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

There comes that time in every life
] think when we grow weary Of it all.
The futility of everything saps our
energy and courage. Life outwardly
goes on the same, but within dwells a
storm of emotions.
Such a period came to me recently.
! was gravely perplexed about many
things. My desires were unorganized
and / could not bring myself 10 any
definite course Of action. | was dis
couraged, impotent, inarticulate.
There was no particular reason for
all this mental miasmi, save l had
been working harder than usual. One
morning after a night of troubled sleep
dawn brought the answer. / was
thinking too much of myself. Nearly
everything that worried me had TO do
with my own comfort and happiness.
was self weary. That morning my
wife and l strolled down to the New
York harbor. The sea is always in
spring. There is no stimulant like
the surging break Of waves upon the
beach or the brackish, clean tang OF
salt air.
Ny thoughts cleared. I decided !
was going to think OF others for awhile
and forget myself. That afternoon !
left the district in which / live and
wandered over among the tenements.
visited an old scrub lady who had
once been around our hotel but who
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
By GEORGE AIDE.

They knew that over in the air
end of the Ward, among the Silk
Stockings, there was fussy Lady
who busted into the Newspapers al
most every day. Her name was
Laura Chivington Cadbury.
She had prominent Eductors and
Magazine Writers up to her House
to read Papers on Civic Improve
ment. Uplift. Equalization of the
Sexes, Restriction of Immigration.
Eugenics. Public Play Grounds and
many other Topics which carried no
Meaning to the Hooligans who were
running the Ward.
They had no Objection whatever
to these Discussions NJ at the home
of Laura Chivington Cadbury be-
cause the Women Folks who were
present could not vote and the Men
wore Oyershoes and were otherwise
disqualified to take part in the Gov
eminent.
So the Machine continued to tell
everybody where to get off and head
in and what to do next.
Jimmy had rendered such signal
Service to the Cause, that he was
given a Contract by the City. The
Organization remained in power be-
cause it made Rule never to
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
Purely Hearsay Euider

The lawyer for the defense was
Quoting a cross-examination. The
ness was a woman, and in reply I
first two or three questions sh
ways qualified with They say
"rve heard" until the lawyer
toned her:
Now. madam, hearsay testimd
not acceptable in this court. II
cannot answer a question from
own personal knowledge, then
cannot answer it at all. We d
want TO find out what you have
about the case. but what you aci
know at first hand"
Then the lawyer continued Wit
preliminary questions.
"You live here in Curryvale, /
lieve?"
"Yes. sir"
"How lon. have You lived here
about five years"
where did yen live before Y
AT Stockton.
"Where before that?'
Il have lived only in the two /,
Stockton and Curryvale."
"Ah, So you were born in
ton. When were you born?'
The witness was silent.
Il say. when were you born
lawyer repeated. I
Il can't answer the question:
witness replied.
"Bht you must answer! Whe1
you born?"
But can't" the witness in
~All ! know about the matter
birth is mere hearsay. and 20
! said l couldn't give that kind
: formation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

A certain San Antonio Elk paid the
penalty of forgetfulness one night last
week.
The date happened to be the birth
day anniversary of friend of his
and with his wife he drove TO the
friends home to offer congratulations
and fluctuations. 1t so happened
that the friend had successfully
Unanswered around the Volstead act
to the extent that he was able to
offer liquid hospitality of very I'M
usual excellence in these days of
"fresh every night" hooch. A nice
long toddy was consumed with the &C.
companying "many happy returns OF
the day" and then the Elk began look
| ing at his watch with that air OF
imminent departure characteristic OF
J the man who has an engagement.
"Well i must be going" he an
nounced with a reluctant note in his
voice.
whats the hurry?- asked the
host. Were only just beginning.
II know it, doggone it," said the
Elk, but the lodge has a big smoker
on tonight and j promised some OF
| the boys / would attend. I'd like
awfully TO stay but j can't disappoint
the fellows after saying I'd be there. F"
So he departed with last fond
look at the emptied glasses on the
sideboard. His wife told the host the
sequel next day:
HE drove me home first and ]
went to bed with a book while he
left for the lodge" she said. About
half an hour afterward i heard his
Lizzie rafting up the driveway and
few minutes later he came in cuss.
ing disgustedly. When be had
Gained down he told me the smoker
was a week from that night and he
could just have well stayed out tc
your house and enjoyed himself"
That prehistoric man reveled in the
balmy atmosphere that surrounded the
spot now occupied by sunny San An
tonic. is conclusively proven by the
recent discovery of the petrified face
of member of the human or near
human family of that day on hilltop
in the vicinity of this city by an army
officer.
The finder OF the specimen refuse:
to hazard a guess as to the exact age
of which the relic is an evidence. j
may be that of man who lived 20,O0t
years ago, he says, or il may be tina
OF man who lived millions of year,
ago. Or it may be a slab of stone, h
: admits.
At any rate. the rock resembles tn,
, features of man TO such an extern
that it will be sent to the Smithsonian
: Institute for examination. Every fea
! ture of the face is present.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
SENATORIAL HUMOR
A STORY BY "TOM' HELM

