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MORE "KULTUR.”
When the German general. Hoffmann
met the Russian delegates at the pre-
liminary conference that led ultimately
to the infamous treaty of Brest-Litovsk
his first utterance to them was. in a rough
Jone of command:
“Stand up.”
When the German delegates were ad-
fnitted to the presence of the allied nations
St Versailles their leader declined even to
Stand while making his address to the
allies. It has been reported on other oc-
casions that Count Brockdorf-Rantzau was
hot in the best of health and it is barely
possible that his physical condition did
hot permit him to stand. If so. he should
have so informed the allied representa-j
tives and presented his apologx for his
seeming lack of good manners. This
however he failed to do and it is. there-
fore a fair inference that he intended to
be insulting.
It is much be regretted that it was
beneath the dignity’ of the allied repre-
sentatives to give him the same order
that was issued by Hoffmann to the Rus-
Xians and that some stalwart poilu was
hot present to grab him by the scruff of
his impudent neck and jerk him to his
feet if he was at all slow in arriving there
by a natural method. However the allies
are justified in placing just one more in-
cident to the credit of that superior cul-
ture of which they have heard so much
from the Germans.
The German representative had more-
bver the insolence to tell the allied nations
that they had caused hundreds of thou-
sands of deaths in Germany by the main-
tenance of the blockade. He spoke as
though the blockade was something to
"which the allies had no right to resort.
This is an apt illustration of the manner
5n which the Germans have reasoned all
through the war. They have always
tlaimed that it was all right for the Ger-
tnans to do what the Germans desired to
<*o but that it was all wrong for the allies
io do anything of which the Germans did
tot approve. In other words. Germany
was to be given her own way in every-|
thing.
The blockade was an act of war which
the allies had every right to adopt and
thev had every right to keep it in effect
until Germany had formally and finally
tccepted the terms of peace. There is no
peace as yet. The war is still in existence
and there is a possibility that it may be re-
sumed if the Germans do not agree to ।
the terms that have been handed them
by the allies. It would have been thej
height of folly for the allies to have re-
laxed the blockade and allowed Germany
to recoup her physical strength LU re
she had accepted the terms of pcac .
for the responsibility attached to the
deaths that have been caused through and
because of the war that belongs to Ger-
many alone. If she had not wantonly at-
tacked the other nation' there would hav<
been no blockade and there would have
been no deaths such as the German rep-
resentative at the conference attempted to
lay at the door of the allies.
Rantzau's reasoning is as poor as his
manners and there is nothing to be said
beyond that.
oo
REVENUE FROM OIL.
—
The country will do well to keep its eye
upon the Victory bond record of North-
Central Texas. Evidently the United
States treasury has already turned its
eyes in that direction judging by the
number of agents who have been dele-
gated to sell war savings stamps in that
region. .
According to an item in a North J exas
newspaper keen rivalry for the honor of
contributing the most to the national cof-
fers has developed in the great oil section
of Texas. Eastland county alone has an-
nounced that it will buy “at least” $1000.-
W 0 worth of war savings stamps during
the current year.
From this one may realize more nearly
SATURDAY.
the full value of the new discoveries of
oil in Texas. Not long ago the little town
of Ranger might have felt that somebody
waS trying to add insult to injury if it had
been suggested that an organized cam-
paign should be conducted there for the
benefit of the national treasury. The
whole of Eastland county was not wealthy
enough to be counted as a source of mate-
rial revenue for the government. It would
have been lost in the shuffle.
A large block of counties in that region
was in the same fix. Citizens here and
there might have been able to buy a few
thrift stamps by foregoing necessaries of
lite and doubtless they would have done
what they could. But their contributions
would have been as the widow's mite.
But now those same counties once
threatened with dire poverty and actual-
ly suffering as perhaps few people in the
more favored sections realized may run
ahead of the counties which are normally
reckoned the wealthiest in the state.
