The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 156, Ed. 1 Monday, June 23, 1924 Page: 4 of 16
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PAGE OF THE y.
EDITORIAL V
C~ ANTONI o^-===?
THE ^j^gigHT
Indians Assemble in
Conventions Too
THESE are convention days. It is with no surprise
that we learn of an Indian convention at Tulsa
oil capital of the Mid-Continent territory where
15000 Indians from all sections of the country assem-
bled for a pow-wow.
Some of the Indians were very rich and some were
very poor while in between were some neither poor nor
rich just comfortably well fixed. Truly the Indian has
copied the white man in this respect. Like us too the
rich Indians did not make money by efforts put forth in
business. The government moved them to lands that
happened later on to produce oil. The poor Indians
were the ones not so fortunate their reservations to date
not producing much of anything.
We have not the slightest idea what 15.000 Indians
could have to talk about that they should assemble in
solemn conclave. Doubtless Indians have their prob-
lems the same as other folks. But apparently at least
they did not endorse anybody for president nor decide to
go on the warpath.
While the American Indian was all but extermi-
nated in the rough and ready days when a white man’s
empire was in the making we have made such amends
as the situation would permit.
We have allotted the Indians lands which they may
hold unless the lands become valuable for oil in which
event we drill them and give the Indians more monej
than possibly is good for them.
Otherwise we permit them to wrestle with our
civilization as best they may and from all reports they
seem to be making about as much headway as the rest
of us.
Utilizing Our Waste
OFFERING of a prize by the Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation of San Antonio for the best device or
method for utilization of waste cotton stalk fiber
;alls attention to a fertile field for inventors and inves-
tigators. This field is not confined to cotton stalk fiber
and it offers rich financial reward besides opportunity
for doing a public service.
We Americans are a wasteful people as regarded
by the rest of the world although some of our wasteful-
ness is the result of high pressure production and high
speed industrial pace rather than wilful disregard of
values. *
Considerable progress has been made in checking
waste and in utilizing it but the surface has only been
scratched and fortunes await those able to find or point
out the means of saving the by-products and material
that are thrown away annually in the United States.
This field of investigation is the more important no"
that supplies of raw material used with such prodigality
in the past are dwindling and greater conservation is
necessary. .
A recent invention of a process for making a build-
ing material out of leaves twigs small tree branches
and sawdust is a ca^e in point. These by-products have
always been considered waste and-no attempt was made
to utilize them until the supply of timber began -to run
low. The new building material is said to have been
found as satisfactory as the best of lumber in ordinary
construction and has an added advantage in that it can
be made into forms in which wood hase never before-
been used.
Many other instances might be cited and still the
field has'only been scratched. There remains ample
opportunity for the man who can find means for utiliz-
ing the materials that now are being thrown away.
Guard Your Health
CONSIDERABLE publicity has been given of late to
the Chinese system of paying doctors only while
the patient is kept in good health. When the
patient becomes ill the doctor’s pay stops until health
is retrieved.
Broadly considered it is a good system.
Health is a normal condition and should be main-
tained. Any qualified physician would be able to keep
his patients in good health if he had absolute authority
over them. The fault lies generally with the patient be-
cause he will take chances that are unnecessary will
neglect minor ailments and will refuse to exercise pre-
cautions against infections.
It is every person’s duty to guard his health above
everything else. The man or woman who will mak^
good health a study can escape a majority of the ills to
which the human body is subject. The proverbial
“ounce of prevention” in the matter of health is worth
many many “pounds of cure.” Physicians recognize
this fact and are turning more and more to preventive
medicine.
“Secrets of Health” a daily article appearing on
The Light’s editorial page and written by Charles A. L.
Reed former president of the American Medical Assn-
j ciation offers health help to readers. Read and study it
and apply the lessons contained. If illness comes no
j matter how lightly you consider it consult a reputable
physician.
Guard your health. It is a priceless possession.
