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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08
WHEAT COMES BACK
RAPIDLY IN CHICAGO
Surprising Strength Develops in
Saturday Trading-May
Above $1.90.
BY the Assecia ted Press.

CHICAGO. February 7.-Surprising
new strength developed in the wheat
market here today, and prices rose
to as much as SIS a bushel above the
point when yesterdays avalanche of
selling halted. The total sales of
wheat here yesterday were officially
announced as having reached 1885,
SCI, 900 bushels, the largest single
days trading on record in Chicago.
Export buying today was the chief
basis for the renewed strength. The
French government was said to have
made some of the purchases, with
Portugal and other European coun-
tries also represented as buying. Be-
sides, advices were received that
Russian import needs would be 49,
100000 bushels, exclusive of the re-
quirements for seed.
There was an aggressive buying
throughout the day and much rein
statement of holdings recently sold
out.
From s1.S5 a bushel for May de-
livery, the low point yesterday,
wheat today assembled to s1.91A and
closed firm at s1.90a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08
WALL STREET BRIEFS.

NEW YORK. February THE
Mexican lines Of the Southern Pacific
are now meeting operating expenses
and will be covering all charges in a
few years. julius Kruttschnitt, chair
! man, is quoted as saying on his return
from an inspection tour in Mexico.
The company was being gradually re-
imbursed by the Mexican government
| for losses in various revolutions, he
said. About 400 bridges either have
been rebuilt or are under construc-
ton and the 90-mile section through
the mountains to Guadalajara connect
ing with the Mexican National Rail-
ways to Mexico City will be completed
by June, 1926.
Holders of shares of German banks
and industrial companies, all of which
have been put on a gold basis, are
required to send their certificates to
Germany for exchange into new
shares. A time limit has been placed
on the conversion in many cases
Instead of a deficit of $4,000, 900
zlotys foreseen last June when the
Polish government budget estimates
were published. it has developed that
receipts for 1924 exceeded expendi-
to a report forwarded to the Polish
consul general at New York by the
minister of finance. The exchange
rate on the zloty today was 1917 cents.
The Ford Motor Co. has estab-
lished new branch in Pernambuco,
Brazil, the fifth in South America
Purchase of the Gould Coupler Co.
and the Gould Storage Battery Co,
announced yesterday by bankers, was
on behalf of the Symington Company,
Charles j. Symington, president, re-
veaied today. The Gould Coupler Co.
of Maryland has been formed and will
be headed by William S. Gould. for
merly vice president of the Gould
Coupler.
Evidence of Italian investors grow
ing interest in their country's trade
enterprises is supplied by December
figures, showing that net capital in
vestments during the month expanded
to a record total of 762,5S0,045 lire.
Total investments for the year, aggre-
eating s95.391, 090 lire, were more
than double those of 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08
PLAN OIL PRICE WAR.
Smaller Companies to Compete for
Standard Business.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, February -
Seventy of the smaller oil companies
with refineries in southern California
are preparing to enter the central
and northern retail fields in COM
petition with the Standard Oil of
California and other large producers
This has come about as a result of
the 2-cent increase in price. The
smaller companies, in some instances,
are naming prices as low as Is cents
a gallon, including the 2-cent State
tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08

