The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 107, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 6, 1923 Page: 4 of 64
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4-A
MOHR OF
INSULIN HAILED
AO BENEFACTOR
Dr. Banting’s Experiments
Lead to Remedy
for Diabetes.
j
HAS SAVED MANY
Method Not a Cure But
Use Restores
Health.
Bj MALCOLM ELLIS.
Convrieht bv The San Antonio Light.
New York May 5.—A little more
than a year ago a young Canadian
doctor. Dr. Banting brought from tnc
teat tubes of his laboratory and laid
before the world n new discovery in
medicine. Today after a year of re-
search and investigation by America's
leading authorities on diabetes the
young Canadian has been recognized
its one of humanity's greatest benefac-
tors and his discovery is hailed as
“one of the greatest strides of mod-
ern medicine."
American physicians and surgeons
in session this week at Atlantic City
heard the results of a year's research
and experimentation with insulin and
put their official sanction upon it.
Results of the administration of the
powerful extract were detailed at the
Atlantic City convention by Doctors
R. T. Woodyatt of Chicago and E.
P. Joslin of Boston who were pioneers
in the use of the serum along with
the Toronto general hospital and the
Physiciatric Institute nt Morristown
N. J. Out of the convention at At-
lantic City is expected to come a
broader use of the extract. Hereto-
fore doctors have used it chiefly in
experiment with dogs and rabbits and
a few research patients but they in-
tend now to extend its scope to in-
clude all humanity.
Has Saved Many.
Because of his faith in the quali-
ties of the discovery. Frank A. Van-
derlip formerly president of the Na-
tional City Bank of New York was
able to say the other day that he
had been “resurrected.” Clemenceau
the Tiger of France has claimed an
extension to an already long and full
life through insulin; the daughter of
a former supreme court justice has
been saved from a youthful grave by
insulin. An artist whose name is
known wherever magazines arc read
•was playing golf this morning where
a year ago he was a helpless invalid
hardly able to move a limb in his
body. His cady was a nine year old
boy doomed to an early death until
insulin was found. A ?30000 a year
salesman who battled diabetes for four
years before Dr. Banting made his
discovery is to go back to his work
next month after nine months treat-
ment. He weighed 78 pounds last
October he weighs 103 now and is
gaining at the rate of half a pound
a day.
Insulin is a powerful extract which
gives method to the fighting of the
malignant disease diabetes that had
a death rate in 1920 of 9.2 in 100-
000. It is estimated that there are
more than 500000 diabetics and po-
tential diabetics in the Edited States
alone and this number is rapidly
mounting. Insulin not only combats
the wasting of the body which charac-
terizes diabetes but it furnishes the
pancreatic secretion that much like
a transformer converts the sugar the
body takes in and puts it to the nor-
mal functions of supplying energy.
How the Disease Works.
From one of the two leading au-
thorities in the East on insulin came
today the story of this powerful ex-
tract of which even American physi-
cians know little. To this man doc-
tors from every state in the Tnion
from London Paris. Vienna and from
the South American countries are
coming to learn about it. For the
layman to grasp the full significance
of the discovery it is necessary to
know something of the disease which
it combats.
Diabetes is a deficiency of the in-
ternal secretions of the islands of
langerhuns of the pancreas In nor-
mal persons the amount of material
secreted in the pancreas is sufficient
to utilize all the sugar and carbohy-
drate foods that are eaten but in dia-
betic persons this material is lacking.
The disease is due to previous inflam-
mation of the pancreas caused by
some common disease such as mumps
pneumonia typhoid fever chronic ap-
pendicitis or gall stones. Here<\ty nnd
obesity are factors in inducing dia-
betes and medical men have records
of instances where it has run through
generations.
The percentage of rich men who
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SUNDAY.
These Boys May Face the World Alone
Unless the Protestant's Orphan
Home can be enlarged boys reaching
the age of 12 years must be thrown
upon the world to work out their own
salvation. The picture shows seven
bovs who will be the first to go.
They are left to right: Oscar
Greer’ Quillan .Volk. Harvey Payne
Loy and Boy Smith twins Edwin
Booth and Edward I’uliza.
The concert "Operatic Episodes
which is to be given in the St. An-
thony hotel ballroom Monday even-
ing. under the auspices of the San
Antonio Musical Club as a benefit
for the home.
Not only docs it offer the best
type of musical entertainment the
city affords but it gives San An-
tonians the opportunity to assist the
biggest boys in the home who only
seem big when compared to the 155
smaller children who constitute the
family circle.
