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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
Pupils Health
By Royal S. Copeland

! read about a resolution presented
at a school board meeting, providing
for a semi-annual survey of every
school by the fire department and
the health department.
That is a fine idea. 1t was smart
man who, thought Of it when no fires
or serious illness had recently cursed
the community. Most fire and health
surveys follow Immediately after
some dreadful DISASTER
The way to avoid fires and the way
TO prevent disease il 10 remove the
hazards most Of which are fully IN.
derstood. If / remember correctly,
my old friend, Chief KcnlOn. Of the
New York Fire Department, told me
that the vast majority Of fires are due
to rubbish in the basement,
Most families never destroy any
thing. They store things away in
the attic and basement. The rats
thrive here and prepare the way for
The fire carelessly thrown match
or detective furnace may start.
A fire in a school house is
terrible thing. \ community can
never forgive itself for fatalities Of
this origin.
The ventilation. lighting and toilet
facilities Of most schoolhouscs are
vile. May ] make clear just what
] said: Most schoolhOuses are uu-
sanitary and hazardous to health.
want every citizen to realize this
fact. Then an aroused public con
s"iencc will rec 70 it that the chill
dren Of the nation are protcrred in
their surroundings as they should be.
We are fortunate in the many
noble qualities of rhc teachers Of
America. They are looking after
the education Of course, but more
than this, they are guarding the
morals, promoting the patriotism
and watching the health NJ our chill
dren. We owe a debt Of gratitude
To- the teaching profession, a debt
We can never pay.
The least the public can do is 10
see 10 it that the schOoIlouse is
ventilated. lighted. heated and rem
dercd sanitary, according 10 the well
recognized rules Of sanitary scicnrc.
The health authorities can render no
more important public service than
10 make the scmi-annuaI survey sug-
gestcd by the school director men
toned.
Childhood is the basement and
foundation Of life. II must be
watched, kept in repair and every
where strengthened, otherwise the
supcrstructure-the adult Iife-will
toppIc over and end in disaster.
Let the child be directed during
the growing and developing years
and all will be well when middle-age
Is reached.
Copyright 1895. by Newspaper
Feature Service. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
Time for New View

vTT INSTON CHURCHILL'S grotesque attempt to
NV put this country the blame for Europe's
burden of debt very properly met with
amused silence by official WASHINGTON.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
QUEENS COUNSEL
By MARIE, QUEEN OF RoUMANIA
Egotism.
Registered United States Patent Office.

our sense of self-preseryation. 1t
keeps us from being crushed, from
losing our rights as an individual.
L do not belong to those who believe
that their own ego is the only import
ant thing in life. The one who has
this ideal easily becomes a monster.
But l do think that those who let
themselves be cut to peces for others
or by others, are rather poor creatures
and of little use to the world at
large.
We must defend our personality,
for VIC are nothing without it.
So much give and then take. All
give and no take is wrong, reduces the
giver to a ra= and gives the taker bad
habits! 1t weakcns the characters Of
both and is therefore bad.
To end with Nietzsche as ! began
with him, here is another bit of his
advice:
The strong take as they give,
moved by a violent and passionate in.
stinct of justice which is the law Of
their being
Let each Of us try to work this
truth harmoniously into our everyday
lives!
Copyright. 1925. Famous Features
Syndicate, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
.Life's Hurdles
BY L. E. Bisch

