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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
HIS BIRTHDAY.

HIS BIRTHDAY.
Friday the thirteenth unlucky?
Not n bit of it. saws James Simp-
son. city purchasing agent.
Friday was Mr.. Simpsons birth
day.
"I'm glad my birthday fell on Fri
day this year." Mr.. Simpson said.
Every time it does ! have a lucky
year. Friday the thirteenth may be
unlucky for some people but it GER
tainly is no ink for me-"
Mr.. Simpson should be recognized
as an authority on this subject sin ce
he has had four birthdays on Friday
the thirteenth.
HAS BAD LUCK?
Sergeant E. II. Hartley of Kelly
Field had bad luck on his lucky day.
Officials postponed his first para
chute jump which was to be from
1000 feet Friday the thirteenth.
Hartley had waited weeks for this
day to do the daring trick.
Friday the thirteenth had always
been his lucky day. Hartley declared.
GET BLACK CATS.
Unlucky Friday thirteenth super
stitions cropped out at the San An
tonic Humane Society Friday where
two cats, both black as midnight.
were deposited on the doorstep.
Find 'em homes. quick" officers
of the organization urged.
And now they are looking for some
one with reverse English on their
superstitions.
BAD LUCK AND GOOD.
"Not so bad"
That's the verdict of Roland Burge.
manager Of the Gunter Hotel, on this
Friday the thirteenth business.
Early Friday Mr.. Burge was driv-
ing ont Broadway avenue when his
automobile bucked. coughcd, gasped
and stopped.
Not so good.
Repeated attempts with the starter
failed to get even a wheeze out Of the
motor.
Still not so good.
A glance at the gas guage. No fuel.
Not good at ali.
Filling station about 20 feet away.
Not so bad.
JINX GETS TOOLS.
Friday the thirteenth proved an up
setting day for Il. G. Chambers, a
carpenter, 12S Sandoval street.
Chambers left a chest of tools
CONTINUED On Pege Two.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

NNE Of our troubles is FIAT the
" country and itss government are
TOO big and too complicated to be
understood by all Of the 115,000,0 900
peopIe so widely separated.
What does the word Seattle"
mean 70 the average man living in
Hoboken? What does the fisherman
examining his lobster pots in North
orn Maine know about Coronado
Beach? How many citizens in any
of the half frozen biggest states could
name the ieutenant-governor Of their
state? Not one in three.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
Today
Another Trial Wanted.
Nervous, in Italy.
The King Shoots.
Atterbury's Optimism.

: Copyright. 1926 by Star Co

"A MRS. LANSDOWNE, widow OF
Nl Commander Lansdowne, who
was killed on the Shenandoah
by stupid incompetence tells a story
that will interest the President.
This woman, plunged in grief,
knowing that her husband had been
killed because his superiors disre-
garded his objection to their plans,
was subjected to pressure of a more
disgraceful kind.
Men representing the navy sought
to make her testify to a falsehood.
to save her husbands superiors from
the condemnation they deserved.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

A RMY and navy personages seem
"A inclined to put officers on trial
will find material in the officers that
tried to bully an unfortunate woman
and extort false testimony from her.
A trial of those men would please
the people Of the United States con-
siderably more than the trial OF
Colonel Mitchell, who told the truth
and served the public.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

NF twenty-eight students, in the
~ University of Illinois. asked to
name the vice president, IA were I'M
able TO do it.
II he lives. Vice President Dawes
will change that, and make people
know the vice president.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

VOU read of "great nervous ten
I sion" in Italy, caused partly by
strict newspaper censorship. 1t is
not easy to govern a country. as
Mussolini must govern, by sheer will
power. At every hour of the day
he is in danger of his life and knows
it, but that is among the least Of
his worries.
Whatever history may say Of him,
it must admit that when he seized
power. Italy had her choice between
Mussolini and anarchy.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

ssNKyE'yE got so much money that
Vwe can lend San Antonio
some if she needs it." said W. II.
Montgomery of Edinburg, who was
stopping at the Gunter hotel Fri
day. Mr.. Montgomery is vice presi-
dent of the Edinburg State Bank
and Trust company.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

