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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

Charity should not based sefishnes any desire
for reward, either here or in heaven.
that will give for the sake of giving for the
sake of helping those that help not admired by the
angels above any than he by his fellow below
But it fact that kindness is its reward here
earth in most practical way 1t makes men more pleasing
to their fellows, it shows in their faces 1t makes them
welcome.
For every good habit there is bad habit which, like
other evil things Is THE ABSENCE OF THAT WHICH
IS GOOD
There are of course unfortunately the habits Of deadly
danger that faten themselves the human race perhaps
for its perhaps nature planned to cut the unfit
The habit of drugs the habit of alcohol these lead
yoa in this picture to death and destrc
There is also the HABIT OF SPENDING, one of this
worst habits the most destructive to human happiness
Men form this habit in youth and they rarely get rid
of it. What they have they spend Therefore they rarely
have either comfort or peace of mind.
Beware of the spending habit. Fight that.
This is picture that fathers and mothers with
children for that children will instantly understand
Little boys will be interested the picture of the small farm
boy leading the big bull with ring in its The bull
doesn't think it to him that he could gaop
the little boy and be He only knows that when
anybody pulls that ring it hurts, SO he goes along.
The big man with the ring in his nose, which is
bad habit controlling his mind and will also obeys the little
demon that leads He cannot resist the pull of that habt
ring
young years of age better than ten thousand angry
"D0NTS." If you make child think along the line
of wise living that better than endless furnishings that
puzzle the child and develop the dangerous habit Of stub
born RIGHTEOUSNESS.
For millions of grown and women, well as for
children, this picture be made useful It be made
useful every of for not is free from bad habits
of kind and there not that lacks of the
CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD HABITS.
picture better than words it to the eye directly
into the BRAIN tells its story goes Men got nforma
ton through the eyes hundred thousand years ago. and
alicn years before that long before they developed
languag thought based on language.
This picture will be this Sunday by at least
twenty millions of human beings
And not one of those twenty Millions unless he dc
ceve himself fail something that applies him
in the picture of the big led by the Through force
of habit
WATCH YOUR HABITS, control them, regulate them,
aevelop them.
And in educating your children, remember that full
equipment of GOOD HABITS is Of greater value than
money in the bank
Money can be stolen lost in thousand ways. good
habit firmly established, stays while life lasts.
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make this useful by sending to somebody that
The plain, at glance
the CARTILAGE And habit the kind leads destruction Uh the
WATCH YOUR HABITS o. idren
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

ABIT Is A SECOND NATURE"
said Montaigne, a wise French
man and keen student of human
beings.
Habit is a second nature, and
man NEEDS a second nature to
do for him the thousands of little
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08

can't do anything now, boys, because
the company will shut the mine down
You'd better be satisfied because what
you have is better than nothing"
Well, to get back to the subject
where we started. The boys always
celebrate the first of April, and April,
1926, was no exception. Several
union locals around Brownsville in the
center of the coal industry intended
to have a parade, but because of rain
we held mass meeting indoors in
stead. About nine or ten union Off
Gals were present, including P. Fag-
an, president of District No. 5, of the
United Mine Workers. After Billy
Feeney, William Hines, Onery and
such got thru singing the same old
song to the same old tune, then Pagan
takes the stand. There were many
important matters to talk about
strikes at the Pittsburgh Coal Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
The First Of April

THE first Of April has long been
4 celebrated by the union miners as
Mitchell Day" It is the anniversary
of the day when the rank and file won
a bitterly fought battle with the coal
barons for the eight-hour day. Year
after year the miners go on holding
mass meetings, parades and such, in
memory of the past battles waged by
them to improve the miserable condi-
tons which prevailed in the coal in
dustry before the battles were fought.
And to our sorrow the conditions
are none better today. Hundreds and
even thousands of our brothers sacri-
feed their lives for the cause Of un-
ionism and for better living conditions
for their children, and those were for
tunate who escaped the strong hand
Of the thugs, state cossacks and such,
which the government as a willing
tool of the capitalist class supplied in
time of strikes and other labor dis
putes.
1t is IN the same spirit year after
year that the rank and file celebrates
the first of April.
But the official family of our IN
ion takes the matter In a different
spirit. The Official family has a diff
ferent motto. While our motto is
zone for All and All for One" the
official family's motto is you can car
ry a Union card in one pocket and a
scab card in the other"
All the conditions that were bitter
ly fought for and won by the rank
and file have been sacrificed, and the
union miners are worse Off than they
have ever been before. But nobody
can say anything, because the union
officials and the boss work hand In
hand. II you arc not satisfied the
boss says stake your tools, and
when the union official So called to
look after your case, his story Is I'VE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
A Grateful Nation" Jim Crows It's Deac

