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Evening star., 1925-05-27
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
OVER LIES HURDLES
Others May Be Worse Off Than Yourself.
By LOUIS E. BISCH
Copyright. 1925. Premier synd.. Inc.

We all get "fcd up" With things
as they are-some time or other.
Getting caught IN a rut, with no
immediate prospect Of escape, mag
occur not once, but often, in the
course Of a lifetime.
No matter what you arc, no mat
ter what your Cntecedents may
have been, you undoubtedly have
felt that you simply could not go on
any longer-that you had borne all
you possibly could stand.
Life presents so many disappoint,
ments, so many thwartinss Of de-
sire, so much unhappiness, so much
grind, so much plain down-to.the
ground routine existence, that no
one ever escapes boredom and des.
perntion entirely.
Naturally, we always think that
the other fellow is happier than we
are.
We often think that nobody can
possibly have suffered as we have.
We are prone to call others lucky
and 10 believe that life has dealt
exceedingly gently with them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Radio-Activity May Reveal Age of Earth

million years the heat accumulated
in the basalt during the preceding
twenty-five million years is lost by
radiation, the basalt hardens and
there comes on a third period, dur
ing which the continents are up
lifted once more, and powerful
horizontal compressions produce
foldings OF the surface into noun
tains and plateaus.
Geological history seems to con.
tain records Of four or five success
i've cycles Of this kind. The Alpine
phase appears TO have followed a
calm period that began 100000
years ago, at the opening Of the
Triassic age. Back of that was the
Hercynian phase, following n quiet
period that began 100000 years
ago, in the Devonian age, and so on.
Judging by the 40,000,000-year
measure, we ought to be in the
early part of an era Of tranquility,
and the radio boiler will have TO
work up the subterrancan tempera-
ture for some two score million
years before the basolt softenS again
and lets North America settle down
into that molten cauldron beneath
with no cooling solace except from
the invading ocean.
We shall have been so long for
gotten by that time that it is not
now worth our while 10 seek conso-
lation in the fact that after all,
though bearing some credentials
from science, what We have been
relating is only a speculation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
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Just and Effective
Censorship

A MEXICAN theatrical audiences now are not
~ nearly responsive to suggestive jokes and
crude obscenities as they were once The vaude-
vile act that nvokes the saacous does not release the
liberal spontaneous laughter and applause that is music
to the of the actor It is mystery why such acts
survive in the face of evident popular dsapproval.
This of course, applies mainly to those acts of
which obsceniy is the basis for the supersructure of
dialogue and action. We do not mean that applause
and laughter denied such acts We do mean that
the response not wholeheared and that the element
of reserve is felt easily.
Rsque references artistically and casually intro
duced do not meet with such evident disapproval it
must be admitted The subconscious critical judgment
of the audience recognizes the distinction between the
employment of smut a crude substitute for wit and
the of Incidental not vital to the effect
of the act,
Good acts evenings program deserve ap
pause sincere but poor effort to put decent
act merits some applause for the effort made It may
act as stimulant-anyway, the worthy deserving
of aims But the indecent act deserves at the most,
stony silence.
Audiences if they would make of applause
udciously could exercise the most just and effective
censorship possible.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04

For more than a thousand mil
lion years this has been an inhab-
tied globe. For at least ten thou
sand million years the earth itself
has been in existence, though, Of
course, not during all that time in
the condition in which we know it.
For the earth, too, has had its evo-
luton. It has reached its present
form and state By successive steps.
In its rocks It holds its history,
telling plainly the story Of its
growth.
1t had a fiery birth, whatever
the details may have been-whcther
it began as a bit Of a star or as a
cagt-oft nebulous ring. Geological
soundings bring up from the depths
Of time records Of an age, below
the earliest fossil-bearing stratum,
where metamorphism reigned like a
god Of destruction, grinding up ma
terials for the granite and the
basalt, and in that abysmal grist
were lost the earliest forms Of Or
ganic life. But there yet dwell
upon the earth species Of creatures
retaining the shape and character
istics Of their ancestors that inhab-
tied the primevsl globe before the
pre-Cambrian catastrophe. The
Cambrian is the earliest geological
period whose rocks contain rccog-
nizable fossils. Those fossils show
that back Of them must have
stretched a vast period Of life evo-
luton. The earlier records Of that
evolution are cut off and lost
ground w in the great metamorphic
mill.
The most recent information that
we have concerning the age Of the
earth comes from the revelations Of
rsdio-sctivity. The general floor
on which the geological tozil-bear-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04

