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during ths month of December day by day. was as
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rf January A. D. 1924.
(SEAL) FRED J. BOMMER JR.
Notary Public.
WHAT DO WE CARE?
It has been proposed that at Wash-
ington the United States institute a
bureau which is to have general super-
vision of all the public schools in the
country. The general idea is that we
are to have in the President’s cabinet
a Secretary of Education whose mission
it shall be to direct the activities of all
the schools in all the states. Strange as
it may seem there are educators who
do net take to the idea.
The Light fails to see why anybody
I should object. The general idea of the
1 American people in the^e days seefns to
be to calmly allow all their personal
rights to be taken from them and ad-
ministered by some bureau or another
in Washington. If we arc to consent
that children shall be taken from their
parents and educated by a lot of spin-
sters who have never had any children
but who are presumed to know more
about handling children than.do people
who are responsible for their being who
have for them more natural affection and
who have fully as much brains as those
to whom the children are to be given
there is no reason why we should not
alUw the children to be educated by the
government.
Moreover just consider what a politi-
cal education would be given to the
children of this country. While they
were in the primary classes wc would
have z Democratic Secretary of Educa-
tion who would see that the children
understood that the greatest man on
earth was one Thomas Jefferson. By
the time they were in the intermediate
[ classes they might be told by a Republi-
can Secretary of Education that Thomas
i Jefferson was never knee-high to Alex-
ander Hamilton that the principles on
which the Democratic party is founded
are utterly pernicious and forever to
be abominated by all decent and sen-
sible people. Then by the time the
children had reached high school they
wonk* be fed with anti-toxin for their
HamHton disease. What a wonderful
| lot of knowledge they would have.
One of the strongest opponents of
this scheme of governmental control is
President Butler of Columbia College
who had recently this to say regarding
the idea of governmental Education.
“A widespread illusion as to educa-
tion is that the more elaborate the more
complicated and the more costly the
machinery of school organization the
better will be the product. The reverse
is the fact. Standardization govern-
ment-made uniformity and bureaucratic
icgubtion are not the allies of education
but its mortal enemies.
“In particular it is vital if the Ameri-
can school system is to survive that
the federal government keep its hands
off the schools. Imagine our diverse
and diversified population living under
widely varying conditions all brought
\ to heel in their schools as the people
1 oi Prussia once were by the authority
and edicts of a central office at the na-
tional capital. I should regard any such
development as marking the beginning of
the end of the America which our fathers
knew and of that American school sys-
tem in which our generation has been
brought up.
“There arc no doubt those who sin-
cerely believe xhat the Prussian idea!
of organized efficiency is superior to the
old American ideal of personal liberty
{SATURDAY.
and freedom of initiative in as many
t clds of endeavor as possible. Freedom
with all its mistakes is infinitely to
be preferred to the rule of the most
benignant tyrant or that of the most
effective bureaucracy."
All that is remarkable talk. If wc arc
to allow the government to tell us what
wc shall drink what earthly objection
is there to allowing the same govern-
ment to tell us what to think? If wc
arc going to be sheep why not be sheep
and let the government have all the re-
sponsibility.
As a red-blooded fighting independent
thinking proposition a sheep is beneath
contempt. A sheep-like man is not of
much more account in this world than
a sheep—probably not so much because
his wool is worth nothing—but if wc
arc to be 'heep we should have all the
benefits of our status and one of these
is that we arc not compelled to do any-
thing tor ourselves.
Of course the man who allows others
to do things for him is certain to finish
where those same others arc telling him
what he can do and must do. but what
odds? If wc are going to sign away our
self-respect why bother?
THE MULE HERE TO STAY
Much has been said and written about
“the passing of the horse.’’ In this day
of swift and changing transportation
it is difficult to forecast what civilized
man’s future mode of travel will be.
There arc those who predict that within
the next quarter century private airships
will become as common as flivvers are
now. Yesterday's wildest dreams may
become tomorrow’s prosaic facts so far
as swift transportation is concerned.
But there is one old “institution" that
Science will probably never be able to
supplant. In the distant future horses
may be found only in museums; their
bones may be regarded as a great find
by geologsts and archaeologists. But
with airplanes as common as flivvers
and buggies non-existent the mule will
probably hold the place it has made for
itself in the economic system of progres-
sive men. *.
