The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 168, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 5, 1924 Page: 4 of 14
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EDITORIAL .
PAGE OF THE V
— SAN ANTON 10^=1 £=?
TRMtaffIWGHT
Money in Suburban
Acres
THE use of motor busses by the Public Service
Company to reach outlying districts not served
by trolley cars ought to contain a hint of the fu-
ture for wise men. People are building homes and resid
ing in areas today that yesterday were considered out of
bounds.
But a brief four or five years ago had a subdivision
promoter urged the public to buy homes in some of these
districts he would have been told that they are too far
from the business center. Today people buy lots and
homes readily far beyond the city’s limits.
The motor car of course is responsible in the main
for this change. But the demand for motor bus trans-
portation recently indicates that it is popular and will
pay.
No stretch of imagination is needed to visualize
motor busses operated by the Public Service Company
serving districts many miles from San Antonio. It is
well within the realms of possibilities that motor busses
will be running on regular fifteen to twenty-minute
schedules during rush hours between such places as
Boerne Pleasanton Sutherland Springs and Floresville.
All along the routes will be suburban and country
homes. Men will live two three four even ten twelve
or fifteen miles from the city catch the 7:30 bus in the
morning and report for work at 8 o’clock.
Commuting by train has long been a custom in
large centers of population. It is not imminent here but
commuting via the motor bus is not far distant as one
may see with visions of the future.
Look back if you will on San Antonio of ten years
ago and compare it with San Antonio of today. Changes
are taking place much more rapidly now than then.
Look forward ten years from today in the light of what
we already have and it seems reasonable to believe that
for many miles in all directions the highways will be
lined with beautiful country homes and cottages of
workers.
The moral should be obvious. Buy these lands now
while they are comparatively cheap. The man who puts
a few hundred dollars into a few acres on any highway
in almost any direction will realize handsomely on the
investment.
Welcome the Oil Men
EFFORT on the part of some of the oil men to “get
together” here and form some sort of a working
organization ^or the good of individuals the in-
dustry and of San Antonio is commendable.
Just now the oil business is going through one of
those processes of elimination. Too much crude an un-
stable market much bad advertising not to mention false
friends and over-jealous promotions have combined to
injure the industry.
However that is merely^ incidental to the fact that
San Antonio ought to pay more attention to-this great
industry centered here than she has in the past.
There are hundreds of oil men. able conscientious
businessmen passing through this city every month to
and from the fields. Many of them reside here their
families are here their children are attending our
schools and colleges.
We ought to take steps to identify these men more
intimately with the civic life of this community both in
a business way and in a social way. 'The hand of wel-
come ought to be extended because we all welcome
them and should take formal occasion to say so.
No single industry at this time means as much to
the prosperity of San Antonio as the oil business. The
development that is taking place around us is little short
of amazing and unfortunately is little realized by many
of our people.
San Antonio wants population and wealth but most
of all wants leaders in all lines of industry. Hence we
ought to make a special effort to welcome the men en-
gaged in oil development and refining and marketing.
They are just the sort of live wires to help us put pep in
the Texas metropolis.
The Little Troubles
JUST when everything is going along nicely and it
begins to look as if we might catch up on the job
of unscrambling the geography left by the World
War along comes somebody to mix us up again.
We had barely arrived at the place where we could
tell where Jugo-Slavia should be on the map when Pet-
rograd nee St. Petersburg was changed to Leninegrad.
Now that we have learned to speak of that capital
without hesitation another country is heard from and
we must face the prospect of habituating ourselves to
saying Oiso when we wish to speak of Christiania the
capital of Norway. This change according to news re-
ports will go into effect January 1.
It is time the League of Nations or some other body
should call a halt to this adding of little troubles to a
world that is struggling so hard with big ones.
❖ K SAN ANTONIO LIGHTU ❖
iv'
THE ENDLESS FASCINATION OF LOST ATLANTIS
Plato hit the bullseye of the hu-
man imagination squarely in the
center with his story of Atlantis
the wonderful continent filled with
all the splendors of a high civiliza-
tion that was In one dreadful
night sunk to the bottom of the At-
lantic ocean; where now gay Sum-
mer tourists from the New World
sail unwittingly over the summits
its once cloud-piercing peaks and
above the drowned valleys haunt-
ed by sea-monsters which before
the cataclysm were brilliant with
the temples and the homes of a
vanished race of men.