table
dvidens included
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08

The Ford Motor Co. has estab-
lished a new branch in Pernambuco,
Brazil, the fifth in South America.
Evening star., 1925-07-21
TWO AMERICAN WIVES
GET DIVORCES IN PARIS
Husbands Alleged Insults and In
difference Win Decree for
Former Baltimore Girl.
By the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
PARIS, July 21.-Mrs. William
Graham Bowdoin, who. before her
marriage I'm 1918. at Baltimore, was
Miss Eleanor MacLane, has been
granted a divorce on the grounds of
her husbands Indifference and insult.
ing attitude She charged that his
manner compelled her to take up her
residence, with her two children, in a
hotel
Mrs. Frederick Nirdlinger was
granted a divorce on the grounds of
intidelity. Mr.. and Mrs. Nirdlinger
were married in Philadelphia. in Sep.
temher, 1912. She was Miss Laura
Mack emma.
Fat DIR. Farweli's Whole Wheat Bread.
Phone Line. 81 1.-AdVertisement.
Evening star., 1925-07-21
FIST FIGHTS MARK
MINERS MEETING
CappeIini Election Contest
Starts VioIence-Peace-
maker Badly Injured.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
W1LKES.BARRE. July 21.-Turbu-
lent scenes, Including free for all
fight among the delegates, marked
the opening Yesterday of the biennial
convention of District No. /, United
Mine Workers, at which a contest
over the election of district president
and other officers is expected TO be
the principal business. Police hastily
summoned restored order, but not
until Vice President George Isaacs
and several delegates had been Sc
verely beaten.
The disturbance was the result of
bitter feeling between followers of
District President Rinaldo Cappellini
and opposing factions. Cappellini, on
the face of the returns at the recent
election. was victorious over former
District President William j. Brennan
Anti-administration forces alleged
fraud and brought the contest before
the convention.
Fight Follows Peace Plea.
A call for the report of the creden-
ttals committee by President Cappel-
lint was the signal for the outbreak,
which came shortly after Mayor
Daniel L. Hart had made A plea for
peace in the anthracite fields.
The sergeant at arms attempted to
restore order and when he walked
toward Brennan he received "A. blow
from the first of James Iannihan, a
Wilkes-Barre township delegate. A
general fight followed.
Vice President Isaacs, essaying the
role Of peacemaker, was badly beaten,
and Hannihan had his jaw broken by
q blow from a blackjack. Several
others were less seriously injured. The
uprosr continued for 90 minutes.
President Cappellini. after vainly
pleading for order, finally sent call
for the police.
Evening star., 1925-07-21
FREED IN KILLING.
H. I. Walker Is Cleared by Win
chester Grand Jury.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va. July 21.-A
bond given by H. l. Walker after he
had shot and killed Frank Spur last
February was Cancelled in Corporation
Court today after a grand jury re
turned mot a true bill. Walker
pleaded self-defense.
Evening star., 1925-07-21
LEAGUE FINDS EVIDENCE
OF PHILIPPINE PEONAGE
Commission Probe Reveals system
of Labor Is Tantamount
to Slavery.
By the Associated Press.

GENEVA, July 21-Peonage in
the Philippine Islands and in Central
American countries was the subject
Of discussion by the League of Ma.
tions Temporary Commission on Slav-
cry yesterday, during the course of
the preparation of its report to the
league council.
The discussion tended toward the
conclusion that the system of labor
existing in some parts of the coun-
tries under discussion amounts to
forced labor on the part of the vic
inns and therefore may be construed
as partial slavery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-23
Monte Carlo Tragedy

NICE, Monte Carlo, June %
After losing fortune gambling at
Monte Carlo, Paul LeRoque put a
dynamite cartridge in his mouth
and blew off his head.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-23
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
Figures Of Speech
"Flesh Pots"

We owe this figure Of speech. as
we owe so many others, to the Bible,
whence come some Of the best and
most common of our popular say
ings. In the sixteenth chapter Of
the Book Of Exodus, verses 2 and 3,
we read how the children Of Israel
regretted their deliYeranee from
Egypt because they had to endure
hardships in the wilderness.
"And the whole congregation Of
the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and Aaron in the
wilderness; and the children of Is
rael said unto them, Would to God
we had died by the hand Of the
Lord in the land Of Egypt, when we
sat BY the flesh pots, and when we
did eat bread to the full; for ye
have brought us forth into this will
dsrness, to kill this whole assembly
with hunger"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
Visitor From Mars at Niagara

