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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
Something to Think About
By BRUNO LESSING

vasback duck every day for six
months you will not want to eat it
again. You will have destroyed the
source of your pleasure.
There is a certain balance be-
tween voracity and abstinence that
you must maintain in order to pro-
long whatever pleasure you get out
Of canyasback ducks.
This very same balance exists in
all the activities of life. 1t is a
simple truth which all men know
and, therefore, disregard.
We need a certain amount OF
sleep, a certain amount of work and
a certain amount of recreation to
maintain a balance that will insure
lasting beneficial results. Recrea-
ton appeals to most of US more
than work or sleep docs. Unfor-
tunatcly we do not easily lose an
interest in our recreations.
But when we overdo them, at the
expense of sleep and work, we dis
cover, some sad day, that much
as we love our recreations we can
no longer indulge in them. We
have upset the balance.
This balance assumes its highest
importance when we plan our lives
during those future years which,
we believe, will be ours. Death, Of
course, upsets all balances.
As we reach maturity we begin to
figure out how much time we shall
devote to the accumulation OF mon
ey, to the accumulation Of health
and to the accumulation Of educa-
ton. 1t is somewhat Of a diff
cult task and requires very fine
reckoning. The lucky ones are those
who can approach this task Of plan
ming with a clear and unbiased
mind. The unlucty ones--and they
form the bulk Of mankind-let their
preference influence their judgment.
The desire 10 accumulate money
is just as natural human instinct
as the desire TO eat. But it is just
as easily overdone.
1t is overdone today. 1t seems TO
have become the ruling passion. The
nations prosperity, the incoming
flood of gold, the development Of adj
vertisinF the stress which newspa-
pers and periodicals place upon
wealth, all tend to increase each in
dividual's desire to accumulate
money out of all proportion TO the
other needs Of his body and mind
and soul.
The result is that the balance is
upset.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
Blossom and Fruit

tn FFORTS by the agricultural department Of the
II Antonio Chamber of Commerce to encourage
- the planting of fruit trees in BeXar county
should have the hearty backing of the home-owner as
well as the farmer.
Individuals have conducted backyard experiments
in growing wide variety of fruit trees, and few
periments large scale have been made with the
result that the suitability of this soil and climate for
Horticulture has been proved.
Experimental successes, however, are of small
value unless the resulting information is conveyed to the
public. The home-owner and the farmer should have
detailed information to the varieties best adapted to
this soil and climate and as to the most successful
methods of culture in this locality.
Trees whether shade fruit add to the value Of
land. An orchard in full bloom with its canopy Of pink
and white has aesthetic appeal to the philistne
It's fruition meets demand for utility.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

Animals have their diseases just
as men do.
While there are similarities be-
tween the ailments of man and
beast, it is fortunate that not many
are interchangeable.
But there are a few conditions
which draw no line and respect
no barriers between the species. One
of these is the foot and mouth
disease
This is what we commonly hear
described az an ".epizootic disorder"
1t prevails among animals. 1t at
tacks cattle, goats, sheep, hogs and
other animals, as well as man.
Fortunately, ii is not common
among humans. But the foot and
mouth disease is q contagious or in
fictitious disease, and unless he is
careful. the man who attends a sick
animal may become inoculated.
As / shall describe TO you, in this
disease vesicles-blisters-form and
the fluid Of the vesicles carries the
injecting agent. This is a virus
which finds its way through broken
places in the skin or mucous mem
branes. It may even reach man
trom the milk of an infected COW.
All the infectious diseases have
period Of incubation" This is the
interval between Che time Of "catch-
ing" the disease and the appearance
Of the first symptoms.
In the foot and mouth disease the
incubation period varies from two
days 10 week or ten days. The
first sign after inoculation is a SEN
sation Of dryness and burning in
the mouth, together with more or
less fever.
The lining Of the mouth becomes
swollen and more and more con-
gested. The saliva is increased ma
terially. After a couple Of days
tiny blisters form on the lips,
tongue and throat. These vesicles
are filled with a clear fluid like
water.
In two or three days after they
appear the blisters break. Little rcd
spots are left. These are really
ulcers and very tender at that.
In bad attacks the feet and hands
are involved. Blisters form on the
skin, like the vesicles in the mouth.
They act the same way capturing
within a few days and forming sen
sitive ulcers.
The disease runs its mild course
in a few days and disappears. Rare
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

