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WEDNESDAY.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
(Founded January 20. 1001.)
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CIRCULATION SIX .MONTHS ENDING SEPT. SO. 1910.
The total daily average circulation of the dally edi-
tion of The San Antonio Light during the six moutbe
• nding September SO. .915. was 22052 copies and ot
the Sunday edition was 26735. Omitting all spoiled
left over unsold returned filed samples advertisers
and exchanges the total net paid average of the daily
edition was 26477 opies and of the Sunday edition
24424 copies.
The circulation of The San Antonio Light has been
certified to by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The
audit of this bureau which embraces in its membership
every leading newspaper magazine and advertiser in
rhe United States and Canada is regarded as authorita-
Uvo and final by the advertisers of America and Europa.
The San Antonio Light us a result of the above audit
can guarantee its advertisers 50 per cent more paid
circulation direct to the home in San Antonio than any
other newspaper.
BECOMING RIDICULOUS.
The leak investigation has dwindled to
where for the sake of the good name and
good sense of the people of the United
States it might as well be dropped.
The broker Connolly the partner of
President Wilson's brother-in-law de-
clared that he had advance information of
the forthcoming peace note but that he
does not know where he got it. He says
that as nearly as he can remember some-
body on the street told it to him. Incident-'
ally he made other statements which were
completely overwhelmed by the testimony
of other witnesses who flatly contradicted
him.
Now comes Mrs. Visconti the lady who
gave the all-important name of the “leak-
er” to Thomas W. Lawson and she says
that she obtained her information from the
babblings and prattlings and lispings of a
little child. This is about the limit.
There is not the slightest doubt that
there was a leak and that it involved some
people high in the administration. The
whole evidence proves that There is how-
ever so strong a conspiracy to conceal the
truth that it will not be possible for the
congressional committee to get at the
facts until it has sent a few people to
prison for perjury. If it would do that it
might stand some chance of ultimately ar-
riving at the truth of the matter.
The liars are so many in number that
there seems to be no way through them
and the committee will doubtless decide
in a short time that it might as well drop
the whole business.
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A DISPASSIONATE NATION.
No student of history can have failed to t
notice the calm dispassionate view that :
the American people have taken of the i
world crisis which has brought the United 1
States to the verge of war. If anyone has ।
not marked the lack of excitement with t
which Americans have regarded the situa-
tion’s possibilities it is either because he
is not familiar with the great events of
history or because he has no personal
recollection of the condition of the public
mind in previous crises which this country
has experienced. This attitude is signi-
ficant as affecting not only the present
situation but national and international
developments of the future.
It would be remarkable under circum-
stances of far less importance. Under con-
ditions unprecedented in magnitude the
present calmness of the American people
marks a wide departure from the custom-
ary mental processes not only of thej
American people but also of the people of j
every other nation that deserves rank as |
such. Any hour might easily bring the I
United States into conflict with a nation I
that has made preparation for a great con- i
flict its chief concern for more than-a
quarter of a century; a nation that has. al-
most single-handed stood out against!
nearly half of the civilized world for two
and a half years. Though the situation is!
of hair-trigger nature and war with Ger-'
many would be the most gigantic conflict'
in which the United States has ever been
involved the people of this country are dis-
playing no more signs of excitement than
they did when the beginning of the Eu-
ropean struggle was announced. In-some
respects our attitude is calmer than it was
then.
The popular mind was stirred to great
depths in 1898 when the United States
went to war with Spain most anaemic
of all nations that laid claim to military
and naval prowess. In fact it was largely
the attitude of the American people that
made the war a fact. It is interesting to
note that in 1898 we went to war on behalf
of another people—the Cubans. Though it
was the sinking of the Maine that precip-
itated the conflict the war was in effect one
of deliverance on the part of a strong na-
tion for a weak down-trodden people.
Now when out rights and the rights of all
other neutral nations—but primarily our
rights are violated with impunity we do
not become wrought up to a white heat
of passion that had marked our attitude
towards nations that have wronged us and
humanity before the present crisis de-
veloped.
From the state of the popular mind in
America in this crisis the foreign world
may draw an erroneous conclusion. It
does not mean the people of the United
I States have lost the courage that consti-
■ tuted the main national asset of the re-
j public’s founders. By the attitude of the
I American people is not meant the attitude
| of the government officials who are direct-
[ ing the country’s moves; but the great body
of citizens of all classes who think for
themselves. Many of them are willing to
take up the gauge which Germany has cast.
Some advocated severing of diplomatic re-
lations followed by war if necessary long
before the former step was taken by the
Washington administration. There are
some others who have thought from the
outset that war between the United States
and Germany was well-nigh inevitable.
