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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
WOUNDED SOLDIER
ON WAY TO RECOVERY

Regaining consciousness after six
days since he was found last Wednes-
day in his hotel room with bullet
wound in his temple, Private Harry
Brooks, Station Hospital Company No.
4, now is expected to recover, accord
ing to hospital reports Wednesday
morning.
Brooks was found late in the after
noon after he had registered the pre-
ceding morning. Beneath him were
found a 80 caliber pistol and two let
tiers.
The contents of the letters were
never divulged by military authorities.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
WOODWARD BETTER.

Reports Tuesday from the bedside
of d. J. Woodward were to the eff
feet that he is much improved. Mr..
Woodward was stricken i'll few days
ago and for several days his condi-
ton was extremely grave. Attending
physicians now think he is on the road
to recovery.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
FIRST 81 MADE
BRINGS JOY
AND GRIEF
Members of Breckenridge
Faculty Recall
Incidents.

How did you earn your first dol
lar?
And how did you spend it?
Maybe you can't remember, but
here's how some members of the fac
ulty at Breckenridge High School
earned theirs and how they spent it.
Miss Ora johnson earned her first
dollar picking dewberries. Then cir
Gus came to town and presto the dol
lar disappeared. Miss Johnston still
remembers the elephants, however.
Miss Edith Wilkens got into fight
with a small boy when both were
kids, and coming out victorious, in
stead of spanking her father gave
her a dollar for her prowess.
EARNED AT FAIR.
George Dickerson earned his first
dollar in candy booth at a county
fair, incidentally learning never TO
like candy any more. Pulled up with
pride and love for a fair damsel be
bought a cheap locket and gave it 10
his sweetheart. The girls brother
gave George licking, she threw away
the locket and likewise lost all her af-
lection for George. He's wiser now.
Miss Alice Stone was afraid of
"spooks." To break her of this. her
father offered her a dollar if she
would walk across the back yard to the
barn at night. The dollar was more
real than the spooks, SO Miss Stone
found out. and disappeared before the
magic of the silver.
REAL MONEY.
George Ii. Davis earned. his first
dollar indirectly. He lived on a farm
and his duties were to take care of the
cows. For this he received a NANCY,
little razorback hog. But George rails
that pig by hand and sold him for
$500.
Dollars in those days were "real
money!" said all those of the faculty
in telling of their experiences and you
had to work hard to earn one.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
WINS FREEDOM

An instructed verdict freeing James
Shearer of the charge of Staying 5. II.
Easter in 1913. was returned by tho
jury Tuesday by order of Judge Will
liam S. Anderson in Thirty-sevenar
district court. This case had never
been heard because important wit
nesses were never located by the
state.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
BOY HURT. FALLING
FROM MOTORCYCLE

Claude Tafolla, 10, of 1913 Leal
Street was painfully bruised when he
fell from n motorcycle late Tuesday.
He was given first aid at the Robert
ID. Green Hospital. His condition is
not serious.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
Not At All

Dora Dumbbell thought the let
tiers III. R. H." attached to the
name of the Prince of Wales, mean
he is 'horse-riding hound" but we
all know he isn't.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
Salient Features

Take combination of loose
morals, unnatural parents, fiendish
murders, diabolical revenge and loud
noise, and what is the result? Grand
opera.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
Rubbing 1t In

We don't blame the Los Angeles
man who told judge he had no OBJ
lection to paying alimony but he did
object TO his wife's 'sweetie" calling
for 1t each time.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
New Menace

Men will have to be getting up
early to protect their homes before
long. One man has had TO divorce
his wife because she ran away with
the milkman.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
LOYAL to Home Town

"Our subscriber at Noahs, Ark,
says the doctor in those parts Is so
keen about patronizing home industry
that he uses local Ar
kansas Gazette.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
Careful. CAREFUL!

No, Chlotilde, becaus, he wears
riding boots, he isn't necessarily q
bootlegger. He may be movie
director in puttees.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-11
BIRD TOURISTS
CROWD zoo
TENANTS
Feathered Tribe Invades
Homes and Takes
All Food.

