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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

PA: Hastily txekng in another piHow) All right, bring
JUNIOR: Coming in without being boagh.) Oh -,
PA: 0wh y. ose heo,"s,s) Hello there little boy What.
W Don't s 2ew my nS Know did s g
hs,g. Now what would you like for Christmas?
JUNIOR: (Grasping Iong-auoitsd opportnntyl want
feengne automobile and roller skates and bicycle and
football and football suit and roller skates and fire engine and
baseball and some candy and automobile and bicycle
PA: Sure you didn't forget snythingl
JUNIOR: Thinking hard don't think
PA: CSeing doCn pack ,ih hand and ho~g'ng to
schkes Nth the other Well, let's wha. we've got
a. which stage Of ii; ssms 'ss,s s:s,e. Diversion
Hdns idea for collecting Christmas funds the method be-
dress UP the solicitors IKE Santa Claus and haung them
sud b. Pos luck that jus, at this moment the taes and tottesi
Santa Claus ~ the ercu so"d knock o" the door, and getting 10
RESPONSE ard finding open should enter the hdH and stand the
NEW SANTA CLAUS: Merry Christina. to you an: r"Yos
ar % '1s 9s ~ ngsa WS.r. y I'm Santa &c, Claus
NEW SANTA CLAUS: What bushes, you got here. this
MAJ 10 Santa cloas like your VIVA. you
JUNIOR: Whose little brain Is rapidly going to fo.) Are
w Pa & NEW SANTA CLAUS TOGETHER: Yes, I'm
PA You're liar I'm Santa Claus
NEW SANTA CLAUS: III report you to the committee TOR
MA: forgetting herself Do you know where you We
five here. This is my husband you're talking to.
PA Catching glimpse of CONSERVATION Juniors faes)
Your husband nothing I'm Santa Claus ITO Jnioy Go to your
little boy ITO Santa cnas If you don't get out of here
I'll kick you out your
MA Taking Junior by kdnd) Come Junior, with
mother, she'll explain everything you What optimistic
JUNIOR: Pulling back How can there be two Santa
Clauses muvver?
MA: Dragging kin oH Come on, hurry up, don't talk
much.
NEW SANTA CLAUS: Crossing Swiftly to Pa Oh,
you'll kick my will you? G,abs Pa by shoulders
and shakes him like terrier shaking Pa grabs 1VskeYs
and costume antieay bit Santa Claus shakes him Of
them Whskws, red Peaked hat and piOursd stomach dis
inegrdte and scatter tloor)
JUNIOR: (Who has paused at door and matched this
magic formation Nth aVds Mortified eyes, It's daddy Look
mother Santa Claus is waoping daddy nd then by good
fortune Pa gets his hand the hts skers of the visiting
Santa Clans and yanks them oaVay Junior takes LONG
look and bursts into tears Oh the other Santa Claus
no good either He's coming to pieces (Wssf bitterly Isn't
there any Santa Claus?
MA: Carrying Junior off to bed) There there don't cry OF
course there's Santa Claus.
JUNIOR: (Sobbing hsaytbyoksn) don't believe YOU
And That's That-Untl Next Sunday.
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Are Astounding World by Scientific Progress Says ge

Science elected Its first woman mem
ber, DR.. Florence Rena Sabin, anat-
omist and professor of histology at the
Johns Hopkins Medical School. She
has succeeded In keeping blood alive
outside the body for several hours
and studying Its reactions her
discoveries are Of profound value In
the conquest of tuberculosis.
In the tremendous worldwide at-
tack upon the citadels Of cancer,
Maude Slye has contributed import
ant knowledge by a study Of cancer
heredity in mice, carrying her IN
vestigation through twenty-five gen
erations of hundreds Of mice.
These random instances are only a
hint of the increasing multitude Of
women scaling the heights of science.
The schools, the colleges, the labor
atories are full of earnest young girls
giving the lie to the outrageous Sian
derers who lump all the glorious fem
unity Of our generation under the word
"flappers" and dare to pretend that
they are less serious and less virtuous
than the girls of older generations.
Remembering that Nine. Curie at II
was laboriny to earn her bread while
she bought books of chemistry with
her scant pennies, one must feel that
everywhere about the world are other
girls in factories and in shops. whose
leisure hours are spent in studies that
may one day revolutionize TIE world.
Those flappers you see tipping in
the dance halls-be careful how you
dismiss them, for DR.. Professor Mary
Lucas Keene also loves TO dance.