Heretofore when a little fellow at
the orphans home reached the age of
twelve years it has been necessary
to send him away from the home in
order to make room for the younger
children who are in much greater
need of attention.
The proceeds derived from the con-
cert will be used to start a fund
have the disease is high because of
their luxurious diets sedentary habits
and lack of exercise. Richer diets
increased sugar consumption have
caused the death rate to mount since
ISBO.
Is Not a Cure.
In bis laboratory in Toronto Dr.
Banting finally arrived at the solu-
tion of the problem. After months
of patient work with rabbits and dogs
us subjects for his experiments he
prepared an extract from .the fresh
pancreas of slaughtered animals. The
exact chemical nature of insulin is
baffling even to chemists. It reacts
like no other chemical substance. The
dosage is standardized in units.
Other methods of administration
have been tried but no practical re-
sult has been obtained from ai> but
hypodermic injection. The benefits of
the injection are only temporary for
insulin attempts only to replace the
functions of a permanently damaged
organ which replenishes its snpply of
the fluid with consistency. It is the
taking from th* animal of an organic
matter so that human beings may
have the benefits. It is not. there-
fore a cure it is a revnedy. The pa-
tient is never without it. Even after
he has been discharged from the hos-
pital he must take two or three in-
jections a day as long as he lives.
He must also be careful of his diet
as he was under the former treat-
ment.
YALE'S CREW UPSETS
ALL DOPE WINNING
HOUSATONIC REGATTA
Leader’s Western Rowing
Ideas Triumph Over
Colombia.
Derby Conn.. May s.—Yale tipset
all predictions here Saturday on the
Housatonic River by winning the
varsity rowing race from the highly-
touted Columbia crew winner tast Sat-
urday of the Child's Cup race. Colum-
bia was second in n stirring finish
being timed two-fifths of a second
behind the winners who had time of
11:00 3-5. Pennsylvania was third
in 11:08.
Penn won the junior varsity race in
11 :21 2-5. with Columbia second and
Yale third.
Yale's freshman crew won from
the Massachusetts Tech eight without
difficulty in 11:36.
The varsity triumph for Yale was
hailed as a great victory for western
rowing ideas as against eastern
methods. It was the first race for
Yale under the coaching of Ed Lead-
er who coached the champion Uni-
versity of Washington team until this
year. Leader’s many changes dur-
ing the last week in his boat gave
rise to a report that his material was
faulty but Yale's groat race Satur-
day convinced enthusiasts Leader had
methods in his switches.
A PLEASURABLE OUTLOOK.
Housewife (to man waxing dining-
room floor)—-Can I be sure that
you'll do It ln*a satisfactory man-
ner?
He —Rest assured lady. It'll be
first-class. Last season I waxed the
floors of the bank director's home
so that both he and bis wife and
two of the children slipped and each
broke a teg.
with which it is planned to buy a
farm in the Artesian Belt. As soon
as a boy is old enough he will be
sent to this farm where he will have
the opportunity of developing physi-
cally. .
Owing to the limited space at the
home the boys are not developed as
well as they should be. They do not
have the opportunity to work in the
outdoors as other boys do; in fact
the only work that they get to do is
housework and it should be said that
they do this "remarkably well. Hence
it is not surprising to learn that the
little fellows are very small for their
ages.
Of the 50 boys in the publie school
department of the 1 Protestant Or-
phans Home in charge of a commit-
tee from the board of directors com-
posed of Mrs. Harry Rogers. Mrs. T.
T. Campbell and Mrs. John L.
Browne seven are between eleven
and fourteen years old. These seven
boys are facing dismissal from the
home because of lack of room.
As far as being mentally develop-
ed all seven possess this qualifica-
tion. They make average grades in
school ami are obedient respectful
and industrious. “But then boys are
always nicer than girls and easier to
get along with.”
CUNO BLUNDERS
IN LAST CLAUSE
OF HIS APPEAL
He Might Have Separat-
ed France and
Belgium.
By WILLIAM BIRD
Copyright by The San Antonio Light
Paris May s.—Chancellor Cuno em-
phasized the lack of German diplomatic
skill in his latest communication to the
Allied governments. Had he omitted
the final clause in which he demanded
evacuation of the Ruhr before nego-
tiations could begin he would have
driven a wedge between the French
and Belgian governments and aroused
a formidable sentiment in France in
favor of immediate diplomatic conver-
sations.
Clumsy as Cuno’s maneuvere was
it provoked serious differences be-
tween Paris and Brussels as to the
form the answer should lake. Poin-
care preferred the curt rejection.
Brussels insisted on a detailed answer
setting forth reasons for the rejection.