1t is generally conceded that no one
in the Senate is better story teller
than Senator Tom Helm of Ala
bama. Most of these stories are told
in the cloak-rooms or the corridors
but occasionally he utilizes one to
point a moral during a speech and it
thereby breaks into the Congressional
Record.
Here is one he told the other day
in answering Representative Nicholas
Longworth, Republican leader Of the
House, who suggested that the Dem
ocratic emblem this year should be a
buzzard.
Il am reminded" said Senator Hef-
lin, "of a story they tell on a man
who once lived at Verbena, Ala, some
40 miles from Montgomery. He jour
neyed to Montgomery and it was in
the old and evil days when there was
barroom on every corner. He had
a weakness for whiskey. He wined
and dined until the wee small hours
of the morning and reached that stage
where nothing tasted good to him but
| limburger cheese. (Laughter.)
He went in search of limburger and
found a man who had quite supply
of it. He tasted it and was so well
pleased that he said: How much have
you got? The merchant replied +:
Twenty-Five pounds He said: III
/ take it. The merchant said: You
| don't want all Of it? Yes, l do, be
said. Il want to take it up to Yer
bena and give all the boys in the set
Elements some OF it.
$50 the merchant wrapped 1t VI
for him and the man started down
the street and everybody he passed
seized his nose and turned his head
He walked up to the. express Office
and laid it on the, window sill AM
the expressman said: Get away from
here He walked up to gentleman
standing near and said: This mai
won't express my cheese The gen
tleman took hold of his nose and said
Go to an undertaker's and get a cas-
ket and ship it as a dead, friend.
| Laughter.) 9.
"He went up to the undertaken
and bought a casket and -pur the linn
burger in it and then got Uncle Rufus
who drove flat-bottomeL one-mul
dray, to come and take the caske
to the station. Uncle Rufus stood vi
in front driving mournfully along, tn
drunken fellow sitting on the rea
with his feet dangling down.
"They got to traffic-congeste'
place in the street and Uncle Rufus
with deep sympathy in his voice
mournfully told his mule to whoa
and the mule stopped. The breez
coming up from the river brought tn
aroma around to Uncle Rufus nose
He cot a whiff of it and looked bac
over his shoulder and said: Boss. wa
your friend sick longT. No: said IN
; man. Uncle Rufus then said: Wei
; sab, you have got one good consoia
ton, he amt gone off in no trance.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

