The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1926 Page: 12 of 20
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Who Milks and Why?
TO a communication to The Light we are indebted
for the facts in the following incident.
On the outskirts of San Antonio there lives an
elderly widow who owns a fine cow.
The other day the widow became ill and she could
not milk her cow. Her son. 20 years of age had never
learned the art of milking.
San Antonio is a friendly city and the neighbors
engaged themselves in the widow’s behalf. The neigh-
borhood was canvassed and among 25 or more families
there was found only one person who knew how to sepa-
rate the milk from the cow.
This incident led our correspondent into a very
gloomy dissertation on the present-day state of affairs.
“What is the country coming to when citizens who
drink milk don’t know how to milk?” he asks.
“They would have starved to death in pioneer
times” he observes.
We do not agree with our correspondent. If it were
necessary they would have learned how to milk. They
would have learned how to spin and how to make
hominy and soap. The pioneer produced his own food
and made his own clothing because he had to not be
cause he wanted to.
Many find pleasure and profit in keeping cows. But
there is no more reason why a man who doesn’t own a
cow should know how to milk than there is in expecting
a shipping clerk to learn how to box the compass.
If our correspondent is determined to view life
darkly we venture the suggestion he has overlooked the
real subject for a most pessimistic thesis on the present-
day state of affairs.
He might have asked the question: “Why doesn't
the widow’s son know how to milk?” and found in the
answer a key to the solution of one of the most perplex-
ing of modern problems.
Errors of Enthusiasm
N LORRAINE la. a young bacteriologist claims that
he has discovered a method to produce living cells
out of inorganic substances.
Of course there Is no limit to one’s imagination of
what may be done some time. A man may swallow an
elephant. Some Jonah may gulp down a whale. A man
may be born some time that shall be a hundred feet high
and live a thousand years.
But the balance of probabilities is against all these
monstrosities. And the balance of probability is very
much against anybody’s discovering how to make ani-
mals out of chemicals.
Mr. J. F. Mazur claims that he has made snails and
other wriggly things in all eighteen different forms of
life out of albumin and calcium carbonate.
Maybe he has. And then maybe he is mistaken.
And the probability that he is correct is as 1000046 to
one.
Every once in a while the newspapers announce
that some scientist has created a living thing out of
something that was not alive. All you have to do is to
wait for the paper next day and you will find out how
he made his mistake.
Fewer Failures Now
THE number of failures in the United States during
the calendar year of 1925 as reported by Brad-
street’s according to the Commercial and Finan-
cial World was less than during any year since 1920
The decrease in the number of failures from 1924 was
4.3 per cent and the decrease in liabilities from the same
year was 31 per cent. The total number of failures in
1925 was 18858 with liabilities aggregating $479611-
754 and assets of $262093314.
According to the above authority as reported
“there were more failures than in 1924 in New England
and the central-western states but fewer in the middle
states the northwest the south and the far south. Lia-
bilities were lighter in every group in 1925 than in 1924
with an especially marked decline in the northwestern
group which in 1924 saw bank failures at their peak.”
Wolf and Wildcat
WILDCAT is sent to President Coolidge and a
K\ huge timber wolf to Mr. Walker mayor of New
York City and close friend of Governor Smith
twWent Coolidge and Governor Smith may be the
|Rcan and I>mo: ia’ a-c. la’-- . r ■.
HBTildcat and wolf might take the place of elephar •
■R inkey in that campaign. The wildcat possesses
■■of President Coolidgt ’> charat tenst> It n.w.
SBy and strikes swiftly. In proportion to its weight
*trong as any elephant ami a milii
USANANTQNiOLIGHTsIJ
A Member of the Hot Air Club
POLITE PEOPLE DO NOT SPRAY COLD GERMS
There is no wonder colds multiply
and that from time to time the dis-
ease becomes so common as to as-
sume almost epidemic proportions. 1
have been watching a group of per-
sons to see what they do if any-
thing. to protect others from infec-
tion. It is only an occasional per-
son who does the slightest thing to
guard his friends from the cold which
is so distressing to him.