But among none of these classes of think-
ers even those who believed that war was
an immediate certainty and who would
have welcomed war. has there been evi-
denced to an appreciable degree the kind
of excitement vyhich usually seizes a peo-
ple upon the verge of war.
The state of the American mind
throughout the crisis including the present
stage with its large prospects may mark
a development that is significant in the in-
ternational as well as in the national sense.
If the great problems which history re-
counts had been viewed in the same dis-
passionate way their solution would
doubtless have left fewer red marks upon
human annals. If the American people
should go to war now it would be from a
sense of duty to themselves and to human-
ity and not with the blood-thirst the I
covetousness and the other savage quali-
ties that have stimulated warring peoples
through the ages. *
How much more effective in gaining I
the object desired is such an attitude when j
compared with Mr. Bryan’s artificial plan I
for a "year's deliberation.” Americans know
that war is an awful thing; yet they are
not willing to bind themselves to take no
step toward war until one year has elapsed ■
when the situation might be such as to de-
Imand immediate action.
If we are willing without being prompt-
ed to regard a situation dispassionately
when the very character of our country
and our civilization is at stake we should
likewise go to war if war should be*
deemed necessary in the same calm sane
intelligent way. We have a problem to
solve and if war is the only solution or
the best solution we shall solve it by the
process of war. But we refuse to "lose our
heads.”
HAPHAZARD LEGISLATION.
Two members of the Texas Legislature
one a senator and the other a representa-
tive wrote down what they respectively
considered to be the cause of bad legisla-
tion. Neither knew what the other had in
mind until they exchanged the pieces of
paper upon which they had written their
independent thoughts. Literally their ideas
were widely different; in effect they were
practically the same. One said that the
greatest obstacle in the way of wise intelli-
gent legislation is “too much hurry.” The
other “too little time.”
The latter probably would not contend
that the Legislature should remain in ses-
sion perennially so that laws might be
made at leisure. Nor would the other be
likely to argue that a legislative session of
ordinary duration does not afford suffi-
cient time for the framing and considera-
tion of wise intelligent measures. What
both meant no doubt was that highly im-
portant legislation is crowded out until
the eleventh hour by a flood of measures
that cannot be regarded as important ex-
cept in a negative way. Much of the legis-
lation offered at the present session of the
1 exas Legislature is important only in the
sense that its defeat is demanded by re-
spect for the public welfare. Such legisla-
tion is manifestly worse than no legisla-
tion at all.
\\ hether the senator and the representa-
tive are prohibitionists does not appear.
O e would infer that they are not since
the obstacles which they cite “too much
hurry ’ and “too little time” have been set
up by the members of that faction. The
prohibitionists went to Austin with but a
single thought—to force submission of the
prohibition question upon the other law-
makers and failing in that to create as
much trouble and waste as much time as
possible.
। Regardless of the political alignment of
< the two members who have exchanged
j ideas concerning the cause of bad legisla-
; lion however it is gratifying to know that
there is agreement among the lawmakers
'even to this limited extent. It is likely that
। other members have come to regard the
| legislative situation in Texas in the same
light. And recognition of the problem is
I a step toward its solution.
Texas has had too much of indiscrim-
inate legislation as well as legislation on
subjects that do not belong in the legisla-
tive field. What the state needs is a defin-
ite deliberately planned legislative pro-
gram. What it is getting and has been
getting for many years is catch-as-catch-
can legislation enacted on the theory that
the devil will overtake the hindmost—-
with the result that the “devil” makes his
appearance in most of the bills offered.
■ 1 here are definite opportunities await-
ing the grasp of Texas and her people.
I 1 hey are discernible on every hand; but
instead of co-operating to take advantage
of -hese opportunities our lawmakers
spend their time conceiving mythical
needs largely as a means of satisfying
their own political needs or the needs of
some political faction. Then there is “too
inuch hurry” or “too little time” td do
the tilings that count.
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ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.
When the king of England opened Par-
liament last week he wore the uniform
of an admiral of the fleet. This was not
done as might be supposed because the
king happened to have an admiral’s uni-
form handy or because he liked the fit
better than that of the uniform of a field
commander of the army.
The wearing of the naval uniform was a
distinct compliment to the navy and was
so viewed in the British navy and among
the British people. Not to leave the army
too much in obscurity the king delicately
complimented both the army and the over-
seas dominions by selecting his personal
body guard from among the officers of the
overseas fighting forces actually in the
field. These little evidences of royal favor
about the only ones that actually are left
to the British monarch outside of pre-
scribed court functions are held in high
esteem in England small as they may ap-
pear to Americans and others unfamiliar
with the British way of doing.