Once in the Dark Ages, away back
yonder, nearly eight years ago, there
was certain Precinct Captain
named Jimmy. He operated in one
of our largest Municipalities. He
was the Triple Extract of all that
was useful in the old-time System.
He had received a careful Train
ing. First as q Dock-Walloper and
later as Booze Clerk, he had mas
tered all 'the Secrets of Jiu Jitsu
as practiced along the Water
Front.
He had the Bull Neck and the
cold Eye and he said "dese" and
"dose" and was ripe Egg. You
know it.
He commanded Respect in his
little Kingdom because anyone who
disputed his Authority stood a chance
of losing an Ear.
Also he was Aces and Fights up
] at the City Hall because he could
deliver anything ordered by the
BOYS who sat in the Back Room.
He could tell you long in advance
| just about what the majority in his
! Precinct was going to be. And
l.that's how it turned, out, even il a
few Bodies had to be dropped into
the Man-Holes.
Police Wear Binders.
He had a list of all the Barrel
Houses and he knew how many
Bos hung out at each Dump and
what it would cost to move them
around from one Polling Place to
another.
He specialized in fake Primaries.
| If the Rough Stuff could not be
pulled off inside, when the Count
was being made, then the Party
| Workers on the outside received
| Orders to beat up any Representa-
tive of the Better Element who
came around trying to make Trouble
by depositing a Ballot.
The Police were supposed to wear
| Binders on every Election Day and
in case one of the Workers was ar
rested for Assault and Battery, a
| dozen Witnesses were ready TO
testify that the little Man with the
! Nose Glasses and the Sunday School
| Whiskers called the Defendant any
number of Vile Names and struck
him in the Face without the slightest
PrOvocation,
Jimmy and his valued Associates
had the greatest contempt for that
weird Specimen known as the Re
former.
As they stood around in the Saw
Dust and blew the Froth off the
Scuttles, they laughed hoarsely over
certain Pieces that were appearing
in the Papers. 1t seemed that the
Lily Whites and Frozen Faces were
meeting around in Churches and
Halls, getting ready to snuff out the
Red Lights, close up the Life-Sav-
ing Stations. bestow the Ballot upon
lot of Women who didn't know
nothing about Politics, adjust thu
Election Machinery so that it would
be impossible for the Smooth Lads
to put anything over. and, in gen
eral. convert very attractive Uni
verse into q dreary Waste.
The World War Impossible.
1t is not strange that the Bal
Flies evinced such q Contempt fol
the whole proposed Program of Re
generation. Up at Headquarters
and even in Washington, the most
astute Wisenheimers allowed that
the Human Race would hardly con-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

the man or woman who has lived in
New York a great many years they
would be a welcome relief.
The stranger is often impressed by
the way New Workers walk along the
streets mumbling TO themselves. The
truth is there are times when they
welcome the sound Of their own voices.
Most New Workers are galloping
along in the hope of some day getting
away from the grind and finding peace.
But when ripe time comes they want
few thousand more-and as a result
usually die in harness.
Copyright, 1924, by the Mcknight
| Syndicate, Inc.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

a #. when the senator's said that Will
do. 1t was the first time the most
of them had ever been in the lime
light and they hated to get it over
with. They was battery of news
paper photographers always on the
Job and it certainly was pathetic to
see some of the boys and gals keep
looking in their direction in the hopes
that they would not be forgotten. But
plates cost money and before they
will waist one on you you have either
got to be beautiful or Harry Sin
clair.
Pure Oil and Poor Oil.
On acct. of the nation wide disap-
pointment rising from me not being
summonsed maybe l would BETTER gre
my evidence just like l would of give
it had i of been asked and show the
senator's what mistake they made
when they left me out in the cold
and in giving it will try and follow
the style like l heard other people
that was lucky enough to get call
ed on.
Q. Do you know Harry NJ. Daugh-
erty?
A. Well, l know a man named Jim
Daugherty of philadelphia. He ref
creed the Gibbons-Dempsey fight in
Shelby, Montana, where Senator's
Walsh and Wheeler comes from. He
was supposed to get SoO0O.OO dollars
for his services, but he claims he did
| not get that much.
Q. Do you know any other Daugh-
erty?
a. Well. 1 used to know one that
was spelled Doubherty. His first
name was Pat and he played left
field for the Red Sox and White Sox
and come to think of it he was inter
ested in oil wells up in New York
state. He had curly hair.
Q. Did he hit left or right hand
ed?
right handed. 3,
Q. Did you ever know man named
Smith?
A. No.
Q. Did you ever know a man named
| Mclean?
A, One of my best pals was Larry
| Mclean the catcher.
Q. Was you ever interested in Pure
A. Only in French dressing.
Q. Did you ever own any oil OF any
kind?
| A. Yes. but I bought it for some
thing else and didn't know what Il
was till after had drunk it. But II
certainly wasn't pure. In fact
would call it Poor Oil. daughter;
Q. Have you talked with anybody
connected with this inquiry?
A. What inquiry? Oh. yes, ! know
what you mean. Why yes. l have
talked with Mr.. Will H. Hays, but
that was way back when he was the
post master.
Q. What was the conversation?
A. Neither of us understood it. II
was all in code.
Q. How did you come to loose SC
much hair?
A. If you are going into personal
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

