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A RIOT IN THE RING :
F . . .. ‘
j r A bill to legalize boxing in Illinois
is pending in the Legislature of that I
' state and new interest in its chances of 1
enactment has been created by the liot <
that marked the Leonard-Mitclujl bout 1
in Chicago a few nights ago. But that •
event has a broader significance than 1
any it may bear as representing ten- 1
denc.ies in the particular field to which
it belongs. It exemplifies two results '
that are inevitably produced whenever
laws of a sumptuary nature are resorted
to as a means of solving the problem
presented by intemperate indulgence of
natural human wants. As long as such
wants exist they will be gratified in one
way or another; they cannot be abol-
ished by the fiat of prohibition.
The first effect of the Illinois statute
declaring boxing unlawful was the stag-
ing of bouts in secret places. The sec- 1
ond effect appeared in the form of in- 1
creased costs to all interested in the ■
sport —promoters and fans alike.
So far as the holding of such con- 1
tests is concerned irrespective of ways •
and means it makes little difference 1
whether the Illinois legislators legalize ’
boxing or make the Torbiddance of it •
more drastic. The “fight fans’’ of that •
state have demonstrated fairly well that :
they- want boxing and that they are able 1
to gratify that want law or no law.
Readers of The Light's sport columns
will recall the almost romantic situa* 1
tion that developed in Chicago a few
months ago when boxing contests were 1
held clandestinely throughout that city '
with a regularity which mocked at the '
statute outlawing the sport. No news- ■
paper publicity was given to the bouts
until they had passed into history. News-
paper men were not supposed to know
about them in advance. But the “fans”
got sufficient information beforehand to
guide them unerringly to the places of
combat the news spreading rapidly and
far through underground routes. And
the attendance was as large as or larger :
than it had been when boxing was not i
forbidden by law. It was the law of
reaction that prevailed. But of course .
prices were higher.
Now comes in the case of the Leon- i
ard-Mitchell “mill” a third effect of 1
such a prohibition as the bill pending I
in the Illinois Legislature is designed
to remove. That effect is an excess far '
more unwholesome than were the worst
incidents that marked the sport of punch-
and-take before the law denied it the
right of existence. There would have
been no riot if boxing in Illinois had
been under .the law’s .sponsorship and I
control instead of under its forbiddance.
Instead of being law-breakers those con-
nected with the contest would have been
subject to exacting rules governing their
conduct.
Any attempt to prohibit that which
the public demands can result onl\ in an
aggravating of conditions which such
attempt is designed to abolish.
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> STEPPING ON THE GAS
Whether the United States is or is
*ot reaching saturation point in motor
cars and gasoline motor propelled ve-
hicles and engines is a disputed prob-
lem that the experts employed by the .
big motor car companies are seeking
to work out There are approximately j
12000000 motor cars in active use in |
FRIDAY.
the United States. One company alone
is selling 12000 motor cars each busi-
’ ness day.
; When it is realized that a very large
> percentage of motor car sales are made
t on credit usually on a monthly payment
basis the effect economically on finances
and the people should be apparent. The
■ expenditure for motor cars and for mo-
tor car operation and maintenance is
enormous. The motor car industry is
one of the greatest in the United States
which means in the world. The bulk
of all motor vehicles and gasoline en-
gines arc made and sold in America. The
ownership and use of the automobile as
we know it is undreamed of in any
other land.
Data for 1922 indicates that it re-
quired 5350000000 gallons of gasoline
to run American motor cars. To pro-
duce so much gasoline the United States
exhausted several large oil fields and
shipped in millions of gallons of crude
from Mexico. The refineries of the
United States must fill one 10000-gallon
tank car with gasoline every minute of
every hour of the twenty-four in order
to supply the fuel needed to drive these
motor vehicles.
Figured on an approximate retail
price based on the prevalent prices of
gasoline for the same year it costs the
equivalent of $lO for every man woman
and child in the United States to run
the motor cars that we American peo-
ple are buying and operating.
