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MAKING WORDS
Sonu time ago a prize was offered for
the creation of a new word which would
express the well-known performance of
evading or disregarding the prohibition
laws. “Scofflaw” was awarded the
prize. Now comes a woman from Con-
necticut with her prize offer of a word
by which to indicate the extremist in
prohibition enforcement.
These efforts may be well meaning
and diverting and the need for specific
terms to apply to prohibition develop-
ments may be acute but the method of
offering a prize for a word is not likely
to gain the best results. Language is
not enlarged by arbitrary means. It
grows. Words have roots traditions
histories. Their meaning expands and
fluctuates. New words are introduced
Tom other languages and incorporated
into the English bodily or are angli-
cized. Discoveries in science carry their
new vocabularies as do the elaboration
and adaptation of all sorts of changing
ideas. The war added new words to the
language notable among them “camou-
flage” and “barrage” which have already
been divorced from the particular con-
notations of war and have become in-
valuable to express meanings for which
there were before no specific terms.
Slang too while apparently an out-
law from the rules of language is law-
abiding in its growth. It follows the
deeper law of the expression of human
emotions and thoughts. It is language
in the raw in the rough. It springs
from the stuff out of which all language
grows. Someone in a moment of in-
spiration or intuitive apprehension of
the thoughts of others with a fresh
combination of vocal sounds will express
an idea resident in many minds. It will
be so apt and keen as an intuitive ex-
pression is like to be that it will spread
as it were of itself. After a time it may
become so firmly imbedded in the lan-
guage that it is no longer slang.
It is seen therefore that the scheme
of demanding a new word “off the bat”
is a barren procedure as the word
“scofflaw” already selected goes to
prove. This arbitrary selection may
gain credence for a while on account
of publicity and whatever word is se-
lected in the new contest may do the
same but the poor little abortive things
may be trusted to expire almost before
they have breathed the breath of life.
True words are born in their full time
in order that they may live.
oo —
A RIDDLE FOR THE LAYMAN
When government officials themselves
violate fundamental principles of law
and then undertake to say what is right
and what is wrong by the test of the
new order which they have thus at-
tempted to create the mind of the ordi-
nary mortal is likely to become all “bum-
fuzzled.” lust where to begin where to
start out to get back upon the track
of the true and the wholesome in gov-
ernmental affairs becomes ? perplexing
problem for the layman—perplexing as
long as “the law” in the practical sense
clashes with logic and legal theory and
assails his sense of consistency.
A few weeks ago it was reported that
federal prohibition agents had seized
the liquor stores that had been brought
’ into the port of New York on the Bril-
SATURDAY.
ish steamship Adriatic for use of its
passengers on the return trip to Europe.
Inasmuch as a “gentlemen’s agreement”
had been made by the United States and
British governments whereby the United
States was privileged to make “rum
raids” beyond the three-mile zone and
British ships to bring liquor into Ameri-
can ports under seal pending ratification
of the “rum treaty” the raiding of the
Adriatic and other ships seemed to be
a violation of that agreement on this
country’s part.
That conclusion appeared logical par-
ticularly because no accusations of smug-|
gling were made against those ships by
the raiders who. as everybody knows
have been rather loose talkers as a rule.
Nearly everybody knows too. that the
“gentlemen's agreement” even the treaty
itself was contrary to the plain import
of the United States Supreme Court's
interpretation of the “prohibition” amend-
ment that tribunal having said plainlv
that the bringing of liquor into Ameri-
can ports even under seal constitutes
importation within the meaning of the
organic law of this land.
Then there arc hundreds o* thousands
of Americans who think that the Su-
preme Court's ruling in this case was
without warrant by any rational test
worthy of the consideration of one who
refuses to put the abstract above the
concrete the theoretical above the prac-
tical to accept fiction for fact or the
shadow for the substance.
