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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

home at Valley Forge, they were used
to starvation and discomfort in Ire
land and there were no English or
Scotch to fight at Valley Forge. But
look up the men who did the fighting
in the Revolution-there you'll find
the Englishmen and Scotchmen, on
both sides. That's why their battles
were hard fought.
But. "Que Dice" you are right on
one point. The Scotch put the "Ire"
in ireland. Remember the Enniskill-
eners who rode with William OF
Orange? The Irish call down 1the
curse o. Cromwell" on you but to this
day they don't even dare to mention
above a whisper the name of those
Scotch-Irish cavalrymen-those same
Scotch-Irishmen you mentioned, and
who, il they ever started from Ulster
travelling south, would have the
Micks pouring off Mizzen Head into
the Atlantic as fast as sheep through
gap in a stile. The Scotch who set
tied in Ulster may have been driven
out of Scotland by Englishmen or by
Scots tougher than they were, but,
dear, "Que Dice" and "R. +. c. you
will undoubtedly be pleased to note
they have never had any such diff
Guilty in remaining where they wanted
to settle, once they were in ireland.
Then. of course, the Irish had to
get a Scotchman to run the snakes
out Of ireland, too.
should say this was perhaps even
too much said for one time.
CHARLES MDONALD.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
BELIEVES IN THE VALLEY.

Ito the Editor:
1 noticed a little editorial in your
highly esteemed paper about the magic
VALLEY. In this article you mention,
IA the congressional invetigation and
stated that the Valley could grow
most anything if the land was prop
|srly titled. / surely wish to agree
with you. l have no land in the
VALLEY nor am l interested in the sale
|bf any, but / would like to see such
n wonderful country developed to Its
Fullest capacity. / made a trip al,
Through the Valley last summer ana
'yas a little prejudiced against the
VALLEY until I went and saw. 1t posi-
lively passed my expectations; :.
Those people up North and over IN
alabama don't know what they arc
knocking. They never saw anything
10 equal it, unless they have been 10
california or Phoenix. Ariz. 1t mas
developed beyond their narrow concep'
lions. / hardly see how one could e e..
ggerate the country and its possibiii-
les. 1t has developed beyond ths
reams of some of the promoters.
khink those people are doing the coun-
Hry a great injustice in pretending
hat the investors have been swindled.
6f course, there were a few fortune
hunters that expected the oranges and
krape fruit to. grow alone on theil
bnd. These are naturally disappoint.
n and knock the country. but should
b given no attention. believe that
lou can do a great good by giving the
ublic the facts.
THOS. r. FRANKLIN.
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that the English have licked the
Scotch on occasion as well as the
Irish, but every time the English
into camp they knew they had fight
on their hands from start to finish,
while every engagement they have
attempted with the Irish has looked
more like a West Texas rabbit drive
than battle. 1t is true that if
Cumberland had been fighting the
Irish he would never have gained the
title of Butcher" the Irish never
stayed on n battlefield long enough
to be butchered even by the most
fleet footed of foemen. Cromwell
knew how TO treat them though. lie
rounded them up in towns: then when
they couldn't get away, he butchcred
them to his hearts content. But he
never whipped the Scotch. He bought
them off. The only time on record
where the Irish ever came to the point
of putting up anything but barrage
of hot air was at the Borne Water.
There they fought valiantly as long
as England's German hired men were
on the opposite side of the creek. But
when they got across that creek-then
it was that the invaders suffered
their only casualties-numbers of SOL
diers were suffocated by the clouds
of dust raised as the Irish charged
to the rear.
And did one of you authorities on
the Scotch mention the Revolution and
Valley Forge! The Irish, il any
were there, probably felt right at
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
A CALL FOR HELP.