THE jury in the Blazer case Is I'M
i able to agree after Is hours de-
liberation, and DR.. Blazer, who killed
his crippled, idiotic daughter. after
taking care of her 81 years, was set
free.
The judge told the jury 1t must
convict of murder in the first degree
or ncqnit the man. They did neither.
To convict him of murder in the first
degree would have been difficult for
sny jury.
There is, however, danger in the
verdict. Other murders may result
from what is practically nm official
decision that men under certain cir
cumstnDces may use their own judg-
ment about murder.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

I E. HAYNES, mayor Of Mer-
Sscedes was a guest of the Gunter
hotel Friday. 1T won't be long"
he declared as he signed his name to
the register, before Mercedes will
be larger than San Antonio. We
are thinking of annexing Browns
vile and Mission
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
'KAYOS'
BAD LUCK,
MARR|ES
Joy Chases Gloom to Tall
Uncut Timbers; Defy
Superstition.

1t remained for a San Antonio girl
to deliver the knockout blow to Old
Man Jinx Friday.
Defying superstition, she chose Fri
day Is as her wedding day.
She was born on Friday 10. The
day has proven lucky throughout her
life.
So Friday at 10 minutes to G o'clock
she will be married.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

UyNoNDERFUL climate you
w have down here. Beats Cali
fornia hands down." said c. J.
Campbell at the st. Anthony hotel
Friday. Mr.. Campbell is an Off
cial of the Westinghouse Lamp COM
pany of New York.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

TN his talk to 175 business men at
L the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh,
w. w. Atterbury, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, talked. con-
vincingly, the sort Of optimism that
the country needs.
Less suspicion, more open conf
dence in the country, says Mr.. After
bury, are plain everywhere, and that
means better times for everyone, in
GLIDING railroads.
The country needs optimism based
on clearer understanding Of condi-
tons. There is absolutely nothing
the matter with the United States in
any direction, except doubt, pessim-
ism.
In one Of Racine's tragedies, a de-
voted wife tells her husband, "Don't
seek to lose yourself, and you are
saved That's what should be said
to every pessimist in the United
States.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

~ F. PERRY, prominent bust
S'ncss man of Harlingen, was a
visitor to San Antonio Friday. He
declared that business conditions
in the Rio Grande Valley are un-
usually good.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
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0MY railroad is only 100 miles
AVA long, but it's as wide as any
of the big Ones" said George II.
Windsor of San Benito, president
and general manager of the San
Benito and Rio Grande Valley Rail-
way company, Friday. Mr.. Wind
sor was a guest of the Gunter hotel.
s. JUST came up for the Shrine
Ceremonial, but I'm always glad
of the chance to visit San Antonio"
declared w. l.. Guyler. manager Of
the Eagle Pass Lumber compar<
of Laredo, as he registered at the
Lanier hotel Friday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

ENGLAND, in spite Of her unem-
IL ploycd, diminished trade, coal
troubles, etc, goes along cheerfully.
Good King George has gone to shoot
with the Earl Of Iveagh.
As they proceed through the estate,
shooting as they go, a travelling
kitchen accompanies them. Servants
carry their guns, load them, hand
them up when the time comes to
shoot.
Sometimes six guns" in one days
shooting bring down as many as 1000
pheasants and 500 partridges.
1t is a most noble, glorious and
inspiring sport, every bit as excit-
ing as it would be to enter the Earl
of Iveagh's chicken yard, shooting
right and left.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

IN Britain IL is called sport"
i There is one advantage, 1t enables
the travelling American to buy, all
cooked, for four shillings or less, a
pheasant that has cost the Earl of
Iyeagh 20 shillings, for the pleasure
of killing it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

Confined On Pege TwO.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

Continued On Pege TwO.).
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06

Gases arising from heated asphalt
roads are reported to have caused
many deaths during the recent earth
quake in Japan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06

Kindness Made No Kind of Appeal to "Rhino'