was Unexpected By rheumatism. II
found her up three flights OF rickety
stairs. Her bed was little more than
a straw pallet. A small patch Of sky
hight kept the room from pitch dark
mesa
!. Not Thinking Of Self.
" Hare was q faithful creature-the
mother of six-whose future was OBJ
viously q charity institution. Rayaged
b. disease and with a larder empty
was not thinking Of herself. She was
thinking OF Mrs. Donlin on the sec
and door who had lost her job"
HerS ] had been fretting about In
6onsequential triviahties that encom-
passed only my well being. An old
mother in real trouble was trying
beavely to stem the tide.
In the same tenement district / saw
hhildrsn, ragsed and i'll clothed, who
were shouting and laughing. Ny trou-
blss rolled away and went home re-
! freshed-
L has been my observation that Of
In the people / know those of the
stage are the lightest hearted in ad-
Nersity. Their heel Is never on the
rose.
Slack times come to them frequently
md as q rule they are improvident,
}&ut they never whine. When on the
load they have to face long jumps,
some times poor hotels-and even
Philadelphia-but they manage 10 keep
up their spirits.
So the next day went to call on
an old actor whose eyesight is slowly
dimming. He soon will face the long
black night. He subsists upon the vi
carious remembrances OF his friends.
He met me with a pun OF his lips.
Old Dutch Proverb.
From the applause of the multitudes
he had been shunted to the back-wat-
ers of life. He quoted an old Dutch
proverb which runs: Fortune lost,
nothing lost; courage lost, much lost ;
honor lost, more lost; soul lost, all
lost"
He felt that through all his vicissi.
tudes he had saved his soul and he was
content.
There were several other experiences
/ had that made me ashamed of my
own state of mind. had gathered
courage from those who were far
worse off than /.
Ii strikes me most of us cling too
much to our own little rut. If w
step out and look about US we sooI
see how small our worries are anC
how brave thousands are in greater of
Elections.
No city in the world perhaps ha
such a disconnected people as New
York. The constant hurry and rus
soon frazzles the nerves. Every doc
tor will tell you he has more patient
suffering with melancholia than an
other ailment.
1t - rarely you see folk smiling o
the street. They are always squire
on by something or other. North an
south-one sees faces that are writ
kled with worry among the young q
well as old.
They try to be gay but as n rul
they need NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tina
Ore brewed over night and which
Few years ago stablemen would hay
refused 20 empty to swine.
Everything is hurry, hurry. hurr!
The motto is Quick On all side
you see it--quick lunches, quick bal
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

ONE THEM WHO RESENTS the he is boo
logger" but a bond saesnian-botted in bond,

WHO RESENTS he boot
logger" but bond salesdan-botled in bond
YOU wow?" LEGEND appearing automobile
Modey orbds but if the the car
know ]. D. is ready to admit that he u.s.
AMONG THE JOBS THAT WOMAN not fitted shaving
The observation by the
pance irregular motormans neck
RECITING HIS of the column
with elderly picture show and thereby took
years off her life for the rest of the afternoon
A MAN THOSE banks trying to get the
dimes without breaking Although there were six women IN
hairpin with which operate
WEEKS He reading
newspaper looking them out
HIGHLAND PARK MAN WHO has been putting weight too
rapidly placed diet by his phycanh is the doctor advised
everything then eating 1t his
The patient
likes complied but he's eating turkey eggs
THE MEANEsT LAWYER is operating Antonio
gossip violations Of the Dean law and the
professional services the caught in the laws tolls
IF IN GOING YOUR BANKRoLL find ten twenty
dollar bill with crimson stamp it; United Bank
%ous It sood United States bill which
purchase liquor from the ships rum row. Of New jersey
THE WEEKS PIECE propaganda: The makers
accidentally than because skirts catch fire SO easily
COLLISIONS HAPPEN so OFTEN that they have almost
their necks whose
Ford wrecked
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
Some Smiles

