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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
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of The San Antonio l ight during ...e month of June.
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THE WAR IN EUROPE
The immediate concern to the people of
the United States in the event that the
Servian war spark is to drag into action
the ten millions of armed men of Russia
Germany. France. Great Britain and Italy
xs its effect upon the finances of this
country. It is a sordid and inhumanizing 1
view perhaps hut it is the dominant ques -
tion and students and observers will an- 1
swer it in different ways. Nations which
engage in death struggles pay dearly for'
the effort over Iftng periods of subsequent j
years. The great German nation has been I
repeatedly set back in her progress by ]
invading armies from the time of Vaesar
down to Napoleon. That is the reason]
since Waterloo why she has maintained
fitr powerful armament. France recovered
more quickly from her last war with Ger-
many mainly because the contest was
short-lived. The threatened cataclysm in
Europe may prove a short one due to the!
fact that the numbers engaged would be j
without precedent in the world's history j
The war would collapse with its own
weight after three or four crucial land
and sea had been fought.
If the struggle is to embrace every
great nation in Europe it will convulse
the continental bourses and throw back
upon the l'nitcd States its securities held
abroad. This will lower prices on the
Ne - .. York Stock Exchange for a tempo-
rary period. American investors will pur-
chase the securities at bargain prices.
Foreign securities will be offered in this
country also probably at panic prices.
These will be offered in return for Amer-
ican food products at excessively high
prices. America in the event of a gen-
eral European war. will become a cred-
itor nation instead of the debtor nation
she has always been. The American tour-
ist.. who expend the many millions
abroad annually will hurry home and
make their expenditures on this side. For-
eigners of every country will seek to in-j
vest their money in the only country of
kindred race which holds out the hope of
peace and has no “balance of power" to
defend. There is every likelihood also■
that American shipping would revive as
the American flag would be the onlyi
neutral one sailing between the Euro-]
pean hinterland and this continent.
The great German merchant fleets
would have to hoist some alien flag or
remain idle at home or foreign ports for
the reason that no war fleet could possibly
give protection to the great merchant fleet
which flies the German flag. The Ameri-
can merchant service would revive in an
extraordinary way if Europe actually gets
to grips.
The price of cotton will drop tempo-
rarily as European textile mills will have
to shorten their output due mainly to
interference with shipping. The British
demand will not likely be lessened. In
turn every American textile mill will run
overtime. The price of the staple can be
affected for only a short period. Grain
prices will be advanced very sharply in
turn and in the face of the largest crops
ever known in this country. Europe
which gained in shipping and manufac-
tures during the war of rebellion will
suffer in much greater ratio and the gain
.<in a material way to America will be
greater by comparison.
The stock of gold in American vaults
pleasures more than one-fourth of the en-
tire world's supply. Europe will seek it.
by every possible method of exchange. We
can afford to let her have all of it. in
exchange for what she will offer in her
FRIDAY’
dire emergency. Under the new national!
banking act. money can be issued against
1 approved securities and commercial paper
! which is preferable to gold as an actual
basic asset. • '■ 1 k
The United States promises to develop
I the greatest business activity ever known
in her histon if the great European war
[so long heralded is at hand.
SMOOTH MR. DAWSON
John Dawson attorney general of Kan-
sas had a problem to solve. Solomon
himself couldn't have solved it better.
But. then. Solomon didn't have the in-
spiration of equal suffrage to back him
in his decisions.
A great many women in Kansas Stave
failed to register and vote because the
registration officers insisted on asking
them their age and it was just none oi
the horrid things' business. In Topeka
more than a hundred women prominent
in society are reported to have left the
registration offices without qualifying as
voters because they would not be cate-
chised as to when thev were born.
The matter was put up to the attor-
ney general. Read what Mr. Dawson
savs:
“It is charged that some election offi-
cers are so ungallant and so wanting in
chivalry that they require the exact fig-
u?s on that subject. I can only say
that any election officer will be exempt
from just criticism if he assures himself
that the lady is '2l years old and up-
ward' and makes that entry in his record
without further detail.