hospitals. A grateful nation had re-
warded its loyal citizens!
DUT more was to come. Special ef-
- forts were now made to discredit
the work done by Negro soldiers. A
series OF articles in the Chicago
Tribune "a loyal republican paper)
tried to prove" that Negroes who had
fought in the war had shown them
selves to be towards. And all this
time the lynching of Negroes was
going on, and the practise of segre-
eating and mobbing Negroes was
spreading to the North, and the labor
bureaucrats who control the trade
unions were continuing to deny the
Negro workers the right to take their
places in the unions by the side Of
their white brothers.
But an attempt to Honor" the dead
Negro soldiers of the grateful nation"
is objected to by the race-hating con
gressmen who are too stupid to un-
derstand that a jim-crow monument
is the cheapest way to lure black can
non-fodder for the next time.
We may, of course, put aside as ut
terly false the plea of these represen-
tatives that they oppose the measure
on the ground that no more money
must be spent for monuments. That
is an excuse which no one is expected
to believe. The truth is that these
men want to keep alive at all costs
the myth that the Negro is inherently
Inferior. A monument is, of course
little enough. A monument cannot
cut down the man who is being
hanged, nor raise the wages of the
worker, nor give proper schooling to
a group of children.
| COMMITTING has happened since the
~ war to open the eyes of the Negro.
Imperialism, especially the imperial
ism of the victorious countries, has be-
come more obvious, more open, more
brutal The countries which fought for
democracy" have used their victory
to Cypress and squeeze profits from
the weaker nations, especially the ma
tons of colored people. The American
Negro has had the opportunity to see
France-the same France which was
rescued from the brutal HHn,'---ttry
to crush the heroic Abd-el-Krim and
his Rifian tribes, struggling only for
their independence. They have seen
the allied powers shoot down count
less numbers of our yellow brothers
in China. They have seen England
gallant" England-massacr our
brown brothers of India and Egypt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08

mines, Bethlehem Steel corporation. A
thousand miners without work. But
Pagan didn't consider these matters
important. He considered it import
ant to talk for Governor Pinchot to be
elected u. S. senator. It is plain that
Pagan came there to electiOneer for
Pinchot, because he did not touch any
thing else except here and there
but he surely did boost for Pinchot.
Pagan said in his speech that every
honest worker and citizen will go to
the polls and vote for Pinchot for SEN
ator. Never did Pagan say that the
workers must have a party of their
own.
That's the way Pagan helped the
miners to celebrate the first day Of
April-campaigning for the enemies Of
the working class-for Pinchot who
has publicly announced himself as a
standby of Strike-Breaker Coolidge.
Worker Correspondent Yukon, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
BY J. E. SNYDER.

TN the early days Of Canada, the
l. farmer took his grain to mill for
grinding and received back eleven
twelths of the proSuct in the form of
-four, oatmeal, etc, and the by-pro-
ducts for cattle feed. This was 90
per cent Of HIS product.
It takes AZ bushels of wheat to
make a barrel of -four. At s1.20 a
bushel in Western Canada that would
bring him $3.50 bushel. At retail
price he purchases barrel of flour
from the merchant for S13.46. Instead
Of getting back 92% Of his product he
only got back 4op5 and besides he
gets none Of the by-product. The mill
er OF today does not take all tho toll.
Tho railroad takes as high as 40 cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
Ancient and Modern Toll

a bushel or SLIGO a barrel. The banker,
the insurance company, the gambler,
the jobber, the wholesaler, the retailer
all divide up with the miller. The
tribe that takes toll have builded the
toll gates going and coming. They do
not take it all, or else the farmer
would never come to modern market
again. Even now some Of them are
concerned at his revolt against the
low percentage he gets back from his
product. What does 1t matter to be
a part of civilization If you starve?
The farmer may argue It were better
to go back to tho old toll mill. But
that is impossible, and he will learn
that there is a better way-Bolshe.
vism and a scientifically organized so.
cioty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08

