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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
OVER LIES HURDLES
Don't Hitch Your Chariot to the Stars.
By LOUIS E. BISCH
Copyright, 1895. Premier synd.. Inc.

Youth. hearing Of such cases, Is
fired with enthusiasm to repeat tho
performance. As a result, men and
women become FESTIVE and impa-
tient. They are not willing to
wait. They are not willing to pre-
part themselves properly for the
shouldering Of big things.
Although people do have "streaks
of luckn it doesn't always follow
that they hold what they have thus
gained. .s
An individual may happen to be-
come the head or controlling inter
est of q big business because Of
turn in the stock market. But will
such a man be able to hold the new
power? If not prepared to do so he
is bound to be worsted sooner or
later-probably sooner. .r.
1t is always wisest and safest to
push your goal ahead but always to
keep it in sight!
Advance gradually and steadily
and persistently! ~ 80,
Don't try to jump over the moon.
Be patient, be logical, don't lose
heart! -f & rs,
And always prepare yourself for
the next higher rung of the ladder
of success before you are ready to
step up on it.
Study, learn, profit by your own
experience and that Of others.
Don't hitch your chariot to the
stars if that means you are not will
ing to learn the business from the
ground up until the time for that
grand, superlative hitching takes
place.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
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Putting First Things
First in Congress

~ RESIDENT COOLIDGE believes in putting first
r things first" He said so in his commencement
- address at Annapolis. And when Congress con-
he will suit the action to the word by putting tax
reduction and tax revision at the head of his list of
concentrations.
This legislation will have the right of way in both
Houses at the next regular session of Congress Assur
to this effect have been taken the White House
by the majority leader of the Senate, Mr. Curtis, of
Kansas and the floor leader of the House. Mr. Tilson
of Connecticut
Next in order should come the consideration of the
bill providing for the reorganization of the executive de-
parments Senator Curtis believes that the enactment
Of this legislation would op off $200000,o0o year
from the cost which the people pay for the pkeep of the
federal government.
Therefore, recognizing the executive departments
is the logical next step for the Congress to take after
tax reduction and tax revision legislation disposed Of
But the recognizing of the executive departments
should begin with the emancipation of aviation from the
into which it has been put and kept by
the antaircraft olgarchy, which is chiefly to blame
for the nefciency ineffectiveness and ndefensible
extravaganza of the present organization not only OF
the Air Service of both the army and the but of
the whole national defense system.
When our filters with the colors have won their
fight for freedom and aviation has been rescued from
the straght-acket which has arrested its development
then the way will be clear to set up the Department OF
Defense for which Colonel Mitchell has made his brave
and dramatic appeal This appeal is heartily endorsed
by Major-General Patrick whom President Coolidge has
recently honored with reappointment as Chief of Air
Service.
Here is program for Washington that will COM
mand the support of public sentiment from coast to
coast.
For public sentiment this newspaper believes, is
in favor of decreasing the burden of federal taxation
and increasing the effectiveness of National Defense
To do the one you must reduce the cost of government
at Washington. To do the other you must reorganize
the National Defense system, beginning with the mod
ernizng of the administration of land air and sea
forces.
This is the way the President and Congress will
proceed at the next regular session if they act the
advice which President Coolidge gave the graduating
class at Annapolis and lead the nation in putting first
things first
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
Color Blind Auto Drivers
By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.

Recently there was held conven-
ton in Atlantic City where better
traffic laws were considered. One
of the speakers said that three-quar-
tiers Of q million automobile acct
dents were caused last year through
three causes. These are mislead-
ing highway signs, disrespect for the
law and color blindness.
It was declared that 4 per cent Of
all automobile drivers are color
blind. They cannot distinguish be-
tween red and green.
Color blindness is a strange defect.
1t is something which cannot be
prevented and cannot be cured. 1t
just is. Either you are not color
blind, or you are.
If you are color blind you cannot
be a safe automobile driver. You
are sure to have trouble, sooner or
later.
When / was a boy / had a play
mate of the same age. Having read
about signaling at sea by the use Of
colored squares Of cloth, we decided
10 try it out on land. Raiding the
rasbag We found red, green, yellow
and other colored textiles. 1t was
not long before we had prepared a
code. From above down, red, green,
blue meant, "Come over TO my
house Another combination meant
good bye"
Ny friends window was visible
from mine and we set out TO signal
each other. ] was puzzled TO find
that his signals meant nothing 10 me
and mine were unrecognized by him.
WHAT did it all mean? Ny friend
was color blind. One color meant
little more to hin than another.
You will see person now and
then, wearing the most outrageous
combinations Of high colors. i have
no doubt many such people are col
or blind, or have very weakly devel-
oped color sense.
Failure to match colors is one Of
the earliest signs. Sent to the store
TO get spool of thread to match
green ribbon, left to yourself you
may bring back a spool of red thread.
The absence Of the color sense
may mean little 10 most persons, but
locomotive engineers and automobile
drivers must be perfect in this re-
gard, or disaster will come.
The pathetic thing about it is
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
Protecting Children

