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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-13
BY John Lassen

SdHe Anu not only Tue Oluer ones. Even most
of the young women are drawn more by the cards
than by the dancing.
The dollar pieces fly thru the air..
Twenty-dollar notes.
The lowest stake.
Nickles and John bring cordials on great silver
platters
Owe must establish law and orderaNspeaks the
building contractor. a.sss
He is surrounded by a small group.
@Lawless agitators are fomenting trouble among
the masses"-says the poetical Christian Scientist
with indignation ''We Scientists could solve al
problems'-he goes on.
General approval
1--WE only need to fill people with Christian NOR
atty, and law and order is assured"
"Mankind is longing for order"-exclaims uni
versity professor.-'It is purely external force
which is fighting against law and order. 1 ana O<
the opinion that generation is appointed to
make safe for all times the road of human free
dom"
A Judge expresses himself in like manner:
unfortunately the written law binds too
much. But I know a higher law, which can
strengthen the pillars Of presentday society"
The university professor with pride:
'dy Students the spiritual youth, have the right
spirit"
And young miilonarie's son:
81 believe we will be the ones to uproot the red
weedsw
The young man said this with such youthful pas
sion and enthusiasm that those who were around
him applauded.
The holy poet with the dreamy eyes drew him
to his breast:
'gThis is the way which leads to the kingdom of
Christ"
They sat down at the small drinktables.
They drank
The dancing became more and more abandoned
The bets rose from twenty dollars to fifty dol
lars.
Mr.. Broidin danced with the young
81 feel quite young again"-he whispered.
Mrs. Broidin beamed with JOY. 6.
There was general intoxication.
Iced tea
Hot tea.
Iced cocoa
Black coffee.
Ice-cold lemonade.
Orangeade.
Punch.
Everything in plenty.
"rhese INSCRIPTIONS agitators want to change
Christs worldn-said the unworldly poet.-"May
they be cursed!"
General approval ,r
The perfume of the flowers was so intoxicating
The women smelled from perfume.
Morning dawned. Sts
Nothing last forever
Nickles could hardly move his arms any more
Mr.. Broidin still felt for long time after going
to bed the cloud of fragrance of the young woman,
the soft stroking Of her hand, and her diadem
glittered before his closed eyes.
"a lady of the highest society Tomorrow
Pm going tn rnaet her
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
PUBLICHEALTHPLANS
By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. I
United States Senator From New York
Former Commissioner OF Health New York City

Everybody should know the wonder
full story Of how the general sickness
aud death rate has been lowered. 1t
should be good news to every citizen
to learn. that a we'll organized band
of men ard women is working, night
and day, to make this still safer
country.
According to the Survey Graphic"
the death rate of the 1856 cities studied
has been reduced to one-third Of what
it was within the memory Of persons
still active in the health service. That
is glorious.
Two generations ago every family
lost an average OF one child in four.
The poor little thing died before it
was year old.
Let mo quote two sentences from
one Of the articles in this magazine
Those same grandparents Of ours 80
years ago saw 400 Of their friends and
neighbors carried off by tuberculosis
where less than 100 are lost today.
Not 30 per cent Of the tenement chill
dren in our poorest city wards are
today even infected with tuberculosis,
while one generation ago hardly a
child Of 10 could be found who had
not been at least SCARED by tuber-
culosis."
Ny friend, DR.. Louis ]. Dublin, re-
ports a survey he made Of a half
million industrial health insurance
policy holders. The report indicates
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Life's Hurdles
BY L. E. Bisch

Some people come naturally By
reading.
Some have to develop love for it
But as the late Professor Alphonso
Smith wrote Of literature:
1T gives you freedom and enrich.
ment. You will laugh with the great
laughers, love with the great lovers
dream with the great dreamers, see
with the great seers, and do with the
great doers."
In short, books will broaden and in
tcnsify your life as nothing else can
The habit OF reading comes easily
with a little practice.
One must not make task of read
ing.
One must read for enjoyment and
then it becomes pure pleasure.
II you feel you have to read book
because it's popular or because your
friends are talking about it, your read
ing is likely to be irksome, to become
work
But change your point Of view TO-
ward books. make 1t pastime and
recreation, and soon reading becomes
an indispensable part Of your life.
Life, as we actually live it, has
limitations!
II we had only our individual ex-
periences to draw upon we would have
to content ourselves with a narrow
and crnmped existence.
But books are always ready at hand
TO broaden our vision and create a
feeling Of completeness deeper and
more lasting than n we were able to
live hundred lives trimming with
experience.
Books satisfy striyings within you
that you never could experience in ac-
tual life.
Books show the struggles and pas
lions of men-and their results,
Hence, books educate even when they
entertain.
You will soon learn to like the ma.
ters, TO relish the delicate morsels o.
life that the printed page holds.
II you like reading, keep at it.
II you don't you are merely delud-
ing yourself.
Try II regularly and see what fun
itsl ..-..-
Copyright, 1875 Premier synd.. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25

