The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 118, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1923 Page: 8 of 24
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Importance of Official Guaged
by Tardiness in Philippines
Later He Is and the More
People Inconvenienced by
Waiting the Higher He
Rises in His Own Esteem.
nr n \ n s n. .wood.
Special Cable tn The San Antonio Light
•nd thr Chicago Daily New?’..
Copyright. 1923.
Iloilo Fanay P. 1.. May IT.—Being
late is the birthright of every Filipino
and being very late is one phase of
procedure on which all high Filipino
officials agree. It is the badge of
authority and of importance. The de-
gree of tardiness and the number of
IMtrsons who are inconvenienced dem-
onstrates the importance of the offi-
cial. In other countrie. the slovenly
official either mend his ways or else
his constituents play the same game
and do not get to the polls in time to
vote for him at the next '’ction.
In the Philippines the laggard offi-
cial rises in his own esteem as his
watch ticks off the overdue minutes
and he swells with pride as he sights
those who have been forced to wait
his pleasure. The Filipino patiently
endures for he looks upon officials
much as he looks on locusts and ty-
phoons— unneeded phenomena of na-
ture which do not help him but which
must be endured.
This evening we were to sail for
Manila at 5:30 p. m. Instead of that
hope of getting to Manila on Sunday
night vanished. Monday morning
might be possible. "We'll be late
starting.” the genial captain confided
to his friends.
Prestige in the Balance.
At fi p. m.. Isauro Gabaldon one of
the two Philippine commissioners to
the United States pulled himself up
the steep gangplank. He was only half
an hour late—but Mr. Grbaldon had
been slightly spoiled by Washington.
Eren in that leisurely city a street
car will not wait if you are more than
a block away when you wave to it.
His punctuality almost cost him his
prestige in the islands. Salvador La-
guda was a passenger on the same
ship. He was not there. By all the
rules of insular social and official
precedence a commissioner to the
United States should be later than a
mere cabinet member. Mr. Gabaldon
did not hesitate. His entire future
might be ruined. So be left the ship.
Meanwhile several hundred other
passengers who had paid their fares :
in cash waited. They would have
been more comfortable in the country
club or eating ice cream in the Ameri-
can hotel —run by a Chinese who can-
not speak English. Instead they swel-
tered under the awnings increased the
death rate of the mosquitoes which
make Iloilo famous and speculated on
the courtesy of Filipinos who have not
risen to the ranks of Manila official-
dom. Mothers tried to quiet querul-
ous babes a carabao furnished a mo-
ment's diversion by taking a swim in
the river and the boys set the table
for dinner. Still waiting.
Then Mr. Laguda arrived. Grave
fears were entertained that he might
continue the game of checkers inaug-
urated by Mr. Gabaldon to seo who
could be the latest. However he was
escorted by a farewell party. They
stated. Sometime after 7 p. m. Mr.
Gabaldon again came over the side.
Cne hour and a half late was more in
harmony with his official position.
Multiplied by the number of persons
needlessly delayed nnd with the added
grand slam of making the ship an en-
tire day late in getting to Manila it
gave him a high score. The hand
shakings and “adioses” took less than
15 minutes. The steamer cast off " otn
the stifling dock a cool breeze soothed
the babies and dinner was served.
Some Blame Quezon.
The value of a delay is increased by
“Let the
Trolley Help
You Save”
iiU
auniSY I Mil"
cotiroiT jiwiH
CMVtNlflKt
THURSDAY.
the number of persons affected. Forc-
ing 1000 persons to perspire and wait
for two hours is a high score. A pres-
ident of the senate ranks that many
points. Some nrc so unkind as to bold
! President Quezon responsible for set-
I ting the style. He may hare improved
' and systematized it. but even that ef-
ficient leader in things political can-
I not take credit for this distinctively
t Filipino trait.
"Filipino time" is a byword. It is
an improvement on the "manaua"
principle. When an official makes an
appointment for 10 a. m„ it is advis-
able to ask whether it is to be 10
o'clock "Filipino time." If it is. he
will appear about noon. Filipino time
means about two hours behind time. If
the appointment is "by the clock." ten
minutes is a reasonable wait.
When the present party started for
its inspection trip of the sugar planta-
tions on Negros Island Speaker Man-
uel Roxas of the lower house made a
high score. Roxas is young but he is
under able tutelage. He was nearly
two hours late getting aboard the offi-
cial yacht. The fact that Governor
General Wood President Quezon and
various lesser officials were obliged
to wait for him. increased his i>er-
centage. They might have left with-
out him and be would have lost the
trick. However they did not. When
the delay later worked out by making
the yacht half a day late in arriving in
Negros deranged the entire program of
inspection spoiled all the dinners and
entertainments which had been ar-
ranged and seriously inconvenienced
several hundred sugar planters whose
property and business were at stake
the score was almost unbeatable. Be-
ing consistently late at all such meet-
ings clinched Roxas' high record.