Peter, the decentralization rhinoc-
eros who lived in the elephant house
Of the Geological gardens. in London,
is dead.
He was an uncouth fellow, savage
and untractable. Church. his keeper,
had many a narrow squeak. Peter
would charge heavily at a set of hui
man ribs and bring up against iron
bars with a thud.
People who say you can do anything
by kindness did not know Peters win
some ways.
He had been very .phthisicky" of
late. Chest trouble, Church said 1t was.
You might give him couple of buck
etfuls of cough mixture and 1t made
no difference. Aniseed and licorice
lozenges only caused him to wheeze
the more.
Jennie and Eliza, the young cow
rhinos next door, one from India and
the other from Peters own home. Nal
robi, used to shudder when Peter
hacked and groaned.
Then pneumonia set in. The morn
Ing before he died, when the rains
were doing their worst, Peter lay with
his head to the open railing. gazing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06
DELIRIUM

SYNOPSIS.-Lee Anderson. Roy
al Canadian Mounted Police SER
geant, is sent to Stony Range to
arrest a man named Pelly for
: murder. He is also instructed to
look after Jim Pathway, reputed
head of the Free Traders" Illicit
liquor runners. At Little Falls
he finds Pelly is credited with
having found a gold mine. and
is missing. At the hotel appears
girl obviously out of place in
the rough surroundings. A half
breed, Pierre. and a companion.
Shorty" annoy the girl An
dersou interferes in her behalf.
The girl sets out for Siston Lake,
which is also Anderson's obiec-
tive. He overtakes her and the
two men with whom he had trou-
BILE the night before. She is sus-
picious of him and the two men
are hostile. Pierre and Shorty
ride on, Anderson and the girl
following. In the hills the road
is blown up, before and behind
the two. Anderson. with his
horse, is hurled down the noun.
tain side, senseless. Recovering
consciousness, Anderson finds
the girl has disappeared, but he
concludes she is alive and prob
ably in the power of Pierre and
Shorty. On foot he makes his
way to Siston Lake. There he
finds his companion of the day
before. and pathway. with a girl.
Estelle. a former sweetheart of
Anderson's. who had abused his
confidence and almost wrecked
his life. Pathway strikes Estelle,
and after a fight Anderson, with
Estelle's help. escapes with the
girl Anderson's companions
mind is clouded and she is suf-
fering with dislocated knee.
Anderson sets the knee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06
By D1CTOR ROUSSEAU

| open water, he saw by the light Of the
pallid moon that issued for momeni
through the storm-clouds, the black
speck of the motor boat trailing the
second York boat dimly.
But suddenly the rattling of the en-
CINE died in splutter. The motor
boat was about hundred yards dis
tant. The next instant the bang of a
rifle confirmed Lees hopes. The en-
CINE had either run out of gasoline or
had become out of order.
instantly Lee was pulling as he had
never pulled before. Again the rifle
sounded. Twice more. Now the
motor boat was almost Invisible In the
darkness
Then, simultaneously with another
discharge. something struck Lee vio-
lent blow in the side that knocked him
on his back.
lie was up In moment, and pulling
with all his might, though he knew he
was wounded. But at all cost he must
reach that nearing, welcome shore. He
felt the wet blood trickling down him.
His breath was coming in short gasps.
He bent to the oars with all his reso-
tuition set upon the completion of that
journey. AT last the shore seemed to
reach out to him, the forests parted,
the distant shouts died away. He ran
the boat aground.
Lees brain seemed preternaturalIy
acute. In that moment he did not for
get the pack. but, snatching it from
the boat, leaped ashore, and, running
some fifty yards, placed 1t carefully in
the brush at the base of tall pine.
He ran back, picked up the girl, and,
carrying her in his arms, began to
make his way into the thick of the
forest
And all the while he ran, he was
everything. The Free Trad
ers would not know that he was
wounded. they would certainly aban-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06
OF course the girls delirious
utterances mean nothing. What
will the forlorn couple do next7
GRO BE CONTINUED
Inconuenient Currency