W SAN ANTONIO LIGHUP ❖
THEORY THE REAL INTERPRETER OF TRUTH
I observe that a Western educa-
tor urges that attention he
given in schools to “teaching boys
and girls how to distinguish be-
tween theorv and truth." Probably
by condensing his idea into a sen-
tence ho has given it a trend that
he did not intend.
A theory may be just as true
as a fact. The object of theory
is to ascertain and explain truth.
It would be a mistake to instill in
the minds of youth the notion that
there is any conflict between the-
ory and tryth. The aim should
rather be to teach them the real na-
ture of theory.
Ali science may be said to rest
upon theory. There < ould be no
organization of scientific knowl-
edge without theory to bind facts
into systems and show how they
are related by laws. A theory is
a statement of human comprehen-
sion of a law of nature. It renders
possible the fr>reseeing of nat-nr.l
events. Astronomers foretell eclipse
by application of a theory of the
planetary motions. This theory like
all others is the product of rea-
soning upon observed facts and
events which discloses the connect-
tions between them.
It is really only s theory that the
sun will rise to-morrow morning.
And that theory has been formed
upon observation of the fact that
the sun has always in the past s«
far as record goes risen in the
manner in which we expect it to
rise to-morrow. We cannot know ns
a fact that the sun has risen until
we have seen it rise but the theory
that it will rise enables us to carry
on human affairs as we could not
do if wc bad no theory and no be-
lief on the subject. If we waited to
see the sun rise before believing
At Our Restar aw
Walter—ls your dinner all right
sir?
Piner—Everything is cold but
the ice cream—aside from that it
will do.
The Snake in the Grass
that it would rise where should
we “he at?”
The part that theory plays in
human life is so great as to con-
stitute the chief distinction be-
tween the activities of man and
those of the lower animals. In gen-
eral those creatures seem to have
no theories and so live from hand
[YE TOWNE GOSSIPED I
J Copyright 1»24. ths Star Company. J
Dear K. C. B.—l'm sick. I’ve
just come in from a barber shop
where a barber who smokes gave
me a shave. I'd just had breakfast
and the odor of cigarette tobacco
was on his hands. I know this bar
ber reads your column and if you'd
print this little note he may real
ize that he's the one and when he
is through with his morning smoke
he’ll wash hia hands and besides
hi won't wonder why I nevhr shave
in his shop any more.
ELMER R. MESSNER.
Rochester. N. Y.
MY DEAR ELMER—-
• • •
WHEN NATURE gave us.
A SENSE of smell.
• • •
SHE LET us in.
• • •
FOR A lot of things.
* * «
THAT WE don’t need.
• * *
AND COVLD quite well.
• • •
GET ALONG without
• • •
BUT ANYWAY.
IT’S TOO late now.
TO MAKE complaint.
• • •
AND HERE’S your letter.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
to mouth and from day to day.
The provisions for the future which
so many of them conspicuously
make may be explained as the oper-
ation of laws of their being of
whose nature they possess no con-
sciousness. These Inherent tenden-
cies then take the place of the
theories with Which intelligent ob-
AND I hope the barber.
• • •
WILL READ and learn.
• • •
AND WASH his bands.
• * ♦
BUT JUST think. Elmer.
* • •
HOW VERY much more.
• ♦ ♦
THE HARD working barber.
♦ • •
HAS TO suffer.
* * •
WITH ALL this stuff.
• • •
THEY’RE SELLING now.
• ♦ •
AND DRINKING around.
• • ♦
AND GETTING shaved.
• • •
AND EVERYTHING.
• ♦ •
AND LOTS of times.
• • •
I DON’T blame barbera.
• * •
FOR TRYING to kill.
• • •
SOME CUSTOMERS.
♦ • •
BY SUFFOCATING them.
• • •
WITH BIG hot towels.
• • •
AND I know men.
• • •
IF I was a barber.
...
I WOULDN’T shave.
• • •
EVEN WITH a scythe.
• • *
I THANK you.
servation combined with higher rea-
son furnishes us. /
You net upon the basis of the-
ory every day of your life. In most
cases you have forgotten or have
not noticed that there is any the-
ory concerned; but if you have not
worked it out for yourself you may
be sure that someone has worked
it out for you. perhaps thousands
of years ago and the gist of his
reasoning has been handed down
in the shape of a theory which
we all instinctively follow.
