The Austin Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 257, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 12, 1922 Page: 2 of 26
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1922
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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PEARLS AT CARL MAYER’S
Representatives of the Telephone Com-
pany are now visiting all subscribers to
give personal instruction in the use of the
new system.
Effective Next Sunday Morning (One Minute After Midnight Saturday) A Complete
Change Takes Place In the Telephone System of This City. After That Date All Tele-
phone Users
FOR NEWSPAPERMEN TO
BE GIVEN ON TUESDAY
Subscribers should note the new numbers
printed on the front cover of the new di-
rectory for calling Information, Long Dis-
tance, Repair Clerk, Fire and Police De-
partments.
TEXAS BIBLE CHAIR
MEMBERS HOLD ANNUAL
Nearly two hundred geology students
of the University made a trip to Pilot
Knob, on Onion Creek yesterday for
the purpose of studying igneous for-
WATER RIGHTS CASE
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Mothers’ Congress arid Parent-Teach-
ers' Association, Mrs. Lee Joseph. San
Antonio, State Federation of Women’s
Clubs; Mrs. Jesse Daniel Ames, George.
Distinguished Service Medal Is
Conferred On Gen. Hulen At
San Antonio Luncheon.
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CARD OF THANKS.
Wp wish to express our sincere ap-
preciation to our friends and acquaint-
ances for the heartfelt sympathy shown
in the recent bereavement in the death
of our dear Father. Especially do we
thank Rev. Roesener and the choir of
St. Martin’s Lutheran Church.
MISS LULA SCHULER.
MRS. I.. W NITSCH KE.
MRS. C. E. SMITH.
MRS. W. U. DRIVER.
MRS. JOE FISCHER.
FRED W. SCHULER.
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Dallas; A. K. Wood. Granger;
president
W. H.
Watkins. Anens; R. J Eckhardt. Tay-
lor; Miss Margie K. Neal. Carthase:
M O. Flowers. Lockhart; J. J. Ben-
nett, Stephenville,
Presidents of the institutes listed:
R. K. Vinson, University of Texas; W.
B. Bizzell, A and M. College; F. M.
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however, that it was "a most inter-
esting guthering." and its key note
was to work out an educational system
for Texas, from the rural schools to
the University of Texas, along broad-
er lines.
“There was no set program and no
resolutions were offered, but a gen-
eral discussion of the educational life
of Texas," added the Governor.
Many Suggestions.
Among the suggestions offered was
one for the reorganisation of the pres-
ent educational system in Texas, which
would in effect eliminate duplication
in the methods of Instruction which it
was contended now existed to the con-
sequent waste of effort and time. en-
tailing unnecessary expense to the tax-
payer. It was suggested that some
method should be worked out that
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Loretta, San Antonio; Mrs. Florence
The Spirit of the Pearl" is the
name given by the Carl Mayer com-
pany to a display of pearls in its win-
doWS at 618 Congress avenue. The
display is one of the most attractive
seen in Austin jewelry shops recently
and is drawing the attention of all
who pass the show window.
The central figure in the display is
a large pearl set in the center of an
oyster shell, with rows of pearls ar-
ranged in attractive cases making the
background. In gazing upon the dis-
play the viewer forgets the artisan-
ship of mounting, or the pearl’s in-
trinsic worth, and senses rather "the
spirit of the pearl."
duties which an army must perform.
At the time the defense act was ap-
proved the maximum number set for
the army was 280,000. Later on, he
said, this was cut to 150,000, and added
that it might be expected to be cut
even further.
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North Texas Normal, Denton; R. B.
Hinton, East Texas Normal. Com-
merce; J A. Hill, West Texas Normal.
Canyon City; IL L. Marquis, Sul Rosa
Normal, Alpine; A W. Birdwell.
Stephen F. Austin Normal, Nacog-
dochea
We don’t use magic in making old,
faded and worn clothes look like new.
Many years of cleaning experience
have taught us how. This, together
with our modern equipment makes
it possible for us to restore fabrics
perfectly, from your most luxurious
apparel to the fine adrnments of
your home!
F. W. Seabury, Brownsville; R. L.
Holmes, Dallas; D. K. Woodward, Aus-
tin; C. H. Pease, manager Lower Rio
Grande Valley water users associa-
tion, McAllen; Jno. W. Hornsby, Aus-
tin; J. E. Starley, Pecos; Richard F._-
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President and retiring
State Teachers Association:
For the first time in the history of
University of Texas Woman's Athle-
tics, girl hikers who were taking the
25 mile hike yesterday, in partial re- *
quirement for the "T" in walking.
wore walking bloomers. The hikers
left Austin in the morning; hiked to I
Manor, where they had lunch; and re- i
turned yesterday afternoon.