When a Filipino official is taking
a train or boat it is a good hint for
plain citizens to wait a day. travel in
less exalted company and save time.
SHOW HOW TO SELL
Salesmanship Club Members Are Given
Demonstration at Luncheon.
■With the two-fold purpose of mak-
ing their demonstration both interest-
ing and instructive. Horace Cox of the
Builders' Supply Company and Charles
M. Cain of the Post Lumber Company.
Federal Home Builders demonstrated
to members of the Salesmanship Club
how to sell goods at the regular meet-
ing of the club held in the army room
of the Gunter Hotel Wednesday noon.
Mr. Cox as an interior hardware
salesman made a second call upon Mr.
Cain a home builder in an effort
to supply him with a complete line of
locks hinges and all other necessary
hardware.
It was announced by W. W. Ken-
nedy chairman that both of the two
men would make mistakes especially
the salesman during the interview.
This was done purposely in order that
the other-- present might be able to
improve their line of selling.
Mr. Cox was the winner of the at-
tendance prize ice cream given by the
Mistletoe Creameries. Willis Keller
and C. L. Solomon officiated in choos-
ing the winner of the prize. That
buttons bearing the names of each in-
dividual member will be ready at the
next regular meeting of the club was
made known by President Charles J.
George.
Keep Off the Gnv»*.
•‘Mose ah’s done got me a good Job
now."
“Whar at?**
“Ah’s got de Job bein’ professor ob
pathology to de college.”
"How cum? To* can t read ner write.”-
"Seem like yo’ doesn't know w’at a
perfessor of pathology la. Lemmie
'lucldate. A perfessor ob pathology is
de r’fesM of what shows de folks how to
go tn and out of de college grounds.”
—Park Stylus.
A Guarantee of
A Safe Ride
How often have you heard
of anyone being killed while
riding a street car in San
Antonio?
The answer is your assur-
ance of safe transportation
when you let our motorman
be your chauffeur.
One fare pays for a ride to
any point in San Antonio.
This same fare insures your
safe arrival at destination.
It further assures depend-
able regular transportation
from 6 a. m. until midnight.
Do you know where
you can get more for
your money?
Ride the Street Car
And Save the Difference
f ^ati Antonio
rubl ic Service Co
Here's latest picture of Lady Porchester wife of the only son and heir
of the late Earl of Carnarvon discoverer of King Tut's tomb. She's an
American and was formerly Miss Catherine T. Wendell daughter of the Ute
Jacob Wendell of New York.
Cliff Dweller Excavations
to Be Resumed by Dr. Fewkes
America’s “Lord Carnar-
von” Says He’ll Be Satis-
fied If Summer’s Work
Changes Styles to 100
Per Cent American.
By JOHN ARCHER CARTER.
Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
Washington D. C. May 17. —
America's "Lord Carnarvon" Dr. J.
Walter Fewkes chief of the Bureau of
American Ethnology packed his
trunks this week to leave for. the
Southwest there to dig for more in-
formation concerning probably the old-
est civiligation barring the Mayas'
in Mexico on the American contin-
ent that of the cliff dwellers.
Although 73 years old this scien-
tist. American's greatest ethnologist
is apparently as agile as a collegian
and certainly as exuberant. His eyes
scintillate as he talks excitedly of
getting back into harness nnd strokes
his white beard with bands so gnarl-
ed as to testify an acquaintance with
spade and pick though his name be
followed with enough letters to build
an alphabet.
“Even if I do nothing more than
awaken the wqmen of this land to an
appreciation of cliff dweller styles
and swing the fad away from things
Egyptian” he said with a whimsical
chuckle “I’ll not consider my la-
bors entirely lost. My styles will be
at least 100 per cent American.”
Already Dr. Fewkes declared his
excavations have shown this ancient
extinct race to have boasted militia
and ministry ; weather forecasters and
farm demonstrators; pipe smokers and
cartoonist. Yet they flouished be-
fore the Spaniard sword—and cutlass-
ed a gory trail into Mexico; before
Columbus shouted “land ahead";
probably before Lief the Lucky and
his Norsemen thrust their viking craft
into the natural harbors along the
North Atlantic coast.
Their Origin Not Known.
“Whence they came and when of
course we do not know." said the
scientist. "1 am of the opinion that
they were a branch of the American
Indian family whose love of peace
set them to live among the cliffs and
prosper not by the spear but by the
hoe rake and shovel."
