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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
Not Lower Ideals Wreck Marriages Declares Rupert Hughes

women to accept as their lords and
masters for life the men they Sc
lected as husbands in their senti-
mental days. Imagine telling our
women that they could not under
any circumstances free themselves
from their husbands no matter what
their husbands might decide to do |!
1t is unthinkable and a number of
busy people would save themselves
a vast amount Of wasted energy If
they would give up the effort to
force women back into their old
serfdom.
Even the judges Of our supreme
court hold their life offices only
during good behavior. There is no
office the tenant of which is not
liable to impeachment.
Why should husbands and wives
be granted the power to ruin each
others lives with no recourse to the
law for release or protection?
1t is lamentable that there should
be so many broken homes today.
1t is impossible not to regret the
tragedies, thwarted hopes, the frus-
trated dreams of love that mated in
the hope Of finding a paradise only
to find that it had misread the
name.
WHY ASK PERFECTION?
Noboy expects the business world
to get along without bankruptcies,
fires, embezxlements and dissolved
partnerships. Why should we de-
mand perfection and unvarying tri-
umph in the far more uncertain
world of romance?
In the old days when neither men
nor women were free, when the
farmers son expected to be a farm
err and the clerks son clerk, a man
asked no more Of his wife than that
she should be physically attractive,
sentimentially congenial, and able to
cook, sew, wash and take care Of
babies. If he didn't like her he
could beat her and neglect her; il
she didn't like that she could lump
it, or go back to her mother and do
the homework at home.
Now a grown man has the world
before him, the sky is the limit to
his opportunities, and his own limita-
tons are the only limitation TO his
ambitions and possibilities. He has
as good a right to aspire to the
highest offices in the land as any
other man or woman in the coun-
try. He has as good right to riches
and artistic eminence. He reads a
morning paper that spreads the
world before him. He telephones,
telegraphs, travels, uses the radio.
He is a citizen of the world.
AND WOMEN, TOO.
The same is increasingly true of
the women of today There is no
reason in the world to doubt that
women will be future presidents of
the United States, future judges,
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possible to believe that no Ameri-
can women raised a mob and start
ed riot when the judges refused
to let married women enter the
courts except in their husbands
name; that they did not even
shrek with rage when American
judges dared to say: "A husband
and a wife are one and the husband
is the one" .r,.
Imagine what would happen to
judge who said that today. If
the American woman of today did
not denounce him for a beastly
tyrant it would be because she was
laughing so hard that she could
not get mad.
A canary in n cage sings hap
PLY enough and hops about con-
tentedly in little cage. But a
free bird beats itself to death or
starves to death behind the bars.
The old fashioned wife found
perhaps more happiness in the more
or less gilded cage than the mod
ern wife docs in her freedom. But
who dares maintain that freedom
is not priceless possession, how
ever much it costs?
OLD.FASHIONED SLAVERY.
The old-fashioned man was per-
haps more satisfied with his wife
than the modern man, though you
have only to read the old records to
realize that if the old homes were
happy they did not seem to know it.
But the old-fashioned man was
himself slave to a thousand re-
strictions that child would resent
today. The old-fashioned man prob
ably had no vote, no dignity, no
equality, no large opportunity. If
his wife had even less, what of it?
In those days the highest ideal
was obedience for both men and
women. In our days obedience is
unbearable, and independence is the
ideal.
The old-fashioned wife could not
live with the modern husband be-
cause he would not live with her.
He would find her too stupid, too
stodgy, too limited in interests, in
tellect and ambition to be a COM
panion to his frec-ranging soul.
As soon MS the average citizen
was emancipated, his wife had to
seek emancipation with him. The
good old fashioned home with its
dull expectations and it's narrow
interests was like a cabin on an
old plantation in which two slaves
dwelt together. The slaves ex-
pected little and got less. They sang
and danced and laughed and made
the best of it, as brave people have
always done, but their best was
worse than our worst.
UNWORTHY OF LIBERTY.
For he is n base soul unworthy
Of freedom who will either accept
slavery from somebody else or
inflict it ON somebody else.
/ am not slandering the ancient
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|Rea1Signatures|