an average loss of seven working days
every year for sickness. Add TO this
loss OF wages an equal amount for
doctors, nurses, medicines and hos
pital bills. The sum is stupendous--
about two billion dollars per year!
In my own city Of New York the
death rate last year was lis, while
in 1875, so years ago, it was 2s.3.
The present rate is, So per cent below
the former one. Other American cities
show the same improvement.
Full time health officials, public
health nurses, safe water, good sew
age, milk inspection and pure milk,
sanitary and food inspections, vacci-
nation, baby clinics, school health
supervision, and public health educa-
tion-these are among the reasons
why we have a better chance to live
than our grandfathers had.
Cities are becoming safer places to
live than are the open spaces of the
country. am glad to note, however,
that many American counties and dis
tricts are making provision for mod
ern health supervision. No better in
vestment can be made by any COM
munity than the money spent for
guarding the public health. 1t is far
better and far easier prevent dis
ease than to cure 1t. More and more
are our citizens recognizing this truth
and acting upon if.
Copyright. 1925. by Newspaper
Feature Service. Inc.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25

We may well look for the greatest
center of human population in the
world to be located some future day on
Manhattan Island. When that time
comes the aircraft as a new means of
communication will have to be reck.
oned with.
The traffic problem, handling the
immense crowds in the streets, is al
ready upon us.
We have difficulty now in arranging
for the multitude Of foot passengers
and automobiles that throng the down
town district at the noon hour, and in
the nature of the case our streets can
hardly be made wider.
What we shall do when we pour a
million or so more people into the
chasms between the buildings no man
can say.
Perhaps the best answer to the ques-
ton will be two or three decker
streets, but these streets will cost N
vast amount of money.
The most acute problem of civiliza-
ton is the handling of the immense
multitudes that gather in the variou
large cities Of the world, and Nef
York is foremost among them.
Copyright. 1915. by The Mcclurs
Newspaper Syndicate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Problems of Growth
By. DIR. FRANK CRANE

In series Of dramatic paintings by
Willie Pogany at the Wanamaker De-
partment Store in New York City
there is depicted q vision of the future.
What will New York be one hundred
years from now?
The artist has shown us New York
full of towering buildings, some of
which have aircraft landings on them.
When we look back on the history
of the city and think that it is but a
few years ago. comparatively speaking,
that it was a Dutch trading post in
havited by only a few human huts,
and compare that situation with its
present case today, it is not such a
vigorous stretch of the imagination to
visualize a New York Of the future
that shall as completely outstrip the
New York Of today.
We are living in an age of progress.
New inventions are constantly being
made. More and more people are
pouring into the city.
When New York contains ten times
as many people as it does today and
when invention has made still further
progress we may indecd look for smaz-
ing things. 49,.
, Wonderful as are the conceptions of
the artist in this case, they do not
.outrun our imagination.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25

Christmas Is, above all others, the
children's festival.
It's the birth Of the little child
Christ, and His blessing seems to lie
over it in a quite special way. His
outstretched small arms seem to be
inviting all children toward Him, bid
ding them come and be happy, good
and glad.
In Catholic countries whole scenes
of the Birth at Bethlehem are often
set up in church and the fervent be-
'lievers coma to worship and pray be.
fore them.
Valuable sets Of wonderfully carved
figures representing these scenes can
still be found in antiquity shops, and
collectors of curios are very keen on
them. Often there are whole process.
sions of the shepherds with their
flocks and the Wise Men of the East
coming to worship before the manger.
Then there IL the Christmas tree
with its many candles, its golden nuts
and red-faced apples, its shimmering
star at the top and its small waxen
angels dangling from its dark green
branches--the delicious smell of singcd
fir branches, not to be forgottenI
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Use of Hobbies
BY "The Spectator

