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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

- discovered Texas
1t is unusual for of the integentse to discover
even broad expanse as the North American con-
tnent and much any political subdivision of
the hnterland hat part of the New World outside of
New York City,
The late Amy Lowell provided in her will an annual
fund of $4,000 to be bestowed upon poet of promise
selected by committee, who will leave North America
for one year and practice his art.
On the other hand, Mr.. Masters, in his contempt
for all civilizations including own indicates his
opinion is that the American literary artist can function
at home The majority of wouldbe literary artists in
every village town and city in the United States believe
they can function only in New York.
Recently The Light called attention to the rich liter
airy possibilities of this section The Light regretted
that San Antonio and its environs had not been dis
covered.
In this weeks number of The Nation, Mr.. Masters
contributed his to the question: Can literary
artist function freely in the United States?"
The following excerpt should be of special interest
to Texans and San Antonans and to those writer's who
believe that New York is their land of promise. Mr.
Masters writes:
81 recently returned from long tour of the country
for the purpose in the main of getting into my vision
and understanding; and the experience renewed that
enthusiasm of my first days with Walt Whitman, and
of the ode to which have referred for this countrys
possibilities in every realm of art
"In Texas for example, seemed in the presence
of so much vitality much interest in beauty and truth
that could understand better than the present
eriity of New England-as if it had expressed itself
and then become as out of date its SOIL
"What may not come out of state with back
ground old that of New England itself, close to
the constantly discovered records and myths of the
ancient Aztecs and the Mayas and her soil look
ing back to Mexico then to Houston, Crockett, and
Bowie then to the days of the Confederacy and finally
present wherein her cities bursting with life and
riuting in prosperity? Who that wants to write would
go away from Texas in order to live beautifully and
write beautiful things in southern France in Lon
DOM"
Mankind in general is interested in the posi-
bies of living beautifully than in the art of writing
beautiful things.
However, Texas is paradise enow for poet or peas
ant-both live beautifully, cheaply.
Nature is especially gracious to San Antonio and
South and Southwest Texas.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

SAN ANTONIO,
AUGUST rs, 1925
Be a Student
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

: plan for study. Study that is not
systematic is of no value.
The mind is peculiarly suscept-
ible to habit. We learn things bet
ter by going over them often than
by severe mental effort. Indeed it
is said that repetition is the mother
of studies.
Mediocre ability applied assidu-
ously day by day and according to
purpose is better than great ability
applied once in while.
A student is not so much known
by the contents of his memory, that
is, by the number of things he re-
members, as he is by his ability to
place things. He must know where
to find things. His mind is severe
ly classified. Indeed all instruc-
ton or education may be called the
art Of classification.
Most information comes from
books and among these it is neces-
sary to exercise the greatest care.
Emerson said that no book Is worm
while that is not twenty years old.
We all know that time Is the best
critic, and other things being equal,
it is better to take the seasoned
volumes.
There is enough good literature in
the world that has stood the test of
time without diluting our minds
with much modern stuff.
The value of what we read Is de-
termined by how well we digest it.
We should mediate upon what we
have found out and thoroughly in
corporate it with what we already
know.
Copyright, 1925, by Newspaper
Feature Service, Ino.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Woman and Her Age

A T the present rate of feminine achievement
II women soon will be Boosting of their years in
n stead of concealing them. Mrs. Margaret Cum
bingham, of Albany, the first elected to the
County Board of Supervisors is proud of her sixty
eight years of the honor she has attained.
The Frenchwoman who the English channel
to within mile and quarter of victory, exulted in
forty-eght years. The two women governors of our
country rejoice in their grown-up sons and daugh-
tiers.
The aged the victorious veterans of life's cam
paign Age through experience, acquires wisdom far
beyond that of youth, and there may be beauty in
years that surpasses the loveness of adolescence The
thoughts of the old the most valuable thoughts and
age is the balance wheel of civilization
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
WAYSIDE WISDOM
BvS E. KISER
The Infallible Sign.
By S. E. KISER

