San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-14
Today
New Sport Wanted.
They Must Not Pray.
The Irish Kind.
The Channel Swimmer,
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright 1925 by Star Co.

ASNh6uN VI -N"ttShS
discusses the United States
proposal to find crops that
might be planted in the Near East,
in place of peoples now grown to
produce the opium.
Civilization takes it for granted
that you must find some other crop
for the opium producer before you
can reasonably ask him to give up his
opium crop.
1t sounds like appointing COM
lnittee to select some outdoor sport
for the head hunters of Borneo as a
substitute for their head-hunting.
THE sheriff of Tulsa, Okla, for
bids striking miners to get down
On their knees in the road and beg
for help from above.
The sheriff. who apparently
doesn't sympathize with the strikers,
says that hundseds of miners on
their knees praying for help has O.
demoralizing effect on the so-called
''scab miners" or strike breakers
working in the mines.
TNJUNCTIONS have been issued
forbidding men on strike to address
strike breakers and urge them to
leave their jobs.
You can hardly imagine judge,
or even a sheriff, telling a striking
miner that he may not get on his
knees to talk to God. That would
seem to be a thing for Divinity it
self TO decide.
THE psychology of she thing is in
L teresting. Imagine man who
takes the place Of another, in labor
struggle, quite content to have the
family of the other lack food, but
shaken in his strike-breaking enthu-
siasm when his brother workman
kneels down and prays. Well might
Voltaire say, IF there had not been
a God, it would have been necessary
to invent one"
MEN are of different kinds, and
IVA the Irish kind has definite
qualities. Patrick Mongeon, a rail-
Nroad brakeman by profession, had
his foot caught between two cars yes
y terday. To start the train would
have meant cutting off his foot.
He was in desperate pain, but
smoked and joked with his fellow
employees while they worked, vainly
for three-quarters of an hour to re-
lease him. He still smoked and talk
ed cheerfully enough while a doctor
amputated his foot, without the need
of anaesthetics.
That takes qualities not possessed
by everybody.
TT used to be said Of the old style
whiskey. three drinks would
cause a sheep to attack a bulldog
The new bootleg whiskey Is more
powerful, as proved by three gentle
men now in Jail. They don't be-
lieve in prohibition, and to prove 1t,
they threw the waiter from a window
nine stories up. The waiter may die
and they may be tried for man.
slaughter. And yet nobody tries TO
locate the source of the whiskey?
If a man is killed by a bullet you
ask who sold the pistol-no one asks
who sold the whiskcy.
A BD-EL-KRIM, brave fighter, bat
"A destined to lose, calls on Mo-
hammedans everywhere to start a
holy war-against the Christians, of
course.
Mohammed, as all good Moslems
know, is now up in heaven, not far
from Allah. His wife, the rich
widow, in whose favor an exception
was made, is in Paradise with him.
Other Moslem wives, of course, are
not.
Once upon a time, when Nolan
med rode his flying horse, he would
have been useful in the Riffs fight
against the French. Today the
French have the flying machines.
Sacred white horses no longer fly
as they did in Mohammed's day.
And Allah, looking down, will
learn that a holy war with flying
machines opposed to it is bound to
end in disaster.
FOOD vegetarians will be distress
~ ed about Miss Harrison, the
Argentine girl, several times she has
tried and failed to swim the English
channel, and her failure is laid to
the fact that she is a vegetarian.
Her diet doesn't supply enough
heat and strength to enable the body
to withstand so long a struggle
against cold and currents.
For slow work, among men or
oxen, a vegetable diet will do. For
violent work, as the japanese learn
ed when they had to change their
soldiers diet from rice to meat, you
must have the violent food that
comes from killing your fellow
animal.