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CONSERVATISM
Bankers are often criticised because they appear to
be too conservative and too hard to convince.
It is the conservative character of a bank that makes
it valuable to a community.
While it is the purpose of this bank to be progressive
it is first of all conservative.
We appreciate our friends and patrons and solicit
new business with the assurance of service in keeping
with sound banking principles.
State National Bank
BLISS SUGGESTS PLAN
Patrol of Border Further Discussed
by Joint Conferees.
ATLANTIC CITY Oct. 12.—
Change in plans suggested for bor-
der control as recommended by
Major General Tasker H. Bliss as-
sistant chief of staff of the United
States army were placed before the
Mexican representatives by the
Americans at the session yesterday
of the Mexican-American joint com-
mission.
While no definite action was taken
it was said the attitude of the Mex-
icans was conciliatory and that they
indicated a willingness to listen to
the general’s suggestions for im-
provement in the plans proposed.
Specific discussion of the ques-
tion of the withdrawal of the Amer-
ican troops from Chihuahua it is
understood was not given a prom-
inent place In the conference but
both sides have tactily admitted that
the withdrawal of troops imme-
diate or gradual is a matter of
course and dependent on the adop-
tion of a more comprehensive plan
for the protection of life and prop-
erty along the border. Neither the
Mexicans nor the Americans cared
♦o reveal the exact character of the
conference today but it was said
some progress had been made.
WHERE STYLES NEVER
CHANGE
Just ss the girls of the various
towns and provinces of Holland
says the National Geographic Maga-
zine. are to be distinguished by the |
peculiar form of their quaint head
dresses so the girls of Sardinian vil-1
lages are known by the combination
of colors in their costumes. The
women and children dress alike—-
full skirts usually dark red; white
waists with full sleeves and short
bright red or bright blue jackets
open In front or laced around the
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■ DIRECTORS J
8. P. Wklnnw B. TsUaferro Joe. Rneenfleld Jack W. Neal. Wm V.
M DieUnan H. C. Feldman. Mrs. Gunter Z. D. Bonner Chua. Buumberger S
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Light Want Ads beginning tomorrow Friday October 13th for
a 13-day run will be charged for at the regular 10-day rate 7
cents per word.
to advertise your rent property furnished rooms housekeeping
rooms rooms and board and apartments and flats. Use this op-
portunity to sell used articles vehicles harness wagons auto-
mobiles poultry live stock and anything of value.
jf You Like to Trade
tell the other fellow through this special offer what you have and
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Real Estate Owners and Agents
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THURSDAY
waist. In some districts the pattern
of the apron is the distinctive fea-
ture
The styles never change among
the women of Sardinia who wear the
native costume; so it repays the
seamstress the weaver and the epi-
broid^rv expert to make garments
that will last a lifetime- and can
then be handed down as heirlooms
for rising generations.
Large white sleeves beneath the
slashed sleeves of his jacket a full
short bright colored skirt and close
fitting vhlte trousers tucked into
high boots or leggings constitute the
typical attire of the men. In some
districts of the Island the men wear
a pointed cap resembling a Phrygian
bonnet long and narrow like a
stocking reaching almost to the
waist. This point either is worn
down over the shoulders or folded
on top of the head and may be used
as a pillow at night. It is apt to
contain anything from bread to
snuff which is Indispensable to the
older men. A queer custom of some
of the younger men is to let the hair
on top of their heads grow often to
fifteen inches in length and then
roll It up into a puff which looks
like a pompadour across the fore-
head.
A glimpse nf a group of Sardinian
shepherds clad in their shaggy
sheepskin mantles which are sup-
posed to ward off fevers- is enough
to send a shudder down the spina
of a stranger who has feasted upon
the out-of-date tales of bandit-rid-
den Sardinia but the natives are
harmless and in spite of their bitter
tight against heavy taxes and the
relatively high cost of living they
never annoy the tourists by begging
as do so many of the people or
Southern Italy.
I —
. sympathetic Stranger—' Hullo' old eLap
I —fallen in"” Unfortunate Angler ‘ear- j
caatically)—•'Well you don’t nuppone thia
is perspiration do vou?"—Pitting Show.