The pride of the British nation is
wrapped up in the navy. No amount was
too great to be freely appropriated when
the navy asked it and no expense was
spared to give the navy the best that
money could purchase.
The naval personnel likewise was se-
lected with the one view—to make the
navy the greatest in the world. That the
navy did not disappoint the people of
England when the hour arrived all the
world knows. But for the navy England
would not be. But with the German fleet
safely bottled up and with lines of com-
merce and troop transportation patrolled
in all quarters of the globe England and
her colonies today are reaping the rich
interest from their naval expenditures
heavy though they have been.
That is what it signified when the king
appears before Parliament wearing the uni-
form of an admiral of the fleet. The work
done by England’s greatest volunteer army
the world has ever known is exemplified
by the king’s escort.
It is not the American way of doing it
but expresses the same sort of sentiment.
American ship owners propose to arm
their merchant vessels with spare guns
from the navy. Has the navy any spare
gunners to go with them?
William Jennings Bryan is marshalling
his peace advocates in Washington. Bryan
always is marshalling his advocates for
something somewhere.
Germany through the Swiss minister
has asked the United States what is being
done with her interned seamen. She ought
to be informed that they are being fed
three square meals a day anyhow.
A plot against the government has been
discovered in Cuba. A plot in Cuba against
the government is only an indication that
the Cubans arc not becoming effete. When
Cuba ceases to have plots the island will
be in grave danger of disruption.
Bamboo Not Yet Popular.
According to the Department ot Agriculture
it is no longer a question as to the growth of
Oriental timber bamboo ih the southern part
of the United States. Plantings in Florida and
Louisiana have grown to the height of twenty-
five feet. The department is now in position
to supply young plants for setting out from
C alifornia to the Carolinas where the land is
not too costly to admit of profitable use in
this manner. So far it is impossible to de*
termine what the crop will b** and so the
bamboo will not attain to the popularity of
the peanut for some time. —Houston Post.
Scoop on Colonel Roosevelt.
The National Geographic Magazine puts this
scoop over on Roosevelt: ‘‘A most surprising
Australian bird is the kookooburra or laughing
jackass. All at once in the quiet bust come
loud peals of uproarious mocking laughter.
One is not inclined to join in the merriment —
it all seems to foolish and wierd as if an
idiot boy were disturbing a congregation in
church. When the source of the laughter is
located it turns out to be a silly looking bird
with clumsy square body and open mouth
sitting unconcernedly on a stump.—Beaumont
Enterprise.
Troops Needed on Border.
As the number of soldiers on the border
becomes smaller the depredations both by
American; and Mexicans increase in number.
Whether inspired by Villa or* Carranza or
merely by the thirst for loot these depreda-
tions are beginning again to make the vicinity
of the Rio Grande no fit plate for the fam-
ilies of peaceable people. The soldiers have
been needed there. And they will be needed
there until the government of the United
States sees fit to apply the only.methods that
will brin ; order out of chaos in that unhappy
country across the river.—Houston Post.
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Amilgnmcnt of the CranlM^rry.
The cranberry is not intended to be eaten.
If its natural state did not prove this the fact
that it is absolutely indigestible would. No
human stomach ever digested a cranberry. It
is made palatable by sugar and cooking just
as many other thing unfit to eat are fixed up
and swallowed. But people who want to use
their fetomachs for the purpose intended by
nature will let all n- berry combinations
severeley alone. The ston . t will stand a lot of
mistreatment but it will - ullect compound in-
terest for outrages committed on it by quitting
work twenty years ahead of its natural schedule
and that is always fatal to its owner. —Gallipolis
Tribune.
Mexico’s Weakness.
The Mexicans have drawn a constitution
which is designated to hold Medco for the
Mexicans. The rights of Mexicans in relation
to mines lands etc. are carefully guarded.
The eight-hour day is fixed which amounts to
an extension of hours for the Mexican though
the constitutionalists no doubt regarded it the
other way. Compulsory arbitration for labor
disputes and conservation of national resources
nre provided for. Altogether the constitution
is a fairly good instrument for a free people.
All that Mexico lacks is the right kind of peo-
ple to live and progress under their own funda-
mental law. for statutes are of no use unless
the people and their leaders live up to them.
— Utica Observer.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
At the Theaters
l adle and Gygi at Majestic.
Maryon Vadie America's little
star of the dance and Senor Ota
Gygi. violinist to the court of Spain
combine their talents as the head-
liners of the new vaudeville bill
opening at the Majestic at the mati-
nee today. A repertoire of classical
masterpieces makes up their ve-
hicle.
