The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 324, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1923 Page: 25 of 76
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AGAINST COMPULSORY VACCI
NATION.
To the Editor:
On the heel. of the announcement
that the San Antonio school board
intends to enforce the compulsory vac-
<anation law comes the story of the
Sight being waged against racination
in Massachusetts. There has been
considerable agitation against com-
pulsory vaccination throughout Mas-
sachusetts and other parts of the
North. In numerous mass meetings
speakers have denounced existing
laws.
At a monster mass meeting recent-
ly held in Boston a resolution de-
manding legislative repeal of all vac-
cination laws was introduced and
overwhelmingly carried.
Not laymen alone but representa-
tives of the medical professiou^poke
against compulsory vaccination one
doctor going so far as to state that
the law existed for the financial bene-
fit of doctors and producers of vac-
cine. Dr. J. F. Baldwin president
in 1920 of the Ohio State Medical
Association is credited with this
statement.
All this recalls Dr. A. D. Zucht's
fight against compulsory vaccination
waged in this city a few years ago.
His suit against the school board was
carried to the Supreme Court of Tex-
as being decided in favor of the
board.
MARY E MANN.
OPPOSED TO THE TWO-THIRDS
RILE
To the Editor:
The two-thirds majority rule now ob-
taining in the Democratic national
convention is being seriously discussed
by members of the party and citizens
generally throughout the country. In
order to have an accurate compre-
hension and an intelligent understand-
ing of this question it is necessary to
look into the history of its origin
and to study the effects of its appli-
cation.
In 1844 when Martin Van Buren
was a candidate for nomination and
re-election it developed that he would
have the-support of a majority of the
delegates to the national Democratic
convention. The slave holding in-
terest of the party was distrustful
of Van Buren and opposed to his nom-
ination for a second term. The con-
vention .met at Baltimore on May 27
and ..fter a day and a half.of dis-
cussion the two-thirds rule was
adopted by a majority vote of the
accredited delegates.
There were 26C votes cast in this
convention and on the first ballot Van
Buren received 146 and Lewis Cass
received 83. On the eighth ballot.
Van Buren received 104 Cass 114. and
James K. Polk 44. On the ninth
ballot. Polk received 266 being the
total cast and became the first dark
horse candidate ever nominated by any
political party. Polk was elected and
the adherents of slavery gained a tem-
porary advantage.
Almost everywhere in our govern-
ment the rule of the majority pre-
vails. and it is inconceivable that the
Democratic party prociaiming its
faith in popular government and stand-
ing as the principal exponent for the
will of the majority should cling to
the sinister two-thirds rule in the se-
lection of its national candidates.
The psychological effect of the two-
thirds rule upon the public mind is
pronounced and damaging. Party re-
sponsibility is not the only responsibi-
lity imposed upon national conven-
tions. The country has a right to ex-
pect and demand that the candidates
have been nominated fairly by a truly
representative convention and that the
nominee represents the real choice of
the majority. The people of the coun-
try know full well that the two-thirds
rule puts entirely too much power in
the hands of an intriguing trading
minority which is too often the servile
servant of special interest caring lit-
tle or nothing for the general welfare
of 'the country. Knowing this the
candidate selected by a convention
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SUNDAY.
where the two-thirds rule is in vogue
as a general rule goes before the
country under the powerful handicap
of distrust and suspicion.
The two-thirds rule at the present
time gives Tamm-ny Hall the wets
and other allied blocs the veto power
over the will of the majority and re-
suits in long drawn-out convention pro-
ceedings. where intrigue and .chicanery
are adroitly used. The women of the
country unaccustomed to convention
proceedure find themslves in a maze of
doubt distrust and uncertainty and
become disheartened and disgusted. If
the Democratic party wishes to ap-
peal to the women of the country it
should at once abolish this unfair and
un-Democratic two-thirds rule and
place its candidates before the coun-
try as the choice of a majority unin-
fluenced by the chicanery and intrigue
of a sinister minority.
As an American citizen I have an
abiding and unshaken faith in the pop-
ular will and as a Democrat I am
willing under all circumstances to sub-
mit to and acquiesce in the fiat of
the majority. The welfare of the
country is paramount the usefulness
of our party is much to be desired
and the will of the majority freely
and honestly expressed should and
must be supreme.
MRS. J. D. CYAYBROOK
President Woman’s Democratic Club
of Tex. Austin Tex.
WHAT CONSTITUTES POLITE-
To the Editor:
“Etiquette” comes and goes but
true social grace and culture remain
the same always.
A few years ago there came into
vogue a new mode of handshaking.