1N HE Child Welfare League of America announces
ambitious and admirable task It's intent is
to protect and educate children neglected as a
result of broken-up homes in every state of the nation
This is field of philanthropic endeavor lightly
touched The lives of its children are the nations
precious assets. Yet because children so common
their rights and needs often ignored by politicians
in office. For of course, children have no vote
The Child Welfare League will seek to interest
social patriotic and phanthropic organizations in its
work and this is wise. The place for child is in
private home rather than in public institution
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

To hitch your chariot to the stars
is a very inspirational maxim.
To strive for the very highest. to
want to achieve Grade A excellence,
to possess the impulse to scale the
peaks Of fame. is most laudatory.
Nor have I anything to say
against it except this:
Setting the goal Of success too far
ahead, too soon, is dangerous prac-
tice.
Many men have started out on
their careers with ambitions 80
high that they fell behind at the way
side, discouraged, long before such
a calamity should have occurred.
1t isn't so much because they
aimed at the highest and the best.
1t is not even because they were
oyer-ambitious.
The cause for failure was the fact
that they wanted to get there too
soon!
We cannot take short cuts in life.
Occasionally that happens, but
such occasions are the exceptions
that prove the rule that we advance
step by step, by a slow, laborious
process.
We must not expect to achieve re-
suits quickly.
There's an old saying that Rome
was not built in a day.
1t was Epictetus who wrote !:
"No great thing is created sudden
ly."
Unfortunately America can point
to many men who, by a sort of
fluke, arrived overnight.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

that the possessor of color blindness
may be utterly unconscious of the
defect. No examination for safe
driving is complete il it does not in
clude a test of the color sense.
1t is shocking to learn that so
large a percentage as 4 per cent
should be traced to this cause. Thirty
thousand accidents might have been
prevented last year had this test
been made and the defect discovered.
Copyright. 1925. by Newspaper
Feature Service, Inc.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

have advanced strong arguments in
favor of polygamy. Most people
think that polygamy is an institu-
ton approved only by vicious and
degraded people. This is not so.
Whether man has one wife or six
is a matter that has always de-
pended upon economical, political
and religious conditions. 1t has
nothing whatever to do with abb
stract morality. 1t is purely
matter of the laws which each pass
ing generation enacts.
The acknowledgements in favor Of
polygamy are these: More women
are supported by men and less are
forced into competition with men
in the various fields of labor. Wom-
en- are kept more with women and
have less opportunities for "pla-
tonic" friendships and for gallivant-
ing around with . strange men.
There is very little divorce. Men
assume a greater responsibility. AS
long as they have to pay throughout
life for their immortality, they be-
come .less immoral.
Women, nowadays, do not like
polygamy. The lucky ones want to
be the reigning queen Of their house
hold and do not worry their heads
about their unlucky sisters who toll
in offices and shops and kitchens
and factories. usually at less wages
than men would earn for the same
work.
Men, when they earn satisfactory
money, marry, support a wife and
raise a family. That is good for
the state. Women, when they earn
satisfactory money, are never tempt
ed to give anything to the state
which means the civilization we live
INN return. They are satisfied
with the good time which they en-
joy. -.
Dear reader, DO not arise In
righteous indignation. This is no
plea for polygamy.
Only bear in mind that law is
one thing and human nature is an
other and that the task Of reconcil-
ing one to the other is a pretty
darned hard job. Laws change.
Customs change. Religions die out
and new ones take their place. 1t is
very unlikely that the historians
of A. d. 5796 will refer to the year
AID. 1858 as the christian Era"
In the meantime watch what hap
pens in Turkey. First, see IL she
really ends polygamy. Then com
pare the happiness and welfare Of
men and women in that country's
future condition with what they
were in the past.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

