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State to Rear Poor Children Some Day Hughes Hopes
“Why Should Insane Get All Benefits of Science Free
While Innocent Kiddies Starve?” Asks Noted
Writer on Sociology.
ffZVONFTSION worse confounded”
was Milton's description of
Ilefl if I sm not mistaken —ns I
usually am. But life itself if most
confoundedly confusing. It simply
will not permit a nice satisfactory
theory of humen betterment to exist
in aimpie beauty; and history either
ancient or freshly chronicled in this
morning'* paper spills about our
heads incessant contradictions of
every ide* and ideal.
That is why I suppose the posi-
laewansts so positively make up
their minds and then close all the
door* and windows to any disturbing
facts and grow so angry at anybody
who disturbs them with a truth that
contradicts their comfortable theories.
And that i* why humanity clings
so fondly to so many proverbs and
maxims long after they have been
disproved.
There is hardly anything that we
bata to disbelieve hardly anything
that we hate so much even to examine
ca the dear and admirable trust in
the value of home life the sweet in-
fluences of mother-love and the de-
sirability of large families.
SKEPTICS DENOUNCED.
The akeptie who dare* so much as
investigate these hallowed beliefs is
denounced as something infamous. Yet
the family and the home have suffer-
ed as many changes of opinion a*
perhaps any other institution and
the very people who are most fierce
against the investigators would be the
last to tolerate the more ancient
idenls.
Nobody in this country I imagine
would say that the ^bome is an im-
pregnable citadel or that the father
of a family is properly its absolute
master. Yet in early Massachusetts
r during the Puritan regime the old
k Levitical laws were revived and it
was enacted that the state should
put to -death nny disobedfent child.
Later the law was modified to read
that the state would publicly flog
any child whom the father could not
take care of at home.
Surely it would be hard to find
anybody bold enough to stand up and
ask for such a law today.
The tide runs in the opposite di-
rection now and today the state is
constantly at war with the family
in defense of the child; invading the
home to compel parent* to respect the
rights of their ward*. Societies for
the ifreveution of cruelty to children
aro kept busy everywhere. Truant
officers not only pursue indolent chil-
dren but compel their parents to let
them to go to school.
PARENTS' "RIGHTS'' GO.
The latent constitutional amend-
ment to be urged did not succeed
though the principle of it is generally
accepted. The whole idea of child
labor has grown repulsive to the
l>eople of today and the prevention
of child labor means the annulment
of the old parental right to enjoy
fruit of their children's toil.
The revelations of the advocates ot
child labor laws have horrified the
worid by exposing how ruthlessly
cruel lazy or vicious parents have
DR. W B CALDWtLU
AT TMC A«C OF S 3
Countless girls and women non
know bow foolish and needless it is
to "punee’' and “physic” themselves to
anna sieg lier.dacbe. dizziness bilious-
ne^ sallow skin colds or sour gassy
■tomach.
They nave found that Dr. C*ld
•ill's Syrup Pepsin helps to establish
ns tarsi bowel ‘regularity” even for
those heretofore chronically consti-
pated. Dr. Caldwell's 8; rup Pepsin
WA only cauaea a gentle easy bow. .
m»v«*>rist nut. best of ail it nevi
gripe*. sickens or upsets tbe mo
girl er soman. Besides it
übselately harmless and so pkasaut
I
’ been to their offspring. No pages
f of human history are more ghastly
1 than the truths about the sufferings
r inflicted on little boys and girls by
■ their parents for money. The de-
• struction cf their children's minds i
: morals bodies and lives has been no i
■ bar to the greed or the need of the <
i parents. As the beggars of old used i
■ to mutilate their children to excite 1
; profitable pity so the parents of child
laborers stifle and stunt them for a :
. pittance. 1
i It is ridiculous to pretend that «
■ father and mother love are reliable in 3
themsehee. At its best parental af- 1
fection is altogether noble and beau- t
tiful. But there is nothing in nature t
that guarantees the reformation of a t
brute or a criminal when he or she t
becomes a parent. And nothing in all <
pictured hells is more fiendish than «
the homes of evil parents. c
Hardly less of hell is found in the t
homes where the parents are not really
vicious but only misguided bewil-
dered and incompetent. Passionate {
parental love is no assurance of the t
welfare of the children and too much (
devotion may be as vicious as too j
little. i
HOME IS CHANGING. <
The home and the family are chang- (
ing therefore in every respect and no <
one can say how far the revolution (
will go. Odious as the thought may
be to our generation it may well come t
to pass that the state will one day re- (
move all children from their homes •
as soon as they ean be weaned or
send their mothers with them to insti- t
tutions where children may enjoy that
equality which is the most precious ]
privilege of grown-ups in our repub- ]
lice. <
As things are now and as they
were to a greater degree in the past (
birth is too much of a lottery a gi- <
gantic lottery in which there are few
capital prizes and all too many j
blanks. And the poor victims have t
no choice in the matter. They may t
not even choose their own numbers.