Miss Vadie Is an American girl
born reared and educated and is
scarcely twenty years old. Senor
Gygi Is touring the principal cities
of the United States upon special
leave of absence grunted by King
Alfonso. Josie Heather winsome
singing comedienne is assisted by
Wm. Casey Jr. and Bobby Heather
in a sunshiny bit of mirth and mel-
ody. Miss Heather is an English
miss beloved of Britishers. Ameri-
can vaudeville fans have adopted
her fo their own. "The Recoil”
Is a striking comedy playlet presen-
ted by Claire Vincent supported by
Frank H. Gardner and Walter R.
Ross. Parish and Peru are eccen-
tric celebrities whose specialty is
playing the concertina jumping into
and out ot barrels and executing
"nut” dances. Lunette Sisters are
"Whirling Geisha Girls" who offer
a sensational aerial novelty. Frisco
is "The Paderewski of the Xylo-
phone." The Florenze Duo offers
something new in magic.
"Peg O’ My Heart” Tonight..
Plays that have made decided
"hits" In New York have often been
absolute failures "on the road" and
plays that were first produced out-
side of New York and were instan-
taneous successes have been unani-
mously condemned by metropolitan
critics. A notable exception to this
has been the case of "Peg O' My
Heart.” This play ran for 604
nights at the Cort Theater in New
York and it has proven itself just
as popular In every city visited
breaking records In most instances
that have stood for years. Mr. Mo-
rosco's company ot "Peg O' My
Heart" will be at the Grand Opera
House Thursday matinee and night
at popular prices.
“The Million Dollar Doll.”
The musical success "The Mil-
lion Dollar Doll" with her retinue
of ten principals and a great singing
and dancing chorus will be seen at
the Grand Opera House Friday night
for one performance only. Heralded
by press and public this latest and
most successful company carrying
thirty people and a carload ot scen-
ery and electrical effects promises
to be a big hit. Three elaborate
scenes with a stage full ot dancing
beauties introduces the latest Wip-
ter Garden fad an illuminated rub-
way over the heads of the audience
along with twenty-two song hits go
to make "The Million Dollar Doll”
a success.
Nell O’Brien Coming.
The most popular organization ot
its kind in America Neil O'Brien's
Great American Minstrels will be
the attraction at the Grand Opera
House Saturday matinee and night
and Sunday matinee and night. The
seat sales will open this morning.
This organization has rapidly grown
from a small beginning into a large
affair. The promise is made by
Manager Oscar F. Hodge that the
company is larger than ever before
and that everything will be found
new and up to date. There is a
large coterie ot comedians to help
Mr. O'Brien in the laugh-making
among these being Eddie Ross 'Las-
ses White Happy Ben way Steve
Wether Al Marto Major Nowak
and Alien Karie. The list of vocal-
ists includes: J. Lester Haberkorn
James Barardi. Earl Holmes Leslie
Berry Joseph Andre Jonathan
Haw Carl Strauss Paul Lalonde
and John Mattick. There will be
a number ot new features among
them being a one-act sketch for Mr.
O’Brien written and staged by him-
self called “The Jitney Joy Bus."
Clara Kimball Young.
Clara Kimball Young the screen
star will appear today for the last
time at the Empire Theater in an
adaptation of "The Eoolish Virgin"
Thomas Dixon's striking novel. This
production is a worthy successor to
Miss Young's first venture at the
head of her own producing company.
"The Common Law” the story offer-
ing even greater oportunities In in-
tense dramatic situations. In "The
Foolish Virgin” Miss Young is seen
in the role of the girl whose ideas
of life are confused with the roman-
tic stories of the days of chivalry.
She Is deceived Into marrying a man
who turns out to be a criminal. The
girl exerts her influence toward the
redemption of the man she loves and
it is in this process of character
building that the tense dramatic
scenes in which the story abounds
develop. Miss Young has been aid-
ed in making the production <>y the
masterly direction of Albert Capel-
lani and a superlative cast.’ Con-
way Tearle who made such a de-
cided hit in the role opposite MV>»
Young in "The Common Law” will
be seen to particular advantage In
the leading male part of the new
production and Paul Capellani. who
has been seen in a number of Miss
Young's greatest pictures also has
a strong role. Others in the cast
are Catherine Proctor Sheridan
Tansey the boy actor. William
Welsh. Marie Lines Agnes Mapes
Edward Elkas and little Jacqueline
Morhange.
Tomorrow and Friday Wallace
Ried and Anita King will be the at-
traction in "The Golden Fetter.”