Sarah Bernhardt once said:
'The minute that you tell a wom-
an that she has a pretty profile, she
begins to live sideways"
Putting your best foot forward"
is a human trait.
But to keep the best foot forward
all the time you must stop walking
and progress ceases.
The possession of one good point
recognized may stop the progress
of the growth of number of other
points by ignoring them and giving
the praised quality all attention.
A tree with the sap cut off from
all branches cEcept one would soon
become a lopsided monstrosity.
Attention is the sap that develops
strong qualities in character.
If all attention is given to one
element in your personality the
others generally wither.
In a basket ball game the writer
once saw this truth illustrated.
A player shot long basket from
beyond the middle Of the floor and
received a great ovation from tho
spectators.
Thereafter he devoted all his at
tention and efforts to making long
baskets. He neglected the other side
of his work-passing the ball and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
ONCE LOVERS
How Has the Rush of City Life Affected Your Life and
Disnosition2 I.
By ]. ]. MUNDY
Copyright 1895 international Feature Service Incorporated
Your Disposition

When you went to the city from
a small place there were certain
things which you felt a cultured
person should do. You were taught
courtesy in your home town but
since you became city resident
you are gruff, snappish and selfish.
When you leave your offices you
buckle on your armor and prepare
to battle your way home.
You grumble at the man who
crowds in ahead of you but you
do the same, every time you have
the opportunity
Even in making an exit from your
building you. exhibit this spirit.
You run for the elevator, rush
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

and jam to get out and bolt for the
exit door. You pay no attention
to anyone, man nor woman ex-
cepted.
If you happen to get into jam
which detains you longer than
usual, you reach home in bad
humor and what might have been
a pleasant evening is ruined. !
There are bound to be certain
degrees of hustle and self.interest
to get along in big city but it
is not necessary to become boorish.
In allowing yourself to get into
such condition you miss a lot of
enjoyment you might otherwise
have.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
Something to Think About
By BRUNO LESSINC

Turkey, it is said. is about to
abolish polygamy. The chances are
that this report is true because the
spirit of the age we live in has a
weakness for monogamy. The spir-
it of an age is very potent factor.
Nevertheless, Turkey has not yet
abolished polygamy. So let us wait
until she does it and then see what
happens.
Very few people realize that many
great, pure and unselfish minds
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
At Our Restaurant

Wsiter-Those smart Germans
have invented sailboat without
sails, sir. What do you think Of
that. sir?
Diner-Small stuff. Your restsu-
rant has been feeding me oyster
soup without oysters for years.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

AND IT'S very heavy.
AND HE tries to carry it.
AS THOUGH it wasn't.
YOU KNOW very well.
THERE'S LIQUOR in it.
AND THIS man ] met!
L KNEW quite well.
HE WAS a bootlegger.
AND THEN one day.
THERE WAS no one at home.
But JUST myself
AND THE bells all ring.
AND I ran around.
AND OPENED the door.
AND AT one Of them.
THERE WAS this man.
AND HE. had his grip.
AND I said to him.
YOU'VE MADE a mistake.
1T MUST be for someone.
ION ANOTHER floor"
But.
HE CAME right in.
AND OPENED his grip.
AND ALL there was in it.
WAS A lot Of brushes.
AND THERE he was.
AN INNOCENT man.
AND LAW abiding.
SELLING BRUSHES.
TO KEEP things clean,
AND ALL the time.
I'D BEEN pointing him out.
AS THE neighborhood vendor.
OF ILLICIT booze.
L THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
YE TOWNE GOSSIP ,,E: 6: ,:

