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THE MEXICAN OUTBREAK
Few particulars have reached the
United States regarding the underlying
causes of the recent revolt in Mexico
against President Obregon. It is head-
ed by Adolfo de la Huerta and Gen-
eral • Sanchez who are located at Vera
Cruz and by General Enrique Estrada
the military commandant in the state
of Jalisca. There are however a few
facts that stand out and which may
shed a little light on this last distur-
bance south of the Rio Grande.
The element that is opposed to Presi-
dent Obregon under the leadership of
De la Huerta Estrada and "Sanchez
is the element that has stood in the past
for the rights of property the protec-
tion of investments and against the con-
fiscatory agrarian laws which have from
time to time reared their heads during
Obregon’s administration and which
। have been frequently favored by Presi-
dent Obregon himself.
The big men in the movement against
Obregon are De la Huerta and Estrada.
The latter is a young man who was at
one time offered by President Obregon
the position of Minister of Agriculture
which he refused saying that he was
not an anarchist or a socialist that he
stood for the rights of property and
was unalterably opposed to the confis-
catory laws that were favored by the
radicals of Mexico. He would not take
the position because he would not be
a party to the enactment or enforce-
ment of bolshevik and confiscatory laws.
These laws it must be remembered.were
nothing but imitation of the proceedings
of the Russian soviets. Thev favored the
absolute confiscation of all lands and
their distribution among the people re-
gardless of all rights of title or posses-
sion. '
Such laws would almost inevitably
have brought about trouble with every
foreign power wljich would not permit
the property of its nationajs to be arbi-
T trarily taken away without recompense
~of any kind. America today refuses to
% acknowledge Russia as a nation for the
reason that the soviet government did
it the precise thing that was proposed in
Mexico and which has from the first
been opposed by De la Huerta and
Estrada.
• For some reason that is not under-
stood in America President Obregon has
*’ favored the presidential candidacv of
T- General Calles as against that of De la
V Huerta. Calles has been the head of
the bolshevik movement in Mexico. He
» has moreover been strongly anti-Ameri-
. can and while we were at war with Ger-
many he was an ardent pro-German.
* As to the success fir failure nf the re-
' volt—that is in the lap of the future.
* The secession of Estrada from Obrc-
* gon however and the possibility that
' he may attack the government from one
• side while it is busy with Sanchez and
De la Huerta in front makes it evident
that Obregon will have his hands full.
- Estrada can muster at least 30.000 men
and as he is an able soldier and a highly
*•' intelligent man he alone it capable of
L making it necessary for O'regon’s gov-
•• ernment to put forth all f « strength.
»• This last outbreak in Mexico will
cause real distress in America. The
J United States genuinely sympathetic
with Mexico has been hoping that it
’■ would be able to proceed along the
* paths of peace and conduct its political
•’ struggles without resorting tn arms or
tv civil war. If Mexico is unable to do this
V the United States may ultimately be
i compelled to restore order in Mexico
as she brought it to pass in Cuba and
* the .United States is very much averse
SUNDAY.
to such action. * It would very much
prefer to remain north of the Rio Grande
and attend exclusively to American af-
fairs. We have however enormous in-
terests in Mexico and it cannot be ex-
pected that we can forever allow' them
to be made the sport and prey of de-
plorable political wars.
THE CITY S NEW OPPORTUNITY
To get the maximum benefit from the
proceeds of the flood-prevention and oth-
er bonds authorized by the voters of this
city San Antonio should widely adver-
tise her new program of self-improve-
ment. Nor. should the advertisements
be confined to the specific improvements
in which this money is to be invested.
Developments by private enterprises will
surely follow and even accompany the
work of making San Antonio a safer
more attractive and more thoroughly
modern city. Why not spread the whole
program before the .world?
To begin with thousands of outsid-
ers prospective tourists will be inter-
ested to know that San Antonio has
undertaken to do all that is humanly
possible to prevent a recurrence of the
calamity which diverted travelers from
this city two years ago and for many
months afterward. They will receive
that bare information through nsMvs re-
ports of the bond election’^ outcome.
But thew will be interested also in the
details of the program. Isn’t it logical
to assume that those who were kept
away by adverse conditions will be at-
tracted by favorably conditions? Blit
bad news travels not only fastest but
farthest. It will require greater effort
to create a creditable impression than
it did to create a discreditable one. In
fact no effort at all on San Antonio’s
part was required to create the impres-
sion two years ago that this city w r as
not a desirable place for tourists to visit.
