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THURSDAY
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CIKCLIAIIUS SIA MONTHS ENDING MAIM U 41. 1911
The total dally average circulation ot the dally edi-
tion ot The San Antonio Light during the elx montha
ending March 3L 1511. was 80.109 coplth and of the
Sunday edition wan 84.500. Omitting all epoUed left
ever uueold. returned filed eamp lea advertleera and
exchangee the total net paid average ot the dally edi-
tion wax 18118 copies and ot the Sunday edition 223'8
ooplaa
The circulation ot The San Antonio Light baa been
certified to by the Audit Bureau ot Circulation. The
audit ot thia bureau which embraces tn Ite memberahip
every leading newepaper. magazine and advertlaer tn
tne United Staten and Canada la tegarded aa authorita-
tive and tlnal by the advertleera ot America and Europe.
The San Antonio Light aa a reeult ot the above audit
can guarantee Ite advertleera 50 per eent more paid
circulation direct to the homo tn Ban Antonio than any
other newapapor.
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE.
American fighting men are in France.
Two contingents of them —the first drops
of the flood so soon to come —have land-
ed and are preparing for action. The
American flag is steadily drawing nearer
the red pit of war in Eastern France.
The men who are around it will soon
carry it into a hotter flame than has ever
scorched it yet.
Every American may be pardoned if
he thinks of these brave boys of Persh-
ing’s with mist in his eyes and an ache
in his throat. It is a long flight this little
brood of the eagle has taken and while
we hope well for them we know that not
all of them will fly back to America when
the end of the war has come.
These men are few in numbers and
as men are numbered in this great war
they may not be able to accomplish much.
But they carry the hearts and love of
100000000 people with them and what-
soever is done unto them is done unto us.
There has been complaint that America
"has not risen to the war but there is a
deadly certainty that she will “see red”
quickly enough when once she knows
that something has happened to the boys
she has sent to follow Pershing.
Germany sneered at the small British
army when that band of the flower of
British manhood stepped onto the fields
of France where so many of them were to
lay their young lives down. Germany
knows today that other British men were
to follow those first few and if she
knows anything at all she knows that
other Americans will follow these boys
and that others will follow them.
The majority of the men now in France
are regulars. It is today as it has always
been. The regular is first to the fight.
And right here it may not be amiss to
call the attention of the American people
to the fact that for some reason she has
never loved her regular soldier as she
should and as he has deserved. He has
never failed her any more than he will
fail her now. He has always done his
duty and done it well. And now he is
the first in line for the greatest effort
America has ever put upon her man-
hood. These regulars are writing the first
words of glory on what is to be one of
the deathless pages in the history of
America and the history of the world.
They are carrying the American flag into
the hottest hell of war that has ever
flamed. They are making a sacrifice that
should be held close to the heart of the
American people and which they should
never forget.
When the first casualty lists arrive
from Europe the American people will
know there is something more to war
than paying taxes and subscribing to
Liberty Loans or to the Red Cross. They
will then commence to appreciate what it
means to hold high the cross of democracy
and carry it with bleeding feet and blind-
ed eyes to the heights upon which rest
their unselfish ideals of the rights of men
on earth.
These men are our first offerings. The
time will come when Americans will
struggle for control when they speak of
them. As surely as that is true —and it is
God’s own truth—all the more must we
who remain behind arise to our duty of
sustaining them with high courage and
with a liberality that will never flag.
Whatever our own sacrifices and troubles
may be we must cheer these boys on
back them to the glorious end and—un-
less good manhood and good womanhood
has departed from among us—we will
love them with a love that will never die.
A BOGUS WAR MEASURE.
As The Light predicted the prohibi-
tionists have taken advantage of a worthy
end to secure recognition of an un-
worthy and altogether unjustified and
unjustifiable means. As a result of their
constant parrot-like cry "Conserve the
food supply” the House of Representa-
tives has adopted prohibition provisions
as a part of the Lpvcr food-control bill.