Now comes the story of another raid
with a different set of details. The Or-
dnna of the Royal Mail Une is alleged
to have sold some of her stock of liquor
in the port of New York; the United
States government brought a libel ac-
tion to confiscate this ship. According
to the testimony of members of the Or-
duna’s crew the allegations were quite
true; this ship they are reported to have
said had sold liquor in the port on her
every trip.
All right one might say; if these be
statements of facts then the Orduna
ought to be confiscated.
Perhaps so. But consider another
phase of the situation and see how the
plot thickens.
According to one of ihe principal wit-
nesses for the government —a member
of the Orduna’s crew —one of the federal
revenue agents who raided the ship had
often as a bootlegger bought liquor from
her stores. He positively identified as
one of the Orduna's liquor customers a
man whom the government was employ-
ing to enforce the law which her owners
and officers and crew were accused of
violating.
Now who among the laymen of this
country can give the correct legal answer
to this entire riddle unless he forgets
“the law” and goes back to fundamental
legal principles to logic and to common
sense and exercises an untainted sense
of consistency.
“SAINT JOAN”
Everyone knows the story of the way
Mark Twain started out to write the
life of Joan of Arc. Here was a medi-
aeval legend which would lend itself
to humorous treatment. All the flub-
dub that had surrounded it would go
down before his laughter and his mirth.
But to write this travesty he must
needs know intimately and fully .all
the facts. So he went to France and
dug and burrowed into old chronicles
and records. The result was the great-
est serious piece of writing Mark Twain
ever did.
But a humorist must never be ser-
ious. It is one of the penalties of his
existence and one of the ironies that
he who makes jest of everything with-
in his heart of hearts is often a sad
disillusioned and tragic man. In this
half-mad halt'-divine figure of the
Maid of Orleans Mark Twain recognized
tragic disillusionment and wrote her
story in that spirit; but being a humorist
dedicated to making futile small beings
laugh and be merry he published the
Life of Joan of Arc anonymously in the
form of an ancient chronicle of one who
had fought beside her. Not until years
after was the real authorship known.
Another artist who has laughed at
the world and with it. and driven shafts
of cold illuminating wit into its futilities
and hypocrisies has written what has
teen called “the greatest drama in Whe
English language” another drama of hu-
man disillusionments about “Saint Joan.”
Papers magazines books and reviews
for months have been full of the
George Bernard Shaw drama and its
New York suci »*s.
As would be expected the Shaw play
is bare of sentiment or of any of the
cloying sweetness that could so easily
change this strange mediaeval figure
half-myth half cold-fact into an un-
convincing plaster saint. The Shaw
Joan is very human a strong peasant
girl with the • peasant’s common sense.
She is simple direct undeviating. She
has heard the Voice of God knows it.
and that’s all there is to it. Nothing
can stand before the simple execution
of His commands. Mad perhaps suf-
fering in doubt when beset on every
side by the cleverest and wiliest of sol-
diers statesmen and ecclesiastics but
always reacting in that simple confident
[mannei to her inner knowledge of the
Voice of God.
Shaw makes her say in one of these
crises:
“There is no help no counsel in any
of yau. I am alone on earth; I have
always been alone. My father told my
brothers and sisters to drown me if I
would not stay to mind his sheep while
France was bleeding to death. France
might perish if only our lambs were
safe. I thought France would have
friends at the court of the king of France;
and I find only wolves fighting for
pieces of her poor torn body. I thought
God would have friends everywhere be-
cause he is the friend of everyone; and
in my innocence I believed that you who
now cast me out would be like strong
towers to keep harm from me. But 1
am wiser now; and nobody is any the
worse for being wiser. Do you think
you can frighten me by telling me I
am alone. France is alone; and God
is alone; and what is my loneliness be-
fore the loneliness of my country and
my God.'' I see now that the loneliness
of God is his strength. What would
he be if he listened to our jealous lit-
tle counsels? Well my loneliness shall
be my strength too: it is better to be
alone with God. His friendship will
not fail me nor His counsel nor His
love.”