Footpad—" Hand over your money.”
Victim —“Sorry my friend but I’m just
back from my vacation and ” Foot-
pad—" Shake old man' So'm I or I
wouldn’t be doing thia."—Boaton Tran-
acrlpt.
Special Offer for Friday
October 13 th
15 Words 13 Days $1.05
Now Is the Time
Thousands of people in San Antonio and Southwest
Texas subscribe to The Light exclusively as their daily
paper and through Light advertising is the direct best
and only way to reach them. Advertising in The Light
pays.
IMS BREAK
AUSTRIAN UNE
NEAR 60BIZIA
Renewal of Drive in Direction
of Trieste Brings
Heavy Fighting.
ARTILLERY IS EFFECTIVE
Guns of Italy Convert Enemy
Trenches Into Rubbish on
Carso Front.
LONDON Oct. 12.—General Ca-
dornas reported success in the
breaking of the Austrian line at sev-
eral points southeast of Gorlzla in
the sudden renewal of the Italian
drive toward Triest. is declared by
entente correspondents at the front
to have been effected in the face of
strengthened Austrian lines to which
fresh troops recently were sent.
Vienna in its latest statement
claims that the Italians have been
driven out of many trenches they
had penetrated and that fighting is
being continued for possession of
others. The Austrians took 1400
men of the attacking forces.
Rome has reported the capture of
n.ore than 5000 prisoners in the
course of the advance.
Latest reports on the situation in
Greece are that the Greek authori-
ties have yielded-to the entente de-
mands for the turning over of virtu-
ally the entire Greek navy and the
dismantling or surrender of forts on
the seacoast. Control by the entente
of all material for naval operations
of railroads malls and telegraph
service so as to render impossible
its use to the detriment of the en-
tente fo-ces is reported to have been
included in the demands.
A lull again seems to have set in
along the Somme front in northern
France following the heavy fight-
ing of the last day or two. London
reports that no incidents of moment
occurred last night.
DESCRIBES ITALIAN SUCCESS.
French Correspondent Says Battle
Was a Fantastic Sight.
PARIS Oct. 12—A description of
the becent Italian success on the
Carso has bom telegraphed to the
Petit Pa’lsien by its war correspond-
ent on the Italian front. It says:
"Our artillery began to ednoen-
trate its fire on the morning of the
eighth on the zone between Vertolba
and the sea favored intermittently
by the sun. All calibers engaged in
a grand concert and their fire swept
the Austrian position yard by yard
growing gradually more Intense.
"On the next day. the ninth the
bombardment continued unabated.
Patrols which were sent out to recon-
noiter reported splendid results par-
ticularly where the Austrians were
most strongly established tn the
space between Oppacchfasella and
Hill 77 east of Monfalcone. Here
the Austrian Une was the strangest
THE SAN AMOMO LIGHT
sight. They used the walls of gar-
dens. copings of wells and natural
caverns of rock. The Une descends
from Hill 208 to the north as fur
as a mile east of the road from Op-
pacchinsella to Jamlano. The enemy
had made several series of trenches
’aclng In every direction. which
made the defense of the position
?asy. Two of the most important
I positions were the triangular re-
-1 doubt and another position called
Fortlno which were'furnished with
machine guns and protected by for-
midable artillery. It was against
[ this part of the front that the Italian
< artillery was directed yesterday with
magnificent results."
The correspondent adds:
"I followed the battle yesterday
morning from a central point be-
tween Novavas and Villanova. It
was a fantastic sight. The Austrian
trenches were converted Into heaps
of rubbish by the big shells which
shot columns of smoke and burst 300
feet into the air. At 10:30. reports
| came that though the trenches and
I barbed wire entanglements had been
i wiped out the Austrians were hid-
den In caves awaiting tho infantry
attack. The artillery opened afresh
on the second and third Austrian
lines the bombardment reaching Its
climax at 1:30. A colleague who was
present In several wars declared he
had never seen such a spectacle ot
destruction.