As recently described in The Light.
there has been a truly wonderful material
transformation of the region upon which
Nature had laid crackling hands. There
was an actual demonstration of the pro-
cess of converting a desert Into a garden
spot —a process which belongs more fre-
quently to fable and fiction than to actual-
ity. It was done through irrigation and
irrigation was made possible through the
drilling of oil wells.
But the changed physical aspects of
West Texas could not be viewed by the
entire country. That section's new-found
prosperity would have been felt but not
realized when its agricultural products
arrived in the markets. Some time will be
required however to make the newly
irrigated land yield returns.
While this process is comparatively
slow that of raising funds with which to
pay our war debts must necessarily be
swift. It requires only a few days to de-
termine where the money is coming from.
The quick response with which the gov-
ernment's call for money is being met by;
the oil counties of Texas cannot possibly
be misinterpreted nor its significance
escaped.
Texas oil has enriched the entire na-
tion. and at a time when accessions . oi j j
wealth in any section means a lightening ..
of the burdens it might otherwise have 1 (
experienced difficulty in bearing.
BOLSHEVIKED RAILROADS.
So far as the destruction of property ■
goes a contemporary observes any coun-
ty can be "bolsheviked without anv
I "'economically idiotic Slavic idealism or:
reign of terror or other disturbance of )
public peace.” It is true that the destruc-j
tion of private property goes a long way
toward the encompassing of the chaos 1
which red terror creates. Destruction of ■
private property is the means as well as
the end of Bolshevists. It is not only!
entirelv possible but a well known histori-j
cal fact that the effects of mismanage-
ment are similar to the means which the’
terrorists employ even though such mis-
management be the work o: agencies ।
whose aims arc just the opposite of those
held in view by the enemies of bourgeois
capital.
An instance cited is that of the rail-
roads in the United States under govern-
ment control. How great was the problem
which confronted the government when it|
' took over the railroads the public may ;
[never fully realize. But one may allowj
। much on account of the -ize oi the task
[considering that the railroads as privatei
propertv had been badly managed for
j many years and still find no reason for
; approving the way they have been man-
i aged during the government'; steward-
[ ship.
Shortly after we entered the war some
[far-sighted persons formed an organiza-j
! tion to protect the interests < ’■ jler- ofj
| railway securities. Whether the c: y- of
I that organization have been st: in
[any degree even negatively La- not ap-
peared. It is true however t lat ra ■... t j
i securities have depreciated eno ■
'When it costs about ninety per 'er.t yd
the income to pay running expen-e-. • <y
i capital which those securities re;- -
: > fairly on the mad to destruction ' 1
I is no market for such securities ex ■ • t •
’ a great sacrifice to the owners. :
the latter hate no other income they
in a bad way.
Temporarily at lea-t. the capita
vested in the railroads of the L nrc .
States is little more useful to its owner- (
than would be the case it instead of com-
paratively quiet transfer of control from
private hands to the government the rail-
roads had been seized by Bolshevist-. Thy
only difference for practical purpose- i-
that the government had no intention of
destroying capital when it took over the
railroads. There is another great differ-
ence oi course but it concerns life not'
capital.
But if to deprive capital of its earning
power is equivalent in effect to the de-
struction of capital this country i- for-
(tunate in having prospects Ur an early!
ending of the situation which government
I control has brought about. There ha-
-1 been no popular vote on the question of
I government ownership and probably
there net er will be; but if it were left to
the people in their present state of mind.i
the odds arc heavy in favor of a return to'
private management or even private mi-
i management. For it is one thing to force.
improvement when there is even a sem-
blance of competition and a far more
difficult if not an impossible thing to
force the government to abandon an un-
desirable policy.
oo
TELLING ON EACH OTHER.
The German junkers are beginning to
dub each other liars and it is therefore
possible that the remainder of the world
will ultimately come to have some accur-
ate knowledge of who is directly responsi-
ble tor the beginning of the war.
