooming alone,
has Joined all her lovely companions
that are faded and gone.
There is no Naturalization of sleigh
bells in the air, but postmen stagger
under loads of mail, shop windows
glitter with temptations and neigh
bors say Good morning in cheerier
way. When rolls and bacon were
served this morning, some Of the fam
ny began to talk Of turkey. Many
things tell that Christmas Is near.
~ IL the Weather Bureau could ar
range the proper snow scenery for
Christmas, many Of those who read
its forecasts would be obliged. What
is wanted is snow with lots Of spar.
kls, but which will not tie up the
car lines nor give us too much work
to clear 1t from the sidewalk. It would
also be q great accommodation to have
snow which would not turn to slush
at the crossings. Traditional Christ
mas in this neighborhood calls for
Evening star., 1924-12-23
VITAL THEMES
A New Business Order Since
the War.
BY GEORGE E. ROBERTS,

The war, a elimination OF the old
order of things, in which the belief
that the interests of nations We're
necessarily conflicting and competi-
tive dominated the relations between
countries. That belief was based
upon the idea, encountered not only
in labor circles, but among business
men and statesmen, that there is only
a limited amount of work or business
to be done and that If rival gets
moro there will be just SO much less
for the rest of us. So long as the
peoples of different countries think
in terms of competitive relations
rather than In terms of cooperative
relations they are bound to come into
collision from time to time.
The disorganization of industry and
trade caused by the war did more
to demonstrate the interdependence
of nations and the general community
of interests than all previous expert
ence and the. five years of govern
mental efforts to settle the repara-
tons question confirmed the lesson.
The success of the Dawes commits
sion has been due to its having set
up as its guide the idea that Europe
must be reconstructed as q mutually
helpful society. Germany must be
helped to her feet and provided with
dustrial organization preliminary to
discharging her repatriation obliga-
tions and Germany's late enemies and
future competitors were called upon
to make her a loan for this purpose.
AS to the interest of the United
States in this work of reorganization
owen Young said at the great dinner
in his honor:
I'VE may debate political participa-
tion in the affairs of the world as
we will, but we must participate in
it's business; and business, like SCI
ence, knows no political boundaries
and in it's dictionary there is no such
word as iso1ataion."
Speaking in this country recently.
Henry Bell, one of the leading bank
ers OF London, gave his reason for
accepting the Dawes plan in these
words:
ITO improve rivals currency is
to strengthen her competitive ca
pacity. To grant her loan will
enable her to sell in competition with
us, but to buy also. In any long
view the prosperity of all is cumu-
lative. and six men or 500 100000 are
only harmed by the detection or fall
ure or folly or misery of part of their
number"
These two declarations embody
view Of international relations wholly
different from that which has gov
erned in the past. Here is something
very like the religious Injunction to
love thy neighbor as thyself set forth
in the practical terms of the business
world, for If a nation knows that 1t
will be benefited by the prosperity
of other nations and harmed by what
ever injury befalls them It's policies
toward them naturally will be in
harmony with the scriptural text.
The economic lesson Is that the
whole world is served by an inter-
related organization, which reaches
it's highest efficiency when all its
parts are rightly adjusted to each
other and working in the highest
possible degree of harmony. and that
any attempt by one party in the
organization to gain an advantage
over the others has the effect Of slow
ing down the whole organization, to
the disadvantage Of all.
So long as the peoples of different
Evening star., 1924-12-23

the spread between the prices re-
ceiVed by producers and those maid
ny consumers at the shops Two
woman members represent the house-
wives or the country on the Geddes
commission. As a Scotsman. he Is
considered we'll qualified to find out
where the farthings and the pennies
are going. Latteriy Sir Auckland has
peen functioning as a sort OF William,
M Butler for the Conservative marty
since his return to England Geddes
mas received some directorships In
great corporations, which assure him
q lucrative and not too onerous live
lnood He is not a career man. in
the British diplomatic service.
y y r
Owen D. Young is in grave da,par
OF becoming the Nations handy man
he has just undertaken the chair
manship or the Walter Hines Page
foundation and now Secretary Hoov.
er means to draft him to become the
director of an industrial and mer-
camille census. The "constr,ctive
genius OF the Dawes plan" is not ex-
actiy unemployed. Some of the minor
activities to which he devotes him
self from 120 Broadway are the
chairmanship Of the boards of the
General Electric Co. and the Radio
corporation OF America and member
snip on the executive committees of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, the General Motors Corpora-
tion and the Adirondack Power and
Light Corporation. Young is also a
trustee of his alma mater, st. Law
renee University. at Canton, N. Y.
K x x x
The organizer of a gallery of ma
tfonal beauties has called upon this
observer to nominate two candidates
from Washington society Rushing
In where angels fear to tread is not
a scribe's speciality but, being always
ready to oblige. this expert suggests
the names Of Mrs. John A. Hull. wife
OF the newly appointed Judge Adyo-
cate General of the United states
Army, and Mrs. Franklin Mott
Gunther, wife Of the new ohief Of
the Mexican division of the Depart
ment OF State. The polls are closed.
y \ y X
Senator-elect Hiram Bingham of
Connecticut will make his debut as
an orator in Washington at the Jus
Serand farewell banquet on the eve
ming of January 10. He has been
chosen to speak because of his ac-
tive service record in France in 1918.
during the last eight months of the
campaign Bingham, with the rank of
lieutenant colonel in the American
expeditionary forces, was command
ing officer of the great aviation in
struotfon center at Issoudun, the
allies largest flying school. At one
time $4,000 budding aviators were
under his care. He is an officer of
the French Order of the Black Star.
r Copyright. ls2<.)
Evening star., 1924-12-23

