San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-04
Today
Compromising Felony.
Books Too Dear.
2 Jobs for Ford.
A Rabbit Shoots.
By Arthur Brisbane
: Copyright. 1895 BY star Co;


THERE are laws against COM
pounding a felony. If a man
steals your money, and if you
pay him to bring it back, promising
to say nothing about it, you are
guilty Of crime.
Financial institutions, however,
and concerns that issue insurance
against loss by theft, forgery, ETC.,
make a regular business of COM
pounding felonies.
IN New York recently, young
= criminal named Pirie stole $3.50
from a bank. The bank allowed him
to 80 free, on his promise to pay in
'installments. That was eompounding
a felony, as well as committing a
crime.
During his freedom this young
man killed another boy named Nye.
IUST as public service the
" mother Of that boy ought to sue
the bank that compounded the boys
felony. If the bank hadn't committed
the crime of compounding that felony
the murderer would have been in Jail
and his victim would not have been
killed.
WINSTON CHURCHILL says
w books cost "too much" Too
much is putting it mildly. A reader
pays two dollars for a book that can
be manufactured for 20 cents, and
for q really good book. such as "The
Golden Bough," now published in
two volumes, he pays $40 or more.
WHEN he gets around to it Henry
w Ford ought to start a book pub
fishing business, and show publishers
how to make money without charging
ten times what book costs.
Where would Ford be with his au-
tomobiles if he charged three thou
sand dollars for rdnabout?
IF you have an inventive mind, Mr.
! New, the postmaster general would
like you to invent flying machine
for carrying mails that will not col.
lect moisture, turning to ice, load.
ing down the machine in the cold
upper air. y.
Mr.. Mayo, Henry Fords chief en-
sineer. should settle that problem.
The heat wasted in the exhaust Of
the Henry Ford alI-metal monoplane
51iGht b used 10 keep outer layers
Of metal free Of ice.
IT was Amos Cummings on tho
New York Sun in Charles A.
Daha's time, who said. "if man
bites dog that is news"
In Alsace a rabbit has Just shot
man, and that also is news.
A. De Mouche, a farmer, laid his
gun on the ground to take a rabbit
from trap. Another rabbit, DASH
ing from the bushes stepped on the
trigger and De Mouche crawled home
with a full load of shot in his back.
How that would interest the rabbits
OF the world. But they can't read.
THANKS to Locarno, Western
= Europe thinks that peace has
come, and the question now is: What
will Western Europe do with the
people? The first thing should be
TO cut the cost of keeping ready for
war-since war is not expected.
TRANCE could take half million
! men off the public pay roll and
put them to work at useful produc-
ton, instead of marching around in
clothes paid for by the people, eating
food paid for by the people.
Poland also could get rid of few
hundred thousand soldiers fed by the
workers. But Poland has Russia to
worry about, and Russia is no party
to the Locarno treaty.
THE French worry little about
= anything except aircraft attack.
In spite Of the fact that they have
a fighting air fleet, three times big
ger than any ether in the world,
they still think and write about an
attack on Paris through the air. The
French are intelligent.