That these provisions were not intended
to constitute a war measure but were
designed primarily to promote the pro-
hibition propaganda must have been ob-
vious to all who read the press accounts
of the proceedings in the House.
"As originally adopted” says the As-
sociated Press accoutre "the amendment
would have provided against use of food-
stuffs in making non-alcoholic drinks but
this feature w r as stricken out.”
The professed object of the champions
of the prohibition amendment to the food
bill was to prevent the diversion of food-
stuffs from the enterprise of winning the
war. All the surplus food products of
the nation over and above what the peo-
ple would absolutely need for sustenance
they said must be devoted to the cause
of liberty and democracy. Only by such
grand talk could the prohibitionists gain
a hearing—and they knew it.
When the final test came however the
plea on patriotic grounds weakened per-
ceptibly; not only weakened but turned
tail and reversed its course altogether.
If the purpose of the amendment is to
conserve the nation’s food supply some
of the less impressionable members of
Congress reasoned then why not pro-
hibit the use of foodstuffs for the manu-
ture of all beverages? Why restrict the
prohibitory feature to alcoholic beverages?
So it was proposed that the prohibi-
tory provisions be extended to embrace
beverages of all kinds non-alcoholic as
well as alcoholic. If it be prejudicial to
the national cause to use foodstuffs in
the making of one kind of beverage it
would likewise be harmful to use food-
stuffs in the manufacture ot any other
kind of beverage.
This was the test of the prohibition-
ists’ sincerity. How well they stood the
test was made apparent on the final vote
which threw out the clauses pertaining
to non-alcoholic beverages and retained
the clauses prohibiting the use of food-
stuffs for making alcoholic beverages
alone.
The ulterior designs of the prohibition-
ists were further revealed in the defeat
of Representative Lenroot’s amendment
to permit the manufacture of light wines
and beer. This amendment too was a
test of the prohibitionists’ sincerity in
professing that conservation of the na-
tion’s food supply was their primary ob-
ject. No staple foodstuffs is required to
make beer and it is not at all plain how
the use of grapes for wine-making could
represent a waste of any commodity
whatsoever. To what use might the nation
put the vineyards if the manufacture of
wine were prohibited?
The prohibitionists simply wanted to
“put over” prohibition regardless and
they realized that their only possible
chance of success lay in using the nation-
al crisis as a leverage to that end. They
did not care whether prohibition was in
reality a war measure; they were satis-
fied to give it the semblance of such.
The House of Representatives has been
gulled. The Senate could give no more
forceful demonstration of superior in-
sight than by throwing out the entire
prohibition section of the food bill.
MUST COME FROM PEOPLE.
Recent reports from China are that a
state bordering on anarchy reigns there
again. The President who is a president
in name only has been placed practically
under surveillance by revolutionary
forces various provinces have broken
away from the central government and
others are under a so-called military dic-
tatorship which is nothing more nor less
than revolution edging close on brigand-
age.
And in the midst of this we are in-
formed by Prof. W. W. Willoughby of
John Hopkins University who has just;
returned from the Orient that the Chi-
nese people show an utter indifference to
whether they have a republic or a mon-
archy whether they are ruled by an em-
peror or have their affairs administered
by a president responsible to the public
will. Dr. Willoughby has been in Peking
for the last year in an advisory capacity;
he has in reality been assisting in writing
a constitution for the Chinese along
American lines. But he says the Chinese
do not show much interest in it. He says
it will be many days before the Chinese
even get a constitution in shape to adopt
because they only work on it every other
day and appear somewhat bored at that.
If Dr. Willoughby’s statement is cor-
rect and doubtless every word of it is
true China never can have a republic. It
is impossible to create a republic in name
and not in spirit. In fact the spirit of
democracy must exist before even the
name can be applied truthfully to such a
form of government. Therefore while
the educated Chinese and political leaders
may see China’s one hope for a future in
the adpotion of some such form of gov-
ernment as the United States possesses
still if the people do not see it if they
are not ready to grasp the sword in its
defense and if they can not appreciate
What it means to them and their poster-
ity all the leaders in the world can not
give them liberty of government.