Girls who made Che hike: Florence '
Davison, Bessie Minter, Dorothy Ger- |
lach, Shirley Lomax, Mirna Bennet,
Dora Lay. Daisie Richardson, Linda I
Allen, Ella Fay Gregg, ISwa Rogers,
Dorothy Applewhite, Marie Duncan, •
British sixteen and the Japanese fif-
teen. The American navy has three
vice admirals, the British 24. and the
Japanese 30. The American navy has
34 rear admirals, the British 67 and
the Japanese 62. The American navy
bas 163 captains, the British 406 and
the Japanese 232. The American navy
has 285 commanders, the British 923
and the Japanese 460. The American
navy has 570 iieutenant-commander.
the British 729, and the Japanese 740.
Whether dr rot these figures will
have an impression upon congress re-
mains to be seen. Congress. anxious
to make a showing for economv. now
that the elections are not so many-
Special to The Austin Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Fob. 11—
Prospects for the best National Guard
that Texas has ever had and the na-
tional defense policy as it affects the
National Guard were the chief topics
discussed at a luncheon of guard offi-
cials from all over the state at the
Gunter Hotei Saturday noon. Reports
made at the luncheon showed that by
encampment time next summer a big-
ger and better guard than ever will
take the two weeks’ training. The
luncheon, which evolved into a con-
ference and forum on affairs of the
guard in Texas, paid a great deal of
attention to provisions of the national
defense act as approved in 1930 and
failure of the government to carry out
these policies were criticised.
The gathering of the National Guard
officers was for the purpose of at-
tending the presentation of the dis-
tinguished service medal to Major
General John A. Hulen, commanding
the Thirty-sixth Division of the Texas
National Guard, for distinguished ser-
vices in France in the Meuse-Argonne
offensive.
Major General John L. Hines, com-
manding the Eighth corps area, ex-
pressed himself as gratified with the
progress that the reorganized National
Guard is making. He told of the plan
of national defense worked out after
the war whereby the regular army was
to be charged with the training of the
hundreds of thousands of National
Guardsmen and the millions of re-
serves, the second and third lines of
defense.
This duty was placed upon the regu-
lar army, he said, in addition to the
care of our island possessions, border
patrol and the multitudinous other
Moors, Fort Worth, president; Iola Lee
Williams, retiring.
Presidents of following organiza-
tions: Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs, Austin.
would enable children attending the
public schools to definitely complete town, Texas Iasue of Women Voters
certain studies to be, determined in a. Mins Annie vV--- ----- --
certain number of grades. As the sys- perintendent of public instruction:
And everything at a lower
price for the quality than
you’ve seen for years.
tem was now conducted it was assert-
ed by members of the conference, that
children attending the public schools (
did not, because of the defective or-
ganization methods in vogue, receive
the thorough instruction in essential i
studies that the public school system
would be capable of affording if the
present system could be made more
efficient.
It was pointed out that in order to,
bring about the proposed reform it
would be necessary to obtain the adop- I
tion of either an amendment to the
State constitution changing the present
mat i oils in that locality. The stu-
prepared at the department and
“They’ve Saved Me the
Cost of a New Suit”
gives some interesting
American navy has four
months away, is determined that this
showing shall be at the expense of the
army and navy because the people of
the country’ have been educated to the
belief that the Washington confer-
ence actually meant "disarmament."
and are prepared for huge reductions
in the armed forces themselves as
well as in the naval construction pro-
gram.
President Harding alone. It is felt,
ran call a halt in the congressional
plan.
The President has not yet gone into
the subject of a possible army reduc-
tion.
General Pershing declares, however,
that an attempt to cut the army be-
low its present strength of 150.009 with
unrest rampant throughout the world
would be little short of a calamity.
But already the army apparently is
fearing the congressional actions All
promotions are being held up by di-
rection of Secretary Weeks. No less
than six lieutenant colonels are await-
ing promotion to vacanoies in the
rank of colonel. Some of them served
more than 26 years in the army.
Secretary Weeks is said to hold that
congress may cut the officer strength
by one-third, as has been recommend-
ed and this would eliminate a number
of colonels. The friends of the lieu-
tenant colonels, argue, however, that
they should be given the advanced
rank they have earned and take their
chances in the new grade on any re-
ducjions which may come later through
congressional action.
Taken altogether the morale of the
armed services was not seriously af-
Rep. Lee J. Rountree, Bryan; T. N.
Jones. Tyler; W. E. Thomas, Nacog-
doches.