We meet and pass, we men who
learn
That favor goes by chance or
choice,
And if l speak you may discern
No note Of friendship in my
voice.
But when a smile comes to your
lips
1 greet you with the answering
sign;
The Oldest of all fellowships,
A friendly smile, makes yours
and mine.
The Arab may not understand
The shortest word that / can
speak;
The Mongol, on his guard and
bland,
May wonder slyly what / seek.
They may suspect my words TO be
A jargon fashioned to beguile,
But they renounce their fear Of me,
And know my meaning when l
smile.
The Malay and the Eskimo
May come together, north or
south,
And neither Of the twain may know
The words that pass the others
mouth.
Their gestures, even, may convey
No meaning that is quick or clear,
But when they smile they find the
way
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Too Many Butterflies

the butterflies there have been so numerous that,
flatened against the radiators they have excluded
air from the motors, causing engines to overhead and
thus forcing garage visits.
They have been feeding upon the alfalfa crop and
exist in swarms thick that the are moving
them down by thousands.
This illustrates of the unexpected resources of
nature 1t would take but very little thing to render
this planet uninhabitable by slight tremor of
the earth rise in the oceans surface increase
Of insects of obnoxious kind could easily put
out of business.
There is enough fighting for men to do against the
opposing forces of nature without their fighting
themselves.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Something to Think About
What to Read.
By BRUNO LESSING

Many correspondents write:
please recommend some books that
will improve the mind"
Some want more detailed advice
and ask: would you recommend
books on history, travel, science or
biography"
Most of these correspondents
would be pleased to have a book
MISUNDERSTANDING if it were
a book that was advertised in the
daily newspapers-would buy it,
would read it carefully and would
feel that they were on the high
road to education, Yet, why, de-
lude an honest inquirer merely be-
cause you know that you can please
him?
The mind, alas! is not improved
by reading books. The only power
on earth that can improve the mind
is the process of thinking.
If you have acquired the faculty
of thinking you can make progress
by gazing at the sky, the sea or the
forest. If you do not possess this
faculty you make no progress, even
though you read every book in every
library in the land.
Education is the result Of work
and of nothing else. 1t comes after
a prolonged training of the mind,
just as the muscles of the body are
developed after constant exercise.
And the whole purpose Of educa'
ton is not, as many people believe,
to crowd the mind with knowledge,
but to make them able TO think for
themselves.
If you are in doubt as to what to
read, it implies that the rudiments
Of education have been neglected.
Therefore ,begin at the beginning.
Study English grammar and learn
to speak perfect English. While
you are mastering the mysteries Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

A student is man who likes to
study.
An appetite grows on what It
feeds on.
In order to like study well you
must have studied great deal.
No man can be a student out of
hand. 1t is not something that we
have a gift for, but it is a talent
that we acquire.
To be a student implies that one
is eager for knowledge. He is anx-
ious to learn and enjoys exercising
his brain.
The athlete who exercises his
body every day gets to the point
where he cannot do without this ex-
ercise. His system Graves it and if
he is denied it he is unhappy.
The mental athlete is of the same
type. He is one who works hard
with his brain every day until he
has come to like 1t. If he cannot
get work to do he is unhappy.
A student is one who likes to
work with his brain. This kind of
work pays best Of all, for a mans
real value is for the most part his
brain value.
In order to be a student we must
develop the habit Of clear, logical
thinking. We must 50 to the bot
tom Of the question, or as near to
the bottom as we can get.
We must challenge every alleged
fact. g.
We must not only believe things,
but we must know why we believe
them.
1t is necessary to have a daily
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Freaks Of Nature
Screech Owl.

The screech owl would never
qualify as a sheik bird when il
comes to counting his lady fair. Hc
goes wooing in the same spirit as
he would attend a funeral. He is
handicapped from the start, though,
for the female hides away in a
dark tree and pays absolutely no
attention to his overtures. After
the screech owl has made every ef-
fort to coax his lady love from
her hiding place. he finally relapses
into a series of weird means. At
last the naughty female either tires
of the strange sercnadc or takes
pity on her detected sutton and ven
lures forth from her retreat.
Copyright, 1925, King Features Syn. Inc
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