Funny Show nt Strand.
The “Heidelberg Girls.” with fun-
ny Elmer McDonald will be seen at
the Strand Theater today for the
last time in their funny comedy with
music "The Bogus Pasha.” Start-
ing Thursday the company will ap-
pear in the farce coihedy. "The Bat-
tle of Not-Yet." This bill is full of
good singing and dancing as well
as clean comedy. Elmer McDon-
ald who is presenting these musical
comedies is one Of the best come-
dians that has ever appeared in pop-
ular-priced attractions. The girls
are pretty and the costumesfare new
and up to the minute. A big and
attractive picture offered is also in-
cluded on the program. The pic-
tures change every day and the mu-
sical comedy changes every Thurs-
day and Sunday and each change in-
cludes new songs dances and cos-
tumes.
So Kinks for Him.
At a Scottish watering place one sum-
mer Macpherson was found stretched in a
contented mood on the sands puffing bls
old. pipe.
“Conic on. Mac.” raid his companion
who lind lust come from town "let's go
for a sail.*’
"Na. nn.” replied Macpherson slowly
shaking bls h.ad "I hue hod a guld din-
ner nt th- cask o' tinea and alxpente an’
1 m Inkin' ua risks “
WORKERS ARE NEEDED
FOR CHARITY SOCIETY
Secretary of Organization Ap-
peals for an Intelligent
Alms-giving System
The earnest assistance of the peo-
ple of San Antonio financial sup-
port and the assistance of service
was asked by Mre. Dan A. Leary
secretary ot the Associated Chari-
ties in a talk on the work of the as-
sociation delivered before the mem-
bers of the Jewish Council of Wo-
men Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Leary
said that the da" had passed for in-
discriminate giving and that an in-
dividual does no" fulfill hl s respon-
sibility to society by flipping a coin
into the hat of a beggar on the
street.
The complexity ot the problem ot
giving involving as it does the faults
of society and the individual were
outlined by Mrs. Leary. She spoke
ot the necessity ot understanding
the applicant's case ot making an
intelligent investigation not in a
spirit of doubting the integrity of
the applicant but in order to apply
the remedy needed.
In speaking ot the functions ot
organized charity she said:
"In individual giving there is al-
ways the danger ot administering
charity as morphine might be ad-
ministered to a sick man—simply to
allay pain. It does not cure the
trouble and might engender an evil
habit. The Individual does not have
time to make a thorough study ot
the poor families she knows or ot
the beggar who appeals to her —she
does not have time to investigate all
of the circumstances and then form
a plan that will develop character
and ability. That is what organized
charity is organized to do to go to
the root of things to help people
out ot their poverty.”
All of this takes money and serv-
ice and Mrs. Leary asked for the
financial support and for individual
service. She suggested committees
of volunteer workers and visitors.
Among the chairman and offi-
cers reporting at the meeting yes-
terday were; Mrs. L. P. Peck treas-
urer; Mrs. H. N. Friendlander
delegate to the City Federation; Mrg
J. August for the Sabbath school;
Miss Hannah Hirschberg for the
Free Kindergarten; Mrs. I. Tobias
friendly visiting committee; courte-
sy Miss Blanche August; Mrs. Eliza
Levy hospital committee; Mrs. A. A.
Brown educational committee; Miss
Hilda Simons Study Circle; Mrs.
Harry Leopold hospitality commit-
tee.
FOUR MORE CANNING
CLUBS ARE ORGANIZED
Girls of Kirby Schertz Con-
verse and Selma Schools
Are Enrolled.
Four more girls’ canning clubs
were organized in Bexar county
Tuesday by Mrs. J. L. Landrum ex-
pert of the State Department of
Agriculture and a committee from
the Women's Club of San Antonio.
The club women who accompanied
Mrs. Landrum Tuesday were Mrs.
T. D. Anderson Mrs. John E. Hill
Mrs. S. P. Cunningham and Mrs.
J. A. Sterns. A committee from the
Council of Jewish Mother® accom-
panied Mrs. laandrum on the last
trip ot' her campaign in Bexar coun-
ty Wednesday morning.
Girls’ canning dubs Were organ-
ized Tuesday at the Kirby school
Schertz school. Converse school and
the Selma school. The officers and
members of the dubs are as follows:
Kirby School: Josie Reitmeir
president; Ella Reitmeir vice presi-
dent; Rosie Eisenhauser secretary;
Elsie Lux treasurer; Ella Hartman
press reporter; Mary Louise Nohse
supervisor. Members Clara Mergen-
theiler Freda Butler Ella Gref An-
nie Lux. Erna Achterberg Constance
Strobel Hilda Hosseth.