It may even come to occupy a larger
place in that system. This possibility is
indicated by figures issued recently by
the United States Department <•: Agri-
culture. In the decade between 1910
and 1920 siy« the department the num-
ber of mules in this countrv increased
from 4.209.769 to 5.432.391. Thar
period during which the autc~‘bilc in-
dustry expanded with the greatest rap-
idity.it has attained. Other figures com-
piled by the government show that of
all distinct classes the fanners Ucy the
largest number of motor vehicles. Ent
evidently there is no less work for mules
to do on American farms than there was
before so many of these farms became
“motorized." It would seem on the con-
trary. that the were r: . : -
creased. Perhaps the process has beer
one of greater specialization.
In one sense a mule is comparable to
a flivver. A flivver can negotiate roads
over which a heavier car could not move.
A mule can do work of whic(i no other
draft animal is capable and which no
reasonable person would expect of any
kind of machinery. The mule is slow
and sometimes extremely obstinate; but
for endurance it has no equal.
George Washington is given credit for
good judgment and foresight in many
fields. But perhaps few of those who
revere his memory for his achievements
in statecraft are aware of the fact that
it was he who introduced the mule into
the agricultural life of the land. This
knowledge adds to the subject a touch
of sentiment which is by no means un-
worthy of even the most exacting utili-
tarian. Washington was indeed a prac-
tical man.
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SELLING RIFLES TO MEXICO
V- ell informed people regarding Mexi-
can conditions will hear with misgivings
that the United States government pur-
poses tc sell rifles to Mexico. There are
numerous reasons why this action on the
part of the United States is inadvisable.
First and most important is. that sale of
war munitions to the Mexican govern-
njcnt’as represented by the Obregonistas
will not restore order in Mexico. It is
more probable that it will increase dis-
orders. There is the further likelihood
that in the future these rifles may be
turned against Americans along the
border by irresponsible bandits into
whose hands they may fall. The state-
ment attributed to Washington that the
United States will control the ammuni-
I tion for these guns and hence they will
be of little use to any but government
forces is idle talk. z The Mexicans are
as capable of making ammunition for
the Enfield rifle as wc arc.
They also can buy all the ammunition
they tvant for these rifles from any one
oi a dozen foreign makers who will take
contracts to make ammunition for any-
thing in the rifle line. It may not be
as good ammunition as we have but it
will serve the purpose. It is not rea-
sonable to suppose that if the Mexicans
get 10000 modern military rifles they
arc going to want long for ammunition.
I hey will get it somewhere.
Another reason why wc ought not to
sell rilles to Mexico L that it will cs-
ftablish a precedent that may bob up to
plague us in later years. For instance
were Japan or France or Britain or any
■ other power to sell a consignment of
I military rifles to the Mexican govern-
ment later on at a time When we might
be at strained relations it might serious-
ly embarrass us. While it is true that
rifles arc not contraband at the same
time other nations would be wary about
offending us in this manner in a Mexican
crisis from the fact that it generally is
recognized that the United States has
more or less of an unwritten mandate
on the western hemisphere to maintain
concord among the various countries here
in so far as moral suasion and protective
measures will permit.
It is a bad precedent to set at any
time in arming any people for civil war
and this is particularly true where the
status of “government’’ is as transitory
as in Mexico.
The government in Mexico today may
be the revolutionary force oi tomorrow
the revolutionists of today may be the
government of tomorrow.
We have no doubt that the govern-
ment at Washington is acting in good
faith that it sincerely desires peace in
Mexico and having recognized Obregon
and his regime as a duly constituted gov-
ernment it hopes by assisting him with
rilles to bring to an immediate halt the
revolt which lias arisen. It perhaps*
wisely argues that it is better to allow
the Mexicans to put down their own up-
rising at the cost of their own treasure
lives and resources than for the Ameri-
can army eventually t have to do it in
order to protect American lives and
property rights and the peace of the
Americas. There is much to be said
in favor of this attitude. We would in-
deed dislike to see American boys shed-
ding their blood on Mexican soil in a
dispute which is not of our making.
