San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21
Today
lawson. Able, Honest,
Useful.
Stomach Fighting Brain.
Treat France Well.
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright 1925 by Star Co;

BY Arthur Brisbane
C-Copyrlght 1925 by Star CO.
IN the death Of Victor Lawson,
Chicago and the newspaper
= world lose an able, honest, USE
full man.
Mr.. Lawson, dead at rs. connects
the newspaper Of today with the days
of Bennett, Greeley, and Raymond.
Newspaper changes in Lawson's
life Of work have been as great as
changes in transportation, from stage
coaches to flying machines.
I AWSON, whose mind remained
young while his body grew old,
changed his news collecting methods
without difficulty from the slow
messenger boy to wireless and the
radio, keeping always up with the
times.
Chicago, where his life was spent,
owes much to his energy and good
citizenship.
He has gone wherever good news
paper men go, when they die.
GERTRUDE EDERLE, who will
~ try again, should remember that
lady swimming is like an army
that travels on its stomach" On
the morning of her great attempt,
she ate a preposterously hearty
breakfast which included beef stew.
After swimming two and one-half
miles through rough waves, she called
TO her trainer whose orders she had
spurned, II can still feel that beef
stew" And, that beef stew had
probably more to do with her failure
than the waves and the wind.
What applies to Gertrude Ederle,
the young swimmer, applies with ten
thousand times more Importance to
American business and professional
men. They start their days swim"
with heavy meal, often following
it up with heavy luncheon, heavily
swallowed.
And they spend the day with their
stomach fighting the brain as to
which shall have the blood supply on
(which brain and stomach depend for
their work. e. H. Hartman and
JAN Gould killed themselves by fool
yXTHfEN a horse is to race they
w talk away his hay the night and
morning before the race.
If our able men treated themselves
as intelligently as trainers treat race
horses they would produce twice as
much and live twice as long.
WASHINGTON takes it for grant
w ed that France will receive
treatment less favorable than that
accorded to Belgium in her debt
settlement.
Regardless Of the fact that her
resources are greater than Belgium's
France should be treated by this ma
ton as a favored creditor, even more
favorably than Belgium or any other
nation.
THE United States owes a gigantic
4 debt to France, and that doesn't
refer to the unimportant gesture of
Lafayette, who remained quiet and
invisible in his own country's revo-
luton.
1t refers to the great Frenchman
of the Eighteenth century, whose
writings inspired and guided our
ablest men, including Jefferson and
Franklin. What they knew they
learned from France, and to France
this country owes its revolution.
THE United States will send three
sea planes manned by Is men to
fly, in one "hop" from California to
Hawaii.
This country should have been
long ago beyond the experimental
hop" stage, with regular flying SER
vice from Hawaii to the continent
and from Hawaii to the Philippines.
If this country doesn't learn to fly
westward across the Pacific, plenty
of those now living will see Asiatie
flying boats coming the other way.
THEY haven't exactly got freedom
Il of the press in Cuba as yet-at
least, not freedom for editors, ex-
cept in the poetical sense.
In that sense the late editor Alva-
RADIO of tho Havana El Dia is free.
He criticised Machado's govern
ment. On Tuesday his two papers
were suspended by government order.
Early yesterday morning editor Alva-
RADIO was shot dead.
-. -~@wV-1 rufW@Ny