The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 60, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1926 Page: 1 of 36
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[Today
Coolidge Hand* Off.
11246 Lawyer*.
Silly Soul* Not
Damned.
Men Will Fight
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright l(lt by Star Co 1 '
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE won
elected and is paid to act ag
executive approving or vetoing
laws enforcing them if necessary.
He knows that he was NOT elected
to MAKE laws or change them and
he acts accordingly.
IJE tells earnest prohibition gentle-
* men urging him to discourage
agitation for modification of the Vol-
stead act that the public can be
trusted to work out that problem for
itself. In other words he will
KEEP out of the liquor dispute.
RAEANWHILE congressional com-
mittees are discussing and
studying various “modification bills."
Old brewery properties recently as
plentiful and cheap as any kind of
leaves in Vallombrosa arc in demand
and on the political horizon a wet
cloud bigger than a man's hand
seems to say “light wines anil beer."
Whether the light combination
would cheek the ravages of heavy
bootleg whiskey or discourage boot-
legging and its erime wave time may
tell.
IN New York City there are 11.2 IC
practicing lawyers about three
times as many as in Chicago. There
are more lawyers than there once
were saloonkeepers in the big city.
And the 11246 will agree that the
only client worth while is the big
corporation that “hisses” for its
faithful defenders when in trouble.
IN the long calendar of saints only
4 one was a lawyer. He lived in
Britanny and on his Saint's day
this song is sung:
Advocatus ct non latre.
Res miranda populo.
The accuracy of that quotation is
not warranted nor its spirit approv-
ed. The marvel is that so great a
majority of lawyers should be hon-
est men. after associating with clients
eager to best each other.
IRRESPONSIBLE boys. Itching for
notoriety lacking reverence form-
ed an “association of damned souls"
at the University of Rochester. They
profess atheism and feel im|>ortant.
as silly souls often do when half
baked.
The undergraduates now formally
disapprove them which was hardly
necessary. A frog seeing a locomo-
tive and saying. “I know nothing
about the engineer." may be forgiven.
But only a fool frog would say
“there is NO engineer my high in-
tellect tells me that."
PROFESSOR E. C. JESSUP falk«
• sensibly about man's fighting in-
stincts and the suppression of war.
Man is as much of a fighting animal
as ever says the professor and the
way to end war is to direct men's
love of fighting into better work than
killing each other.
The fighting instinct expresses
energy. That enn be used tip in fight-
ing nature usefully going up to new
altitudes in flying machines explor-
ing ocean depths climbing mountains
In friendly competition among nations
and in other ways.
Men unwilling to fight or not
eager to fight for n reason would be
mere white rabbits. The problem is
to make them fight usefully. They
will be fighters always.
THIS is the day's IMPORTANT
news destined possibly to revo-
lutionize industry including automo-
bile making. Gunther Polcich. a
young engineer of Vienna produces a
current of electricity "direct from
chemicals."
He believes that his invention will
do away with dynamos and says one
pound of bis chemical combination
. will do the work of a twelve-pound
storage battery. It sounds like re-
leasing the power in the atom.
If he has found locked up in chem-
icals the light storage battery that
Eilison looked for he has something
i worthwhile.
TO release power from chemicals
or take it direct from the sun.
would enrich this earth beyond men's
dreams and cut the day's work to
one hour.
Just now that might spoil the hu-
man race not yet fit to be released
from necessity's sharp lash.
JT'HIS is certain. We are just be-
b ginning the age of electricity as
our ancestors were beginning the
steam age after the Battle of Water-
loo. And what STEAM did. increas-
ing human efficiency and wealth
will seem as nothing compared with
the work that ELECTRICITY will
do.
If European nations would stop
haling and fighting each other and
•oncost rate on development of rhe
trie power they could pay for their
bloody and brutal war quickly —and
probably be ready for another.
|4577
VOL. XLVI—NO. 60.