The German crown prince—as was—-
has come out in a Statement in which he
declares that General Ludendorff is just
a plain old liar in whom there is no truth
whatever. Ludendorff has already de-
clared that much that has been said re-
garding him is without any vestige of
fact.
Von Jagow the gentleman who was
the German minister of foreign affairs at
the commencement of the war is the lat-
est of the responsible parties to rush into
print. He has published a book in which
he gives a new cause for the war. He says
that it was the false statements put out
by the Germans regarding French viola-
tions of German territory that brought on
the conflict. The last statement from the
German emperor was to the effect that it
was the Russian mobilization that caused
Germany to declare war.
It will be remembered that a few days
before the commencement of the war. the
German government gave out statements
to the effect that French aviators had
flown across German territory mention-
ing by name one of the cities that had
been inspected by the French fliers. By
some clumsy work on the part of the par-
ticular German fabricator who was entrust-
ed with the preparation of this dispatch the
name of the town mentioned was that of
one a thousand miles or thereabouts from j
the French border. The name was similar to ।
that of a town near the Rhine and the;
liar who got up the story mixed the two.
It was also declared by Germany that!
French officers had otherwise violated
her territory when the facts were that
the French army had been withdrawn ten
kilometers from the border in order that
there could be no possible violations of
German territory by French soldiers.
Von Jagow asserts that the German
general staff accepted these stories as ac-
curate. made no investigation and pro-
ceeded to make war because of them
even though they had not confirmed
them.
Had Germany been in the slightest de-
gree anxious to avoid war she would never
have commenced hostilities because of
unconfirmed rumors nor would she have
ever put forth those stories without ascer-
taining their accuracy.
It has long been understood that the
dominant clement in German military
quarters was anxious for war and de-
liberately brought it on. Ihe facts arc
however becoming clearer and nothing
will tend to make them so clear as an all-
around squabble between the German
leaders who in their mutual wrath will
tell the truth concerning each other.
oo—-
zWilliam Hohcnozllern. you arc charged
with assault and battery. Guilty or not
guilt v? —International Police Court.
——— <»o
It is a good thing that the kaiser is not
to be tried by a jury. It would be a diffi-
cult task to find twelve unprejudiced men
for a panel.
oo— —
Under the new tax law. an alarm clock
is listed as jewelry and is assessed five
per cent. It may be that an alarm clock
is a luxury but at half past five o'clock
in the morning it doesn't seem so.
General Pancho V ilia who was killed
on numerou- occasions by government
troops a few years ago. is again raiding
towns in northern Mexico while General
Emiliano Zapata v ho wa- recently killed
by government tr-p- takes his annual
summer vacation.
“Then Was a 'lan."
Th'l-n a h a I ■
T hat by dri'in; z ^"1 fa-r.
H- d Rft l.i- i«r a< • track
Before the train ».1 ><-f.
He’d miss f njrij ' :> up h
And make the tra.n •••- ...n :
Ti)«*re a man vi... thii —
There isn’t /iny n.-
There was a wise old t ; ; ..n.
Expert at eouplinr «su
He used hi- feet to pu- . :• p r
The knuckles ad draw bat
H»* did it thus for man\ .
And thought it was gr • f
He had two feet to pu-h tl.nu th.
He has now only oijr.
Bill Jones on the repair traH .
lmax)D**<i he ••ould do
A moment a work b^rnath a eer
Without a flag of bl .
Well —he did it many tiin<«.
Id spite of rule and vuruiug;
One day an engine b’aiLjwl the «ar —
Bill’b wife is now iu c.ouruiug.
B‘tweeu tbe rails of tL»- Dorthbound tra»k
Mil.*- smoked hi* jupe of cla\.
A* 37” with B»’i Hull freight .South
uoiaiiy on her v ay.
Tttould take foui *.tep» to clear both tra« ks
'l’hese steps Mike did not fak*-
Tnen Number Four appron.-hed uuh'ard
KESf LT An !ri*h WaU.
