San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-18
Today
Building an Air Fleet.
Roosevelts Hunt Sheep.
Inversely as the Square.
An Old Maids Money.
BY Arthur Brisbane
Copyright. 1895 by Star Co


vYYHILE committees investigate
w flying, Postmaster General
New, promotes, through the
postoffice, the commercial flying that
must be the basis Of this nations air
supremacy.
Mr.. New announces four new air
I mail lines, connecting Chicago and
Detroit, Cleveland and Detroit, Chey-
enne and Denver, Chicago and New
Orleans, taking in st. Louis, Mem.
phis and jackson or Yicksburg.
The public will be grateful to Mr..
New. who acts while some others
quarrel.
HERMIT ROOSEVELT and his
H brother Theodore are in Thibet,
sent there by James Simpson OF Chi
cago, to collect strange animals for
the Marshall Field museum. The
rarest of all sheep, described by
Marco Polo, in his book Of travels,
is what they especially want. They
will hunt that later, when its hide
is in better condition. -
Thus far they have got the wild
blue sheep, from the high plains of
Thibet, some Thibetan antelope and
other queer creatures.
Mr.. Simpsons cash and energy
viii be well spent il they cause
few thousand people to read Marco
Polos Travels.
NIINE HUNDRED Chinese towns
IN are flooded along the Yellow
river, tens of thousands are home
less, many drowned. The whole
thing is told in dozen lines.
Newton's formula, "inversely as
the square of the distance, de-
scribes our interest in other human
beings and their troubles. A mos
quito buzzing in his bedroom means
more to the average man than
spouting volcano in far off Java.
"a POOR maid of Massachusetts,,
"A called poor not because she was
an old maid, but because she spent
Sc years in the insane asylum, has
lust died. While she was in the
asylum her small fortune increased
to 100000, to be divided now
among seven nieces.
Money runs into money" rapidly
in this country, if you give 1t any
sort of an opportunity.
WHAT becomes Of all the money
w the people earn? Why does the
average American die with about
enough to bury him or her.
:. The deputy attorney general OF
New York shows where some OF the
money goes. Bogus stock sales alone
take s5OO,00O,0 900 from the people Of
the state each year. Even that leaves
good deal of money for other swind'
lers to take.
Assume that 100000 people in
New York state average earnings,
or income, of So day. That would
be $4,000, 900, 900 for 300 days in the
year, 1t really is prosperous coun'
try.
TREDIT Mussolini and fascism
~ with one pleasing change. In
Italy men no longer shake hands,
but give each other the Fascist
salute-right arm extended upward.
That's good for the lungs, and men
that don't shake hands don't trade
microbes.
MEN civilized enough not to imi-
iVA tate the Indians rubbing noses
"a terrible thing in times of influ-
enza-should be civilized enough not
to shake hands. The foolish habit
dates back to the stone age when
man stuck out his empty right hand
to a stranger. proof that he didn't
have in it a sharp flint, with which
10 crack the strangers skull.
TURKEY, through its boss, Renal
L Pasha, has drafted new code
of laws, and rules Of living, more
drastic than Napoleon's code. in Its
changes. Napoleon, after he had
time TO think, made friends with the
church, saying, II need a spiritual
police force"
New Turkish laws offend many
sacred teachings Of the Koran, end
pelygamy, which might be called
Turkish prohibition" and make any
attack on the government a more
serious crime than ordinary assassin.
alton.
TN one thing, the new Turkish laws
j set US an example. They don't
have censorship in advance. News
papers, moving pictures, book pub
fishers can use their judgment and
20 ahead, with heavy penalties for
improper behavior, after the offense.
WIFE OF RAILROAD