‘The infantry attacked at 2:50
with splendid dash and the triangu-
lar redoubt and Fortlno fell. The
enemy went down everywhere be-
fore the Italians notwithstanding a
stubborn resistance. After a few
hours' fighting at Novavas. a thou-
। sand prisoners were taken We ob-
tained proof that far from with-
drawing troops the Austrians had
sent several fresh battalions to rein-
force the defenders of the Carso."
SURPRISE IS REPULSED.
Turkish Statement Reports Brushes
Between Scout Parties.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. IL—-
(Via London Oct. 12.) —The follow-
ing official account of military ope-
rations on the Caucasian front was
Issued hdre today:
"On our right wing there were
encounters between reconnoitering
parties and light artillery fire. On
our left wing we repulsed a surprise
attack."
ROUMANIANS FORCED BACK.
Berlin Statement Says Second Army
Driven Back to Frontier.
BERLIN Oct. 12.— (Via London.)
—Teuton troops are pursuing the
Roumanian forces on the whole east-
ern Transylvania front says the of-
ficial statement Issued today by the
German army headquarters staff.
The second Roumanian army the
announcement adds has been driven
back into the frontier positions.
All attacks made yesterday by the
Anglo-French forces against the
German positions on the Somme
front according to today’s statement
were repulsed.
ALLIES TAKE OVER
WHOLE GREEK NAVY
Control of Mails Telegraph
and Railroads Also Is
Secured.
LONDON Oct. 12.—Vice Admiral
D’Artige du Foumet corAmander of
the Anglo-French fleet in the Medi-
terranean has presented an ultimat-
um to Greece demanding that
Greece hand over the entire Greek
fleet except the armored cruiser
Averoff and the battleships Lannoc
and Kilkts to the entente allies by
one o’clock Wednesday afternoon
according to Reuter’s Athens cor-
respondent. Demand is also made
for the control of the Pireaus-Lar-
issa railway. The minister of mar-
ine the correspondent contalnus
says Vice Admiral Fournet’s de-
mands will be complied with and
that the fleet will be handed over
before the prescribed time. The de-
mands were made as a precaution-
ary measure to ensure the safety of
the allies' fleet.
It is explained that the dispatch
of artillery and ammunition to the
Interior the movements of Greek
ships and the continued activity of
the reservist leagues have aroused
fears of a disturbance at points
where the allies’ war vessels are
anchored and also endanger the se-
curity of the allied troops on the
Balkan front.
Vice Admiral du Foumet demands
the disarming of the Kilkis Lemnos
and Averoff and the dismantling of
the forts on the seacoast while tho
two forts commanding the fleets
moorings are to be given over to the
admiral. Control of certain points
must also be placed in the hands of
the Anglo-British authorities.
In addition to the disarming of the
warships named their crews are to
be reduced to one-third the regular
complement.
Ultimatum Is Comprehensive*
PARIS Oct. 12.—Details of the
demands made of the Greek govern-
ment by Admiral D'Artige du Four-
net commander of the allied naval
forces at Piraeus which have been
made public here show’ that the
ultimatum was much more com-
prehensive than was understood at
first.
in addition to her fleet. Greece
was required to permit allied con-
trol of all material for naval oper-
ations as well as tho mails tele-
graph and railroads. The ultimatum
set forth that such control was nec-
essary in order to render impossi-
ble the use of the navy railroads and
so forth to the detriment of the al-
lies.
Admiral du Fournet gave the
Greek government until 1 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon to comply
with his demands and stated that
failure to do so would result in his
taking the necessary steps himself.
(.»s Attacks Repulsed.
PETROGRAD. Oct. 12.—(Via
London.) —Three German gas at-
tacks launched against the Russians
in front of the Uskull bridge fortifi-
cations on October 8 were unsuc-
cessful says the Russian official
statement reporting operations on
the Russian western front.