Dear. X. G. B.: ] had the mis-
fortune TO be leading lady in an
automobile accident. / woke up
with two black eyes as the result
of my injuries. j can't go any
where without being stared at.
Flappers giggle, young men snick-
or, and children point at me. Not
one look Of sympathy have l had.
Now, if ! had a broken 'arm or
leg or a hump on my back, !
would not be this object of ridicule.
Why:
BLACK-EYED SUSAN.
DEAR SUSAN.
AS LONG ago.
AS l can remember.
THEY'VE USED black eyes.
FOR JOKING PURPOSES.
AND THEN there's Maggie.
WHO BLACKENS Jiggs' eyes.
AND ALL such things.
AND YOU ought to paint 'em.
WHEN YOU 20 out.
AND YOU never can tell.
FROM APPEARANCEs.
FOR HERE I've been.
FOR WEEKS and weeks.
AND EVERY few days.
I'D SEE the same man.
AND HE'D have a grip.
AND 1T was heavy.
AND HE'D always list.
TO WHICHEVER side.
HE CARRIED the grip.
AND HE'D 20 TO apartments.
AND INTO houses.
AND JUST besause.
1T HAS come 10 be.
If A man has a grip.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
Daily Good Deed

Whatever else you may take into
a sick room, be sure that you radi-
ate sunshine and spirit of good
cheer.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

financial, public service, and textile
enterprises. %
His name is Henry Hornblower.
Copyright. 1925. King Feature Syn. Inc
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
Negro Chemist to Speak
George w. Carver to Address Uni
versity Students Next Week

George w. Carver, the worlds
foremost negro scientist, will
speak here in Gerard Hall next
Monday, January 10, under the
auspices of the Y. M. c. A. His
talk will begin at seven o'clock
and will be concluded in time
for the Glee Club concert in
Memorial Hall at eight-thirty.
This remarkable negro has
taught for years at Tuskeegee
Institute. His field is industrial
chemistry, and through his
laboratory experiments he has
produced scores of useful by
products from peanuts, sweet
potatoes, and Alabama red clay.
Next Tuesday morning he will
display these by-products in
the Y. M. C. A. building.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
Brady Lloyd Married
Rides off with Miss Berty Ivey and
Weds in South Carolina

Brady Lloyd, one of the sons
of Paul Lloyd, who lives out in
the country west of Chapel Hill
left home Saturday morning in
his Ford. AS he went out of
the front door he called back to
his family:
Don't know when I'll be back
may be married when you see
me next"
They were used to such idle
jests from him and paid little
heed to it.
He went to the home of a
neighbor, Ed Ivey, and took
Miss Berry Ivey into his car for
a ride. This, also, was not un-
usual and caused no surprise.
But when neither of them turn
ed up Saturday night the two
families began to have suspi-
cions.
The couple. it was disclosed
later, struck out for Virginia,
because the young woman was
under the age at which marriage
is permitted in this state with
out the consent of the parents.
But they found that the Vir-
ginia law was also against them,
so they turned the Ford about
and went through their own
state to South Carolina. There
they were promptly married.
They came back Monday and
are now living at the Paul Lloyd
home.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
TOWN NOW PLANS
A NEW CEMETERY
Present One Cannot Be Ex-
tended, Because No More
Land Is Available
2 SITES ARE SUGGESTED

Plans for a new cemetery are
being considered by the Chapel
Hill board of aldermen.
The present one used to be
well out beyond the east edge of
the village, and people took it
for granted that it could be ex-
tended indefinitely. But the
land all around it has come to be
needed for the expansion of the
University.
Where the new cemetery will
be is not yet determined. 1t has
been suggested that a site should
be chosen either on the Pitts
boro-Pinehurst highway or the
Durham highway, perhaps a.
bout two miles from Chapel Hill.
The aldermen are going to study
the situation thoroughly before
committing themselves to a de-
cision.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
Incubator Starts
Already Big Demand for Chicks
That 1t Will Hatch

Already one fifth of all the
chickens the new Paul Lloyd
incubator can hatch in the next
21 weeks have been sold, and
this without any solicitation of
purchasers.
The first hatch was put in
at the beginning of last week.
This consisted of only about 500
eggs. Day before yesterday
1000 eggs were put in. Probab-
ly the full weekly quota of
1900 eggs will go in next Tues
day.
Twenty-one days are allowed
for Matching, and the opera
tions are timed so that the
chicks will kick open their egg
shells every Monday. For mar
keting, this is regarded by ex-
perts as better than having the
chicks hatch out at the end of
the week.
This first week or so of op-
Grafton particularly close
watch is being kept. R. P. Har-
ris goes out from Chapel Hill
to the Lloyd farm every day or
so, and he and Mr.. Lloyd and
the sons take the racks out and
examine the eggs carefully. By
means of a flashlight they can
tell whether or not the incuba-
tion is going on properly, and
the bad or infertile eggs are
removed from the rack. Many
of those discarded are boiled
and make excellent chicken
food.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
They Sent for Caldwell
Professor Summoned to Dine with
Capart in New York