Schertz School: Agnes Schertz
president; Olga Lick vice president;
! Mattie Gerlich treasurer; Anita
Wuest secretary; Erna Schertz press
reporter; Myrtle Butler supervisor.
। Members. Edna Seiler Ellen Spang-
enberg Rosina Bachle. Olga Hehs
Elnora Beck Meta Schutz.
Converse School: Alvina Lieck
president; Lillian Gold vice presi-
dent; Vera Lieck. secretary; Linda
Esser treasurer; Erna Schick press
reporter; Katherine Manz super-
visor. Members. Hedwig Schumann
Helga Harios Helga Kriewuld Tel*
ga Krieswald Rosa Ullrich Erna
Schick Lillie Lieck Etelka Brehm
Smina Biesenbach Pauline Bicsen-
bach Helen Lieck Norma Ullrich
I Irene Brehm. Malinda Ullrich Lin-
da Kneupper Irma Schumann.
Selma School: Mattie M. Money
president; Edwina Schmid vice
president; Ella Zuercher secretary;
Lillian Schmid treasurer; Linda
Dietz press reporter. Members Mil-
da Vordenbaumen Orlean Hocgen-
hauer Milba S'hmid. Ruth Wahl
Simona Mireles Gcnoveva Rodri-
guez Ramona Munoz Joesfa Ran-
gel Christina Guerra Savina Ran-
gel Elvida Guerra Lydia Mauno
Rosie Delgado.
fODAVS AKm;
SECOND 7JEUTENANT GEORGE R.
RIMPSON. Ninth Infantry. Is found In-
capacitated i ecausc of disability not the
result of incident of Krvica and is wholly
re’lred.
Following infantry officers of regiments
Indicated or transferred to cavalry regi-
ments indicated:
llirnin
CAPTAIN EDMUNDS HAYEK. Eleventh
to Tenth.
CAPTAIN FRANK B. KOBES. Thirty-
fifth to Tenth.
FIRST LIEUTENANT LEON M. LO-
GAN. Sixth to Seventh.
FIRST LIEUTENANT THOMAS G.
PEYTON. Twelfth to Tenth.
FIRST LIEUTENANT ARTHUR A.
WHITE. Thirty-sixth to Sixteenth.
FIRST LIEUTENANT JUNIUS H
HAUGHTON. Nineteenth to Sixteenth.
FIRST LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS J.
PAGE. Twentv-slxth to Seventeenth.
FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES C.
SMITH. Twenty-third to Sixteenth.
^IRST LIEUTENANT HARRISON
HERMAN. Twentv-eighth to Third.
FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN F.
GOODMAN. Fourth to Third.
FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM W.
DEMPSEY. Thirteenth to Fourteenth.
FIRST LIEUTENANT 'ROBERT R. N.
MCCULLOUGH. Thirty-sixth to Saven-
tc< nth.
Leave nf one month: FIRST LIEUTEN-
ANT ROBERT G KIRKWOOD. Third
Field artillery
Letters to the Light
All letters to thia paper that are
intended for publication must be
signed by the writer. The name'of
the writer will not be published un-
less It Is deair d. No attention will
be paid to anonymoua communications.
Typewritten aignaturea and those made
with a stamp are classed as anony-
mous. The publication of a letter does
not necessarily mean that the policy
oithned therein la endorsed by the
publiahera of The Light.
To the Editor:
I hope you will pardon me but I
was just now reading The Light and
I notice a lengthy letter frum one
Guy Cude commenting on my letter
regarding the hunter and that gray
squirrel. I just want to say a little
more and then if anybody wants to
think one goes around'said squirrel
all right.
Say we have a house upon a stage
or platform that can revolve round.
I come up to the front door of the
house to enter. The lady says you
will have to come in at the back
door. I start around the house the
house begins to revolve just fast
enough to keep the front door along
side of me. Can I get in at the back
door if I can not g^t round to the
back door? Can I go round the
house?. If the squirrel keeps its
mouth toward me how can I get
round to its tail? Oh consistency
thou art a jewel!
W. HENDERSON.
v Atascosa Tex.
To the Editor:
So many complimentary remarks
have been said about our County
Commissioners’ Court. There are a
great many tax payers who would
like to know if said county com-
missioners of Bexar county are paid
to attend to their private business
or are said county commissioners re-
quired to devote all their time to
Uieir duties. At the present time
tney devote two or three days in a
week for public purposes and the
rest of their time they transact their
private business. But at the end of
the month they sign the payroll and
draw full pay. I think that our rep-
resentatives up at Austin should try
and pass a law in Bexar county that
requires county commissioners to de-
vote all their time to their duties or
pay them only for the time they de-
vote to the office to which they were
elected by the tax payers. .