In meeting some one with whom you
wished to shake hands you held your
hand up and outward at a loose
angle something like “Fido” when
he shakes hands and unless you did
that according to the latest rules of
etiquette you were behind.
But this fad passed away as all
fads do and the old time handclasp
came into its own again for there
is nothing more reassuring than the
clasp of the human hand.
Common sense and stalwart charac-
ter are the basis of true etiquette.
A diamond no matter how much it
is polished would never have been a
diamond if it had not been one in the
beginning so with people notwith-
standing all their polish are never
real ladies and gentlemen unless they
were that in the beginning.
Living away down here so far from
New York mid Boston the source of
etiquette and culture some may not
be equal to all occasions how and
when to use the next spoon and say
“Can’t” instead of “Cawn't” when
they mean “cannot” but they do know-
enough to take the spoon from the
cup and not to drink from the finger
bowl and say “I saw” instead of
“I see” when they mean the past
tense.
Reputation is one thing character
is another. Our reputation is what
others think we are but our charac-
ter is what we are.
One may be conversant with all the
usages of so-called “polite society”
and still' be a “Broadway Wolf.”
After all the greatest are the simp-
lest and true.
“Politeness is to do any say
The kindest things in the kindest
way.”
M. E. B.
VENALITY OF FRENCH
PRESS IS PROVEN BY
COMMUNIST PAPER
Japan and Rassia Both Paid
Over Sams to Papers
in France.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and The Chicago Pelly News.
Copyright 1523.
Paris Dec. 8. —The French com-
munist newspaper Humanite tapping
Russian secret archives today pub-
lishes alleged revelations concerning
venality of the French press in the
matter of foreign affairs. The alleged
texts concern two periods.
During the Russo-Japanese war
when Russia desired the favorable
opinion of France because she wanted
to borrow money here the Russian
government seems to have distributed
600.000000 francs to certain French
newspapers in ten months including
a 10 per cent commission taken by
certain intermediaries whose names
are mentioned.
Japan according to the Russian re-
ports was making similar disburse-
ments through its Paris embassy.
Again during the great war. Isvol-
sky the Russian ambassador to
France reported to Petrograd that
Italy had subsidized the French press
with excellent results during the Ital-
ian campaign in Tripoli and that if
Russia desired favorable opinion here
regarding the Russian claim to the
Dardanelles in the peace settlement
she would be obliged to employ similar
methods.
Commenting on the Humanite pub-
lications. Quotidien. the organ of the
French Left expresses the opinion
that revelations equally interesting
would result from publication of the
secret archives of Premier Mussolini
of Italy.
The venality of certain elements of
the press in practically every country
of continental Europe is no secret in
journalistic circles but on the other
hand there are in every country news-
papers enjoying high reputations for
strict integrity.
Generally speaking the most honest
newspapers are those having the
largest circulation and the richest ad-
vertising columns for these are nble
to live profitably by their own re-
aounes. while the others with low
circulation and scant advertising
would scarcely be able to exist unless
by subsidies or by the sale of certain
portions of their news columns.
To Hold Election.
Loefchart Tex. Dec. 87—On Wed-
nesday December 19. there will be an
election held in Commissioners' Pre-
cinct No. 1 to vote on the question
of levying ■ tax of 15 cents on the
$lOO .valuation of property for the
maintaining 'of roads in the precinct
Fie tak beet wouo os Mid
defeated in the precinct onc^
NESS.
Hectic Days in Lil’ OF N’ York
Broadway Plays Are Getting Immoraler and
Immoraler.
By JESSIE HENDERSON.
Copyright by The San Antonio Light
New York Dec. B.—What kind of a
town is this anyway?
You go along thinking Manhattan
maybe isn’t the worst hunk of dirt
and steel in the world and then sud-
denly everything’s blah. At the mo-
ment so many things contribute all at
once to the general blah that it's hard
to concentrate on merely one.
Perhaps the theaters would be a
good place to start As a matter of
fact unless a quick start is made soon
in another direction the district at-
torney promises for the theaters a
swift finish. It seems the plays are
getting immoraler and immoraler. A
lot of people are shocked and a lot of
others are just eating it up. The girls
in the girly shows haven't enough
clothes on and what they wear doesn't
hit ’em in the right places. Moreover
you wouldn't believe what daring lines
both feminine and spoken manage to
protrude in some of our supposedly
best dramas.
Most of the anti-something societies
and all of the district attorney’s of-
fice staff are worked up to a dreadful
pitch of indignation. To the innocent
bystander it looks as though the police
and district attorneys force were bent
on letting the Dorothy King murder
the Elwell murder the Anti-Saloon
League investigations and all other
such minor mysteries go unsolved un-
til English pure and undefiled and the
human form swathed in blankets and
car-laps become a fact on the Broad-
wav boards.