She thought the leaves were pr
and she bound them on her br
But with poison ivy poisoning s
not so pretty now.
"Have you kissed the brideT
bridegroom asked the stranger st;
ing nigh.
Not lately, sir" he answered,
heaved a pensive sigh.
My neighbor bought n little gown
little figures on it;
Said she to me, This is the wal
get in print, doggone it"
To get up early through the weel'
most makes me weep;
But Sunday I'm awake at q, and Z
get back to sleep.
It's easy enough to be pleasant Y
you're leading bachelors
But the man worth while is the
who can smile and trot &
home to his wife.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

senators IS libel to make mistakes
they are only human though they !.
look different.
Copyright, 1924. by the Bell syndic'
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13

with she heard the familiar owrroo Of one OF Che sa
waited No
She seere into the street
the
"owrrooro the sound again but this time ~ was
by Somebody
upstairs the studio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

that the slogan of "Amalgamation"
and the formation of industrial
unions is an end in itself!
AS a result of these factors we
have the industrial tendency in the
party.
1t was the party members of this
tendency who were strongly opposed
to the policy Of the G. E. G. after
the July 3rd convention, in setting
down as the party policy that we
must aid in the work of the organic
ing the Federated Farmer-Labor as
an actual party. The opposition en-
gendered thru the organization Of
the Federated Farmer-Labor Party
made itself felt most strongly on the
industrial field. The political strug-
gle for the Federated interferred
with the progress of purely indus
trial policies, and for those who
overemphasized the industrial poll
cies this was a condemnation of the
policy of aiding in the organization
Of the Federated Farmer-Labor
Party.
This tendency was expressed by
Comrade Foster in his speech in the
New York District Convention, in
which he said that the main rea-
son he was for the Third Party pol
icy of the c. E. G. was not because
the formation of a petty bourgeois
Third Party would weaken the CEN
tralized capitalist power, but be-
cause a LaFollette split from the
old parties and the formation Of a
Third Party would split the bu-
reaucracy of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and help to smash the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

been in the actual fighting of the
class struggle on the industrial field
and they do not shrink from that
fighting.
Because Of their origin and their
past experiences the members of this
group are, however, apt to look at
the party policies from a biased
viewpoint. They are apt to over
stress the industrial side Of the par
ty work and to judge of the correct
ness of party policies from the
standpoint exclusively, or if not ex-
clusively at least give the greatest
weight to effect of those policies
upon the standing Of the party in the
trade unions.
The party as a whole has helped
to strengthen this tendency because
of the emphasis placed upon the
work in the trade unions by the par
ty during the last year or two. 1t
required. heroic efforts to induce the
members Of the party who were in
fected by dual union ideas and al
most completely divorced from the
trade unions to go to work in the
trade unions. In pounding away so
steadily and emphasizing the need
of every member becoming a men,
Der of trade union and carrying on
party work there, we have pounded
into the heads Of some Of our men,
bers the equally wrong idea that
the work in the trade unions is the
only thing of Importance for a Com
munist party,
Thru our emphasis upon the
industrial work we have actually
made some Of our members believe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

power of Gompers.
This tendency is also apt to look
askance upon campaigns to win the
support of the exploited farmers and
to neglect the great mass of unor-
gained workers.
The danger of this tendency, I'M
less it has it's counterpoise in the
party, is that the party will be-
come the instrument for achieving
certain Transformations in the trade
union movement, in place of the
trade union movement becoming,
thru the work of the party there,
its instrument in achieving the po-
litical ends which communist party
exists to achieve---that is the con-
quering of political power for the
workers and farmers.
The Third Tendency
1t is the third tendency which
dominated the policies of the party
during the past year, and which,
with the help and cooperation of
the second group, achieved the prog
ress which our party made during
that year.
This group is for the trade union
work of the party. 1t helped to
initiate this work and has given
the struggle to force our members
into the unions and into the work
there its complete support. II is
intellectually for the party poll
cies in this field and has never
wavered in developing the industrial
work Of the party farther and far
Their.
The trade union work means TO
the third group the means Of