Much of this money is accordingly
spent for pleasure speed travel and
luxury. The percentage that is ex-
pended on transportation in business is
not easily distinguished because the line
of demarcation is not sharply defined.
Almost every motor vehicle except the
larger trucks provides a certain amount
of pleasure transportation and vice versa.
In the face of this remarkable use of
gasoline and motor vehicles we have
the lowest prices for crude oil known
in many years despite the obvious fact
at our rate of consumption there is an
end in 'sight to possible future supplies.
We can not go on discovering new oil ■
fields foiever. At least it does not seem
probable. Moreover not all the crude
oils recovered have high gasoline con-
tents so that we recover a small amount
of gasoline in proportion to the crude
refined and it is as low in quality as
motor car operation will permit now.
Just what the outcome of this sit-
uation will be is difficult to foresee. It
may result in invention of a new fuel
or a new motor or both. It may result
in an entirely new transportation method
although nothing of the sort is even
indicated at this time.
Economically the prevalent use of the
motor car unquestionably has been’ a
strong factor in our national life and
our domestic life too for that matter.
Individually the financial side of it is
apparent. It marks a nAv era in Ameri-
can life. It has brought the country
and the town together levelled distance
and speeded up business. Whether in the
long run it will prove beneficial or dis-
astrous only time can tell. It is one of
those big experimental propositions that
occur from time to time in the history
of the world. Industrially it has been
a money-maker and the highest paid
skilled lajior in the world is on the pay-
rolls of the motor business and allied
interests.
In absorbing all these motor cars and
in supporting this industry either the
American people have given evidence of
the resourcefulness of the country finan-
cially or there is coming a day of reck-
oning. At all events no other people
anywhere in the world have been able
to do what we have done with the mo-
tor car.
oo
AMERICANS AT PLAY
The recent automobile race on the
Indianapolis track established no new
record for speed but it did set a new
mark which may be of greater signifi-
cance than the adding of a few miles
to the old driving rate would have been.
A concision to be drawn from the out-
come of this contest is that the maxi-
mum speed of which automobiles of the
type now in general use are capable
has already been attained. This refers
to avenges on a circular track of course.
The average speed of the winner Tommy
Milton was 91.4 miles per hour; this
means obviously that a higher speed
was attained on the stretches the esti-
mated maximum being about 100 miles
per hour. An. alternative conclusion
that drivers could not endure higher
speed is discounted by airplane records.
However everybody who attended the
Ind-.anapolis classic contributed to a new
record. This record pertains not only to
automobile races but to sporting events
of all kinds and descriptions. The at-
tendance was in excess of 150000.
et this does not signify a sudden j
access of enthusiasm on the part of the]
American people for exciting sports. I
Rather does it represent a growth spread
out over several years.
tor example football games last sea-
son established world-beating attendance
records. When it was announced that
1 5.000 tickets to a single gridiron con-
। test had been sold it seemed that the |
! people's interest in sports had reached j
full tide. It soon became apparent!
I though that this was only a beginning |
■ Reports of unprecedented attendance at
■ nearly all kinds of sporting events came
from various parts of the country. Now
comes the report that the tide of popu-
lar enthusiasm not only has not begun
to recede but is rising.
Is this a dependable developmentF
Will the great stadiums and grandstands
enlarged within the last year or so ’ n
response to immediate necessity have
to be replaced by still more capacious
structures or will they eventually prove
to be "poor investments? In other words
will the public’s interest in sporting
events continue to increase or will it
wane ? $
These are questions which no one can
confidently answer. One might think
that the present tendency is merely a
result of the stimulation afforded the
people's taste for excitement by condi-
tions created by the world war. But
even prior to that epochal event which
undoubtedly did fire the imagination
and stir the pulses of all normal men
interest in sports in this country was
steadily increasing.
