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twern and subscribed before me this 2nd day of
April A. D„ 1923.
F. V. .WHITE
Notary Public.
A MYSTIFYING MISTAKE
* One of the most embarrassing mis-
takes of modem American diplomacy
which has come to the attention of the
public is that represented by Secretary
of State Hughes’ withdrawal of his re-
cent remarks about British naval activi-
ty. Presumably the incident was highly
embarrassing to Mr. Hughes both per-
sonallj' and officially and it cannot but
be regretted by the American people.
This country has been universally re-
garded as a sort of international mentor
in matters pertaining to peace-promoting
treaties. Perhaps its refusal to sign the
Versailles treaty reinforced its reputa-
tion for fair dealing even among intelli-
gent foreigners whose immediate inter-
ests would have been served by Ameri-
ca’s entry into the League of Nations.
And certainly America assumed definite
leadership as a result of the Washing-
ton naval conference.
Whether this incident may actually
impair the credibility of the United
States government in the eyes of other
peoples nobody knows of course. But
a good impression abroad should be cre-
ated by Secretary Hughes’ quick retrac-
tion of his remarks that were officially
declared by the British government to be
untrue. To Americans however the en-
tire affair is all the more regrettable be-
cause of the fact that the United States
navy seems to have undertaken the same
kind of activity which Mr. Hughes had
imputed to the British navy.
Apparently the remarks of the Ameri-
can secretary of state were not designed
as adverse criticism. The substance of
them was that gim mountings on some
of the British ships were being altered in
such a way as to give the guns a longer
range. Irrespective of whether British
government officials construed this as
a charge that their nation was violat-
ing that part of the Washington pact
which forbids the adoption of new types
of guns or gun carriages on ships which
the signatory nations are authorised to
maintain during the life of the treaty
they announced that Mr. Hughes had
been misinformed as to facts—that in
reality the changes described had not
been and were not being made.
In the meantime- it appears the United
States navy planned to make the same
or similar changes in some of its ships.
Then the British took issue with Wash-
ington officials on the question whether
such changes were allowable under a
certain section of the armament-limita-
tion treaty. Thus the United States was
placed in a position wherein its conduct
might easily be misapprehended by for-
eign peoples.
One cannot undertake to say just what
the authors of the treaty had in mind
when they composed the section now in
dispute. As The Light remarked re-
cently it is a sad commentary upon hu-
man imperfections that two peoples
K speaking the same language and having
common racial antecedents should be
unable to understand each other even
when their intentions arc reduced to
writing. T° rile average American no
doubt the word “type” means just ont
thing. In this interpretation the eleva-
tion of a gun could easily be increased
so as to give it a longer range without
aecessarily changing the type of either
the gun or its carriage. But whether
the alterations proposed by the United
States navy would affect the gun car-
riages to such an extent as to constitute
TUESDAY.
a technical charge in the type thereof is
a question which the layman is not
competent to answer.
lust how Secretary Hughes fell into
the error pertaining to British naval
plans and activities has not been ex-
plained —if. indeed the British as they
assert had not planned and were not
making the changes attributed to them.
Possibly they themselves were at fault
in first instance in that they failed to
make official information easily avail-
able to representatives of our State De-
partment upon whose reports Mr.
Hughes’ comment was doubtless based.
Certain it is however that Mr. Hughes
is not given to the making of irresponsi-
ble statements.
In any case he deserves only praise
for withdrawing his remarks and has
taken a most progressive step in adopt-
ing plans designed to have all signatories
of the Washington pact place themselves
officially and unmistakably on record
concerning their naval programs under
the terms of that agreement.
—■ — oo
WHAT MADE THE MARE GO?
Prohibitionists in England are playing
in hard luck again—and as usual. As
a result of the outcome of a recent horse
race beer may be regarded by determ-
ined Englishmen—and this describes
that nationality in general—as “more in-
disper. sable” than ever. Or maybe it was
ale that enabled White Bud to win the
Lincoln handicap and put an unprece-
dented pile of pounds sterling into the
pockets of those who had put their
money on her.
