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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
Weaving Baby
By Royal S. Copeland

Every week or SO some young moth
sr writes to ask advice sbout Beap;
ing her baby. She wants to know
how to decide when 1t is time to take
the infant off the breast and to give
it the bottle.
The best sign is the baby himself,
II be is prospering and the mother
Is well. the breast. feeding may CON
tinue.
A normal, healthy infant gains from
six ounces TO half pound in weight
every week fer the first year. Later,
the gain is not 20 great. 1t may lie
from three ounces to sly ounces every
week. So long as the child makes con-
sistent gain, to about this .A,eot,
there is no occasion for very.
A healthy child sleeps most Of the
time. He is apt to fall asleep dlrns
his feeding, or Immediately afterward.
During the first half year of life he
will be likely to sleep twenty hours
every day.
II the feeding is ample and Of good
quality, the bowels act regularly.
There is no gas formation ard no dis
tress. Vomiting and severe crying are
absent.
/ wouldn't give cent for a baby
that never cried. There is something
wrong with .. vocally silent infant,
just as there is with one that cries
most of the time. The usual allow
ance for crying in Q healthy child 10 a
sum total Of an hour q dag.
] have told you how to tell whether
or not the infant is prosperiug. The
reverse Of these good signs and synp-
toms will warn you that the child is
not doing well. Then, of course, bot
tie feeding must be considered.
Fretfulusss, crying, pesuing and
vocal prstests for hours at time
are signs II trouble. Whining and
cFyisg during nursing are pretty sure
signs Of the lack of q nsurisblny sup
ply Of milk.
Vomiting, ipfreqqept or oyersfrc'
quent stools, and general appearances
Of ili-hcaltb are other evidences Of the
need OF better feeding.
Perhaps the best reason for taking
the child off the breast aud placing
him on the bottle. is loss Of weight
or failure 10 gain in weight.
Just ss gain in weight aud strength
il a sign Of vsll-being. 20 the reverse
is a sure reason for suspeeting that
the quality or quantity mas not re
right. when the baby fails TO pro-
gress physically It is time for bottle
feeding.
Copyright. 1883, BY NeEspsVsr
Feature Service. Ipc,)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
|Life's Hurdles
BY l. e. Bisch

We hear a lot about the science Of
eusenics.
Eugenics is the science of race bet
terment.
Eugenies seeks TO improve tbe hu.
man race, physically, mentally and
tenpersmentally.
But the aims OF eugenies are often
misunderstood. People sometimes
poke fua at it. That il because Of
failure TO appreciate exactly what
eugenieist workers are hoping and
striving TO accomplish.
EugeRies does not concern itself
primarily or solely with epileptics,
the insane, the feeble-minded, and
other detectives.
Prevention Of their propag ton Is.
naturally, part Of any program for
race betterment.
But eugenics goes further than that.
Eugenics encourages matings be-
tween those most richly endowed b.
nature 50 that the race may progress
along the lives Of natural abilities.
The fit and the superior should be
pr6psgsted as much as possible.
Hereditary detectives and degen.
crates should not be allowed TO re
produce at all.
The accomplishment Of these ENDS
IL surely worthy and sensible.
But laws will not accomplish It.
Interest and much effort j. ~
CURED on the part Of individual ei,i-
zens.
The eugeHical ideal u the improge.
ment Of the Unborn character zno
sleuts Of succeeding generations.
Law, science, social effort, indiyid-
ual enlightenment, personal resolve
all are required to make sucn an al
yshcing and universally beneficial pro-.
gram effective.
State laws regulating marriage aud
foiloSiHg sugeniss standards arc being
wasted throughout the eouBu!.
They caunot become workable, has-
ever, and thereby reduce the nuuber
Of undesiTsbles being born INTO the
world unless all the states adopt sim
liar measures.
1t is you and / and the citizens al
large who should study euganics.
Once you do that earnestly sou are
certain 70 be won over
Once won over, you are certain 70
become eugenies booster.
With the frightful havoc wrought
by the war, with millions Of our most
fit men dead and disabled. the presen,
age is particularly appropriate for the
spread o. the science Of sugenics.
Copyright. 1895, Premier synd.. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
Awaiting the Test
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

