The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 270, Ed. 1 Monday, October 16, 1922 Page: 4 of 14
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LAW WEST OF THE PECOS
5 Judge Roy Bean author interpreter
• and enforcer’ of “the law west of the
• Pecos.” is reputed to have dismissed a
• case against a man who had killed a
Chinaman because “the law don t say
nothin’ about Chinamen.” Moreover the
famous Western magistrate hearing that
the Chinaman in this case “had on a
• six-shooter at the time of the killing
found “the deceased guilty as charged
. and assessed his fine at $lOO-the exact
‘ amount found on the body.
Without drawing any invidious com-
parisons as to persons one might well say
that the outcome of the quicksilver case
at El Paso wherein railroad strike lead-
ers were charged with “conspiring to com-
mit an offense against the government.’
is reminiscent of “the law west of the
Pecos.” For the court ruled —and pre-
sumably the decision comports perfectly
with the technicalities of the law—that
it is not unlawful to “put quicksilver into
locomotives." Apparently the law “don t
say nothin’ about quicksilver.”
Of course there is opportunity for such
a retort as Judge Bean used to make to
tourists passing through his town when
having given him a dollar to pay for a
bottle of beer handecTup through the train
window they received back no change.
"If you can’t afford to travel y’oughter
stay’at home” the jurist-bartender would
say. In other words there is nothing to
.be done about it—during the present
“trip” at least.
But “the law west of the Pecos” didn t
Ust forever. It was eventually amended
and then murderers of Chinamen were
punished and nobody dared commit petty
theft Ly refusing to give change.
If it is not unlawful to put quicksilver
into locomotives as a means of interfering
with train service then it ought to be
and ultimately will be. This is not to say
tjiat the defendants in the El Paso case
were guilty; it is not to say that the
judge failed to track the law’; it is not to
make an imputation against anybody. It
is merely to exemplify concretely a kind
' of flaw that is all too common to Ameri-
can statutes.
GAMBLING IN MOSCOW.
Bolshevism which is supposed to be
extreme socialism has adopted another
institution which used to be character-
ized by soap-box orators as a curse of
capitalism. Another because the Soviet
government of Russia after making so
many pretty professions found it neces-
sary' to establish a bank and actually
made demands upon other nations for
loans—of monev.
The Soviet government has become a
gambler. No that is incorrect for two
reasons. First it could not “become ’
what it had been from the beginning of
its existence. Second “the house ’ takes
no chances.
However gambling unreserved and
unqualified is rife in Moscow according
to an Associated Press dispatch from the
Soviet capital. It is not merely con-
doned by the government; the govern-
ment “runs” the gambling houses. It is
reported that Moscow overshadows
Monte Carlo.
Considering the many tales of suffer-
ing which have come from Russia dur-
ing the last few years one might wonder
where the Russian gamblers get the
m^ney they throw in such huge piles upon
the Moscow tables. Or one might con-
sider the fact that Russian rubles have
extremely little value. But the idea that
rapt much wealth after all is won and
lost on the turn of the wheel in the
Soviet government’s gambling houses is
dispelled J)y the statement that the
equivalenttof $lOOOO is the government’s
revenue from this source every night.
That means of course that the gam-
blers go to the tables literally loaded
down with currency. The correspondent
who described the situation said that 3-
000.000 rubles is commonly bet on a sin-
gle number at roulette while that sum
is multiplied by ten if the gambler pre-
fers a color. The minimum bet permit-
ted a baccarat at a certain table is 50-
000000 rubles—about $12.50. Doubtless
that table is reserved for aristocrats.
There are other tables for the “bums”—
MONDAY.
men who from the description given by
the correspondent would be “run in ’ as
vagrants in almost any American city so
unkempt and ragged are they. But their
appearance does not prevent them from
gambling or from buying inferior cigar-
ettes at 6000.000 rubles a package or a
bottle of soda water at a price equiva-
lent to 75 cents in American money.
A government that conducts gambling
houses and uses the "rake-off” to pay the
salaries of its officials is not likely to gain
the respect of peoples who believe that
such expenses should be defrayed out of
the proceeds from productive enterprise.
The reason the Soviet government has
had to resort to gambling as a source of
revenue is that bolshevism stifles produc-
tion. 1
ON RELIGIOUS WARPATH.