Economists tell learnedly why money
makes the commercial world go round.
but a Partisan opera singer Of decade
ago learned the lesson in one classic
experience. She was determined to
tour the world thoroughly and she
stopped over in the Society Islands,
where her manager contracted to have
her sing for one-third the receipts. Her
share of "the box Office" was pigs,
% turkeys, A chickens, 5000 COCO
nuts and an uncomputed quantity Of
bananas and oranges. She couldn't
convert her proceeds; the natives had
no money. She fed the fruit to the
animals and donated her barnyard to
the community when she sailed away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06

with CLASSY eyes toward the south and
the homeland.
He made strange noises. His keep
ers said that they were his final hymn
of hate against mankind, but 1t Is pos
sible he was muttering of his child
hood fifteen years ago. and talking
strangely of the African deep under
groy.ths, the hot, muddy beds in which
he used to roll, of the Arab hunters.
and of glorious freedom.
Then he was suddenly silent. His
great, ponderous bulk yielded the
ghost.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06
Bold Eorgeries

The name ireland Forgeries" Is
given TO certain Shakesperean auto
graphs, private letters and plays.
which youth named Ireland claimed
to have discovered, but which he had
In reality forged. One of the plays.
called "Vortigern," was produced at
the Drury Lane theater, April 2. 1896,
but proved to be vapid and senseless
production. Ireland soon after ac-
knowledged the forgery and published
his Confessions In 1905. kansas
City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06

He tore some strips from his shirt
and having brought the ends into po-
sition, bound them tightly. And then
he dropped to the ground at the girls
feet and lapsed Immediately into
delirious slumber.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06

Picked Up the Girl He Placed Her
in the Boat, Ran Back and Found 1t
and Threw 1t Inside, Together With
the Pack From His Shoulders.
don the pursuit as hopeless; he must
carry the girl a mile into the forest,
where the light of their fire would not
betray them, returning for the pack in
the morning. He suffered no pain.
and seemed momentarily endowed
with some extraordinary vitality, bnt
there was numbness in his side
which seemed to be spreading upward.
He had no idea how serious the
wound was; everything that was him.
self was set upon the completion of
the last phase of his task, so that, If
he died, the girl should at least come
back to. consciousness in the forest
and not in Railways hands.
He struggled on, felt himself weak
ening. felt himself choking, and set
down the girl in order to draw breath.
But as he raised her again, he felt
a sudden stab of agonizing pain, and
something grated beneath his heart.
He realized then that the rifle bullet
had split one of his ribs, probably
glancing off again, and that the bone
had given way under the strain of the
girls weight.
In way this treasured him, for
glancing wound Of that kind WAS not
likely to be serious one. On the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-06

Toll is the law of life and its best
fruit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25

industrial organization and can be
turned into a gigantic force if proper
ly led and built up. This can only be
done by all the left wingers and pro-
gressiVes uniting on a militant left
wing program, and forcing Mike Tighe
either to act in the interest Of the
organization or get out.
All the progressives must realize
that today the fight must be not only
against wage reductions, but for wage
increase; for a 1000 organized in
dustry; against the speed-up system
which is driving thousands of men
out of work. To these basic demands
must be added campaign for a labor
party, for if there is any industry in
which the workers feel the heel Of
the capitalist government, it is the
steel industry, where the workers.
owing to lack of organization, are the
helpless victims of government as
sistance to the steel barons.
Mike Tighe controls less than 500
of the 1000 workers in the Anal
gamated. He controls Sc of the small
lodges, against IA big lodges which are
left wing or progressive. In these lat
ter lodges the left wing is making
great progress and must now strive
with all energy to line up every pro-
gressive on the left wing program.
Major Issues.
These are the major issues that the
left wing must drive home to the or.
ganized steel workers. And no small
disputes should keep them apart.
They must have big delegation at
! the coming convention of the Anal
gamated Association in April. No
move should be tolerated, such as the
non-payment of assessments, to dis.
the convention. The assessment ques-
ton must be fought out at the con
vention. Victory cannot be won by
stepping aside from or outside the
organization. The fight must be fought
inside this convention-and if it need
be, at further conventions.
II the whole left wing and the pro
gressives line up behind the left wing
program, they can give Mike Tighe
the fight of his life. 1t will NEAR
either action-which is not to be ex
pected of Mike Tighe-or ousting Of
the reactionary machine. The ques
ton of organizing the steel industry j;
of greater Importance than that o.
the assessment-of greater import
ance both to the men inside and out
side the Amalgamated Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
DAILY WORKER
KEPT STRIKE
GOING 3 WEEKS
So Says Labor Faker in
Deep Disgust
BY JAMES J. 6OUZAN.
worker Correspondent