similarly fallacieus assumption Of wis
dom. For no man knews whether II
is good or bad until he has put IL to
the test,
Fate likes 10 tnt . MAS metal
b. suspense.
Men can face sudden catastrophe
with heroic front who crack under
the strain of an impending, uncertain
danger.
One Of De Maupassapt's stories tells
Of . man Who feared he might be
killed ms duel, 50 he committed sui
eide,
Some men can die, but they eanuot
wait.
A great deal Of needless suffering
would be avoided il we were vis
enough to follow the Injunction of
Marcus Aurelius.
~ see that my child n SICK he
wrote. This do see; hut that he
is in danger do not see. Thus,
then, always abide by the first np-
pearances and add nothing thyeeh
from Within
Abide by first appearances and add
nothing from within, is sane counsel
when the future locks dark.
Assume only that which has al
ready happened, ealy that which seu
can see, and await the test, "
Copyright. 1916, BY The Mcclure
newspaper Syndicate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
PREHISTORIC HUNTERS
By GARRETT p. SERVISS


At bottom human nature is always
and everywhere the same. II that
were not so this would be sad
world for travellers. But, being 70
We can, in Q bread was. ouBt on
meeting similar ideas, ways Of living,
needs. desires, likes, prejudices, i'm
pulse. and views Of right and wrong,
wherever We %, Other things being
equal this remains true If ve travel
backward in time. even into the pre-
historic age.
Lately there have been some strange
discoveries in MoraFis of the re-
mains Of race Of "msmmoth hunt
ers,- supposed to have dwelt in that
part Of Central Europe at least 20
900 years ago. These savages, who
lived With cave bears, reindeer, nam
month. and other animals long e4-
tinct, we're in fundamentals, 30 as
topishinrly like people Of our own
t"iN tn"b VIC Snu ftdu ~ Tue bikho
they have left stories of manhood,
wpmanhosd and ebildheod; of strug-
giles for life and for livelihood, of love
Of the beautiful Of thoughts Of fu-
ture life, Of home scenes in and about
the caEerns that we're their dwellings
which stir us with flood Of sympa-
thetie human sentiment.
From bones and skulls the appear
ance Of these people in life has been
reconstructed, The women were
smaller, more delicate in anatomy,
finer and handsemer in feature than
the men. The men were big-beHed
and big-headed. In fact this prehis-
toric race, no doubt the Immediate
percuror Of the people who have made
European history, had a crapisl ca
pacity exceeding that Of the average
European of the present day. How
ever even IL this means larger brains
it does not mean higher intelligence.
As Sir Arthur Keith has pointed out,
modern study Of the human brain
shows thst il has at least az much
70 do with emotion az with intel
ligence. Anatomists have failed 10
find the bumps Of the pbrenoiogists
inside the skull, but they have found
there -motor eepters7 which govern
physical movements and are eonpect-
ed with the expression of the emo
tons. One might imagine an assoeia-
ton between this and the large heads
which always characterize great mu-
sicinns-at least as far as hair will
permit a judgment.
The meior centers in the ample
heads Of the mammoth hunters Of the
Moravisn plain certainly had abun-
dapt exercise, both in actuating their
intense bodily activity and in TeFv-
ing a. buffers for the emotional shocks
that must have attended their most
exciting and peFilous chase. The mod
err relative Of the mammoth, the ele-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
College Preparation

has been said if Lincoln alive today he would
De unable to gain admission TO any college in the
United States.
ms Is perhaps true The colleges emphasize ira
dtenal learning Lincoln had exeeleney only in the
learning Of common sense.
The endeavor TO get our university system away
from tradition and on the common sense of modern
times IS proceeding apace. An expresdent of the Bar
Association would have difficulty today in passing
modern law school examination.
II must be some consolation to some of the young
people who are unable to square the circle and do the
other intellectual feats required by college to know
that they may nevertheless be able to master many
the practical problems that confront them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
Fancy and the Screen