“On that night the Abyss opened
and swallowed me
And the Elements danced upon
my breast!”
Plato got his story from Egypt
the source of all that is deep and
mysterious. The early legends
about Atlantis locate it in the
Atlantic off the “Pillars of Hercu-
les.” There is no question as to
where they were; they have al-
ways stood where they are now
found one on either side of the
Straits of Gibraltar. Atlantis
then if as large as Plato or his
informants described it must have
covered all that part of the ocean
which is sparsely dotted today by
the groups of islands called the
Azores the Canaries and the Cape
de Verds.
The ingenious astronomer of
Bourges the abbe Th. Moreux has
just published a little book “At-
lantis; Did It Exist?” He brings
together Plato's relation as de-
veloped-in the "Timaeus" and the
“Critias” quotes many legends
poems and scientific facts and
Muses |
Peggy—Some one has discovered
. that the inventor of the saxophone
hnd five small children.
Glory—That explains its ability
to emit doleful sounds that would
wake the dead —they probably were
all crying at once while he was
working on the first instrument.
Oar Hospitarium
Head Nurse-—The doctor just
pulled a terrible bone 1
Foot Nurse—Did he extract the
patient's wrong tooth?
The First Job
By GAKRETT P. SERVISS
theories and states his own opin-
ion which is favorable to belief in
the underlying reality of the Atlan-
tis myth. But nothing in his book
is so interesting or convincing as
this quotation which be makes from
the geologist P. Termier (I Con-
dense some parts of it): '
In the Summer of 1898 a ship
was employed in laying the sub-
marine cable between Brest and
Cape Cod. The cable bad 'been
broken and they tried to fish it
up with grappling irons. It was
in latitude 77 degrees 0 minutes
north and longitude 29 degrees
40 minutes west of Paris about
500 miles north of the Azores. The
mean depth was ten thousand feet.
"The raising of the cable pre-
YE TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright 18S4. ths Star Company. '
Dear K. C. B.—There were six
ahead of me in the barber shop
and I patiently waited my turn.
As I was taking off my hat a
large fat lady who bad just ar-
rived sat in the chair and al-
though the barber and those still
Waiting told her it was not her
turn ar-? that I was next she sat
right .here demanding the barber
cut her hair.
My husband says I should have
pulled her out of the chair by the
nape of the neck. What do you
think I should have done K. C. B.?
N. H. M.
DEAR N. H?Z
• • •
IF AS you say.
• • •
THE INVADING person.
• • •
WAS LARGE and fat.
• • •
THEN IT must me
• ♦ •
YOLK HUSBAND knew.
YOU’D HAVE been unable.
• • •
TO DRAG her out.
♦ • •
AND IF that's true.
• « •
• THEN I assume.
• • •
HE MERELY wanted.
• • •
YOU SHOULD start a fight
AND MESS things up.
sented great difficulties and for
several days it was necessary to
drag the grapples about over the
bottom. They remarked' this: thi
bottom of the sea in those parts
presents the characters of a moun-
tainous land with lofty summits
steep slopes and profound valleys.
The summits are rocky and mud is
found in the hollows of the valleys.
“The grapple in sliding over this
very irregular surface was contin-
usually caught among sharp-pointed
bard rocks and steep ridges. Almost
always it came up twisted or with
its point broken. On several occa-
sions they found between the teeth
of the grapple small mineral splint-
ers having the appearance of frag-
ments recently broken off. AU
AND BOTH of you.
• » •
’ BE THROWN out.
X • • •
AND A man let in.
• • •
AND I’M for that.
•• •
FOR LADY lady.
• • •
SINCE THE boyish bobs.
• • •
IT’S GETTING SO.
THAT POOR. weak man.
• • »
WHO USED to <«vn.
• • •
THE BARBER shops.
IS BEING driven.
• • •
FROM SHOP to shop.
IN FRANTIC search.
• • •
FOR A vacant chair.
• •» •
AND BEING busy.
• • »
EARNING MONEY.
• • *
FOR YOUR upkeep.
• • •
HE SOON must quit. '
• • •
AND LET his hair.
• • •
AND WHISKERS grow.
• • •
AND BUY hair nets.
• • •
AND THINGS like that
see
I I THANK you.
these splinter* belonged to the same
kind of rock.