And they have seen America pursuing
the same course in Mexico and in
Panama.
These workers are learning that i'm
.perialism is the bitter enemy of race
equality. They are learning that to
fight for an imperialist country is to
give aid to their worst enemies, to
perpetuate the system that enslaves
the darker nations abroad and lynches
and segregates the darker races at
home.
1t will be more difficult to keep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08

Negro workers in the patriotic" condi-
ton in another imperialist war. They
learned too much during the last war,
they saw far too many promises
broken afterwards. When the next
war comes, the rulers for whom these
wars are fought will find that large
numbers of the Negro workers are
Drawer than they ever were before
brave enough and wise enough to fight
in the service of their own class,
rather than in the service Of the
enemies of their class and their race.
The Washington times., 1926-05-19

incomes less than $500. The least
weIl-off class of English society
which is also the largest cannot
afford more than $50 for rent per
annum. The economic rent, even
Of a twc.roomed house. is $3.50.
Attempts to solve the problem
by putting up the rates (subsidi-
zation), increases the cost of living
and causes rents to rise and the
poor then tend to seek still cheaper
accommodation in order to pay
their increased rents.
The first necessity is for cheaper
houses under any form OF con-
struction until there is q margin
beyond mere sufficiency.
Many E1ouseholders living in
densely packed houses would be
willing to pay the higher rent for
a larger house in garden suburb.
Many OF the houses they vacate
would be neither uninhabitable nor
unhealthy and would be large
enough for smaller families.
Another step forward would be
to break up a number Of the
larger seif-contained houses of a
past generation into flats, a proc
ess that is well under way in the
United States.
Although each Of these meas
ures-neW houses, redistribution
OF space among crowded people,
hostels and hotels and the subdi-
vision of large dwellings will do
a good deal towards solving the
problem; the greatest necessity
is to improve the ideals of the
individual.
The tenant dominates the house
and, as well as improving the
conditions OF Intimacy. education
in house management is essen
tial IL the mistakes Of the past
and present are to be avoided in
the future.
Management matters much.
Trustees Of property in congested
areas have obtained very good
results by handing over the man.
agement either to resident care
takers or to women property
managers. Tenant and landlord
thus have a basis of understand
ing; repairs are performed i'm
n1ediately: rents are collected
weekly; higher standard of
housekeeping is set and sublet.
ting is avoided.
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TIMES DAILY
DOZEN

4. LITERATURE What were
the bards OF Anglo-Saxon Eng
land called?
2. HISTORY which was the
first really useful metal EN-
ployed BY man?
8. GEOGRAPHY. Which river
forms one of the boundaries be-
tween Mexico and the United
States?
4. BUSINESS. In which year
did our total annual export trade
first reach the So 900 900 900 mark?
5. MANKIND. What Is the
name Of the hody city Of the
Mohammedansg
s. HUMAN NATURE. Why are
loose threats harmful to q child?
z. GENERAL SCIENCE. Which
Is the larger-the earth or Mars?
8. Law. Arrange these three
classes Of law, III the order In
which they have precedence when
they conflict: I'd Common Law;
CD Statute Law; go Constitu-
tional Law.
$. CIVICs. who is the secre-
tary of the u, s. Navy2
10. ART. Where in London has
q beautiful memorial been erected
to Field Marshal Kitchener?
IL. MUSIC. Who wrote the ro-
mantle opera called Der Freis-
chutz?"
I2. HEALTH. which serious
disease usually follows q cold?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
/. LITERATURE. Samuel Rich.
ardson (1689-176D was the first
English novelist.
Q. HISTORY. Abraham Lincoln
said: There is no man living,
no matter how good he is. who
is good enough to own another
man.
8. GEOGRAPHY. Japan is 500
miles distant from China.
4. BUSINESS. The average
earnings of those engaged in
farming In the United States are
% cents an hour.
5. MANKIND. New Orleans
has the most famous Mardi Gras
in America.
6. HUMAN NATURE. An hal.
lucination Is an illusion that as
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$50