And what fierce competition the
men of tomorrow will encounter in
the field, judging from the result Of
the 1925 prize essay Of the American
Chemical Society, which offered six
prizes Of scholarships at Yale or Vas
sar for four years.
Three hundred essays were submit
ted by girls and boys in high and
secondary schools. And the judges,
under the Craftsmanship Of Secretary
Herbert Hoover, awarded four OF the
six prizes to girls. In other words,
girls are twice as proficient rs boys
in chemistry.
No wonder stupid men have tried 10
barricade themselves behind fake
work of morality and tried to scare
these dangerous women away from
rivalry by crying, "Woman's Place Is
tho Home"
The home is certainly a good place
for a woman, and an equally good
place for a man. But only for
part Of the time Of either.
Copyright, 1925, BY the Bel 6yndi.
cate, Incl
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that Darwin's facts are only q
theory" so the facts that Copernieus
discovered were scoffed at a. a mere
hypothesis and ferociously denounc-
ed as blasphemous the moment they
were taken seriously.
1t is astounding to remember that
the whole world reeled W b horror
when Sir Isaac Newton put forth
his theory Of the law of gravity and
it was as dangerous to be Newtonian
as it still is in some dark corners to
be Darwinian.
The effect Of all this on women has
not been understood, I think. But
woman, being BY the laws Of society,
creature who had little timo and less
encouragement to read, believed what
she was told she ought to believe BY
long-faced persons who were afraid to
let her think.
FAT IS IN FIRE.
When at last the good conservative
moral people were whipped BY the
Infamous radicals, and public schools
were actually opened, and. even worse,
women were allowed to learn to read
and taught to think mechanically
and logically, the fat was in the
fire.
Not many women cared for scien-
tific problems. But neither do many
men. The newspapers, the lecture
bureaus, and the moving pictures,
however, have taught the public how
sensational and fascinating many dis
coveries are, if dramat ically described.
Nothing is SO dramatic as big money
and the Nobel Prize axes headlincr
of anybody who wins its forty thou
sand dollar glory-mainly because it
is a forty thousand dollars.
Suddenly the ancient humbug that
a woman could never be a scientist
was shattered by the award of the
Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911 to
Marie Curie!
She had discovered radium. 1t is
marvellous to discover anything, but
radium itself turned science upside
down with its revolutionary and I'M
heard OF antics. It led to the most
astounding new discoveries, just as
when Columbus bumped upon a Con-
trail American island he changed the
whole face of the world and the whole
course Of history.
Marie Cure was a rcvolutionist
and has already changed the whole
world of womcn's ambitions and OPP
portunities. Her maiden name was
Marie sklodwska; and like the typical
self-mnde man, she was born of poor
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self, in the first place. Go on out of here
PA: (Meekly) I'm going
MA: Go on, get out
Pa at the door, eyxshed) meant WE'LL just doing
my best.
MA WE'LL if that's your best ,vords fail herr. Get of
here. (He gets out
Pa Outside to closed door, You hurry up and get that
tree fixed I'd have had done long if I'd been left alone
!What could say to that. Ma doesn't try
but ahead and Incredibly short time the
and gate fcaV ornaments to their prestne splendor. The
lights haze been short crntcd bit then can't haze every
thing Meanoe Pa is climbing into the Santa Claus st avhe
0skers, rogsh red hat trimmed sVh artificial rabbit sofa
poao frontgenerons emblem of physical good cheer
o4 all and fill Of hedrness Ma finishes up the tree
PA SANTA CLAUS: Go and get Junior now, Ma, and we'll
show him the tree we've fixed
MA You'll have to do better with your voice than that he'll
know minute Can't you talk way down deep like when
you tell that story about the great big bear with the great big
voice? ... .t.- adj .s -4
PA win grff heartneSs Sure Merry Christmas, little
boy. How's that?
JUNIORS VOICE: (From Bsdyoom) When's Santa Claus
coming, muvver?
MA: (Exced) He just sweetheart ITO Pa) Fix your
stomach up little bit, will you?
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found In Western Siberia an unknown
race called the Forest Folk, and stud
led them for nearly a year.
The University Of London has nam
ed DR.. Mary Lucas Keene as the first
woman to hold a professorship in
anatomy. At 10 she shocked her par
ents by an unwomanly desire to be
physician. She is said to be bright
and handsome and fashionable and she
and her husband spend their week
ends at their fruit farm. Like George
Washington, she dearly loves to dance.
Unlike him. she Is a great authority
on embryology.
In the same university there is q
woman in the chair of physiology.
