San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-24

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killed two street car employees
recently, near Mount Vernon,
confesses his guilt, but pities him
self and blames the dead. "What
could do but shoot;" He asks plain
lively, "they didn't stick 'em up,
when I told 'em to-"
JUDGING by recent antics in,
court of justice" that may prove
to be almost sound defense. After
all, II you are told 10 stick 'em up
and don't stick 'em up, whose fault
is it, IL you are shot.
In these prohibition days, sticking
'em up is included in the list of
recognized industries, and the pub
lie should play the game properly.
NEAR Hammonton, N. j., an air
~ plane will be used to dust"
Cranberry Boys, the propeller scat
tering chemicals to protect the plants
from destructive pests. One plane
will do the work Of 200 men. At
present wages 200 men would cost
$500 for day. The plane should
cost about $50, allowing $50 a day
for the airman.
IIIGHER wages, fewer workmen
i must solve this country's prob
lens, under our immigration laws,
and the airplane will help.
Presently airplanes will be used IN
agriculture, sowing seeds on big
scale, re-foresting burnt over tracts,
killing off the boil weeyil, other crop
pests, etc., and the next generation
Of children will take it for granted.
Father is off in his airplane, spray
ing trees"
TWO Frenchmen, Coli and Taras-
con, war veterans, of course,
and both crippled will start in few
days, on a nonstop flight, from
Paris to New York, 1928 miles. They
will use a nine-cylinder motored air
: plane.
\ Tarascon will be pilot, and Coli
III be navigator. The flight. If all
onwell, should be finished inside
CaHtours. Neither man will sleep.
epJIfsnger air flight from Europe
critfsrica is not far away.
SLIAM A. AIKEN, Green
bom fountain Boy" of the vintage
Tr3, hopes to have a chance to
10 Gor Calvin Coolidge again.
IUu will have that chance. beyond
,.,gbt, unless something disastrous
yi,ens to the country between now
}he next Republican convention.
iDOLIDGE has been elected presi-
dent only once. And II all goes
y.oothly, there is no doubt OF his
= ,4aing nominated again.
At present the chances are at least
900 to / in his favor. There is no
sense IN IulTu tti" t"ih'
Coolidge has been elected only
"once."
THERE is reason in Italy's re-
L quest that her terms, in debt
payment, be more reasonable than
the terms granted Belgium. Compared
with Italy, Belgium is very rich
country. Her natural resources, in
coal. iron, and otherwise are much
greater. Belgium's wealth per capita
is 1887, Italy's only $5GS.
AS FOR services in the war;" In
"A which, by the way, this country
was not at all concerned, it is GER
tain that without Italy's neutrality,
in the beginning, and her cooperation
later. the Allies would have been
beaten.
II was Italy that stood between
the central powers and the wide
roads that Napoleon built into Italy.
and that Austrian and German troops
could have used, into France.
vTHE French are convincing the
Il Riffs that modern methods, in
Guiding flying machines and tanks, IN
the hands Of Frenchmen, make Up
deadly combination.
French soldiers push and pull at
light artillery wagons, when the
horses give out. in swift pursuit of
Riffs, and you realize that even the
big war, the years Of desperate fight
ing. and the millions of deaths among
young men have not weakened French
courage. What other nation, bled and
stripped Of wealth, as France has
been would enter with such spirit
into another war? The courage and
spirit Of Vercingetorix, Crillon,
Duguesclin, Lehire and Bayard still
live in France.
THE Universal Christian confer
i ence at Stockholm decides that
money-making is the curse Of the
world. powerful men try to get more
for themselves instead Of worrying