come from lack Of space.
II every human being in the
world, says j. p. Somerville, were
allowed one-third o. square yard
to stand in, the whole population
could be accommodated on the
Isle OF Wight, with its $4,000
acres, leaving III square miles
unoccupied. The demands of in
dnstry have induced many of
these people to crowd together IN
q small space but the figures
show that the space Is sufficient
II only 1t were used properly. The
cause. says this writer in the
Journal of the Roya! Sanitary In
stitute, lies in acquiescence Of so
many people in bad conditions.
They do not sufficiently realize
The Washington times., 1926-05-19
Try Living Up to.
Y our b est
Convictions

don't like to do IT. I know !
great many girls who don't relisl,
the idea Of being fondled and
kissed BY every Tom, Dick and
Harry. But IN lieu Or possessing
stronger natures, they permit It. :
Muriel, al seventeen. has quite
q few men acquaintance, but
most OF them think you must pay
them for an evenings entertain-
ment with q kiss. This / strongly
object to.
II hope the Three Dodos win
take my advice ana never weak
en-. Often I am introduced 70 y
young man and told he ID known
as one who never kisses. Yet
when leave him, he insists on q
kiss. So please, Dodos, don't do
any promiscuous petting. Don't
weaken
surely. here Ii encouragement
FOR young men who are honestly
looking for girls Of principle, deli
cacy, loyalty, sincerity and humor
as friends, sweethearts and
wives!
The important thing Is for girls
and young men to live up To
their convictions. Words without
deeds count for little. But IL you
have the courage TO be true to
your ideals, y0u'H be far more
likely to be recognized as con
genial BY those with similar
ideals. And what's more import
ant. you'll preserve your own
seIf-respect.
SO, after al, perhaps the best
advice on the subject Is that
given BY seventeen.year-old Mnriel
when she writes:
Don't weakens
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What Some Girls
Have to Say on
the Question
By Beatrice Fairfax
Who Occupies q Unique Position
In the Writing World as an
Authority on the Problems
Of Love and Marriage

a FEW days ago 1 quoted in
A this column extracts from
numerous letters written by girls
IN reply TO '-The Three Dodos."
Now, "The Three Oodos' Is the
name OF three young men signed
70 letter in this column. These
young men, aged about 26,
claim that for five years they
have unsuccessfully sought girls
who do not pet or kiss every
Tom, Dick and Harry or expect
90 be kissed and petted.
Girls who allow petting," they
write, :sare like second hand mer-
chandise. They have lost lot of
their original value and attractive
ness.
In other words. we want girls
who are wholesome. Sincerity,
loyalty and a sense of humor
are what we desire to find
Hundreds OF girls wrote APP
proving these views and asking
20 meet the Dodos. The writer's
claim that men who don't pet
and demand the goodnight kiss
Of every girl to whom they pay
the least attention are almost
Impossible to find.
j am giving a number of ex-
tracts from these letters this
week just as / did In last weeks
article. VIII all girls who wrote
on the subject please accept my
The Washington times., 1926-05-19
77srOuqh the Eyes Of Youth

ians that they can afford TO 40
without blackboards But it's
tiresome world IN some Of the
cold, interior cities; and black
boards are mighty cheering on
bleak winter days when q little
fellow needs something to make
the hours pass.
Besides who knows but what
he may be taking an examination
some time, and the very fact that
jumping right off that blackboard
OF long ago into his mind
Vivid pictures have way Of
coming back III emergencies
long years after their presentas
There Is definite psychologist
cal reason for blacIkb0arts Ii the
scIaoo1roOln. 1t IS 8 Well-knOWn
fact that people young and old
acquire most OF their inforxna-
ton through the eye. Some sci
entists say that 50 per cent of
all we learn is gained through
eyesIght Others claim 80 per
cent.
IL Ii for this same reason that
an inspiring motto placed on the
wall of d child,s room. whore he
viii see Ii when he wakes up in.
the morning, often takes deep
root IN his onscfousness and
eventually adds something valua-
bic to his character. The mother
who can secure attractive cards
, that carry messages Of good cheer
and inspiration. Il doing the child
4 big service IN an easy way.
There Is something comforting
IN opening ones eyes In the be-
ginning of day to the fact
that Gods In His Heaven: Ais
Right with the world.
And trite though II Is. that old
motto that says, If at First You
Don't Succeed. Try. Try Again, :
has been the inspiration OF child
ish endeavor since time was.
Those words In bright letters.
speaking to the child through the
eye, Is worth more than any
speech on the same subject.
The Washington times., 1926-05-19
Dangers Of OUercrOwdinq