Imagine nation, strong and pow
erful, highly civilized, superior in
invention, scientific achievement,
business, the arts, education and re-
ligion-imagine such q nation and
then people it with individuals who
are afraid of the number 10.
It's difficult to imagine-isn't it?
There's something paradoxical about
it-don't you think? Yet such n
state of affairs is true of these, our
United States!
1t is said that hundreds write
each year TO state automobile bu-
reaus requesting that they be given
a license tag in which 10 will not
appear. Indeed, some are even
afraid of combinations Of -, such
as 81, 20, 131, etc.
And what about our little pri-
vate superstitions that we keep
strictly to ourselves? How many
have the courage to walk under
ladder or walk through a funeral
procession? You say you know it's
all foolishness-but do you dare?
Break mirror and watch your
reactions! Isn't it rather difficult
not to think it might Just be your
luck to have seven years of hard
times? 1t pops into your head at
any rate. Sometimes it continues
to pop in and gives you an uncer-
tain, if not creepy feeling.
What woman would have the tenn
Gritty to wear green TO wedding!
And the poor brides! There must
be at least a dozen first-class, red
blooded bugabOos to trip her up.
It's marvellous how brides vancouver
to sidctrack them and get through
with it!
When you put things like that
down on paper they sound absurd.
You get the notion that the civliza-
ton we so arrogantly boast about
isn't so far removed from the days
of witchcraft after all. Well. don't
brag! Honestly! How much are
you, yourself, contributing TO this
state of affairs?
A superstitious belief is an obses-
sion. It's a form Of compulsiye
thinking that, no matter how
ridiculous you may believe it TO be,
compels you TO give way TO its de-
mands. If you don't, you feel un-
easy. You become afraid. A vague
sense Of dread overpowers you. It's
easier to let go and give in. That's
why you subscribe and adhere to su-
perstitious ceremonials at the eI-
pense Of your better judgment.
II you want to rid yourself Of bug
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

the subjunctive mood read Shakes
peare, Milton Keats, Addison,
Swift, Gibbon, Thackeray, Dickens
and scott-any or all of them-and
study how they wrote English.
You will pick up lot of informa-
ton while you are about it.
When you have mastered English
take up mathematics, which will
pave the way for learning logic and
philosophy. Mathematics is to the
mind what raising dumbbells or
swinging Indian clubs is to the mus
cles of the body. .' '
The study of fine English will
improve your taste. There you gain
a great point. When your taste is
developed you turn instinctively to
good books, and you know just what
to read. You discriminate between
the good and the bad, the vulgar
and the refined, the true and the
false. And whether you select a
book on biography or travel or his
tory, you derive a benefit from it.
The bee extracts honey from many
kinds Of flowers. 80.
The study of mathematics will
teach you concentration and will
help to put your mind in order and
prevent it from rambling. Most peo-
pies minds ramble. When you
have learned the mechanics Of Or
Derby thinking you will proceed-if
you have the capacity--to think for
yourself.
And then you are upon the
Great Illuminated Road.
There is no short cut. Without
n sound foundation all the reading
in the world will do you no good.
An ignorant mind is like diseased
stomach. The best food in the world
does it no good. 1t must first be
trained to digest.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

To Danish doubt and cease to fear.
The spoken word may take the shape
Of no fair image in mems minds,
But from the farthest Lapland's
cape
To where Magellan's Channel
winds.
From Ganges to the Amazon,
And from the Yukon to the Nile
Wherever men go toiling on
There is one meaning for a smile.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

Why is it that persons who are
educated and apparently sensible
about everything else, will permit
their children to neglect the teeth:
There is such a contrast between
the pearliness and beauty of per-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
OVER LIES HURDLES
BY LOUIS E. BISCH

aboos go right after them and try
out each one that occurs to you.
You'll feel uneasy at first but you'll
soon learn that nothing happens
except an increased respect for your
own courage and common sense!
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
YE TOWNE GOSSIP 57K: c: B:

AND IF he'd please.
JUST WRAP six pair.
So
OF WHAT it was;
IHAD asked for.
I'D BE much obliged.
BUT HOWEVER much.
WAS inclined.
TO SAY all this.
DIDN'T say it.
BUT JUST stood there.
AND PERMITTED him.
TO TALK to me.
AND OPEN boxes.
AND FONDLE them.
But FINALLY.
GREW impatient.
AND SAID to him.
THEY'RE ALL very nice.
BUT I'D like six pair.
"OF THE first you showed me. &"
AND THEN he said.
I'm VERY sorry:
BUT WE haven't your size"
AND THEN l said.
"WHY DID'T you tell me.
WHEN / asked you first?"
AND HE replied.
IF L could have pleased you.
with SOMETHING else.
"THERE'D HAVE been no ground
FOR DISAPPOINTMENT"
"AND YOU'D have left.
QUITE SATISFIED.
-
land OUR mission always.
rs TO satisfy"
AND i bought six pair.
OF SOMETHING else.
AND WENT on out.
/ THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Bucolic Press

The birthday party scheduled to
be held at the home Of Mrs. Sylvia
MeManus has been indefinitely
postponed.-Graftou (Ohio) Citizer
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
EDITORIAL
PAGE OF THE
s@SasAA ANIoNlo- =
L!HERT 1ZEIGHT
sHsospEHEEpEE1 sIESxsy % 22zszsEKs
Texas, Paradise for
Poet or Peasant

tn DGAR LEE MASTERS, best known to the masses
n, as the author of Spoon River Anthology" has
discovered Texas
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

ITOLD the man.
JUST WHAT 1 wanted.
AND HE got them out.
AND THEY looked all right.
AND THEN he said.
THAT HE had others.
HE'D LIKE to show me.
AND 1 tried to tell him.
I WAS quite satisfied.
WITH JUST the kind.
THAT 1 asked him for.
BUT BY that time.
HE HAD covered the case.
WITH OTHER boxes.
AND WAS opening them.
AND PICKED up one.
AND SAID to me.
THIS is the kind.
THAT wear myself"
AND 1 started to tell him.
=
THAT / hadn't come in.
TO MAKE inquiry:
AS TO what he wore.
AND THAT I was born.
BOTH SANE and free.
AND STILL possessed.
THE FACULTIES.
THAT HAD come to me.
FROM A long line.
OF PROGENITORs.
AND I'D just stepped in.
TO MAKE a purchase.
OF WHAT I wanted.
AND KNEW ] wanted.
AND i had no interest.
IN THE vast assortment.
OF OTHER things.
THAT WERE for sale.
Evening star., 1925-12-02
WV c. A. LAUNCHES
S70O,ODO DRIVE
With Opening of Campaign,
S201 900 Already Is Raised
Toward New Building.

With $50 team workers and team
captains present. the Wa ShinCt"n
y. W. {. As 500 900 building cam
paign opened with dinner at Eausch-
or's last night The sum of 100000
was announced as already on hand. OF
this amount. $50 600 was in the form
"f a bequest: So 900 was presented
Ivy the Woodward family in memory
II their mother and S25.000 was aC-
crued in smaller gifts and profits on
real estate investments.
Rev. Freelaud Peter of Richmond
Va. formerly a resident of Washing
ton. at the conclusion of the address
of the evening presented 81 900 to the
fund. bringing the total on hand to
S2HI 00n.
Rev. Mr.. Peter spoke of the $1,000
employed women in Washington,
most uf them not nati.e to the city,
who are in need Of such buildin;
#s the Y. w. {. y. proposes to erect
here
one of the greatest social problems
faced by ministers ana by social Serv-
l"e workers today. he said, is the
problem Of loneliness. What iS Wash.
inGton'S response. : he asked. "tn this
unconscious appeal Of leisure time?
The speaker compared the City Of
WASHINGTON before the war with the
TN. he said. was uaprepared for what
happened whom the thronGS descended
up"n it IN war days. Buildings had
I" be erected ana Industries extended.
Iut vhar. he asked. was the city's
response To less material needs?
Nr:. Thomas Edwin + own. preSi-
dent Of the Washington Y. W. &. A.,
introduced the speakers "i The eve
rin-. who were John :. Larner. chair
man of the Washington committee of
The campaign: AiiSS Elizabeth East
man. chairman "f women : teams, and
Miss Bertha Pahst. chairman of the
Young bu>ince-. prufes icnGl and in
dustrlai Wula m =. division ci the drive.
chairman Larncr tcnplimented the
financing of the Washington Y. W.
g y, declaring that there is not =
better financed og-anizatIon in The
CITY The public. he said will wish
I" infrust its funds with an orca Il
i=}tjon which is We'll mana -ed. Chair
man LarRer also spoke of the great
problem of leisure time among the
EIr's Employed il Washington.
So5citati tiOn bc gan today both locally
and tlationJlly. The S1U9. 900 fund Is
To he %sed to build. equip and main
tain - two years q Y. w. {. A.
building at Seventeenth and X streets
Evening star., 1925-12-02
District Sued f. $4,000.