A New York medical journal thinks
It all wrong for people to try to minimi*©
their sleeping hours simply neuauau N*
folton was suffered to al«*ep but little
n other words the editor WOU'd Impicia
gome of hie readera that th-y • mo- ue
come Napoleon* simply by sitting up late*
—Fuck-
CHARGES -LOOT” OF
$5000000 IN DEAL
Kansas Commission Scores
Methods of Reorganizing
Frisco Road.
TOrEKA. Kan.. Oct. 12. —Declar-
ing It had uncovered "loot" ot five
and one-third million dollars in the
reorganization plans of the St. Louis
& San Francisco railroad but that
it could find no legal methods t<
prevent It the Kansas Public Utils
ties Commission yesterday grant-
the application of the Frisco Coi
pany for permission to issue $261
000.000 worth of stocks and bonds
In an opinion handed down by the
commission with Its decision regard-
ing the reorganization plans which
covers seven typewritten pages the
commission explains the alleged
"looting” methods it uncovered and
charges the "looting" of claimants
against the road by compelling them
to take only a part of their due and
in some cases stock in the company.
"The offensive part of the reor-
ganization plan” reads the opinion
"is the method of disposing of the
claims which grew out of operation
ot the road and the reckless waste
of money in payments to syndicates
and committees that participated In
the reorganization. Every manner
of syndicate known to stockbrokers
and dealers In high finance seems to
have been created-”
It Is charged by the commission
that one syndlvate was paid $1000-
000 presumably for buying securi-
ties and another was paid 8675000
for lending the purchasing syndicate
money with which It bought securi-
ties.
PRESIDENT WELCOMED
AT INDIANAPOLIS
(Continued from Pago One.)
plete information as to our present
manufacturing and producing facil-
ities adaptable to many sided uses of
modern warfare will be procured
analyzed and made use of.
"One of the objects of the council
will be to inform American manu-
facturers as to the part which they
can and must play in national emer.
gency. It Is empowered to establish
at once and maintain through sub-
ordinate bodies of specially qualified
persons an auxiliary organization
composed of men of the best creative
and administrative ability capable
of mobilizing to the utmost the re-
sources of the country.”
far Almost Hits Woman.
RICHMOND. Ind. Oct. 12.—The
train to which the president’s car
was attached backed into a crowd
here and several persons nearly
were caught under the president's
car. John Q. Slye a secret service
man pulled one woman out of the
way just in time.
U. S. WARSHIPS PATROL
COAST CAPTAIN SAYS
(Continued From Page One.)
that entry to American ports be de-
nied to all under-water craft of bel-
ligerents.
Resting on determination of this
nation's attltifde toward the work ot
the U-53 is the matter ot soliciting
indemnity for American cargoes lost
with the sunken ships. Only If the
ships were sunk illegally may claim
be entered.
U- S. REPLY IS PRINTED.
Ixmdon Papers However Decline to
Comment on This Country’s Attitude
LONDON Oct. 12.—A1l the morn-
ing newspapers today print in a
prominent place in their editions the
reply of the United States govern-
ment to the memorandum of Great
Britain. France. Russia and Japan
regarding the treatment of belli-
gerent submarines In neutral ports.
Not one of the newspapers however
comments editorially on the reply.
A majority of them print the reply
alongside of lengthy articles from
their American correspondents in
which are included tho comment of
American newspapers on the sub-
ject.
In their accounts the newspapers
here say It is understood that the
Washington reply was sent prior to
the activities of tho German sub-
marine off tho American coast.
The naval corrospondont of the
Dally Express in a long article deal-
“See How That Corn
Comes Clear Off!”
“GETS-IT” Loosens Your Corns
Right Off It’s the Modern Corn
Wonder —Never Fails.
”It * hard to believe anything could act
like that In getting a corn off. Why. T
just lifted that corn right off with my
finger nail. ’GETS-IT’ Is certainly won-
derful.’’ Yea. "GETR-TT” Is the moat
wonderful corn-cure ever known because
’’lt’s Jutt Wonderful the Way ‘GETS-IT*
Makes All Coms Go Quick.”
ven don’t have to foo! and putter around
with your corns harness them up with
bandages or try to dig them out.