And only eight or nine years ago
women in London were breaking win
dows and policcmen's heads, claiming
themselves to lamp posts and fences
and going on hunger strikes to ad-
vertise their rights to freedom! And
all the truly good people were trying
to quiet them with paregoric plati-
tudes about the ideal stupidity Of
truly good women!
In Germany woman named DR..
Ida Tackle has discovered two of the
last five undiscovered elements re-
Quired to complete the ladder of %
that Mendeleef discovered.
WOMAN WINS HONOR.
In America last August the Ameri-
can Chemical Society held a conven-
ton at Los Angeles and a number of
women were among the accredited
delegates, including Miss Lois Wood
ford, assistant to the president Of the
Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufac-
turers' Association of the United
States Of America-surely one Of the
longest titles in history-A. P. s. o.
c. NJ. A. U. s. A. Miss Woodford
knows nearly everything about the
complex subject of dyes, and is rap
idly learning the rest--and more.
Miss Blanche o. Berry of the
Massachusetts, Public Health Depart
ment read a paper on "the copper con.
tent Of distilled liquor sale in Massa-
chusetts," a study of bootleg liquor
md its curious perils.
Miss Grace Mcclure Of the Harri-
man research laboratories, Miss Ruth
Buchanan, a research worker for the
Bureau of Chemistry at Washington ;
Miss Eloise Jameson Of Corona, Cali
fornia, whose work in citrus fruits
has developed many valuable by-prod-
ucts. and many other brilliant women.
This year the National Academy Of
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By RUPERT HUGHES

THERE is always that useful old
= story of the man who was asked
if he could play the violin and who
answered:
Il don't know, I've never tried"
The story was used to rebuke ig-
norant people who felt TINT they could
do anything they laid their hands to.
Good violin-playing, of course, is i'm
possible to anyone without long ardu-
GUS practice. And yet, IL you turn the
story inside out, it has another mean
ing:
"You never know what you can do,
till you try"
For ages, men used to prove that
women were doomed to inferiority by
proving that they had never accom-
plished anything in science. But the
fault was not with women. There
was, there is, no inherent reason why
the female of the species cannot do
any mental feat that is possible to the
male; for now we know well--or
ought to-tbat there Is no difference
at all between the sexes except ana
tomical, and structural differences and
social traditions.
The anatomical differences are not
enormous, for each sex has every or
gan that the other has, and the sex is
determined merely by the extra devel-
opment of certain organs in one sex
and certain others in the other.
MENTAL DIVERGENCES.
Socially, old customs have led to
the extra development of certain men-
tai traits in one sex and others in the
other. But as society changes, these
customs change.
And so we have found that women
had failed in science for only one rea-
son--the same reason the fellow gave
for not playing the violin--they had
scver tried-or almost never, for
there had been a few women of real
achievement in science, like Maria
Herchel, the astronomer. and Sonya
Kovaleska the Russian mathemati.
Fan.
Then along came Polish woman
from the country Of that old Pole
whom we know by his Latin name,
Copernicus, the man who revolution
lied astronomy. He made many
wrong guesses, as Darwin did, but
nobody doubts the greatness of his
revolution, any more than any scien-
Est disputes the greatness OF Darwin
br any such silly reason as that
science has climbed up on his should
ers to higher points.
Just as today many silly bigots say
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explore, the women crowded into the
laboratories, the hospitals, the pro.
LESSONS, the shops and all the other
Businesses where men had gone alone,
foolishly leaving behind them their
wives, idiotically halving their own
victories by halving their resources.
The beautiful word "helpmeet'
uesd to mean woman who gave n
man spiritual and domestic comfort
when he came home from a realm
of which she knew nothing. Today
the word "helpmeet" is both beauti-
full and glorious, because it means
that man expects his wife to be at
least as intelligent as he is, to in
spire his soul and share his problems
with him.
And, of course, the result is the
exact opposite Of what the moralistic
ravens croaked. 1t has not resulted
in the destruction Of the home, but
its salvation. 1t has not resulted in
race-suicide, but in the longer and
the happier life of babies, and an in
crease in population so sudden and
rapid that the unspeakable subject
OF birth control might soon be mat
ter of public lcgislation-not for its
suppression but its compulsion.
How rapidly the old VISIONS are
being shown up as ugly prejudiees!
All the wiseacres used to say that
woman was doomed to inferiority be-
cause she was born with a smaller
brain than q man.
COMFORTING RETORT
Anybody but a man blinded by the
bandages Of tradition, could have
seen that it all depended on the man
and the woman. Nobody could have
been insane enough TO insist that the
most intelligent woman was less i'm
telligent than the least intelligent
man. But they always had the conf
forting answer, that the exception
proves the rule.