All Of which Is. Of course, not
true.
Let other people take you into
their confidence, let them tell you
their own trials, pitfalls, and fail
urcs, and you will be astonished to
find, perhaps, that you, by com
parison, got off rather easily.
But you don't discover such facts
about others unless they do become
unusually confidential and unload"
completely.
Therefore always suspect at least
that others MAJ be worse off than
you!
Indeed. you need not suspect
merely. You can be quite sure
about II.
Life is complicated, hence one
person is more fortunate in business
than another, while, on the other
hand. he is less fortunate about
health of affairs of the heart, or
whatnot.
Make the best Of what you have!
Don't waste time Specializing
about the good fortune of others.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
ILL HEALTH MEANS FAILURE
BY ROYAL s. COPELAND, M. D..
United States Senator From New York.
Former Commissioner OF Health. New York City.

almost as bad. chronic disability for
the sake Of an education.
Without health what good Is
learning?
A doctor. lawyer, an engineer, a
teacher. a business man, a preach
emo matter what the calling may
be-failure awaits the man who be-
gins his career with shattered
nervous system or a broken body.
am not keen about the things we
call success" | know hundreds Of
men and women who have not real
lied what the world calls success.
They are not rich, nor are they
famous. Their nap.es are not found
in social registers or,nte they rated
high in commercial reports. But the
world is better because they have
lived.
However, IL you realize success and
would achieve anything like your
ambitions you cannot do it without
health. II you have TO choose be-
tween an education and vigorous
health there is no doubt in my mind
where your duty lies. The educa-
ton with ruined health will mean
nothing more than failure and dis.
appointment. 4 vigorous body and
application in some other field than
education will bring success-of an
other sort. Of course-but il will
be privilege to serve which is
success.
When you know how to live you
can work very, very hard and yet
keep well. Hard work never killed
anybody. 1t is the abuse Of the
body which is deadly. You can't
live on stale peanuts any more than
you could wax strong on an exclu.
Sive Met of salt pork.
Regular meals of simple foods,
plenty Of sleep and an abundance of
fresh air. systematic exercise and a
reasonable amount Of recreation.
These you must have, and IL you do
not know that nature will not sub
nit to bodily abuse, your prelim-
mary education Is insufficient to
justify further attempts at acquired
knowledge.
Copyright. 1925. by Newspaper
Feature Service, fnc.D
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04

College days are here. Another
scholastic year begins. Are you
ready for It?
At the last commencement Of the
University Of Pennsylvania a post
norton degree was awarded in the
name of a senior student who died
two or three months before. To get
an education this boy literally
starved himself into an acute disease
which took his life.
In his eagerness for knowledge
he swept sidewalks, sold papers and
did office work. When he could get
no work he lived on stale peanuts.
He struggled along. denied himself
everything for the sake of an educa-
ton.
That was heroic. 1t captures the
imagination. But was it wise?
For years I was college dean.
This office gave me intimate con.
tact with the knowledge Of the cir
cumstances surrounding hundreds
Of students. I colud write endless
tales Of the sacrifices Of personal
comfort made by men hungry for an
education. ! know Of the sacrifices
made by fathers and mothers to keep
their children in college.
Likewise. have seen the wasteful
shameful prodigality of men sent to
college. but indifferent to the privi-
lege. They have spent their time in
riotous living instead Of study.
Isn't it a pity there couldn't be
clearing house where these incquali-
ties and misfits could be overcome?
But what can be said to the mil
lions of boys and girls, youths and
maidens, who are beginning another
year in school or college? Are there
words Of warning or suggestions
which will be at all helpful?
An education has in its resources
Of pleasures AMI contentmcnt which
would tighten the burden Of invalid
ism. / don't think anybody would
doubt this.
But / should consider him n
strange man who would deliberate
ly court illness or death or what Is
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Friends and Enemies
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

