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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
Why money Grabbing"
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

America Il too busy with the ma
Aipulation OF money to study real
issueA We need the sense Of the
real values Of life in America. France
stands out like a cleaning star be-
cause she Is the one nation that is
actuated today by principle and not
by financial interest. / have come
back for rest. / must learn to amusc
myself here, where things are sane"
This is q quotation from an inter
view given the newspaper, by al
American prima donna, retired for
many years, upon her return to
France. The article, with her picture.
lies before me, but / DO not give her
name, for there is always a chance,
In such case, that there has been
misquotation,, or even that In the bur-
nv and confusion and pleasure of az
irving again in the French capital,
an American woman might be betrayed
into enthusiastic nonsense that she
might later regret.
American women icve Paris, Just
as French women-if they had money
enough to patronize the shops and
theaters and opera, to stay at the best
hotels-would love New York. French
women have not this money. '&r ever.
as a class, have had 1t, and hence
we have the very unbalanced situation
Of American women gushing generous
IL about Europe, because they know
it-because it is different-because
they spend their holidays and their
money there. And We have also the
unbalanced situation OF The native Eu-
ropeans listening to these outburs,s
appreciatively, and coming quite nat
urally to the conclusion that we be-
lieve our country to be in many
WAYS inferior.
But l don't believe most Ameri-
can women really mean the foolish,
parrot-like things they say when they
are abroad. They say much as they
pick up the greetings Ct the country.
much as they say ''Brn jour-" "Guten
tag," or 'buon giornow without criti-
cism or analysis.
"You know you Americans are
really-a most dreadfuily practical,
mercenary lot" says De outsider af-
fecticnately.
And the American woman, flushed
with excitement and sunshine and
chestnut trees in bloom Fid races and
now hats and general sense Of being
off on a holiday. laughs APOLOGIZE
cally, and says. just as she would Idly
pick up a rubber stamp in her hus.
bands office and stamp i. on a blot.
tfr.
ooh, aren't we drcsdful! It's sc
different here"
When such an interview as the
one i have quoted appears, having
reached an age when I can control
any too yf0feRt outhurst of anger
having outgrown the years when on
~pswers with good. old-fashioned
American Sass" to such o strange
assertion. I am at TIE point wher
- one desire is 10 ask suci speaker
D this retired prima-donns, and al
fhe other Americans who speak THIS
idly. exactly what she means. Only
that. and nothing more.
Exactly what does this charge Of
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that the inhabitants Lad RELUCTANTLY
been obliged to house the mendicant
mothers and babies in tie bitter win
ter. The American lied Cross sys-
TEN of hospital work is so fine, a
prominent woman in another city
told me, that she had osked-and the
American Red Cross hal gronted-;he
privilege of coming to America, at our
expense, to study it.
Money-grubbing America is doing
more to feed hungry chiidren-soine
OF them the children Of our late enem-
ies-today, in hundreds of cases, than
their own country-people will do. Ac-
cording to our standards, they do noe
even do what they can. i. is not a
part of their training to hurt them
selves for the little empty tummies Of
their compatriots.
There is still, between the suffering
lower class and the sacred upper, n
great gulf. There is still the old
fashioned ''poor-creatures-one- hope =
tfey-don't mind-it-much !" attitude to
wards suffering, cold, starvation and
despair.
l have seen woman whose coun
try-people are actually in the last
stages of misery and exhaustion, buy
iIgs rugs and furniture at a sale, WITH
the smiling remark: IL don't know
where l am to put shem when they
come home ~
But to do them Justice, the Euro
ptan women perfectly appreciate what
American shoppers, American visitors.
American charity mean TO them. Ii
is among ourselves that the ignorance
exists. There is no iack of passion
ate gratitude in the rarorts one gets
from the hungry babies N Greece, the
relief-bureaus strewn ell along the
war zone. Some of these little for
eigners are learning to sing "The Star
Srangled Banner" at the very moment
when the American visitor to their
capital is saying, with pretty depreca-
ton:
"Oh, admit-we ,.c terrible. You
see our one standard is money
We're horribly-new, oney buys any
thing in America"
Yes, and it buys mort anything out
of America, too. And always will,
until that Kingdom comes for which
we all pray, the Kingdom indicated
by One who never had money, who
never had rank or power, whose
whole idea Of social adjustment was
in the healing of wrongs and sick.
nesses, the 'softening Of hearts, the
breaking of bread am'ng friends.
| Meanwhile, let us Ice the chestnu.
trees. the Lung Arno. the PiccadiIly
and Under the Lindens. Let us flock
to the races in new gowns from the
Avenue de fOpera. Let us take the
finest suite at the Ritz. Let us give
POOR Carlotta fifty dollars for tina.
sick mother about whom she is always
weeping. Let us borrow the sweet
voices Of the English, the thrift OF
lovely France, the philosophy Of sturdy