Unless San Antonio undertakes ener-
getically and systematically to “tell the
w’orld” that she has permanently re-
moved the flood menace and to explain
in elaborate detail the comprehensive
program of civic improvement in which
she is engaged many prospective tour-
ists will retain the unfavorable impres-
sion they gained first hand or from
acquaintances and the public prints in
1921.
To explain comprehensively the sig-
nificance of the new’ civic program would
be however to take advantage of only
a part of the opportunity to make San
Antonio a .greater city in the eyes of the
outside world. Tourists are not the only
people to be attracted. Industrial and
commercial interests ever on the look-
out for “something good” should not
be ignored.
Private enterprise locally will un-
doubtedly be stimulated to new and
greater activity by the civic projects
which the voters have authorized. Ten-
tative development programs long held
in abeyance awaiting the outcome of the
flood-prevention issue" will be put into
effect. These expansions would be of
great interest to outsiders who are in
search of better “locations” than they
already have. A growing progressive
city is ever a jnagnet to men of finan-
cial means. The process of building up
San Antonio would be cumulative to
the maximum degree only in the event
the outside world should be fully ap-
prised of what San Antonians them-
selves were doing. If the outside world
is convinced that San Antonians have
unbounded faith in the future of their
own city then the outside world will
make a beaten path to San Antonio’s
door. /
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
President Coolidge's first message to
Congress is in perfect consonance with
the impression which the public had
gained of him before he spoke his mind
comprehensively on affairs of state. It
confirms his reputation for conservatism.
It exemplifies his talent for terseness
of expression. It marks him anew as
an earnest painstaking methodical man.
But perhaps most remarkable of his
traits as manifested in this message is
his simple frankness. In this respect he
has risen to a plane which has ncv.er
been crowded by holders of political
office. Not only does he employ lan-
guage easily comprehensible to anyone
who can read English but he rides no
fences.’ Evidently he is not afraid to an-
nounce when he thinks the proper time
has arrived which side he is on jn re-
lation to any public issue demanding
governmental attention. Heis no pussy-
footer.
This does not mean that he is invar-
iably on the right side. Democrats could
easily tear some of his policies to pieces;
but they are not his policies exclusively—-
his advocacy of them merely spells his
fidelity to Republican doctrines. In
discussing the tariff for -example he
says that the Fordney-McCumber law
has produced “abounding prosperity”
and “an abundant revenue” and that
“under it th 6 country has had a very
large export and import trade” Of
these assertions only one is subject
to any measure of proof. The tariff
law may have produced “an abundant
revenue’’ from the Republican stand-
point—such revenue coming from the
pockets of American consumers—but it
nut only is possible but seems perfectly
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
logical that the prosperity and trade of
the United States would be greater but
for the high import duties.
Democrats may find several of Presi-
dent Coolidge’s recommendations worthy
of their most ardent opposition. But it
is to be hoped that they will not officially
select for attack the present chief execu-
tive’s definition of American principles
in relation to foreign political affairs.
Mr. ’Coolidge sets forth his attitude
toward Europe in a clean : qut. vigorous
style. In a few words he explains why
America cannot consistently or safely
join the League of Nations. So far as |
this country is concerned he says the
League issue is a closed one. Not that
the United States has no obligations to
discharge beyond its own boundaries;
it simply' “sees no reason to limit its
ow*n freedom and independence of ac-
tion” and does not “feel warranted in
assuming the responsibilities” which
members of the League have assumed.
My. Coolidge thinks that the Court of
International justice would best serve
the cause of world peace and proposes
that the United States join it under such
reservations as would give thiit country
the privilege of “going” before it; he
would not consent to any arrangement
whereby America could be “brought”
before any international tribunal.
In respect of this issue the President
is eminently right in saying that it
should be kept free from political in-
fluences.
In advocating tax reduction he dis-
cusses another subject with which par-
tisanship should liave nothing to do.
His opposition to the soldier-bonus
proposition may cost him many votes
but - it is not inconsistent with his ad-
vocacy of maximum economy in the ad-
ministration of the nation’s fiscal affairs.
Oh the whole considering "that it is
the utterance of a Republican Presi-
dent Coolidge's first message to" Con-
gress reflects a high percentage of
statesmanship. In the matter of simple
frankness it measures up to a high stan-
dard —if it does not set a new one.