"All the constitution says on the ques-
tion of the age of voters is that they
must be ‘2l years old and upward' ana
where that venerable instrument exacts
no further particularity an election offi-
cer need not let his zeal run with
his courtesy nor forget that registration
of voters is only to prevent fraud and
not to give some official factotum the
right to embarrass the new voters with
irrelevant questions."
This utterance being ex cathedra it
will not hereafter be necessary in Kan-
sas for the ladies to announce their ages
further than to affirm that they are "21
years of age and upward." If some-
giddy young thing who looks about
tries to get up on this announcement it
max be the officials will make her par-
ticularize but all others will be immune.
Imagine the election officer with polit-
ical ambitions of his own questioning
the new voters a woman of about 30.
"Are you 21 years of age and over?" he
asks. "Yes.” she replied. "Pardon me
madam." he insists politely “but are
you sure? You ceitainly do .not look
it." l\ ouldn't he get that woman's vote
for life?
The women voters of Kansas think
well of Attorney General Dawson these
days. It may be remarked in passing
that Mr. Dawson is now running for the
office of associate justice of the Supreme
Court on a non-partisan ballot and that
he needs the woman vote but of course
that had nothing to do with his decision.
oo —
IN COMES JAPAN
When such a tremendous crisis as that
now hanging over Europe is impending
it is natural that all sorts of rumors and
false reports should gain circulation and
many of them will be given credence. It
is entirely probable that some of the na-
tions engaged in the strife may of them-
selves circulate false information for the
purpose of misleading their enemies. Such
proceedings are not only to be expected
but are entirely legitimate in the prosecu-
tion of war.
The most significant report that has
as yet been given circulation is from
London declaring that Japan has an-
nounced that in the event of war between
England and Germany she will take part
with England. It is of course ridiculous
for Japan to claim any direct interest in
the war in Europe. She is not threatened
any more than is the United States in
her territories and far less in her business
interests. She has but one reason for tak-
ing part in the conflict and that is. to
drive a white nation from the Pacific.
At present Germany has extensive pos-
session in the Pacific although thev are
much smaller than those of Great Britain
and I-rance. She owns a portion of the
Solomon Islands group. Some of the
Samoan Islands including the harbor at
Apia which is one of the best in the Pa-
cific the Ladrone Islands and North-
eastern New Guinea with a number of
islands oft the coast of New Guinea. She
has on the east coast of China. Kaio-Chau
Bay. and the territory immediately sur-
sounding it.
In the event of a war in which Japan
would make common cause with Great
Britain it is highly probable that all these
possessions would be taken from Ger-
many. as it would be impossible for her
to maintain in the Far East a fleet suf-
ficient to meet the Japanese navy. The
British fleet in the Pacific is unquestion-
ably stronger than that of Germany in
those waters and. facing these coupled
with the ships of Japan Germany in the
Pacific would be confronted with over-
whelming odds against which she could
not fight successfully. It is. therefore
highly probable that for the time being
at Igast. Germany would be wiped out in
the Pacific Ocean. What of her lost
possessions she would regain would nat-
urally depend on the result of the war in
Europe. If Germany should prove vic-
torious over Russia. England and France
she might be able to dictate such terms
as would restore all she might have lost
in the Pacific. If she should be defeated
her possessions in the Far East would
probably be divided between Great Brit-
tain. Russia France and Japan.
The evident determination of Japan not
to overlook an opportunity to eliminate
one white nation from the Pacific means
nothing else than that she is determined
to dominate the Pacific if possible and
in that determination there is warning to
the United States of what may happen to
her at some time hereafter. It is evident
that Japan will go to war to accomplish
her end. whenever she has a favorable
opportunity.
Some day out where the sun goes down
the United States and Japan are sure to
clash. It may be many years hence it
may come within twelve months. The
swift and unexpected appearance of Japan
in the European war is certain proof of
that. The United States should heed the
warning and should always be ready fpr
what may happen for she never will
know how suddenly it may occur and
how desperate the crisis will be when it
comes.
MAN AND BEAR
William Barnes of New York cannot
be accused of lack of courage and his
libel suit against Colonel Roosevelt may
become a cause celebre. If it comes to
trial and there is little likelihood from
tlwir past records that either party to it
will back down some sharp things are
likely to be said on both sides. Perhaps
some political soiled linen may be washed
that neither of them will care to have
hung on the line for public gaze.
