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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1927
Page
13
An editorial warns that a new policy to alter convict appearances at San Quentin may backfire by shielding criminals from recognition by former associates and lawmen. A longtime inmate recounts how cosmetic remaking helped him evade old contacts, prompting doubts about overall effectiveness and potential for renewed crime before detection.
The city health commissioner suggests indoor schooling for under ten is limited to three hours daily and four hours for ages ten to twelve with the rest spent on outdoor supervised play. He would also cut home study. He cites precedents where shorter days did not hinder progress and argues fatigue harms production, urging more investigation.
A British trend to allow citizens to sue the Crown is described as likely passing Parliament. The piece contrasts this with American law where individuals can sue cities or counties but not the Federal Government or States due to the Eleventh Amendment. It notes debt recovery for municipalities versus sovereign immunity and asks if the British are more proactive in protesting inequities.
The Ohio legislature debates a Sunday ban on dancing roller skating motoring and golf as a test of compulsory morality. Old blue laws are cited to justify restricting ordinary leisure activities, with sponsors noting overlooked penalties and broader social aims in the bill.
The piece argues psychology cannot prove a soul but suggests using hypothesis to affirm its existence. It cites Descartes and urges belief in personal immortality, claiming true science won’t disprove the soul and that spiritual development prepares for life beyond death.
Their First Jobs profiles Lee Wan an immigrant who left Germany at seventeen and spent two decades in trade in New York Chicago before moving into film. He became manager at Continental Clothing House and later entered cinema, building a substantial career as one of Universal Pictures Corporation’s key figures in distribution and exhibition.
Edison predicted the future city will be defined by traffic control and speed. He argued the neck of the bottle is a river of moving vehicles, and widening arteries and synchronized signals will ease jams. Express streets and rapid transit will reshape urban life as automakers multiply.
A New York Auburn report praises a three year diphtheria death-free record amid mass inoculation of over 8000 children in 1922. Officials plan a citywide campaign in New York to immunize households using toxin anti-toxin serum, endorsed by pediatric experts as highly protective.
A period piece discusses orang outangs photographed on a Sumatra rubber farm, linking them to debates between evolutionists and fundamentalists. It claims chimpanzee, gorilla, and orang outang as ancestors of races, then shifts to caution about trust in animals versus humans and praises reliable kindness.
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