ment have bestowed upon us has TO
be turned entirely 10 their service.
We are undergoing the last form of
the struggle for existence, and 1t
is only a desperate grip with ma
terial nature, a brutal physical con-
test. though, to be sure, inspired
and maintained by high mentality.
With our science we have mastered
natures forces one after another,
but our victory has been our I'M
doing. It has resulted in making us
natures slaves, for now we have to
grovel at the feet Of our own in
ventions.
"There was a time when a Mag
ara on Mars would have been wor-
shippde as you worship yours-for
its power to awaken sentiments that
soar above the level Of simple phys
ical utility. Then we, no doubt,
would have hesitated, as you now
do, to destroy any of its features of
sublimity and beauty that appeal to
the unmaterial side Of existence. /
know what your feeling is, but, with
my race. / have virtually lost the
power to experience it, to share it
with you. The thunder Of these wa
tiers and the lightning swift CLEANS
that play on the curving brink
awaken in me only thoughts of the
utilizable energy Of which they are
signs. That machinery, pitifully in
efficient which you have erected to
capture but handful Of this vast
ing power. is a stronger magnet for
me than the sight Of the plunsing
river falling through its clouds. /
can hardly resist the temptation to
tear it away and, putting in its
place some Of our masterpieces OF
mechanism, grasp the raging giant
with subduing grip and bend his
magnificent force under the yoke OF
work.
"But as / take my leave ! shall
not deny that some ancestral strain
arouses in me a shadowy. regretful
sympathy with your human love Of
the true. the beautiful, the good.
In your Niagara there is, indeed,
something beyond mechanics"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
SAN ANTONIO,
AUGUST 81, 1925
Prepare for Fortune
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

what went on inside made the expe-
rience lucky one.
There is a story to the effect
that synthetic chemists had worked
for months in an attempt to concoct
certain substance.
They were ready to give up in de-
SPAR. Some unknown element was
needed.
As last trait they put the mix
ture on the fire again and told
new assistant to keep stirring it.
He picked up a nearby thermometer
instead of ladle. The heat broke
the thermometer, and 10! the mer-
curry proved to be the needed ele-
ment.
Success came in this strange freak
of fortune. But the thing to remem-
Der is that they had been preparing
up to that point and were ready to
take advantage of luck when 1t
came.
, The most persuasive invitation to
Lady Fortune is ito get your house
in order"
The sickness or death of superiors
brings sudden openings for advance
ment. But they are only for the men
who have prepared and can take ad-
vantage of them.
Unusual openings for riches often
appear for those who have saved
and are prepared to invest.
Exactly the same thing may hap
pen to dozen men. We refer to
the one who is prepared to take
advantage of it as the lucky man.
1t is said that ray of light
passes invisibly through space until
it strikes some solid object.
Fortune like a ray of light is
not seen until it comes in contact
with the man who is prepared to
take advantage of it.
Copyright, 1925, by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
PAIN SHOWS BODY ABUSE
By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.
United States Senator From New York.
Former Commissioner Of Health, New York City.

of form, probably would be. Bug
for the millions Of cruelties, seif-in-
flicted, men are never called to ac-
count.
Somehow, we do not classify the
abuse of a poor, helpless body with
the abuse of a poor, helpless horse.
But why shouldn't we?
You say there is great differ
ence between the ignorant mistreat-
ment of the body under the stress Of
necessity, and the mistreatment Of
dumb beast. / wonder if there is
such a difference. Ignorance and
necessity are usually involved in the
abuse of animals, just as they are
in the abuse of the body.
Don't misunderstood mel utter
ly despise a man who would maltreat
a helpless animal. I believe he
should be severely punished. But /
sometimes think the man who neg
lects and damages his body should
be punished, too. OF course, he is
made ill by his selfishness, but, too
often, the punishment isn't plain
enough as a warning against repeti-
ton.
If you habitually and frequently
neglect the needs Of your body, you
may be confident that nature is TAX
ing note of the fact in every instance.
When you have a headache in the
morning, think over what you did
the night or day before. What was
it you did that is wrong?
Next time you are sick, think
over what have said to you today.
Copyright, 1926. by Newspaper
Feature Service. Incl
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
-~zSAN ANJoNio-r@
L!!HE1T111l.!E=:IGH-!T
Tiddledywinking With
Community Progress