To the Editor:
Can you help us overtaxed property
owners with lot of emptys rent
houses, apartments and store build
ings to solve the real estate question
as it is in fact in San Antonio today
overrun and Overdone by our realtors,
no matter how hard We try We just
can't rent our buildings to any one.
Some have been empty for a year or
more, others for months and God onfy
knows how much longer they will re-
main empty.
A very low rental don't seem to be
any inducement to get them rented.
Take the best residence districts We
have and you will find rent houses and
apartments for rent in wholesale lots,
take the best business districts Ia town
and you will find empty stores by the
dozen on popular busy streets with
splendid locations and low rental.
On top of this all our realtors are
crying ~ greater San Antonio. Own
your own home" etc. They even give
whole weeks exposition to that cause
thinking perhaps they are doing some
thing great. Well, they are in way,
but it is a poor way to Overdo things.
They must remember that there are
some people that can see as far or
farther ahead as they can.
Only the other day party from
Elgin, ILL.,, told me, Yes, you have a
nice climate, good water, ETC., but tell
me how about the lot of empty stores
and apartments and rent houses you
have here?" Outsiders notice these
things quicker than We do.
The realtor may say, "Oh, these
stores, houses, ETC., are old dilapidated
and in an out Of the way place" But
that is not so; true, there may be
some there too, but eight out of ten
are practically new modern and up-to-
date in every respect.
Don't you think our realtors ought
TO back W a little and see that they
do their part towards getting these
properties filled up with good tenants
90 that in the end our sheriff and city
tax collector don't take them away
from their owners because they are not
able to pay the taxes on empty build
iLes. j. H. BROWN.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
THIS MAN is HUNTING
TROUBLE.
To the Editor /:

To the Editor:
Not being a regular subscriber to
The Light, have missed some of the
controversy which apparently origin
ated in an editorial on Marriage in
Mexico, and which is now raging
in Letters to The Light" still /
have been somewhat at loss to de-
rive the connection between Mexican
marriage customs and the violent
| TRADES against the Scotch accompan-
led By hurrahs for Ireland by certain
individuals signing themselves "R. F..
CT and "Que Dice Tal-y-cual," the
spelling of the words in question,
through ignorance or eccentricity, be-
| ing peculiar to the writer, except that
the Irish seem to have had something
in common with the Mexicans ever
since the Irish colonists of st.
Patrick's County (Hispaniolized).
Santa Anna on the way to their well
and Goliad.
1t would appear the origin of the
controversy The Lights editorial on
Fidelity and Legal Form and the
letter of Rev. Father Sugranes, con-
u tTdulCtluk us stdtcuiSlts, mas pCVi,
lost sight of entirely. As ar. E. C."
assures us, the reverend father is
doubtless forbidden by vows from en-
gaging in public controversies. Pre-
sumably, he starts them and then
allows his brilliant contemporaries to
carry them on, which they, assuring
us the while that the priesthood needs
neither cover nor defense, hasten to
1. 10 I,,anccsAy, fav
from the question in hand as possible
with irrelevant questions as to the
relative peculiarities of the Scotch and
Irish.
Wishing to be equally charitable
as the good father himself, / will
assume that he has never been in
Mexico nor been well acquainted with
the affairs of the Mexicans of the
lower classes. and that he writes from
report and hearsay. describing con-
ditions as he fondly hopes and be
lieves them to be; nor would Sc
much ms suggest that his clever and
scholarly letter might carry beneath
its polished surface any Interior mo-
tive of religious propaganda, because
by chance, the Mexicans in question
profess the Roman Catholic faith
and the reverend father well knows
all the Mexicans of the lower classes
AS well as most of the upper classes
do so. There is such general
tendency to trot out religious beliefs
as the cause, infect, excuse, explana'
ton and final summation of every
thing that it might well have beer
left out of it.
For my own part, 1 hesitate to say
anything that might hurt the feelings
of the nation under discussion, either
as to religion or race. nor am j try
ing to defame the character of the
Mexicans of any class, all of whom
have always been good friends of mine
and from whom j have never taken
any money TO pay for masses for some
long since departed grandmother, and
undoubtedly there are as many diff
ferent places as there are different
countries in the world where they do
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