DARIS, Nov. ARTISTS finger
i prints will appear on statues
and paipinss now being given their
finishing touches in Paris STUDIOS
for exhibition in the winter salon.
These identification marks will be
registered in the Ministry OF Beaux-
Arts, and will protect the artists
property rights in case his works
are copied or initiated.
I'VE will issue decree within a
few days. establishing set OF
regulations, which, il we can only
persuade the artists to carry them
out faithfully, will put an end to
much of the plagiarism which is
said to be going on in modern art"
Monsieur Anatole de Monzie, Min
lister of Beaux-Arts, informs Uni
versal Service.
"Of course, it will be difficult to
change the habits of the older gen.
Grafton of painters and sculptors.
Many of them would consider IL a
personal insult to even suggest that
their work is in danger of being
successfully copied or initiated.
But the idea will take hold
quickly with the younger artists. In
n few generations, it is to be hoped
our new copyright system for art
, will have put an end TO such prob
lens in present day painting, as
! we now have TO cope with in the
. multiplicity of Corots."
: The Beaux-Arts ministry is open
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old Homes Are Breaking Up Because
They Are Not Big Enough for
Modern Spirit" =
By RUPERT HUGHES

Has 1t ever occurred to you, or
to anyone else, that the reason why
so many marriages are failures now
adays is not, because our ideals are
lower than they used to be, but be-
cause they are higher?
l have seen nearly every other
reason given for the increasing prev
alencc Of broken homes except the
flattering one, and l think, the true
one, that the old homes are break
ing up and the old ideals of home
are being cast off because the old
homes were not big enough nor the
ideals high enough to contain or
to content the high spirit of our new
era.
A hers egg Is perfect thing of
its sort and il it is sterile it will
remain undisturbed for long
while. If it is kept on ice, it will
remain comparatively fresh indefin-
itely. But if that egg contains life
and Is kept warm, life will grow and
complications will set in until fin
ally there is another little hen
ready for the outer world.
On the soft bcak Of that chick is
a little hard point, and the first
muscle that can move turns the
head back and forth until the egg
is cut and split and the chick falls
out. For a brief while she sprawls
helplessly but she begins to make
srotesque efforts to use the trouble
some powers that will not give her
peace. She rises, falls over, gets up.
THE MODERN HOME.
The hard point on her beak falls
off az it has no further value. BY
and by the chick can walk she
helps herself to walk by the use Of
wings that will never learn to fly
far. Chickens used TO fly but by
long disuse, by a process of devolu-
ton, their wings have lost the abil-
ity to lift them further than the top
OF a fence or a low bough. A fly
ing fish can 60 farther.
In time, the chick is a pullet, and
in further time a hen, who will
probably lay another egg and keep
it warm.
The feelings of hen when she
finds that the perfect egg she has
emitted is being ruthlessly crushed
BY some inner deviltry, must close
~ resemble the feelings Of the ex-
cited human poultry that csckles
over the ruin Of TIE modern home.
1t must be startling to have hens
mind and watch a long cherished
gg going TO pieces as a queer little
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generals, admirals. chiefs Of nvia-
ton, cabinet members, governors,
what not?
The girl of today having thus sud-
denly discovered Golconda of OPP
portunity before her would be n fool
and craven not to demand her
share of the sunlight and the treas
ure. II the man she loves is stupid
or brutal enough to deny it to her.
she will break the chains he casts
about her, or she is unworthy Of
freedom; she is deserving Of chains.
The man Of today must have a
wife who is his companion. Being
no longer a slave himself, he can
not be satisfied with a slave for a
wife. The woman Of today demands
a companion fitted to her soul. II
she is worth her salt, she cannot
accept slavery or endure tyranny.
She cannot be content with a man
who has no ambition and no desire
for her own development.
A hen is a good enough wife for
an old rooster, goose for a gander.
But an eagle must have an eagle
for mate. II an eagle finds that
his or her mate has no appetite for
flight, shall he or she be denied the
sky and the use of pinions?
WHAT WRECKS HOMES.
The thing that is wrecking so
many modern homes is the new free
dom of both partners. The cure is
not the withdrawal of the freedom
but the enlargement Of the ambition.
Even if the cure were the with
drawal Of the freedom. who is going
TO withdraw it? Who is there to-
day big enough to cry Back to
your tents!" and compel the world
to sink off the field and huddle
under canvas? 1t simply can't be
done. The people who are making so
much noise are simply trying to
howl down the wind, to blow out Of
their own lungs enough power to
combat the oceanic gales.
II woman's husband finds her
too slow to keep up with him, it is
not wise to cripple him for her sake,
as so many good people seem to
. think; but TO quicken her for both
their sakes. For a crippled athlete
is not happy. though a stimulated
plodder may become so.
Another thing too-much forget
ten is that divorce may be a proof
of ideaiism and cleanliness. In the
good old days land today in some
countries) the Infidelity or incom-
patibility of one partner was some
thing from which the other partner
had absolutely no relief. The hus.
band of a wanton could do nothing :
to shake off his chains. His dis
grace was jokingly referred to rs
his horns" and he could wear them
till he died. A wife whose husband I.
was promiscuous had no refuge from I
the shame and the iideous peril of
her bondage
The Washington times., 1925-02-25
REINDEER DATE
FOR MEETING
CHANGED
Annual Convention Of Order
Here to Be Greatest
Ever Staged

