San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
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Punishment.
The Life Beyond.
Those Mandates.
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright. 1875 by Star Co

u Copyright. 1875 BY Star CO..
IN HARY LEWIS, the daughter Of
lvl clergyman, who will sing at the
=" Metropolitan Opera House, at
tributes her success to corporal pun
ishment administered in her Metho-
dist home as a child.
She ran away because she was
Spanked, says Miss Lewis, and Joined
the Ziegfeld follies. That probably
Is not what the Methodist minister
father had in mind when spanking.
From the Follies Miss Lewis grad
hates to the Metropolitan Opera
House.
In her case, corporal punishment is
q success, because she had the energy
to run away. But for one child that
beating helps, it breaks the main
spring of success in a thousand chill
dren.
THE Colorado doctor who chloro-
4 formed his legless, armless, deaf
and dumb, weak-minded daughter,
after taking care of her for 80 years,
says he believed he was sending her
to heaven and firmly believed in i'm
mortality.
A MAJORITY Of human beings
"a believe that they believe in inn
mortality. But if all actually be-
lieved that death means immediate,
heavenly bliss, how many would con-
tinue to live!
NHOHAMMEDANS believe that
AVA death on the battlefield means
instant transportation to a most
fancy paradise, providing. free, ladies
and wine, and many of them actually
seek death in battle.
Christians hang on to life, far into
old age. They believe, but they are
not quite prepared to bet on it.
"A RCHITECTS and public officials
- in the ancient city of Damas-
Gus are salvaging what is left OF
I beautiful old palaces destroyed by
bombardment. In the public square
three Bedouins were hanging by the
neck. placards telling great crowds
why they were hanged and what will
happen TO others that refuse obedi-
ence to Western Europe. -.s
DE grateful that It was not pos
- sible for anybody TO saddle any
of those eastern mandates" on the
United States. We don't want to
blow down or build up their palaces.
hang their people, or otherwise play
the part of Divine Providence, in Asia.
About all we can do is TO attend to
the United States.
(OLoNEL MITCHELL has rem
~ dered two important services TO
his country; in the first place, he
told the truth about the aircraft
situation. Then, by his trial, which
folly forced upon him, be causes the
real situation to be PROVED IN
open court. This has forced the
truth upon the nation, from the
President all the way down.
And that's exactly what the ~
lion needed, from the President
down.
"A RUSSIAN professor and invenr
"A tor says he can transmit PIE
lures Of moving objects by radio.
That would be interesting, especially
in war time, letting you see your
brave boy going over the top and
driving back a whole army.
1t might even make it possible 10
put moving pictures into the homes
and help to build up race that may
eventually lie flat on its back, IKE
an oyster in its bed, and get every
thing, without going anywhere
GEORGE PULLMAN tried to Gre
" ate a city. II was called Pull
man." but as a separate city It
didn't work.
Mr.. Wood, once president on the
American Wooden company, decided
that he would build city, spent
sol .OO0, 600 on his model town, Shaw
sheen, in Massachusetts,. A new
president of the American Wooden
company, Andrew G. Pierce Jr,
moves the company away, and Shaw
,been will become q deserted village.
"A TOWN Is like language or
~ human being. 1t must start
naturally and grow Of its own power.
You can't invent IL or create 1t.
Alexander the Great with his