never have read a sentence in his
life and yet may live longer than
one who is widely read. He may
live longer, but not so we'll!
Fine, worthwhile literature, the
real food Of the soul, can be en-
tirely neglected. You can live all
your life and never hear the name
of Shakespeare. All the richness of
the great minds Of the past, the
legacy of older days, may never be
heard Of, but life goes on.
Man can exist without religion.
His body goes on living even though
his soul is never awakened.
The love and appreciation of flow
en, of birds, Of the wide, clean
beauty of nature, can be entirely
left out of his life, and still it con-
tinues.
One of the chief evils of poverty
is that it means that "the things
you can live without" often have TO
be discarded for the bare J. ssi-
ties.
Like those born blind who can
not conceive of color or those born
deaf who cannot imagine sound,
those who never experience "the
things you can live without" rare
ly miss them.
They live on without them. !
they do not live so well.
Copyright, 1925. by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
Colonel Mitchell Has
Made His Case

EFORE "the great jury of the people" Colonel Will
X liam Mitchell, United States Army, has made his
case against the maladmnistration which is to
blame for the condition of aviation under the Stars and
Stripes.
Already public sentiment, North, East South and
West has handed down verdict in his favor.
Now Colonel Mitchell is being tried by court
martial because he dared appeal to the American peo
pie rescue aviation from ignorant bureaucratic control
and emancpate filters from the control of Notifying
officers who insist upon regarding aviation the step
child of the army and navy, instead of welcoming it
into the household of National Defense the youngest
member of the family.
Colonel Mtchelrs main charges regarding the
abuse of aviation have been subsantiated before Pres
dent Coolidges Air Board by nearly all of the flying
officers permitted to testify from Major General Mason
M Patrick, Chief of Air Service down to the youngest
naval aviator, with few exceptions
Colonel Mitchells major recommendations for the
reorganization of National Defense system have not
only been endorsed in principle by Major General Pat
rick and majority of the flying officers of the army
who have been called witnesses by the Air Board
but also commended to the attention of the President
by the American Legion, in national convention as
sembled at Omaha.
Nevertheless, Colonel Mitchell went on trial last
week because he dared to tell his fellow citizens of the
United States the truth about aviation as he sees it,
This is why filters fight for freedom involves
more than the military of the brave truth-teer
who took his case directly 10 the people.
This is why fiers' fight for freedom involves
even more than the future of aviation.
This is why our filters fight for freedom involves
the right of the American people to know the truth
about aviation from the only officers in the army and
navy competent to tell the truth namely the flying
rades, with the colors, of Colonel Mitchell.
This is why the trial of Colonel Mitchell directly
concerns every American citizen who takes his sover
eighty seriously.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
OVER LIES HURDLES
Why Majority Opinion May Be False.
BY LOUIS E. BISCH
Copyright. 1925. Premier synd.. Inc.

On the surface, majority opinion
ought to be correct and minority
opinion false.
Many minds in cooperation ought
to be able to reason better than a
few.
1t would seem so. As a matter OF
fact, nothing could be further from
the truth!
The all-important factor left out
of account in this consideration is
the difference In individual ability
that makes up either the majority
or the minority.
No two persons are alike intel
lectually or emotionally.
Even two individuals Of the same
age with identical home and school
training would not think and feel
exactly the same as each other.
There are marked differences Of
intelligence between human beings.
Therefore, IL n majority opinion
should be formulated by persons
whose intellectual endowments arc
below those comprising the minority
group it follows logically that the
minority is much more apt TO be
right and the majority wrong.
Then again, large group is I'M
wieldy.
1t is much more difficult to OBJ
tain representative consensus of
opinion from hundred persons than
it is from a dozen.
And when it comes to trying TO
find the true feeling Of few thou
sands, or a million, the task is well
nigh impossible.
Still another factor must be taken
into account.
When many persons debate an is
sue they tend to lose their own in
dividuality.
In its place there arises a group
individuality characterized BY traits
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
Our Wants and Needs
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