The Belgian Relief Commits
sion's Educational Foundation
gave a dinner last Thursday
evening at the University Club
in New York in honor of Jean
Capart, the celebrated archae-
ologist who gave series of lee
lures in Chapel Hill last fall.
The committee that was max
ing the preparations 'r for the
dinner asked Mr.. Capart whom
he would like to have invited.
"Well, if it can be arranged"
he replied, 81 would like to
have my friend Mr.. Caldwell
there" Wallace E. Caldwell,
now a member of the faculty
of the history department here,
studied with him for a year in
Belgium and became an init
mate friend of him and his fam
lily.
Upon learning his wishes, the
arrangements com mi 1T e e
straightway sent an invitation
to Mr.. Caldwell. Furthermore,
they did not neglect a certain
important detail-they sent a
check to cover the expenses of
the trip.
The professor left here on
Wednesday of last week. Among
those who sat about the table
in the University Club were
Mr.. Vincent, head of the Rock
efeller Foundation; R. V. D.
Magoffin, president of the Ar
Genealogical Institute of Amer
lea; Julius Barnes, president of
the New York Chamber of
Commerce; and Belgian Consul
General Mali.
In the course of his four
days in the city, Mr.. Caldwell
spent several hours with Mr..
Capart in the Metropolitan Mu-
scum viewing with delight
mummies and other ancient OBJ
jects. In the evenings the mu-
scum was not open, but Mr..
Caldwell found consolation in
attending modern exhibitions at
the theatres.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
DIOCESE MEETS
IN CHAPEL HILL
Episcopal Church Organization
Chooses This as Place for
Annual Convention
DELEGATES COME MAY IL

The Diocese of North Caro-
lima, of the Episcopal church,
will hold it's annual convention
here May 12 and 13. In it's 109
years of existence the diocese
has never before held one Of it's
meetings in Chapel Hill.
It is the hope of Rev. A. S.
Lawrence and the board of YES
trymen to have the new church
consecrated when the Bishop
and the delegates gather here
in May. The main structure
is finished, a contract has been
given for the erection of the or
gan, and the furniture has been
ordered. If the present sche-
dule works out, everything viii
be in readiness for the opening
services on Easter Day, April
IL.
The floor of the church is now
in progress of laying. The con-
tract for the organ has been let
to the Skinner company; the
first parts will arrive about the
middle of February, and the in
stallation will require at least
a month. The pews will be de-
livered in March.
w. A. Erwin, donor Of the
church; J. L. Grouse, the con-
tractor; and Hobart Upjohn, the
architect, met here Monday and,
with the rectors and members of
the building committee, discuss
ed the program of work for the
next few weeks.
The parish was used Sunday.
This is the first time that all
the Sunday school classes have
been able to assemble in one
room.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-01-15
Poultry Project Pays
Pupil in Negro School Has Big Sue
cess with Turkeys

Martha Reaves, a pupil in the
sixth grade of the Orange
County Training School, Chapel
Hill's negro institution, has
made an unusual success with
her turkey-raising project, a
task which she undertook in
connection with her school work.
She started two years ago
with three turkeys. When the
second year ended she had 81.
They were sold in Chapel Hill
and Durham at prices ranging
from $3.74 for the smallest to
$40 for the largest. Altogether,
the flock brought $27O. After
deducting $17.5O for the cost of
food and $22.5O for labor (esti-
mated Is hours at 80 cents an
hour), the net profit came to
$3.50.
The girls father, Joseph
Reaves, has a 54-acre farm, and
on this she had a small plot of
ground on which to grow food
stuffs for her turkeys.
B. L. Bozeman, principal of
the school, says that projects
such as this, carried on by pu-
pills at their homes, are afford
ing proof of the value of the
training the boys and girls re-
ceive in the agriculture classes.