San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-03

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ing possibilities in wealth, oppor-
tunity and territory, it possesses in
the state of Texas. All the 4S states
combined show in the last year
trade balance in our favor Of more
than a thousand millions. AND
TEXAS LEADS ALL THE
STATES including proud New York,
and rich Pennsylvania with her
great steel industry.
THE fact that Texas possesses the
! greatest cotton producing area,
in the world contributed to her
overwhelming exports. But what
Texas does now in cotton she will
soon do in a dozen other directions
If you want to see the. biggest
thing in America. in the real mean
ing of tho word big" go to Texas,
and stay there long enough to know
the state.
URINE Is becoming an ORGANIZED
~ business in this country, which
can boast that one American city
produces, in year, more murders
than all the British Islands.
A Chicago lady, widow Of Louis
Mobile, murdered last November.
paid four hundred dollars to have
him shot, because he had abused her
daughter, by a former marriage She
admits it.
THAT is quito the regular thing.
i and only worth mentioning, be-
cause the killing contract was let
ont to one gentleman. for $500 and
by him sublet to another, who did
the actual killing for $500.
That's the new part. Andrew Capa,
who admits he did the actual killing
for $500, complains that his wife
stole the money and ran away to
Milwaukee.
AHURDER for pay is not entirely
Iva new, or born of the great war.
The late big Tim" Sullivan, New
York state senator and local boss
for whom the law against carrying
rsyolyen is named. said to TINS
writer:
s"For fifty dollars, / can hire a
man to Kill anybody in New York.
And that was BEFORE the great
war.
WE HOLD life at low value, It
w seems. The aged sisters in New
Hampshire fond of young lad, MAJ
said the boy would inherit their
small property. He and another con-
fess that they killed the old SISTERS
with pieces of stove wood, that their
inheritance might not be delayed.
One Of the killers is fifteen years old.
OUCH crimes are crowded together
~ in newspaper pages, and commit
tees, appointed to investigate "caus-
es," shed little light.
There is no doubt that the laws
delay putting off at least for a-yeaT,
and usually longer. any punishment
for murder, is partly responsible
Lack Of religious training III
schools is given as one cause oil
crime. But figures will show that
among murderers, in proportion those
favored with religious teaching in
school, are equal in numbers to those
that attend non-relisious schools.
Public opinion that takes crime
lightly, plus the great war, in which
cxpert killing was virtue, must
bear much of the blame.
FUDGE ALFRED J. TALLEY
y says prohibition is "at the bottom
Of all our lawlcssness and disrespect
for law" and demands what will not
happen, "the complete abolition OF
the prohibition law"
There is no doubt that crime, which
was to have been reduced, by pro-
hibition. and the abolition Of the
saloon, has developed under prohibi.
ton as never before. BootlesginE
and "hi-jacking' have produced an
organized army Of criminals, high
waymen, bride givers, bride takers
end murderers.
EJENRY FORD tells Mr. Wurlitz-
i i err, maker of musical instru-
ments. and owner Of the greatest
Stradivarius collection in the world,
that children should be taught to
understand and play some musical
instrument.
Books and so-called mechanical
music are the worlds great forces
in educating. But as every reader
should be able to write, as well as
read, and practice literary compo-
sition, so every listener should be
able to produce music and play some
instrument.
IENRY FORD himself plays,
1 Awhile others dance. an old fiddle
that he has owned for years. He