the disabilities that overcrowding
imposes on them.
Many courageous parents. in
spite OF its handicap. have reared
splendid. strong, highly principled
sons and daughters, but in spite
of these results overcrowding is
VIGOROUSLY source ef evil. dan
ger and degradation.
A lack OF Natures disinfectants,
sunlight and air. leads to human
stagnation, which Nature abl1ors.
The causes of overcrowding are
very complex; people crowd to-
gether not only because there Is
shortage of houses but because
they have not enough money to
rent larger houses. Ninety-five
per cent of the English popula-
ton, il is said, have incomes below
81, 900 and very many OF them have
The Washington times., 1926-05-19

$3.50. Percale, chintz. tub silk
or challIe would be suitable for
this model. The sleeve may be in
wrist length, or short as in the
small view.
The pattern is cut In four sizes:
4. s. and 10 years. A Swear
size requires 21S yards Of 40,
inch material IL made with long
sleeves. II made with short sleeevs
17s-yards will be required. IL
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will require Y yard.
Send Toe In silver or stamps for each
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The Washington times., 1926-05-19
BY FAY KING

In these days OF engagements,
weddings and honeymoons, match.
making parents are very much on
the alert encouraging and discour-
aging romantic inclinations!
However, many Of the most dill.
gent mothers who have success.
fully broken off affairs between
young people have lived to see
the time when they have re-
GREETED 1t and sincerely wished
that the marriage which might
have been made had been. instead
Of the one that was!
The Washington times., 1926-05-19
SHE REFUSES TO PET.

joy everything most red-blooded
girls like. But here's the catch
~ don't pet!
Last week q girl friend phoned
and invited me out with two
young men. To be frank. because
refused to be mauled, the young
man was paired off with de-
clined to go on with the party to
the cabaret to dance. To cap the
The Washington times., 1926-05-19
BY II. Lamar Mathews

nUT in California, the school
~ authorities in big city re-
Gently decided to do away with
all blackboards in the classroOn1s.
Perhaps IL they had stopped to
remember how thrilled they were,
long time ago, when their teach
ers let them go to the board to
write or draw or work sums"
they would have let the children
keep their bIackboards.
When a certain bit Of knovvl-
edge is very much desired. the
memory often goes back to the
way a certain sentence or prob.
lem looked as it stood out from
the blackboard or the page on
which it was written.
The most scientific teachers In
The Washington times., 1926-05-19

their daughter, and married her
off to the son Of the richest man
in town.
The broken hearted young
swain leaves the small town to
lose himself in the great city.
But instead of losing himself he
finds himself Years later he
comees back a success in every
sense of the word.
The daughters marriage has
turned out an awful dud. Her
father II now supporting her and
the children.
Oh, IL they had only let her
The Washington times., 1926-05-19

thanks and consider this a per,
sonal reply?
oh, boy, lead me to those three
young men," writes Mabel. sIt
seems my prayers have been an
swered.
II love to dance and go to.
shows. parties and baseball games.
I'm no prude. / Uuse cosmetics
with discretion. In short. / en-
The Washington times., 1926-05-19

/ refuse to kiss man he decides
that / kiss every man except him
and that I won't kiss him be-
cause don't like him. And he's
not trying me out either.
Il am convinced that any girl
loses her attraction and even be-
comes repulsive when she I'M
duIges IN easy petting. And
The Washington times., 1926-05-19
Thrifty Swedes

HIIE Swedish people are rapidly
learning the value of thrift.
The savings banks of that coun-
try hold sos for every inhabitant
and postal savings banks which
now number $500 had an increase
of per cent in deposits last
year.-Thrift Magazine.
The Washington times., 1926-05-19

; marry this fellow-but it's too
late to lament their foolish snob
berry now!
And so it is!
Marriage can bring the great
est happiness or the greatest un-
happiness in the world!
Many poor, misguided parents
in the blindness of parental love
have coerced their children into
a lifetime of misery, and then re-
fused to sanction a released
That they mean WELLS the
saddest part Of it ALT