as some San Antonio couple might
mention that they were married in
the Steenth Baptist church across the
street. 1t would be unnecessary to
60 more than % miles from here to
find couples with whom l am ac-
quainted, who are married neither by
Mexican, Texan nor church regula-
tons, and, although their Mexican
friends and neighbors are perfectly
well conversant with the fact, l have
never been able to discover that their
position in the community had been
one whit lowered or that the slight
est discrimination has ever been
shown against them or their children.
either in Texas or Mexico. At any
rate, the custom of living together
unwed is by no means the rare, un-
heard-of, disgraced, and socially
ostracised condition among the Next
cans of lower class that Rev. Su-
cranes would make it appear.
Now, if you will permit me to
turn my attention to some of the lat
er writers. The exponent of "Que
dice" after admitting his weakness
on Scottish history, last Sunday,
question of relative fighting ability,
calling to mind Cromwell and Cum
berland the Butcher, amongst others.
In this he certainly discloses an even
greater ignorance of Irish history or
he would never have brought up such
an unhappy comparison from an Irish
point of view. AS a matter of his
torical accuracy it must be admitted
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
GOOD LETTER FROM MIR. WEE.

To the Editor:
1 wish to thank c. F. Hamilton
for his sensible letter in last Sun
days Light. He has lost sight Of
the cause of the mud-slinging he so
much deplores, which l equally de-
plore. The. head and front of my
offending seems to be that l had the
audacity to question or criticize any
thing set down by Catholic priest.
/ was informed by X. f. c. that
a priests vows prevent him taking
part in public controversy, and
that it was most ungallant of me to
venture a criticism, and a flood of
abuse was turned loose upon me and
Scotland, to which l replied in kind.
But if the reverend gentleman in
question has not taken part in a
public controversy then do not know
what a public controversy is and
neither does Webster.
would suggest to the reverend
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
To the Editor :

To the Editor:
Let me express my appreciation to
YOU for the manner in which you
have handled the Baptist news sent
you from this office and also the Bap,,
/ list news as given out by your local
pastors. Through your liberality our
work is being aided materially and l
am sure that every Baptist patron
you have is grateful to you for the
manner in which you have given them
representation.
We will continue to have news
stories which will be of general inter
lest and will send them to you, from
|tipe to time. We will not ask you
|te, use anything that is not news
Very truly yours,
CAREY H. SNYDER, !,
Publicity director the executive board
of the Baptist general convention OF
Texas. Dallas, Texas.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
LICK WATSON! THE ARNICA!

10 the Editor:
i I was greatly surprised and much,
Elmiliated to find that you had placed
Nv scientific article in the open let
X" department. ,,
I I did not give you permission to do
NV work was sent in as a special
|+ticle" for your Sunday paper-not
an open letter to the editor.
l enclosed postage for its return IN
4se you did not see fit to use II as
becisl literature. You have fallen
in my estimation since
I'm do not seem to appreciate the ut.
Earv value of an article of the kind j
mi YOU. Had it been signed by q
lmiliar name such as II. G. Wells or
Lotion Sin Clair you would have given
A prominent place in your paper
{rtainly not in the open letter depart
|[ent.
EWhile you did not seem to under
land my article wish to assure you
5Iat it is understood and appreciated
some of the greatest philosophers oil
pdern times. 81,
5Anything. with or without merit
Il Get in to your letter department.
lit is no proper place for an article
|5ch as ! sent you.
fThe apprentice who set 1t up found
attn word which he did not under
Ind and he changed it to fit his
|Rntal calibre.
Bill wrote prejudice very distinctly
Id underscored them as italics.
zThe words appeared in plain Eng
h as pre-justice, a meaningless
Srd. without sense. You should have
aurned my article. The magazines
!, glad to get them and pay Tor
Am. ,
3You should read a little more OF
Ah literature to broaden your intel
HI and stimulate thought.
!You may place this in the letters
&the Light" if you care to do So.
o. A. PETERSON,
Corpus Christi, Texas.
.S.-My articles have been printed
America, England and Australia.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
'yONG HAIR OR SHORT HAIR.