Ruskin once said people could
live without pictures, but they could
not live so well.
There are many things in life
without which people can live, but
not so well.
Man is a creature of infinite
want, but of remarkably few needs.
The machinery Of his life is i'm
rensely complicated, but surpris-
.ngly little keeps It running.
The animal needs that keep life
in his body are soon met.
But It is in the margin beyond
these that all that makes man a
higher being takes place.
The beauty Of music is one Of
the things you can live without.
Life goes on even If the soul is
never touched by the tenderness Of
song. Life goes on, but 1t does not
60 on the same. Something ire
placeable is lost.
Travels broadens and -enlarges a
mans life, but it is not necessary
to 1t. The writer once talked to
an old woman in the Kentucky
mountains. She had lived in the
. same spot for over 60 years and had
been only twice to a town five miles
away across a river.
Education is one Of the things
you can live without. A man may
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

; that are unlike those of any single
member of the group but which are
sort of composite of all the traits
Of all the members Of the group.
Because of this 1t may happen
that a large group gets together
to debate on a certain issue, to take
up certain very definite factors. But
the result at the end Of the confer
ence is resolutions that only bare
ly touch-or not Mt all-upon the
arguments that first convened the
groups.
And one other matter should be
considered in relation to group psy-
chology.
II any member, or small number
Of members, Of a large group have
dominating, forceful personalities,
they will sway the rest and influ-
ence them to such a degree that
their own opinions will prevail at
the expense Of the others.
In such a case what started out
to DO majority opinion ends up by
being minority or individual rule.
All these principles enter into all
forms Of democratic government.
1t behooves every thinking citizen
to study them.
We all know OF laws having been
put through BY an active. persistent
minority practically against the ma
jority.
This matter Of group psychology
is a complicated subject but it is
well worth looking into.
Copyright. 1925. Premier synd.. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

There is q balance in life. II you
desire to be happy you must study
your scales.
A fine canvasback duck tastes so
good that you derive real pleasure
from eating it. If you overdo this
pleasure-in case you are lucky
enough to have plenty Of canvasback
ducks-you get indigestion. And
then you go through several hours
Of aches and pains. If you eat can
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
Foot and Mouth Disease
BY ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.

ly is it a matter Of great conse-
quence. There have been s"w Be-
rious epidemics, but ordinarily it
amounts to little, disappearing in q
week or ten days.
Mild washes Of alum or chlorate
Of potash may be applied to the
mouth eruptions. For the skin,
zinc ointment or a soothing oil may
be applied.
Copyright. 1875. by Newspaper
Feature Service. Inc.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

who little thing that he
could direct his driver the right left always inevitably
took the turn There is deep and sad moral in this
British calm occasionally be exaspng the
mental but will all that it has got him there"
Of huered exasperated people
them life
Inedaely peasanter for everybody.
The fur misses his trains puts his clothes backtont
into the puddle he hens his children from home
his wife irts with
relief
spendth imagine virtue
have imagine that the Emperor China
satisfaction But take things easily Relax And fuss
Copyright 1925, Famous Features Syndicate Inc.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
SAN ANTONIO,
NOV. 2, 1925.
. . Observation-Disclosures GHIU . . SAN S1 1ssse
QUEENS. COUNSEL
hyrz& $::::=77s:;::..4

Don't Fuss.
1t makes life uncomfortable and is such
nuisance others.
hurry tire bursts You'll be late but for good
chauffeur by asking him thousand
tmoa MIN 4
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
YE TOWNE GOSSIP s,x: 3:

AND AWOKE.
FRIGHTENED AND cold.
AND WENT back to sleep.
AND DREAMED.
THAT HE was a cat.
AND LIVED in an alley.
AND ALL the garbage cans.
HAD COVERS on them.
AND HE couldn't get into them.
AND HE was hungry.
AND THEN again;
HE WENT to sleep.
AND DREAMED.
HE COULD hear the cries.
OF HUNGRY cats.
AND AGAIN swcke.
AND WENT down:
TO THE little enclosure.
AND FOUND the cat.
AND TOOK it home.
AND FED it.
AND MADE it a bed.
AND 1 don't know;
If 1T was the cat.
THAT MADE him dram.
OR SOMETHING he'd eaten.
But ANYWAY:
HE STILL has the cat.
AND THAT'S bis story.
AS HE told it to me.
i THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02
Saphead Sisters