We have Ambassador Fletcher
skinned a mile in Bexar county—he
bade boodby and is off. It would
be a good thing if some of our offi-
cers would bid good by and be off.
C. F. KRAUSE.
To the Editor:
We the undersigned wish to ex-
press our gratitude to The Light for
the beautiful cup given us for win-
ning the championship of the city
grammar grades in basket ball.
From the opening of the league
we have appreciated the interest you
have taken in our games and the
space in the paper given to the
league.
We feel that you did much to help
us to win. Your accounts of the
games were always impartial and
fair.
RAPHAEL HOLQUIN
HERBERT PIERCE
ARTHUR SCHAEZLER.
HERMAN TOLBERT.
VINCENT E. HOLQUIX.
Harris School Team.
TAG DAY FEBRUARY 17
Funds to Be Raised for Humane
Society.
"Tag Day” for. the benefit of the
Bexar County Humane Society will
be held Saturday February 17. Mrs.
Herbert B. Linscott is chairman of
tbe day and will appoint committees
to take charge at different stations
in the city.
The board of directors of the as-
sociation consists of Dr. W. C. Farm-
er president; P. D. Mathis treas-
urer; I. Solomon secretary.
Directors: E. T. Green Dr. R. L.
T. Rhea Dr. B. F. Kingsley Dr.
Emma T. Miller. Porter Loring Fred
H. Lancaster Mrs. Herbert B. Lins-
cott C. D. Hall H. C. Skinner Mrs.
Batchelor. Dr. J. W. Burby Qapt.
H. W. Gregg and Rabbi S. Marks.
Advisory board: M. A. Pearce
Mrs. A. E. Lowe A. M. Fischer. J.
Frank Lewis W. M. Johnson Dr.
F. A. Mitchell Dr. M. A. Forbes
Horace A. Kelton Dr. J. N. Dar-
rough H. Rabe Joseph Stier. T. H.
Ridgway George A. Cook. Joel A.
Lipscomb E. G. Ruiz N. K. Tracy
S. J. Winters. S. G. Cottereil E. M.
Goldstein and J. M. Nix.
Humane officers: M. Davidson. I.
Solomon. W. W. Lynch. Robert
Greevens. E. G. Ruiz. Benno Sens
8. Winters.
Charters Issued.
AUSTIN. Tex.. Feb. 14.—Charters
were filed as follows;
The Dorcus Orphans’ Home El
Paso no capital stock incorpora-
tors: Mrs. C. O. Coffin. Mrs. H. E.
Harris. Mrs. George T. Mansfield
and others.
Missionary Board of the Church
of God of Texas at Gorman East-
land county no capital stock; or-
ganized for charitable and religious
purposes. Incorporators: H. M.
Coker W. Creager Eastland county
and C. H. Johnson of Howard county
and others.
The Southern Sureties Company
San Antonio capital stock $l2OO. In-
corporators: -Robert H. Rice L. J.
GitQnger and William H. Russell
Securities Mortgage and Cattle
Loan Company El Paso capital
stock 1100000. Incorporators: W.
L. Gaines. J. H. Henderson B. L.
Farrar and others.
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Waco no capital stuck.
Incorporators: August Koester H. F.
EngelkOr and Martin Franks.
Taylor Sanitarium Training School
at Taylor no capital stock. Incor-
porators: G. A. Wedemeyer J. C.
Thomas J. I. Collier and others.
Texas Petroleum Company Hous-
ton capital stock $200000. Incor-
porators: J. H. Christian L. A.
Rockwell Charles Mitchell and oth-
ers.
Permit to do business in Texas
granted to the Empire Pipe Line
Company of Dover Delaware capi-
tal stock $500000. Headquarters in
Texas nt Mineral Wells.
Certificates of dissolution filed by:
The New Furniture Company of
Comanche; E. T. Smith Cotton Com-
pany. Galveston; Southern Hotel and
Realty Company. Dallas; Texas
Right of Way Company. Tyler; Mor*
IC Oil Company. Thorndale.
No Vae for Them.
••Look here. Snip.” enid Slowp&y indig-
nantly to hls tailor. ”you haven’t put anJ
rockets In theec trouaera."
”Nn. Mr. Slowpay." aald the tailor with
a »igh; “I judged from your ncccunt here
that you never had anything to put In
LUCiT ’•
FEB. 14 1917.
TM MTE FOB
SCHOOLS FIXED
IF 40 CENTS
Board Sets Figure on Recom-
mendation in Financial
» Report.