This was because Belgian public opin-
ion is heartily sick of the Ruhr war-
fare and is anxious to accept the first
opportunity to negotiate.
In France the great metallurgical
interests whose chief exponent is
Louis Loucheur are strongly inclined
to favor negotiations without making
national prestige the main issue. In
this their attitude closel/ approxi-
mates that of the German steel and
coal interests. Both the French and
German industrial leaders see the
wholesale devastation of Europe’s
economic establishment proceeding at a
catacylsmic pace while the govern-
ments prolong this costly struggle for
a moral victory.
The elements here are more inter-
ested in peace than any moral victory.
They believe that it will be a great
mistake to insist on any complete
German capitulation before opening a
discussion of the principles involved
and propose attempting a direct
Franco-German accord withmft the in-
tervention of the other allies.
Such nn accord would be a complete
substitution for the treaty of Ver-
sailles nnd would nnt Include any pro-
vision for the payment of reparations
to England. The obstacle to this plan
of course is the presence nf the
British forces on the Rhine nnd
France’s debt of over three billion
dollars to England.
BUILDING PERMITS.
110 000—J. J. Lewis Summit avenue
stores.
1250.000 —fit. Mary’a church St. Ma-
ry’s street church building.
16500—Whitley and Carvel McCullough
avenue.
>W —Whitley and Carvel. Lea! street.
>6soo—Whitley and Carvel Merchant
street.
>3OO0 —J. I. Hirgs. dwelling Drexel
avenue.
>3O—A. S. Fnfest. shed. Emox street.
>l5O —West End Lumber Company ad-
dition San Marcos street.
>5O—M. H. Jaeksnn estate repairs to
awning. Commerce street.
$4OO—M. H. Jackson estate repairs to
fire damage. Commerce street.
>2OO—T. E. Hardy two rooms Saltillo
street.
>550 —A. R. Martin one room McMuL
len street.
>lso— a. K. Leonard moving house.
Delaware street.
>350 —A. K. Leonard moving house.
Towa street.
>75 —J. Chavez one-room addition
South Brazos street.
I'o—F. T. Johnston porch addition.
Fulton street.
175—Henry Bass gorgea Dashiell
street.
|soo —A. C. Woodley remodeling. West
•Tulberry avenue.
Hagy & McCoHunv Undertakers.
Onick ambulance service. Crockett
104. Lady assistant at all hours. —
(Adv.)
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
“Bring Your Own Liquor”
May Apply on Steamers
Method to Beat Supreme
Court Ruling Has Not Yet
Been Determined by For-
eign Owned Boats.
By MARK ETHERIDGE.
Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
New York May s.—Foreign owned
steamship lines plying between Ameri-
can ports and Europe are working out
n plan for concerted action in meet-
ing the supreme court decision on
the liquor question. Informal meet-
ings of the big executives located in
this city already have been held.
Others will take place during the next
few days. When they are finished a
recommendation will be made to home
offices. It is the hope of the officials
here that all will stand together in
whatever plan finally is arrived at.
There are five courses under consid-
eration as follows:
First to add new ships to the rum
fleet outside of the three-mile limit to
act as supply craft for all lines. This
fleet would clear from Halifax and re-
plenish outgoing steamers while taking
off stock on hand before the liners
make port in the United States.
Second arranging for all liners to
call at Halifax inward and outward
bound to put on and take off liquor
stocks.
Third making the eastbound dry
and the westbound with supplies only
sufficient to make the three-mile limit.
Surplus to be dumped overboard before
entering port if any on hand.
Fourth asking foreign governments
to unite in a sharp protest against the
interpretation that port regulations can
apply to foreign owned vessels so long
as they take precautions against smug-
gling or exposing contraband while in
port.
Fifth wholeheartedly accepting the
law as interpreted by the supreme
court and making all vessels dry ships
while in American waters.
Wet Ships Attract Passengers.
There is a very wide difference of
opinion as to what a protest can ac-
complish. It is felt the state depart-
ment can do little unless Congress spe-
cifically shall amend the enforcement
law. Then again shipping men feel
that the supreme court decision was in-
tended to assist the American owned
line and that the administration is in-
clined to be rather well satisfied with
it.
Incidentally British agents here said
today that they make no profit on
their bars. They lose because of the
“overhead” but they agree that the
fact the ships are wet helps to attract
passengers. This is why they are re-
luctant to close their bars.
The question of a shore ferry with
headquarters in Canada is being care-
fully investigated especially as to cost.
Especially during the summer months
such a plan would be rather simple.