J ;uiny ua* an active kid.
He live*] beside tbe tru* k.
H- got on as the train* w*nt .p
And off as they r«mc l»a< k.
It Hid nu gofjfj to warn him
i»r Jim knew mm-’ p. b*<t
jH.* lie va* in no danger
II totnbstone read* ’A l" BEST.”
—Erie Kaiirvad Magauoe. I
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
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policy outlined theiein Is endorsed by
the publishers of The Light.
answering" 4 TETE.”
To the Editor:
My excuse for answering the article
••pete” wrote on April Gth. is that 1 am
a firm boHever in helping the blind.
“Pete” believes Adam ale the forbid-
den fruit to shield Evo. If he did. well
and g*»od. but did it over occur to you
(hat Adam might have had a man’s
I natural curiosity to know what the
fruit tasted like? Such a thing was pos-
sible even at that early date.
I huve no patience with womeu who
try to work an datteuJ to their house-
hold duties too. unless they are com-
pelled to. Yet that is no reason why
Iry to work and attend to their house-
hold duties too for the last year I did
that very thing. I had my housework
done was dressed and went to tin*
polls at 10 o’clock. 1 * nmo back cookisl
my husband’s dinner then di<l my week’s
washing as my regular laundry wom-
an was enjoying her vacation in tj^c
cotton fields. I
The women a\Lo pay $4O Jo $75 foi l
drosses and from $l2 to $25 for hut*. I
[when they can’t afford it. are not the I
backbone of the country so do not I
amount to much. The women who can!
afford to spend large amounts have my
n px’t and admiration for every dol-
lar they spend means a living for son:?
person whether it be man or woman.
It is women of this kind and the hon-j
est upright men who will be the salva-
tion of our country.
Vet if a true woman have a home and (
husband worth having and she won’tj
care to tour tbe country making stump;
5 speeches.
| ! lam outside of the insane asylum ami
I know it is possible for a woman tu
’ [ work ami raise a family too. ns the
I woman who doos my laundry work here.
J works from 10 to 15 hours per day to
support nine children and her husband.
’। also when he stays at home. She fur-
nished a son for France so you see a
; woman can go out ami work ami raise
J a family too w hen she is compelled to.:
Yet you think women ought not be
[granted the right to vote.
I We women can promise one thing'
’after w<* an* given the power; we will!
sec justice done to all. whether it be U|
'civilian o? the‘thousands <»f soldiers*
who are entitled to all the rights we can ।
1 give them.
I. too agree with Jim Ferguson in
what be said about us fighting auto |
eratic p«»wers here but 1 also havei
enough frith in tbe true manhood ofj
Texas to believe that some of the]
scheming politicians will not always!
hold their comfortable positions.
The time is not far distant when wo
will know how much the world appre-*
ciates the hard work the womeu have
willingly done.
MKS. CHARLES V. CRIM.
Fredericksburg Texas.
•
POLL TAX VS. FREE SI FFKAGE.
T<» the Editor:
I would like to mid ujy endorsement
for whatever it may be worth of vour
editorial on free suffrage in Texas and
’ wish to say in addition that I consider
it one of the strongest arguments in fa-
• vor of free suffrage 1 have seen ad-
. vaneed in recent years and I have nuui
many such in favor.nf the repeal of the
poll tax provision of the <-on>titution re-
! I striding the right of suffrage to thov*’
citizens only who comply with the pro-
visions of the law by paving the tax.
You say among other things: '(h <
ten-ibly the **bje* t of leaving th** poll ।
1 lax was tn rai*e the standard of the <Jec- •
lorate. Not only has it failed t<» d«* I
that but it ha* afforded another noaiMi
of political corruption -through sub-1
ornation. Tic recent hearings at Au*- I
tin on the political s andals in the bor-1
1 «i»>r countie.4 were imprcssiv*ly illustra-
tive of thi* fact.”