Furthermore, scientific studies Of
actual brains showed that size had
nothing to do with efficiency. Many
stupid or criminal men had larger
brains than many geniuses. The lar
gest brain on record is that Of the
gay Lord Byron, 223S grams; the
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MA: Oh let them. Can you see them?
Dashes to ndoa and brushes against her tous SEAL
All of Pas little props collapse unanimously and the tree
bem of faith and love tsVicc cloud of decocy
scented needless
Pas (ndreaats s.ih rage bod blast the (asbeos
loaveyed for .uo .ninnes)
JUNIORS VOICE: (Sweetly hopetnD Can come
daddy?
Pas BRUSHING for door Nth Ratchet and tripping
en'o.e If don't gehaheouttahere I'll break every bone
in your body
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By J. P. McEVOY

auth big shiny STAR But be it said that old Potter didn't
do right by his young balances precaosy top Of the
ladder aud tries to fdsen star opmost tg TTg bends sh
Pa and he grabs tree to regain balance The sfdrbodrd string
dashed round the davenport leg gives gOdy first ah merry ping
and the sho rides CALAMITY to the floor aih Pa head first
III the ornaments. I4h, such Merry ChrstmdSL
MA: (ndgnant-ond a0hy not?) Yes, there is in
talking brains in the end but it's going be my
brains Get of here before you fall and break something else
AS Pa looks at her refroaey from the debris should have
known better than let you fool with it should have done my
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Fair Sex Used to Fail in Science for Only One Reason
Tried; Marie Curie Blew Up Ancient Humbug
Were Not Scientific.

but honest parents and had to 60 to
work.
At seventeen she began a life Of
toll and spent her spare time in study
ing physics and mathematics. She
saved her money for seven years and
then went to Paris and lived in a
chilly attic, breaking the ice in her
washbasin during the winter and
cooking her chocolate over a spirit
lamp.
She Joined her poverty to the
poverty Of French husband, just as
poor and nearly rs brilliant. Madame
Cure had . baby and then another,
and took care of them while she and
her husband toiled in a lenky, icy
shed working on chemical experiments
for four years before they discovered,
verified and isolated radium.
Thus one Of the greatest scientists
in history was woman who raised
babies and an immortal career at the
same time.
And yet there are stubborn noisy
dolts who are still hee-hawing the
ancient bray that woman is divinely
cut off from public life; that her
place is the home, and the kitchen
and the cradle are her glorious and
final opportunities.
But Marie Curie was mother, wife
and scientist; she gave the world
radium and the world gave her wealth.
II she had listened to the loud-voiced
moralists who try to save the home"
by shackling the mothers and wives,
she would have kept out of her hus-
bands laboratory, confined her mind
to baby-talk and petty gossip and con-
fined her fingers to skillets and eafcty
pins.
DAUGHTERS FOLLOW.
II she had only been a truly fine
old-fashioned mother Of the grand OLD
sort, her husband and she and her
children would probably have starved
to death and gone down into the
grave where millions of glorious wo-
men have gone without being once
encouraged to try their hands or their
minds at the great things they might
have done
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THE POTTERS
PROLOGUE

Usually Pa waf until the last minute get his Christmas
tree and then and gets in the rush OF
other fathers getting which they have forgotten
To give him credit he usually back with something that
Soks like tree for which he has paid the best part of his
Christmas bonus But this year Pa figured he'd fox EN- he
got perfectly dandy about weeks and hid down in
the basement the furnace calculating we'll he might
that the anto would not be going down there since the cold
weather is now Imagine them his suprse-or if you are
too tired Christmas shopping to imagine well tell that when Pa
needles had become discouraged and fallen off, leaving result
like of those charts that you used in physiology
class didn't 60 to physiology CLASP Neither did
Well anyway, Pa had 60 and up another.
and don't think he had lotsa fun maiden the
zone begins doubt the o'xnpotens of Providence (Which
enable to make Christmas tree that stand ap BY itself
and Pa is only haNan ,eye does he get Off Ansver the
present in which Pa ho has forgotten buy of those
eross.shapsd stands is er0Osng out of the
ssa; ~ I s y on" me grocery
MA: (Helpfsly) Now you wouldn't make much
PA: Do you know more about this than dor
MA; 6 Sssain know more about everything than DO
ute, daddy?