But on the other hand it does not
seem the part of wisdom to supply weap-
ons to any considerable body of Mexi-
cans under existing conditions. In fact
it is our settled conviction that the fu-
ture peace and well being of Mexico can
never be assured by force of arms by
contending Mexican tactions. We be-
lieve sincerely that the fewer guns and
cartridges the AJexicans have the better
oft everybody concerned will be. Selling
them obsolete army rifles is neither an
assurance of future peace nor a prece-
dent likely to prove helpful.
We concede that the Mexican problem
- again critical and that it presses for
s ’.uf n. Nor have we a policy to ad-
ocate in the emergency other than a
r- hind n dealing with a people who
<Sy tried onr patience sorely.
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7‘ • Trier Seine is on a rampage and
Paris ought to vote
—OO
Lo- Argcles has just had another
cl. th quake which ought to shake things
up for the winter tourist out there.
oo
Another move in the interests of
world peace would be to disarm all mov-
ing picture stars and their chauffeurs.
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The explosion of a whiskey still caused
a fire in a San Antonio apartment house
the other day. Whiskey like that can
not be extinguished with a glass of ice
water cither.
TO THE PLIOCENE SKt'LD.
‘•Sptak O man less recent! Fragmentary fossil!
Primal pioneer of pliocene formation.
Hi>l in the lowest drifts below the earliest stratum
Of Volcanic tufa!
‘•Older than the beasts the oldest Palaeotberium:
Older than the trees the oldest Cryptogatnia;
□lder than the hills those infantile eruptions
Of earth's ^pidennia I
“Eo—Mio—Plio—whatso'er the ‘cene’ was
That those vacant sockets filled with awe and
wonder—
Whether shores Devonian or Silurian beaches —
Tell us thy strange story!
"Or has the Professor slightly antedated
By some thousand years thy advent on this planet
Giving thee an air that's somewhat better fitted
^or cold-blooded creatures?
"Wert tlfou true spectator of that mighty forest
When alwve thy head the stately Sigillaria
Beared its columned trunks in that remote and
dirtnnt
Carboniferous epoch?
“Toll us of that scene— the dim and watery
woodland
Sorgless. silent hushed with never bird or insect.
Veiled with spreading fronds and screened with
tall club-mosses
Lycopodiacea—
“When beside thee walked the solemn Plesiosaurus.
And around thee crept the festive Ichthyosaurus.
While from time to time above thee flew and
circled
Cheerful Peterodactyla.
"Tells us of thy food.—those half-marine refections.
Cricoids on the shell aud Brachiopods au
naturel —
Cuttle-fish to which the picuvre of Victor Hugo
Seems a periwinkle.
“Speak thou awful vestige of . the earth's
creation—
Solitary fragment of remains organic!
Tell the wondrous secrets of thy past existence —
Speak! thou oldest primate!”
Even as I gazed a thrill of the maxilla
And a lateral movement of the condyloid process.
With post-pliocene sounds of healthy mastification
Ground the teeth together;
Ai.d from that imperfect dental exhibition..
Stained with expressed juices of the weed Nicotian
Cam 4 these hollows accents blent with softer
murmurs.
Of expectoration:
"Which my name was Bowers and my crust was
busted
Falling down a shaft in Calaveras County.
But I'd take it kindly if you'd send the pieces
Home to old Missouri!”
. -—Bret Harte.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
SAX
Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul
Hurley criminal investigator to solre
for him the mystery of constant sur-
veillance of Sir Charles Sir Charles
invites Harley to dine with him nt
the Abingdon hotur. Sir Charles falls
to the floor in a dying condition. His
last words arc "Nicol Brinn” aud
"Fire-Tongue.”
Ppitl asks Nicol Brinn to tell him
the meaning of -Fire-Tongue." Bripu
refuses to divulge Jiia secret. Harley
and Phil Abingdon daughter of Sir
Charles are made prisoners in the
home of Ormuz Khan au Oriental.
Nicol Brinn rescues them and goes
to tell the story of Fire Tongue io
the police. Now go on with the
story.