Common as they are we seem to
be as helpless in controlling and
treating colds as we were a genera-
tion ago. This isn't because we don't
know more about colds. Because as
a matter of fact we do know a lot
more than we did even a dozen years
ago. The trouble is we don’t apply
our knowledge.
QUEEN’S COUNSEL
By MARIE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.
Rccltter«3 United State* Patent Office.
Nothing really is as sad as ''fun"
that hurts. Yet I know no country
upon earth that has not its prank
day its festival of “fools” whether
it be April Ist or not.
It is good to have a day for the
young for those who like to laugh
and tease for children to i>lay harm-
less tricks and the witty ones to
test their talenf. Perhaps it is
not going too far if a few old grudg-
es an; paid off—there'd be some sat-
isfaction in that.
But fun that hurts is not fun and
only cruel natures find pleasure in
it. I suppose it springs from a de-
sire for power. Perhaps we cannot
please people—but we can always
find a way to make them suffer. 1
hate the idea.
Yet in my girlhood I was as keen
as any other at a joke or u little
wickedness that provoked n laugh. J
remember once that somebody sent
out invitations in the name of a cer-
tain quite stiff and formal society
lady for supper all the guests ar-
riving and the mistress of the bouse
taken by disagreeable surprise in her
dressing gown whilst her drawing
room filled with smartly-dress'd
guests—and the cook with a day off!
But it is something far worse when
two "iger lovers are called to the
wrong places to meet each other —
finding at the end of the long trip
that they are only April Fools. Tho
announcement of disasters or of long-
looked-for events suppose! to have
taken place mysterious voices on the
telephone mokidg threats—these are
By ROYAL S. COPELAND M. D.
United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Health New Y#rk City.
Let me review the matter: It is
believed that colds are conveyed by
the secretions of the nose and throat.
Sneezing coughing and loud talking
produce a spray of moisture which
may be blown into the air for a dis-
tance of several feet •perhaps. The
tiny drops of moisture carry the in-
fecting germs of the disease. •
It is the habit of a good
persons to cover the nose and mouth
with the hand. This has virtue of
being at least a half-way measure
because it saves the 'standera-by from
a spray of dangerous moisture. But
this practice concentrates in the
hand a quantity of infectious ma-
terial.
The moist band carries the germs
to the door knob the soap the
pencil or other object which may
hideous misconceptions of fun to bo
discouraged in every way possible.
Once or twice however I have been
mightily tickled at certain fooleries.
Somebody sent me a clipping once
from an American newspaper describ-
ing bow an inveterate jokester had
entered at a smart horse show a dis-
reputable nag which bad been groomed
and stimulated for the occasion and
which succeeded in taking a prize
to the disgust of the judges when
they learned about it. •
This same man with the aid of
some urchins collected a bevy of
alley cats which were duly beautified
fed into gleeknciw furnished with
false pedigrees and exhibited with
pride and profit at the Annual Cat
Show.
This amused me really for there
« nothing alive that accepts luxury
n such a matter-of-course manner
as a cat. A cat that has never seen
the inside of a house nor eaten food
not foraged from a dustbin will
respond in record time to preeniug
and pampering and take on the in-
stant airs of an aristocrat. I have
even seen the trampiest of tramp
pussies dirty rowdy and starved
sitting quite calmly in the midst of a
busy pavement aloofly almost ele-
gantly at ease as though before its
own hearth fire.
But unkind jokes arc only out-
eroppir.gs of the barbarism which
often underlies a civilized veneer.
Don't let's play them ever upon
anyone in any form I
Copyright. IM*. by N<w«p*p«r
Featur. Serve*. lae.
be handled the next moment by one
who is not yet the victim of a cold.
This hand may clasp that of a friend.
What is intended as a friendly
greeting may lead to a serious ill-
ness. The soiled hand is capable of
carrying to the nose and mouth
the germs of disease.
You cannot catch a cold from
your neighbor if he will keep his
germs to himself. To this end he
should carry a supply of handker-
chiefs squares of gauze or sheet.*
of thin paper. Every effort must be
made by a kind-hearted person to
protect his fellow man.
It is true of the eating utensils
too that thejs must be borne in
mind if the cold one member of
the family has shall not be carried
to every other member of the
famiy. All such articles must be
MUSSOLINI’S BLUFF
By DR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. IMS. by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
When Premier Mussolini rattled his
saber and clenched his fist at Germany
recently it was entirely for home con-
sumption.