Americans seem to be the world’s
greatest lovers of adventure. Time was
when people of other nations displayed
that quality in superlative degree but
that was before the birth of the Ameri-
can nation. Moreover venturesome
spirits of other nationalities have been
largely restricted to certain classes. In
the United States everybody is poten-
tially a sportsman. About the first
thing in which a youngster here mani-
fests a lively interest after crawling out
of the cradle and graduating into knee
breeches is baseball. The United States
“takes the cake” as a nation of juvenile
sports.
With Americans interest in sports is
a matter of steady growth from baby-
hood to manhood. That is why no doubt
the attendance at sporting events has
been increasing for many years. Most
likely the world war did.exert a stimu-
lating influence upon the tendency which
has become so conspicuous but in the
light of the American people’s love for
sports a love that is inborn and cumu-
lative with increasing age it does not
seem likely that the development newly
brought into evidence at the Indianapolis
race will be short-lived.
oo
Mayoi elect Tobin has lopped off $lB-
000 in the mayor’s office he announces.
The first elimination is the efficiency
expert.
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A runaway boy was arrested in Kan-
sas City the other day and the police
later found he was the son of a banker.
He’s starting young.
■ oo
Gary says the world must get back
to religion to solve its problems. Doubt-
less the 12-hour a day men in the steel
mills would like some such an oppor-
tunity.
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ADVICE TO A GIRL.
Never love unless you ean
Bear with all the faults of man!
Meu sometimes will jealous be.
Though but little cause they see.
And hang the head as discontent
. And speak what straight they will repent.
Men that but one Saint adore
Make a show of love to more;
Beauty must be scorned iu none
Though but truly served in one:
For what is courtship but disguise?
True hearts may have dissembling eyes.
Men when their affairs require
Must awhile themselves retire;
Sometimes hunt and sometimes hawk.
And not ever sit and talk:—
If these and such-like you can bear.
Then like and love and never fear!
—Thomas Campion.
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TRIE BEAUTY.
i
May I find a woman fair
And her mind as dear as air!
If her beauty go alone
'Tis to me as if 'twere none.
May I find a woman rich.
And not of too high a pitch!
If that pride should cause disdain
Tell me Lover where's thy gain?
May I find a woman wise.
And her falsehood not disguise!
Hath she wit as she hath will
Doublg-armed she is to ill.
May I find a woman kind.
And not wavering like the wind!
How should I call that love mine
When 'tis his ahd his and thine?
May I find a woman true!
There is beauty’s fairest hue:
There is beauty love and wit.
Happy be can compass it!
—Francis Bepumont.
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TO MARY IN HEAVEN.
Thou lingering star with Jessing ray
That lov’st to greet the early morn.
Again thou usher'st in the day
My Mary from my soul was torn.
O Mary! dear departed shade!
Where is thy place of blissful rest?
Sce’st thou thy lover lowly laid?
Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
That sacred hour can I forget.
Can I forget the hallowed grove.
Where by the winding Ayr we met
To live one da.v of parting love!
Eternity will not efface
Those records dear of transports past;
Thy image at our last embrace —
Ah! little thought we 'twas our last!
Ayr. gurgling kissed his pebbled shore
_ O'erhung with wild woods thickening green;
The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar
Twined amorous round the raptured scene;
The flowers sprang wanton to be pressed
The birds sang love on every spray—
Till soon too soon the glowing west
Proclaimed the speed of winged day.
Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes
And fondly broods with miser care!
Time but the Impression stronger makes.
। As streams their channel deeper wear.
I My Mary! dear departed shade!
' Where is thy place of blissful rest?
■ Sce’st thou thy lover lowly laid?
j Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
I —Robert Burns.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
HAMINGHi
A J EWE Lj|
" Wil ROBERTCHAMBERS
©IOQQ GIOECS H. DORAN COMPANY
Begin Here Today.
For two years Fate Chance and
Destiny had been too busy to attend
MIKE CLINCH. Now the malevo-
lent influence which had hung over
each possessor of the priceless
Flaming Jewel ever since it was
stolen from a refugee countess of
Esthonia gathered like a fog about
the disreputable hunting camp which
Clinch owned in the Adirondacks.