Italy. Let is admit that we may ltarn
from them all, admire them all.
But when anyone says to us any
thing about money grubbing," do let
us travelling American vomen-know-
ing that who holds .te purse-strings
holds the power, and knowing that for
the time they are in our hands-do
let us look interrogative-not angry,
not indignant, merely interrogative,
do let us ask reasonably, snd wait tor
a reply:
''How do you mean 'money-grub-
lb;ng'"
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/ "the manipulation" Of money mear
Or, to use the word tat il current
from the Ultima Thule in the north
Of Scotland to Girgenti, the southern.
most point of Sicily, Just what does
"money-grubbing" mean?
] know what il mems. And after
she had floundered and laughed un.
comfortably, and said that after Ill
this, and really, that, and had gen.
orally proved that she meant exactly
nothing, / might tell her what il
means. 1t means that America Is
rich. that America is generous, that
American women are better treated
freer, better dressed than any womc.
in the world, and that the onlookins
foreigners, naturally impressed BY
seeing a girl Of twenty spend more
for a frock than they spend yearly
II rent, can only console themselve.
and in such case .one Of us re
above consolation by saying, in
kindly contempt: These dreadful
rich American again.
This is only human. We all dc
this constantly. When we see tht
Smiths in an opera box, entertainine
visiting President, we whisper phil
osophically:
"Yes-but you know how they made
their money!
When We hear that young Jones
mas inherited an unexpected millior
We remark:
81 wouldn't be his wife for ten mil
lion !" We maintain cur balance and
our self-respect thus.
1t means that from American hands
veritable river OF gold flows dowr
through Europe, spent joyously ani
iavlshly, on hats and perfumes. or
J@welry and hotel bills ana that th;:
same despised river is what is suu
porting and making possible the act
ral existence Of some Eur.Tean cite,
today.
Five dollars still sounds like a gooi
deal of money in Europe. But II i!
rot much to a visiting American there
She puts 1T once into cosmetics. twic,
INTO box at the theater. I. third tim,
INTO taxl-hire-and she h spent. be
fore the eyes of her European frierd
the monthly salary of lat friend
cook-which the friend is worryin,
about at that particular moment.
But why "money-grubbing" Doe
one single American woman still tbi.I
that all these superior foreign womei
are thinking about it less than she
Can she think-seeing what she doe
THAT it is less impC rtant to them
Is there anything in TIE world It vii
not buy, any society whose doors /
will not open? Is there n single hu
man being to whom it is not a vita
subject?
| Read few of the tally rress note
from the remaining thrones of tn
world. for example. Rea!- tina. King
and Royal Dukes are Lumbly askini
their people for more money. Or lis
ten, as / did once in Eur opean CITY
to conversation like this:
MY dear, hate to take you TO tn
Duchess" The speaker was al
American woman who - been man,
years the wife OF a prominent mai
lin Europe. "She alwsy3 begs sou
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"For her charities?"
Eyes. And for her tusbend's bust.
ness. You know he's lad to go into
business, poor fellow. And he's anx.
ious to interest Amer,6a capital
Or listen to this. The speaker this
time a titled woman-one Of those
titled women clinging 10 a fast van
isbing conviction that there is some.
thing mysteriously valuable about
that foolish name perhaps bestowed
two or three hundred years ago by o
degenerate King upon rot the mos
scrupulous of his subjects:
al shall have to be here next year
to marry my daughter and my son
My poor girl must marry beneath her
for she will not have a penny. She
must marry money. My uol will mar.
ry rich American girl"
"Oh, who" says :hc American In.
terestedly. II may know her."
II do not know yet. W. shall sec
what girls are brought ,cr-"
/ can only assure The American
father and mother, who feel as / dc
about this matter, thet the above is
an actual quotation.
A score of nations calculate. give
money with their daughters, debat,
for weeks as to whether so many
thousands of dollars will or will i 4
satisfy the young man. Our nation
marries for choice AMI love, and its
men would feel bitterly ibsulted Il
have money mentioned in the matter
at all. But which is the 'money-grub-
ber"?
One nation wrestles and struggles
with women-and-child protection laws
prohibition laws, employee-ssfety laws
schooling laws, sanitation laws, pune
food, pure drug, pure milk laws
Others encourage the vice that is st
profitable, the excuses ard foolish
ness that youth finds go deliciously ex
citing-"so different from home -
the little desperate forms slinkin,
aicng the dark water front the drink
ing and the SHINING aud the rioting-
Because it pays, my dear American
prima-donna. Because tat is the wi'
money-grubbing is done in othe'
places, in the selling Of Mares. In tn
selling Of girlhood, in the selling o
youth.
| NY tADcIituttS Will hiltGlCd'
men have been distributed pretty fair
ly among all grades, but 7 have neve
known an American man whc marie,
for anything but love. And / hav'
known American women, some o
whom have lived in fats above groc
cries, some of whom have upheld-ii
the neighborhood Of Rittenhous'
Square and Beacon Hill-the fines
and proudest traditions of the fines
and proudest country. But hav'