Whenever an invention of any
kind is made it is the result of the-
ory. It comes from the reasoned be-
lief that things will cbntinuc to act
in the ways in which they have
hitherto been known to act. even if
you make certain alterations in the
circumstances.
James Watt saw the lid of a tea-
kettle blown off by steam and the-
ory whispered in his ear the truth
that steam copld drive an engine.
Thomas Edison believed theoreti-
cally that he could make nn electric
current heat a carbon filament to
steady and brilliant incandescence;
and again theory and truth shook
hands. I could fill this whole page
with similar instances.
Theory works in the same man-
ner in the moral world. What we
call moral certainly is theoretic
certainty—based upon theory form-
ed by reasoning on the observed
connections of human actions.
Of course; there are false and
mistaken theories but they don’t
stand long. Instead of teaching
youth to regard theory abstractly as
something opposed to. or inconels-
tent with truth they should be
taught that theory is truth’s inter-
pbeter for all intelligences lower
than Divinity.
Cautious Bridegroom
“With my worldly goods I thee
endow
But charge accounts I disallow;
No ’joint holdings.’ dear for me
An Indian giver I will be.”
Secrets of Health
By CHARLES A. L. REED M. D.
Former President of the American Medical AssoclirtloD
Much of your health or your safe-
ty even your life may depend upon
habits of thought and action that
you have developed around some
catch-word phrase or slogan.
“Safety First’’ is probably the
most valuable health slogan that
ever came into popular use.
It evolved with the introduction
of the industrial and domestic use
of electricity.
The loss of human life during the
earlier decades of electrical develop-
ment is one of the saddt-t chapters
in the annals of any industry.
Of course everybody knew that
electricity would kill.
Lightning kills over 5000 persons
every year and everybody knows
as they then knew that lightning is
electricity at large.
It was speedily ascertained that
shocks from a voltage of from 1000
to 2000 are deadly.
When discharges of high voltage
involve the whole human system
they paralyze the brain and nerves
—the natural electrical conductors
of the system—and stop the action
of the heart.
Such electrical discharges may
not involve the whole system but
cause local burns of the tissues the
sores thus formed being particularly
difficult to heal.
When electricity is passed
through a closed tube from which
all air has been excluded it throws
off rays called X-rays which like
the rays of radium have the power
to destroy animal tissues.
Something to Think About
From time to time we hear the
suggestion made that the constitu-
tion of the United States be amend-
ed to permit of a national referen-
dum on all questions that affect us
as a nation. These suggestions
usually take the form of a newspa-
per article which very few people
read a speech which very few lis-
ten to or a bill which is introduced
in Congress and goes to a peaceful
death in gome committee.
Yet a national referendum is the
most intelligent solution that has
thus far been suggested for the ills
and evils of our present method of
government. It surely is worth
thinking seriously about.
For ills and evils unquestionably
exist. The federal government's
power has steadily grown and the
power of the states hns steadily de-
clined. The method of voting by
states worked well when we hnd
thirteen states. Today It not only
works badly but it is retarding the
development and interfering with
the happiness of the whole country.
The Senate of the United States
■was organized to serve as a check
or brake upon transitory impulses
of the electorate. It has developed
into a dam against the current of
popular thought.
An act of Congress may involve
us in a war. Is it fair or intelli-
gent that a state like Arizona or
New Mexico should have the same
voice as New York or Massachu-
setts or Illinois when it cannot
ONCE-OVERS
By J. J. MUNDY
Copyright 1924. by Inter national Feature Service.
Y'ou Must Work to Keep What Y'ou
When a situation or condition is
new. you are Interested.
The unfolding of something dif-
ferent appeals.
A new face a new garment a
new friend a new instructor piques
your curiosity and spurs you to
efforts otherwise unthought of.
As soon however as you be-
come settled down to the fact that
that face garment friend instruc-
tor or pupil requires a definite reg-
ular attitude or effort on your part
to hold its interest you become
lukewarm.