S. A. TO GET TOURIST HOTEL
$2000000
WIE
10 FACE
DAM
Twelve-story Building to
Be Erected at Scene of
New Development
A 12-story tourist hotel
comprising three separate
buildings and costing $2-
000000 will be built at the
corner of Devine and Robin-
how roads just north of th<» city limits
by H. C. Thorman and associates. Mr.
Thorman i« a leading San Antonio
business man and president of the
San Antonio Real Estate Board.
Mr. Thorman announced the new
project following th<* dose of a deal
involving 57 acres just west of th^
river and at one. end of San Antonio’s
flood prevention dam at th« head of
Olmos ereek.
The hotel buildings and grounds
will occupy a site at the southwest
corner of Devine and Robinson roads
which faces the river and the pro-
posed new 1100-acre city park. It is
considered by Mr. Thorman as the
most beautiful site in or around San
Antonio for such an improvement.
COMMANDS WIDE VIEW
The hotel on a ten-acre site out
of the 57-acre tract will be built on
the top of a hill from which is com-
manded a view of the surrounding
country for at least 50 milek.
Mr. Thorman announced that finan-
cing of the project had been arranged
and that the controlling interests
would be owned by himself.
Plans are being pre|»ared be said
and ground will be broken for the
structure within th<* next GO days.
IN NEED OF HOTEL
‘•San Antonio is in great need of a
fine tourist hotel** Mr. Thorman
said “and we have taken advantage
of the immense improvements under
way at the hraxl of the river to build
one.
“It will be on the west aide of the
new dam and will be reached by driv-
ing out Broadway through Alamo
Heights out the Devine Road which
will cross the dam. Or it will be
reached through a short drive from the
Alpine Drive in Brackenridge Park.
The site for the new hotel is sur-
rounded by beautiful natural scenery
as well as that which is resulting
from expenditures of hundreds of
thousands of dollars by the city.”
LIGON RESIGNS POST
IN BURKE'S OFFICE
Garvin Ligon probate clerk in
Jack Burke'* office bn. tendered his
resignation effective April 1. He will
enter tiie employ of the Stewart Title
nnd Guaranty company. Mr. Ligon
is the oldest employe in point of ser-
vice in the county clerk's office hav-
ing been there since a boy. His place
will be taken by Benno Schiel.
OPEN VOLSTEAD LAW
HEARINGS ARE URGED
WASHINGTON March 10. —(4>>-
Public hearings on the bills for modi-
fication of the eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act will be recom-
mended to the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee by its apodal sub-committee of
five it wag announced today.
FORT WORTH TO HEAR
MITCHELL IN APRIL
FORT WORTH. March 10.—OP) -
Former Colonel William Mitchell cen
ter of the recent air service controver-
sy. will lecture here on April 5. the
same day that Major General Hinda
will be here from Fort Sam Houston
tu inspect the R. O T. C.
^AN ANTONIQ -
The Friendly Newspaper ★ Member of The Associated Press. ★ A Constructive Force in the Community.
Publish.* by Th. Light Publi.nlng Company.
San Antonio. T.zaa
lit
frpilE rains which drenched
1 Southwest Texas Tuesday
and Wednesday night meant mil-
lions of dollars tn the ranchers” de-
clared B. J. McDowell Del Rio
postmaster registered at the St.
Anthony hotel Friday. “Prosperity
is sure to be felt in W’est Texas
this year and ronsequently San
Antonio will get her share of it.
And say. not to change the subject
but Del Rio has a golf course that
will compare favorably with any in
San Antonio” he added.
«POLKS who eat onions work
C sort of a hardship on their
friends but never the less onion
growing is one of the major indus-
tries of the country” says M. C.
Coggin representing M. W. I»rch
Inc. registered at the Gunter hotel
Friday. “I come to Southwest
Texas each year to buy onions and I
want to tell the world that this
country looks better this year than
I ever saw it before.”
Traveling men as * whole
know as much about business
conditions ax any one else prob-
ably more. “I own real estate in
Florida and I don't like to talk
about that country just now. but
I will say my business in South-
west Texas has been better this
year than ever before” says Harry
Appleton leather goods salesman of
New York registered at the Gunter
hotel Friday. “Other traveling men
I have talked with have the same
thing to say” he concluded.