China the most advanced nation in the
world in her day probably has gone to
sleep to remain asleep. The Japanese it
is no state secret to say are moving in
every manner possible to take over China.
They covet not only Chinese trade but
they covet Chinese government and Chin-
ese control. They would set themselves
up there as the "ruling class” much as
the Prussian has set himself up under the
Hohenzollern family to rule all the Teu-
tons. Under such a system the Chinese
would completely lose their nationality.
They would become mere serfs. They
would be turned into tillers of the soil
common soldiers toilers bnt never rulers
nor officers. x
Such a plan once worked out would
give Japan a wonderful place in the world
and Japan is not slow to realize her one
opportunity. Neither are the other pow-
ers. That is no doubt why the United
States recently dispatched a note to
China urging' upon the people there to
bury their internal differences and unite
to form a stable and secure government.
But if as Dr. Willoughby says the
Chinese people do not care what can we
do about it?
HASH AND STEW.
New York restaurants have brought
about the return of hash and stew those
almost forgotten friends of bygone days
as a war measure.
Off the bills of fare in most restaur-
ants and hotels for many many years
these two once renowned dishes have
again appeared and are expected to do
much to reduce the high cost of living and
the cost of high living also.
It is no state secret that the best hash
and the best stew are composed of "left-
overs.” These commodities more or less
difficult to define have a wide range
consisting of anything from cold roast
beef to onion tops.
There was a day in our national his-
tory when hash and stew were common
articles of diet. In fact they not only
graced the lunch counters and hotel table
d’hotes but were familiar friends in the
best and especially in the poorest homes
in the land.
But that was in the days before it be-
came fashionable to throw away more
food every day than was consumed.
XVhile there may be more or less objec-
tion to these two savory dishes when pro-
vided by a public eating establishment
there can be none when concocted in the
home. There probably are no more
healthy dishes in the world than beef hash
and beef stew when properly concocted.
It is probably true that the housewife
of today for the most part does not know
how to produce either dish but as a war
measure she might learn and profitably
too.
Hash and stew will accommodate much
that now goes into the garbage can and
do it without danger to public health and
with beneficial effect on public food con-
sumption and finances.
Of all the war measures advocated
throughout our broad land the plan to
once more popularize hash and stew is the
most sensible. There is something in it
—in fact there are a lot of things in it
when it is properly made.
All American cities are living beyond
their incomes. This is the joy riding age
all right.
San Antonio’s weather prophet ^edicts
a rainy season is at hand. Thus we may
yet hope to see our streets freed from
dust.
The old time trail drivers are going" to
meet in San Antonio. They will be able to
recognize some of the old time trails
here too.
Pan-American Solidarity.
If any justification of the Monroe doctrine
were needed or any defense of American
diplomacy on tho western hemisphere the
entry of the United States into the great war
has furnished it. Tho attitude of the republics
of South and Central America demonstrates
beyond question the loyalty of those nations
to the ideal enunciated by President Monroe
and further their friendship for the powerful
union of states to the north.—Beaumont En-
terprise.
West Leading In Recruiting.
Recruiting for the regular army is going
ahead far faster in the West than in the East.
Nebraska Is expected to complete its war quota
this week and Oregon Utah Nevada and
Indiana are among the other states on that
honor list. The totM enlistments from April
1 to June 18 were 120185 which leaves the
regular army 03700 short of its war strength.
In estimating the quota required of the several
states to bring the army to war strength two
recruits per thousand population is the number
fixed. From April 1 to June 18 Massachusetts
contributed 4657 recruits for the army and
therefore lacxed 2075 of finishing its quota.
It ought not to be difficult in the days of this
month that remain for Massachusetts to take
its place by the side of Indiana Nebraska and
the other states already on the honor roll. If
a more imperative duty confronts the common-
wealth than to complete its quota what is it?—
Boston Transcript.