The story is interesting whether true
or not. And irrespective though per-
haps not regardless of whether the
world at large may believe it one of the
country’s most popular trainers vouches
for it —for it was he who made the an-
nouncement which may be depended
upon to keep England “wet” as long as
the “right little tight little island” re-
tains its love for the sport of kings.
White Bud a mare had made a poor
showing in the try-outs which preceded
the races by several days. Going ’round
the course to show what she could do
she disgusted her backers and “dockers”
by breaking her gait and becoming posi-
tively unruly. She went wild and threw
her jockey. If any Western Americans
were there they were perhaps the only
spectators who appreciated the spectacle;
they may have thought that the great
outdoor sport known as bronco-busting
was being introduced in England.
After the fiasco White Bud was so
nervous that she went on a hunger
strike. Neither hay nor grain would she
eat. She shook in her stall and she
wasn’t “stalling.” Doubtless the attend-
ing veterinarian concluded that “patho-
logically” she was in a serious condition.
Or it is possible that followers of Coue
were sure that her “unconscious” was
out of order. In any case she mani-
fested all the symptoms of being a nerv-
ous wreck.
But her trainer’s reputation was at
stake for the mare couldn’t be led to the
stake albeit the stakes by this time
were greatly in her favor. The pros-
pects were that she would have to be
staked out for the remainder of her life
or would be beaten into steak in the
scramble for the stake if she should be
entered in the race in her puzzling con-
dition.
So the trainer bethought himself of
the tranquilizing effect of beer—or was
it ale that he prescribed for the ailing
mare? Whichever it was beer or its
next of kin she was given two points
of it daily.
To make a long story endless—for
this incident will doubtless become one
of England’s imperishable traditions—-
the beer-drinking White Bud crossed
the finish line ahead of every other
horse in the field. A 66-to-l shot she
became as one may well imagine the
sensation of the day.
So Englishmen with their inborn love
for horses and horse races could not
easily be convinced that beer—or ale
as the case may have been—has no good
uses. When pussyfooting prohibitionists
come around they may be regaled with
an anecdote like that told by Dr. Samuel
Johnson to explain why England pro-
duces such fine horses and Scotland sue!)
fine men: Answer oats
PROGRESSIVE TAXES
The "Progressive bloc's” program of
tax legislation as outlined by Represen-
tative' Frear of Wisconsin seems to be
merely another attempt to solve a prob-
lem without undertaking to remove its
cause. This problem a governmental
one that confronts the states individ-
ually and the nation as a whole is how
to make both ends meet. But why isn’t
the income equal to the outgo?
The Frears of the country would reply
that too many people and interests are
escaping their just share of the burden
of maintaining the government. Ap-
parently they have never considered that
the cost of government has become ex-
cessive.
If a person should find that his coir-
sumption of food in increasing quanti-
ties did not result in greater nourish-
ment of his body but that instead he
was becoming more and more anaemic'
would his physician undertake to ef-
fect a cure by prescribing additional
food or would he try to remove the
cause of the maladv?
If a business man should discover
that bis expenses were exceeding his
profits in a constantly increasing pro-
portion would an efficiency expert rec-
ommend that he increase the volume
of his business or would he urge the
elimination of unnecessary "overhead”
items?
Government in this country has been
costing more and more for many yeats.
That one might say is but natural be-
cause the population is increasing ne-
cessitating additions to the governmental
machinery. That is true of course. But
the cost of government has been in-
creasing out of ; I 1 proportion to the in-
crease in population. Besides it should
cost less per capita to govern many
than few.
If any class participating in the bene-
fits of government is escaping a just
share of the expense of providing those
benefits either through the evasion of
existing laws or because there is no
law requiring support from that source
the situation should be remedied at once.