A< I recall when the adoption **f tb '
pn)| tax amendment was before the peo-!
I pl** **nn<* sixteen years ago about tlw '
only argument made in it- favor by the
newspaper* an-1 politician- who sup-1
ported it was that it would elevate the
standard of the * le. p.rate by th*' ex-
„' Hu-ion from th< voting privilege of the
Corrupt element in politi< - which wa*
.isaid to make the < . nt-r- <»f iwipulntion
it* home and tb< *xc|u*jv«- fields of it*
1 operations. 1c was argued that it
Oh Man!
would put the saloon Jement and the
rowdy eltments of uoth races out of
pniiti * for food uod would make bet
ter government possible through the
election of clean men to public* office.
This argument sounded so plausible that
the free electors proceeded at once to
vote the tax on themselves.
And thru what happened? Wby the
ink on the new statute was scarcely
dry when the politicians and their par-
lisniis including the newspapers which
had supported the measure were urging
everybody—ev-erybody—from one end
of tbe state to the other to “pay your
poll tax if you don't want to be classed
with the Chinese. South Sea Island
Bushmen and other human derelicts.”
Then the cities got up poll-tax con-
tests to prove by the strength of their
registration lists that they were larger
<itics than other cities and for that
reason of greater commercial and in-
dustrial importance ami therefore far
more desirable bxations for the invest-
ment of capital in. productive enter-
prise*. and .columns of printers’ ink were
spilled over the pages of the news-
papers calling on everybody to pay his
poll tax as a •’matter of cMc pride.”
Canvasser* were placed in the field to
drum up the poll tax slackers and these
canvassers in conjunction with the
ward bosses proceeded to make a joke
of tb* former preachments of the poli-
tical purity ndv*»<nte* by visiting the
saloon* the pool halls and the “hot
joints” in the slums and the reserva-
tions. urging ami annealing to r-v-ery-
bo<iy to pay his noil tax. Ami from
year to year this drumming and round-
ing u’* of possible noli tax delinquents
las one on apa<*e t«» the scandal of the
state and di** rc'lit of the one law* on
th** statute bonk- that was t<» purify
politics and assure the people good
government.
i Of course it is all very true that
'when the state put* the suffrage privi-
' lego on the uolitical bargain counter
' marked “one-fifty w ith makers’ certifi-
<*at' atta*hed.” that sort of thing is
[ hnnllv calculated to advance the cause
of ride righteousness and political pur-
ity: because that which a man pays
his goial. hard-earned money for in
truth as well a* in theory becomes his
private personal property and as such.
lio is more than apt to reason that he
has a right to dispose of it as ho pleases
to trade sell or barter in a political
sense. And that is the way he is going
to reason if he is somewhat brond-
gauged ethically and his code of moral*
is not too rigid and constrict'd tn ham-
per his free-thought construction of
what arc bis rights iu the prem-
ises.
When Governor Hobby vetoed the
first soldiers' rights bill on the advi***
of an ntt«»ruey general who seems not
to have been overly familiar with his
constitution ns the law in the case
would warrant he should be. hi* news-
paper supporters excused his action on
the score that the noil tax wa* at
fault being a part of the constitution
and insisted that the governor was to
blame: that he had taken an oath to
uphold the constitution all of it. which
included the poll tax: that the poll tax
was ’‘arehab " and ought to b<* repealed.
But none of them suggested that he
••all a special session tn submit repeal
of the poll tax to a M»te of the peo-
ple. either now or next January in or-
der that they might prove to the now*-
pap r* ami tbe political savants that
they were far less archaic and infinite-
ly more progressive than their political
leaders and *»ut-of-date constitution. To
have done so would have been M»und
practical *tatesman'hip but d--m poor
politic* ju*t at this time when the so-
culled moral forces are seeking to pr*»-
nmt«* th** cause of civic righteoiisne>*
and free democrat ic government hy
hedging the citizen about by exery con-
ceivable form of personal restriction to
curtail bi* liberties and hamper free-
dom *«f i*olitical action while the b*«.x>* *
would add t** their own powers hy en-
fran*hi*emrnt **f the wtnn**n of th'*
state wholly ignorant of and unskilhNj
in the ways of the professional politi-|
<ians a* past masters in th** gentle art 1
of decent ioli.