countries think in terms OF competi-
tive relations rather than in terms of
CO. cooperative relations they are bound
to come into collision from Tina to
time
The NDawes plan is based upon
the theory that every factor In a
highly organized society is interested
on its own account in that right ad-
justment of relations which produces
the largest aggregate results, and
when this is understood there Is no
real basis for strife in either indfus-
trial or international relations.
Senator Milo Franco, presidingSdver
the Council of the League off sNa-
tions at its recent session in Rome,
summed UP this unity OF interests in
noble phrase when, referring TO
resolutions for the codification and
development of international law and
the unification of private law. he said
that these proposals pave the way
toward the high ideal Of the complete
submission of all peoples and all Sow
ereignties to law common to ALL"
< .lCopyright, Cosmos Newspaper syndicsa.)
Evening star., 1924-12-23
Turkey.

Turkey is an important subject. The
annual sacrifice of Meleagris gala
parvo holds the attention of a great
many heads of family in Washington.
The head of the family has mailed the
Christmas cards, disposed Of the gifts
to children and dear friends and made
provision for those persons who may
unexpectedly send her a handkerchief,
pincushion or calendar. The grave
matter to which she now turns her
head is the turkey. The cranberries,
celery and pie are subordinate sub
jects. 1t 10 the turk which is the great
matter for thought and planning.
1t must be turkey. The Christmas
revel has come to demand 1t. A roast
shoat with baked apples and sweet
potatoes would not fill the bill. A roast
goose would be an experiment and a
violation Of family tradition. In the
very old times a roast boar, a doe, a
roe, a peacock or a brace of pheasants
would be At to set before the king,
but that was before the turkey came
to reign at the Christmas board.
The turkey il an American bird, and
roast turkey has become an American
institution. When Spanish explorers
and conquistadores forced their way
into Mexico they found people with
fiocks Of large birds. The birds were
of wild native ancestry. but had been
domesticated for an unknown time.
The northern Indians esteemed the
turkey for food, though they knew
naught Of Christmas. Indians OF our
part Of the United States did not take
the trouble to domesticate turkeys.
With wild things SO numerous our In
dams did not domesticate anything
except the dog. In the vegetable line
they cultivated corn and tobacco and
perhaps Q few other things which es-
cape the mind at this moment. With
Evening star., 1924-12-23
White Lines in Traffic
Correspondent Sees Serious Risks
Incurred at Car Crossings.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A recent editorial in The Star
takes cognizance Of a point usually
passed over in the overzealous advo-
cacy of the boulevard system OF traf-
fic separation. If high speeds aTo TO
be legalized on these arteries OF
travel 1t is essential that they be
supplemented by special precautions
in the interest OF pedestrians. AS
matters stand, the latter are sub
jected to serious risk when attempt
ing to board or leave street cars
where real platforms. raised eight
inches above the street level. and
thus affording an appreciable degree
of safety, are replaced by the farci-
cal white-line marking. The origi-
nal 15-foot ordinance, requiring We
hicles to halt at that distance behind
a standing street car, ed well,
but 1t was modified some months ago
at whose institgation II might be
useful to learn-so as to permit their
uninterrupted passage alongside and
beyond the car at speed notFex-
ceeding IL miles an hour As this
exemption applies to the white-line
zones only, 1t is apparent that
greater measure of safety IS given at
car stops not having these ridiculous
lines, for, owing to the prohibition
still applying at these points to the
passage OF vehicles, ne Is enabled 10
cross from car to sidewalk. or vice
versa, with reasonable cohhdenoeS
This he cannot do with vehicles IN
terfering with his passage under the
emasculated regulation, and 1t is be-
sides, the exception rather than the
rule to find the 12-mile limit OBJ
served.
Your editorial rightly insists on the
necessity of accompanying any rails
ing Of the speed limit with additional
provisions insuring safe crossing OF
streets. In itself such raising OF the
limit is no more dangerous than is
the present habituai non-observance
of the impossible distinction between
a maximum of is miles between
street intersections and reduced
speed at the latter points. Who has
ever noted an attemtp to observe. or
to enforce, the eight-mile- an-hour
speed rule when turning at right an
giles? These abortive regulations,
whose only object seems to be- to
serve as stalking horses from which
to defend the official inaction whose
major cause Is to be found In the per
sistent undermanning of the police
force, must be replaced by practical
measures ifE the present holocaust OF
motorless citizens is to cease.
JOHN s. 'FfODGSON..
Evening star., 1924-12-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