Do you rest or hide in your hobby +:
The other day / met a man who
bid in his.
He owned fifteen red snails. Red
snails, he told me as We went out
into the backyard 10 look at the aqua
rum. are rare and difficult to raise.
With his face sglow be told me all
about the fun he had had with them.
One was a mother sail. The others
were baby snails. He described at
length that eVentful morning when be
had first discovered the fourteen new
residents.
Later, with less enthusiasm, be told
me something Of his work, and here
comes the point Of the story.
He said be was printer in a large
factory. He wasn't getting along very
well. He hated the work and said
he knew the men there dislikcd him.
He finished by saying: III there
was nothing in life but that dreary
grind 1 would jump in the lake.
j could imagine him dragging him
SELF TO work in the morning; keeping
bi. body doing what it was supposed
to do--snd no mOre-during the day:
and waiting with a dour f0ce for the
releasing whistle and sweet concourse
with his sntils.
According 10 his statement be threw
himself into a sort Of trance during
working hours and came to life ss soon
as the time was up.
He said the snails were a life saver.
The minute be left the shop he threw
himself into his hobby and was able
10 forget.
That was the trouble. What he
needed was 70 think, not forget.
The only way be could better his
conditions ct work was TO think about
u, TO see What was wrong, where he
was failing, why the other men did not
like him, and then see what he could
do about changing things.
His hobby was q place where he
hid from the unpleasant things Of his
work instead Of a place where he re.
ceived needed relaxation for another
days fight to make those conditions
better.
Only By adapting yourself 10 the
needs Of your work can you succeed
in it and enjoy it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
NoDanger in America

w HAT will the Russophobes say of the latest re-
wv ports of our trade with Russia? We sold the
despised country of the Soviets s102 0O0 00O
worth OF cotton grain and machinery this year Though
we fear to touch Russia with the goved hand of dpo
macy some Americans find it possible to convert the
stablzed Russian money into dollars in exchange for
Russian goods Other nations that maintain diplomatic
relations with Russia cannot do as much
The flip answer is that they trade with us because
we treat them rough The answer that if normal
intercourse established between the two countries
they would trade two three times as much with us
mat would have an important effect the price of
American farm products in the grain States and in the
cotton South
Only believers in fairy stories those who must have
personal devil to fear in order to be comfortable
fear communist propaganda in this country with an
automobile TO every five inhabitants
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
@sssAyN AkIoNio-
LlHl7HE!;zl1IIl1I.!E=;
Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year
I'm E ERRY CHRISTMAS"
- IVJ That is the greeting

~ INI That is the greeting heard throughout the
| city and The Light adds its heartiest to the
| chorus.
Truly it is merry Christmas in San Antonio today
II is the merriest Christmas of ALL San Anonians believe
in Santa Claus and that which he represents and for his
part Santa has been good to San Antonio.
The poor and unfortunate have not been forgotten
San Antonans have been during the year
and their generosity has not been unrewarded
San Anonos Christmas tree is laden with the gifts
of prosperity this year and its stocking is bullying with
delightful surprises But the best gift of all is the promise
of the genial old gentleman from the North Pole where
the sunshine doesn't spend the winter that next Christ
mas in San Antonio will be merrier still.
To few San Antonians the last year has brought
grief and disappointment, perhaps child mother or
father is missing from the family group this Christmas
Day. and can never return. To them come sad and
tender memories.
For them We wish happy Christmas and we hope
with them that next Christmas will be a merry one
There is mockery in that for it is proper that we
should wish happiness for all and join with them in
hope
Words are inadequate to convey the greetings of
the with the full warmth of the sincerity that
prompts their utterance
But The Light once wishes for all San An
tonians Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Knowing Husbands

A WoMANS reason is proverbially said to be ''be
That is 70 say, she is not supposed to have any
reason out TO DO things entirely from intuition or i'm
pulse.
The fact that a woman can reason logically how
ever is illustrated by the of Irene Rich the film
actress who the other day denied the report that she
was to marry Vincent Lopez, the orchestra leader.
The reason given by Miss Rich in her own words
follows:
Marry Lopez! don't even know him."
MOI oeng acquainted with the gentleman is first
class reason for not marrying him but many persons
do not really know the individual thew marry until AZ
forward.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
YE TOWNE GOSSIP s,Kc.s