The convention dates for the thlrc
annual meeting of the BeneVolen'
Protective Order of Reindeer, which
win convene in Washington this
fall, have been changed from the
week of September II, to the week
of September 10.
Members of the program com
mittee announced today that there
will be a grand street parade start
ing at 1870 on the afternoon OF
Tuesday, September Is, followed by
the annual ball Tuesday night, al
the Lincoln Colonnade.
Robert Hurd. chairman of the
convention committee, stated that
the Washington convention is. ex'
pected to eclipse the previous tive
conventions of the order, in that
the program will be larger and the
attendance greater. MANY of the
members" he said, "have never
visited the National Capital, and
their summer vacation will consist
in attending the convention.
Autos for Visitors
Other members serving on the
convention committee are Otis
Allen, Doctor H. N. Savoy, Edward
Lawson, Charles Top, Joseph Ware,
C.. J. Spagner, L. H. Harrison. La
firth Harris. p M. Gordon, Louis
Scott. Fred De Bolts, G. e. Gipson,
Reudolph Gordon, j. Franklin viii.
son and astoria McAdden.
An automobile committe was ap'
pointed at the executive meeting o.
the local lodge last night, whose
function 1t will be to have all
colored citizens who own cars as.
sist in the pleasure Of convention
visitors during the week Of the an
nual session.
Professor George William Cook.
dean the the school of finance, of
Howard University, will be the
principal speaker at the regular
university Sunday vesper exercises.
March 1. Frederick L. Fishback
will also make short talk. The
university choir will give a special
musical program under the leader
ship OF Vida Childers
THE applications Of the princi-
pals of Jesus to our economic life
will be the subject of the discus
sion, led by Doctor e. l.. Parke.
in Library Hall, Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock.
A recital by the university or
chestra and band Will be the fea-
lures Of the noon day exercises.
Thursday, February 26.
Professor Hart To Lecture.
Albert Bushell Hart, trustee OF
Howard and professor of govern
ment at Harvard University, will
give a public lectuAe' in the Car
negie Hall, Thursday. at 8 p. m.
The student council viii lead the
weekly prayer meeting in Library
Hall tonight at 6:45.
Officials Of the university an.
nounced today that the only obser-
walton of Inauguration will be the
closing of all classes and activities.
This, they say, is because they de-
sire to follow the example of the
in observing a simple
and quiet inaugural celebration.
All classes and activities will
start again March 5.
The Washington times., 1925-02-25
BOY TEARS HIS HEART
TO PIECES WITH SHOT