1 his lonely strength forever brings
down upon itself the full concatenation
of worldly powers. And to appearances
these powers win. They have on their
side law order and authority. So they
imprison these daring spirits crucify
them burn them at the stake. But here
comes the mighty transformation and
one can see it as the lure attracting the
Irish dramatist to the story of the
French peasant girl. After the crucifix-
ions the tortures and the burnings the
world turns about in frantic adoration.
All its laws and gospels and authorities
now claim to support the very thing
they tortured. A saint swims into the
galaxy of heaven. Long live the saints!
ARCHIES JOB
oung Archie Roosevelt had a job
with Sinclair that paid him $15000 a
year. Theodore Roosevelt assistant sec-
letary of the navy obtained the job for
him. It now appears that these young
gentlemen are much distressed that any-
one should question their motives.
Wc have no doubt that the Roosevelt
boys did not realize fully just what
they were doing. It has become so
common for young men with “pull” to
secure sinecures to receive salaries out
of proportion to service to occupy posts
that some men achieve if ever onlv after
long years of work to be put into high
places for no apparent reason.
It is possible that Archie Roosevelt
is a $15000 man. We do not know
the young gentleman. There are few.
very few $15000 jobs in San Antonio
Texas Such jobs here go with bank
presidencies and general managerships
and entail a vast amount of detailed
training and experience and a confidence
begot of years of business associations.
There are many Archie Smiths Bill
Jones. Tom Browns and other young
men in San Antonio honest alert ca-
pable well educated. Most of them are
very glad to begin life’s treadmill round
of work at $75 a month. When one of
them is so fortunate as to land a posi-
:ion paying him $l5O or $2OO a month
ic is the object of universal envy.
Just what was it that made Archie
Roosevelt worth $15000 to the Sinclair
corporation or to anybody else?
Granting that he had plenty of ability
that he was industrious and efficient and
well educated as we know is tiie case
why was his opportunity so much great-
er than the average American young
man?
Archie Roosevelt was a son of a great
American a former President of the
United States and a world-citizen of
international fame. He came of a fam-
ily of much political and social prestige.
It was this prestige that placed a Roose-
velt in the Navy Department and that
permitted that Roosevelt to place an-
other Roosevelt in a $15000 a year job.
Unfortunately for the Roosevelt t oys
an oil scandal broke unexpectedly and
the $15000 a year job became untenable
and had to be resigned. It too received
publicity that it might otherwise have
escaped. It called attention to the fact
that a young man bearing a name that
was almost sacred in many parts of
America was drawing $15000 a year in
a job that never was open to the other
Archies Toms Bills and Petes of Amer-
ica and never will Ve-
it demonstrated the fact that young
men sometimes think too lightly cf ac-
cepting unearned income. It pointed to
the obvious fact that in America there
is class distinction of a sort —good jobs
for some fellows and no jobs for others.
We very much fear the Roosevelt Loys
have sold their birthright for a mess of
pottage.
WESLEY’S RULE.
Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all the times you can.
To all the iicople you can.
As long as ever you can.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
FORTUNE’S
t jt* x FOOL
" RAFAEL
• SABATIKI ♦♦
. • ■MAU gASATINt UklAMt • * MRVICt. INC. **
Begin Here Today.
Colonel Holies soldier and adven-
turer returns to England his native
land when war with Holland is de-
clared. It is dangerous for Hoiles to
secure a commission in the English
army because the name of Randal
Hoiles father of the colonel appears
on the warrant for the execution of the
late king.
His grace of Buckingham hires
Holies to abduct the actress Sylvia
Farquharson. It is dark when the
colonel carries her off and when he
arrives at the house Buckingham has
rented. Hoiles is horror struck when
he sees that Sylvia is an old sweet-
heart. When the Duke arrives upon
the scene the two men engage in a
duel. Buckingham calls for his ser-
vants and they attack the colonel who
is knocked unconscious Sylvia is a
horrified spectator. Now go on with
the story.