After reading the intemperate protest of
Illinois religionists against the omission
of the letters “A. D.” from the draft of
a proposed new constitution for that
state one may have less difficulty in un-
derstanding why so many people now-
adays are unreligious. Such conduct may
also explain in part the irreligious tend-
ency of which ministers complain.
In a country that has no state religion
there is only one reason why “anno
domini” should be used in connection
with dates in a governmental document.
That reason is to make the date unmis-
takable for future generations. Even this
consideration is rather far-fetched. Prob-
ably nobody who would ever read the
document would think that it might have
been written on a given date “B. C.” It
will be many many centuries before earth
dwellers may be unable to distinguish be-
tween documents of the present and docu-
ments of the pre-Christian era.
On the other hand there is no particu-
lar reason why “A. D.” should be omitted
from governmental documents — unless
one is afforded by fanatics. When the
matter is made the subject of a bitter
and embittering religious controversy
then the question is reduced to its basic
elements—and the only answer consist-
ent with the theory of our government
is that the abbreviation can have no func-
tion except that of insuring accuracy. If
it is not necessary to perform that* func-
tion then its use as a religious designa-
tion at the demand of people who insist
upon mixing religion and government is
unwarranted.
When people parade their religion or
become militant in promoting it they
make it so plain that they are placing
upon their professions a human rather
than the divine interpretation that pos-
sible converts are turned away. There
is nothing more disgusting to a non-
worshiper as the spectacle of self-styled
worshipers quarreling among them-
selves or try ing to force other people to
think as they do.
No religion on earth ever gained re-
cruits through'the manifestation of anger
or by means of recrimination. Inasmuch
as the majority of Americans profess the
same religion the use of “A. D.” in pub-
lic documents would not be objectionable
perhaps to citizens of other faiths unless
such use should be for a religious rather
than for a historical purpose.
The menace if any lies not in omitting
the abbreviation from the proposed new
constitution for Illinois or from any other
public documents but rather in the relig-
ious passion of those who attack so much
importance to its use as to interpret its
omission as a call to religious warfare.
AN OLD PUZZLE SOLVED.
A kind of philosophy which is by no
means new to the world but which prob-
ably never before had been expounded
in public was championed by a defend-
ant in a Chicago court the other day. He
had been arrested for taking an um-
brella from a restaurant and it was al-
leged that this umbrella did not belong
to him. Since time immemorial—does any-
body’ remember when the umbrella was
invented?—people who regard themselves
as righteous have been curious to know
something about the mental processes of
a person who walks away with an um-
brella not his own. So gather round al!
ye who have a grievance-in the premises
—and this means nearly everybody who
ever owned an umbrella.
The defendant had gone into a res-
taurant. That much is incontrovertible
as he must have entered the place where
the article was in order to be able to take
it away. But perhaps this part is irrele-
vant unless one is prepared to exhaust
the moral possibilities of the story’. The
principal point is to be found in the de-
fendant’s assertion that— -
"Everybody knows that on a wet day
umbrellas cease to be private property.”
So the umbrella-taking tribe resorts to
the principle of confession and avoidance.
It is wrong to take private property when
the owner has no use for it; but when the
day of pressing need comes for both the
owner and anybody else then it is per-
fectly all right for “anybody else” to step
right in and walk off with said property.
That kind of avoidance has been
sought since the days of Esau.
The defendant went on to say that h
had possessed an umbrella of his own
had it with him when he came dowi
town; and somebody had taken it. “Yot
know Judge an umbrella is anybody’s
on a wet day.” This phase of his philoso-
' ” THE SAN ANTONIO LIQHT.
phy’ too is as old as man. He was justi-
fied in stealing an umbrella because his
own had been taken—possibly stolen and
possibly just taken.
But one may well suspect that the de-
fendant’s philosophy was new to himself
—just about as old as his name on the
police blotter. If somebody had stolen
his umbrella and he hadn’t been able to
find another so that he could put into
practice the philosophy which he tried to
impress upon the judge doubtless he
would have been ready to advocate the
enactment of a law making the penalty
for umbrella theft nothing less than
hanging or at least life imprisonment.
Most of us try to draw’ upon the mo-
ralities the theories and “isms” of the
ages when there is occasion to defend
ourselves against those who would ex-
pose our characteristic faults.