"This was not primarily to settle a
peak of the llinmlajaa nor even to
visit Khatniandu. but to endeavor to
obtain a glimpse of the Temple of
Fire I
"We had camned for the night in
the shadow of one of some giant tors.
The bearers were seated around their
fire at some little distance from us
and Vadi and I were consulting re-
specting our route in the morning
when I decided to take lum into my
confidence. Accordingly:
“ ‘Vadi.’ I said ‘I know for a posi-
tive fact that wc arc within ten
miles of the secret Temple of Fire. - ”
" ‘The sahib is wise’ he replied.
“ ‘So is Vadi’ said I. ‘Therefore
he knows how happy a thousand
pounds of English money would make
him. It is his in return for .a sight
of the Temple.’
“ ‘A man may die for nothing’ he
returned softly. ‘Why should the
sahib nay a thousand iwuuds?’
“‘AMiy should the sahib die?’
said I.
“ 'lt is forbidden for any to see
the Temple even from a distance.’
“ 'But if no one ever knows that
I have seen it?'
" ‘Fire-Tongue knows everything'
he replied and as he pronounced the
name he perfotmed a curious salu-
tation touching his forefinger with
the tip of his tongue and then lay-
ing his baud upon his -brow npon his
lips and upon his breast at the same
time bowing deeply.
"This conversation took place as 1
have already mentioned iu the shadow
of one of those strange stone hil-
locks which abounded here and it was
at this ixdnt thnt I received a warn-
ing which might have deterred many
men. since it was inxeplicable and
strangely awesome.
"My attention was drawn to the
phenomenon by a sudden cessation of
chatter amongst tbc bearers seated
around their fire. I became aware
that an absolute stillness had fallen
and in the eyes of the Brahmin who
snt facing me I saw a look of ex-
altation. of wild fanaticism.
"I jerked my head nruuud. looking
back over my shoulder? and what I
saw I shall never forget nor to this
day have 1 been able to explain the
means by which the illusion was
produced.
"Moving downward toward me
through the jungle darkucss slowly
evenly but at a height above the
ground of what I judged to be about
fifteen feet was a sort of torch cr
flambeau visible because it was
faintly luminous; aud surmounting
it was a darting tongue of blue
flame!
"At the moment that I set my eyes
upon this apparently supernatural
spectacle the bearers crying some
word iu Hindustani whiell I did not
understand rose and fled in a body.
-1 may saybent that I never saw
any of them again; although con-
sidering that they took nothing with
them how they regained the nearest
village is a mystery which I have
never solved.
“Gentlemen. I know tho East as
few of my fellow-citizens know it. I
know something of the powers whiell
arc latent in some Orientals and ac-
tive in others. That my Brahmin
guide was a hypnotist and an illu-
sionist I have since thought.
“For. even as the pattering foot-
steps of the hearers grew faint in
tbc distance the fiery torch disap-
peared as if by magic and a silken
cord was about my throat!
“As I began a desperate fight for
life. I realized that whatever else
Vadi might be he was certainly an
Oh Man!
Begin Here Today.
expert thug. The jungle the rocks
seemed to swim around me as I
crashed to the ground and felt the
Brahmin'/ knee in the small of my
back.”
QLABTER XXXI.
Story of the City of Fire (Continued.)
"How I managed to think of any
defense against such au attack and
especially in the circumstances is a
matter 1 have often wondered about
since.
"You may observe that I have large
hands. Their size and strength served
me well ^>n this occasion. At the
moment ibat the rope tightened about
my throat I reached up aud grasped
the Brahmiu's left thumb. Despera-
tion gave me additional strength
and I snapped it like a stick of
candy.
"Just in the nick of time I felt the
cord relax and. although the veins
in my head seemed to be bursting. I
managed to get my fingers under that
damnable rope.
“Clutching the rope with my left
hand I groaned and lay still. The
Brahinin slightly shifted his position
which was what I wanted him to do.
The brief respite had been sufficient.
As be moved. I managed to draw my
knees up very slightly for he was a
big. heavy man. but sufficiently to
enable me to throw him off and roll
over. •
"Then gentlemen. I dealt with him
as he bad meant to deal with me;
only I used my bare hands and made
a job of it.