Food Supply to Win War.
If America and her allies win this war it
will chiefly be because their food supply out-
lasts that of the Teutons. All the nations
though they may seem pinched have a still
unexhausted supply of men money and guns.
[Wounded men can fight money may be fiat
guns may be recast from tho debris of the
battle; but all other interests fighting love
work and all that men do are maintained and
done on a full stomach. Generals have said
and Napoleon repeated that an army marches
on its belly; but more than that an individual
or a nation can have no other intense interest
than food when hungry. Civilization all its
arts of peace and war all its industry com-
merce. literature represents merely the en-
ery that mankind has had to expend after
satisfying the stomach. Savages are savages
largely because they cannot conserve the food
supply but must devote all of their time to the
hunt and chase. And the very hour that famine
taps the stomach of Germany she crumbles;
and likewise England France Italy Russia
and America.—Los Angeles Time**
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
Letters to The Light
All letter to thia paper that are
Intended tor publication must be
signed by the writer. The name ot
the writer will not bo published un-
leaa It la desired. No attention will
be paid to anonymoua communications
Typewritten signatures and those made
with a (Kamp are cleaned aa anony-
moua. The publlcetlon ot a letter does
not necessarily mean thet the policy
outlined therein In endorsed by the
putllshere ot The Light.
ENTIRELY CORRECT BUT—
To the Editor:
Some days ago your paper pub-
lished an article . saying that the
state authorities by examination
found that some eighteen or twenty
dan Antonio dairymen were selling
adulterated milk. Why not publish
the names ot these dairies so that
the public could avoid doing busi-
ness with them and thereby put
them where they belong out ot
business? No doubt they will be
fined the immense sum ot twenty-
five dollars as 1 believe was done in
such cases a year or so ago. -But
that will have very little effect it
they can continue to sell water or
other substitutes at twelve cents a
quart.
A little publicity such as publish-
ing the names ot the afore-mentioned
dairies would be an effectual way of
putting a stop to such practice and
I think a newspaper owes it to the
people from which it gets its living
to do this.
This in my opinion is just as
important as some ot the phases ot
the war that a number ot newspa-
pers are complaining about not being
allowed to discuss. And we can't
criticise Mr. Creel or Mr. Hoover in
this instance.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Practically every statement made
in the above letter is correct. It
the correspondent however will
consult the libel laws ot Texas —
statutes that are framed to protect
the evil-doer at the expense ot the
public—he will understand why the
newspapers ot the state are unable
to render to the public many serv-
ices they would gladly offer but
which under existing conditions
they cannot give. A law better cal-
culated to protect crooks grafters
blackmailers jury bribers dishon-
est officials and other criminals
than the present Texas libel law
was never devised.
DENOUNCES INKID GAMBLERS.
To the Editor:
I read with much interest your
splendid article on the high cost of
living in your issue of the 23rd
Inst. In that editorial you have much
to say about the character patriot-
ism and status of the food manipula-
tor and the food price regulator—-
who according to Mr. Hoover are
extracting fifty millions of dollars
per month in excessive charges and
inflated prices of food products from
the food consumers of this country;
and you demand that the names of
these people be furnished and pub-
lished to the public. I most heartily
approve of all you say in that edi-
torial and I most enthusiastically
second your appeal for the publica-
tion of the names of all persons en-
gaged in any unlawful or illegiti-
mate means of raising the prices of
foodstuffs.
Some good writers have declared
that this Is not merely a war by
and between armies but a war by
and between nations. It this is true
then every person who unnecessari-
ly injures his country in any way is
an hindrance to his country and an
aid to the enemy country. There
are many such persons in this coun-
try. Food manipulators food gam-
blers and price-fixers there are a-
plenty. Nor must we deceive our-
selves by trying to think and be-
lieve that all such persons live in
Kansas City. Chicago or New York.
I daresay that some may be found
living in San Antonio Texas.