IS SAME AS LAST YEAR
President Hood Calls Atten-
tion to Excellent Condition
of School Affairs.
The school tax rate for San An*
tonio was fixed at 40 cents at a meet*
ing of the School Board Tuesday
night this figure being recomemnded
by Paul Scholz business agent of
the board in his annual financial
report. The report showed the San
Antonio public schools in excellent
condition and that despite the in-
creased appropriations the general
fund has been increased to nearly
1100000.
The school tax rate of 40 cents
the. same as last year. Is based on the
assessed valuation for the city ot
$109243730 these figures being
submitted by James F. Garland city
tax commissioner. While the rate is
not considered high it makes ample
provision for the increased expenses
that will follow the opening of the
new high school and the employment
of additional teachers which will be
necessary then.
The tax rate includes 36 cents for
maintenance of the schools and 4
cents for interest and^ the sinking
fund. It is estimated that there will
be a surplus of about $27000 this
representing the indicated between
expenditures and the tax money. This
surplus wil go into the general fund
where there is already $71350
brought forward from last year.
Summary ot Report.
A summary of Mr. Scholz’s finan-
cial report presented to the school
board Tuesday night follows:
Receipts:
State apportionment $181755
City taxes current 393000
City taxes back 15000
County apportionment ... 1.300
Tuition 1000
Interest on deposits 150 e
Miscellaneous 15'00
Total $595055
Expenses:
Administration $23000
Auxiliary agencies 6.300
Instruction agencies 480000
Operation of plant 50.000
Maintenance ot plant 9000
Total $568300
President Walton Hool ot tne
school board said the report -»a<
most gratifying and that he doubted
it any other city in the state could
boast of public schools in better con-
dition. He said that more than 3000
new pupils had been enrolled this
year making the total enrollment of
the San Antonio public schools
around 20.000.
Reserve $40000 for Enlargements.
“San Antonio Is increasing in pop-
ulation with mighty strides and we
will no doubt have to increase our
school facilities to take care of a
larger attendance next year" said
Mr. Hood. "With this in view we
have reserved $40000 from our bond
issue and the enlargements in fa-
cilities will be made as fast as they
become necessary."
The board passed favorably on n
plan formulated by Superintendent
Charles S. Meek for a teachers' in-
stitute in San Antonio this summer.
It was pointed out that nearly 1000
teachers from this part of the state
would attend the institute. Mr.
Meek plans to bring some ot tn«
foremost educators of the country
to San Antonio to address the insti-
tute in the event it is held.
The board accented with thanks
the wash tubs and equipment for
laundry training In the negro schools
given by George W. Brackenridge
and a copy of a resolution to this
effect was ordered sent to Mr.
Breckenridge.
The school board discussed ways
and means of providing the poor
children ot the city with text books
so that they may get the most out
of the public schools but it was de-
cided to leave the matter to the
school board attorney who will re-
port to the board its powers in this
respect.
TALKS ABOUT METEORS
Prof. S. W. Stannckl Addresses the
Sr lent i fie Society.
Prof. S. W. Stanfield of th®
Southwest Texas Normal Schpol at
San Marcos delivered a Hectare
Tuesday night before the San An-
tonio Scientific Society on the sub-
ject of meteors and meteorites. The
lecture was illustrated with etere-
opticon views of meteorites which
have been found in Texas as well as
others which have fallen in other
parts of the world.
It was brought out by Professor
Stanfield that meteorites while
composed for the most part of iron
nickel and other heavy metals not
infrequently carry diamonds as well.
The stone meteorites he said usually
burst as a skjrocket before they
reach the earth while the iron me-
teorites whirl on intact and are bu-
ried in the earth. Nineteen meteor-
ites he said have been recovered
from places where they fell in Texas
and on 4 of those was at San Pedro
park in this city.
FUNERAL OF WM. CASSIN
Services Held In St. Mary's Churcli
nt 3 O’clock Wednesday.
The funeral of William Carsin
who died Tuesday will be held Wed-
nesday afternoon. There will be a
short service at St Mary's Church to
be conducted by the liev. Father J.
H. Quinn. The burial will be in St
Mary's cemetery.
The pallbearers selected ^ire as
follows: Active S. G. Newton Sr..
Price Cross S. G. Newton Jr.. W.
W. Bogel. Samuel Gaines Tom J.
Newton: honorary. Judge P. H.
Swearingen Judge S. J. Brooks. Jac|
W. Noal. Jesse D. Oppenheimer
Judge J. H. Clark. So! West D. &
Colp and Albert Steves Jr
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