Here among the criminals and' riff-
raff of the North Woods Clinch lives
with his beautiful step-daughter
EVE STRAYER.
JAMES DARRAGH learns from
the countess that the Flaming Jewel
was originally stolen from her by
QUINTANA a great international
thief whose New York agent is
EMANUEL SARD. Darragh robs
Sard of a code letter from Quin-
tana which states thnt the Flaming
Jewel is now in the possession of
Mike Clinch. Darragh heads for
Clinch’s cabin at Star Pond and on
his trail are two State Troopers
seeking to arrest him for the holdup
of Sard. Go on with the story.
CHAPTER 111.
Clinch in his shirt sleeves came
out on the veranda. He had little
light gray eyes. close-clipped gray
hair and was clean shaven.
“How are you Clinch?” inquired
Lannis affably.
“All right” replied Clinch; “you're
the same I hope.”
“Trooper Stormont Mr. Clinch"
said Lannis in his genial way.
“Pleased to know you” aaid
Clinch level-eyed unstirring.
The troopers dismounted. Both
shook hands with Clinch. Then Lan-
nis led the way to the barn.
From Jhe care of their horses they
went to a pump to wash.
Lannis said in Stormont's ear:
“Here she comes with towels. She’s
pretty isn't she?”
A young girl in pink ginghnm ad-
vanced toward them across the
patch of grass.
Lannis was very polite and pre-
sented Stormont. The girl handed
them two rough towels glanced at
Stormont again after the introduc-
tion. smiled slightly.
“Dinner is ready” she said.
They dried their faces and followed
her back to the house.
It was an unpainted building
partly of log. In the dining room
half a dozen men waited silently for
food. Lannis saluted all named his
comrade and seated himself.
A delicious odor of johnny-cake
pervaded the room. Presently Eve
Strayer appeared with the dinner.
There was dew on her pale fore-
head—the heat of the kitchen no
doubt. The girl's thick lustrous
hair was brownish gold nnd so
twisted up that it revealed her ears
and a very white neck.
When she brought Stormont his
dinner he caught her eyes a mo-
ment—experienced n slight shoek of
pleasure at their intense blue—the
gentian-blue of the summer zenith
at midday.
Lannis remained nffable even be-
came jocose at moments:
“No hootch for dinner Mike?
How's that now?”
“The Boot-leg Express is a day
late” replied Clingli with cold
humor.
Around the table ran an odd
sound—a company of catamounts
feeding might have made such a
noise—if catamounts ever laugh.
Stormont had finished dinner. He
heard a low charming voice from
behind his chair:
“Apple pie lemon pie maple cake
berry roll.”
He looked up into two gentian-
blue eyes.
“Lemon pie plense" he said
blushing.
When dinner was over and the
bnre dinning room empty except for
Clinch and the two State Troopers
the former folded his heavy power-
ful hands on the table's edge and
turned his square face and pale-eyed
gaze on Lannis.
There’s at Least One in Every Neighborhood
“Spit it out” he said in a passion-
less voice.
Lannis crossed one knee oder the
other lighted a cigaret:
“Is there a young fellow working
for you named Hal Smith?”
“No” said Clinch.
“Sure?”
“Sure.”
“Clinch” continued Lannis “have
you heard about a stick-up on the
wood-road out of Ghost Lake?”
“No.”
“Well a wealthy tourist from
New York — a Mr. Sard stopping al
Ghost Lake Inn —was held up and
robbed last Saturday toward sun-
down.”
“Never heard of him" said Clinch
calmly.
There was a pause.
“We heard you had a new man
named Hal Smith working around
your place.” '
“No.”
“He came here Saturday night.”
“Who says so?”
“A guide from Ghost Lake."
“He's a liar."
“You know” said Lannis “it
won't do you any good if hold-up
men can hide here and make a get-
away.”