< *rtainh the poll tax i* archaic as J
a prei"'.'ui-itc t<» the rxerci*'* of th**}
suffrage ri’Jit in a fr**** democratic
commonwealth: ar«haie in th** son** 1
that th** people • ..uld vote the burden
on themselves . i";te*ii years ago with
*uit payment of tin* tax. and again!
archaic in the fact that now tlcy rani
not v»»t'* it off unless they do pay th* I
t a x.
For verv obviou* nason* the levying!
of th** poll tax ha* not had the prom-
i>rd • ffect if rai*in^ th-- *tandnrd of
the electorate or ap-»roriably adding to .
the ritizen’* ••on.-'io'is knowledge of the
duties and r« spon*ibilitie* of citizen-
ship. On tii" ontrary. it ha* had quite
the < _>pr it«- «ff< < t. Wh' re it ha* not
Asks Independence
for Philippines
Manuel L. Quezon I’rcsidcnt of
the Philippine Senate and head of
the commission now’ in this country
to ask for the independence of their
country and to establish better
commercial relations.
dulled interest in th* state’s political
welfare it has outraged the sense of
justice of tbe more thoughtful and con-
scientious seKiou of the population ami
combined with other causes is respon-
sible for the constantly increasing in-
difference of the people in political
matters. In the face of the tyrannous
methotls and practices of the politicians
the iioople ask: ’ What’s the use?”
And what is the use? At the gen-
eral election last November there were
less than 14N(MM) polled for the three
tickets before the electors out of pos-
sible 1.000.t100 men of voting age in the
state all of whom should Im* potential
electors but who care so little about
state politics that they absolutely re-
fuse to ounlifv for the free exercise of
the »uffrage privilege. If the poll tax
law and the Terrell primary election
lav were designed primarly to take
government out of the hands of the
people nnd place it in th* hands of the
politicians they have both sur<red*d ad-
mirably.
JAMES FITZGERALIt.
San Antonio. May !>.
GETS LARG?FORTUNE?
Daughter of St. I.cuis Millionaire Ex-
pected to “('ome into Own.”
< hfrago. May 10.—Mrs. It. 11. James
of London. Chicago and St. Louis soon
is ex;*e. t'"! t«» come into major share of
the nearly SI.«HK).IMH) estate of her
father t'hirle^ Brega of St. Louis who
di-inhei iicd h*'r fifteen jears ago. when
*he inarrbd Captain. n**w Colonel R.
J! .lame* of th* British army.
The estate was 1 ft tn the widow who
died at the dnnghter's London home
March 22 last. The body wa* brought
tn America and the iumral will take!
place in St. Louis.
TRAITOR FILES APPEAL
I' r::< hmr.n C mvirted <f De. Hnq With
Germany Asks Second Trial.
Paris May 10. r*! : ;* 1 L< imir v. hn[
Thin-day w as com iHcd |>y court martial
of having bad 'b alings with t!i«* enemy. I
and was sentence*! to death has for-!
mally .• jprabd from the derision of the’
<-o'irt. L« noir was tried w ith Senator I
t harles Hundcrt Captain George .lil"-.'
Ladotix and William Dcsnuehrs. Hum 1
hrrt r.nd Ladotix v ere a» *piitt* d. but
I »es< mb< was ■on i- t d and • nten.* 11
tn a t u.i nf fiv- \(ar< in pri *m.
MAY 10 1919.
SOUTHERN LUMBERME
CHARGE FAVORITISM
IN SHIP ALLOT MEN
Hardwood Manufactureri
Appeal to Shipping Head
to Relieve Congestion.