Most of the failures, disappoint-
ments and unhappiness of life are
caused by ignorance.
If we understood ourselves thor
oughly, if we could realize how this or
that mode of behavior would influ-
ence us, if we could be expert in
interpreting events, if we could always
understand the relationship between
cause and effect-if, in short, we
but possessed sufficient knowledge
life would be. easier to control and
easier to bear.
But we lack such information. We
are ignorant.
Ignorance is to blame when a wo-
man marries the wrong man, or a man
the wrong woman.
II men and women understood each
other better, if they knew how 10
profit by the experience Of others, the
divorce courts would not be the busy
places they are.
If mothers had more knowledge Of
motherhood, and fathers were better
posted on the duties of fatherhood,
fewer children would grow up UMPIRE
pared for the battle Of life.
Why do so many fail in business?
Why are not more men and women
more efficient than they really are?
Because they are not well equipped
for the jobs they undertake. Because
they are ignorant Of the tasks they
wish to make careers.
Workers are often dissatisfied. Is
not the cause frequently ignorance?
If they knew their jobs better, or
knew what work they really would
like best-if they were not ignorant
Of what they can do or want to do
disappointment would soon disap-
pear.
Take any problem you like, reduce
il to its essentials, and in the last
analysis it's n question of knowledge
whether or not you will solve it sue
ccssfully.
Unpreparedness-again lack Of
knowledge is one Of the striking de-
fects Of the average individual.
Yet knowledge need not be confined
to n select few.
knowledge is available to every
one.
knowledge is everywhere in abund.
ance.
Academic school knowledge helps,
but it is the knowledge OF life that
specially refer to.
BE a keen obSeryer-thats the
way to gain knowledge.
Make comparisons between the peo-
pie you know.
Watch the things people do and
note the results.
Study the past performances Of your
friends.
Try TO learn n lesson from every
thing that happens.
Copyright 1925. Premier synd., Inc
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
"Under Control"

HE great oil fires at Brea and San San Luis
Obispo, California are under control" They
have burned themselves almost out, after de-
stroying $l5000OO0 worth of property The fires de-
stroyed more than oil. They burned all the labor all
the ingenuity all the time devoted to the prospecting
OF oil lands the drilling Of wells, the pumping of OIL
the storage the treatment, the handling of that oil
All that went up in smoke with many homes and orange
ranches ruined forever.
The terrible fires miniature representation
Of the late, glorious war; knded in Europe to rage for
four long and to draw our own country into
its flames. Compared with that European fire, the oil
blaze is important than burned-out match
The California fires are under control" So. also
we hope, those of Europe
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
Picking a Fight

A RUMANIAN artist has had the temerity to
~ choose the six most beautiful women in America
They are Clara Bow, Lila Lee, Blanche Sweet
Mary Astor, Alice Brady Anette Kellerman and Cleo
Lombard.
- One of the surest of attracting publicity is
to have everyone attack you.
This is attained sooner than any other way known
TO civilized by choosing restricted list of "most
beautiful women
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
Distinction and Democracy
By DR.. FRANK CRANE


struggle of those inferior to better
themselves.
4 realization Of their need for i'm
provemcnt is the first requisite Of
such a struggle.
Anything that substitutes an I'M
worthy scIf-complacency for this
realization is harmful.
Amicl, in his journal, records this
observation
Virtue and genius, grace and
beauty, will always constitute a
noblcssc such as no form Of govern
mcnt can manufacture.
"All that can be expected from the
most perfect institutions is that they
should make it possible for individual
excellence to develop itself, not that
they should produce the excellent in
dividuaI."
The most beneficial form Of govern
ment is that which offers the best soil
for individual excellence to flower in.
A democracy, freed from the caste
system and traditional inherited titles
offers such ground under the best
Of conditions when it is properly func-
tiOning.
But an idea Of democracy which OBJ
literates distinction is not only false
but pcrnicious.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21

To borrow once more from
Nietzchc, who declares (Nietzsche al.
was declares rather than says: NO
bic souls accept without scruple their
own egotism. 1t gives them no feeling
Of being hard. ruthless or capricious.
II is to them as though it fitted into
the Fundamental reason Of things
Let me say Immediately that, capt..
waiting as are Nietzsche's maxims, they
are also exceedingly dangerous. 1t
must never be forgotten that behind
all his sayings floats that vision Of
the super-man-an ideal he pursues
all through.
Nictzchc loathcd the masses, the
everyday man. He dreamed Of a su-
perior being who ruthIcssly became
great, never matter how much in life.
how many human beings, he crushed
in 50 doing.
But he was a poet and there is a
lure in his language like music. The
strong understand him rightly; he is
no danger 10 them. To the weak, IN.
diluted Nietzschc is poison.
Yet in the above quotation there is
a fundamental truth that every mlu
cun make his own. 4 certain degree
Of c=Otism is necessary. It belongs to
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21