Now to the task of identification.
This matter like charity should be-
gin at home. The people of San An-
tonio can root out and identify the
food-price regulator if they will try
to do so. It has been said that many
if not all dealers in food-stuffs in
this city—each morning—before be-
ginning sales for the day—call up—-
over the telephone—certain other
parties and places of business and
get prices on sales for the day. Now
if this is not combination in re-
straint of trade then what is it? It
seems to me that the prosecuting at-
torneys of city state and nation or
any one else in authority might
easily trace these calls and ascer-
tain where and by whom these
prices are fixed.
We have a law In this country that
forbids "combinations in restraint
of trade.” That law Is not hard to
understand; it is not hard or diffi-
cult of application. Any executor ot
the law armed with such a statute
need not go far nor dig deep nor
use any microscope to find plenty
of work for willing hands. In spite
of this law —designed to regulate
just such cases and indifferent to
the clamor of the public—crying out
against such extortionate food prices
the price-fixer goes merrily on fix-
ing prices; and in the very face of
this law right here In San Antonio
scores of milkmen Increase the price
of milk on the same day; scores of
bakers increase the price of bread
on the same day; scores of butchers
raise the price of meat on the same
day and hundreds of dealers ot all
kinds handling all kinds of food
stuffs raise the price of any and all
kinds ot groceries on the same day.
This thing is being done in San An-
tonio Texas as well as in Kansas
City Missouri and if this Is not
"combination in restraint of trade”
—may the shades of Ohio’s immortal
Sherman come back and tell us what
it is.
Aside from the fact ot war. the
greatest proposition that confronts
tho American people today is the
food problem and any man who
fails to do his bit in solving the high
cost of living problem is just as
much a "slacker" as the man who
fails to toe the firing line.
B. L. LUCAS.
ITALY.
Hall Italy of sunny skies!
Your skies are radiant still!
’Midst cannon-smoke and battle-
cloud
’Midst Death’s relentless chill.
Your sun is shining undismayed—
For Freedom and God’s Will!
Your soldiers gallant Italy
Go singing to the fight!
The glory of their voices
lie-echoes through our night!
Speak to us. Prince of Udine.
For Freedom and The Kight!
—Ruth Lambert Jones.
By uzlnx two slightly geparted lenses
and passing a current of air between them
a French scientist han succeeded In free-
ing the high power light of motion plc-
(••re nmUfinra frnm heat.
NEWS OF U. $. TROOPS
IN FRANCE IS CHEERED
San Antonio Light Carries In-
formation to Men at
Camp Funston.
When The San Antonio Light
reached Camp Funston. Leon
Springs about 5 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon with the news of the land-
ing ot American troops in France
approximately 2000 student officers
cheered until they were hoarse. Any-
thing that indicates fighting by the
Americans is welcomed at the camp
these days as the more intensive
the training becomes the more Inter-
esting it is and the more eager the
men are to see some ot the "real
article.”
Trench-digging was continued
Wednesday. The hasty fire or first
line trenches which the men are
now studying are only three and
one-halt feet deep being the kind
which the advancing troops use to
“dig themselves in” under heavy Are.
Thj instructors plan to increase the
work ot the students by easy stages
so that each feature may be mas-
tered perfectly before another is
taken up.
Before the trench Is dug it is
carefully mapped out on the ground.
Bayonets are placed at short dis-
tances and lines drawn from bayonet
to bayonet giving the outline of the
trench so that it can be easily fol-
lowed by the men with the picks and
shovels. The finished trenches are
covered with sheet-iron and have a
dirt wall back of them to prevent
shrapnel from glancing into the
trench. Zigzagging communication
trenches connect the main trench
with the pits in which the officers
stay.
After having been lectured a long
time last week the "rookies” have
taken up the study of field sketch-
ing or map-making. Armed with
pencils and the necessary' material
the men go out and sketch the sur-
rounding country. So far the work
has consisted of making maps of the
routes over which troops could be
moved in case of necessity. Map-
making will be a regular part of the
instruction ot the infantry -from
now on.