OUTDOING SHERLOCK
“Have Mr. Holmes Outclassed.” reads
the headline of a news item detailing
some of the methods employed by Lon-
don detectives in this day of super-
science. The* English sleuths are able
to identify a “wanted man” by one of
his hairs. They have reduced detective
work to an “exact science.” And so on.
No doubt. Sherlock’s facilities were
crude as compared with those to which
he was limited. Moreover London de-
tectives have no monopoly of scientific
instruments for identifying criminals.
Amiran gtim-shoers have .learned a
thing or two since bloodhounds were re-
lied upon. '
If tne layman would make even a
cursory study of all the facilities which
present-day police authorities have at
thejr disposal for the protection of so-
ciety and property he - might wonder
how any criminal could possibly escape
the clutches of the law. But there is a
law which apparently operates in the
interest of criminals. It is not a man-
made one. It is the law’ of compensation.
The wide prevalence of crime in the
face of all the scientific facilities for its
prevention describes a paradoxical con-
dition which only a broad interpretation
of the law of compensation might plaus-
ibly explain. Not only is crime widely
prevalent but there is a high average
of unpunished criminals. Whether the
proportion of arrests to criminal acts is
greater or less now' than if was before
science was so fully invoked by the
guardians of society is a question that
possibly no one could answer.
However certain it is that the micro-
scope the camera micro-photography
wireless and chemical analysis to say
nothing of various other scientific de-
vices which enter into the modern de-
tective’s work have not eliminated crime
from human affairs. It may be easy to
identify a “wanted man”.by one of his
hairs—if the hair can be obfained. . But
crime in genetai seems to have kept
pace at least with the methods of de-
tecting criminals. Not so much can be
said for the progress of “the law.” or of
the administration of justice. Tax-pay-
ers arc called upon to maintain an elab-
orate and necessarily expensive police
system but that system's’ function ends
when the criminal is detected and held
for trial.
It is not the fault of the police when
a criminal is set free or given inadequate
punishment. The comparative ease with
which law-breakers escape the prescribed
penalties after the police authorities have
done their duty gives the modern detec-
tive system a disadvantage proportion-
ately as compared with the relatively
crude methods of earlier times.
As the bootlegger " says—do your
Christmas shopping early. The supply
is limited again this year.
Evidently President Coolidge’s long
silence has been atoned for. He said a
mouthful in his message to Congress.
—- — oo
Spurious ten and twenty dollar bills
are said to be in circulation in San An-
tonio. Evidently counterfeiters have a
very high opinion of San Antonio's fi-
nancial status.
“The Fool”
By CHANNING POLLOCK
Begin' Here Today.
Clare Jewett" in love with the
Reverend Daniel Gilchrist marries
Jerry Goodkind for his money.
Daniel is dismissed from tkf fash-
ionable Church of the Nativity in
New York because of bis radical
sermons.
A delegation of strikers comes
north to interview the president and
directors. An agreement which Gil-
christ drew up for the miners is
shown to Goodkind and Daniel gives
the magnates 24 hours iu which to
sign.
“Overcoat Hall" a refuge for the
unemployed is established by Gil-
christ and apartments with baths
for the poor are mai- tained at a
minimum rept. George Gookind calls
at the ball. Now go on with the
story. »
“That's what I wanted to ask you.
I'm in need of money and my
father—"
“Your father understood you well
enough to leave you only an income.
I foolishly turned over some prin-
cipal to you and you threw away
$30000. You could have had a big
salary and you threw that away.
You're an utter damued waster—if
you’re no worse.”
“What do you mean—worse?”
Daniel asked with a frown.
“You'll find out whai I mean.
You've had my son's wife down here
haven't you?”
“Once or twice.”
“Or three' times—or a dozen. He
knows."
“I've asked her not to come again.
“And he's asked her —but she
comes when she likes. She's in love
with you—God knows what women
see in your kind of a man. There
was Pearl Hennig—”
“Please!” Gilchrist lifted a hand
Ui protest.
“Oh my son told me.” continued
Goodkjhd. “And I hear—in the neigh-
borhood—that you’ve worse women
than that running in here. Women
of the streets!”
“Not many” said Daniel calmly.
“They're welcome- but they doit
come." ▼
“Well that's your buAtess. And
if your neighbors get sick of having
a resort of this kind in their midst
and-drive you out that's your busi-
ness. too. But my son's wife—”
“Is her business" Daniel inter-
rupted.
“And his” came back Goodkind.
“Only Jerry's in no condition to set-
tle the matter. He's broken down
from worry anil overwork and you're
partly responsible. That puts 'it up
to me. This is a final warning. If
you see Clare again I’ll act. That's
all. Good night.” He picked up his
hat.