Why should we perpetuate the im- ]
memorial universal tragedy that has ]
scattered little children like seed at
random on barren ground or on rocks
as well as fertile soil? One infant
alights in a home where comfort and
affection and every wholesome and ]
tender benevolence abound. The next .
child is flung into a den of iniquity
or squalor where disease and cruelty 1
crime and malevolence make up the
whole environment. ।
INJUSTICE APPARENT.
Why should this tiny stranger com-
ing out of the mystery of the nothing- <
nes* before birth be placed in the
I
arms of a drunken pauper leading a
life of grimy shame and another tiny
stranger be laid on the breast of a
human angel in a cottage or a mansion 1
of cleanliness and kindliness where
father and mother worship each other
and where brothers and sister sur-
round the newcomer with affection ’
and protection and delight? This
frightful injustice may satisfy Mother '
Nature but humanity has outgrown ;
the indifference of both beasts and
gods. I
Why should this tot be taught to
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Women Need
a Mild Laxative
-Not a “Physic”'
- ft
*
■ that even » cross feverish bilious'
i ick child gladly takes it.
> Buy a large CO-cent bottle at any j
• store that sells medicine and just see t
■ for yourself.
Dr. Caldwell's
SYRUP
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steal and that to read? Why should
this be fed on germ-laden swill and
that on all dainties that science and
love can purify? Why should this
baby be whipped and cursed and sent
into the alleys to freeze and study
nothing but sneaking misery and that
one be blessed and dandled and guided
along primrose paths to learning an<‘
riches and honor?
This republic guarantees its citi-
zens life liberty equality and the
right to pursue happiness. This guar-
antee is reaching down further into
youth. Our children are compelled to
learn to read and write to sing and
take exercise. Public physicians strive
to assure them good eyesight good
teeth good health. They are taught
to believe that the sons and now the
daughters of the poorest citisen may
aspire to tbe highest offices and suc-
cesses as well as the sons and daugh-
ters of the wealthy.
THE NEXT STEP.
The next step is to extend tbe
glorious opportunity to the cradle and
to assure the unweaned infant of
a good start in life. Already there
is official inspection of the milk the
water the ice. the food the medi-
cines. Tbe cities send their officials
out to distant points to correct the
dairies the streams all the sources
of the infant's weal or woe.
There is one step beyond—the dark
continent o ftbe unborn. We have
our officers iu foreign ports to make
sure that unwelcome immigrants shall
not cross the ocean to our shores only
to be turned back at the barrier.
Is there no way that the mighty
love of Uncle Sam can reach out to
his children before they have landed
on the shores of our life only to be
rejected in death or condemned to the
crippling of body and brain and
character?
Our boards of health are increas-
ingly ceßcerning themselves with par-
ental affaire and offering help to
expectant mothers. But this help ex-
i Mutter and Mumble
1 By J. P. Medbury
MUTTER— Well well Mr. Mumble
what might you be doing in i
jail?
Mumble —I might be getting out
but I’m not.
Mutter—What brought you here? s
Mumble—The same thing that
brings everybody else the patrol a
wagon.
Mutter—What did you do that
caused them to arrest you? <
Mumble —Nothing they arrested me
because I didn't do something.
Mutter —What didn't you do?
Mumble—l didn't run fast enough.
Mutter —What were you doing
when the cops grabbed you? <
Mumble—l was standing in a door-
way snoozing.
Mutter —Is that a crime? (
Mumble —Sure they charged me
with impersonating an officer.
Mutter—Well according to the law
you don’t Lave to stay here.
Mumble—No but according to the
bars I do.
Mutter—Why don’t you get Out on
bail?
Mumble—That dumb sergeant
wants $5O and he won't take a check.
Mutter—ls it your own personal
check?
Mumble —Sure.
Mutter—Then why do you say he’s
dumb?
Mumble—What should I do?
Mutter—You ought to hire a good
lawyer and an honest one.
Mumble—Don't be silly I can't af-
ford two attorneys.
Mutter —Your wife doesn’t know
you're in jail does she? (
Mumble—Of course not.
Mutter —Won’t she be worried?
Mumble—No she probably thinks ;
I'm in an automobile accident.
Mutter—Why don't you telephone
her? 1
Mumble—lt wouldn't do any good
she wouldn't answer the phone.
Mutter —How do you know she 1
wouldn't?