Tuesday night an average of $lOO
per company was contributed by the
student officers to the Red Cross
fund.
Monday ten more men will be
sent to Austin for detached service
in aviation. The names of the men
selected have not yet been disclosed.
DUMBA HAS PEACE PLAN
Would End War Without Annexa-
tions or Indemnities.
AMSTERDAM June 28—Dr. Con-
stantine Dumba the former Aus-
trian ambassador at Washington In
an article In the Vienna Neue Friele-
Presse. advocates peace without an-
nexations or indemnities "however
disappointing that formula may
sound to the chauvinists."
Dr. Dumba's ideas are briefly:
"Russia to restore the occupied Aus-
tro-Hungarian territory while she
regains the Russian territory occu-
pied by the Austro-Germans re-es-
tablishment of Poland; Austria to
make certain frontier rectifications
for reasons of strategic safety.
"Roumanian wheat crops must be
secured to the Central Powers by
treaty.
"Italy must evacuate Valona (Av-
lona) and free navigation of the
Adriatic must be guaranteed. Aus-
tria will assist Russia to obtain on
unhampered exit from the Black Sea
and Turkey would not object to the
rectification of the Caucasian fron-
tier in favor of Russia. Bulgaria
should get Dobrudja and the Bul-
garian part of Macedonia.”
Belie—l have so man- callers that real-
ly 1 cannot satisfy them all. Nell —1
didn’t know you had become a telephone
operator.—Baltimore American.
SEEKING NEW MEMBERS
Salesmanship Club LannclicH Cam-
paign to Increase Rolls by SUU.
The membership campaign of the
San Antonio Salesmanship Club was
officially launched Wednesday noon
at the Gunter Hotel with the an-
nouncement by "General” G. E. Mel-
llft that he had secured seventeen
new members since the opening of
the contest at noon the day before.
The goal of the campaigners is 600
new members. The generals will
appoint five camptains to assist
them.
Wallace Rogers presided at Wed-
nesday’s meeting in the absence of
Clifton George the president. The
meeting was opened with the sing-
ing of "The Star Spangled Banner"
after which W. W. McAllister and
-I. E. Mdliff the rival generate In
the campaign made short speeches.
The report of Tom H. Ethridge Jr.-
one ot San Antonio's two delegates
to tho World's Salesmanship Con-
gress last week at Detroit was ac-
cepted. Mr. Ethridge announced be
was to leave Wednesday night to ac-
cept a position with a Detroit firm
and regretted that he could not be
present to see the finish of the "big
drive." He was unanimously elected
an honorary member of the club.
PATRIOTIC SUNDAY JULY 1
President Wilson Issues Apixxil for
lied Cross Aid.
WASHINGTON D. C.. June 28.—
Patriotic Sunday is to be observed
next Sunday In all the Sunday
schools of the United States in re-
sponse* to an appeal by President
Wilson to observe the day by gen-
erous giving to tlie Red Cross.
President Wilson's letter follows:
"To the Officers. Teachers and
Scholars of the Sunday Schools of
the United States of America:
“The present insistent call of our
beloved country must be heard and
answered by every citizen of the
United States In proportion to his
or her ability to maintain the na-
tional power and honor. Many citi-
zens will render their aid by force
of arms on the battle field while
others will make the nation strong
by their patriotic gifts and support
to the common cause. It is therefore
highly fitting that the Sunday schools
of the nation should observe a spe-
cial patriotic duty and on this oc-
casion should make a special con-
tribution to the American Red Cross
for the alleviation of the suffering
entailed by the present war. It is my
earnest hope that your generosity
may be unstinted in this the hour
of the nation's need and that this
special day may mean much to you
in the undertaking of the cause for
which our beloved land now con-
tends.
(Signed.)
“WOODROW WILSON."
At the Theaters
Texas Pictures at Empire.