San Antonio may get another ST.
100000 hotel.
Or that sum will be spent on num-
Der of new apartment houses.
Strangely, these predictions do not
come from the city's real estate men
or the building inspector.
They come from San Antonio's
park employees.
The reason is simple.
"The tourist season" at the Brack-
enridge park ZOO has reached its
height.
SHARE HOMES.
So many birds, the majority OF
which are jackdaws, have winged their
way to the Alamo City to spend the
winter that the zoo inhabitants, after
doubling up with the visitors, soon
will be forced to share their homes
with two additional families.
This will be the case if some means
Of Accommodating" the tourists is
not devised Immediately.
1t is the rabbits, perhaps, who are
suffering most from the invasion of
the winged creatures of the northern
states.
KEEP OUT STRANGERS.
The zoos feathered guests are en-.
closed in cages which prevent them
from departing for sections unknown
This in turn keeps the northern
tourists" from overrunning Their
quarters.
But the poor rabbits, without any
cover to their cage, are at the foreign
birds mercy. ...
In the morning, at noon and at
night when the rabbits prepare to eat
their meals. the tourists" swoor
down upon their tables.
Mixed grain and cabbage leaves dis
appear with a demoralizing swiftness.
ACT "UNGUESTLY.~
Whenever a strong-hearted rabbit
seeks to intervene, the jackdaw pecks
his host on the ears and between the
eyes.
And when the rabbit gets too trou-
blesome, the large black fowl perches
himself on bunny's back and pecks him
until he seeks safety in box or hole.
The situation is becoming almost
unbearable. according to park EN-,
ployes.
"San Antonio must either stop adj
vertising its wonderful climate in
birdland or a new residential addi-
ton must be financed" they declared.
THAT, or the zoo must find an
other site, for the strange birds are
eating present inhabitants out of house
and home" 1t is emphasized.
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No Monkeying

"You came from a monkey" she told
him,
"Some sort Of n simian, see;
But don't you think for a minute, Guy,
That you can monkey with me-"
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Fair Pedestrian Is Biggest
Problem of Traffic
Policeman.
BY BESS CARROLL

Once he stood on the street corner
and thought serene, unmolested
thoughts about cabbages and kings and
thin hivenly blue eyes Of Nora, the
darlin'-Paddy the Cop, gallant ossi-
fer who would help lady across the
street for-say, two smiles.
, Now he stands like Dutch wind
mill, all arms revolving; human
steam engine, whistling and boiling
and unable for all of his brass buttons
to cope with the fair pedestrian who
stages bold downtown traffic holdups.
Life has changed for the traffic cop.
His peace Of mind is, like Dobbin, a
thing of the past. He has had to give
too many pieces of it away. And the
woman of the species is as much to
blame as the flivver.
FIND THE WOMAN!
Say to the traffic coy, "There's a
traffic jam down the street." and he
will reply, "Find the woman!"
In days that are gone timid young
women waited for strong arms to guide
them across the street-and what cop
wouldn't for the smile he got?-even
though it sometimes took fifteen min
utes for the belle of 1875 to get her
bustles, hoops, ruffles, skirts and mis-
cellaneous raiment from corner to cor
ner. For those were the times when
silk worms had to work overtime to
cover everything except the facial ex.
preston of ladies.
DEFIES 'EM ALL.
Nowadays little things like traffic
rules. signal lights and the police
mans piercing whistle mean so much
"applesauce" to the young woman who
is on her way-no matter where. She
serenely defies automobiles to stop her
or signal lights to detain her. Whai
does it matter that ten dozen driver:
grind their teeth at the delay SHE
causes. There are plenty of falls
teeth if their natural moIars arr
ground off.
In spite of the fact that a tril
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ONE FREE
INSERTION

For every want ad
user and plenty of
bargains for every
reader on Friday the
18th, "Jinx Day."
Watch this space
for further particu-
lars concerning this
big "Jinx-C Chasing"
Friday Light which
will be the biggest
bargain issue ever
published in San An
tonic.
R E M E M B E r
READ EVERY ISSUE
OF THE LIZ H T
AND GET ALL THE
PAR TT C u L A R S
ABOUT JINX DAY!
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DEFIES 'EM ALL.