“G’wan and search” said Clinch
calmly.
They searched the “hotel” from
garret to cellar. They searched the
barn boat-shed out-houses.
While this was going on. Clinch
went into' the kitchen.
“Eve” he said eooly “the State
Troopers are after that fellow Hal
Smith who came here Saturday
night.^ Where is he?”
"He'went into Harrod's to get us
a deer” she replied in a low voice.
“What has he done?”
“Stuck up a man on the Ghost
Lake road. He ought to have told
me. Do you think you could meet
up with him and tip him off?”
“He’s hunting on Owl Marsh. I’ll
try.”
“All right. Change your clothes
and slip out the back door. And
look out for Harrod's patrols too.”
“All right dad” she said. “If I
have to be out tonight don’t worry.
I’ll get word to Smith somehow.”
Half an hour later Lannis and
Stormont returned from a prowl
around the clearing. Lannis paid
the reckoning; his comrade led out
the horses. He said again to Lannis:
“I’m sure it was the girl. She
wore men’s clothes and she went
into the woods on a run.”
About three o'clock the two State
Troopers riding at a walk came to
the forks of the Ghost Lake road.
“Now" said Lannis to Stormont
“if you really believe you saw the
girl beat it out of the back door and
take to the woods she's probably
somewhere in there—” he pointed
into the western forest. “But.” he
added “what's your idea in follow-
ing her?”
“She wore men's alothes; she was
in a hurry and trying to keep out
of sight. I wondered whether
Clinch might have gent her to warn
this hold-up fellow.”''
“Ali right. Take your bearings.
This road runs west to Ghost Lake.
We sleep at the Inn there—if you
mean to cross the woods on foot.”
Stormont nodded consulted his
map and compass pocketed both
unbuckled his spurs.
When he was ready he gave his
bridle to Lannis.
“I’d just like to see what she's up
to” he remarked.
The forest was open amid a big
stand of white pine and hemlock
and Stormont traveled easily and
swiftly. He had struck a line by
compass that must cross the direc-
tion taken by Eve Strayer when she
left Clinch's. But it was a wild
chance that he would ever run across
her.
Far away in the open forest Stor-
mont heard the shot and turned in
that direction.
But Eve already was very near
when the young man who called
himself Hal Smith fired at one of
Harrod's deer—a three-prong buck
on the edge of the dead water.
Smith had drawn and dressed the
buck by the time the girl found him.
He was cleaning up when she ar-
rived squatting by the water's edge
when he heard her voice across the
swale:
“Smith! The State Troopers are
loooking fr you!”
He stood up dried his hands on
his breeches. The girl picked her
way across the bog jumping from
one tussock to the next.
When she told him what had hap-
pened he began to laugh.
“Did you really stick up this
man?” she asked incredulously.
“I’m afraid I did Eve” be re-
plied still laughing.
. The girl's entire expression al-
tered.
“So that’s the sort you are” she
said. “I thought you different. But
you’re all a rotten lot —”
“If you think me so rotten why
did you run all the way from
Clinch’s to warn me?” he asked
curiously.
“I didn't do it for you; I did it
for my father. They’ll jail him if
they catch him hiding you. They’ve
got it in for him. If they put him
in prison he’ll die. He couldn’t stand
it. I know. And that's why I came
to find you and tell you to clear
out—”
The distant crack of a dry stick
checked her. The next instant she
picked up his rifle seized his arm
and fairly dragged him into a spruce
thicket.
“Do you want to get my father
into trouble!” she said fiercely.
The rocky flank of Star I’eak bor-
bered the marsh here.
“Come on” she whispered jerk-
ing him along through the thicket
and up the rocks to a cleft—a hole
in the sheer rock overhung by
shaggy hemlock.
“Get in there” she said breath-
lessly.
“Whoever* comes” he protested
“will see the buck yonder and will
certainly look in here—”
“Not if I go down there and take
your medicine. Creep into that cave
and lie down.”