Now if the facts were known the
Interesting part comes after the
first flush when you get down to
the gradual but steady effort which
FIGURES OF SPEECH
A “Falsfaffian" army is one that
is made up of all sorts of rag. tag
and bobtail; the expression is used
sometimes for any gathering or
assemblage that is scraped together.
For example: Dr. Livermore win-
ner of the Bob peace prize said
in a speech advocating the League
of Nations that the nations outside
the league were a “Falstaffian bat-
talion.”
Sir John Falstaff is one of the
most famous of Shakespeare’s char-
acters appearing in “The Merry
Wives of Windsor" and the two
parts of “King Henry IV.” He is a
fat sensual boastful and lying
knight. In the first part of “King
Henry IV” act iv scene 2 he de-
. SAN ANTONIO
kV JUNE 23 1924.
When these facta became known
even before the discovery of X-rays
and radium is became necessary to
warn everybody againat the danger.
“Safety First” signa appeared
wherever electricity was either gen-
erated or distributed.
Wires are now insulated safety
fuses are installed automatic cir-
cuit breakers are employed bar-
riers surround machinery ray filt-
ers are utilized and everywhere ac-
cident-preventing devices are in evi-
dence.
But “Safety First signs spread
much farther than the electrical In-
dustry.
Machine shops cotton factories
manufacturing establishments gen-
erally mines street cars elevators
railroad crossings and wherever life
through carelessness might be ex-
posed to mechanical dangers blos-
somed with “Safety First” signs un-
til at last and best of all the slogan
has entered into everyday speech.
It is by this fact that it has
come to affect not only your sub-
conscious mind but the subconscious
mind of the people and thus to mold
them into habits of caution.
The habit-moulding and life-sav-
ing possibilities of a slogan are be-
yond computation.
Learn slogans remember them
and fashion your automatic behavior
around them for your own comfort
and safety.
Copyright 1924 King Features
Syndicate Inc.
By BRUNO LESSING
irendum.
The Ref
provide as many soldiers or as
much money or Accept as big a bur-
den of responsibility? We do not
go to war by states. We can only
fight as a nation. Why therefore
should (ve not be consulted as a
nation and take a national vote
on it?
You may believe what you like
of prohibition but the question will
never be satisfactorily settled ‘and
the present law cannot possibly be
properly enforced until it has been
demonstrated that a majority of the
people of this country desire prohi-
bition. The fact that a majority of
states want it is no longer satify-
ing to a great majority.
The development of the telegraph
the telephone the airplane and ra-
dio tends more and more to bring
the citizens of this country together
and establish bonds of common in-
terest. The old method of voting
by states tends to keep them apart.
The election of United States
senators by the people instead of by
state legislatures was a great step
toward the abolition of the old
method. The election of a President
by a popular vote instead of by the
old-fashioned electoral college is
bound to come.
A national referendum at the re-
quest of three or five million voters
on any question that affects the
welfare of the 110000.000 individ-
uals of this country would be the
biggest and most intelligent step
of all.
is necessary if your life is to be se-
riously affected one way or the
other.
It is impossible to carry on any
course or friendship and stand still.
There are many who would pre-
fer to stand still rather than put
forth personal effort.
There are many also who seem
to resent the fact that physical or
mental effort must be made to keep
up conditions they are quite willing
to enjoy.
Such natures are shallow and in-
capable of lasting success.
The test comes when you must
work to keep what you desire most.
(Copyright 1924 International
Feature Service. Inc.)
“Falstaffian”
scribes his famous army "discarded
unjust serving men. younger sons
to younger brothers revolted tap-
sters and ostlers trade-fallen the
eankers of a cairn world and a long
peace. No eye hath seen such scare-
crows. There’s but a shirt and a
half in all my company.”
Copyright 1024 King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
Nothing Else Matters
“Whatever induced you to build
your house in this dismal looking
place?”
“Oh man can’t you s how
bandy those two tall trees come in
for stringing my aerial?”
Desire Most.
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