"The fires burned lower and lower
but I made no attempt to replenish
them; and because I sat there so
silent al) kinds of jungle creatures
crept furtively out of the shadows
and watched me with their glittering
eyes.
"So the night passed and dawn
found me still sitting there the dead
man huddled on (he ground not three
paces from me. I am a man who as
a rule thinks slowly but when the
light came my mind was fully made
up. I dressed myself in Vadi's clothe.-
and. being very tanned at this time.
I think I made a fairly creditable
nai ive.
“Faintly throughout the night
above the other sounds of the jungle I
had heard tiiat of distant falling wa-
ter. Now. an informant at Nagprr.
in speaking to me of the secret tem-
ple. had used the words:
‘“W hoever woirid see the fire must
quit air and pass through water.’
"This mysterious formula he had
firmly declined to translate into com-
prehensible English; but during iny
journey I had been considering it
from every- angle and I had recently
come to tho conclusion that the en-
trance to this mysterious place was in
some way concealed by water.
“And now gentlemen. I must re-
late a discovery which I had made in
the act of removing A’adi's clothing.
I pon his right forearm was branded n
mark resembling the apparition which
I bad witnessed in tbo night namely
a little torch or flambeau surmount-
ed by a tongue of fire.
“The plateau upon which T stood
was one of a series of giant steps
and on the west was a sheer descent
to a dense jungle whore banks of rot-
ten vegetation sun-dried upon the
top. lay heaped about the tree stems.
“Dragging the heavy body of Vadi
to tbc brink of this precipice I top-
pled it over graying dizzily as I
watched it crash down into the poison-
ous undergrowth two hundred feet be-
"I made a rough cache where I
stored the bulk of my provisions: aud.
selecting only such articles as I
thought necessary for my purpose I
set out again northward guided by
the sound of falling water.
“At tn-id-day the heat grow so great
that a <ialt became imperative. The
path was still dearly discernible: and
in a litt!» eave beside it. which afford-
ed grateful shelter from the merciless
rays of the sun. I unfastened my
bundle and prepared to take a frugal
lunch.
“I was so employed gentlemen
when I heard the sound of approach-
ing footstqps on the path behind me—-
the path which I bad recently tra-
versed.
"Hastily concealing my bundle. I
slipped into some dense undergrowth
by the entrance to the cave and
crouched there waiting and watching.
I hnd not waited very long la-fore a
yellow-robed medicant passed by car-
rying a bundle not unlike iny own.
whereby I concluded that he had come
some distance.
"I gave him half an hour's start
and then resumed my inareb. If be
could travel beneath a noonday sun so
could I.
“In this fashion I presently came
out upon a larger and higher plateau
carpeted with a uniform stunted un-
dergrowth. and extending as flat as a
tabic to the very edge of a sheer prec-
ipice. which rose from it to a height
of three or four hundred feet—gnarled
naked rock showing no vestige of
vegetation.
"By this time the sound of~falling
water had become very loud and as
I emerged from the gorge through
which tbc path ran on to this plateau
I saw on the further side of this
tableland th* yellow robe of the men-
dicant. He was -walking straight for
the face of the precipice and straight
for the spot at which from a fissure
in the rock a little stream leapt out
to fall sherrly ten or fifteen feet into
a winding channel along which it
bubbled away westward doubtless to
form a greater waterfall beyond.
"The mendicant was fully half a
mile away front me. but in that clear
tropical air was plainly visible; and.
fearing that be might look around.- I
stepped buck into the comparative
shadow of the gorge and watched.
"Gentlemen. I saw a strange thing.
Placing his bundle upon his hend. he
walked squarely into the face of the
waterfall and disappeared!”
CHAPTER XXXII.
Story of tha City of Fire (Continued)
“ 'Quitting air. must pass through
water.’ The meaning of those words
became apparent enough. I stood at
the foot of the waterfall looking tip
at tha fissure from which it issued.
‘‘Although the fact had been most
artistically disguised. J could not
doubt that this fissure was artificial.
"A great deal of mist arose from it.
But I could see that beyond a duck-
ing I had little to fear; and. stepping
down into the bed of the little stream
which frothed and bubbled pleasantly
about my bare legs. I set ng»- bundle
on my head ns the mendicant had
done and plunged through the water-
fall. into a place of delicious coolness.