What the colonel has said about Barnes
is not materially different from what hun-
dreds of others have said but he has made
the matter an issue in the present guber-
natorial campaign in New York refusing
to endorse as a candidate on any ticket
any man who will not declare against
both Barnes and Murphy as party bosses.
Most of the Progressives naturally follow
his lead and not a small number of Re-
publicans seem to be lining up for Hin-
man and away from Whitman because
the district attorney was not astute
enough to "get right" on this issue.
Mr. Barnes sees his pou’er fading. It
is true enough that for Roosevelt to in-
veigh against bossism is for the pot to
call the kettle black but that doesn’t get
Barnes anywhere. It has come to the
point where his resignation is being quite
generally demanded. -He declines to get
out of the Republican party councils un-
der fire and the only alternative seems
to him to be a fight in the courts with
Roosevelt.
The case when it comes to a hearing
will be a trial of both Barnes and Roose-
velt and Mr. Barnes must feel that he is
likely to get the better of it or his suit
is a desperate attempt to make capital
out of the mere bringing of it. Many a
suit has been brought during the heat of
a political campaign that has never been
heard <1 after election. This may be such
a one although Mr. Barnes' reputation
for finishing what he starts is rather
against it.
Whatever may be the outcome of this
case the probabilities are that Mr.
Barnes’ usefulness as a Republican leader
in New York state has ceased. He may
have been grossly libeled but if this is
so enough people believe the libel to make
him of little value to his party at the
present time. Many friends think he
should resign even though his resigna-
tion will seem to have been given under
fire.
Most of Colonel Roosevelt's quarrels
result in “bully" fights and this one if
it conies to court will be at least inter-
esting to everyone. A large portion of
the public bearing no love for either of
the combatants will feel like the old lady
who shouted alternately “Go it husband!
Go it bear!"
Earthquake in New York.
Franklin N. Wentworth the well known en-
gineer remarked at a convention in the West the
other day that no disaster could he imagined
more horrifying than an earthquake in New
York sufficient to break its water mains and
snap its electric wires. When one considers that
its big office buildings suddenly unloaded would
pile the street surface with men five deep the
effects of panic with the inevitable fire would be
too terrible for contemplation. The World re-
plies to Mr. Wentworth by saying that New York
has hail no earthquake "worth bothering about
for 800 years." and that the city Is not in the
“main seismic belt." These are reassuring tokens.
But there is still another possibility. Suppose
New York should have a "scare” but not an
earthquake. Suppose there were Just enough
of a tremor some day to suggest the possibility of
such a thing on a larger scale. What would hap-
pen then ? Values running Into the millions in-
vested in high buildings would experience a gen-
uine "psychological depression.” New Yorkers
would then Be likely to take quite as much pains
to minimize any such admonition of nature as
the San Franciscans did the appearance of a bu-
bonic plague in their city a few years ago. —Bos-
ton Herald.
Before and After.
Senator Brandegee of Connecticut. denouncing
ns the ‘misguided uplifteni" those who stand for
tho trade commission in a speech in the Senate
said: "The American people know ihat busi-
ness will not tolerate such things In the country
ns a commission to be continually snooping
around with nothing but the power to make the
infinite and unregulated scries of 'don't*.' ” The
senator quite mistakes the temper of tho Ameri-
can people. Anybody but a Brandegee from
Connecticut knows it Is because of things such
as the New Haven perpetrated on the American
people when there was no commission "to snoop
around" and prevent it. that they are demanding
legislation of tho sort. Better "snoop” than
dupe.— Des Moires Hegister.
THF. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
The Light's Daily Story
RENUNCIATION'.
(By Yvos Schwartz.)
The curtain rose for the tenth time
and for the tenth time the entire
audience leapt to Its feet to applaud
the great actor Jean Servian.
Happy and smiling he went to his
dressing reborn and a moment later
his valet handed him a letter in an
unknown feminine handwriting.