Yet at the sound of the Duke's voice
gently addressing her she opened her
long blue eyes set now in deep stains
of suffering and looked at this hand-
some satyr who slood before iier in
nn attitude of deference that was in
itself a mockery.
“Dear Sylvia’’ he was saying “I am
beyond measure pained that you should
have been subjected to this . . . this
unseemly spectacle; I need not protest
that it was no part of my intention.”
She answered him almost mechani-
cally yet the ironical answer she de-
livered was true to her proud nature
nnd the histrionic art which would Hot
be denied expression even in the ex-
tremity to which she was reduced.
“That sir. I can well believe.”
He considered her. wondering a lit-
tle at that flash of spirit from one in
her condition. If anything it hut
served to increase his admiration. He
sighed.
She sat now stiffly upright dissem-
bling her fear behind a mask of indig-
nant scorn that was sincere enough.
“Is anything sacred to such a man
as you?” She rose by an effort and
stood before him swaying slightly
conscious of dizziness and shivers and
marveling a little that she should be
unable better to command herself. But
she commanded herself at least suffi-
ciently to give him his answer. “Sir.
your persecution of me has rendered
you loathly and abhorrent in my sight
and nothing that you may now do can
alter that. And now. sir I beg you
to bid your creatures fetch the chair in
which I was brought hither and carry
me hence again. Detain mo further
and I promise you. sir that you shall
be called to give a strict account of his
night's work.”
“Let you depart.so soon? How can
you think it. Sylvia? To have been nt
Such infinite pains to cage you. you
lively bird merely to let you fly away
again!”
“Either you let me depart at once
sir." she told him almost fiercely her
weakness conquered now in her own
indignation “or tho town shall ring
with your infamy. You have practiced
abduction sir. and you know the pen-
alty. I shall know how to make you
pay it. I swear that you shall hang
though you be Duke of twenty Back-
inghams.”
“Maybe; maybe. But first the
ebarge must be made good. Where
are your witnesses? Until you pro-
duce them it will be your word
against mine. ‘ And the word of an
actress however exalted is ... in
such matters . . . the word of nn
actress." He smiled upon her. “Then
this house. It is not mine. It is
tenanted bj- a ruffian named Holies; it
was taken by him a few days ago in
his own name. It was he who brought
you here by force. Well well if there
must be a scapegoat perhons he will
do ns well as another. And anyhow
he is overdue for the gallows on quite
other crimes. He brought you here by
force. So far we shall not contradict
each other. What follows? How
camo I hero into that man's house?
Why. to rescue you. of course and I
stayed to comfort you in your natural
distress. The facts will prove my
story. My grooms will swear to it. It
will then be seen that in charging me
you are a scheming adventuress re-
turning evil for good seeking to profit
by my unwary generosity. Y’ou nmile?
It Happens in the Best Rega Sated Families
Yon think the reputation bestowed
upon me by a scandalmongering popu-
lace will suffice to give that tale the
lie. I am not of your opinion and
anyway. I am prepared to take the
risk. Oh I would take greater risks
for you my dear.”
She shrank before him in sheer ter-
ror. Then conquering herself stif-
fening in every limb she drew herself
erect. Majestically a very queen of
tragedy she flung out an arm in a
geslure of command.
He found her magnificent in the
poise of her graceful body the ivory
pallor of her face the eyes that glowed
and burned and looked the larger for
the deep dark shadows in which they
were now set. Suddenly with an al-
most inarticulate cry he sprang for-
ward to seize her.
She slipped aside and away in panic
before his furious onslaught overset-
ting the high-backed chair in which
she had lately been sitting.
The eCash of its fall seemed to pene-
trate to the slumbering mind of Holies
and disturb his unconsciousness. For
he stirred a little uttering a faint
moan.
Beyond that however her flight ac-
complished nothing. Two yards away
the wainscot faced her. She would
have run round the table but before
sho could turn to do so the Duke had
seized her.
Helpless in his arms she lay.
Over that white throat be now bent
his head like an evil vampire. But his
fevered lips never reached it. In the
Very act of bending he paused and
stiffened.
