San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-16
Today
Granddaughter Visit.
More Pay for Good
Men.
Blaming Automobiles.
John Hertz-His Sign.
BY Arthur Brisbane
copyright, 1926 by Star Co

- ICH Americans send their dol
K lars off to Europe with their
daughters, little knowing how
those dollars or daughters will come
back.
Sometimes dollars stay and daugh-
tiers come back with a divorce and
experience. Sometimes daughter and
dollars stay, and the next generation
returns to surprise the man that
made the dollars.
0LD Levi Letter of Chicago, whose
~ money established the for
tune of Lord Curzon in England,
would be surprised to meet bis
granddaughter, Lady Cynthia Mosley.
Behold, she comes to the United
States for a visit, speaking an Eng
lish of which old Letter would under
stand not one word, and she is
Socialist, spending the Letter money
to get into Parliament on the Labor
ticket.
Can't you imagine Levi Letter
turning in his grave like an electric
fan?
THE railroad trainmen, hundreds
i OF thousands of faithful workers,
ask for better pay and ought 10 get
it. Railroads, protected by govern
ment, enjoy prosperity, steadily in
creasing. They should divide pros
perity with the men that do the work,
through the nights in cold and rain,
when those that collect dividends are
asleep.
All Americans, especially business
men and money makers, should de-
mand that good workmen get their
fair share OF national prosperity.
The rich man can get only his
share of what the average man has
to spend.
GOVERNMENT figures show that
~ from 1920 to 1924, automobiles
killed 6O,s76 men, women and chill
dren."
And in 1924 the death rolf num-
bered 15,52S.
Calculated TO give the false and
damaging impression that the auto
mobile in itself is dangerous, dead
ly demon, these figures are NOT
true TO fact.
ar the sixty-odd thousand Killed.
" in five years some were the vic-
tins Of stupid, reckless or drunken
drivers, some of Incompetence.
The greater number killed were
victims Of their own carelessness,
commonly described as "jsy-walk-
ing"
When a man on the railroad
track is killed, nobody blames the
locomotive or suggests suppressing
railroads. The signs read stop, look,
listen,- and @keep off the tracks
City streets and country highways
are now in fact RAILROAD
TRACKS. public convenience. hap
piness and comfort demand ALL
POSSIBLE ENCOURAGEMENT
OF THE AUTOMOBILE INDUS
TRY. Not a few, but TENS OF
MILLIONS now ride in automobiles
every day.
TT is therefore a crime 10 misrepre-
i sent the situation, discourage the
automobile industry, blaming the in
dividual careful driver for the care
lessness and stupidity of "jay-waik-
ers.- The automobile industry is the
greatest blessing Of the human race.
fIOHN HERTZ, who bosses yellow
~ tarieabs in Chicago, and taxis and
omnibuses all over the world. is de-
termined to make his drivers polite
and gentle, even if it hurts.
On the back Of each Chicago taxi
you see the sign, "If l break any
traffic rule please report me-"
This is almost OVERRIDING, it and
Is only equaled by sign that humor-
Gus Americans used to wear ON each
good old fashioned New Years day
~vhen l am drunk, please send me
home
IRVING BERLIN and his young
i wife, on board ship send TO the
wide world this information by wire
less, eve have nothing to add 10 our
only authorized statement IN New
York - that we are supremely
happy"
That's good; perhaps it would be
IL "a nd