IT HE French have put "Gulliver's Travels on the
stage. So the brief report goes but presumably
1t must mean the Voyage 20 Iliput only, Most
of the actors children and CULVER is grownup.
Even So must be difficult give much of the flavor of
the original story.
The Voyage to Brobdgnag, wholly impossible to
represent in any way the regular stage indicates the
superiority of the medium for some kinds of
taney for CULVER among the huge Brobdignagians
could be effectively represented by pictures.
Even the Voyage to the Houyhnhnms could be done
by producer with just the right literary taste GULL
vers Travels" is of the most amazing stories ever
created by single person. Usually the best stories
grow, but CULVER Robinson Crusoe the Pilgrims Prog
fess and Alice in Wonderland all suddenly created
And no doubt day they will all be classics on the
screen.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

plant, is not easily killed, even with
hish-pewer rifles; think, then, Of the
risks that those early men ran in bat
Ting against such monsters with only
spears and arrows tipped with flakes
Of flint or points Of stone.
One Of the touches Of human ma
ture which make the ages akin vas
found in an ancient grave wherein
adults and children had been inferred
together. Around the neck Of one Of
the children was q neatly made neck
lace of heads and pebbles, and near
the skeleton Of another child lay the
skull of an Arctic fox. One may ~op-
der whether the animal had been .
playmate Of the little savage.
All this occurred while the chill Of
the last glacial period was slowly
withdrawing from Europe. 1t seems
that . nigTatery route Of the nan
moths and ether semi-arctie animals
ran across the Meravisn plaiB, and
cut into the bordering bills to the
northward close by the place where
the great collection Of prehistoric
bones and other remains have been
uneartbed. At this runway the hunt
ers lay in wait for the huge beasts.
and killed them, for their flesh and for
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

Three items APPEARED in the papers
recently all illustrating the sans
truth.
An innocent man placed in Jail con-
mitted suicide Just before news was
brought that the guilty man had con-
fessed,
A woman bringing her pet monkey
to America overheard someone say
monkeys were not admitted. With
out waiting to see. she returned to her
stateroom, shot her pet and then
tainted with grief.
A business man who had failed left
the meeting where the creditors were
discussing the situation and iesped II
stories to his death-just before they
came to a favorable decision.
In each of these three eases the
person nook for granted that the worst
possible ending was inevitable.
They theuskt they eeuld see around
the corner.
They did not await the test.
Yet nothing worse could have hap
pened in each ease than the thing they
themselves decreed.
Socrates, in his trial before the
Athenians, said:
ITO fear death, ms friends, is only
to think ourselves wise without be-
ing wise fer it is to think we know
what We do not know"
To assume the future is evil is .
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

Grag - my dog. He is a black
cocker spaniel sith wonderful cara
"cowlicko and q sense Of humour,
When somebody comes into my room
Gss sessnts it. But he y polite
He has kindly heart and is a comic
Instead af growing or flying at the
intruder, be places himself SO that no
one can come too near, and to show
that be 10 really the nearest and
desysst to nay heart, he will hold .
little bit of my dress whilst he screws
his eyes round to squiat at the visitor.
Ill am in bed and somebody wants
to tell me something tot course Cras
is there, be seises hold Of one of
my slippeFs and sits - solemn IS a
Judge with the slipper In his mouth.
i suppose this makes him feel possess
sips. Nothing will make him drop
the slipper until the disturber has
departed. Then era. looks at me and
holds converse in his own language.
Often ] have lonssd to knew just
what he feels whilst he has got that
slipper in his mouth.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
Queens Counsel
Dor, in General; crag in PARTICULAR.
By MARIE, QUEEN OF RoUMANL
Registered vnite4 States Patent Office.

80 - - esN~e
"cras, my dear. what does it
mean"
But Crag only yhines aad wasgles
his stump Of . tall
Who of us has not lered Q dog at
one time or other in orr lives? Who
has not felt touched, and sometimes
ashamed, at his uncriticizing adora-
tienf
l once bad . dog called Rack,
dearer even than Orag. and be vas
run over by a motor before my very
eyes. He died half an hour after,
his head on my lap, his eyes licking
Z last time int mine, and he was
one Of the best friends ever had
That evening I was invited to a
party, but although q Queen, and a.
though I unset the whole party BIZ
not appearing, l could not 30. lay
in q dark room, my face to the wall.
Honour thy dog, that his eyes Of
alteration may not shame thee.
They do not forsaks Us. But what
do they really think OF M?
Copyright. 1895. BY Famous Fsstvss
Syndieate, lac.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