“What do you intend to do?” he
demanded interested nnd amused.
“If it's one of Harrod's game-
keepers” said the girl dryly “it only
means a summons and a fine for me.
And if it’s a State Trooper who is
prowling in the woods yonder hunt-
ing crooks he’ll find nobody here but
a trespasser. Keep quiet. I’ll stand
him off.”
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
A Puzzle a Day
The drawing represents six cards
each with a different letter on it. The
puzzle is to form the cards in line
so that they will spell a person's
name.
Yesterday’s answer:
If the two figures composing the
number 45 (4 and 5). are added to-
gether and multiplied by 5 they will
give 45 (4 plus 5 is 9 multiplied by
5 is 45). If 9 is added to 45 the
two figures (4 and 5) will be re-
versed now forming 54.
Where to Go
Stock.
Edna Park and players in “Cnppy
Ricks.”
Motion Pictures.
Palace. “Mad Love.”
Rialto. “Within the Law.”
Princess. “Bella Donna.”
Empire. “The Rustle of Silk.”
Musical Comedy.
Jimmy Allard and company in
“Family Affairs.”
Luncheon Clubs.
Friday.
Rotary club at the St. Anthony.
Kiwanis dub nt the Gunter.
Conopus club at the Menger.
JUNE 1 1923.
Poets’ Corner
TELL ME YE STARS.
Tell pe ye stars thaf so brightly
shine above us
From what far distant suns comes
that glittering light of thine!
What myriad worlds around those
central fires?
Surely in it all we see a Master
Hand Divine.
Tell me ye stars when mists hang
heavy o'er us
Do mists like these your distant
world’s enshroud?
Do winds and rain and ice and snow
and ether
Compress your substance and your
radiance cloud ?
Tell me ye stars do birds fly In
your heaven?
Do wild beasts rove amid fair groves
and plains? '
Do rivers rush along deep chasms
riven ?
Do harvests ripen hi broad fields of
grains?
Tell me ye stars what living souls
inhabit s
Your boundless realms in fancy or
in truth!
What learning there what love and
ripened wisdom
Infill the heart of wrinkled age and
youth?
Tell me ye stars is Infinite strong
wisdom
Restricted only to this little world
of ours?
Is only this the smallest world crea-
tion
A home of men. of beasts and birds
and flowers?
Tell me ye stars that so brightly
shine and sparkle!
Tell me that Love that Truth of
God is where
There is a star—a world— a glory
shining
That life is builded in a creation
there!
MRS. SABINA E. HOOD.
CHIMNEYSIDE
What do I want with a ‘'bride's
drcam”
Meaning a rose-pink toy bungalow
Set in a row like peas in a pod?
Or an oil man’s modern brick mon-
strosity
Covering half of his lot?
What in Sam Hill would I do with
’em?
I'd suffocate in a “bride's dream”
With its crazy litle built-ins
(An insult to my old mahogany)
And I'd flee from the brick monstro-
sity _
As from an “institution—”
If you know what I mean.
I don’t want the whole state of Texas
either.
But I want room enough to breathe
And I want trees —
I want lots of trees.
I want to be far enough away from
my nearest neighbor
To have an “argument” with him-
self—if necessary— »
And settle it without any outside help.
I know an old house in a little grove
A quaint old place—but I will not
describe it —
You'd hardly notice it in passing by
But on the inside unexpected graces
Greet you:
The simple dignity of plain old rooms
The suden charm of a great fire-
place—
You know at once that children have
been there
(’Tis not too god for popcorn or' a
candy-pull)
So plain it is so sturdily old-time
You look to see the kettle and the
crane.
I want that old house in the little
grove
I want it like all sixty!
I who have had my mornings and
who now—
After the heat and burden of the
day—
Would sit content at my own chimney-
side
(Himself so near that I could touch
his hand)
And so if One should call us to come
higher up
We’d not have far to go.
MARY WALL SPRING
—By Briggs
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