AND NOW they've fixed.
ON JANUARY.
AS LAUGH month.
AND WE'RE going to start.
ON OUR laughing spree.
JUST AT the time.
THE BILLS come in.
FOR THE Christmas shopping.
AND WON'T it be grand.
TO JUST sit there.
AND LAUGH out loud.
AND THEN go out.
AND MAKE an attempt.
TO CROSS the street.
AND SCREAM with Laughter.
WHEN YOU'RE nearly hit.
BY AN automobile.
AND HAVE the driver.
LAUGH BACK at you.
AND GET your paper.
AND READ Of the murders.
AND DOMESTIC scandals
AND LAUGH and laugh.
TILL YOU'RE red IN the face.
AND IF it Happens.
THERE IS someone sick
YOU CAN all sit around.
AND LAUGH sbout n.
AND sUPPOsING father.
~ OUT Of Job.
AND THE lsrder is empty.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Children of Royalty

Y 7ERY few children would want to belong to royal
" family if they realized what it meant
A dispatch from Lequeto, Spain, SAYS that
Otto OF Hapsburg who is King of Hungary and the
prospective ruler Of eight million Hungarang is about
to be sent to an English school,
Men OF means in Hungary and America are offer
ing 10 put up the necessary TO send him to an Amer
lean school.
Prince Otto does not have very interesting life
He cannot go to the movies have playmates see the
Sunday comics read newspapers or poetry and cannot
dodge his governesses.
he is surrounded all the time by instructors and
women.
ne may never occupy throne but he may come
over here and marry American heress
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
THINK WHAT a laugh.

IhINh WHAT lauBn.
YOU CAN get out of that.
AND THEN the movies.
With THEIR comedies.
YOU COULD laugh at 'em all.
AND IF it happened.
THEY REALLY were funny.
YOU COULD Just die laughing.
AND ISN'T it foolish. = b..
FOR FULL grown men.
TO ASK us all;
TO BE hypocrites.
AND MAKE fools Of ourselves.
fOk UNE WhOle mOnth.
AND If they should feel.
WE SHOULD have a month.
DEVOTED TO something.
TO HELP us all.
WHY DON'T thcy sit down.
AND FIGURE out.
"a CORRESPONDING.
"TO.LAUGH.ABOUT.M0NTH."
AND IF they have.
THEIR LAUGHING month.
I'M GOING out.
TO A 700 somewherc.
AND FIND a hyens
AND SPEND it with him.
BECAUSE ] know;
HE'LL BE On the square.
AM0UT THE fool thing.
I THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
SAN ANTONIO,
DEC. Is, 1925.
Queens Counsel
Christmas.
" MARIE, QUEEN OF ROUMANIA
Registered United States Patent Office.

When we were small our parents
used to deck the Christmas tree Sec
reilly and then, when the great hour
struck, we were let into the room.
which had been darkened so that the
dazzling tree should stand out like a
sudden vision Of light.
And all around stood tables heaped
up with gifts for everybody, down
to the humblest servant.
When / came to Roumania I insti.
uted the same ceremony and only the
war and the death Of my baby boy
broke through it.
Now I have handed on this beloved
tradition to my son and his wife
and to their dear little boy, Mihai.
1t is they now who ask me to their
Christmas tree, as / used to ask the
old King and Queen-Carol and "Car-
men sylvia"
Still now, when the doors are opened
wide and the Christmas tree IL re-
vealed in all its blazing glory, do /
feel that thrill out of childhood's days
that nothing will be quite able to wipe
out! 1t is season of love and good
will. Let us cherish and keep Il.
Copyright. 1898. BY Famous Features
Syndicate, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Mother Knows
By Reed Heustis

nUsT and muck, and miro, out on the corner lot
Where the pigskin booms and the kiddies chase
And rest for the flames hot.
Out where the kids cut loose where fathers hang round and saw
That boy Of mine ought collegiate ranks some
Dust and muck and mire but mothers wait with fears
Their little lad may home drowned in flood Of tears
Bruises and hurts and gosh every mother knows
That football may make her lad a king
But it's terribly hard on cothesi
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
Saphead Sisters

Molly-John is 80 thoughtful: he
always puts one arm around me TO
protect me-.
Cordelis-Protect you from what?
From his other arm"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25

Boob see that Brown has paint
ed his garage red.
simp-Yes: his wife deserted hin
recently and he utilized the cosmetic
outfit which che left behind.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25
FREAKS OF NATURE
The Lampern.