John RUSKIN defined play IAN exertion of
body or mind made to please ourselves and
~ with no determined end
The dictionary definition of work is continuous
exertion or activity directed to purpose end"
Communities like individuals, work and play.
There may be great activity within community with
out progress Such is the when community energy
is disspated aimlessly.
Suppose, for instance, group of representative
business and professional constituting the essence
of the community assemble at boost banquet
Amid thunderous applause the fair city is decked
with the sickening sweet flowers of oratory Ringing
huzzas gree the proclamation that the city predes
tined and ordained to become the great metropolis OF
region so rich in natural that the Promised
Land would be but a Sahara contrasted to IT, De-
liriousy the banqueters pledge themselves to the
ward Our City" crusade
But the crusade ends when the chairs are stacked
upon the tables and the floor is mopped.
That is picture of community at play.
Suppose however, the enthusiasm generated at
the BANQUET results in some definite SUSTAINED move
ment to cash in the resources and possibilities OF the
city or to promote its welfare in any way Suppose
at that meeting the die is cast for 100000 adverts
ing fund to attract capital and homeseekers to the
city
That is picture of community at work.
What is done the morning after the night before
determines whether community is playing or whether
it is working.
San Antonio, happily, works as well as plays.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31

Have you had your vacation this
summer? Did it do you any goodE
These are questions one might
profit. Jly ask ones self after any
holiday-better yet, before 1t be-
gins!
When you take a vacation you're
supposed to rest and relax. You're
supposed to return refrigerated
full of energy and pep to 90 on.
II you don't, you have failed.
Your vacation has been a waste both
of time and money.
The way to relax is to do some
thing entirely different from what
you have been used to!
In this way also will you think
different!
In this way also will you feel
different!
But few have learned this lesson.
Repeatedly, year after year, 'ne!
seek, not rest, but further excite
mentl And they salve their con-
science by labelling it pleasure.
Just as IL the nervous system were
more resistive to excessive pleasure
than to any other sustained labor
ious work
The thing you succeed by is nerve
energy
Nerve energy activates ell your
muscles, all your organs, all your
tissues. 1t is nerve energy you
draw on day in and day out. lr is
nerve energy you are short on when
holiday-tme arrives. II is also
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
Sentimental Pilgrim

~ HERE is pathos in the wandering OF William
Wheeberry from Wheeberry-by-the-sea, England
l. to Hollywood in personally conducted cam
paign to revive the moustache in all its ancient glory
After being subjected to frgid frowns IN LONDON far
and New York. Mr. Wheeberry is appealing to film pro-
ducers to compel the heroes of the screen to ornament
their upper lips with luxuriant thatch
Wheeberry is the inventor of the once popular
mousache cup that vessel with the shield for the pro-
lection of the chief of pride to manabouttoWn
II was of the era of hard-boiled shirts and diamond
studs of bears grease and fancy vests OF silk hats ana
seal rings and swinging watch chains was OF the era
of Ouida and Bret Harte.
Gone is the glory of that day, except on tne
ing screen Jack Holt Wallace Beery, Douglas FAR
hants and Charlie Chaplin still sport moustaches when
occasion requires Hollywood is full of potential sner
ifs and villains and miners engaged in what the Mon
tague girl calls peddng the brush The inventor Oh the
moustache mug should garner few royalties tnere.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31

Isn't it disagreeable to wake up
in the morning with headache?
Perhaps you have planned a day OF
hard work. You find yourself in
capable of taking to the task the
energy and enthusiasm necessary to
do it well.
Why should you have headache?
What is the cause?
1t is not often we sit down long
enough to analyze life. We rush
along, helter-skelter, disregarding the
value of hygiene. Then when an
uncomfortable symptom presents, we
wonder what caused it.
If you treated your horse the way
you do your body you would be TAX
en- to court by the Society for Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. The
s. P. G. A. would surely get you at
least once a week.
Every few days you read about
the arrest of some wicked owner OF
a beast permitted to stand in the
sun without adequate food and wa
ter. The culprit is fined $50 for
cruelty.
The same owner, lord and master
Of his own body, works all day in
the sun, gulps down quarts of ice
water, eats unsuitable foods and
lands in the hospital. There he is
given tender care at public expense
and nursed back to health.
You would laugh at the idea Of
arresting the man for abusing his
body. If he actually deliberately
attempted to commit suicide he
could be arrested and, as a matter
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31