UTICA, N. ", Nov. 23.-The state
ment made by Norman T. Thomas,
superintendent Of the Utica Steam &
Mohawk Valley mills, to the capitalist
press, is lie.
He said that the workers are will
ing and satisfied to run more ma
chimes. The workers told Thomas,
thru their committee, that they will
not run more machines. Thomas re-
piled to "try." But the workers said,
mo, we can't run any more"
Nice JobI
But then what did Mr.. Thomas do?
He stopped for day or two the
weaving room in the Mohawk mill
The bosses told the workers they
would to go on night shift or get out.
When weayers came into the mill
looking for job the boss said, "TH
put you on nights, "a looms, SAC
week. You don't have to take the
cloth off. Twelve hours a night"
This Is Democracy.
The following is a notice posted on
the wall of the spinning room:
"Doffers must pick up bobbins that
they drop on the floor Immediately.
They are not to be left on the floor to
get all covered with dirt. If any dof-
fer feels that she cannot bend her
back, or, that is too lazy to pick them
up, please notify the second hand and
he will get their bill for them.
IF they don't do that, they will get
a surprise if this room is not kept
cleaner. Do not fool yourselves.
There are plenty of others waiting to
take your job"
DAILY WORKER Ran Strike.
Joseph R. White, organizer Of the
United Textile Workers of America,
again has attacked The DAILY
WORKER. He said that If it wasn't
for The DAILY WORKER in the last
strike we would have gone back to
work two weeks earlier. The DAILY
WORKER kept us out two weeks.
But White never said anything
about some workers staying in the
mills when the strike was called. The
bosses send all the workers home for
two months, keeping from so to rs in
each mill, not for production, but to
fix up the machines for speeding up all
of us when we got back to work.
And Then He Phoned I'll
The workers read The DAILY
WORKER and like it's fighting spirit
against the bosses. But White doesn't
want to fight the bosses. Only once
he told them to go to holland that
was over telephone! Maybe it was
up for us workers to hear, at that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
|. ". ". CASTS A
NET TO GET new
GENERAL SECY.
Members Want to Know
Candidates Policies

The 18th general convention of the
Industrial Workers of the World, in
its closing hours made a list of NOM
inees for the Office of general secre-
tary-treasurer, now held by Arthur
Coleman. efe
Coleman was nominated Dbutl de-
clined, as did Carl Keller and Nick
Radivoeff. The three highests which,
if they do not decline, will goio on the
ballot are James p. Thompson, Ed
Delaney and Herbert Mailer. Thomp-
son is hardy perennial; he is always
nominated and always declines.
Also Rams.
If any Of these three declines, the
next in line takes his place. The
other nominees who are in the also
ran class are Ernest Verlack. o. Hend-
ricks, ]. B. Golden, Chas.a H. McKin-
non, ]. Lorden, Chas. Lundquist, John
/. Turner, who was defeated last year
by few votes not being counted
Albert Hanson and Phil Engel.
Members of the l. w. w. around
Chicago are wondering what happened
to the resolution, supposed to come
before the general convention from
the small industrial union convention
where it passed by a vote of nine to
seven, providing that candidates for
Office in the general organization
should be required to state their at
titude toward the tasks confronting
the organization and outline how they
intend to conduct the organization af-
fairs II elected.
Want No More Blank Checks.
Great numbers of members are in
terested in getting away from blind
voting for unknown quantities and are
wondering If this resolution CHANGED
to get lost" II it is. the candidates
would do well to declare their stand
on organization problems anyhow, as
there is real sentiment against sign
ing any more blank checks and those
who hang back will be suspected. If
they vote for policies, then they want
also to vote for men who believe in
them to carry them out.
Evidently the experience OF last
election, when in defiance of the con-
stitution only two names. instead of
three, went on the ballot, had some
effect. The convention elected COM
mittee to see that the ballot went out
in the correct form this year.