San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
Today
No More Battling.
High Finance Cheerful.
Two Virtuous Days.
Cancer Still Gains.
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright. 1925 by Star Co

Copyright. 1925 by Star Co
I'm ATTLING SKI, Senegalese
IN negro prize fighter, who star
tied the world of vice, crime,
disease and sport" by knocking out
the Frenchman, Carpenter, has
fought his last fight. Somebody shot
him. He couldn't best American boot
leg whislley or American bootleg
bullets in "good little old New York"
Battling bootleg won in the last
round.
WELL managed high finance had
~ nothing to complain Of when
The stock exchange closed yesterday
and good news came out. Directors
of many banks and industrial cor
porations announced a long list Of
extra dividends. Pennsylvania Rail-
road stock, a barometer of railroad
values, went to a new high price for
the year, and somebody bought more
than $1,000 shares of it.
As Mr.. Mellon says, nothing can
prevent 1926 from being a year of
wonderful prosperity. If only this
country can now decide to mind its
own business and let Europe mind
hers.
COME railroad stocks will pay
~ back dividends. Others are in
creasing dividends, and others will
issue new stock to stockholders.
Difficulties encountered when the
government tries to help farmers are
missing when government tries to
help railroads.
A Ill records are broken in freight
"A traffic. In October railroads
carried more than forty-four billions
of tons, about a billion tons more
than October. 1924.
The growth of California's' fruit
business is reflected in orders for
more than 5000 new refrigerator
cars, for the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads.
DEFORE long, unless Henry Ford
- fails in his undertaking, flying
machines will do a great deal OF this,
refrigerator business, swiftly and
much more cheaply, making the
"coldv cars unnecessary.
The fruit will be taken on board
and carried to height supplying
natural refrigeration, the plane go
ing up or down in accordance with
the thermometer, and arriving at its
destination with the fruit, naturally
refrigerated to just the right point
for storage or delivery.
Young men now making living
with independent passenger buses
will make a better living with indie
pendent refrigerator flying cars.
FOOD ladies solemnly decide that
~ the nation ought to set apart
two whole days for ~law enforce
ment." Bootleggers, hijackers, and
gunner will second the motion.
They need two days rest in the year,
at least, and can attend to what
they have on hand in the other 1868
days.
dancer, steadily increasing for
~ IS years, is still on the increase.
The highest cancer death rate in the
United States is found in Massachu-
sets, and the doctors do not know
why. South Carolina has the low
est cancer death rate. Investigation
of diet, number of unmarried wom-
en-, and other social statistics might
enlighten the profession.
CENATOR CAPPER, of Kansas,
~ one of the ablest friends the
American IdTneTS nave III w dnhihb
ton, says Uncle Sam might well CO.
operate with farmers by actually
helping them to sell their grain.
High spirited financiers says this is
close to anarchy, but that doesn't
worry Capper.
The government helps railroads by
raising rates and compelling the pub
lie to pay. If Uncle Sam can act as
ticket salesman and price booster for
the railroads, why not as wheat
salesman for the farmers?
TWO MILLION, five hundred
1 thousand American income tax
payers will welcome one change in
the proposed tax law. It increases
the exemption of single persons to
$1,000 and of married persons to
$4,000.
Why not increase the exemption
for each child? You can't bring up
a child for $500 a year. Parents
raising children are working for the
state without charge, and ought not
to be taxed for their trouble.