But assuming lor illustrative purposes
that citizens and interests arc escaping
just taxation in the way alleged by Rep-
resentative Frear how would the col-
lection of taxes from them affect those
who already contribute to the support
of the government? What the result
should be is one thing: obviously it
should be a lightening of the burdens of
present tax-payers. What it would be
if past experience is not misleading is
something else entirely: the government
would find new ways of spending money
so that present tax-payers would get no
benefit from a wider distribution of the
maintenance burdens.
Officials of Representative Frear’s ap-
parent proclivities seem to have lost
sight of if they ever perceived the
proper i elationship between the cost and
the benefits of government. The benefits
to mount with the cost; but do
they?
What is the only legitimate object of
taxation? It is to bestow benefits upon
the taxed —upon the people who con-
stitute a city or state or nation. A gov-
ernment justifies or fails to justify its
existence accordingly as it does or does
not serve as an agency through which
benefits are bestowed upon those who
maintain it. Without taxes in some
form a government could not exist.
Without benefits from the money they
invest in government tax-payers could
not long continue to exist as such. When
a government eats out at an ever-in-
creasing rate the substance of those who
support it the logical double conclusion
of the process ought to be obvious.
HER LETTER
I'm sitting alone by the fire
Dressed just as I came from the dance
In a robe even you would admire —
It cost a cool thousand in France;
I'm bediamonded out of all reason
My hair is done up in a cue;
In short sir “the belle of the season"
Is wasting an hour on you.
A dozen engagements I’ve broken;
1 left in the midst of a set;
Likewise a proposal half spoken.
That waits—on the stairs—for me yet.
They say he'll be rich—when he grows up—
And then he nrdores me indeed.
And you. sir. are turning your nose up
Three thousand miles off as you read.
“And how do I like my position?”
“And what do I think of New York?"
“And now. in my higher ambition.
With whom do I waltz flirt or talk?"
“And isn't it nice to have riches
And diamonds and silks nnd all that?"
“And aren't it a change to the ditches
And tunnels of Poverty Flat?”
Woll yes—if you saw us out driving
Each day in the park four-in-hnnd;
If you saw poor dear mamma contriving
To look supernatural!)- grand—
If you saw papa’s picture as taken
By Brady and tinted at that.
You'd never suspect he sold bacon
Ami flour at Poverty Flat.
And yet just at this moment when sitting
In the glare of the grand chandelier
In the bustle and glitter befitting
The “finest soiree of the year.”
In the mists of a gaze do chamber)-
And the hum of the smallest of talks —
Somehow. Joo. I thought of “The Ferry."
And the dance that we had on "The Fork."
Of Harrison's barn with its muster
Of flags festooned over Ilie wall:
Of Ilie candles that shod their soft lustre
And tallow on headdress nnd shawl:
Of the stops that wo took to one fiddle;
Of the dress of my queer vis-a-vis:
And how I once went down the middle
With the man that shot Sandy McGee;
Of the moon that was quietly sleeping
On the hill when (lie time cnine to go;
Of the few baby peaks that were peeping
From under their bedclothes of snow:
Of that ride—that to me was the rarest:
Of —the something you said of the gate:
Ah. .100. then I wasn't nn heiress
To "the best-paying load in the state.”
Well well it's all past; yet it's funny
To think as I stood in the glare
Of fashion mid beauty and money.
That I should be thinking right there.
Of some one who breasted high water.
And swam the North Fork and all that.
Just to dance with old Folinsbee's daughter.
The Lily of Poverty Flat.
But goodness! what nonsense I'm writing!
(Mamma says my taste still is low.)
Instead of mv triumphs reciting.
I'm spooning on Joseph—heigh-ho!
And I'm to be “finished" by travel.
Whatever’* the meaning of flint —
O. whv did papa strike pay gravel
In drifting on Poverty Flat?
Good-night—here's the end of mv paper;
Good-night—if the longitude please—•
Foe maybe while wasting my taper.
Your sun's climbing over the trees.
But know if you haven't got riches.
Ami nro mw. dearest Jo" and ell that.
Tliet mv hurt's somewhere there In th" illtcht*.
And you've struck it —on Poverty Ffot.
—Bret Harte.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
Can you follow a course from circle
1 to circle 12 following the straight
lines and touching all the circles?