Molly-Charity covers q multi
tude Of sins.
Cordelia-Well, I have no sins ]
want covered, and besides a mink
coat Is far more decorative.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

HE MADE me promise.
NOT TO mention his name.
But ANYWAY:
HE DOESN'T like cats.
AND THE other night.
ONE FOLLOWED him.
AND CRIED at him.
AND 1T made him mad.
AND HE picked it up.
AND PUT it over.
A LOW board fence.
WHERE WOOD was kept.
BY WHOEVER it was.
WHO LIVED in the place.
AND WENT on home.
AND ATE his dinner.
AND THEN sat down.
AND THOUGHT of the cat.
AND TRIED to forget it.
AND COULDN'T do it.
AND LAY awake,
AND KEPT wondering.
If 1T was hungry.
AND WENT to sleep.
AND DREAMED.
THAT HIS room.
WAS FILLED up;
WITH CATS.
THAT HAD er:"l.d in.
AND DIED.
OF STARVATION.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-02

Light cigarette, whistle, count the clouds, study
the daisies growing in the ditch but spare your chauf
feur's nerves and leave him alone.
Don't fuss your children about every little thing.
Don't fuss your husband not to forget this that.
Don't fuss your maid when she's doing your hair.
Don't fuss the gardener the cook the prime minister
nor the policeman helping you the street-or you'll
certainly end by being
Don't fuss the man in the shop you'll probably
buy the very thing you don't want. Don't fuss your
self looking for something you've lost You will prob
ably find it the moment you get calm again, though
Evening star., 1925-11-08
MARRIAGE ANNULMENT
Is GRANTED TO NURSE
Woman Declares She Was Wed
Without Knowing What Was
Taking Place.

Chief Justice Mccoy has granted
an interlocutory decree of annul-
ment in favor of Mrs. Ida b Hampel
nurse. from Ferdinand Hampel OF
New York. The plaintiff charged that
she did not understand the English
language and says Hampel. on July
3, 1923. led her through a marriage
ceremony without her knowing what
was going on. The decree restores
her maiden name Of Blazer. She
was represented by Attorney Godfrey
l.. Munter.
Mrs. Virginia Cameron Martin
Beaverbrook, who is suing for an
annulment of her marriage to
Lord" Beaverbrook, who is charged
with getting her money and jewelry
after a honeymoon of one day, has
amended her petition and alleges
that the defendant was already mar
ried when he went through the cere-
mony with her in Rockville, June IT,
last. She is represented by Attor-
ney Thomas c. Bradley.
Evening star., 1925-11-08

Dunbar Center, First and N streets:
Observation-Disclosures Ladies' Swim
ming Club, 1880 to $50; boys and
mems swimming classes, $50 to $50;
Industrial art group, 7:90; Ladies'
TENTS Club. 1850; La Rover Athletic
Club, Z to s; ST. Augustine Athletic
Club, to 8; AppamattoX Athletic Club,
to 10; Simon Commandery Drill
Team. 7:30 to $50; Columbia Lodge
of Elks, $50 to 10; Community
Chorus. 7:30; Lincoln Players, S;
Reading Club for Boys, 1880; Dramatic
Club, Z.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
BAN STILL IN EFFECT.

Reports from Florida that the ban
on killing wood ducks had been lifted
are incorrect, the Biological Survey
declared yesterday. Persons killing
these birds. the department said. are
liable to a fine of $500 or imprison-
ment for six months, or to both a fine
and imprisonment Under the treaty
with Great Britain for the protection
of migratory birds. which became eff
fective on December /, 1916, it was
explained wood ducks are given spe-
cial protection and the Federal regula-
tions do not provide open season any
where In the United States.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
WIFE CAN HAVE DIVORCE,
VALENTINO DECLARES
Leaves Decision to Her, But Is
Tired of Pet Dogs and No
Home Life.
By tho Associated Press.