After saving daylight all summer New
York didn’t have enough to finish one
of the world series ball games.
Wurzbach says he is wearing the same
size hat he wore when he went to con-
gress two years ag.x After the election
hewerer he may need a size smaller.
Anyhow if Harry Hertzberg ever did
addtess a negro audience in Washington
he wouldn’t have to devote the major
part of the next campaign to explaining
what he said.
IF I WERE KING.
After Villon.
From "If I Were King."
All French folk whereso'er ye be.
Who love your country sail and sand
From Paris to the Breton sea
And back again to Borman strand
Forsooth’s yc seem a silly band.
Sheep without shepherd left to chance —
Far otherwise our Fatherland.
If Villon were the King of France!
The figure on the throne you see
Is nothing but a puppet planned
To wear the regal bravery
®f silken coat and gilded wand.
Not so we Frenchmen understand
The Lord of lion’s heart and glance
And such a one would take command
If Villon *Vre the King of France!
Hi« counsellors are rogues Perdie!
While men of honest mind are banned
To creak upon the Gallows Tree
Or squeal in prisons over-manned;
We want a chief to bar the brand.
And bid the damned Burgundians dunce.
God! Where the Oriflamme should stand
If Villon were the King of France!
Louis the Little play the grand:
Buffet the foe with sword and lance;
’Tis what would happen by this hand
If Villon were the King of France!
—Justin Huntly McCarthy.
THE QUEEN.
He lores not well whose love is bold!
' I would not have thee come too nigh:
The sun’s gold would not seem pure gold
Unless "the sun were in the sky:
Tp take him thence and chain him near
Would make hia glory disappear.
He keeps his state —keep thou in thine.
And shine upon me from afar!
So shall I bask in light divine.
That falls from love's own guiding star;
So shall thy eminence be high.
And so my passion shall not die;
But all my life shall reach its hands
Of lofty longing toward tby face.
And be as one who. speechless; stands
In rapture at some perfect grace!
My love my hope my all shall be
To look to heaven and look to thee!
Thv eyes shall be the heavenly lights.
Thy voice the gentle summer breeze.—
/ What time it sways on moonlit nights.
The murmuring tops of leafy trees;
And I shall touch thy beauteous form
In June's red roses rich and warm.
But thou thyself shall come not d.wn
From that pure region far-flbovc;
But keep thy throne and wear thy crown.
Queen of my heart and queen of love!
A monarch in thy realm complete.
And I a monarch—at thy feet!
—William Winter.
THE LADIES OF ST. JAMES'S.
The ladies of St. James's
Go swinging to the play:
Their footmen run before them.
With a "Stand bv! Clear the way!"
But Phyllida my Phyllida!
She takes her buckled shoon.
When we go out a-oourting
Beneath the harvest moon.
The ladies of St. James's
Wear satin on their backs;
They sit all night at Ombre
With candles all of wax:
But Phyllida my Phyllida!
She dons her russet gown.
And runs to gather May dew
Before the world is down.
The ladies of St. James's!
They arc so fine and fair.
You'd think a box of essences
Was broken in the air:
But Phyllida my Phyllida!
The breath of heath and furze
When breezes blow at morning.
Is not so fresh as hers.
The ladies of St. James's;
They're painted to the eyes;
Their white it stays forever
Their red it never dies:
But Phyllida my Phyllida!
Her .color comes and goes;
It trembles to a lily—
It wavers to a rose.
The ladies of St. James’s!
You M-arce ran understand
The half of all their perches.
Their phrases are so grand:
But Phyllida my Phyllida!
Her shy and simple words
Are dear as after rain-drops
* The music of the birds.
Th>- ladies of St. James’s!
They have their fits and freaks:
They smile on you—for seconds.
They frown on you—for weeks:
But Phyllida my Phyllida!
Come either storm or shine.
From Shrove-tidc unto Shrove-tide
Is always true —and mine.
My Phyllida my Phyllida!
I care not though they heap
The hearts of all St. James’s.
And give me all Co keep:
I care not whose the beauties
Of all the world may be.
For Phyllida—for Phyllida t *
Is all the world to me! —Austin Dobson.
ENVOY.