Eaeh circle can be touched but once.
Yesterdays* answer:
A third of twelve divide
By just one-fifth of seven;
Then you will soon decide
The answer is eleven.
A third of TWE(LV)E is LV; The
Roman number for 55. A fifth of
SE(V)EN is V the Roman numeral
5. Divide 55 by 5 and the answer is
eleven!
By 11. Addington Bruce.
Among your acquaintances there
must be as there are among mine
ertain old people who though com-
fortably off financially and in good
enough health lead miserable lives.
Some among them are marvels of
irritability. Their days are one long
complaining. Others are equally mar-
vels of passivity. They do not com-
plain but neither do they do anything
else. And they have writ large on
their countenances u boredom from
which nothing can relieve them.
Has it ever occurred to you that
these unfortunate old people are suf-
fering chiefly as a result of what may
be called psychic thriftlessncss?
It is not enough it is never enough
to store up financial 'assets for one's
declining years. Such assets certainly
are necessary and multitudes of old
people suffer for lack of them. But if
old age is to be really satisfying it is
equally necessary to store up psychic
assets and as abundant a supply of
them as possible.
And what is not true in the case
of financial assets it is possible for
everybody to lay by a really abundant
psychic reserve.
All thut is requisite for this is to
begin at as early an age as one can.
to cultivate a sympathetic interest in
one's fellow men and to cultivate in-
terest in current affairs in good
books in art in music in science and
above all. in religion.
Such interests have the peculiar
consequence of impelling one to activi-
ties which themselves add to one's
psychic reserve. So that throughout
the years of energetic doing there is a
continual accretion of riches available
for use when the ypars of energetic
doing have become but a memory.
When however no effort is made
at psychic thrift then the closing
years of life are certain to be more
or less dismal no matter how zealous
one may have been in making financial
provision for them.
In fact when psychic thriftlessncss
hns been the habit the more zealous
one is in making financial provision
the more dismal old age is likely to be.
That is why aged millionaries often
are truly pitiable figures.
To the exclusion of almost every
other interest they have concentrated
on the acquisition of wealth. They
have been too busy making money to
think of aught else. So whatever
psychic assets they may have pos-
sessed at the beginning of their ca-
reers—in their days of ardent youth—-
have gradually been dissipated.
In old age they have their millions
and that is all. One cannot gain sat-
isfaction from gold alone. Hence they
become they prey of a profound dis
satisfaction which holds them in a
vicious grip till their last breath.
Think of them think of dissatisfied
old people of your acquaintance while
you yourself are in the full tide of
earning power. Don't permit the gain
ing of money to beocme the chief end
of your own existence. Prudently save
some of the money you do gain. But
be psychically thrifty too.
Take time to keep in touch with the
Grent Architect of the world in which
you find yourself. Take time to love
sympathize with and aid folk making
the earthly pilgrimage by your side.
Take time to gain the delights that
A Puzzle a Day
Psychic Thrift
The Chairman of the House Committee
New York Day by Day
BY O. O. MTNTYJIE.
New York. April 3.—Theatre-goers follow the varying dramatic fa<s ot
the Rialto with the persistence of a dog following the covered wagon. About
| the only thing that hns not been dramatized is pyorrhea and no doubt it will be
| soon. The magazines say four out of every five have it so it should prove
a popular topic.
The “one person” show is not taking root. There is talk of building a
theatre for Joe Cook who is popular in the varieties and permitting him to
give a full evening's entertainment. Ruth Draper has been giving special per-
formances for one night only but may soon be presented for a Broadway run.
One play this season which lingered for five or six weeks had a cast of
three. A vaudeville sketch which lias been strung out for three acts is now-
in rehearsal with a cast of two. David Belasco is said to be conjuring with an
idea for a “one person" play featuring one of his established stars.
The Russian craze is on the wane. Chauve Souris still holds the boards
but it is not believed it will remain much longer. The Moscow players are
not keeping up their pace—gentle raps are beginning to appear in the dramatic
column.
