San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-20
Today
Heaven in California.
A Land Of Bargains.
Lsthal Chamber Exit.
Those Names of q,
C~>>~ y
BY Arthur Brisbane
Copyright, 1895 by Star Co:

used to it. Their new power Of flight,
brilliant wings, tuneful harps, sing
, ing, celestial music, streets of gold,
! all the wonders must overwhelm a
spirit newly arrived from earth.
JUST so, in California. The first
- few days it is hard to think Of
working, hard to interest yourself in
what goes on in cold eastern and
northern lands, to say nothing of dis
tant unimportant realms east Of the
Atlantic ocean.
Bryon in Greece, was filled with
emotion when he stood where:
1.-THE mountains look ON Marathon
And Marathon looks on the sea-"
How would he feel in southern
California?
These mountains that still look on
Marathon would be mere hills out
here and as for that little sea, sailed
by the Greeks, you could drop a
thousand like it into the Pacific
ocean, and not raise the water level
one inch.
THE population of Japan in the
i last five years has increased
3,773,651. That interests the world,
outside OF Asia, even more than in
Asia.
What would happen il the Chinese
numbering 100000, 600 officially, and
in reality numbering probably co.,
100000 should learn TO cut the death
rate among children and raise
Chins's census to 100000, 600?
Has Providence in reserve some
mysterious way OF solving the riddle
Of excess population, without war,
famine or plague?
Or must the world eventually face
war Of races, yellow and white, to
settle world supremacy?
IF anybody offers any bargain in
i California, take it. 1t may not
seem a bargain az the time, but
later that changes.
Ask the son-in-law Of Mr.. Durant,
automobile maker, what happened to
him the night he ate the good dinner
at the Bolsa Chica Shooting club,
south Of Los Angeles. Robert NJ.
Modisette Of Pasadena, who knows
all about real estate and oil told the
story, pointing TO an oil derrick next
TO the club house.
IN the course of the dinner the
gentleman from the East learned
that the club members liked him and
would let him buy n membership for
$1,000. He didn't need it, as he did
little shooting, but was polite, and
accepted.
Soon afterward, Standard Oil
rented the rights" on the grounds of
The Bolsa Chica club on an oil shar-
ing basis. They have brought in one
well already and may bring in dozens
more. The one well brought in now
pays each member Of the club $1,000
a month profit. Mr.. Durant's SON.
in-law gets $14, 400 a year on an
investment of $1,000, made "just to
be good fellow" And there is no
telling how much more he will make.
California is the land of bargains.
TODAY in the Nevada State prison
two white men will be killed
with lethal gas, new method of
strangling murderers.
These men, StankO Judich and
Guadaloupe Acesta will be locked in
an air tight chamber, the gas turned
on, and they will be the first white
men to arrive in heaven or any other
place, killed in that way.
The thing was first tried success
fully on a Chinese gnetleman named
Gee Jon, but in our high civilization
that hardly counts.
ON this earth the law kills the
~ killers Of men in the following
way among others. The garDtte
strangles them in Spain. The moose
chokes them in many countries. the
guillotine cuts their heads off in
France, the headsman works with
sword IN China, and some other coun-
tries. Electricity shocks them and
lethal gas suffocates them in Amer
lea.
In Asin, an elephant puts its foot
on the important criminals head. In
Russia, the knout borrowed by Rus
slams from the Tartars was used I'M
til lately to whip prisoners to death.
In China the convicted criminal was
sawn in two lengthwise, and killed
in other ingenious ways.
Christianity used to burn victims
alive, torture them to death, tear
them to pieces, pour molten lead into
their stomach, all "for the greater
glory OF God"
Human ingenuity has found many
ways Of killing human beings, but,
rs yet, no way of stopping murder,
retail by individuals, wholesale, in
war, by nations.
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