The other day a speaker voiced this
idea:
democracy needs to cultivate dis.
tinction. The tendency now is for
al men 10 think everyone else is
either equal or inferior-nonc 81.
pcrior."
This is perhaps a legitimate crit
cism.
IT it is, it reveals a real danger.
Individual excellence always ripcns
from the bud Of individual dissatis-
faction. @
A long as men are satisfied with
themselves there is little attempt 10
make d change or TO advance.
And only BEING superior counts,
not thinking yourself superior.
A man must show himself that he
is worthy Of confidence before be is
able to possess true and wholesome
self-cOnfidence.
The man who assumes on general
principles that none are superior, be-
fore he has gwen himself grounds for
such an assumption. holds only an un-
proved fantasy.
Everyone knows that the men
around him are not all equal. that
some are superior.
The hope Of the world lies in the
Evening star., 1926-06-05
G. w. u. EXERCISES
TO START TONIGHT
Alumni Association to Elect Off
cers-President Lewis to
Speak Tomorrow.

The one hundred and fifth annual
commencement week activities of
George Washington University start
tonight, with the annual meeting and
election Of officers Of the alumni asso-
citation at the Washington Club. To-
grounds DIR. William Mather Lewis,
president of the institution, will de-
liver the baccalaureate address at 4
o'clock.
Next week the annual pilgrimage to
Mount Vernon will be held on Monday
morning, the annual base ball game
between the faculty and the Pyramid
Honor Society will be held on Tues
day In the evening the annual class
night exercises will be held at Corco-
ran Hall. Wednesday the commence
ment exercises will be held in the eve
ming at the Washington Auditorium,
with DIR. David Allan Robertson as
the principal speaker. More than 400
will be graduated. DIR. and Mrs. Lewis
will receive the graduates Wednesday
afternoon at the Washington Club.
ToniSht'S activities will be followed
by reception and dance for the mem
bers of the graduating classes. The
annual election of officers will be fol-
lowed by one or two matters of bust
ness relative to changes in the alumni
association constitution.
The present officers are: Gilbert L..
Hall, president; T. Carroll Todd, Eliza
beth Springston, Airline Dufour, Phil
brick Mccoy, DR.. Frank A. Hornaday,
E. Roger Boyle, vice presidents, and
Rosemary Arnold, secretary-treasurer.
The alumni association will an
nounce the selection of Dr. John B.
Larner and John Joy Edison as alumni
association members recently elected
as members Of the board of trustees Of
the institution DR.. Larner is at pres
ent the president of the board of trus-
tees and was recently reelected.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
HEATING CONVENTION
ELECTS CHICAGO MAN
National Session Ends With Plea
for More Pride in Industry.
Mount Vernon Visited.

A plea for the application of com.
mon sense 70 business problems and
the development of pride in the heat
ing industry was voiced by William G..
Bergner. manager of the national
trade extension bureau, in q speech
before the Heating and Piping Con-
tractors National Association at it's
closing session yesterday.
The convention adjourned after the
election of Harry NJ. Hart of Chicago,
president; William Fl. Driscoll, Long
Island City, n. Y, president of the
American Society of Heating and Ven
Horace W. Jones, Rochester, n. Y,
treasurer, and Henry 3. Gombers, sec
retary. All the officers with the eX-
ception Of the president were re-
elected to their posts. Two new di-
rectors were elected, Frank w. How
ard, Boston, and r. S. StitZley, De-
troit r. Templeton Smith, Pittsburgh,
was reelected director, and the fol
lowing, besides the officers, continue
as directors: William n. Anderson.
Philadelphia; John S. Jung, Milwau-
kee, and Walter Klie, Cleveland.
Mr.. Bergner stated that he believed
that conditions in the heating business
would be improved by educating the
individual contractors through the ma
tional and local trade associations. He
urged the growth of a spirit of friend
ship and tolerance which would recog-
nize the right of any individual to
make a living out Of the heating bust
ness.
A resolution to have smoke tests
made of chimneys before their accept
ance from mason contractors was
adopted and sent for submission to
the American Institute of Architects
and the National Board of Fire I'm
derwriters.
This afternoon members of the asso-
citation are paying a visit to Mount
Vernon and Arlington.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
AMES FOREIGNERS
FOR BIG OPIUM SALE
Chinese Delegate to Geneva Farley
SAYS His Government Needs
Wider Powers.
De thn Associated Press