“Oh Mr. Goodkind” Daniel woke
as if from a reverie. “How aliput
the money.”
“You've had what's coming to
you."
“But that's nothing. I pay halt
that for these houses and I've gone
ip debt fitting them up.”
“Witn baths and tennis courts!"
“People must have baths.”
“These dirty immigrants” Good-
kind stormed.
“The dirtier thev are the more
they need them.” Gilchrist smiled. “I
want tn show them how to live—-and
show other people \fhat you don't
have to Lave a pig-pen to make a
profit."
“Are you making a profit?” asked
Goodkind scornfully.
“Enormous.” answered Gilchrist
enthusiastically. “And to go on
I’ve got to hnrt> $22000. ”
"On is thnt all!” scoffed the
visitor. “You want $22000 to go on
making a find of yourself. Well you
won’t get it.”
“Not even as an advance?” pleaded
Daniel.
“Not a penny.”
“Don’t drive me to—” Gilchrist
paused.
“To what?”
“To ask for an accounting" said
Daniel rather at a loss.
Goodkind stared at him in amaze-
ment.
“To ask for—what?" he thundered.
“Now listen to me. I’ve stood all
Pip going to stnnd. Y’ou’ve run
amuck. You've become dangerous" to
yourself—and me —and the neighbor-
hood. You're going to stop it and
you're going to stop it now."
"That's your mistake” said Daniel
•till tranquil.
“Is it? A year ngo you gave me
24 hours to sign n paper nnd I did
it and it cost me $2000000. Tonight
I give you minutes to shut up
The Days of Real Sport
this place and quit seeing my daugh-
ter and if you don’t do it—”
“As I won t” said the unperturbed
figure.
“I’ll be here inside half an hour
with a doctor.”
“And then?” Gilcbrist didn’t under-
stand.
"Then we'll file a petition to have
you declared incompetent.”
Goodkind bnnged his stick on the
floor for emphasis and started for
the door.
“You don't mean • that” said
Daniel rather helplessly. “You don't
moan that because I'm trying to
help—”
“Help—whom?” returned Good-
kind wheeling. “Strikers and street
women nnd general riff-raff. And
you don't even help them—because
nobody can. And if you could and
did how in the same of God would
that help the community. If I find
you're still ranting down here in half
an hour I’ll say you're crazy and I’ll
prove it” He mov«l toward ' the
door.' .“Think' it over.”.
Goodkind reached for the knob as
the door was swung open from the
other side. Goodkind backed a step
to admit a tall neatly dressed
brawny man.
“Excuse me” said the Intruder
politely.
Goodkind glowered at the man.
then his face half lighted with recog-
nition. i
“Haven’t I seen .you somewhere
before?” he said reflectively.
The man turned to answer.
“Yes I think so” he said. “My
name's Umanski.”
“Umanski?” Goodkind repeated.
Then he remembered. “You’re not
the Pole t ^o came to my. house last
year with n delegation?”
“Yes.” said Umanski. quietly.
“Well. I’ll be—” Goodkind sur-
veyed him in surprise.
“Mr. Gilchrist tell me stay in New
York” the .Pole explained. “He's
teach me Bnglish and find me good
job. I’m work eight hours on fhe
docks and six on myself now.”
Goodkind said nothing just
reached ’for the door. Gilchrist idly
filling his pipe at the mantlepiece
broke in.
“Mr. Goodkind!" he said. “Uman-
ski has an invention. If you’ll see
it—”
“I’ll see you in half an hour.”
came the answer and the door closed.
CHAPTER XVII.
Cinderella.
Umanski'* eyes minus the hatred
they once held but still steady and
serious hnd been turned intently on
Goodkind ns he talked.
“What's he doing down here?”
asked Umanski with cettain anxiety.
"He savs I'm crazy apd he's going
to shut up this place.” Daniel
smiled as lie dropped into a chair
with Ilie relaxation of one tired. “Of
course he won’t.”
“Don’t be too st re” said the Pole
thoughtfully.
“Nonsense” returned Gilchrist. “I
made him angry. And somebody
told him a lot of lies.”
“Somebody's told a good many
people lies.” said Umanski. “Yester-
day I heard a man say you run this
place—to—to—get women.”
“Who said that?” Daniel looked
up seriously.
“A wop named Malduea”
"Oh. yes” Dmitri re!ax*fl aghin.
“I took his daughter' in here once
for a week until he got sober."