never known an American woman IL
a casual dinner conversation, to az
tempt to involve a stranger and ;
guest in her own home. in /: bushes
transaction to her husbands advan
toge.
Americas money -grGbbing, how
ever, is carried beyond the generous
and kindly expenditure of actua
daily millions in the capitals Of Eu
rope-carried beyond mere enthusiasm
for mediocre pensions, her Timing o
twenty-five per cent of the bill, mar'
interest in the troubles Of chamber
maids and chauffeurs
The concern of American men am
women for the suffering poor in tn,
streets Of one city wss so great {
man whose position would roughly
CO rrespond to that Of mayor, told nj,
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MA (scith cIlildliks simplieity):
Honest, do you really think sol!
LACOUP:
All, but yes, madame, tres chic.
MA (potheheally):
If was only sure.
LACOUP (scaving her to chair Nth fssu mag
netic pdsses):
Come, Get ees nothing, (Goyly) Sneep F.
neep and you have re beautiful bob.
(The CLINT of the cruel shears nnmbs Mos
poor confused brain) When Kiss heavy hair
gone (combing it out for the slaMghter)
you will feel like re bird in re air, so gay, so
happy, so young!
MA Catching eagerly at the bright byomise):
Will it really make me look younger?
lLACOUP (easily):
All, but. yes, madame, much younger.
MA G Ggsssisg);
SCISSORS (heartlessly):
Snicketysnick, snickety-snick.
MA (panicky):
Stop putt I'm afraid
LACOUP (gloating):
1t ees too late, madame (Snickety-snick).
MA (aOith her eyes tightly cloSed):
SCISSORS:
Snickety-snick.
HAIR failing to the tloor):
Foosh . foosh.
LACOUP (riamphantly):
Eet ees cut but now I treem it.
MA (opening her eyes and seeing herself for the
first time):
o, my God!
LACOUP:
All, madame, but wait &. l treem it.
Begins to even it up all around takes too
much off one side and goes around on the other
to square himself keeps this up indefinitely,
hair getting shorter and shorter).
MA (franticaAy):
Stop it. for Gods sake won't have
any hair left.
Uacoup tears himself away regretfully
steals back for little snip finally
gives Ma shampoo from which she energies like the
fretful porcupne with all her quilts end
resembles something between the Statue of Liberty
and cannbals bride . by this time Ma doesn't
any more what happens to her this is the
psychological moment for Monsieur Lacoup).
LACOUP:
You will have re marcel, madame wiz re hair
turn over or under?
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MAMIE:
1t looks to me like you could wait until after
the wedding. If your bob doesn't come out
right you're going to be mess
MA (teUfnHy):
l never saw such family as you-never!
(There's little difference in families, Ma :.
merely worse than Others while most of
them unanswerable arguments for race suicde)
SCENE II.
Sufficient time has elapsed for Ma to have inter-
viewed dozen different friends, all of whom show
striking originality in the diversity of their opinions
however, all the bobbed would never
go back, though the most enthusiastic look
like floor mops gone wrong Ma has practically
decided to take the big jump, and here she is in the
beauty establishment of Monsieur Marcel Lacoup
he spikking wiz Madame Pottar.
MAJ strnggling in the tolls of his hypnotic eye):
Would you really have it bobbcd if you was
me? -
NJ. LACOUP passing magnetic hand over Mas
head and gently stroking the back of it,: 2
All, madame has re nice shape head. Char
mant! Ze bob eet will be chic
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MA: Well, what the dickens do you think I've been
doing? Mrs. Rankin told me she wouldn't 60
back to long hair for anything.
BILL (tlsasantly):
Are you going to have bang, Ma? You'd
look cute with bang.
MA: Who asked your advice young fellowl
BILL innoeently):
l thought this was family conference Don't
belong to the family any more?
MA TO Manae):
Would you cut it just below the ears?
MAMIE (HsltfnHy):
You can't tell until you've had it cut.
MA (helplessly):
think it would look good just below the ears.
with touch of Saving conservation But
won't have it shinged. l think it locks just
terrible all cut away in the back.
Don't you, Pa?
PA (reading):
Bluh u. buh huh? What did you
sayf Yes, of course.
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MA fhollosVly):
l don't care I. E. II won't make any diffe
ence.
(True words Madam Ma gets re mard
and re hair is turned over :. Lord he'
say and Mamie and Bill al
will the Baby know her? It's question:. =
SCENE iii.
Evening in the Potter household the fiji
tremendous shock has spent its force it WASH
half as bad Ma expected, and the Baby knew b,s
though he was considerably surprised.
MA flor the hnndredth time):
Do you really like it, Pa?
PA PATIENTLY:
Well, it isn't as bad as thought it was COIL
to be. Critically 1t does make you lo'
younger.
MA (flnttering):
0, does it? Honest? Really?
PA: Sure it does.
MAMIE:
Why did you have it cut so short, Ma, al
it's so frizzly.
BILL (calmly):
Well, Ma, you look just like one Of last yeaI|
birds nests
Don't let them kid you, Ma, YOU look sw$3
You look as young as Mamie
MA (gloaOing happily):
You don't mean word of it, you're just TIL
ing to tease me. (Shaking her name defidntf1
Well, don't care, like it h. feel fill
l wouldn't go back to long hair for anythii9
RED: 1
Alta Nal
(And that's what we should say, too . 10 all 4
gether Alta NAB
(4And that's Mat-antH merit Sanddy).
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THE POTTERSI