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e average temperature for San An
10 yesterday, Nov. 10, was Sc degrees.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

WHAT MAKES A BUSINESS A
SAFE INVESTMENT

There are five corporations in the
United States each of which has a
billion dollars or more invested in
its business. They are the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., public
utility; the United States Steel Cor
poration, an industry; and three
railroads, the New York Central, the
Pennsylvania and the Southern Pa
cific. The earnings Of any one of
these companies run well into mil
lions of dollars every year.
A business does not earn money
simply because it is big. The whole
story of the success of the billion
dollar or the thOusand-dollar bust
ness can be told in one word, man
agement." 1t is the ability and thrift
of the men who hold the reins, in
striving endlessly to eliminate waste,
cut down overhead, save for i'm
provement, and keep the company's
financial condition sound, that makes
a successful business.
One of the greatest advantages of
the corporate form of business, from
the investors standpoint, is the per-
manency of management. Private
and partnership enterprises depend
almost wholly on certain, specific in
dividuals and offer no assurance of
continued existence. The successful
corporation has a new crop of youn-
ger executives constantly in train
ing to assure permanent and capable
management no matter who dies. But
in any form of business, whether pri-
vate, partnership or corporation, it
is the ability and honesty of man
agement that makes success, and
when the investor seeks and finds
these characteristics he has found
the chief factor that makes any in
vestment safe.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10
LEGISLATURE BUSY
ON FINAL WEEK OF
ITS EXISTENCE
continued from FIRST Dage)

president of the State Teachers AS
sociation explained the bill. He said
the bill provides that teachers may
be, retired when they reach the age
Of so years providing they have
taught for % years in the State
schools. Those teachers who go into
the system would pay into 4 per cent
of their salary and the State would
appropriate a like amount. If a tea
cher desired to withdraw from the
system at any time she could do so
and get her money back with inter
est.
Professor Hydorn said this bill
was largely an enabling act and the
next legislature would have to make
provision for establishing the sys-
TEN and to provide funds to main
tain it.
Wilbur H. Jump, superintendent
of the Caesar Rodney School also
advocated the bill 1t was passed
by vote of Is to 2, Senators Cam
and AttiX voting against it.
The House bill providing for the
uu4lOIu COllGCllOn VI 0CuOOl TAXES /
for bond issues through the same |
agencies that collect the county |
taxes was passed by the Senate.
The House bill providing in case
of a tie vote at a school election an
other election shall be held the fol-
lowing Saturday, was passed by the
Senate.
The Senate Monday afternoon I'M
passed two bills, intro
1uced by Senator Highfield, making
a misdemeanor pun
shable by lashes and Imprisonment.
One of these, referring to embez-
element by a cashier, servant or
clerk in private employ, would i'm
pose a penalty of not more than 20
ashes and not more than ten years
n prison.
The other, covering embezzlement
~ public employees, including exec
ltors, administrators, justices, con-
stables or attOrneys-at-law, carries
/ penalty of not more than ten
ashes and not more than one year
n prison.
The State Senate Monday after
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

exhibit at the Sesqui- Centennial il
Philadelphia next year.
The House also passed three Sen
ate bills, introduced by Senator
Ridgely, raising the jurisdiction O
justices of the peace in civil cases
to suits involving not more thar
$500. Heretofore magistrates have
had jurisdiction in cases involving
up to 5000.
Thirty-twO bills were stricken
from the House calendar Tuesday
and three from the Senate calendar
in an effort to expedite the business
of both Houses.
One of the bills stricken from the
House calendar was the bill provid-
ing for a larger representation for
Wilmington. Regardless of it's merits,
only passing interest has been TAX
en- in the bill since it was introduce
ed early in the session by Repre-
sentative Schiefele.
Auto Insurance Bill Killed
Another bill wiped from the cal
endar was one which received con-
siderable opposition from automo-
bile owners, although introduced at
the behest of the Delaware AutOmO-
bile Association. This would have
compelled all automobile owners to
take out liability insurance or pro-
vide indemnity bonds for $4,000 COW
ering injuries to individuals and
$1,000 covering property damages.
The bill which would have au-
thorized the Secretary of State to
establish branch Offices in Whining
ton and Georgetown for the issuing
of automobile licenses, also was kill
ed.
The Senate Tuesday AFTERNOON con-
Cured in Representative Florence
M. Hanby's bill requiring fire insur-
ance companies doing business in
this State to pay a tax of per cent |
on gross premiums, less return |
to be devoted to the main
tenance of rural fire companies in
the three counties, and to the Fire
mems Pension Fund in Wilmington.
The House passed a substitute for
the Senate bill creating a commits
sion to open an inlet from the At
lantic Ocean to Indian River, and
$4,000 to carry out
the project, but to be used only in
the event the States appropriation
is augmented by Federal aid.
The, commission named consists
Of Senator T. Coleman du Pont, rep
resenting New Castle county; Isaac
W. Belts and Fred A. Townsend.
Kent county; Elisha A. Steele and
R. D. Lingo, Sussex county.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

