San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-06

= n 1914 a dollar was worth five
francs. Yesterday for a dollar
= you could buy 30 "a francs. That
tells what war does to a nation,
even victorious"
French exchange suffers through
Caillaux's failure to negotiate an ar
rangement of the French debt, caus-
ing cessation of private loans from
the United States to France.
FRANCE is our good friend, and If
we have forgotten that, we re-
member that she is one of our good
customers.
Nobody is interested in running
his customers. Perhaps Secretary
Mellon, greatest financier of his age,
will find way to prove our friend
ship for France or at least refrain
from running her national credit,
without injuring the United States
rich, and well able to make reason
able concessions.
TWO things you may write down
4 when you begin your history Of
the world.
First, men will always find some
thing to fight about. And second,
power like matter and force is in
destructible. 1t will always 80 some
where.
HAVING got rid Of the English
4 ! king, and his power, we invent
ed our Constitution, seeking to d.
vide authority among judges, legis-
lature and president.
We forgot that power will go
somewhere. In our case it went to
financial organization, now using it
cautiously and rather wisely.
IN politics we used TO fight about
1 slavery, then about tariff and the
full dinner pail. Those issues are
worn out, and, as Mr.. Robert Barry
says, political fights now are CEN
tered on alcohol and religion. Those
issues will pass away, but men al
ways have something to divide them.
THE Rev. Selden T. Delany, says
! faith helps disease, as it I'M
doubtedly does, and gives scientific
explanation. Faith inspires bene-
fetal emotions; they cause in the
body chemical changes that Danish
disease"
THE Rev. Francis ]. Hall con-
1 meets suffering with the will of
God, and says sickness Is sometimes
good for you. When people are well
they lack useful warnings that sick
ness gives, Science and religion are
drawing together.
CONDUCTORS and trainmen in
~ the West want more money, an
increase of $25,0OO,OO0 a year. To
say it will horrify the conservative
mind, yet if the increase in pay be
granted, conservatives and everybody
else will be better off. All that the
big man can possibly get is what the
little man has to spend.
7 EFT him who thinks few wages
- mean prosperity for the big man
start something in China. He will
find men and women to work for a
few cents a day, but he won't build
any great fortune. Good wages are
to a nations prosperity from top to
bottom, what irrigation is to the ma
tions crops.
! A BD-EL-KRIM, leader Of the
"A Riffs, has learned from French
nirmen that the Moorish courage,
illustrated in Schreyer's pictures,
isn't so valuable now.
The Riff leader withdrawing as
far as possible from the French and
the Spanish, has dug out city for
himself underground, to escape the
bombs Of the airmen. In these days,
if you don't fly, you don't amount to
much in war, no matter how brave
you may be.
Some day the United States may
realize that.
nR. A. C. BLAZER had daugh-
~ ter without arms or legs, deaf
and dumb. He to- .; care Of the
daughter for 81 years, then chloro-
formed her as she slept. On trial
for murder. He says he chlorofcrined
his daughter because he didn't ex-
psct to 1.-Two long, ami knew that
death was better than the life she
would lead alone.
IBTIS lawyers allege that he is not
i l guilty of murder, because his
daughter "had no soul"
Coke, English authority, says muir
der is killing "any reasonable crea-
turc." Killing this poor, deformcd.
weak-minded daughter was therefore
NOT murder. She was not treason.
able"