But INSTEAD of that
A SINGER came.
AND SANG tive song.
NOT THROUGH his nose.
AND ATE. that. -.
THE NEWS reel came.
AND BECAUSE Of the time.
THAT HAD been saved.
BY ELiMTNATIscG,
THE SILLY stuff.
SOME PROGRAMMES have.
THE NEWS reel ran.
IT'S ENTIRE length.
AND AFTER that.
WAS A comedy.
NOT VERY good.
AND NOT very bad.
AND THEN the picture.
WE HAD come TO see.
AND We hadn't been bored
WITH A lot Of stuff.
THAT WE had 10 sit through
BEFORE THE picture.
AND WE had . good time.
AND wENT on cut;
AND 7 exclaimed.
WHEN We get N the street.
THAT'S THE sort Of a show.
81 LIKE 10 see
AND I talked 50 loud.
II nv siliy dream.
THAI I weks myself up.
But ANYWAY,
I'D HAD . coed dream.
AND WENT back TO sleep.
4 THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
FREAKS OF NATURE

petrol. for it's power Of flight Is sT-
trsoriinary. In spite % its physical
proves the giant petrol gets lis food
a. the result Of man'S laborz. Large
numbers Of the birds gather near where
fishermen are skinning seals. when
the men have departed with the skins
the birds devour the carcasset,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

1 SAID 10 the lady.
IN THE ticket window.
Two TICKETS. please
AND SHE locked right at ns,
AND ALSO smiled.
AND THEN said: Thank you"
AND j took the tickets.
AND WENT on in.
AND ANOTHER young lady.
SAID TO me.
THERE ARE seats upstairs.
But THEY'RE not very good.
AND III you II Wdt.
FOR JUST a moment.
I'm VERY sure.
~THERE'LL BE TIVE down here
AND so there were.
AND IN a raeaent;
SHE CAME back agaia.
AND LED US down.
WITH HER little hsshlight.
AND HELD the light.
50 THAT We could see.
TO PASS four persons.
AND GAIN our seats.
AND THE orchestra.
PLAYED TWO numbers.
TWO VERY good numbers.
AND THE orchestra leader.
LOOKED AT the players.
AND NOT the audience.
AND DIDN'T wiggls.
AND MAKE funny cracks.
OR DRAG from the wings
A LOT 81 girls.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
.Arhess Ads

ographeF-Psrmapent place in
light cheerful office, for young ladS.
who is good writer and can start at
once. Telephone in own handwriting.
-Ady, in Cleveland tohio) Piam
Dealer.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

Ayiators flying 10 the .Sorth Pole
might mistake the giant petrol for an
other plane. II is the second largest
bird in the world. when its wings are
spread measuring eleven feet from Zip
10 zip. And IL an endurance race
we're held between an sirplane and 9
petrol. II would b. safe to bet on the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12

BoOb-I hear you have q new radio
apparatus,
simp-Yes, ! got it to scare tho
mice away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24

and the decay OF capitalism abroad
have combined to make the United
States the leading capitalist power OF
the world. The foreign investments
Of the United States are of such huge
proportions that, taken together with
the fabulous sums involved In foreign
loans, guarantee almost a mortgage
on every other capitalist nation. The
worldwide ramiflcatlons of American
business have created spheres OF eco.
monte influence for Wall Street In
every part Of the globe. The United
States is Mother Country" to far
flung colonies and semi-colonies thar
are perennlally suppressed by armed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24
EX- BRITISH OFFICER
SENDS HOME $50 AID
To STRIKING MINERS
BY L. p. RlNDAL
Worker Correspondent

Los ANGELES, Gala British
ex-soidier, who years ago was COM
missioned as q second lieutenant in
the English army--and in that ca
paeity served the king Of England 90
nearly every front during the world
war-has just sent $50 to the strus-
Cling miners Of his fatherIand. This
man, by the way, is working with
yours truly every day. A couple Of
days ago he said: ~ am going 10
send $3.50 more before Christmas"
This is an example for others to fol-
low.
One Of the latest attacks on A.
J. Cook, leader Of the British miners,
was made in the Hearst papers the
other day by Arthur Brisbane in his
"5risbunk" column, Today" Robert
Whitaker Of the International La
Dor Defense is responsible for this
new word which fully charaeterizes
the writings of Brisbane-the rem
egade socialist and chief adviser to
stock gamblers and real estate
sharks, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24
PROGRESS IN SOVIETS;;
MILITARISM IN U. S.
DAILY WORKER FEATURES

Beginning in today's issue of
The DAILY WORKER two series
Of great interest will begin pub
iication. They are: "Life and
Work in the Soviet Union" by Anna
Louise Strong, well known Amerl.
can author and journalist now spend
ing her fifth year in the Soviet
Union and series of eight articles
on the recent development Of milf
tarism in the United States with par
ticular reference to civilian military
training. The latter has been pre-
pared by staff member of The
DAILY WORKER after a thoro in.
Vestigation Of the subject and will
be profusely illustrated. Both Of
these features will be we'll worth
watching for this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24