FLIER DEAD ANOTHER
SUFFERS FRACTURED
SKULL IN CRASH
Corporal S. P. Rush wi * killed
and Lieutenbnt L P. Holcomb
seriously injured in an airplane
crash at Camp Bullis at if o'clock
Friday morning.
The two members of the Second
Division Air Service had flown to
Camp Bullis to deliver a message to
the Third Brigade.
Their plane crashed at the edge
of the Ninth Infantry encampment
and burst into flames.
Enlisted men of the Ninth rushed
to the plane and pulled both men
from the fire.
Corporal Rush was badly burned
besides receiving a fractured skull and
other injuries.
Lieutenant Holcomb suffered seri-
ous burns in addition to shock and
abrasions.
Both were placed in an ambulance
and sent to Station Hospital Fort
Sam Houston.
Corporal Rush was dead when th'
ambulance reached the Army Post.
SENATOR CHARGES
POLL DISCREPANCY
WASHINGTON March 10.—OP)—
A discrepancy of several thousand be-
tween the number of ballots in the
Steek-Brookhart election contest re-
ceived in Washington and the number
issued to the voters was alleged today
by Senator Stephens Democrat Mis-
sissippi. who is preparing a minority
report recommending that Senator
Brookhart retain his seat.
WASH LINE STRIPPER
ROUTED FROM YARD
“Our clothes must be washed
again’* J. E. Smith 914 Pine street
told police Friday.
A negro surprised stripping the
clothes line dropjiod the garments and
run Mr. Smith said.
MAN HUNTS SPOUSE
4 CHILDREN AND CAR
A lonesome husband asked Sheriff
James Stevens Friday to find his
wife four children nnd automobile.
“My wife little daughter and three
sons have been missing several days”
the man said.
HISTORIC BELGIAN
PALACE DESTROYED
GHENT Belgium March 19.—0 P)
The famous Palace of Justice here
was destroyed by fire today. Mun
im|M»rtant historical documents wet
buiwid.
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SOUTH TEXAS
CHAMBERS
AROUSED
Telegrams Offer Support
to San Antonio in
Campaign.
Pleas for the support of Kan An-
tonio in the fight for the extension
of the Southern Pacific railway's
lines from Falfurrias into the Rio
Grande Valley and expressions of ap-
preciation for the stand taken by the
Greater San Antonio committee of the
chamber of commerce hire with refer-
ence to alleged discrimination on the
part of the Missouri Pacific railway
were contained in telegrams received
Friday by The Light from chambers
of commerce in South Texas.
BEEVILLE PROTESTS.
Alleged discrimination on the part
of the Missouri Pacific in favor of
Houston against San Antonio and in
opjiosition to the proposed rail ex-
tension were brought before the
Greater San Antonio committee by
business men of the city after hav-
ing appealed to A. R. Ponder presi-
dent of the chamber and also an of-
ficial of the Missouri Pacific.
The chamber of commerce at Bee-
ville. in a telegram to The Light
Friday stated it will back the pro-
posed new line into the Valley which
would give that territory another out-
let open a new territory and give
San Antonio merchants and jobbers
an opening to enter into more active
competition for its trade.
DEPEND ON S. A.
“Falfurrias Chamber of Commerce
wishes to express its appreciation for
the stand of the Greater San Antonio
committee in behalf of this territory
in regard to the railroad situation.
The Southern Pacific extension from
Falfurrias to the Valley is considered
a public necessity** T. R. Bennett
president of the Falfurrias Chamber
of Commerce telegraphed.
The sentiment is said to be general
among business men of the valley that
the territory must dejiend largely upon
San Antonio to again represent it be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion. as it did in the first hearings
of the case in which the Missouri Pa-
cific is snid to have been the only in-
terest opposing the project.
PONDER SPEAKS.