"There's a good many like that”
pursued the other.
“Not so mnny.”
"Enough to innke trouble. Why
not carry a pistol?"
“It's generally men with pistols
who get shot.” said Gilchrist with
quiet rejection.
“One of them fellows get you—”
Gilchrist put him off with a ges-
ture as Mary Margaret cam^ into
the room.
“J suppose you ain't hnd nny sup-
per" she said with a motherly air.
Grubby had followed her in with a
tray and the girl leaning on her
crutches transferred its cargo to
the table in front of Daniel.
Umanski drew out a pocketbook
and came alongside.
“I brought you some money” he
said. “My boss he give me another
raise. He gonna mnkes me boss
after a while. So I like to begin to
pay back whnt you lend me.”
Gilchrist waved him aside.
“Wait ’till you’ve sent for your
family” he said making no move
to accept the proffered bills.
“I’m gonna send now” said Uman-
ski. smiling. “My boy I'm gonna
send school —college maybe. That
pump I make goes fine. I show my
bom like you say because he know
about coal mines and he say if she
work fhe shve whole lots of lives nnd
money. She work all right.” He
dropped the bills on the table and
brought forth an English grammar
from under his coat. “How about I
go upstairs and study?”
“Sure” said Gilchrist. "Go right
np to my joom and I’ll be along
after the meeting.” Umanski left
Margaret Mary bending over him
eagerly.
“Your supper's ready” she said.
Gilchrist had caught sight of her
feet strangely adorned.
“What’s this we're wearing golden
slippers?" be queried looking up at
her.
“L'h-hub” she assented. “I took
them out of the barrel of clothes
that pretty lady sent.” Gilchrist
pulled a chair up beside his.
“Supper with Cinderella.” he said
with a sweeping inviational ges-
ture.
“Gee I love that story” the girl
said plaintively. “When you tell it
to me you make me believe I'm
her.” She was a wistful figure a
Cinderella on crutches a beggar of
life but quite content to ride upon
wishes.
. “If you believe it —yon sre" said
Gilchrist firmly.
She looked at him pensively.
“I guess believin’ ain't never goin’
to make me dance” she said.
“You can’t tell” he said “ —if you
believe hard enough.”
“That’s what you said before and
I’ve tried but somehow it don’t
work.”
Play copyrighted. 1022. in the
United States and England. Novel-
izqd version by special permission
of the author and of Brentano's
publishers of the play.
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
‘ THAT GERMAN SPY.
“I'll bet he’s a German spy!"
How 'many times that expression
wns used during the hectic days that
none of us can ever forget! It wns
spoken by persons in all stagey of lif?
and stages of sanity. It was spoken
of every person in this country who
had u German name a German accent
or a German father-in-law. It was spo-
ken of every person who was seen to
whisper. It was hurled nt every per-
son who looked too closely nt a bat-
tleship a wireless Station or a French-
man.
Every day we heard new and wild
stories about the spy activities of our
neighbors and about the hundreds of
German spies already captured and
shot w bile trying to learn about Amer-
ican forts or ships or grocery stores.
Many well-intentioned Americans who
chanced to be a little eccentric or who
happened to h»ve German ancestors
lived through the whole period of the
i^pr. knowing all fee while that their
neighbors nnd business associates
spoke of them in no other way than
as “that German spy down nt our
store” or “the German spy who lives
in »our block. '*
Well that German spy has just been
released by Secretary of War Weeks.
His name is Lothar Wizke and he
was the only man in the United States
convicted of being a spy for Germany
during that whole heated period; when
conviction upon sut4i a charge could
have been hnd upon little enough cred-
itable evidence.
All of’which makes us resolve anew
to be a little careful what we sny
about our neighbors in future. —Wich-
ita Daily Eagle.
SHAKING THE BLUES
* I
According to all figures scientific
data nnd physicians' reports Ameri-
cans are subject to attacks of ‘ the
blues” more than the people of any
other qpuntry.
“Tlic blues” may be diagnosed as a
chronic state of being out of sorts
out of tune with everything and ev-
eryone. one’s self included. The symp-
toms are melancholia gloom depres-
sion a distinct lowering in mental
(one and poise physical inactivity
with organic disturbance of the stom-
ach liver and spleen. The feeling is
one apart from sorrow. The common
“blues” may be said to resemble sor-
row only ns mist resembles rain.