A bolt of lightning, some years
ago, crashed into deserted camp
on the Mohawk River, divided into
two forks and left a trail of wreck
age behind.
When the owner, little man
with crippled body, massive head
and an eternal cigar in his mouth,
heard of it he was delighted.
Hurrying to the camp he exam
ined painstakingly every inch Of the
path of his destructive visitor.
A mirror had been smashed into a
thousand bits. He spent days fitting
the pieces together. ~
From his Investigations he learned
much that was of incalculable value
to him.
The man was Charles Steinmetz,
"the wizard Of electricity" who later
made artificial lightning do his
bidding.
For years he had been studying
the phenomenon of electrical dis
charges from the sky. He had made
himself a specialist in this branch
of electrical investigation. The for
tunate chance of bolt striking his
lonely summer camp, where every
thing remained untouched for his
examination, was a piece of luck.
But that stroke of luck would
have done no good if be had not
been prepared to grasp it.
The same luck presented itself
to thousands of others who were
impotent to take advantage of it.
Fortune may favor the bold, but
it certainly favors the prepared.
Many apples had fallen from
trees before Newton had his expe-
rience. 1t wasn't the apple falling
it was Newton's thinking that dis
covered the law of gravity. Not
what went on outside his head but
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
Freaks Of Nature
Piping Plover.

Hunters are often attracted by
the melodious voice Of the piping
plover, but they are seldom able to
find the bird. The plover, a little
bird no larger than a sparrow, has
the power of throwing its voice like
a ventriloquist. Its sweet, low tones
are a great contrast to the harsh
squawking of its maritime eompan.
ions, brt IL the hunters become too
inquisitiye as to where this pleasant
serenading comes from, the piping
plover will Immediately throw its
voice TO another spot.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31

II that visitor from Mars" to
whose curiosity and perspicacy so
many appeals are made, ever reaches
our planet. one of the first sights
that we shall surely take him to
see. while we eagerly watch for its
effect upon his mind, is Niagara.
Coming from a world where wa
ter can only be obtained by waiting
for the sun TO melt the polar SHOWS,
no doubt the Martian's first impress
sion would be one OF envy. But, be-
ing (by hypothesis) past master of
engineering science, what would ne
think Of our utilization of this su-
perb specimen Of natures gener-
osity? Would a smile Of contempt,
or of pity. curve his lip when he
saw 100000 Of horsepower freely
Offered and only 1,OO0,0 900 taken?
IF yu don't need tAem," he
might say, turn them over to me.
I'll contriye a way to send them by
radio to Mars"
But" some one Of rs might re-
ply, I'VE don't want to spoil the
beauty and majesty Of this great
cataract. People come from the re-
hottest parts Of our world just to
look at Niagara Falls"
WELL" returns the Marian, with
a shrug. "wait q few million years.
When. like US, you have to save a
world from starvation by fighting
and overcoming the Fates them
selves. you will perceive no beauty
and no majesty outside the achieve
ments Of the inventive mind-of
which / observe that you have some
little glimmer here. Cherish it well I!
It will be your only hope in the fu-
ture, when il may set all your Nj
agaras to doing us work for you.
There comes a time upon every
world when merely keeping alive is
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
Intelligent Pupils

T< HE plan gaining favor in some cities to regrade
pupils in the elementary schools is a concession
II to the welfare of the normal child.
Educators point out that normal child should go
through the grades in eight years Yet great majority
must stay in the elementary classes from ten to twelve
years The explanation is that the swift are held back
by the pace of the slow.
That is one of school congestion in many
cities Ii should not be difficult to find remedy There
are classes for backward pupils Why not special classes
Tor forward pupils?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-31
By GARRETT P. SERVISs

ing dreams, inspired by poetry, by
music. and by beauty deemed its
own excuse for being
"But those things are not able
to survive such revolutions as time
has brought upon us. Tie pressure
of stern physical necessity has
squeezed them out of our nature.
Our material needs are SO great that
all of the mental power that our
long ages of evolutionary develop