And there is a rumor that the theatre where they held forth is to be en-
tirely done over when they depart. Some of the players made their home
there doing their cooking and bathing if any under the hydrant in the
basement.
No big summer shows have been scheduled so far. The present Follies
may contune until autumn and the young nctor who has been doing nn an-
nual revue is reported to have “lost the roll" playing the ponies.
The truth is a period of readjustment has again struck the theatrical belt
and producers sense the need of a change but they nre trying to
figure out just what the public wants. If they can do that everything is
going to be all right. Yes sir!
Ho is one of those trusting souls—the kind who would order chicken
croquettes at a strange restaurant or believe the hootch labels. He was stand-
ing in front of a department store on Fifth Avenue. A woman came out and
asked him if ho would mind holding her shopping bag which was well filled
until she found her automombile. He did so gladly. And when the store
detective nabbed him n few minutes later lie was arrested as the confederate
of a notorious shoplifter it took him two days to prove he was not the thief.
Those nonchalant youngsters who pursue fashion relentlessly are wearing
checkered collars that match the shirt. And there is another swift change
in evening dress. The white vest is in the discard and has been supplanted
by the waistcoat of black hroacaded silk or frosted velvet. It is cut double
breated nnd terminate abruptly at the wdistline. Very cheerio and all that
sort of rot!
The block on Madison avenue opposite the homes of the Pierpont Mor-
gans has been won by trade and this exclusive residential district is soon to bo
swallowed up in the ninw of commercialism. The district heretofore has boon
considered as sacred ground. Coincidentally Greenwich Village. New York s
Bohemia will soon be moving westward for nearly all of the old homes that
now house studios are to be torn down and fine apartments erected in their
(Copyright 1923 by The McNaught Syndicate inc.)
literature art and music can bestow.
That is the way to be psychically
thrifty. That is the best possible in-
surance for a happy old age.
(Copyright. 1923 by The Associated
Newspapers.)
Pointed Paragraphs
Men fish for fish and women fish
for com;)litnents.
Many an unsociable druggist is a
good mixer.
In trying to get his rights many a
man goes at it the wrong way.
As a rule the orator who uses the
biggest words has the least to say.
Like attracts like; an empty purse
usually means an empty stomach.
It sometimes happens that when
one man raises the wind another col-
lects the dust.
A woman's idea of the impossible is
a shoe that is both comfortable and
stylish.
A woman's face may be her for-
tune —or the making of some drug-
gist's fortune.
When a married tnan declares tn.it
he never felt better in his life his
other half should look out for squalls.
When a man tells you he has a
good thing it is ten to one he wants
you to put up cash to make it so.
When a bachelor does find his ideal
woman it is only to discover that she
is looking elsewhere for her weal
man.
The beauty of reading a tiresome
book is that you can turn over two
leaves at a time without realizing the
difference.
Where to Co
Vaudeville.
Majestic.
Musical Corned)
.•sand — “The Merry Whirl."
Stork
Royal—Edna Park nnd players.
Motion Pictures
Palace—‘'The Christian."
Rialto—“Jassmania.”
Empire—“ Adam's Rib."
Princess—"The Kentucky 11 rby
Luncheon Clubs.
Wednesday.
Lions Club at the Gunter.
Salesmanship Club at the Gunter.
Watching the Parade
By John Pilgrim.
Every one says this is the young
folks’ age—especially the young folks.
It doesn’t seem to occur to a young
man who staggers under the weight
of a nev/ mustache that a good deal
depends on the young man—more on
the young man than on the age in
fact. I could load a car with the
young men who gather in front of the
office building each evening. But I
couldn’t sell ’em.”
“I had a call for a competent
nurse” said Doi* Henneberry last
night. “In a hurry. Old Mis’ Curry
thought she was going to die and if
she did not die she wanted some one
around who was competent to talk it
over with her. So I picked the nurse
from the top of the list that being
the regulation imposed on me by the
Nurses' I'nion which doesn't cull it-
self a union and sent her up. Next
day 1 had a telephone call from Mis’
Curry.