"It was the unanimous opinion of
thqse who did the grappling and
dragging that the fragments in
question had been detached frqm
i bare rock. The splinters consist of
vitreous lava having the chemical
composition of basalt and called by
petrographers tachlyite. Such lava
could only have been formed under
atmospheric pressure* • •
“The ground which constitutes
the bottom of the Atlantic 900
kilometers north of the Azores was
then covered with lava flows while
i? was still above sea-level. Con-
sequently it must have been en-
gulfed sinking to a depth of 3.000
metersand since the surface of its
rocks has retained the irregularities
the asperities the steep ridges of re-
c Wit lava flows its ingulfment must
have followed close after the out-
pour of the*lava and have been
very sudden * * * Conclusion in-
evitablt: a whole region north of
the Azores and comprising per-
haps the Azores themselves which
isles would then be only the visible
ruins has quite recently foundered
probably within the epoch that geol-
ogists call the latest and which for
us now living seems but yester-
day.”
The significance of this is that
it strikingly accords with th# le-
gends which assert that Atlantis
was first overwhelmed with a vol-
canic outburst and then immediate-
ly swallowed up by th* sea. So the
ancient and hidden but not alto-
gether forgotten tragedies of our
Mother Earth are gradually unfold-
ed to us her children.
| Bacolic Press
Miss Jessie Hubbell has return-
ed from Eustis Fla. where she had
spent the winter. She called on
William Pease this wee£ With
cheekbook in hand she bought a
home in Elyria in an hour at own-
er’s price $4OOO cash taking pos-
session the 15th and moving in
without cacaphony.—Wakeman Cor.
Wellington (Ohio) Enterprise.
Bonehead BrotL.rs
Booh—l turned in early last
night '
Simp—And I turned in lata.
Secrets of Health
By CHARLES A. L. REED M. D.
Former President of the American Medical Association ’
Two Necessary Instruments for Your Home.
There are two really inexpensive
instruments that ought «to be in
your home— on the inside of it
A thermometer. K
A hygrometer.
If you omit either let it be the
hygrometer.
You probably hare a thermom-
eter hanging on the outside of your
house to determine the temperature
of the outside air.
That is the least important we
of a thermometer.
By means of the thermometer
and the hygrometer on the inside
of the house you will be able to
determine and regulate both the
temperature and the humidity of
the inside air in which you live.
The inside temperature of your
house ougt to be from 68 degrees»
to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
“Why?” you ask.
Because beyond that point the
radiant heat tends to consume such
a large per cent of the oxygen from
the confined air that its value for
breathing purposes is correspond-
ingly lessened.
Then too high temperatures fa-
vor the rapid multiplication of
germs that are constantly being ex-
haled from yodr mouth and throat
and nose and that fall upon your
clothes or the carpet and furniture
in the room.
In the presence of colds or coughs
or influenza a confined super-heat-
ed atmosphere of this kind is sure
to propagate disease and in the
presence of the more virulent in-
fectious diseases becomes deadly.
SPEECHES WITHOUT ANY WORDS
By “BUGS” BAER
There are now five hundred
broadcasting stations in this grand
arid glorious group of nervous
states.
They are buzzing together on an
aromatic elixir of condensed energy
in an effort to make education
worldwide static supreme and noise
national.
All five hundred power plants of
bedlam cut loose every evening at
twilight and continue until ex-
hausted.
In addition to this unanimous
total of giant speakers there are
fifty more long distance horns in
Canada and thtMd 'in Bermuda.
One good feature about this chain
system of transmitted disturbances
is that it employs no*'ring but Eng-
lish language in waking up its
neighbors.
Sometimes we cannot understand
it but we know it is English.
Hqw would you like to live In
Europe where there happens to be
fifty salty languages let loose at
night like vicious watchdogs?
Radio fan who lives in Bulgaria
has to extract his transmitted nu-
trition from beautiful but strange
collection of Danish. Norwegian
Asiatic Peruvian and Spanish al-
phabets.
In addition to this assemblage of
THE HAPPY GIRL
By W. A. M’KEEVER
Sixteen a sophomore in the high
school and strong and healthy and
weighing much more than the fash-
ionable weight. This young new ac-
quaintance of mine almost took my
breath away after dinner was serv-
ed when she announced: "Now
mother you visit with the company
and let me take care of the dishes.”