PROLOGUE.
All around these days hear the 6ickety
snck of the scissors and the dull fooshfoosh OF FEM
mime hair falling the barber shop floors We
see them going in like lambs and coming out wit, with
IN oar faces and they ou clear
laughs of liberation from hair pins and switches
all this rebellious activity is enough to I'M
settle complacent person than Ma Potter, who
has been growing disturbed with every passing
single bob-what to do what to do =. to
aSD Dr n on this great national ppob pace
end to end, piled the other whichever
you prefer, would result in whatever results such
SCENE l.
The Potter living room, which has been the scene
of more decisive battles than Cressy imagined
-. the plans and preparations incidental to
Mamie's impending wedding with Red Miller have
made it wild enough, without the addition OF Pas
lumbago and chiropratic pangs-as touched upon in
our epstle OF last Sunday-and Mas internal fever
the hair bobbng question, which is now coming
MA Ito Pa, for the hnndredth tins):
Now. what would you do if you was me!
PA (aveariiy):
What's the use of my telling youl I've told
you thousand time. you'll look like the devil
MA (onwly):
I'll do nothing of the kind!
PA: All right then, why do you ask me! Go
ahead and see for yourself.
MA (dppe0hingly):
What do you thinkl
MAMIE: =.
It's up to you, Ma. You never can tell until
Y you've done II. Sometimes 1t looks all right,
:: and sometimes 1t looks like-well, what Pa
said just now.
PA (hs should know bsttr)!
Bobbing your hair 1t your agel
MA (floring)'
At my ago -, what do you mean, at my
aeei How about Mrs. Rankin
PA, don't care what Mrs. Rankin does /
don't have to look at her.
MA: Do you think she looks any younger than
ywhas qu.stionD s: FL - 81
PA: No, Of course not t'sssssa5: ~ f'i>N -
1.-THE recording angel puts beautiful gold star be-
hind Pas name).
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