“ 'l've fired that hussy ypu sent up
here’ she said. 'Silly thing I All
paint and lipstick and she certainly
showed through her clothes a lot.
There aren't any young men up at my
place. I'm just an old woman and
I’m sick.’”
So Doe sent her two or three more
nurses and they got fired until fin-
ally the Nurses' Union had a serious
talk with Doe. They told him he
must keep his patients under control
or they would not be permitted to die
under the ten-dollar-a-day direction of
trained nurses. Also they said he
ought to know as well as they did that
their nurses were not expected to
cook and red up around the house and
be pleasant and humor a crochetry old
woman.
“I'm going to get you a womon who
knows her business" he told Mis'
Curry.
So he did—sixty years old. cheerful
confident competent with an ago of
experience behind her nnd courage for
any emergency. Mis’ Curry says she's
going to stay sick. She says she
didn’t know what a comfort sickness
eun he or she would have been sick
before.
It's the ago for young folks —-when
the young folks make good. It's just
that sort of an age for old folks
too.
APRIL 3 1923.
A Laugh or Two
Mi*. Borden Harriman said at a
dinner in New York “I am glad to
J see the psychanalysis craze is dying
t out. Psychnnaly-
t sis solved nil the i 1 —
problems of mod- <
i ern life but the \ Hr
> solutions were
- just about as sat- irQv
. isfactory as the I t
f schoolboy's. j?
■James’ said a _lf
i school teacher dMG
'why are the days -v—X
i so short in winter?"
. “'Because’ James answered ‘the
■ nights are so long.' ”
An Englishwoman of rather appre-
' hensive disposition took a new maid
into the country. The maid was a
cockney and de-
; — termined to find
the country un-
T h e
y J® first morning
after her arrival
she called her
’ mistress who
asked her how
sho slept.
“Couldn't
a wink mum;
didn't you hcar'tbe howls?"
“Gracious me!” said the mistress
perturbed. “I hope nothing was
wrong. I can't think who could have
been howling outside our house in the
middld" of the night.”
“No mum; it wasn't anybody fowl-
ing; it was the howls.”
The cowpuncher had applied for a
policy nnd the insurance ngent was
catechizing him in the usual manner.
“Have you ever
met with any ae- ESaw "
cidents?”
“No” said the UJ
cowboy but added
in an effort to » ej-wril
give some helpful
information: “A
bronc kicked two
of my ribs in last
summer and n ——
rattlesnake bit me in the nnkle a cou-
ple of years ngo.
“Mv goodness” faintly expostulat-
ed the insurance ngent. “Dont’ you
call those accidents?”
“Naw” said the knight of the
branding iron; “they done it a-pur-
pose.”
“Her ladyship's instructions Sir
John arc that as you have a cold I
was to bring you a glass of hot milk
w i t h a little
H something in it.”
said the butler.
"Hot milk. Thomp-
son.” retorted the
invalid. “ M e ?
I've n notion to
throw it at you”
"Yes. Sir John.”
returned the but-
~— 1 ler "That's why
I have brought only "the little some-
thing.” a
The street car was very crowded
nnd the old colored man just managed
to got one foot on
the lower step h
nnd his hands on 5 nfr
the hand mil. >| - ' kdsflß
When the con-- .
ductor called out J ''—)
briskly. “Fares
please” he rc- a©
torted in amaze-
m c n t “Mali
Lawd man. yo’
nin't collectin' offn de sidewalk is
you ?”
Two farmers had been enjoying a*
festive evening. They bad a drive of
five miles before them.’ and it was a
very dnrk night.
H ■■' 1 hu t the horse
■ knew the way.
Side by side they
sat and went
along at a spank-
ing pace. At
length they swung
round a sharp '
turn in a most
alarming manner
missing nn obstruction by nn inch or
two.
“Gently. George; gently round the
corner old man.” murmured Bill.
“What! Haven’t you got the reins
either?” he said.
—By Briggs
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