And she did it Here was a glad
young girl who actually thought of
her mother and who 'was anxious
to do her full share of the house-
work.
But that is not the thought up-
permost in the miifds of my young
lady readers. I hear them think-
ing out loud: "My oh! Not slim
and yet happy.” Yes surely. Very
radiant —and why not? Doe* hap-
piness come only to persons of a
certain size and height? Is it de-
termined by position or possession?
Is it something that can be give* to
you or something you can buy with
money?
Often I come across sixteen-year-
old girls who have money and fine
clothes and good looking beans and
everything of material value Which
a girl might desire and yet I find
EDITORIALS BY OUR READERS
Our firm wishes to congratulate
The Light on its excellent full page
advertisement “A Glad Hand for
Everybody in San Antonio.” which
appeared in the issue of Sunday
June 29th. We presume the ex-
pense of this advertising was borne
by The Light itself and we believe
it a kind of advertising which will
result in much good for San An-
tonio and that heretofore has been
decidedly lacking. Publicity of
SAN ANTONIO
JULY 5 1924.
This is especially true if there
Is so little of moisture in the air
of the room that the germs ean
circulate freely in the form ef
dust.
That’s where your hygrometer
becomes valuable.
It will enable you to keep the
moisture at or near the normal
point which is about 60 per cent.
The two instruments working to-
gether will enable you to get the
desired results with more accuracy
and much more economically.
If your room is superheated the
moisture tends to escape with the
hot air through any and every ave-
nue of exit and when it can’t get
out at all or fast enough it con-
denses as moisture or “sweat” on
the walls and windows.
• If the air is supersaturated with
moisture much more of radiant
beat is required and consequent-
ly much more of fuel must be
burned to keep it at the normal
temperature.
To remedy dryness open the win-
dows force in plenty of outside
air through ventilators keep potted
plants in the room and keep pans
of water where it will evaporate.
To remedy our notoriously over-
heated bouses burn less’ fuel and
open the windows.
These are only some of the rea-
sons why you ought to keep these
two instruments on the inside of
your home.
Copyright 1924 by King Features
Syndicate Ine.
nasal whistles he has to absorb Rus-
sian and Greek which are bad
enough in daylight but worse at
nighttime.
If that isn't enough to crack his
crystal receivers he gets two con-
signments of red roaring Siamese
and thin strihgy chirpings of
Arabian dictionaries.
It’s all educational but it might
as well be squeaky axles.
Egyptian is another language
which is difficult to steer out of
yout kite strings. This oily speech
filters into your gear boxes and
causes your loop aerial to get sb
hoarse that you’Ve got to feed two
boxes of cough drops to your • loud
speaker. -
Just when your ears are conva-
lescing from Esperanto some long
• wave Chinese brigand unloads an-
other order of fancy dress Sanskrit
into your drooping ears and your
drums explode on contact.
Fact that Bulgarians can under-
stand Bulgarian proves that they
are bright taxpayers. But can Rus-
siarih understand Swiss? And
when Icelanders talk to Italians
who answers them?
When you try to figure out just
how terrible those Towers of Bab-
ble must be over in Europe yo*
should laugh into your earpieces
and buy your canary bird another
megaphone.
them bating themselves. Why is it?
No inner radiance is the answer;
no consciousness of being worth
while; nothing to strive for; no one
to sacrifice for; nothing to give.
This feeling of emptiness is terribly
self-accusing. It is likely to be
more pafcful than physical disease.
But go back to our radiant school
girl—what can she teach us? The
answer is simple. She gets her
lessons well is thoughtful of her
mother kind to her father and
helps her six year-old brother. Site
scarcely ever leaves home during the
busy part of the week —Monday to
Thursday nights—but is often out
Friday and Saturday evenings and
she goes regularly to church on
Sunday*. That is all.
Try this- new kind of beautifier
for a week and then for a month
and you will like it immensely. Try
staying at home Monday to Thurs-
day nights. Try being kind and
patient and helpful. Act as if these
good things were second nature for
you; and behold they will soon be ;
gin to sink deep into your mind
and spirit
this character is sure to stimulate
greater interest and confidence in
San Antonio and we hope you will
keep it up.
A number of our salesmen com-
mented very favorably on the ad
and we judge it met the approval
of many readers.
With very best wishes we are
Sincerely yours
ROGERS-HILL A CO..
By Paul Adams.
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