Mumble—They took it out jester- 5
day. "
Mutter—What made them remove 1
it? *
Mumble —Central complained about 11
the rough language.
Mutter—You don’t swear over the fl
ohone do you? *
Mumble—No but the receiver haje ’
•> ni d to be off the book tbe other *
■ ruing while 1 was putting my col- 11
iar on.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
tends only to their physical welfare.
There is still to be considered what
we may call the spiritual tbe mentul
the political future of our unborn
citizens.
PRE NATAL CONTROL.
The next step after advice is con-
trol. The state that timidly proffers
good counsel to poor mothers will
One Day While .Anna Was Walking With Her Husband She Was Shot In the Shoulder. 6
next enforce it. The state that where they will have infinite benefits death rate of babies has been enor-
hesitantly peer* into loathsome tene- at no cost and where the parents can mouely reduced of late. Many states
ments and orders the plumbing im- visit them at proper times. have adopted the mother's pension'
proved and the airshafts widened is The insane already hare all these idea by which mothers too poor to
not far from cutting the Gordian benefits; why should the infants be care for their infants are supplied
Mutter—How do they treat you here
in jail?
Mumble —Very seldom.
Mutter —Are the beds hard?
Mumble —I should say they are; I
slept like a rock.
Mutter—The turnkeys are kind
aren’t they?
plumbic—Sure the tough kind.
Mutter—Do they treat you like a
crook?
Mumble—No I don't get any con-
sideration at all.
Mutter—l suppose there are nothing
but a lot of roughnecks in here.
Mumble—Not necessarily. Some of
them are perfect gentlemen.
Mutter—ls that so?
Mumble—Sure a condemned man
got up out of the electric chair the
other night and offered his seat to a
lady.
v———
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•
i Bits of Fact and Fun
‘ The job at which I earned by fir. 4
half crown a week was as a messenge ■
boy to a Glasgow firm of stationers.
I rom there I went to work in a ware-
house at 4 shillings a week. When I
was 17 I migrated to America in the
hope of making a little money for my
mother" writes Sir Thomas Lipton
in Pearson's Weekly.
“Instead of remaining in New York
as most youngsters do I went to the
Southern states. I found the people
kind and anxious to help me and it
was there I learned business methods
and habits. Wheu I was ready to re-
turn home I bought a barrel of flour
and a rocking chair as presents for
my mother.
“With about eighty pounds that I
bad saved I started my first little busi-
ness in Glasgow selling bacon ham
butter and eggs. My staff consisted of
myself and a small boy and 1 slept
in a little room behind the shop.
Young as I was I realized the value of
advertising. I knew a clever draughts-
man and I used to supply him with
ideas for a cartoon every week. One
week be drew a picture of a man with
a pig on hi* back and tears rolling
down his face A lady passing was
saying to the man. "What's the matter
with the pig?" The reply was “It’*
an orphan and the rest of the family
have gone to Lipton's." Then so great
was the success ot this picture 1
. Knot and simplifying the complex
t by direct action.
> Instead of ordering penniless toil-
1 ers to give their infants advantages
that the parents cannot buy for them-
selves the state will majestically re-
' lieve the parent* of the infants and
‘ the infants of the parents by remov-
I ing the infants to great paradises ■
Mutter—l think I can get you out
of this place with a habeas corpus. ■
Mumble—How much do they cost?
Mutter—Abo-'t 50 buck*. 1
Mumble—Well you'd better bring a 1
couple of files they’re cheaper.
Mutter—Don’t you know of any
place where you could lay your hands
on some money?
Mumble—That's just the trouble I
was trying to lay my hands on it
when the cops caught me.
Mutter—Was it your money?
Mumble—No but if I’d a had two
minutes more it would have been.
Mutter—don’t you know when
men go who steal?
Mumble—Sure to Honduras.
Mutter—lf that's the way you feel
about then you're here in jail getting
your just deserts.
Mumble—You’re crazy I've just
been getting soup and bread.
bought three live pi**; had the words^
"Lipton's Orphans” painted on a sheet
and the pigs driven through the streets
of Glasgow. They created a great «tir
and helped to make my name known.
I now have more than 7000 persons in
my imploy.”
He: “I can read my wife like a
book."
His Friend: “I bet you can't shut
her up so easily.”
One of the military rule* of the
early Danes was that it was cowardly
to attack an enemy during tbe night
and because of thia the Scots did not
think it was necessary to keep n
watch during their encounter* with
the invading army from Denmark.
Sunset was supposed to mark the close
of all hostilities for the day.
Ou one occasion however the
Dane* deviated from their rule and
determined to launch an onslaught
against one of the Scottish strong-
holds. On they crept barefoot noise-
less and unobserved —until one of
them set his foot upon a thistle and
cried out with pain.