NORFOLK, Va. Feb. 25.-While
other members Of his family were
preparing for bed at their nome
near Indian River Park, Norfolk
county, shortly before midnight,
James McFalls. seventeen, placed
a shotgun against his breast and
almost blew his heart from his body.
He died instantly. He had been
Respondent for some time, his pa
rents state.
The Metals family moved to
Norfolk county from Yancey
county, North Carolina, few years
ago.
The Washington times., 1925-02-25
STUDENT GIVES BLOOD
TO SAVE WOMAN'S LIFE

sPARTANBURG, S. c., Feb. 25.
Sam Easterling, Wofford College
athlete, from Florence, s. c., yester'
day saved the life Of Mrs. j. F. Bah
ington, prominent woman Of Blacks
burg, S. c., who was rushed here
from that town suffering from
hemorrhage and about to die IN
less blood TRANSMISSION proved sue
cessful.
The operation was performed and
Easterling gave a pint and half
of blood. The woman still lives.
The Washington times., 1925-02-25
RedllOeS
e POUNDS
after failing
withothn methods

had tried many methods of reduction,
i but had no permanent results In my
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Asyou batne, excess weight and acoB-
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The Washington times., 1925-02-25

Girls. Try this! When combins
and dressing your hair. just moisten
your hair brush with q little Dan
derine" and brush it through your
hair. The effect Is startling! You
can do your hair up Immediately
and it will appear twice as thick
and heavy-a mass of gieamy hair,
sparkling with life and possessing
that incompatible softness, fresh
ness and luxuriance.
While identifying the hair
ssDanderine'' is also toning and
stimulating each single hair to
grow thick, long and strong. Hair
stops falling out and dandruff dis,
appears. Get q bottle of "Dander-
ine'' at any drug or toilet counter
and just see how healthy and
youthful your hair appears after
this delightful, refreshing dressing.
Evening star., 1925-09-20

| Grafton the keynote Of his address
declaring that there would be peace
| and harmony in the local depa tine MT
all MISUNDERSTANDING would be abol
| ished peacefully. If possible. or If not
! then some other methods would be
adopted. The members Of the post
by rising vote, pledged unanimous
support TO Department Comma nder
| Peyser. f 4.
John j. Orlosky was elected third
! vice comma nder of the post, succeed
ing Daniel W., Washburn, who ad.
vanced to the. office of second vice
commander. The vacancy of vice
commander was caused by the resig.
| nation OF Commander Thomas J.
Frailey. who expressed a desire to
devote his entire time to the duties
of senior vice comma nder of the de-
partment, TO which he WAS elected by
the recent department convention held
! in Interior Building Auditorium
Finance Officer William A. kehoe
has issued a report showing that 1SO
members have been certified to de-
partment headquarters in good stand
ing. which exceeds last years record
by 81. and according to present indi-
cations. the post this year will sur
pass all previous records. Applica mt q
for membership to be admitted at.the
next meeting to be held at City Club
October s are Nathaniel E. Whiting
and Paul y. Orlosky. Comma nder
John T. Baker presided.
The installatio of officers for the
ensuing year Of George Washington
Post, 30. l. the American Legion.
took place last Tuesday night at s
o'clock at the clubhouse, 1929 l street
Past Post and Past Department Com
mander E. Lester Jones was the in
stalling officer
The officers installed were as fol.
lows: Commander, Charles o. Shaw:
first vice. commander. James J. Muir
ply: second vice commander. Walter
J. West: third vice commander.
Charles J. Painter: quartermaster
Bernard c. McGee; sergeant-at-arms
Emil Walter: master-at-arms. vii
liam A. Smell; surgeon, NJ. H. Dar-
nall: historian. Past Commander How
ard S. Fisk: color bearers. William r.
Mahony and John F. Smith.
At the conclusion of the installation
Past Commander +. Lester Jones pre-
Sented Commander Shaw with ma
hogany caVel. following custom Of
donating a gavel to every comma nder
elected since the orga MIA ton of the
post in 1919. 4 brief speech of ac-
ceptance was made by Commander
time to express appreciation for his
election and the honor which had been
conferred on him.
A past comma nders badge was pre-
sented to retiring Commander Walla ce
Streater by Past Commander Howard
S. Fisk. who spoke of the work of the
various commanders of the post since
the orga nization Of the pioneer post.
Past Comma nder Streater responded
In a brief address and stressed the
fact that many of the legionnaires in
this department displayed selfish mo-
Evening star., 1925-09-20