Rv the Associated Press.
GENEVA, June 5.--Opium smoking
bv Chinese residents in Far Eastern
colonies of Western powers was as
serted to be increasing, bringing I'M
mense profits to the governments, IN
2. statement made at yesterday Ses-
sion of the League of Nation opium
commission by the Chinese delegate
Mr.. Chu He demanded that the oc-
cidental authorities show greater
respect for The Hague convention is
this connection.
He complained that as much
opium was smuggled into China as
out and that foreigners, not Chlnese,
were doing it. He attacked the
diplomatic corps at Peking for refus-
ing to permit China to adopt system
of import and export certificates, as
in other countries. whereby China
could control the traffic. 1t was only
another example, he asserted. of how
China was treated as an inferior ma
ton and blamed for conditions over
which she had no control.
IF | We're master of China" he
said, Il would have every opium
smoker shot" =.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
WOMEN ADOPT COTTON.
Club Members Meet Simply Clad
to Aid Industry.

CHARLOTTE. n. c., June 5 R).-
Women of Charlotte are attempting
to bring cotton dresses back into
favor.
The movement yesterday took the
form of cotton" bridge party, given
by the Women's Club. Approximately
100 members of the club were gowned
in cotton voiles, crepes and organdies.
Silk was conspicuously absent.
Members of the club feel that the
textile industry has suffered greatly
because women have turned to silk
for their wearing apparel, and they
are attempting to promote the use
of Southern manufactured products
by both example and precept.
The club has gone on record as
favoring at least one cotton dress for
each member.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
W|FE'S DESERT|0N
CAUSED 3 DEATHS
Man Who StifIed Children and
Self in Car Called Deeply
Affected.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, June .
Using exhaust gas from his motor
car, William Barnes. IS. yesterday
killed himself and two of his children
while his coupe stood in the village
schoolyard at Ellsworth
Barnes fitted a rubber hose over the
exhaust Of his automobile and ran the
tube into the coupe. Efforts of doe.
tors TO revive him and the children
Lois. 3, and John, 3--were futile
Barnes was despondent because his
wife had deserted him and his three
children
The formality of the cOroner's in
quest was completed and the verdict
was that of double homicide and q
suicide.
The bodies of Barnes and the chill
dren are en- route to the home of his
father. j. Warren Barnes. at Newcas-
tie. Pa. where funeral services will
be held Sunday or Monday.
O. j. Barnes. brother of the dead
man, said William was deeply affected
by the inquiries of the children for
their mother, whom Barnes divorced
after she left him more than two
years ago. EarneS placed Lois and
John in care of the f'airmount Chill
dren's Home az Alliance. Ohio. but
l4eonora, 10. was taken 70 the home
OF her grandparents in Newcastle.
Barnes frequently took the children
from the home to visit his brother.
who lived at Ellsworth. near here. and
II was in the village schoolyard that
a schoolboy found the ear with the
motor running. 1T was believed
Barnes was on his way 10 visit his
brother when he decided TO end it all.
Only week ago. o. =. Barnes said,
his brother remarked To him. I'm 60
ing away next week" Whether he
meant he was planning TO end his life
or whether he planned 90 go away on
Il visit cannot be determined. but the
brother believes he was forming his
plans for ending his life and those of
his children.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
RUM RUNNERS BRING
TICK PEST ON HORSES
Texans Deplore Infested Steeds OF
Mexican Smugglers-Want
Liquor Traffic Motorized.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, June s.
Texas cattlemen are hoping that
liquor smugglers along the Mexican
border will motorize their illegal
traffic.
The rum runners are using horses
covered with cattle fever ticks. which
are playing havoc with efforts OF
stockmen and State officials to stamp
out the pest.
"Reinfestation has taken place re-
Gently in Mason Mccullough and
Brooks counties, because liquor SNUG
glers rode ticky horses in from Mex
leo with their cargoes of contraband,"
Leo Callan, chairman of the State
live stock sanitary board, said today.
Last week immigration men cap
tured band of smugglers in the
western part of Brooks County and
the outfit had 10 head of horses, all
covered with ticks.
"The cattlemen of Texas are hoping
that the bootleggers will resort to
automobiles and leave their tick-cov-
cred bronchoes on the other side of
the Rio Grande."
Evening star., 1926-06-05
MAN LOSES LIFE SAVING
OTHERS FROM FLAMES
Brings Two Out of Burning House
Before Collapsing-Fourth
Victim Near Death.
BY :he Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMLET, N. c., June 5.-B. B.
Baker, proprietor of a boarding house
here, lost his life early yesterday in
saving two persons from burning to
death in a fire which destroyed his
home.
A toll of three lives was taken by
the fire and r. G. Kelley is in a local
hospital with his hands and feet virtu-
ally burned off and his entire body
charred. He was not expected to live.
In addition to Baker, those who lost
thei rlives were Lewis o. Engleka and
Bernie Joyner.
Baker first rescued his son from
the burning structure and then
brought out a young woman. He
plunged into the flames a third time,
but was forced to retreat empty
handed. When he reached the front
porch he collapsed and died almost
instantly. :
Evening star., 1926-06-05
CHEMICAL FIRMS MERGE,
Charter Filed in Delaware for Bic
Consolidation.