The District - Cul'mbia vas Sue';
for A25.oo0 damages today hE Sa;l.-e
klock tor injuries alleged to he SUI
jained hy reason o: = &C cctive side
walk in front % 5j3N Connecticut ave
nue.. While watkins april 9 last the
plaintiff says she fell mo Il hole in
the sidewalk and sustained permaneut
and serious injury She * repre-
Sented 10y Attorney T. Morris Wam3-
ler
Evening star., 1925-12-02
HOLD DEATH UNAVOIDABLE
Jurors Clear Aut7 Driver in Fatal
Accident.

Motor cycle Policeman Claude e.
KountZ came To hi death ~ 1 result
of an unavoidable acctdsut when hi
skull was fractured saturday nichl
when his motor crcle colliGed NTH
IN automobile operated Iy David :"
Brandon of Ale,llrdria IN rirst street
between the 20, O6ice and IL, Union
Station. according % .ornrer's iurr
inquest into hi death :od3y.
koontz died Monday. ITc w. cha
ing speeding moloiiSt q, the tim
of the cash. Policeman u +. Eeyn.
olds. dI living III the side car %
I\oontz motor ,rciC. was only slightly
injured.
Evening star., 1925-12-02
Two q. R. C. Commissions Issued

Commissions in the OFFERS Re
serve Corps "f the Army have been
issued by the War Department 70
Maurice K. Colbert. 81 Madison
~11cet. this CITY. ~ r:2 J"r "f Infan-
try. and :" Schlev EiI55in. I&71 Ran
d"lph street. lhi@ "lt.. aS = second
, lieutenant in Tho o,lrt.,:,19<icr
CrrpG
Evening star., 1925-12-02
MAIL EARL-FOR CHRISTMAS S

Christmas Savings Checks Cashed.
e. Street Post Office Station
Special Gift Sections on the Second Floor
Engraving or Marking without charge
Evening star., 1925-12-02

Free Gift Wrapping Service.
Free Shipping and Packing Service.
Motor Coach Service to and from the parking
area. Coat and Parcel Checking.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-10-15
Earthquakes Pull Clock

DR.. ]. Shida, seismologist at the KY
foo Imperial university, has invented
a machine to herald the coming Of an
earthquake by means of sounds few
seconds ahead Of it's actual occurrence.
The apparatus consists Of q pendulum
that registers slight vibrations prior to
an earthquake and makes sounds by
coming into contact with COIL The
sounds are magnified by means of an
amplifier. The strength or weakness
of the impending quake may be deter
mined from the audibility of the
sounds. Doctor Shida says that a dis
astrous earthquake usually occurs
about seven seconds after slight tre-
NOR, which is not felt by the human
body, and therefore people in posses
sion of his apparatus will have time
to get outside their houses before the
disaster falls. But they must make
it snappy."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-10-15
These Changing Times

The midland cities have changed.
Apartment houses have risen on the
vacant lots where football teams COM
posed of wealthy boys once played
against football teams composed of
"muckers." At fourteen the wealthy
boy is no longer anxious to have enor-
nous muscles and to emulate Ted Coy
of Yale, but to own sport car and
be Ben Lyons-or even Michael
Arlen.
The cheap literature of daring, of
Nick Carter and Young Wild West, has
vanished. 1t is a conquered world into
which the postwar boy grows up !;
there are no outposts Of civilization to
grasp his Imagination. He gets the
impression that everything has been
done. Instead of the Henty books he
reads moving-picture magazines.-F.
Scott Fitzgerald, in McCall'S.