“Monsieur” he road "undoubtedly
you will be surprised that I have the
courage to write you though you do
not know me at all but the feeling
which feei sure you will forgive me
when you know—prompts me to do
so. I saw you acting last night I
saw you so grand so handsome so
noble and chivalrous. T know very
well that it was all acting but It
seems impossible to me that you
should not be in reality just as you
are on the stage and this Is why T
dare open my heart t.o you.
“T am a young orphan .of 19. When
my parents died two years ago it
war. an old sour tempered aunt who
took me into her house. She does not
understand h.ow’ a young heart may
dream of love. T am a dreaming and
sentimental fool she savs and urges
me to marry’ an old bald-headed law-
yer of 60. Tt Is a brilliant match she
says for a girl like me with no for-
tune. He calls on me nearly’ every
day and talks of nothing but the
troubles of his clients and says he
wants to marry tn get a wife who
can make rice pudding as my aunt
makes it.
“Oh I do not love him cannot love
him and never shall love him. He
and my’ aunt took me to the theater
like a prisoner. T saw y.ou and I felt
Immediately that you are the man
I love. You are the prince of my
dreams you are the one I have
hoped for so long. Dove me. too take
me away from this hateful life with
two old people who ought to marry
each other instead of arranging mar-
riages for other people take me Into
the great real happy life.”
Then followed a signature and an
address.
Jean Servian was deeply touched
by this letter and in the enthusiasm
of his young heart he sat down at
his desk and w’rotc a cordial letter
accepting the task of initiating this
young girl into the happiness nf love-
There was a knock at the door just
as he was about to seal the envelope
and he put it down. It was the man-
ager of the theater and two friends
who came to pay’ their coippllments
to the great actor.
Just before leaving one of them
said:
"By’ accident T was told your real
age and I must say you are wonder-
ful. To think that you are 60 years.
On the stage you look and act as
if you had not seen 30 yet.”
When they had left Jean Servian
thought with a feeling of bitterness:
"It is true. 1 am nearly 60." He saw’
the letter on his table which he had
just written and read it over again
several times but he did not seal It.
Having not yet changed his cos-
tume ho went to the mirror to do so.
He took off tho fair wig and noticed
how gray his hair was. Ho rubbed off
♦he grease paint and for the first
time perhaps be saw’ all the
wrinkles in his face his dull eyes his
double chin and sallow complexion
all the symptoms of old age. Discour
'iged he throw himself Into a chair
and began to t>ink of hor to whom
he had just written. She was young
undoubtedly pretty too. while he
was old. tired of life. He realized
that he had no right to accept the
Jove of thin child. He read her let-
ter again and one passage struck
him: “So grand so handsome so
noble and chivalrous. T know very
well that it was all acting but it
seems impossible to me that you
should not be In reality just as you
are on the stage."
He was certainly no longer hand-
some in real life but he still had a
chance to prove himself chivalrous
He fought a hard struggle with him-
self and conquer’d. Then be tore up
his first letter and wrote another.
The next day at two Jean Servain
left his house but he was not macle
up as usual. He had written the
young girl to meet him In a corner
of the park and as a sign of identi-
fication she was to wear two yellow
roses in her waist. He was a few min-
utes early so he sat down on a bench
and waited but soon he saw her
coming at a distance. She was rather
below medium height slender and '
graceful end wore a blue costume
which harmonized splendidly with
tbe roses at her belt. When she came
closer he saw the regular oval of her
face small wonderful clear features
dark hair and dreaming eyes. She j
looked around appeared a little dis- •
appointed and finally sat down on 1
the same bench to wait for the ar- ]
rival of him who was already there.
He thought of how this beautiful ■
• nung creature offend herself to him
•ind he was going to send her away
|anci the thought occurred to him that
l perhaps he had exaggerated w hat he
leaked his duty. What after all did
(this child ask for? An illusion a few
words of love and a good deal of
tenderness. Was it not possible that |
bis heart which was still young
could give her all she asked? All he
Ibid to do was to return to his hotel !
~end her a few apologizing words and
I -ay that he was prevented from com-
ing till the next day when he would
appear in his usual street make up as
a man still young. Time passed apd
the young girl timidly asked him if
be had not seen the actor pass whose
portrait was familiar to everybody.