A DOLLAR IS NOTHING BUT A
WORKING TOOL

If people would but get fixed in
their minds the truth that the dollar
is nothing but a tool there would be
a vast increase in contentment in
this country. Like any other tool,
the dollar must be used with COM
mon sense skill if it be effective.
Business men, bankers and others,
who use dollars as tools with which
to make money, know the power and
limitations of this tool, just as the
$1,000 carpenters in the United
States know what can be done with
saws and planes.
Likewise, the $4,000 dentists, the
213 900 electricians, the 1000 brick
and stone masons and all others in
gainful occupations know that they
must use the tools of their trades to
do their work properly and to make
money. Yet thousands of otherwise
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

! intelligent persons have never real
lied that the dollar is also a tool,
which can be used for lettering ones
own condition and for the general
good.
All of us cannot be skilled in the
use Of all the tools of every vocation.
But the dollar is the one tool that
comes to the hand of every one of
us. There are 100000 persons in
this country working to earn money
with many kinds of tools, but when
they come to save and to invest a
part of their earnings they are all, as
investors, working with one common
tool, the dollar. They must realize
that this tool has it's safe, efficient
use. and so used will give a fair re-
ward comparable to that of any
other tool.
A common buck saw cannot cut
through chilled steel. Money cannot
get something for nothing, nor be
safely depended on to yield the eX-
cessive returns of Is or 20 per cent.
It must have its honest employment |
in honest enterprises, and all the in
vestor's dealings should be with
honest persons, or firms, experienced
N the use of money as a productive
DOL. Safety of the investment is the
irst requisite in the proper use of
money as a tool.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

noon by vote of 9 to adopted one
amendment, adding $2500 each yeal
for the next two years to the gen
eral appropriation bill, which passed
the House last week, necessitatine
its return to the House for concur
renee in the amendment.
The bill as it passed the House
called for an appripration of ST.
255,305 for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1926, and $1,330,2000 for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1927. The
amendment attached to the original
bill by the Senate would increase
these totals $2500 year to provide
for an increase in the salary item of
the State College for Colored Stu
dents, near Dover.
The bill carrying an appropriation
of $2,400,0O0 a year for each of the
next two years, beginning July 1, for
the maintenance and operation of the
public schools of the State, was re-
ported favOrably in the House Tues
day afternoon by Representative
Drexler, chairman of the apprOpria-
lions committee.
In it's estimate of its requirements
for operation of the public schools
during the next two years, the State
Board of Education asked for ST.
$4,000 a year. Although the budget
committee pared the boards budget
S180,O00 a year, the amount set forth
in the appropriation bill is nearly |
S250,O00 more than was allowed by |
the last General Assembly.
The bill also carries apprOpria- |
lions of $4,000 a year for the Amer
termination of foreign born and the
education of native born illiterates;
$4,000 a year for vocational educa-
ton, and $4,000 a year for scholar
ships in Misunderstanding courses.
Mr.. Drexler introduced three sub
stitute bills. One would appropriate
$4,000 a year for the next two years
to combat the threatened invasion of
the State by the Japanese beetle. An
item set up in the tentative budget
for this purpose was voted down in
the budget committee.
An appropriation of $4,000 for
building and $4,000 for maintenance
for the Home for Feeble Minded at
to take care of the feeble
minded cOlored children of the State,
is provided for in another bill.
A third bill supplementary apprO-
priation bill would allot $1,000 for
repairs to the ArmOry at Dover.
By unanimous vote the House
adopted Representative Sebold's
resolution to appropriate
100000, to provide for a Delaware
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