GRANADOS
By DR. FRANK CRANE
Who says there is no romance in
business?
I have just acquired a music roll
which reproduces au improvisation by
Enrique Granados the Spanish com-
poser.
Now an improvisation is a spon-
taneous unpremeditated dashed-off-ou
the-spur-of-tbe-moment piece of music.
The musician sits at his instrument
aud talks to you with its keys. It is all
unstudied.
There are plenty of examples of im-
provisation but this particulai im-
provisation or Kcverie as it is called.
Ims never been written down with bluet
notes on ruled white paper. No sheet
music store carries it. It is not in
eluded in the collected editions of
Granados. It may never be published
in printed form.
Granados is dead.
He improvised this Reverie just be-
fore he sailed for Spain. On the way
his ship the Sussex was torpedoed by
the Germans. Granados was nmony
those who were lost.
He died before he had time to write
down this Reverie.
Yet the music lives. The most per
isbable of all forms of beauty—beauty
of sound that dies at birth and leavas
no hint of its glorious passing—was
captured and immortalized.
Is not this a human interest story?
Picture the situation. The great
Spanish composer wanders into the re-
cording rooms to pass the time of day
with other musicians. It is his fare
well visit and his heart is heavy
Since he came to our shores he has
witnessed the triumphant first night of
his o|>era "Govescns” at the Metro-
politan Opera House and has played
his own compositions in many concerts
He has fallen in love with our bospit
able America but already be mist re-
turn to Spain.
They beg him to sit down and play
something—whatever occurs to him—4
few chords—anything to perpetuate the
touch of his fingers on a piano.
He gazes about the room bowil bin
head in thought and after a little those
sure fingers reach out lovingly to the
keys and begin to play.
Granados was saying whatever came
into his head. From a musical stand-
point the Reverie may not rank witl.
his more elaborate compositions but
nevertheless it is vastly important.
‘That is Spain” said uranados when
he had finished playing “that is my
borne. That is my very self.”
To me it is more. It is Romance.
My music box—into its nostrils there
has been breathed the breath of life
and it.'has become a living soul.
Copyright 192; by Frank Crane.
The Discontented
By H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
In Louig Ray WdJ»’s recently pub-
lished "Industrial History of the United
States”—an uncommonly well-written
work meriting a wide reading—some
passages occur which I would commend
to those all too numerous folk who
would dismiss the problem of social
discontent with an angry exclamation
of “Lock the trouble-makers up!”
There are no doubt “professional”
agitators and mischief-brewers. No
doubt much discontent is nothing more
than a symptom of personal inade-
quacy. But to assume that the dis-
contented are discontented wholly with-
out reason and that forcible repression
i> the one appropriate corrective for
their discontent is to invite further
trouble rather than to insure against it.
What is needed is a candid search-
ing inquiry as to possible grievances
that ought to be rectified possible
evils that ought to be cured. Such an
inquiry if pressed deep enough is sure
to bring to light conditions that all fair-
minded inquirers must deplore—condi-
tions. too. that at first thought might
be accounted of small significance
though actually going far to explain
the ominous threats and murmurings
now increasingly heard.
( ailing attention to some of these
conditions Mr. Wells in particular calls
attention to one generally unappreciated
—the passing of the old frontier. The
connection between the frontier of other
days and the discontent of today would
indeed seem to be remote. But Mr.
Wells has little difficulty in showing
that it is portentously intimate. He
points out: to
"Between 1880 and 1910 land Values
advanced more than 100 per cent in
every part of the country except New
England and the middle Atlantic states.
By far the greater part of this advance
has occurred since 1900.
“Prairie lands of the west and the
middle west grew moat rapidly in favor.
Such land in those states most sparsely
settled worth from $5 to $lO an acre
in 1890. sold for $2.5 by 1894 $5O by
1900 and for from $lOO to $2OO by
1905.
“Such a rapid climb in the value of
land was little short of a revolution.
It brought joy to the speculator am' the
land owner. But more and more diffi-
cult became the problem of the new
arrivals and the new generations who
had no land.”
Thus the so-called “drift to the cities”
has not been wholly a matter of choice.