The alarm was thus given; the
Scots fell upon the invaders and de
feated them with great alaught.r.
From that time onward tbe thistle
was the Scottish emblem the motto
being. “No one wounds me with im
punß* “
denied them? Only the rich and the
very poor can have the tremendously
iVpensive advantages of modern
science. The littlest babes that need
them most of all must get them nezt.
Already there are approaches to
the grand solution of the most hor-
rible slaughter in history the unend-
ing slaughter of the innocents. The
Mutter—lnstead of being locked up
here wouldn't you rather be home? I
Mumble —It doesn't make much I
difference; I wouldn't be able to get
out of the house either.
Mutter—You should consult an at-
torney you can get any number of
lawyers from $5O up.
Mumble—l know it but I want one
for about $lO down.
Mutter—l’ll be glad to send you
my attorney.
Mumble—ls he smart?
Mutter —I should say he is; he
gets mo^ey in advance.
Mumble—But suppose I pay hi u
and he doesn't do anything for m“.
Mutter—Then you can sue him.
Mumble—Sure but I'd have to hire
another lawyer.
Mutter—No yon won’t he'll
handle that case for you too.
Mumble —There’s only one way to
get out of here. It could be arrange 4
if some prominent rnan with an honest
reputation and a good character would
go to the judge.
Mutter —That’s a great idea I’ll ge
speak to tbe judge at once.
Mumble—l certainly appreciate
your kindness Mr. Mutter but te;l
me who’s name are you going to use?
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He Shows.
with sufficient funds for the pur-
pose. The wiser saner kinder thing
is for the state to welcome its babie*
into the best of all it* hospitalities.
The timo will come. Perhap* it i*
not far off.
ONE “SWEET” FAMILY.
And all of this reminiscence and
prohphecy spring* from a picture in a
newspaper a most disconcerting pic-
ture when you learn the truth of it
and realize what a confusion it casts
upon the theories that mother love
is divine and that the home is the
ideal place for children to grow up.
A sweeter kindlier face I think I
never saw than the face of this
mother who sits entirely surrounded
by a wreath of children three boy*
and three girls. In her lap she holds
an amiable dog and another is at her
feet. Some pictures «re pretty things
until you read the texts and the text
below this picture briefly num* up a
tragedy more fully developed on an-
other page. And what a tragedy 1
This sweet-faced mother had shot
and killed the father of her children.
She told the jury that her husband
had beaten her for thirty years and
the jury acquitted her. Then the
daughter Anna (who smiles as she
leans on her mother's shoulder in the
picture) married a mau called “Wild
Bill” who had succeeded to the lead-
ership of a Brooklyn gang after its
chief was shot in bed.
One day while Anna was walking
with her husband she was shot in the
shoulder. Wild Bill is said to have
consoled her with the none too com-
forting words i
“They were after me dear; don't
you be afraid.”
CABARET OF DEATH.
A few month* later Wild Bill was
found in a loft with three bullets in
his corpse. His place in the gang was
taken by Anna’s brother called “Peg-
leg.”
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• (SUNDAY MARCH 28 1926.
Last Christmas night Pegleg and
some cronies were in a Brooklyn cab-
aret. A quarrel started. The lights
went out. Shota and shrieks and
curaes marked the stampede iu the
dark.
Half an hour later a policeman
found a dead man in the gutter with a
trail of blood leading to the dark and
silent cabaret. The officer found two
corpses in the 'room. One of them had
tried in vain to get his pistol from
his hippocket. Pegleg's right hand had
just reached a pistol under his left
arm but had not been able to draw it
before he received two bullets in the
head.
The mother and daughter in the
pretty picture were called to the
morgue and wept as they recognizeil
tha body of Pegleg. His mother said
that he had left home on Christmas
night laying he was going to buy
some candies for the Christmas tree.
The rest of the history of that fam-
ily is yet to be written. It promise*
little comfort for the believers that
the home is tbe hope of mankind and
home-life the guardian of virtue.
The trouble is that there arc homes
and home*; mothers and mothers;
children and children. The mother of
these children doubtless had the best
intentions in the world yet she killed
their father her son was killed and
her daughter's husband was killed
and all the while they were all mixed
up in the evil doings of a gang of des-
peradoes.
Suppose the state had taken all
these children away from their over-
worked mother. What worse could
have befallen them? They might have
done far better for the mother might
not have endured the husband's beat-
ings till they drove her mad. The
children might have been removed
from surroundings fatal to their spiri-
tual health.
(Copyright 1926 by the Bell Syndi-
cate Inc.)
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