. about will develop some kind of q
disease.
Every great work Of nan has
been the result Of thought. A
tall office bulldog was once mere
ly a thought. The cathedral was
onco a vision of the mind. In fact,
1t Is thought, after all, which
5 eventually commands material and
controls brick and mortar.
Thoughts are the causes Of war.
There would be no conflict il one
nation did not get into a state of
mind in regard TO another.
Thoughts bring on peace. They
arc tho greatest of peace makers,
although peace-producing thoughts
are not so plentiful as those which
produce trouble
One of the hardest things for
nan to learn Is that he can con-
troll the visions of his mind. When
one has mastered this difficult art
and can in measure determine
what he shall think upon he is on
the road to health and sanity.
On the contrary, to think of
thoughts as something inevitable,
something over which we have no
control, and to whose influence we
are subject as to an unacceptable
tyranny, is the way to laxncss AMI
disease.
Doubtless every suicide is cul-
mination Of wron. thinking. Every
other kind of crime Is the outbreak
of wrong thinking.
IL the control of ones self Is the
greatest of goals, the control OF
ones thoughts is still greater, for
what n man thinkcth so he is
Copyright, 1925. by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Their Own Homes

CCORDING to reliable statistics eleven million
n families out of total of more than twenty-four
n million, their own homes.
While this is only 45.6 per cent the total is
imposing.
Our national wealth has increased to 1920 900 600
000 about $4,000 per capita for the entire population
The fear expressed by some that Americans are be-
coming race Of bosrders and flat renters instead of
home owners is not yet justified.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Foolish Superstitions
~ HE chances that i'll fortune will come to arr
increased if he walks under a ladder on which
= painter or plasterer is working.

I'll
increased if he walks under ladder which a
- painter or plasterer is working.
The larger, and hence expensive, mirror
the more unlucky it is to break it.
The probability of some fragile and costly knick-
knack's being broken is increased when umbrella is
opened in the house.
In the above examples of foolish superstitions i'll
luck is the result only of carelessness
To start trip Friday may bring i'll luck if super
stition depresses the spirits of the traveller.
is unthinking slave to superstition, posses
sion of 81 bill, known Familiarity "twospot," may
cause uneasiness.
A So bill is as harmless in itself as garter snake,
and is just acceptable by many 1t is terrific
and dangerous than 81 BILL and has twice the pur
chasing power
81 bill is unucky if you spend it for moonshine
whiskey dope. But it is talisman of i'll luck
than 81 bill spent similarly.
Because of the pubc's illogical attitude toward
wospots the Treasury has difficulty in keeping them
in circulation. To cooperate with the government in
the campaign to popularize the 81 BILL The Light is
offering $40 for bills of certain serial numbers
Don't jump back the next time 50 bill is thrust at
you. It may be $40 bill in disguise
Anyhow, by accepting it fearlessly, you become a
little more the master Of yourself.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS

derlying basalt brings about a cycle
of geological change about every
forty million years. The cycle be-
gins with a period Of relative trn-
guilty of the crust, lasting about
twenty-five million years, during
(which the heat from radio action
gradually accumulates until it be-
comes sufficient 10 transform the
basalt into a molten mass.
Then ensues the second period Of
the cycle, during which the CONT
nents sink relatively to the level OF
the ocean, and the latter invades
their borders and flows over their
lower portions. After about eight
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04

Our best friends and our worst
enemies are our thoughts.
A thought can do us more good
than doctor or a banker or a
faithful friend 1t can also do US
more harm than brick.
That many people arc injured In
health by their thoughts is well
known. Many systems OF healing
are built up around the idea Of the
healing nature of what takes place
in the mind.
Christian Science largely depends
on our control Of our thoughts, and
the Coue system rests upon the same
basis.
Many of us have known what n
disturbing thought can do to us
when we arc trying to 70 10 slep.
All of us have passed sleepless
nights with bothersome thoughts.
If we could have dismissed these
kind of thoughts and had the con-
soling kind we would have been
able TO have our desired rest.
Thoughts get between MS and our
friends. Many a quarrel and
grudge hns been kept alive by the
wrong thought, and II we could have
got rid of it or laughed at 1t the
quarrel would have disappeared.
The object of all religions is to
encourage us in the right kind OF
thinking, to fill the mind with the
proper images. For when the mind
is full Of wholesome thoughts tho
body responds.
You can see what influence
thought has upon you by concen'
trating your attention, for instance.
on your hand or foot; in a short
time the member which you think
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04