And if the growth of American manu-
facturing has token its toll from the
farms and helped to swell the slums—-
thereby contributing to the rise of so-
cial discontent—the increase in land
values has likewise contributed to the
same deplorable end. Again Mr. Wells:
“The conetantly growing class of peo-
ple who own nothing is one of the most
serious problems nrising from the in-
crease of land values. In this class
arc to be found those who have no stake
in the nation—a restless shifting popu-
lation. . . •
“The modem shifters move because
they have no reason for settling down
—no hope where they are :no hope on
the other hand in the place to which
they are going. Within these groups
arc a large part of those who out of
discontent nre ready for any revolu-
tionary programme no matter how de-
structive it may be.”
Which suggests of <our>e. that to
find some way of expanding land owner-
ship would be a real advance toward
a satisfactory solution of the problem
of discontent.
It undoubtedly would. The rooted
paradoxically enough arc seldom radi-
cals. And though one oay not ho|>e
for a complete cxtirpatiou'of discontent
short of the millrnium. certain it is that
the more property-holders there are
the Jess the revolutionary menace to
the stability and welfare of the nation.
(Copyrifht 1>22. by the Associated
New’par^ rs. >
Breaking It Gently.
H. K. Koh I iuls’ tells * story corroborat-
ing the legend (list KUgene Field was m
cheerful debtor. W liar y; Curtis of
whom Field had borrowed 1156 some years
before visited ’he poet n • hi< bro and
reminded him of tl del • The following
day Field printed ^la i arsKraph in his
column: "William E. • urn* the well-
known correapdird of the Chicago Rec-
ord. is in th* city 'or h f*w days looking
after some of bls i arm mem in\estments.”
UNEXPLAINABLE
“ By BERTON ‘BRALEY
A BIT of the brute and a bit of thf god
A bit of the sky and a bit of the clod
A little of velvet a little of steel
Of dross and of gold as the test may reveal;
A trace of the baby a lot of the boy
A jigger of sorrozv a beaker of joy Y
A strange contradictory pussle to scan—
And that is a Man.
A BIT of the serpent a bit of the dove
A bit of deceit and a great deal of love
A zvisp of the mist and a pinch of the dust
A trace of the feline —unstable to trust;
A large slice of heaven a wee bit of hell
Though just which is which is a problem to tell:
A bit of supernal a whole lot that's human
And that is a IVoman!
* * *
TRAN GE creatures with natures so variegated
You cannot imagine them happily.mated
Yet somehow despite all that’s said to.disparage
They frequently make a success out of marriage!
(Copyright ig22 NEA Service)
Watching the Parade
By John Pilgrim.
The old warrior has just bought an-
other business. This makes four he has
bought in the year. If the present spurt
kceite up be will be able to pay cash tor
bis next business.
“Not that I ever will” he said. “I
will not pay cash for anything. That
is the cardinal rule of success.”
A year ago he was broken as flat as
a dropped egg. He had been caught on
the wrong side of the market the doc-
tors had been taking carbuncles out of
bis system and some of the folks who
owed him money had gone flooey. Yet
when he saw a good chance to buy a
good business he made bis bargain right
off the bat.
“I’ll pay you so much cash—”
The reason why is that for years he
has built up an elaborate credit system.
He is continually borrowing money from
the bank. Ten years ago he was only
able to borrow $lOO at a time. Now he
can borrow $40000. The security is
what it was ten years ago—his word.
“I think that is against the banking
law” says the old warrior “but I
should worry. They let me have the
money when I need it.”
When he began to do business for
himself he realized that if he could
make 10 per cent on money and borrow
it for 7 he could net .3 per cent on as
much money as he could borrow’. But
bankers are unimaginative. It is the
borrower and not the business that in-
terests them.
So the old warrior began to educate
bis bankers to trust him. They only
trusted him a little at first. There were
times when he did not need money and
he borrowed anyhow just to keep them
in tbe habit.
“I haven’t a thousand dollars net. in
the 4-orld” said the old warrior. “The
market certainly did trim me. But I
can handle a bigger chance than many
a man who has had thousands of dol-
lars on deposit in my bank for years. I
have credit. They have nothing but
cash.”
•Tapa what la a pedestrian?’’ “An In-
dividual. my son. that IS always found
In front of automobiles.” —Paris Le Hire.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Pointed Paragraphs
There is nothing like a holiday for
inducing rain.