“It is I." he said.
'You ” ।
Ho took off his hat and said in a
voice which trembled with genuine
envitlon: "Mademoiselle look at me
and you will understand that 1 can-
net love vou.”
The young girl bowed her head
and her ey es filled with tears but he
gently took her hand and said:
“Do not cry. my child you have
had In your life what many people
have not- the illusion of a dream of
love. Very .often love is nothing more
that a drerm: let us love it. let us
take it as p dream but let us never |
try to realize it. You have had the -
i Illusion of this dream keep the mem.
lory of It sacred. T would give my life
J for the right to love you but this I
Daily Fashion Hint I
J
WOMAN’S SUMMER OUTING SHOE
Very masculine and very smart for
outing wear is this new summer shoe
of white buckskin which gives tile
effect of a heel less yachting shoe yet
has really a slight lift at the heel—-
much more beneficial to the average
feminine foot than the perfectly flat
deck or tennis shoe which Is apt to
injuure the delicate arch of foot.
These new buckskin outing shoes
may be worn with white linen mo-
hair or pique taillours or skirts.
right I do rvit possess. You are
a child and I am an old
man your life is beginning and
mine is approaching Its end. G»o
home follow the advice of your aunt
and do not dream too much. It Is very
often dangerous. When later on you
feel sad you jnust think of the mo-
ments w’hen you slipped away from
reality and this will make it easier
to bear the monotony of everyday
life. G.o my child and think some-
times of the poor old actor whose
last memory you shall be."
There was a long silence. Then
the young girl whose lips were
twitching but who understood that
they had nothing more to say to each
other rose and slowly walked away
1 ut stopped took his hand and kissed
It.
"Good-bye my beautiful dream”
she whispered and left him.
There were two big tears in Jean
Servaln’s eyes. He understood that
love bad definitely and forever gone
out of his life.
INTERNATIONAL M \RRIAGES.
Frnm the Loj Angolrs ’''imp*.
The fact that some titled foreign-
ers—or presumably titled foreigners
—are designing enough to capture a
few American heiresses or that a few
American heiresses are foolish
enough t. think coronets worth the
price they pay for them (of which
the money lost is often the least
sacrifice) is regrettable. But the
practice is hardly general enough to
call for national legislation.
We sj-mpathizo with Representa-
tive Rowdie's objections to such
mesalliances but haven't much use
for his bill to tax the incomes of the
victims. After all the choosing of a
mate is hardly a matter to be helped
or hindered by legislation. It Is a
personal affair and those who make
mistakes always foot the bills. The
specious foreign lord lings who can
beguile rich American girls* are get-
ting fewer every day and the type
of American girl who can be so be-
guiled is gradually becoming extinct-
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THEM?
Letters to the Light
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tended for publication must be signed by
the writer. The name of the writer will
not be published unless it is desired. The
paper muat know however from whom
the letter comes. No attention will be
paid to aiNVmoui communications. Type-
written sfgaatures and those made with
a stamp are classed as anonymous. The
publication of a letter does not necessarily
mean that the policy or opinion outlined
therein is endorsed by the publishers of
The Light.
To the Editor:
In the proposed ordinance requir-
ing bakers to wrap bread. 1 am on-
posed to that portion of the ordi-
nance which would require bakers
to wrap the bread sold direct from
shop to consumer for the following
reasons:
I—Because1 —Because it will place an addi-
-1 tlonal burden on the consumer in
the form of higher bread staler
[ bread and an Increased expenditure
|of public money without a corre-
sponding benefit to the consumer
2—Because it is an unwarranted
interference of the city council with
the peoples’ right to • ontract. in this -
In effect the consumer says to the
baker "have warm bread at
a given hour and I will buy" the
city council steps in and says to the
baker "you shall not carry out your
contract.” Bread has. to be thor-
oughly cooled before it can be wrap-
ped.
3—Because those who desire
wrapped bread can obtain it for the
asking.