As a result of the conference held
here Saturday, called by the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce and par-
ticipated in by representatives of over
25 large irrigation companies, with the
state board of water engineers, it was
decided to immediately file an appli-
cation for writ of error to the state
suprhne court from the decision of the
third court of civil appeals at Austin
in the case of Boyd versus Notl from
Tom Green county. This decision, it
was stated at the conference will ma-
terially affect the great irrigation pro-
jects of the state. The decision af-
fected the powers of the state board
of water engineers, nullifying in ef-
fect. its water awards in certain in-
stances. Failure to get relief from the
supreme court, the matter will be
brought to the attention of the next
legislature in the form of an amend-
ment to the general irrigation law.
The Notl heirs instituted suit in the
district court of Tom Green county,
enjoining Boyd from diverting water
impounded by a dam constructed in
1886. Boyd owned adjacent landabut-.
ting the river and claimed the right
to use the water under claim of ri-
parian privilege, though he had been
refused a permit by the board of water
engineers. Boyd appealed and the ap-
pellate court reversed the decision of
the trial court, dissolving the injunc-
tion, holding that oyd did have the
right to use the water from the river
under the riparian "aw. It is from this
decision that the case is taken to the
supreme court.
A resolution was adopted at the con-
ference authorizinz the west Texas
Chamber of Commerce to look after
and handle the irrigation and water
resource interestes of the state.
Those present at the conference
were: John W. Gaines, San Antonio;
, some seriousness, prevailed at the an-
-reconsensusof opinion among th. nual winter banquet of the Texas
conferees was that it would be vir- . Bible Chair held Saturday night at
tually impossible to amend the pres- the Driskill. An orchestra composed
ent constitution and the plan for a of George Butte, John Caughey, Paul
constitutional convention appeared to, Pond and Maurine Osborne furnished
Impress the conference members as music during the banquet.
equally nebulous. | One of the feature numbers on the
There was some discussion of the entertainment program was a clever
-feasibility of appointing committees to presentation of "Female Types” by
formulate some sort of a program or Miss Keith Coppage of Fort Worth,
outline that would in some way define Louise Gladney gave an imitation of
an objective toward which friends and ia colored parson preaching a sermon,
supporters of the proposed education- and Jack Ausmus delivered a humor-
al reformation could bend their ener. ous speech. A song serving as a take-
gles. but the proposal to appoint such off on Miss Lucy Newton, dean of
committees failed to arouse the.neces, women at the University, was sung,
nary 9 enthusiasm required for the run as were others composed as parodies I =
fruition of the plan and it languished on popular songs of the day.
and eventually succumbed before the w H Bainbridge of Big Spring,
barrage laid down by proponents of toastmaster on this occasion, then in-
various other remedial proposit onSi . 1 t reduced the serious portion of the
That a wide range of. educat program by calling on the following Ee
discussion was 1.0 Vte speakers: "Personal Ideals," by Gaines E=
was freely conceded by memnbers Post: "Social Ideals," by Corinne Neal; 8
th. conference was.ovaniant"J!'" | "Religious Ideals," by Bryan Dixon. -
tangible results of thasau-dzdami-lTalks were also made by Myron EV- E
sion were hard to.definesalmpaaemint lerts ana Mrs, Charlotte Spence Smith. E
ted by members who bad been pre, former students of the University, and '
and participatedin thecouneh adMeby Miss Lucy Newton, dean of Women.,
stated that no plan, had beenwadopene | De. Frank L Jewett. In charge of the
foe another conferenc. nd. conference Texas Bible Chair. made the conclud-
erally understood that the coniene..
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and women appointed by the doxeno;
Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of
the House, there was no derinite point
of departure for an attempt to bring
about the new educational methods
which it was agreed Texas »o sorely
needed.
Those in Attendance.
Those in attendance at the confer
■once were:
Board of Regents, University of
Texas: H J. K Stark, Orange, chair-
man; F. W. Cook, San Antonio. I
A. Wroe. Austin; W. H. Folts, Aus-
tin; C. E. Kelley, Kl Paso: Fran C
Jones Holistom; Mrs. H J. ° .
Coleman; Louis J. Wortnam, Fort
-Worth: Sam P. Cochran, Dallas.
Be sure to read the booklet, "How to Use
the Machine Switching Telephones,” now
being distributed.
All newspaper men in the city will
be guests of John W. Ezelle, manager
of the Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company, in a luncheon, reception and
special inspection tour through the
new exchange next Tuesday afternoon
from 4 to 6 o'clock. Mr. Ezelle Satur-
day sent out' invitations to members
of the press asking them to attend that
he "might reciprocrate for the many
favors the newspapers have shown
the telephone company.’’