Branyon Chevrolet Company o. H. Warren Motor Company B. C. H. Motor Company Boynton Motor Company : St. Clair Motor Company : Lilies Auto Company Angle Motor Company : George E. Barlow Kirby Auto Shop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

Stevens Motor Company: : Edwards Motor Company : Whitman-Floyd Motor O.,
 Schwartz Motor Company : Graham-Moore Motors Co.
 Wolf Chevrolet Company : Cullman Motor Company City Garage & Sales Compan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
The Better Way Is Witl Chevrolet

The inspiring beauties of Natre the interesting and educational features of other places and other types of people and ways of living main things be read about, seen dinny ira cola photographs until you are free to GO TO THEM at your convenience and pleasure.
 Suppose you have definitely decided to buy Chevrolet pext Spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

If yours is of the few remaining families lacking automobile doubt you have finally decided get one within the next four months. -s. .- you have not decided better make up your mind NOW that you going to bring your family utodate portation.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

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The broad ax., 1924-10-04
DOING 4 WORLD OF GOOD

The Pyramid Building & Loan AS
sociation with Offices in The Douglass
National Bank, 36th and State Sts.,
organized about FIVE years ago by lead
ing race men is doing world Of
good since its existence. The Asso-
citation has loaned to members Of the
race more than $4,000 to pay off
mortgages, to buy homes and other
needed conditions. "A. H. Roberts.
state representative, is president; M.
7. Bailey. Of The Bailey Realty Co, IS
1st vice president; George w. Wilson,
End vice president; James A. Parker,
secty.; and Anthony Overton, treas
urer. It has a strong Board Of Di-
rectors. 1t was the first organization
Of its kind organized by members Of
the race in the city It's first series
will reach maturity in 1925.
The broad ax., 1924-10-04
NOTICE OF INCREASE OF
CAPITAL STOCK

! hereby certify that at a Special
Meeting Of the Stockholders Of the
Binga Safe Deposit Company. held
at Chicago, Illinois, on the 18th day
Of August, A. D., 1924, at 10 o'clock,
pursuant to notice required BY law,
the following resolution was adopted
by unanimous vote Of the whole stock
Of said corporation issued and out
standing:
RESOLVED, That the Capital
Stock Of the Binga Safe Deposit Com
pany is hereby increased from Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,OOO) consisting
Of Fifty Shares of the par value of
One Hundred Dollars ($l00.00), to
Twenty Thousand Dollars ($2OO0O),
consisting Of Two Hundred Shares of
the par value of One Hundred Dollars
$4,000.
Attest: Jesse Binga,
Secretary.-Adv.
The broad ax., 1924-10-04

NORTHWEST
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Company.
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DIRECTORS

w. MERLE FISHER
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VIM. BLUEMER
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The broad ax., 1924-10-04

The 1925 Marching Club Of Dear
born Lodge No. "a, |. B. P. Q. E. w.
will hold formal opening Of its club
rooms at 2o53 S. Wabash Ave, Fri
day evening, Oct. 3. All brother and
sister Eiks are cordially invited to be
present at the exercises.
The broad ax., 1924-10-04

4. l.. SCHNEIDER
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DIR. w. III. BUHLTQ
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The Commonwealth Edison COMPANY
" w. ADAMS STREET
PHONE RANDOLPH 1880

The following Electric Shops carry a full line of
plances and sell the Federal Washer on Easv Terms
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GOES 10 souTH CAROLINA

John d. Smith, 1920 w. Railroad
Ave-, Evanston, I'LL, has gone to
Greenville and Trenton, S. c., after an
absence Of 20 years, to look after some
very important business. Mr.. Smith
is the son of the late Berry Smith Of
Greenville S. C.