4—Because the consumer should
be exclusive judge of what he wants
in this respect—lf all the consumers
demand it the bakers will furnish
it or go out of business.
s—]f w’? are to enact Into law’ all
the devices of the 'anti-germ fa-
natic" to protect our systems from
germs we might as well commit
suicide and be done with it.
It will be conceded by all that if
the baker Is required to wrap the
bread the cost of wrapping will be
charged to the consumer. The pure
food man will require a few’ addi-
tional assistants which as a matter
of course the people must pay for.
All to avoid getting a “something"
into your system which no one ever
got from unwrapped bread nr at
least w’ore never Injured which is
the same.
I firmly believe that when the city
council forbids a baker to furnish
me bread in any form that I may
request It. it is going farther than
it can show’ any justification for;
that it is usurping a right that in-
herently belongs to the baker and
myself to-wlt: The power to con-
tract.
Mr. Rlsche is free to eat all the
stale (wrapped) breaij hp wants but
I dare say he doesn’t eat it there-
fore why not accord us the same
privilege. I might dig up enough
statistics to show’ that bread after a
certain length of time after it Is
cooked Is not fit for food; statistics
w’ill prove anything. The sponsors
of the proposed ordinance in ques-
tion cannot point to a single instance
where unw’rapped bread has caused
a death or illness in any form.
With all clue respect to the honora-
ble city council we don't want this
proposed ordinance adopted; we
don’t want any legislative body to in-
terfere with our time-honored priv-
ilege of eating a few’ germs if we so
desire if to avoid eating them we
must pay so dearly.
C. E. CARUTHERS.
—
Hl* tendon.
"Tes’’ the hu« driver who had
hauled the utrnngrr two blocks to the hotel
he had told him was sway up town "ft
myth Is as good as a mile.”—Chicago Coat.
JULY’ 31. 1914.
Sleepy Time Tales
For the Little Folk
Once upon a time Jackie's father
one morning asked if he w’ould like
to go fishing. Of course Jackie was
delighted for he had teased his
father for a long time to let him go
with him to fish. 8o after break-
fast father with a big spade and
Jackie with his toy shovel went out
In the garden back of the house to
dig worms for bait. Jackie did not
know’ whether he liked to pick up
the worms or not they w’ere so slip-
pery and crawly but his father didn’t
seem to mind doing it so Jackie was
as brave as he could be and picked
them up as calmly as his father al-
though he almost squealed several
times when they twined about his
little fingers.
Then they got out the boat on
the edge of the pond and father let
Jackie steer with the rudder while
he rowed.
Jackie of course wanted to row
but his father didn't think he was
strong enough and feared he would
tip the boat over or lose the oars.
When they started fishing Jackie
had again to handle the nasty worms
and put them on the hook but he
was quite used to that by this time.
Then he dropped his line overboard
and it had only been there a min-
ute or so before Jackie felt a tug
then a harder one and his father
raid: “Pull it up Jackie. You’ve
got a fish.”
Jackie did so and “flop” came Into
the boat one of the prettiest little
fish you can imagine and lay flap-
ping its tai! at Jackie’s feet.
“Now what shall I do?” said
Jackie much excited. “Take it off
the hook;’’ answered his father. “And
be carefull you don’t stick the hook
in your fingers.”
So Jackie had to take the
wriggling fish In his hand and after
much squealing and "oh dears.” he
managed to get him off the hook and
Into the basket but It was only his
fathers: "To be a man Jackie you
must do these things” that kept
him from crying and It was a long
time before he wanted to go fish-
ing again.
— —
READY TO DOSE MEXICO*
From the Cleveland Leader.
Men interested in political and so-
ciological nostrums of various kinds
which make painfully slow headway
In the United States are getting
ready to try their luck in Mexico as
soon as the fighting stops. They
want to make that unhappy country
an experiment station for their cure-
alls.
It seems hardly fair to attempt
such tests where the need of rest and
quiet is so evident and so urgent.
But the Mexicans will doubtless be
beset all the more eagerly because
their state is so deplorable. They
will be urged to venture upon all
sorts of novelties in law-making on
the plea that they have everything
to gain ajid nothing to lose. It Is a
plausible argument and It may breed
fresh troubles In a distraught and
war-ravaged land.
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