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
A Puzzle a Day
SMILES
The above word is reputed- to be
the longest word in the English
language even though it contains but
six letters. Can you discover why it
deserves its unique distinction?
Yesterday’! answer:
A
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
The card should ha”e read “A
Happy New Year.” The letters form-
ing those words are the same which
composed “Ape When Ray Paju”
Where to Go
Vaudeville.
Majestic: Big-Time Vaudeville.
.Motion Pictures.
Palace: “Ueno.”
Empire: Tom Moore in “Big Broth-
er.” Also Larry Semon in “Lightning
Love.”
Princess: Theodore Roberts in "To
the Ladies.”
Rinlto; Owen Moore in "Thunder-
gate.”
Stock.
Royal: Edna Park and Players in
"The Love of Su Shong.'
Grand: Bob "Casey” Greer in "Tom
and Jerry.”
PCNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
At the age of 16 a girl stops crying
and begins to weep.—Chicago News.
When a man says his dress suit is
ten years old. he doesn't mean that
he is poor but only that he has
been in Class A for teu years.—
Memphis Ncws-Scimitar.
No vamp can beat your wife at the
business of showing you a good tim*
if you will spend as much mon*y on
your wife.—Jersey City Journal.
JANUARY 5 1924.
Poets’ Corner
“CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.”
Christmas Spirit wondrous thing ;
You are without a peer.
A day that I must spend my coin;
On people far and near.
I borrow money go in debt;
And then I spend some more.
But every Christmas is the same;
As the one was before.
I Send perfume cut glass bottles;
Pretty hand painted things;
I send them kodaks bar pins too;
And even diamond rings.
On a nccklaci I spent xny check;
‘Twould be something worth while
And though the price had made me
sick;
I wore a pleasant smile.
In vanities I did invest
And even scented soap
I pitied other lovers bold;
Who with me dared to cope.
Happy I tried to make the girls;
To please them how I'd strive
I stayed nt home Christmas waiting
For presents to arrive.
I cursed tbc mail man he was late;
Then brought me not a thing.
It wasn't strange because you sec;
He had nothing to bring.
Now maybe I hnd pleased the girls;
And maybe I bad not
I do not know but I can say;
Of me they had forgot.
Though Christmas now is passed aud
gone;
Still I am not content.
When bills arrivced about the first;
I knew how much I’d spent.
You think Fin cured. T guess I am;
At least till the next time
But just let Christinas come again;
And I'll spend iny last dime.
C. D’YROMA.
Id) ST lA)VE.
As twilight deepens into darkest
n ight.
So changed my life from hope to
dark despair.
The hours of ecstacy. of sweet delight
Are being paid for with tbc bitter-
est tears.
I know it was fool's paradise even
then
Tho' I prolonged it for a little while
God knew within my heart I felt no
sin.
For there was none of treachery or
guile.
I only felt a love so strong and deep
That even tbo' I had no right to
care
My soul bound to another I yet weep
For happiness 1 can no more find
here.
The hours I spent with you. dear
heart of mine.
Are dearer to we than anything of
earth.
Knowing our hearts are one my feel-
ings thine
I bless the bour that gare these
feelings birth.
Tho’ some may look upon my love
with scorn.
To flaunt convention is a fatal
thing.
To aome; but I’ve been free since I
was born.
Nothing of sorrow can it in my life
bring.
I only lived to feel your hand in
mine.
Your arms around me tight your
lips pressed close.
To feel tbc thrill of ecstacy divine.
The feeling once having gained can
never lose.
The time was nil too short even tlio’
t’was years
Our love grew deeper with the pass-
ing days;
Until at last with heartache and with
tears
Wccoroe unto the parting of the
ways.
How empty now the days that once
so full.
Wc could not waste a moment of
our joy.
No day was ever commonplace or dull.
No cares so big they could vex or
annoy.
I only lived to feel again your arms
To close my eyes and whisper "This
is bliss.” -
To know for me there were no greater
charms
Than the exquisite sweetness of
your kiss.
M. WALLER-
—By Briggt
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