The fish feared by other fishes
more than any other is not the fierce
shark nor the Shiny nctopus, but the
lampern, fresh water fish that brings
slow and sgoniring death. The lam
perm Is the most horrible of all marine
parasites. It attaches itself to an
other fish by means Of powerful suck
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-25

ers. and slowly devours the victim
which must carry its tormenter until
death ends it's suffering. The lampcrn
files the victims skin off gradually
with its rasp-likc tongue, inflicting
continuous agony, as the parasite
holds fast with tenacity that cannot
be shaken.
Copyright 1925. King Features Syn. Inc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-21
II. n. S, Assembly

At IalloweIl High yesterday morn
ing the assembly was in charge Of the
seniors. The program was in reccg-
milton of Washinston's birthday. John
Field, senior class president, an
nounced the various numbers. In in.
PRODUCTION he said: "Our program to-
day is in honor of Washington. Per-
haps our idea in presenting it may be
best gathered from the following
stanza of poem written about Wash
ington:
In honor of truth and right.
In honor of courage and might
And the will that makes a way;
In honor of work we'll done,
In honor of fame well won,
In honor of Washington,
Our flag is floating today"
The first number was a piano solo,
a military march, play ed by Harriet
Nutting. She was followed by
Quecnie Carbino, who read Margaret
SanEster's poem "Washington's
Birthday" Robert Vickery then read
an account of some of Washingtons
marvellous escapes in his earlier cam
paigns before he became comma ndcr-
in-chief. The title OF the selection
was "A Charmed Lie" Miss Jean
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-21
CHURCH NOTICES

First Church of Christ. Scientist:
Services at .lo.45; subject. of lesson
sermon, Mind testimonial meeting
at 7.S0 7. NJ. Wednesday. Reading
room at church open to public
Wednesday from to 4. Free circu-
Iating library of authorized Christian
ScienQe literature.
Christ church (ouinquagesima)
and litany, 1880: church school, -;
junior BIBLE class, 1915; young peo-
pies meeting. 3 I. M: Bible class,
p NJ. Tuesday est. Matthew'S Day..
holy communion, Z A. NJ. Ash Wednes-
day. service in church 10 A. NJ; junior
Thursday the Auxiliary meets at $50;
social hour, AS: choir practice. 1880
p. NJ. Friday. united missionary
meeting in parish house at 2 L. NJ:
evening prayer and instruction in the
church at 4.
Universalist church, Rev. Milo G.
Folsom: Worship, 1880; theme The
Increasing Personality of George
Washington" The selections on the
organ and by the quartet will be of
Z. NJ, Juniors; 6 +. NJ, Seniors: T.
NJ. stereopticon lecture. THE City of
Washington
Highland Avenue Methodist Erisco-
pal church. Rev. Charles Howard At
kins: 1880, morning service; theme,
"Washington an Ideal for American
YOUTH" anthem and response by vest
ed choir: 11.45 church school; 3. Jun
ior League, Mrs. Alice Jones superin
tendent: els, Epworth League; Z.
brotherhood night; address by Henry
A. Dunnack, State librarian: theme,
THE Character of George Washing
tom" solo by II. T.. Wade: Monday, IS
y. NJ, third quarterly conference:
Wednesday, $50. weekly prayer meet
ing.
First Baptist. Rev. II L. Skllin:
1880, worship and sermon. "Modern-
ism: What Is IT." special music, duct,
Misses Dorothy Beckwith and Hazel
Gray; 1850, Sunday school; 3 p. NJ,
Juniors: p. NJ, Christian Endeavor;
I p. NJ, sermon by Rev. a. T. Nc
Whorter of Augusta; midweek serv-
ices at $50 Wednesday.
Cunnard Street Baptist. South Gar
diner, r. a. l.. Colby: Sunday school.
? p. NJ: young people meeting at els
z. NJ; Mems PRAYING Band. $50 p. NJ:
evangelistic meeting with good sing
ing, p NJ. Tuesday at $50, Ladies'