The ships would be stationed in the
northerly track somewhere oft the
coast of Massachusetts. They would
not have to be big craft just large
enough to maintain a good supply of
sick to meet demands.
But when the winds coinc down
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from the Arctic and the great green
walls of water break over big and little
ships with powerful force and moun-
tains waves compel a demand for sea
room another story will be told. It
would be almost impossible most of the
time to tranship cargoes. But of
course such conditions would prevail
only for about four months of the year
—in the winter—and the experiment
might work out all right the rest of the
time.
Would Cut Out Halifax. *
Where such ships would cruise na-
turally would be a matter to be worked
out on the chart with regard to sail-
ings from all ports. One or two steam-
ers can take care of the shipping out
of New York Boston and Portland.
Another can cruise well south to meet
vessels from (torts further down the
coast. The latter service very easily
could put supplies on coastwise ship-
ping for use while outside the three-
mile limit.
This as a matter of fact is the only
way in which liquor can be kept on
the ships. Time is a most essential
quality. This is a factor which makes
almost certain defeat of the plan that
Halifax be made a port of call.
Supplies from another liner would be
the work of a few hours at the most.
Running into and out of Halifax ship-
ping men say would add two days to
the length of the voyage. What this
would mean in cost —coal oil supplies
etc. is staggering to contemplate
steamship men assert. Then again
time is a great selling argument for the
touring trade. How long does it take
is the first question usually asked.
And adding two days would allow the
American liners which “cut the cor-
ners” to assimilate a great amount of
trade that is now carried in foreign
bottoms.
B. Y. 0. L. May Be the Rule.
All liners in the South American
trades make calls at the West Indies.
United Fruit steamers stop for in-
stance at the Bahamas and at last ac-
counts there was plenty of liquid of
more than one-half of one per eent al-
coholic content there.
The suggestion of a closed bar out of
New York and an open one to the
three-mile limit finds favor among cer-
tain shipping men. This would put
on those who want to be convival the
necessity of getting their own “mak-
ings” before sailing from this side
which would help the American boot-
legger. The smoking rooms would have
plenty of ice and fizz water for use
when it was needed.
Already the jokers arc having their
fun with captains in inquiring how
they will calculate just bow much wet
stuff will be needed on each westward
trip. One thing is certain if there is
to be a general dumping overboard of
unused wet goods when the three-mile
limit is reached the cod and lobster
fishing industry will suffer another
blow. As it is most of the old time
fishermen are running rum which ac-
counts for the prevailing high price of
fish and almost total disappearance of
the lobster. If now there is to be ad-
ded the possibility of salvaging extra
good liquid refreshments without extra
cost well—a grizzled old mariner
opined today the three-mile limit will
be lined with Ixtats and navigation will
mounted in Rings or Pins for
young ladies or young men:
$25 $5O $75 $lOO $l5O $2OO
$250 or more
Hertzberg’s always invite comparison of
prices and of stock
Other Graduation Gifts are:
Wrist or Pocket Watches $l5 to $75.
Solid Gold Bar Pins $3 to $l5.
Solid Gold Lavaliers $7.50 to $25.
Solid Gold Scarf Pins $3.50 to $l5.
Solid Gold Cuff Links $5 to $2O.
Solid Silver Belt Buckles $2 to $6.50.
Solid Silver Dorines $4 to $lO.
Solid Silver Vanity Cases $lO to $35.
Strands of Pearls $5 to $5O.
Eversharp Pencils from $1 to $6.
Fountain Pens various makes $2.25 to $B.
Fancy Boxes Stationery from $1.50.
Leather Goods Bronze Desk Sets Book
Ends Toilet and Manicure Sets Etc.
have a much greater hazard added
than has been present when the rum
fleet was at anchor.
There are plenty of ways to beat the
decision shipping men assert but what
they intend deciding between now and
June when rigid enforcement goes
into effect is whether the wet game is
worth the candle.
DATA REVEAL HUGE
DISCREPANCIES IN
LAND VALUATIONS
Some Texas Counties Re-
ceive More Than They
Pay to State.
Austin Tex. May 5.—A compara-
tive statement showing discrepancies
in land valuations and the amounts
paid iu excess by certain counties of
the state of the amounts received from
the state and also of amounts re-
ceived in excess from the state over
the amounts paid was made public
Saturday by Chairman Tom Pollard
of the Senate committee appointed to
investigate allegations of inequality in
taxable valuations.
Twenty-two counties were picked
out to make the comparison where
such counties either adjoin each oth-
er or where conditions and lands are
similar.