The attack may be attributed to
being broke fear of being broke to
falling hair jazz music pnrequieted
love taxes or mother-in-law. “The
blues” may be banished by courage
patience and determination to accom-
plish the task set for you or usually
by a long walk in the early morning.
Stop worrying eat within reason
sleep one-third of your time be on the
job don’t day dream enjoy blue eyes
blue sky and blue sea. but keep away
from other “blues”” They spoil your
temperament ruin your digestion
blight your business chances drive off
your friends and shorten your life.—
Fort Worth Star Telegram.
DECEMBER 9 1923.
Poets’ Comer >
WHEN THE WINTER WIND’S
A-WHISTLIN”.
When the winter wind’s a-wMstlin’
Round the corners and the roof
And everything's so freezhi’
That the neighbors hold aloof;
Then it's mighty fine of evenin's
After nil the folks retire.
Just to sit there a-dreamin’
An’ a-gazing in the fire.
Oh. the fancies that come crtrwdin’
And tbe castles that you build.
Are just the same things over
That so many lives have filled.
But it’s sweet to live then over.
Until with thoughts your faoe has
beamed.
And then you wake to find the reality
Not so rosy as the drcam.
LEONARD MAYFIELD.
TEACHER SPARE THAT TREE!
“Are the children of Florida less
amenable to milder corrective mea-
sures than the hardened criminals of
the state convict camps?” asks the
Tampa Tribune after calling attention
to the fact “Florida is one ot not more
than half a dozen 'states in the Union
in which corporal punishment is per-
mitted or even tolerated iar'the public
schools.” • ■»
There are more effective forms of
punishment than corporal punishment
and most teachers know it. Aiwever
when a teacher has so many puni.'a
that some of them must go days with-
out being called upon to recite as iz
true in many Florida schools the
proper attention cannot be given to
forms of punishment which to be ef-
fective must be suited to tbe individ-
ual child. Teachers use the switch as
the quickest solution to a problem ot
the moment not because they find
fiendish delight in applying it.
As a matter of fact corporal pun-
ishment is disappearing of its own ac-
cord has already disappeared in more
modern schools where teachers are ex-
pected and are given an opportunity
to do more than preside over a multi-
tude of youngsters and while we can’t
get excited over it or feel that civil-
ization is being outraged legal abol-
ishment of the practice is secondary
to the correction of the system which
makes it necessary in that a atudy of
the individual child and its idiosyn-
craciee is impossible. •
Abolish the switch. But also correct
the system which is responsible for iul
use.—-Jacksonville Journal. ■
THE WEIGHT OF A SMILE.
Science has now weighed the frown
and the smile the laugh and tbe
sneer. The smile and the laugh are
light the frown and the sneer are
heavy on man’s health mental and
physical. Your facial expression
isn’t so much the index of your
thoughts as it is the arbiter of your
thoughts. If your face smiles your
soul will <mile if yoitr face sneers or
droops so your sou! will sneer or
droop. This in substance is the
finding by Chester W. Darrow
psychologist of Chicago after a series
of tests on the emotions and mental
status of humanity.
Mr. Darrow says your face may be
your* physician and your moral and
mental guide. The facial expression
does not result so much from depres-
sion wtihin as it causes depression
or elation within. In other words
if you smile vou will fefl better for
it and your brain will work better.
If you sneer or draw your face down
your emotions will follow the expres-
sion of your face.
Moreover if yon stand erect your
thoughts will be happier if you droop
or slouch your thoughts will not
only be less efficient but they will
be unhappy.
Simple isn’t it? You had thought
it the other way? Straighten up
smile. There isn’t there a differ-
ence? Well keep on smiling throw
shoulders back stnnd erect and grin.
It’s a nice day. after all. isn't it?
And life is good.—Albany News. .J
Alt Teacher'. Tanlt.
A nehool boy who had brought horn*
excellent weekly report! at the begin-
ning: of last terme returned with un-
aatlßfactory reports toward the end.
"How 1s It you are not doing «o well?**
asked hts father Anxiously.
"It’s teacher’s fault” was the reply.
"He'ii moved the boy that sat next to
me.”—People's Home Journal.
And Heavy One. Too!
His wife had a cold and could not
go to church. But she Insisted that ho
should in her place. •'Well” she In-
quired on his return "and what was
the burden of the vicar’s sermon?” Ho
sat down with a weary sigh. "All of It
my dear” be said. —London Daily
press.
Perfect Addition.
"Hor long have you been married?”
"Twenty years. Nine three and eight
at a stretch.” —pctroit Free Press.
-^By Briggt
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