"A the Editor: =,
6Bobbed hair again! Isn't it weird
Ev history will repeat itself! First,
a gods were indignant at the men
A bobbing their hair, and now it's
II women who have aroused the
81 smpian ire. We call them gods for
lint of a better name. 1t is rather
|8ficult to attach the appellation OF
Minute men" to any particular group
Y individuals. To say gods is so
oh easier and safer.
But, to be quite lucid, all this din
battle about a few hairs-that is,
course, about the length of a few
rs-is rather appalling. No doubt.
is not Just the thing to speak of
Sr Darwin in this advanced age; yet
feel that the dear fellow would
re another proof for his theory had
lived now. The present day harks
Tx to the dim past when We might
IN have been concerned about hairs
re were very, very hairy.
Many people state positively that
.bed hair is not becoming to every
IMAM. Well, well. well Aren't
1re some men with elephant ears
M YOU WlS0eu 10 utiNcH NVuiu AoiSN
ðing to cover them? Then. too,
7en't YOU stared at other men and
hdered if you better tell them about
two dirty streaks on their faces,
the streaks turned out to be side
3ns?' The sum and substance of it
is: There's more than one way
bob the hair. 49,. q,
IF eourse-the freakish bob !!
zaks are bound to occur in almost
Ithing. Some people make money
4 being freaks. but that is beside
subject. Several years ago the
4fures of great many OF our
Ing women would have done credit
Monaghan. The present vogue
Iluces the crazy bob. 1t is a vote
which idiosyncracy one prefers.
ow the business men. the repre-
atiyes of this materialistic age.
a bob can affect the poor bust.
woman in such direful ways and
let such social. economical and po-
al catastrophes. are indeed sub
for volumes printed on India pa
1t seems absolutely impossible
IA girl to look clean and neat with
tbb. Why people won't buy any.
IL from bob. no stree! 1t would
1lutely desecrate a post card II one
Eht IL from person with bob.
hrould be just like buying a neck
3ttrom 4 person that wore glasses.
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If one really intends to buy anything,
little tning like bob won't change
the desire. 1T brings UP the question
How the ducks quack, did homeiy
person every seIl anything!
IRIS VINTON.
Corpus Christi, Texas.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
JOHN B. WEE.

While The Light desires to give the
fullest freedom to the views of cor
respondents it would very respectful
lys suggest that an effort be made TO
preserve more courtesy than was re-
Gently shown to Mr.. Wee. He kept
his temper perfectly, which is little
more than can be said of a few of
his critics. Play fair and 80 to it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

from him in The Light will be suffi-
cient.
Finally. / have been accused of
hating Irish. 1 was raised among
them, played, with them, drank with
them, sometimes fought with them,
sometimes prayed with them, some
times joshed them, but never hated
them. l only wish they would cease
from troubling and be at rest.
And l think l know what hinders
them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
Letters to The Light

this paper that intended for publication must te
will not be published unless
No communications
signatures rubber casd
that policy outlined therein
. The Light
Evening star., 1924-02-20
No National Guard Armory

Doubtless in view of President Cool
idge's opposition. based upon con-
siderations OF public economy. the bill
providing for the erection of a Ma
tioral Guard armory in Washing, on
will be laid aside in Congress for ~
least the present session. The Presi-
dents opposition is based. it would ap-
pear from the statement Of the bu-
| reau of the budget. upon the fact that
this expenditure is in conflic with the
financial program Of the executive.
In other words. the expenditure is in
excess Of the amount con;eIn plated for
public building construction.
Presumably the President fully
recognizes the merits of the plea for
suitable armOry building for the Dis
trict. The case, indeed, is particularly
strong. Under the act creating the
to provide and maintain suitable
armorieS for their guard units, with
drill and storage facilities to care for
organization. The District is allotted
2,400 enlisted men. But these troops
are denied federal recognition as a
National Guard by the War Depart
ment because suitable armory facili-
ties are not available. Thus. under the
law, the District cannot gain recogni-
tion for it's citizen soldiers as part of
the established National Guard system
because it has not sufficient armory
facilities. and is at the same time
denied those facilities.
Considerations of economy operate
to prevent the construction of nu-
merous buildings that are urgently
needed by the government. There is
now pending in Congress a proposal
for a $4,000. 900 program of building
construction, extending over period of
years. to meet the particularly press
ing departmental requirements. 1t is
opposed in some quarters on the gen.
eral ground Of economy. and in others
on the score that it does not include
urgent public building needs in other
cities than Washington. Probably it
is because Of this situation that the
put upon the project for the immedi-
ate construction Of a guard armory
although it Isl obviously required. But
this veto does not prejudice the case
on it's merits. The item may be re-
garded as assured Of recognition
eventually, and perhaps at the next
session of Congress.
Evening star., 1924-02-20