ing strata rest consists of basaltic
rock. This contains certain
average amount of radioactive min
eral. In thca process of disintegra-
ton this mineral produces in a given
time a measured amount Of helium
and Of lead. At the same time it
develops in its surroundings a pro-
portional amount of heat. On the
basis Of these facts has been de-
duced the age Of the rock strata
containing a known proportion of
the products Of radio-actiYity.
Professor Jolly calculates that, on
the average, the accumulation of
heat from radio-activity in the I'M
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04

I have mad a lot
OF hard work to do,
But, oh, happy thought,
/ am pulling through.
Brother. l belong
To the common herd
Never has a throng
BY my voice been stirred ;
! possess no gift
That you'd call divine;
Do you get the drift
OF this speech of mine:
But I've loved, and, gee,
Why should / complain:
Boy, it's great TO be
Crazy DER a Jane!
Yes, I've loved a lot,
And have no regret;
Thank the Lord I'm not
Blind 10 beauty yet
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Parental Delinquency

II EW will be astonished at the report made to the
II National Prohibition Association concerning the
causes of children leaving home. Boys who
strike out for themselves are inspired chiefly by the
spirit of adventure, but girls leave home for love.
If the boys found adventure and the girls found
love at home there would not be so many runaways
and Opponents fathers and mothers guided and
daughters into innocent adventure and displayed
freely the love they feel for them the home ties would be
frightened appreciably.
Monotony physical and emotional is the bane of
family life. Parents may accusom themselves to it for
duty's sake, but children scarcely be blamed for
breaking loose. The problem of juvenile delinquency
sometimes is direct result of parental delinquency in
lesser degree
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
WAYSIDE WISDOM F, $: E Ki'.;
Not So Bad, Thank You.

Much I've lived" he said,
Much / have endured
Ills have brought me dread,
But my hurts are cured;
Many times I've lost
When / hoped 10 win;
Much my fun has cost.
I've a purse that's thin.
Many things I've tried,
Few have brought me gain
I've been showed aside
Often with disdsin;
Luck has seldom stood
Waiting at my door;
Still, life's pretty good,
As ] think II Ger.
Il have never won
High rewards or fame;
Medals / have none,
Earned in any game.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Arhess Ads

Mixed dsnce-For old and young.
Cooks orchestra, Saturday night,
and every two weeks thereafter.
Dinke's hall, Graiton.-Adv. in
Grafton (O) Citizen.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Bucoic Press

No deed is better than that Of
constantly being cheerful. Your
happy countenance and kind words
and actions are reflected By many
others during the day.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Sdphead Sisters

Molly-Jane must paint a lot.
She buys a new lipstick every few
days.
Cordclia-Oh. she uses them up
working crossword puzzles.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Daily Good Deed

A kind word Of yours may be the
means Of persuading that discour-
aged boy or girl to 90 on in the fcll
and complete the education which
would otherwise be abandoned.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-04
Bonghsad Brothers

wonder what people arc
thinking about me?
Simp--A great deal less than you
imagine. old chap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

"She went up to her husbands
room and pulled out the drawer of
the high-boy where he kept IL pistol.
The big automatic was not there. He
never took this weapon with him on
any journey, and 1t was usually in
this drawer. Doubtless he had placed
it otherwhere about the room, and
she thought of searching for 1t; but in
stead she returned to the hall below,
got an electric flash, put on a pair
Of stout rubbers and a heavy coat,
and went out. Persons attended by q
baby could not present any element
Of danger.
There was no wind now and the
thin drift of snow had disappeared. The
night was hard and clear: the earth
crisp with frost; the sky, domed over
was sown with stars. There was no
moon, but the world was filled with a
clear white light. She went around
the house, passed the long terrace on
the south side and along the path
among the oak trees.
How bright the stars were! A
planet directly beyond her at the end
of the path cleaned like an immense
jewel.
she went toward 1t.
And she smiled at a vagrant fancy.
If 1t were Venus It was neat augury-
she would be racing presently in a
great motor toward the lure Of that