A reckless chauffeur is a sort of
autonianiae.
You can't be too particular in choos-
ing your particular friends.
The worm usually turns after it is
too late to make a getaway.
When it comes to stepping into a
fortune no man objects to putting his
foot into\it.
When you hear a man refer to a
baby as "it” you can safely bet that
he is a bachelor.
When an American heiress is di-
vorced from a foreign nobleman she
gets a rebate instead of alimony.
It may be that matches' are made in
heaven because the fire never goes out
in the other place-
When a man gets his first gray
hairs his wife tells the neighbors they
are due to his strenuous business cares.
Many a man fails to make good be-
cause he spends most of his time try-
ing to prove that luck is against him.
I’ity is akin to love and if a young
man has an obese bank balance it isn't
difficult to find a girl to pity him.
There’s no reason why a woman
shouldn't take boarders it she wants
to but she shouldn't try to board a
moving train.
Facto grams
By E. S. CURTIS.
Damage to Cotton.
Newspaper reports state that the
damage to cotton by the boll weevil
for l'J2l Amounted to 6.277<Mk> bales.
Cotton Produced in 1921
amounted to about 7954000 bales’
therefore the amount destroyed by the
boll weevil was almost as much as that
used by consumers.
Child Labor.
The latest census figures give 1.000-
000 children between the ages of ten
and fifteen engaged in gainful occu-
pations. This is out of a total of
12000000.
Cost of Coal Strike.
for the whole country has been esti-
mated at from $500000000 to $750-
000000.
OCTOBER 16 1922.
A Laugh or Two
The shadows lay thick beneath the
tree and where they were deepest a
figure ciouched.
Suddenly b«
beard a sound a
light footfall on tbu
grass.
“That you
mate?” h« whisper-
ed hoarsely.
“Yes” came tha
answer.
. "What you .doing
with that dof?” he
muttered as bis burglar partner drew
near.
. “Why” answered his confederate
“there was nothing worth taking in
the bouse and it's bad luck to come
away without anything. So I pinehul
the watchdog and these burglar
alarms!”
The district visitor was calling on
Mrs. Harris a newcomer to an Eng-
lish village. • “You seem to have a
great many chil-
dren Mrs.fHarris”
she said.
“Yes mum” said
Mrs. Harris “and
what's more all
their names begin
with a ha itch
There's 'Ubert my
oldest. Then comes
’Hsia ’ A mat and
'lida ’Arriet and z ;
’Grace. Then there's 'Arold and ^Arry 1
mid ’Ector and 'Onoria. They're all
haitebes; all except the baby and we
christened 'er Holive.”
The poor old modern farmer has the
greatest job in the world to get tho^
better of bis far more modern daugh-
ter. Whatever the
aforesaid poor old
modern father may
say or attempt to
say. Miss 1922 has
an apt and ready
reply.
“That young man
stays to an un-
earthly hour every
night” said an irate
modern father to his youngest daugh-
ter one morning. “What does your
mother say about it?”
“Well dad" the modern young wom-
an replied as she turned to go upstairs
"she says that men haven’t changed a
bit!”
A waitress in a far western railway
restaurant watched an eastern trav-’
eler with solicitude for a while evi-
dently worried
aboiit.him. but was r
evide n t ly timid I
about approaching ।
him. Finally her
anxiety got the bet- 4
ter ot her reserve
and she asked him ‘
sympathetically: J
“What's the mat-
ter? Ain’t yer got C
ter: Ain i yer goi ■■■' ■■ 1 —
no knife?” “Oh. yes” said the trav-
eler exhibiting his weapon. She heav-
ed a sigh of relief. “That’s all right
then” she said. “I seen yer puttin'
yer fork in yer mouth an’ I didn't
know what was the matter. I been
afraid ye'd stick yourself.”
W/iere to Co
Vaudeville. -towoj
Majestic. Big Time Vaudeville. 1
.Motion Picture*.
Rialto. Anita Stewart in “Her Mad J
Bargain.” I
Royal. “Strange Idol.” I
Princess. “Ttie Silent Call.” ]
Empire. Wallace Reid in “The I
Ghost Breaker.” I
Luncheon Club*. I
Tuesday. I
City Club at tbe Gunter. I
—By Briggs
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