Well they let the “Boy Trotzky”
out of the clutches of the law. He
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The World’s Champion Dodger
was arrested last week by the bomb
squad for his desire to overthrow the
government. As soon as young Leo
Granoff was released he betoke his
H-year-old self to the platform of a
hall in Harlem where surrounded by
admiring hundreds he was acclaimed
as the hero of something or other.
Next this splendid young example of
American youth will be picketing the
White House in the interests of com-
munism.
I’ossibly he will meet City Comp-
troller Craig doing the same thing
No man was ever madder at being re-
lieved of the necessity for serving a
term in jail and threats of defiance
mingled with sobbinga over the rights
of free speech—with an eye on the
next election —seethe roundabout the
comptroller’a office.
Anyway whether or not he meets
the city comptroller hanging on the
White House fence and demanding re-
dress for wrongs the boy Trotzky is
determined to have the country for
himself and the other children. Some
of the other children are going about
it in their own way. For instance a
girl of 15 kept aome prospective cus-
tomers chatting at the doorway while
her boy friends robbed a grocery store
of several thousand dollars. A bright
lad of 13 admitted that he had stolen
$BOOO in bonds and a determined lad
of 19 confessed that he had helped in
a holdup in order to get money to
have his teeth fixed.
What? Stillman Case Again!
There has been a wild-to-do about
the birth control clinic which it ap-
pears has been running for a year on
Fifth avenue but which somehow has
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
been overlooked by the police. After
viewing the activities of our little boys
and girls as noted above one is de-
cidcly well disposed toward the clinic.
Except that the boy who stole in
order to go to the dentist ought to be
spanked and then given a medal.
“Ob my gosh!” said most New
Yorkers upon reading that the Still-
man case is reopened. Ex-Governor
Miller is counsel for James Stillman
now and is all frothy over the wrongs
endured by his client Meanwhile.
Hrs. Flo l^eds is a saleswoman in a
chic millinery shop and has written
to ask Mrs. Stillman if Mrs. Stillman
doesn’t want to buy some hats and
•‘scampy” suits for Guy. Poor child
there are .campy suits enough gath-
ering about him already.
Which brings us to the Rev. Frank
Norris a revivalist who has come all
the way from Fort Worth to save
New York. Dr. Norris said from the
pulpit that “New York ia in hell.”
We think he'a right
HE IS A BUSY MAN
Mayor Banker Presiding Elder and
Democratic Chairman All in Ona.
Orange Tex. Dec. B.—Jack of all
trades —and efficient in the discharg-
ing of each even official titles—four
public offices—reclaimed by J. P. Hil-
liard of Mauriceville near here boast-
ing a population of oOYeople.
lie is mayor constable banker
storekeeper presiding elder of the
church Democratic chairman and tax
collector.
Turkeys Sell at Twelve Cents.
Lockhart Tex. Dee. B.—Turkeys
are selling in larger quantities than
they have been since Thanksgiving and
the price is twelve cents” per pound.
There are moro turkeys raised in the
county this year than ever before and
many large droves remain to be sold.
M I
(Choice Selections op
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1 BUY HIS CHRISTMAS |
I GIFT HERE |
3 “XZ OU may have trouble in deciding what g
| A “he” wants—the man the young man. S
Useful gifts are always acceptable; the “smart £
| trick” is at Christmas time to find out what g
3 he needs and get it for him. x Bi
| This store is full of things for men and young g
| men; things they want even if they don’t ex- g
I • actly need them. fl
g Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes are a great g
feature here; and you couldn’t &
give anything better
| 00 and $45'00 I
| But there are plenty of smaller things that |
g cost less than suits and overcoats; things for a §
| dollar and upward. You won’t know what we |
| can do for you until you come and see the things. g
§ He’ll look first at the gift then at the box. g
§ If he finds the name of this store then he’ll g
Q know you gave him the best. §
y House Robes $6 to $25 g
g Smoking Jackets $5 to $l5
| A Hat $5 to $l5 |
S Belt Sets $2 to $5
3 Beltograms $1 to $2 g
| S! > $1.50 to $8.50 |
g Neckwear Handkerchiefs Pajamas g
& Hose Golf Apparel Jewelry £
| ^or&roths/i I
I It’s no easy task to find gifts for brother. £
He’s about the hardest on the list. Here’s a |
thought: he likes useful things. g
Tie and Garter Sets $1.50 S'
§ Tuxedo Sets $3.50 to $5.50 g
S Silk Hose 85c to $2.00 g
Garters Caps House Shoes g
Cuff Links Shirts Belts g
I Fomby Clothing Co. |
DECEMBER 9 1928.
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