And it is perhaps because of tihs
pacifist attitude that warlike neigh-
bors later wiped them out with skill-
ful use of cupid’s weapon and toma-
hawk.
Just what will be the result of this
season's field work. Dr. Fewkes is
too cautious to predict. It is thought
likely that he will investigate some
large untouched mounds in the Mum-
my lake region of the Mesa Verde
' “Gets-it”
James the
F Wildest
■ Corns
You Can Peel Them Right Off
No matter how long you’ve had your corm
l.nw Lad they may be whether haro or soft or
what you have tried believe this-”GeU-It M
i will end corn peins at once and quickly you
can lift the com right off the toe or foot with
the fingers. It ends callouses the same simple
I ? ay ; Milliona Money hack guarantee.
but a tnfle-everywhere. E. Lawicnce
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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
Royalty’s Pet
National Park in Colorado where
types of habitat as yet undreamed by
archaeologists may be excavated. He
may even ascertain the age and origin
of the race; may even stumble across
evidence indicating that they were
contemporaries of the Mayas or even
the Pharoahs.
"However” Dr. Fewkes explained.
"I believe these cliff dwellers lived
only since the beginning of the Chris-
tian era.” *
Shortly now. he said with enthus-
iasm. he will be in the Mombras val-
ley of New Mexico later going to
Mesa Verde.
"In New Mexico I will hunt for
pottery.” ho asserted. "There lived
the finest potters of all earhly peo-
ple in the Southwest. The work is
tedious yet fascinating. At first we
have a pile of stones as a clue but
we believe a house lies underneath.
At the southeast corner of the pile
wo dig there finding the ancient cem-
etery. And here are the pots.”
Buttery Pictures Show Customs.
From the cartoons painted on the
pots Dr. Fewkes learns of the cus-
toms of the people. He has found
drawings of Indians on a hunt of
boys dragging home n badger of birds
and of beasts so realistic they might
have come from the Latin quarter of
Paris. There is one picture of In-
dians playing a game which com-
pares favorably with “penny ante.”
It is real fun ho says to watch
a city emerge from the hot sands.
" \Ve f ind the towers where stood
the weather forecaster and perhaps
the priest certainly the scout.” ne
said "the kivas where they lived and
loved and worshiped their terrestrial
gods; the fireplaces where they threw
their pipes after a ceremony of to-
bacco smokhig; their fields where un-
der capable supervision they tended
the Indian corn. They interred their
dead lying down rather than sitting
up and with the dead they buried pots
of meat and corn not with the idea
that the spirit of the deceased would
eat the food but rather the spirit of
the food.”
For fiftee’n years Dr. Fewkes has
been working among these ruins and
now he finds his important discoveries
are just beginning.
“However I am devoting the rest of
my life to this stndy” concluded the
73-year-old scientist “and I’m a
young man yet."
SEEK GOODS HERE
West Indian .Merchants in City to
Buy Goods.
Three West Indian merchants were
in San Antonio Wednesday buying
merchandise for shipment to the island
markets according to A. G. Akeroyd. j
general manager of the International ;
Commercial Association. Fernando E.
Agusti of Cieufuegos. Cuba J. Gon- '
zales Torres of San Juan. Porto Rico i
and Munoz Angusti of the importing
firm of Munoz Agusti y Castillo of i
Havana were the parties calling at •
the offices of the association.
In referring to the present oppor-1
(unities of the Cuban market for San '
Antonio exporter Mr. Agusti stated
that an energetic effort on the part
of local business men should produce
beneficial results and expressed the
belief that as an enormous quantity I
of merchandise was now being shipped
I to Cuba from New Turk via the rail I
route to Key West • d from that 1
point ferried across to Havana. San
Antonio should he in position to ef-
fect a transportation saving via Tex-
as i>orts which should he an important
factor in their competing for this mar-
ket. Cuba during the nine mouths
ending March 1923 received from the
| I’nited States $111706986 of mer-
j chandise ns compared w’tb only $83.-'
| 716802 for the same period a year
| ngo nnd according to Mr. Agnsti* is
now in better shape than at any time
i prior to the moratorium and will
probably increase this r tio very con- .
siderably during the next three months. '
: Mr. Torres of Porto Rico stated that
I he had made several connections with
I exporters in San Antonio for the in-
-1 troduetion of San Antonio mnnnfac-
] turns into that island and in com-
; menting on the present co idition of
! the market stated that the balance of
j trade for that insular possession dur-
! ing the present year is expected *•
' reach the $60000000 mark.
e—s.
Then They Wouldn't t ome Off.