FRANTIC CHORUS: mol
MA: wyling to door and blocking opening Nth maternal
socd) Now you 60 right to bed sweetheart Santa Claus
sKEPTIcAL VOICE: Is he coming here are you sures
SKEPTIcAL VOICE: Where i. he nows
MAJ Y SH1 tn %6 SfsR g. On to bed o, ~ . >,
now how you tell whether he's coming not? Did he tell
you?
MA: Certainly he told
DoUBTING THOMAS JUNIOR. You told me nobody
ever Santa Claus Did he telephone you?
PA: Utmost missing foot With hasehst) Ouch dot dash and
two dasfes
MA: Rst'ooehfH Is that the kind of language Christ
Eve?
SWEET CHILDISH VOICE: want to stay up and sec
Santa Claus I've got a lot of things to tell him.
PA: (WrathfaAO You Just barge right off bed III
knock your block off, Haf to himself anger than
soro Dash space dot the double dash guy who invented this
dot dash Christmas stuff.
1.-The tree. emblem of ove and serenity sueh has been bol
6ned ~ the grocery boz Nth sacays gently
10 and fro and doun all the living room Nth duh
sthxd.)
MA: lHored) want you stop that language this very
minute (Ihe storm dies ooay lou rumble distones)
"a: ltghng tree aOith great Effort and tYopbing up Nth
Numbers Of little sticks all around the boo Now think i've got
1t, but you're gonna have to be careful.
MA: Oh, listen. there caro1ers the street
SWEET CAROLLERS: (Sighty out of tane)
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing ye dismay -.
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And now in May Of 1925 one of
the two daughters of Madame Curie,
following in her mothers footsteps
has passed her examination for the
degree of doctor of sciences at the
Sorbonne in Paris. And what do you
suppose her thesis was, and how many
big-brained males of any age could
have written it or could even under
stand It?
Her thesis was called, in English :
Researches in the Alpha rays of
polonium, their oscillations, speed and
ionizing power" And the dedication
read: ITO Madame Curie from her
daughter, her pupil" In November,
1925 Nine. CURES other daughter the
pretty Eva, made n sensation in
Paris as n pianist and was hailed as
one of the greatest of modern musi-
clans. Irene works in the laboratory
with her mother, but Eva preferred
art to science and her wise mother
did not intafere with her choice. What
n wise, wonderful parent. How many
male parents have done as we'll for
themselves or their children?
The inconceivable total of the good
deeds that were left undone or post
poned for centuries because of the
pressure exerted by the moralists,
tends to confirm my horrible suspicion
that the harm done to the world by
its criminals is but a molehill to a
mountain compared to the evil dse
by the good.
PROFESSIONAL MORALISTS
j don't refer, of course, to the pco-
pie whose idea of goodness consists
in being honest, generous, and kind,
but to those grim fanatics who are
so busy today in proving their good
ness by making repressive laws for
other people.
To the professional, the crusadins
moralists is due the CHASTITY fact for
two thousand years or SO, uncounted
geniuses were smothered under a false
idenl of womnnly meekness and lady
like imbecility.
The proof of it is here before us.
The moment 1t became the the fashion
Tor women to think and study and
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MERRY CAROLLERS OUTSIDE:
Sti-hill-y night

MERRY CAROLLERS OUTSIDE:
Sti-hll-y night
Ho-ho-ly night
Allus calm
Al-lus bri-hight
PHONOGRAPH UPSTAIRS:
Yes SIR ats nah bebby
No SIR don't mean mebbe
1.-THE curtain Lowered hour denote the passage
hour. The but Pa finally has his tree np
this time securely anchored by strings tied to the sondov and the
leg of the DAVENPORT He has also retrieved anoad of
sauged from former and recovering sloay
from his perennial surprise that the nsel should tarnish Pa
also buys those sraav mats at totds off late the
hoping they M Oeaev the avntey and look ce year. but
hsy do-Thaf the kind of orld practical joker
put Ms in.)
PA: (Vieping decorated Uh satisfaction Well, there's
in talking brains count in the end Old Wooworth
himself couldn't do better job than that
MA: (Gradgngly) Not bad not good but not bad.
fWHh sudden malicious triumph But YOU forgot the top
Pa: (HepIessly Oh, the star, What's the difference
MA: (Shoeked) What's the difference? Do you imagine
Christmas tree would be complete without star? Why Junior
would never forgive us.
PA: Oh he wouldn't would he Say he'd trade all the stars
m the Christian era for rengne (Cbs ladder dOggedy
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-16

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odor when reduced to powder, so
never reduce your diamond to pow
der.