One of the most effective ways of
unifying a country or quailing Incipi-
ent revolution within it is for the lead-
er* of the country to bring on a dis-
pute with ~ome other nation. In war
or in the preparation for war all par-
ties sing their differences and rally
around their national leaders.
It is natural that there should be
considerable dissatisfaction seething
underneath Mussolini's iron rule. The
best way to get rid of it is to cry
out that the country is in peril.
And we should remember that the
ink is hardly dry on Mussolini's sig-
nature to the Locarno Pact in which
be agreed that all disputes between
nations should be settled by arbitra-
tion and that all signatories should
rally to the support of the attacked
nation.
It should be remembered also that
it is not the bravery of the soldiers
nor the glory of a country which can
bring success nowadays in war but
that martial success is based upon
just one thing. which is money. The
nation with the most resources will
eventually conquer.
Also what defeated Germany was
not the lock of prowess among her
fighters; It was the almost universal
alliance against her. If Italy or any
other country were precipitately to
make war upon another uatiqp she
would find all other countries allied
against hr. If all nations unite
against a war-making people it la the
boiled to make sure the germs are
destroyed.
Bemember that soiled hands and
an atmosphere impregnated with
contaminated moisture are the means
of carrying the material capable of
infecting you and infecting others.
A dold is not so serious an experi-
ence to a strong adult as it is to a
tiny baby. But your cold may bo
passed on to an infant or a weak
adult then there may be serious
trouble. The acute infections of this
sort are among the chief causes of
baby deaths. They have lessened
the efficiency of many a grown per-
son and paved the way for some-
thing far more serious.
The best advice I can give you is
to avoid taking cold. Do this by
exercise fresh air simple food nnd
restful sleep.
best assurance of the continuance of
peace.
The Italians are easily excitable and
peculiarly subject to oratory. They
should not forget however that one
nation cannot stand against univer-
sal public sentiment and that courtesy
ad nforbcarance are as necessary be-
tween nations as between Individuals.
A man cannot go rampaging about
and asserting bis rights without get-
ting into plenty of trouble. Neither
can a nation.
One of the most necessary elements
in a nation is a capacity for self-con-
trol.
The day is past when a Napoleon
can arise and be successful. The dif-
ficulty is that such a man will find
public sentiment soldily united against
him. Up to a certain point the methods
os Mussolini and the Fascisti may be
good enough but beyond that point
they are dangerous.
Copyright IMS by Tho McCiur*
Newspaper Syndic*!*.
Freaks of Nature
South America possess many strange
animals but perhaps none more
strange and grotesque than the sloths
which spend their lives suspended up-
side down to the bran bes of tbe for-
est trees. It lives entirely upon the
letves of the tree.
Tbe moutlr seems to b- provided with
a long prehensile tongue like that of
a giraffe and the upper lip and nose
in some species are prolonged into a
proboscis resembling that of a tapir.
Copyright IMS. King Features Sya.. Ine
FOOTBALL’S CZAR
“Big Bill” Edward* Is the Right Man.
Copyright. ISIS.'
The New Czar of Professional Football. “Big Bill" Edwards.
William H. Edwards who deserves his title “Big Bill”
mentally and physically used to walk or run toward the
other man’s goal with half of the other team hanging to
his back.
He will carry the entire load of ALL the professional
football teams on his broad shoulders from now on as
Judge Landis formerly of the United States Federal
Bench carries the load of professional baseball.
As Americans begin to understand and like the game
apart from the college atmosphere and apart from spec-
tacular individual players professional football will grow
in interest. « ‘
The only thing necessary the thing hardly to be ex-
pected was that the game be kept perfectly clean.
tn anything professional as the public knows well
whether it be racing baseball boxing or anything else
corruption creeps in “deals are made” the public is
swindled by things “fixed in advance.”
There won’t be any of that with “Big Bill” Edwards
IF HE KNOWS IT.
SAN ANTONIO
APRIL 1 1926.
By T. E. Powers
Copyright 1M« By St»r Company.
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