Knsiue: "Ah can’t fjet dlw apot off*®
jen’ trousers.” (
Student: "Have you tried gasoline“
liantus: "Yas. «uh"
Student: "Have you tried ammonia?’
R-«Mua: "Nah. auh. but I’m
Inure they’ll fit.”—The Yellow jacket.
LEGISLATURE STILL
APPEARS ANXIOUS TO
TALK TO YOUNGBLOOD
Names Committee to Try
and Get San Antonian
Before It.
The Legislature has not abandoned
its attempt to bring Hull Youngblood.
San Antonio business man. before the
bar of the house for questioning con-
cerning his speech here April 19 in
which he criticized the present legisla-
tive system. It was announced from
Austin Thursday that the Youngblo*)
affair was considered in the House
Wednesday afternoon with the result
that a committee was named to bring
Youngblood before the bar of the
House for investigation. Representa-
tives Irwin Patterson and Beasley
were named on this committee.
Representative Irwin who is chair-
man stated that the committee would
ask the attorney general concerning
the method of procedure for resuming
the inquiry which was started during
the last special session. It is under-
stood that the attorney general is of
the opinion that there is legislative
authority for obtaining the presence of
Y'oungblood at the present special ses-
sion.
Youngblood it is reported is still
absent from San Antonio.
GOULD’S BODY TO U.S.
Services Will Be Held at .Mentone
and Paris.
Paris. May 17.—The bod of George
Jay Gould will be embalmed today
says a dispatch from Mentone and on
Saturday the rector of the Mentone
Episcopal Church will conduct a ser-
vice at the villa Zoraide where Mr.
Gould died. The body then will be
taken to the mortuary chapel at
Mentone.
Another service will be held in the
—at Hertzberg’s
M 7 the Diamond House
iff/ —since 1878
I Hovelty
JBl EARDROPS
In the Most Becoming Styles
Amethyst Jade Topaz Pearl
Coral mounted in the long drop
; effects.—some of solid gold some
; of fine gold filled—-
s2.so to $l5
• BEAD NECKLACES
' to match—ss.so and $6.50
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American pro-cathedral in Paria next
Thursday and on May 26 the casket
will be sent to New York aboard the
steamer Paris.
The final service will be held in
New York.
BAPTISTS IN MEETING
Secretary Reports on the Laymen's
Missionary .Movement.
Kansas City. Mo. .May 17.— One of
the most promising developments of
the past year among Southern Bap-
tist men has been the organization
f of the 500 local brotherhoods among
the local churches according to Dr.
J. T. Henderson corresponding sec-
retary of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement in his annual report to the
Southern Baptist convention here to-
day. These local organizations pro-
mote uot only a greater social life
among the membership of the church-
es. but a fuller acquaintance with the
programs and activities of the denom-
ination as a whole. It was pointed out.
Considerable progress is being made
in the enlistment of the men of the
churches in the study of missions and
other general henovelences of the de-
nomination and the laymen's movement
is preparing monthly program sug-
gestions calculated to acquaint the men
more fully with what Baptists nre do-
ing the world over in the realm of
missions education nnd general ben-
evolent work the secretary reported.
Another activity of the laymen's
movement has been the effort to bring
nil the churches of the convention to
the budget system of weekly offerings
to both local church expenses and the
support of the general work of the
denomination.
Aged Ballooonlst Acquitted.
St. Louis Mo.. May 17.— Captain
John J. Berry 75 nationally known
balloonist charged with third degree
arson in connection with a fire at
his aviation school last- October 31.
was found not guilty by a jury in
circuit court here late last night.
An Error Correeted.
Webster's Academic Dictionary says:
"Sheik—a venerable old man."
"Oh. Mr. Webster you have no ideah."
—Brown Jug.
BOSTON SHOE STORES
Alamo Plaza 112 West
Cor. Crockett Houston St.
SHOE SALE
FOR MEN!
STARTS FRIDAY
100 STYLES - llflew
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”^1 Pay
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t II Hn these
11 honest guaran-
teed all-leather
1 shoes
1 and
PAIR E
Many models
VC the popular
c ° m b < nation
sport shoes
shown at the-
Sale Price.
a J""
Pair /
Compare any pair
shown in this kWKs
•ale with shoes Your' favorite
priced elsewhere last in Black
up to $8 and $lO B ® rown or White
a pair. shoes is here and
at Sale Prices
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Every pair of shoes sold at either
IBoston Shoe Store is fully guaran-
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price may be. You must be
absolutely satisfied in quaii-
ty. and fit. or writ
make good
Better
&K Hurry!
BOSTON SHOE STORES
MAY 17 1923.
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