Mayor Lloyd Collier and Representa-
tive Frederick l.. Zihlman. comdr.
Alton Y. Bennett and David l.. Wine
brenner.
A reception and luncheon will be
rendered to the visitors by Francis
Scott Key Post. American Legion,
members, and at its conclusion she
veterans will proceed to Gettysburg.
Past Department Comdr. Frank l..
Peckham will officiate at the cemetery
ceremony. Lieut.. Howard s. Fisk,
ington Post, No. /. will be in charge
of the caravan. Scout cars will be
comma nded by George Caskey.
Comdr. Charles Riemer, chairman of
arrangements, has named the follow
ing committee TO assist: DR.. Charles
F.. Ralph, DR.. Jesse l.. Hail. Judson c.
Dale, 7. Norman Templeton, Lewis
Werden. Glen ID. Tubbs. Lieut.. Wal
ter A. kilbourne, Paul h. Carr, Past
Comdr. Robert McCandlish, c. F..
Briggs, DIR. j. r. Earnst. Dr. Charles
f. Detmar, William c. Clark, DIR. Ray
Guynn and William Foster. The fol
lowing have been selected to represent
and chaperon the American Legion
Auxiliary members who win accom-
pany the party on it's outing: Mrs.
Lewis Werden. president of the Wal
colt unit Mrs. Frank l.. Peckham.
president of the Tank Corps unit; Mrs.
Charles Grove of the Kenneth H.
Mast Post unit; past presidents of the
Walcott Post unit Mrs. T. Norman
Templeton. Mrs. Charles e. Ralph,
and present secretary Mrs. Charles
Riemer.
Officers Of Vincent B. Costello Post.
No. 15, The American Legion, were
installed at a buffet supper meeting
Tuesday night at the Shoreham
Hotel, with Department Commander
Julius Peyser presiding. Chief JUS
tice Mccoy, Edward 3. Mclean and
Judge Isaac Hit made addresses.
The new officers are: Command
Thomas ID. Walsh: first vice comma nd
er, A. y. Hare: second vice comma nd
er, Henry Jett: third vice COM
mander. Elsie +. Schmidt: chaplain,
Rev. F. j. Hurney; surgeon, DR.. C. j.
Murphy; historian. William F. Frank
lin; sergea nt,at arms. j. J. Murphy;
Evening star., 1925-09-20
Veterans of Great War

tives instead of working in the inter
EST, OF the organization.
The annual report Of Finance Oh
Ger F. H. Hardy was presented by a
special auditing committee composed
of Past Commander Howard S. Fisk
and Lew s. Mohler. The report
showed the post clear of indebt edness
and a substantial bala nee for the in
coming officers. A rising vote OF
thanks WAS extended to the retiring
finance officer, who has served for the
past four years, for the efficient man.
ner in which the recor0s were kept.
1t was voted also to continue the
present method of keeping the books
If the post.
The social feature of the America n
Legion and auxiliary national conven-
lions to be held at Omaha October )
To ,. Will be the annual States dinner
of the auxiliary 1t will be held this
year on the evening OF October g.
The States dinner has annually
been the social coup of the national
gathering of the auxiliary.
The women of the American lie.
gion Auxiliary are to play a promi.
nent part in the American Legion ma
tional convention in Omaha in Octo
Der. according to the program Of the
women events. which has just been
issued. Teas, receptions. State din.
ners and meetings will fill great
part Of the visiting women's time.
Starting October 4, the day before the
convention opens, the women's pro-
gram will begin with an Aloha break
fast. This viii be followed in the aft
ernoon by Presidents parley lunch
con-
On Monday there will be recep-
tion to visiting iegionnaires. This
will be followed in the evening by a
tea for the convention pages at the
Omaha Country Club. States dinner.
a reception for the visiting women
at the Elks' Club and reception for
visiting T)aughters of the America n