El Paso county is compared with
Vai Verde county. In El Paso county
the land is assessed at §12.24 per
acre and that county paid in three
years §435459 to the state in excess
of the amount received while land
in Vai Verde county is assessed at
§1.43 and received §104275 in excess
over the amount paid.
In Dallas county land is assessed
at §20.71 per acre and that county-
paid §1519458 in excess of the
amount received from the state while
in the adjoining county of Kaufman
land is assessed at §21.40 and that
county received in three years $84-
688 more than it paid into the treas-
ury.
Travis is compared with Bastrop.
In Travis land is assessed at §19.34
an acre and it paid §138420 to the
state in excess of the amount re-
ceiver! while in Bastrop county land
is assessed at §lO 29 and acre and
that county received $73692 over the
amount paid to the state.
Tarrant is compared with Parker-
In -Tarrant land is assessed at §35.58
an aere nnd that county paid to the
state §820353 iu excess of the
amount received while in Parker
land is assessed at §lO.BO a_n acre and
that county received §78775 more
than it paid to the state treasury.
Harris is compared with Montgom-
ery. In Harris land is assessed at
$31.98 an acre and that county paid
§1119242 in excess of amount re-
ceived while in Montgomery land is
assessed at §7.05 and received §53-
302 more than was paid to the state.
Bexar is compared with Wilson.
Bexar land is assessed at §22.66 an
acre and paid §1109953 over amount
received. Wilson land is asesssed st
$11.64 and received $42688 more
than was paid to the state.
An Open Letter
to the Public
We the undersigned citizens and taxpayer!
of San Antonio hereby voice our disapproval and
regret because the Stoner ticket has seen fit to
attempt to disregard the plain mandate of the
people in the primary election by undertaking
to continue a useless and hopeless contest and
further accentuating the animosities which every
political campaign creates.
After the primary election the Stoner candi-
dates sensibly wisely and in a public-spirited
manner openly stated in an announcement in
the San Antonio Express that they accepted the
results of the primary as decisive and announced
their withdrawal from the rice. /
At the same time Mr. Tobin and the mem-
bers of the successful ticket stated that they
held no ill will toward any individual or section
of the people and asked the co-operation of all
to pull S'an Antonio out of the hole and start the
forward work of city building.
Apart from all political lines and all other
considerations we are firmly convinced that had
this been adhered tb much useless expense could
have been saved to the taxpayers of tins' city
and San Antonio could have at once got down to
business.
Some influence apparently was brought to
bear to cause the Stoner candidates to re-enter
the contest and it is our belief that the men on
the Stoner ticket did so against their own better
judgment and because they were influenced for
purposes best known to the men who .hope to
benefit thereby.
San Antonio has sustained untold damage
financially and in a business way on account of
political bickering and it is time in our opinion
for politics to end. We condemn in strongest
terms the evident intent on the part of certain
people to prolong this contest in the face of a
completely decisive vote in the primary election.
A second contest with its attending distractions
cannot in our opinion change the result in the
slightest particular in so far as the next adminis-
tration is concerned unless the supporters of the
Tobin ticket become too confident. This must
not happen. We are opposed to the people of
this city being made the victims of two contests
within a few days’ time and the expenses and
loss of business attached thereto but for reasons
unknown to us it must be done.
We believe that Mr. Tobin and his associates
have been fairly chosen to conduct the adminis-
trative affairs of San Antonio for the next two
years and they should now be placed in office
by public acclamation and receive the whole-
hearted support of every well-wisher of San An-
tonio to the end that this community may pros-
per.
We call upon all who believe in fair play to
be diligent go to the polls as you did last week
and help us to administer to those who have
forced upon us this second contest such an over-
whelming defeat that hereafter when the people
speak with the ballot their verdict will be ac-
cepted as final.
We call upon the people of San Antonio at
this time to take a firm and positive stand behind
the Tobin administration which will be in charge
of this city for the ensuing two years and we
pledge these gentlemen our utmost support in
their difficult task.
J. Ed. Wilkens R- L. Ball ‘ T <
L. Heuermann A. W. Seeligson
Joe Oppenheimer Lane Taylor
T. T. VanderHoeven W. C. Manlove
B. A. Greathouse C. M. Chambers
R. A. Arthur C. P. Stafford
C. R. Adams W. L. Schlessinger
H. W. Moore 7 A. J. Bell
J. L. Browne Cari Wright Johnson
H. E. Hildebrand Robert G. Harris
D. B. McCall S. S. Searcy
W. S. Payton Nat Parka
(Political Advertuing)
MAY « 1928.
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