Behind him he could hear the foot-
steps of his grooms re-entering the
chamber. But it was not their com-
ing that imposed this restraint upon
him. that dilated and bulged his eyes
with horror that fetched the ashen
pallor to his checks and set him sud-
denly trembling and suddering from
head to foot.
For a moment he was as a man
paralyzed. His limbs refused their
office; they seemed turned to lead.
Slowly where he would have had
them swift his arms relaxed their
grip of that sweet body. Slowly
they uncoiled themselves and slowly
he fell back before her crouching
forward the while staring ever his
jaw fallen his face the face of a man
in the last extremity of terror.
Suddenly he raised his right hand
to point with a shaking finger at her
throat. Hoarsely in a cracked voice
he spoke.
“The tokens! The tokens!”
The three grooms entering at that
moment cheeked and stood there
just within the threshold as if sud-
denly turned to stone.
The awakening Holies on the
ground raising himself u little and
thrusting back the tumbled hair
which was being matted to his brow
by blood front his cracked head
looked dazedly round and up to see
the Duke’s shaking pointing hand
to hear the Duke's quavering voice
this time saying yet again:
“The tokens!”
His grace fell back step by step
gasping with dread until suddenly
he swung about to face his men.
“Back.” be bade them his voice
shrill. “Back ! Away ! Out of this ! She
is infected! My God! She sas the
plague! The tokens are upon her!”
A moment still they stood at gaze
with hint. They craned forward to
look at Miss Farquharson leaning
faint and limp agninst the wainscot
her white neck and shoulders thrown
into dazzling relief against the dark
in this horror which they fully shared
brown of the background nnd from
where they stood they could mnkc
out quite plainly stamped upon the
white loveliness of that throat the
purple blotch that was the brand and
token of the pestilence.
As the Duke reached them they
turned in sudden dread of him.
Might he not. himself already carry
upon him tho terrible infection? With
wild cries of terror they fled before
him out of the room nnd out of the
house never heeding tho conXtnnds
which as ho precipitately followed
he flung after them.
CHAPTER XXI.
Urder the K“d Cross.
Colonel Hollos nnd the woman lie
had sought so passionately long years
ago until despair had turned him
from the quest were alone together
nt last in that house brought thither
by that ironic destiny of his in cir-
cumstances of horror piled on horror.
Painfully he got to his knees and
with dazed eyes looked round the
room. Again he brushed back the
tangle of hair from his brow nnd
thereafter dully considered his hand
which was wet and smeared with!
blood. .Understanding of where he
was and how he bad come there grew
clear at last. He rose to his feet and
stood swaying a moment looking
round dull-eyed as a drunkard.
He beheld Nancy her shoulders
turned to him. contemplating her-
self iu an oblong Venetian mirror
that adorned the wall beyond the
table and in the mirror itself he be-
held the reflection of her face. It
was ashen and there was a staring
ghastly horror in her eyes.
She reeled back and knew with-
out power to help herself that she
was failing when suddenly she felt
herself caught and supported.
She looked up and/ beheld the
ghastly blood-smeared face of Ran-
dal Hoiles who bail sprung instinc-
tively to her assistance. For a long
moment she stared at him. dull-
eyed a little frown of effort drawing
her brows together. Dully then she
spoke: .
“Do not touch me. Did you hear?
I have the plague.”
‘•Aye ... 1 heard” he answered
“You will take the infection” she
warned him.
“It is very likely” said he “but no
great matter”
On that he lifted her in bis arms
as he had lifted her once before that
night. Despite his shaken condition
the act cost him but little effort for
she was very slim nnd light. Un-
resisting—for she was too dazed and
weak for any physical resistance
now—she suffered him to bear her to
the daybed.
Then he passed round the couch
to the shuttered windows unbarred
them and set the casement wide to
let a draught of the clean cool night
into the stifling room.
The cool air revived her a little set
her pulses boating more steadily and
cleared hor mind of some of the
numbness that had been settling upon
it.