Memphis. Tenn^ May. 10.—Failure
to allot sufficient tonnage to South At-
lantic and Gulf ports is holding up mil-
lions of feet of hardwood lumber sold
to foreign buyers by Southern manu-
facturers. according to resolutions
adopted at a meeting of tbe American
Hardwood Manufacturers’ Assm-iation
and the Southern Hardwood Traffic As-
sociation here yesterday addressing u
plea for relief to Edward N. Hurley
chairman of the United States Shipping
Board.
The resolution asserted that the
Southern hardwood manufacturer is
’’unable to ship his lumber through At-
lantic ports owing to tbe high inland
freight rates" and that the lack of
sufficient sailings from gulf |s*rts is
preventing him from getting bis ’‘fair
proportion of foreign trade.” The res-
olutions charged that the shipping
board by alloting ships to Atlantic and
not to gulf ports is ’‘discriminating
against gulf ]HHts nnd tbe Southern
ImrdwoOfl manufacturer.”
Mr. Hurley was petitioned to take
steps immediately ”to relieve the situa-
tion by placing nt the disposal of hard-
wood lumbermen ships that can be loadr
rd at New Orleans or other gulf p*uA
to foreign destinations more particd/afl|
ly the European ports.” W
The association represents hundred
of large and small bardwood manufuc*
turers in the Mississippi Valley.
CHINESE APPEAL TO U.S.
Orientals in Faille Following Posting
of Threatening Proclamation.
Juarez Mexico. May 10.—An auti-
Cbint sc proclamation posted on <i» ad
walls hen* caused a panic in the Chi-
nese <|uartrr yesterday. The procla-
mation charged all Chinese in Mexico
with various serious charges.
Chew Look leading Chinese mer-
chant appealed to American Consul E.
A. Dow for protection for the Chinese
colony in the ab*eii<*e of a Chinese Con-
sul. The appeal was referred to the
Juarez officials who promptly promised
the Orientals protection.
ELECrioiTuTDOUBT ✓
Governor <f Sonora (iocs to Mc\i<^
City to See Cununza.
Drugks Ariz. May 10. —4 oneiiirent-
ly with the new - that <l« n. Elias Calles
governor of Sonora. Mexico. was leav-
ing for M *xiro Ciiv for the purpose of
conferring with President Carranza a
report wa* received y<*>terduy that tbe
result of the recent gubernatorial elec-
tion in Sonora apparanetly was in
doubt. General Pina has b^en named
by th* stat* congress ns acting governor
during the abx nce of Calles.
Where To Go.
Majestic—Vaudeville: Gus Edwards’
Song Revue nnd six other acts.
Grand—Motion Pictures: First run
Paramount and Artcraft films with
coined i*‘.
Pearl— Motion Picture*.
t.»u*en— Motion Picture*.
League Park—Baseball. 1:30 p. m.
Shreveport vs. Sun Antonio.
Knew Them Rolli.
Tl «' - ountr ln.«tru« '"r whs holding a claws
nn board of on*- of hi* ma !* j*t . >;dp*«.
Graniinar wa* the . hl* bright but
ujuno-i t'd pupil- wror irxoir t» tickk.
• nV ar-- tin Iwo piip< lp**l part.” of t
' li** nrk *d an ••I*l »alt. *'X| 1 - .
<•' r<»urs- th«j anatt'-r ' . übjc' l and predi-
Aft*r much meditation Ju* k finally
pi'*mr»*d int > n
•**.li' r • onfinement ;>h l br* a*J - and
wubr.
It ml .lob.
Hn J.ad been <1 i*« ha rprd from hlw ln-
' ■ : • folks at horn-.
. n
•tO DO
nf UB
i. hi ti a ru- ant aa h^
*
■ I it m nmn ‘ i
dlrrovrr <1 that th*- army H the *ne jot*
in i;i< i t. • can't fire you.”
By BRIGGS
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