BY tho Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November THE Her
aid Examiner says that Rudolph Val
entino is willing that his wife, the
former Winifred Hudnut and Natcha
Rambova, may have a divorce; indeed,
unless she gives up her Pekinese dogs
and settles down" she had better get
one.
The film "sheik" announced this
stand. the paper says, while here on
his way to New York. Mrs. Valen-
tino arrives there on the Leviathan
next Monday, and he will sail on the
same boat November IA.
"I am wondering myself If 1 will
see her in New York. The divorce
question i leave to my wife. l am
not willing to go along this way, with
wife determined upon a career,
mothering a flock of Pekinese dogs,
and not having any home life.
Il want home and / am not will
Evening star., 1925-11-08

ing to divide my wife with a career.
l make enough money to give her
everything she wants, so I don't think
1 am unreasonable to insist that l
have a wife and not d business part
ner.
''If Mrs. Valentino is through with
me, I am through with marriage. un-
til | have enough money to stop act
ing and give my time to a family life.
I'd like to have children and give
them the kind of care and love | had
as q bow"
Evening star., 1925-11-08

SOul SO III NlSudl /
instruction lee
lures to be held
during the months
of November, De
cember and Janu-
ary.
The visual in
struction lectures
q n d entertain
ments that Will be
given in many of
the centerS will be
based on slides
from the Commu-
nifty Center Slide
Library, and will
include travel
ogueS, patriotic
programs and sub
1pr1C 1,n will
Evening star., 1925-11-08

with school work.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
West Washington Center, Twenty

seventh and streets:
Tuesday-Home economics group
neighborhood council, Whist Club
Criterion Social Club will have a get.
together meeting and collation.; Ora
matte Club; Lincoln Athletic Club
7:30: Georgetown Props Athletic
Club, 7:30; reed and basketry class,
7:30.
Saturday - Reg lar Fellers' Club
Dramatic Club, Georgetown Foot
Ball club. Community Chorus and in
strumental music, Girls Industrial
Art Club. 7:30.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Cleveland Center, sth and T streets

SicNcidHu ScHItT, oItl anu SLIScls
northwest:
Tuesday-Stitch and Chatter Indus
trial Art Club, 7:30; lamp shade max
ing. millinery and dressmaking
groups, saxophone orchestra rehears.
al, Amphion Glee Club. sight read
ing and chorus work, flower making
and basketry instruction classes.
Spanish class. Young Mems Literary
Club, 7:30.
Saturday-Children' dramatic in.
struction and piano lessons for be-
ginners, 10 to II am.
Deanwood Center, Whittingham and
Lane place northeast:
Friday-Industrial art class for
girls, Junior Better Neighborhood
Club. the plain sewing group will
make children's clothes used gar
ments domestic art groups, includ-
ing basketry, paper flower making,
lamp shade making and wax work;
Girls Dramatic Club, Mems Choral
Club, visual instruction for children.
7:30: Deanwood Citizens Association,
8 o'clock
Evening star., 1925-11-08

FetWOrth CENTER, EIShlh and Shep-
herd streets.
Observation-Disclosures and beginners
rhythmic expression classes, ais.
F'riday-Basketry adults and chill
dren's instruction, 7:30; Dramatic
Club for Young People, 7:3O; Girl
Scouts and Boy Scouts, 7:30.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
At Community Centers
OF the Public Schools.

Mrs. G. W. Klare, the recently ap-
pointed community secretary OF the
Petworth Community Center, has in
cluded in her plans for the season a
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Miner Normal Center, Georgia ave

nue. and Euclid street:
Tuesday = Basketry, sewing and
dressmaking groups. Dramatic Club.
Red Cross classes in first aid, home
nursing and food selection. Current
Topic Club for Men, lamp-shade and
flower making instruction class. 7:30.
Friday-Red Cross classes in first
aid, home nursing and food selection,
gymnasium activities, girls needle
work class, Boy Scouts. Current Top
ic Club for Men, lamp-shade making
and flower making groups. 7:30.