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)'
THEY WEREN'T CRIMINALS.
That there were still more than 100
men serving prison sentences for “de-
sertion” from the army or navy dur-
ing the period between the armistice
and the official termination of the war
will be a shock to the average citi-
zen.
These mon couldn't have been “de-
serters” in spirit. Every man tvho was
in service knows how exasperating was
the waiting for the discharge to come.
Many of the men were mere boys. The
excitement was over. There was no
more fighting to be done and the
hours seemed like days and the days
like weeks. It is amazing that so few
deserted.
Those who did. should never have
been classed as “slackers.” They
weren't dodging service or danger.
They bad done their full duty and had
merely become impatient at army red
tape necessary though the red tape
was. Government officials realized tlte
importance of disbanding the army in
proper form. They knew the immense
possibilities for claims against the gov-
ernment for sickness and disablement.
They knew it was more important to
examine the men getting out of the
army than it was to examine them
when they came in. But all the men
couldn’t realize that. Many of them
felt that the government was arbitrar-
ily keeping them away from home.
They wanted to go home at the earliest
possible moment and "get the old job
back. ”
That was the “crime” of these 100
men who have just been released by
President Coolidge. They have suffered
in comparative silence while the coun-
try has been kept in an uproar over
the slackers and "conscientious object-
ors’’ who refused to hear the call to
service.
Granting them amnesty is merely an
act of delayed justice. If the slack-
ers have been given their freedom
these boys should get not only their
freedom but a restoration to their full
rights. They should not be saddled
with n “dishonorable discharge” for
they did nothing "dishonorable." They
may have been foolish or unwise but
wisdom isn't always found in youths of
20 and 21 and 22 years of nge. Every
man who served with honor up to 11
o'clock on tho morning of November
11. 1018 has earned complete pardon
for any violation of army regulations
following that time. If he was guilty
of n civH crime of course that was
another matter. —Duluth News Tri-
bune.
MARCH 22 1924.
LITTLE JOE
I SEEMS THAT
CERTAIN PARTY LEADERS
HAVE. BEEN HAVING*
COMPANY AT THE »
front door and
<HE BACK DOOR AT
THE. SAME TIME *
A Puzzle a Day
A man was walking with his
father's brother-in-law his brother's
father-in-law. his father-in-law’s
brother and his brother-in-law's
father.
What was the smallest number of
companions he could have had with
him ?
Yesterday's answer:
11 BEANS]
The Ln can contained lima beans.
The same letters that formed “Beam
Snail” may be arranged to form
"Lima Beans.”
Where to Go
* Vaudeville.
Majestic—Big Time Vaudeville.
Motion Pictures.
Palace—Corinne Griffith in “Lilies
of the Field. .
Empire—Monte Blue in “Marriage
Circle.”
Princess —Conway Tearle in “The
Next Corner.”
Rialto—Colleen Moore in “Through
the Dark.”
Royal—Charles “Buck” Jones in
“Boxx of Camp 7.”
Stock.
Grand —Jimmie “Slats” Allard in
"Jingle Jingle.”
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
A bold man with wire-like whiskers
can’t sec anything so very wonderful
about nature. —Wichita Beacon.
It is becoming almost impossible
to dodge both jitneys and subpoena
servers.—Baltimore Morning Sun.
Maw says the business of a reform-
er is to collect commissions on the
wages of sin !—Petersburg Progress
Index.
Give poor hubby the benefit of the
doubt: tho woman whose name he
mumbles in his sleep may be his favor-
ite movie heroine. —Little Rock Arkan-
sas Democrat.
In the wicked old wot days you could
give a party without having to carry
out any of your guests feet first.—
New Haven Register.
If it is really true that the meek
shall inherit the enrth. what we’d like
to know is whether Iho oil wells are
included. —Roanoke Times.
Alcohol is now being made from
bananas. Pretty soon we'll have to be
singing that song to the prohibition
enforcement officer when he calls. —
Albany News.
—By Briggs
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