During the afternoon the newspaper
men will be taken through the ex-
change from the basement to the top
floor and all details of the new ma-
chine switching system will be shown
to them.
After the inspection tour will come
the “eats" or as Manager Ezelle stated
"there will be a Dutch lunch with plenty
to eat and drink and we want every
one of the bunch to feel perfectly at
home." Stories and yarns are allowed
at the feed, Mr. Ezelle said, and an at-'
tempt will be made to give the guests
two hours of reception.
OFFICERS DISCUSS )
The following men were "tapped”
yesterday by Chancellors, the most
notable honorary organization of the
law school; Alton B. Chandler, of Gal-
latin; Ralph K. Gillen, of Fort Worth,
and Earl L. Howell, of DeLeon.
Election to Chancellors is based
upon high scholarship; no man is
elected to the organization, unless he
has an average above 90. The per-
sonality and achievements of poten-
tial members are also taken into con-
sideration.
Wiley, St. Jo; Luis J. Wortham. Fort
A. and M. College Board L. J.
Hart. San Antonio, chairman; R- -*
Young. Houston; W. S. Rowland. Tem-
ple; T. N. Jones, Tyler; Mrs. J. C-
George, Brownsville; Chas E. March,
Austin.
College of Industrial Arts: James
H Lowry, Honey Grove chairman; J.
w. Sullivan, Denton; Mrs, Sallie B.
Capps, Fort Worth; Mrs. F. P. Tur-
ner. Dallas: Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald,
Wichita Falla.
Normal School Board of Regents: A.
A--r,I rpunnrn Rralley. College of Industrial Arts; C.
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ton Normal, Huntsville; W. IL Bruce,
Austin; W. L. Rockwell, Austin, J. C.
Nagle, dean of engineering depart-
ment. A & M. College; John A. Norris,
chairman board of water engineers;
J. W. Hill. San Aneglo; R. A. Thomp-
son. engineer Wichita Falls County
Water Improvement District No. 1,
Wichita Falls: W. W. Caves, assistant
attorney general; C. S. Clark and A.
H. Dunlap. members of state board
of water engineers; Fred Brasted,
Oklahoma City; C. S. Guin, president
Colorado Valley Irrigation Association
and Stuart L. Williams, secretary of the
association, Ballnger; Wm. T. Trash-
er, assistant manager of West Texas
Chamber of Commerce, Stamford.
America would have 50.090 men as
against 75,000 for Japan.
r reside nt Hard Ing has expressed the
"hopo" that congress will not reduce
the navy strength below 80,000 men.
Navy officials will ask him to take,
an even stronger stand. So the Presi- ,
dent, having called the conference for
the limitation of armament may soon |
assume the role of calling upon con-
gress not to carry that limitation too
far.
Conference Cuts Sufficient.
President Herding feels that the
conference cut the navies of the three
larger powers as far as world safety
would permit. If congress should now
upset the ratios agreed upon at the
conference by providing men enough
to keep only about two-fifths of- the
authorised American navy in commis-
sion and in fighting trim. this country
will fall in naval efficiency into the
category of a second-class power.
America would still remain on a 5-
5-8 basis with Great Britain and Japan
in acutal tonnage but would drop to
the far end of a 5-3-2 ratio so far as
operating ability was concerned.
The arms conference so arranged
matters that the United States should
be on a par with Great Britain in naval ।
strength in the future. If the means
of manning the American ships and
maintaining them in serviceable condi-
tion are not provided, America will
once more voluntarily surrender mas-
tery of the seas to England.
The British are not desirous of any
such eventuality. They really agreed
,to reduce their navy on the understand-
ing that the United States with equal I
strength would accept equal respon-
sibility in policing the seas it would
seem that the United States would
have to keep her navy fit in order to
carry out her part of the bargain.
It is estimated at the navy depart-
ment that 125,000 men would be re-
quired to keep all the authorized ships
of the new navy in commission. Na-
turally it is i.ot contemplated that all
the ships should be in active service at
once, but a cut to 50.000 men natural-
ly would provide only a two-fifths
fighting or police force. The present
authorized serength of the nayy is
106.000, but the actual strength is 90,-
000 The Washington conference
program does not call for the scrap-
ping of any of the capital ships now
actually in commission or hart ng real
military value. A cut of 10,000 men in
the present actual strength of the navy
is all that can be countenanced, ac-
cording to President Harding. Navy
ren declare that a cut to 50,000 men
would virtrally mean the abandon-
ment of the navy and the "scrapping"
of a great majority of the authorized
ships because of inability to keep them
in condition.
Net Over-Officered.
It has been charged in the congress
that the American navy is top-heavy-
wit h officers of high rank. To refute
this a table of comparison has been
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