DOVER, Del, June s. R.-A
charter was filed yesterday for the
American Potash and Chemical
Corporation to acquire by merger
and consolidation property and as
sets of the American Trena Corpo-
ration, another Delaware company,
for producing, refining and dealing
in chemicals, especially sodium po-
tassium products. The capitalization
is $100,000,000. Incorporators are
Richard Bennett, jr.; S. c.. Winters,
Peter G. Brannan. all of IA Wall
street, New York City.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
RAILROAD Is AWARDED
S1,123,963 BY COURT
Chicago and Western Indiana Wins
2O-Year Suit Over Right
of Way.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 5.-Three de-
PENDANTS yesterday were ordered 10
nav $1.l23.963 to the Chicago ana
Western Indiana Railroad co. Jonrl
&. Fetzer, one time prominent chl-
cago broker; Benjamin Thomas, 1or,
mer president Of the road ana
Charles r. kappas, opposed the sun
for 90 years, which was based on a
contention over IA right of way which
the road desired. Thomas and the
other defendants were alleged 10
have purchased the route for low
price and then offered it TO the foao
at much higher figure.
As a result Thomas was ousteo
as president of the railroad ana a
suit for S653,391 was instituted.
After a lengthy delay the hrst
hearing was held and verdict Tor
the defendants was returned. The
higher court reversed the lower court
on the railroads appeal, but ruleo
that it was entitled only to So'e'"9l
and interest at 5 per cent, amount
ing 10 $o47 ,512.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
SCHOOL BANDS COMPETE.
Contest in Ohio Draws Student
PLAYERS From Several States.

FOSTERIA, Ohio, June 5 R).-The
national high school band contest
opened here yesterday, with Paw Paw,
Mich, drawing the first assignment.
The Michigan band was followed by
one representing Ashtabula Harbor,
Ohio.
The following cities were represented
by bands: Ogden, Utah; Council Bluffs,
Iowa; Marion. Ind: Houston, Tex;
Lowell, Mass; Grand Rapids, Mich;
Louisville, KY, and Flint, Mich.
Today bands representing Lockport,
N. Y, and Joliet, ILL.,, will play. The
Fosteria band is the national cham
pion now.
Each band is allowed As minutes to
play their three contest numbers.
Evening star., 1926-06-05
EARL CARROLL'S APPEAL
LISTS 81 TECHNICALITIES
Ruling of Convicting Court That
Many Points Were Immaterial
Also Cited to Aid Producer.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-The first
step in the appeal Of Earl Carroll
from his conviction of perjury was
filed in Circuit Court of Appeals YES.
terday.
The defense contends that tho
court which sentenced Carroll itself
has held as ;mmaterial the counts
on which the jury returned a YER
dict of guilty. Both these counts
related to the girl in the bathtuh
episode.
Thirtyfour points, many of a
highly technical character, are raised
in the assignment of error.
Carroll was sentenced to a year
and a day in Federal prison.