Senator Viven introduced in the
Senate Tuesday afternoon a joint
resolution intended to remedy con-
ditions in the Sussex County Aims
house, as recommended by a Senate
committee that visited the institu-
ton several weeks ago.
The resolution provides that Sen
ator William p Allen, of SeafOrd;
Senator Jacob Prettyman, of Lewes,
and Representative Louis A. Drexler,
of Bethany Beach; be appointed a
commission for the purpose of MAX
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

ing such needed improvements to
the Sussex County Almshouse as the
commission shall deem necessary in
order to render the almshOuse a
more efficient, sanitary and habitable
place of abode for inmates.
1t is further provided that the
Levy Court of Sussex county is au-
thorized and directed to appropri-
ate, out of any funds at it's disposal
the sum of $4,000, to be used by the
commission for the purposes men
toned.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

ECONOMY BEGINS AT HOME

Every American who pays knows
by this time that his income tax
due and payable this year is con-
siderably less than it was in 1924.
In addition to this, however, the
Treasury department has just issued
figures showing that the users and
manufacturers of automobiles are
paying a great deal less for this priv
ilege than was the case last year.
The returns for February of this
year and 1924 are taken as a basis
for comparison. The returns on au-
tomobiles, trucks, motorcycles, and
parts and accessories for February,
1924 were $9,857,OOO while the re-
turns this year were $7,278,0OO, a
saving of more than two and half
millions of dollars. Another class of
citizens who have had a burden lift
ed from them are the candy users,
who paid $95O,OOO in taxes in Febru-
airy, 1924, and paid none at all this
year. The tax returns on cameras
and Photographic supplies were re-
duced nearly half.
Decreased federal taxes, of course,
were brought about by national
economy and decrease in govern
mental expenditures, coupled with
the revenue producing qualities of
our protective tariff laws.
1t is to be regretted that there has
as yet been no noticeable decrease
in state and local taxes. Such de-
can of course be brought
about by economies in state and To-
cal governments. Eternal vigilance
is needed to reduce these taxes and
the taxpayers should see to it, that
every reasonable economy is prac-
ticed at home as well as at Wash
ington. To the ordinary citizen the
local taxes are more burdensome
than those paid to the federal gov
eminent, and he should see that
somebody sits on the lid in the city,
and county as well as in the nation.
It is only in this way that the bur-
den of high taxes can be relieved.
Like most other virtues, economy
should begin at home.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
By National Editorial Association
Special to Chronicle

Special to Chronicle
Washington, April S-If it were
our privilege to read the official mail
of the President of the United States
we would undoubtedly realize the
need of a sense of humor. Those who
know Mr.. Coolidge intimately vouch
for the fact that he does possess this
essential qualification. Considering
the history of the last Congress the
correspondence which reaches the
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10
RULING UPHELD

By the opinion handed down by the
Supreme Court recently in the case
of Alvin Marvel in connection with
the Mckinney will case heard some
years ago in Sussex county, the
judgment of the lower court was up
held by the Supreme Court. Judge
handed down the opinion
which was qoncurred in by Chancel-
lor Wolcott and Judge Rice.
Milford chronicle., 1925-04-10

WILLIAM J. SWAIN of Bridge
Vile, Sussex County, Delaware, has
been appointed by the National Pro-
hibition Enforcement Department, as
Chief of the Department of Delaware.
Mr.. Swain is a young man, of high
standing morally and has the qualifi-
cations to carry out the purposes of
the laws. Every man and woman who
has been active in public affairs in
either the state or the county of Sus-
sex where he resides, knows Mr..
Swain more or less intimately, as a
man of excellent moral character, a
clean and outspoken citizen with the
greatest respect for the laws and
belief in their enforcement without
fear or favor. A kind man, sympa
thetic and helpful when help is need
ed, yet Mr.. Swain will not be impos-
ed upon by friend or foe; he is a
fighter when fighting has to be re-
sorted to for law enforcement. His
appointment was not of his own So
licitation; for Mr.. Swain had much
rather have been left to play about
in the field of politics, in which he
has always had much pleasure in as
sisting to plan campaigns, and help |
to carry elections for his party. He
resigns a position which is less !
strenuous in its duties and which |
carried a very comfortable salary
with it, to take over this work of
federal enforcement of the Volstead |
law and help make Delaware less at
tractive to the bootlegger. Mr.. Swain
is a good citizen and he will make
an efficient officer in his new posi-
ton.