"GETR-1T” Ie a liquid. You put on a
few drops In a few seconds It dries.
It’s painless. Put your stocking on right
ov. r it Put on your regular shoes. You
won’t limp or have a corn “twist” in your
fire. The corn callus or wart will loosen
from your too—off it comes Glory hslle-
ImlrH* “GETS-IT” is the biggest selling
ro-n remedy In the world. When you try
It. you know why.
"GETS-IT” is sold and recommended by
druggists •vorywhere. 25c a bottle or
sent on receipt of prl?e by E. Lawrenca
* <’n . Chicago. 11l
“GETS-IT" is sold in San Antonio and
rnomnirnded a* the world’s best corn
remedy hy S. C. Fritache W. C. Burna A
Or . and Adolph Drelas 25c a bottle or
•ent on receipt of prica by E. Lawroaoa
A Co M Chicago HL
The Home Filled With Contentment
is the Home That is Filled With Music
Our Co-operative Distribution
of Pianos and Players Is Put-
ting Music Into New Homes
No home is complete without music—the musical home is the
contented home. And through this great distribution of pianos
and players more homes are being made contented happier thor-
oughly homelike because we are putting fine pianos and player-
pianos within the reach of every music lover. The savings are
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the 500 before it is too late.
A Fine Piano You can have music I Play er ■ Piano
COQ7 to °- a ^ a pr T r u
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~ r this Co-operative T
Termi as Low a* ~ Terms as Low as
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You Can Be One of the 500
This is not a sale not a bargain event because it does more than any sale
could possibly do. It is co-operation in a great big way. We contracted for
the pianos and players before the advance in prices—we eliminated a great
part of the factory expense of doing business and got better instruments. We
did this for you and if you become one of the 500 who take advantage of this
distribution you profit. Only a great music house such as this could arrange
such a gigantic co-operative plan multiplying your buying power 500 times.
Note the prices—compare them with <the manufacturer’s regular prices.
You can’t fail to be one of the 500 then- If you want to know more about the
plan call at our store or write and ask for the booklet we have written about
it—“ One of Five Hundred.”
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW.
Thos. Goggan Bros.
Home of the Steinway Houston and Navarro Streets
Ing with U-boat activities off the
American coast says:
"Ono effect the Germans did not
expect Io produce in America I am
convinced will be an immediate
strengthening of the scope ot the
new volunteer motorboat patrol for
the Atlantic coast. The scheme alms
at providing ten thousand small craft
as an anti-submarine guard from
Cape Sable to the Florida reefs.”
Britain Warns Ship Owners.
GALVESTON Tex. Oct. 12.—1 t is
learned from an official source that
the British government has warned
owners of British ships in Atlantic
ports that if they sail they will do so
at their own risk and that the gov-
ernment will assume no responsibil-
ity. The warning it is understood
does not apply to Gulf ports.
Norwegian steamer Sunk
LONDON Oct. 12.—A London dis-
patch from Christiania announces
the sinking of the Norwegian steam-
er Birk of 715 tons. The crew was
saved.
DAMAGE IS $2000000
Hurricane Sweeps St. Thomas Island.
leaving Many Destitute.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Oct. 12.—
American Consul Payne at St.
Thomas reported today that the hur- -
rienne that swept the Danish Wes' I
Indies Monday and Tuesday caused
damage estimated at 82.000000 and
left two-thtrds of the native island-
ers In dire need of food clothing and I
shelter. His dispatch said:
"Disaster generally serious. Esti-
mated loss $2000000 Two-thlrds
of the population need food and
clothing; one-third shelter. Relief
required $50000. which should In-
clude building material food cloth-1
Ing and money "
Portuguese Are Advancing.
LISBON Oct. 11.—(Via Paris.)
The general commanding the Por-
tuguese forces In East Africa reports I
that after an engagement in which
he repulsed the German troops the
Portuguese advanced nineteen miles |
north of Rovuna.
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g after your death is by means m
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| E. A. SCHULZ General Agent for Toxas |
331 Moore Building San Antonio
Telephone Crockett 948
OCT. 12 1916.
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