Mr. Ponder in a statement Friday
said the discrimination of trying to
route excursions of homoseekers from
North Texas and the Middle West
through Houston when the land com-
panies promoting them preferred to go
through San Antonio had been taken
care of. Instructions were issued by
officials of bis railroad on March 3
be said to give the same service
through San Antonio as was promised
through Houston.
Mr. Ponder did not comment on the
matter of the Missouri Pacific opposi-
tion to the Southern Pacific extension.
FRIDAY MARCH 19 1926.
Death Beats First Family to Bedside i
of President’s Stricken Father :
END COMES PEACEFULLY
WITHOUT PAIN TO COLONEL
PLYMOUTH. March 19.— (IP) —Colonel John Calvin
Coolidge father of the President is dead with his son
losing a race to bid him farewell.
The end came at 10:41 o’clock last night to the coun-APPLICANTS FOR U. S.
TAX PLACES HEARD
Those aspiring to become income tax i
auditors can file applications until
March 27 Civil Service Examiner Ru-
dolph Luukenbach reported Friday.
All will be examined on thia date. 1
♦try merchant justice of the
peace and former member
of a governor's staff upon
I whose homely rural career special ।
attention began to be focused when
hr administered the presidential oath
(Continued on Page 6.)
THIRTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS ift^oMaar..^
: U.S. SENATE
HONORS DEAD
WASHINGTON. March 19.—CW —
The Senate adjourned as soon as it
met today on motion of Senator Dale
(Republican). Vermont out of re-
spect to Colonel John C. Coolidge.
. father of the President.
| The House adopted a resolution ex
; tending its sympathy to the Presi
I dent.
THREE FIRES IN DAY
| - FORT WORTH Marek 18. tW
. [Three fires yesterday caused damage
I of $2700.
leditionl
Upper
picture
•how*
John
Coolidge
and hi*
mother.
Lower
picture
•how*
Precident
Coolidge
and hi*
father.
Colonel
. John
Calvin
Coolidge
President to Return to
Capital Immediately
After Burial.
President Coolidge came home to Ply-
mouth this morning. At 10:10 o'clock
the President arrirea at the white
farm house where his father Colonel
John Coolidge lay dead. He was driven
to Plymouth from Woodstock accom-
panied by Mrs. Coolidge their son
John Attorney General Sargent and
Major James F. Coupal White House
physician.
The Presidential party arrived in
sleighs having left their automobilea
at Bridgewater Corners for the last
seven miles of snow-covered roads.
A military guard saluted the Chief
Executive as he entered the road
leading to his old home. At the farm
house the President was the first to
enter followed closely by Mrs. Cool-
idge and John. A battery of camera?
mounted on eight-foot snow heaps be-
side the porch clicked as the party
passed into the house of mourning.
Attorney General Sargent and Ma-
jor Coupal followed the President and
hia family into the Coolidge home.
NEIGHBORS GATHER.
Across the road in front of the
general store the entire population
of the village stood in silence as the
President passed all the old neighbor*
many of them bound to the colonel-''
by ties of blood were in the group.
There was little demonstration of sor-
row for the folk of this Vermont
hamlet do not wear their hearts on
their sleeves.
Major Coupal announced that the
funeral would be held from the house
at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. The
Rev. John White Episcopal clergy-
man of Sherburne will officiate.
Burial will be in the little cemetery
here where many members of the
Coolidge family lie.
The Rev. Mr. White conducts Sun-
day afternoon services in the summer
season at the union meeting house
here where the Colonel and hi. (ara-
iyl worshipped for many years.
PRESIDENT'S WISH.
The decision to hold the funeral
services at the house instead of the
church was taken it was indicnied
lat the President's wish. It re-
called that his stepsaother. who died
six years ago. was buried from ibr
l white farm bouse. Mr. Cool 'lge's
own mother died while he was '.ry
| young ami the second bits. Uw»Hd*r
I (Continued on Page d.)
FARM HOUSE
SCENE OF
SOLEMN
EVENT
PLYMOUTH. March TH— (W—
GUARD SALUTES.
FUNERAL TOMORROW.
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