time. They have aziked the broadcast
ing stations for talks on politics,
psychology and literature.
Human nature, especially woman
nature, seems to be pretty much the
same on both sides Of the Atlantic.
The average American wife who keeps
house instead of delegating that i'm
portant work to the hired girl or a
maid" is suspicious Of household ire
formers" She has tried some of the
proposed reforms and they did not
work. She believes that some. women
who make an artistic schedule on how
to run the house on less than half it
costs to run it now have breakfast
prepared for them and go downtown
to dinner. Wives who have sought to
cut the grocery bin by substituting
oats and hay for ham and eggs have
found that their husbands do not come
home to dinner.
Hints on making a vegetable garden
pay are not SO well received by Ameri-
can city men as once upon a time. So
far from making the vegetable garden
pay most Of them could not even make
it grow. Many of them have started
out in early spring with brilliant
catalogue, radiant packages Of seeds.
shining tool, and high purpose, but by
midsummer have surrendered to potato
bugs. cutworms and tomato worms.
Englishwomen are calling for politics
and literature. Many American women
are that way also. Women are read
ing the papers so we'll that they prove
that many men are not intellectual
giants in the discussion Of current
questions.
Evening star., 1924-02-20
Scientist Travelling
In Scientific Trail

The latest exhibition of wha1 a
scientific mind may do when il break.
loose and runs wild is furnished by
Camille Flammarion, the astronomer
In an interview on the planet Mars.
which Is to approach very near the
earth next year. Ii. Flammarion pro-
fessed himself as rather Indifferent
to the expeditions which are to seek
suitable locations for photographine
the planet and expressed the view
that in course OF time the Inhabitants
of the earth would have direct com
rnunication with intelligent beings on
Mars by the use of psychic currents
He Is sure that there are in
habitantS on Mars, sure that psychic
currents will reach them and sure
that when they are reached the re-
suit of the contact will be intellfsible
1t has not been done, OF course, but
1t will be. done. Such is M. Flam-
marfon's message to the world, and
|curiously enough, though he is a
scientific man his views on communi-
verse OF scientific. Science feels mod
crately well assured of what has been
tried and found to work. 1t is never
sure Of the results of a new expert
Eent before it has been tried, and
F1much less. is 1t sure when the very
materials with which the experiment
Is to be made remain to be diScoye red
and studied. However, M. Flar-
marion, who never saw a Martian and
rever measured a psychic current,
knows exactly what will happen
when the two come together.-Detroit
Free Press -..---
Evening star., 1924-02-20
NEWSPAPERS ON THE WAY UP
BY JOHN CARLYLE

The Romans read their daily news
from posters fastened to the city
walls. Such simple bulletins an
nounced the doings of the Senate.
Caesar led his legions into Gaul and
the prowess of his troops was pro-
walls. Thus began newspapers in
the Acta Diurna of the Roman re-
public. Before the glory of Roman
days was over professional writing
men were travelling with the armies
and sending back their dispatches by
courier to the Eternal city. So be-
gan journalism in Europe.
From the crude journals of the
Netherlands and Italy in the sixteenth
century and from almost equally SIM
pie beginnings in England and France
in the seventeenth century, modern
newspapers got their real start. Be-
fore the eighteenth century was wei
begun American journalism was un-
Today with telegraph and tele-
phone, with trains and steamships,
with airplanes and wireless, one
thinks of the newspaper business as
vastly more dramatic Ard spectacular
than it ever was. we carelessly
credit the modern publisher with
amazing ingenuity and look upon his
forebearS as SLOW.
Far different is the case. When
Daniel Webster was scheduled to
make a notable speech in Boston be-
fore the middle of the last century, a