One of the most remarkable bits
of acting ever done by William S.
Hart is said to be a feature ot his
new play 'The Gun Fighter.” pre-
sented tor the last time at the Em-
pire today. In the play he has the
rols ot a western outlaw. Denounced
by a young girl as nothing more than
a common murderer the outlaw first
flies into a terrific rage and then
gives way to grief and despair as the
truth ot the girl's accusation is
brought home to him. Margery Wil-
son is seen as the girl. A “Know
America” scenic showing views ot
the Pecos and Devil's River in West
Texas and also of a goat ranch
with a drove ot 17000 Angoras and
Pathe News No. 49 are also on to-
day’s program.
Beo B. Smith Is Acquitted.
LIBERTY. Tex. June 28.—Bee B.
Smith of Excelsior Springs Mo. on
trial here for the murder in that
city on March 7 of Urban H. Bal-
combe. of Omaha was declared not
guilty by a jury last night. The jury
held Balcombe was killed in self-
defense. Testimony introduced by
the defendant showed there had
been trouble between the men for
some time before their final alterca-
tion.
PA AND MA
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JUINK 28 iwi/.
PACKING AND CANNING
STOCKS TO BE HELD
Per Cent of All Goods Put Up
Will Be Taken by the
Government.
HOUSTON Tex. June 28.—At
packing and canning concerns of the
country have been ordered by tha
Federal government to reserve
twelve per cent ot their present
stock of canned peas 12 per cent
of canned corn 18 per cent ot to-
matoes and 6 per cent of salmon for
the use ot the government accord-
ing to advices that have been re-
ceived by local packing companies.
A ban has been placed upon the
further canning ot pork and beans
on the ground that beans can be
conserved by drying and that tin
containers must be reserved for per-
ishable food products that can bo
conserved In no other way.
COUNTY HAS NO FUND
FOR FIRE APPARATUS
Suburban Residents Must
Provide Own Protection.
May Call Mass Meetings.
Financial assistance from the
board of county commissioners to-
ward establishing fire protection for
residents of additions lying beyond
the corporate limits of San Antonio
will not be forthcoming according to
announcement made Wednesday.
Funds for this purpose are not avail-
able it is reported. This means in
all probability that property own-
ers of a score of additions lying out-
side of the city limits will be com-
pelled to provide individual protec-
tion against fire.
Announcement by Mayor Bell that
the fire department would cease to
respond to alarms of fire beyond the
city limits has caused much interest
among property owners in the vari-
ous additions. While no definite
steps so far as known have been
taken by the residents of any of the
additions toward providing against
loss by fire it is likely that meet-
ings will be called in the near fu-
ture to discuss means. No represen-
tatives of any ot thd additions have
as yet waited upon either city or
county officials in the matter.
Neither has a protest of any char-
acter been made.
In the absence of Fire Chief
Bishop Arthur Goetz first assist-
ant fire chief; was in charge ot the
department Wednesday. Chief Goetz
announced that instructions given
the department provide for runs be-
yond the city limits only in a few in-
stances. thOse Including a fire at the
Southwestern Insane Asylum
Brackenridge Villa. Lady ot the Lake
School San Antonio Female College
or other institutions situated beyond
the limits where loss of life might
result by reason of a fir®. Other-
wise Chief Goetz said supplemental
orders from Commissioner Lowther
given Wednesday morning provide
that the department make no runs
beyond the city limits.
Investigation shows that some ad-
ditions of the city previously report-
ed as lying beyond the city limits
are within the boundaries and there-
fore will be given protection against
fire by the city department. These
include Palm Heights West End.
Keystone Park College Heights
Grand View Sunny Slope Three’s
Addition and Edgewood. Additions
affecteu by the order include Alamo
Heights I<os Angeles Heights Mont-
clair. Madeleine Terrace Washington
Heights and Hnrlandale. Crestholme
and Graves End. The extreme ends
of Sunset Place. City View addition
and Lakeview will also be affected.
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