IN this first aes Of series exposing
the department. assisted banker naoes Is
developing system Of civilian military penetrating
into every workshop school In the growing
menaeno the writer tells that
have been made In the holy mtarism
military bureaucracy machine that
constitutes perennial danger working
colonial people IN Cuba the Philip
pines Haiti China Central America places the
economic Influence OF American imperialism
article will deal specifically Military Training Camps
the institution thru which the spread armed
rasqueades under the name Of
national defense"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24

forces TO maintain economic control
for American capitalists. This condi-
ton places the United States in the
position. first of having a chip on the
shoulder that may at any minute be
knocked off and precipitate hostilities
with a contesting power; second. of
becoming so drunk with this unprece-
dented place in the sun" as to en-.
gage in an offensive for the purpose
of enlarging the imperlalist domain.
Such a situation offers the excuse for
the creation OF large and powerful
machine and has already
been exploltadi 10 the extent of placing
100 900 psen 4Jlder military training in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24
10000 CHEER
WEISDORD slap
AT Mill Head
Strikers Decry Stand of
Botany Gunner


PAsSAIc, N. j., Aug. %. - Albert
Weisbord, head Of the United Front
Committee Of textile workers, was the
principle speaker TO a crowd Of 10000
striking textile workers In Belmont
Park, Garfield. AS Weisbord came in
to view workers grabbed him and,
raising him to their shoulders, carried
him to the platform.
In his talk, Weisbord gave par
ticular attention to the statement of
Col. Chas. F. Johnson of the Botany
Mill that even the new union being
organized in Passaic by the A. F. of
L. to take the place of the United
Front Committee will not be dealt
with by the millowners.
No Argument Left.
Weisbord said, 1--WE are on the road
to victory and the bosses have no
good argument. not even those of
Weisbord and Communism, left. The
strikers are standing together and
showing true loyalty to labor. Don't
be fooled, especially by such a state,
CONTINUED on page p g-f.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24

THE United States war departments
summer military training program
10 In full swing. Some $4,000 Of the
nations youth have been lured to 40
military training camps in almost as
many, states. The regular army of.
ticers OF the nine army corps areas in
the United States are on their toes
preaching jingoism along with the ele.
ments Of modern science to unsuspect.
sng lads who have gone to the camps
tlS4for a good time, ~ to get physi-
cal training, (3) to learn how to be
good citizens" In the course of this
series OF articles on military training
II will become clear why we have
used the terms "lured' and "unsus-
pecting.'
Why after the United States has
emerged the sole victor in the worlds
most gigantic armed conflict, are
there civilian training camps2 Why
is there military training in the col.
leges and high schools?
None In 1915.
In 1916 there were no such organi.
cations as citizens military training
corps and reserve officers training
corps. Now there are more men
trained In these supplementary" mil
itary organizations than in the entire
standing army OF the country. What
does this mean? .,srs
II means several things
Imperialism Triumphant. III.
az The winning of the war. the
rapid industrial growth OF the country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24
'McKENNA IN DRAMATIC APPEAL
To SAVE BRITISH COAL UNION,
INJURY TO Us, injury TO YOU

You workers of America respond the appeal of the
British miners strike, you will find your mine
using wages and long hours England crush down
your wages here and engthen the work day.
That the keynote of the speech delivered by Paul Nc
Kenn of the Miners Federation of Great Britain
before enthusiastic audience Workmens Circle Lyceu
also the point emphasized by President John
Fitzpatrick, of the Chicago Federation of Labor in intro
ductory address.
McKenna made it clear that the miners have right all
the product of their labor 81 would all the land and its
minerals the whose only
robbery he said land for the good of the workers.
After pointing that the forces against the
strike trying crush unionm altogether that the
party ruling England the employers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24
No Argument Left.
1000, 900 CHILDREN HUNGER

TWO MILLION children years Of age of the
bare necessaes Of life These little
Of 10000 coal miners furnished by
the relief committees Neither oct
ting one square meal wek5n Te
annual conference of the Associated Railroad
Washington D. appealing
instruct its affiliated bodies striking TIet
the British delegation
touring the United States seeking relief funds.