President Coolidge told White
House callers the other day to bark
| back to a speech delivered in the
| Senate last May for authentic in
| formation on the state of the Navy
He might as usefully have suggested
| to the country that if 1t had paid a
little closer attention to his message
to Congress on December the Pres
ident might have been saved the
| necessity of wading into the recent
controversy over japan. In no un-
certain terms Mr.. Coolidge rebuked
the zealots who want swollen fleets
and armies. The presidential admo-
nitions were aimed straight at those
who have constantly besought US
to engage IN competitive armaments."
Mr.. Coolidge said that Uncle Sam
would do well "to be little impressed
by reports of the magnitude of the
| military equipment of other nations"
The master of the White House is
thousands of miles removed from be-
| ing a pacifist. II believe thoroughly
| in the Army and Navy, in adequate
| defense and preparation" he told
Congress, but 1 am opposed to any
policy of competition in building and
maintaining land or sea armaments."
A little later on the President ad-
jured "the guiding forces of the Army
anu NAVY u Keep tuiS pOllCy con-
| stantly in mind" and gave Congress
and the country the same advice
| Presidential messages are printed,
but sometimes not read.
x X * u
There's a new Taft story in circu-
lation. When the Chief Justice of
the United States was delivering his
| first argument, as Solicitor General,
In, he
rison administration, the young Ohio
| lawyer bent all his mental and phys
| ical energies toward making an i'm
preston. Taft at that time was al
ready of semi -Falstaffiian dimensions.
His plea was eloquent and effective.
| When It was finished, his collar was
wilted and his brow bespattered with
Mr.. Justice Harlan had listened to
Taft's argument with particularly
| close attention. The Solicitor. Gen
eral was as pleased rs Punch when
the veteran Kentucky jurist passed
| a note to him across the bench. 1t
| read: How much do you weigh,
anyhow, Bill7'
Edward L. Doheny is no piker
| when It comes to rewarding those
| who have served him honestly and
we'll. Frank j. Hogan, his chief
counsel in the Government oil prose-
cutions in California, has just re-
turned to his home in Washington by
way of the Panama Canal. Doheny
| sent Hogan and the lawyers entire
staff all the way from Los Angeles
to the Potomac in the palstial 1,2005
| ton private yacht, the Casiana, the
journey occupying 10 days. While
| proceedings were In progress In the
Los Angeles. courts. Hogan and his
party were the lords of the manor in
occupation Of the sumptuous Doheny
estate on the outskirts Of the Cali
/ fornia metropolis.
| X " r
| Sir Auckland Geddes. former Brit
ish Ambassador to the United States,
has Just tackled in London a harder
nut than his diplomatic job in Wash
| ington ever required him to crack.
He's been appointed chairman of a
| royal commission to investigate the
high cost of living. particularly food
prices, which have become inordi-
nately high In John Bulls islands.
] Geddes is particularly to investigate
Evening star., 1924-12-23

snow. Turkey, mince pie. jackpine
trees. wreaths of holly. red berries.
festoons of crowfoot, sprays OF mistle-
toe and lighted candles are but parts
Of the festival.
The approach of relations to din.
ner should be discovered through a
snowstorm. The children looking
through the frosty window panes
should call out, Here comes Uncle
John. Aunt Hettie and Grace, Betty
Jimmy and Rover and the baby"
When the relations come to the front
porch they should stamp the snow
from their arctics, brush 1t with nit
tened hands from their coats and un-
wind muffiers from their necks.
After Christmas dinner it is de-
lightful to draw the children on sleds
and have the little ones hit us in the
back Of the neck with snow balls. In
the olden time the ordinary Washing
tonian would hitch the work team to
a double sleigh and take the family
for a ride from the Navy Yard to
Georgetown, or Georgetown to the
Navy Yard. The extraordinary Wash
ingtonian would have his fast-stepper
hitched to an Albany cutter and,
wrapped in a buffalo robe or a worsted
Afghan, hit 1t up at a four-minute
stride. the rate Of Is miles an hour,
for several squares on the Avenue.
A white Christmas Is proper in
Washington. One feels sorry for those
persons who live in a cline where
after Christmas dinner they go into
the garden, sit under a blooming mag
nolia tree, watch the humming birds
and butterflies and fan themselves to
keep cool.