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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
4
The San Antonio Light and Gazette editions published daily with AP leased wire coverage. Editors Charles Diehl and Harrison L. Brach oversee operations. paper established as a historic local daily.
A critical analysis targets a Saturday Evening Post communication by the Republican National Committee and James B. Reynolds. It contends the piece misstates prices, ignores the production system behind profits, and wrongly blames others while praising high costs and prosperity.
The piece argues in favor of inexperienced leaders in American politics, faulting seasoned politicians as quacks. It cites Theodore Roosevelt criticizing Wilson, notes business and politics converge, and suggests experience can disqualify a candidate. A concluding old proverb offers a dismissive quip.
The author attacks Hilles for inconsistencies in his treatise arguing that gold production pushes prices and wages out of balance. It questions overproduction, labor costs, and living expenses, suggesting some profits go to imaginary capital and decrying press agents of trusts.
The article extols Zapata as a legendary warrior figure of the south, likening him to the Attila of old and to a mythical thief whose audacity captivates readers. It frames his notoriety in grand, controversial terms, contrasting historic Attila with modern revolutionary imagery.
A harsh, satirical piece attacks Zapata by contrasting him with Attila the Hun. It notes Attila’s expansive campaigns from the Caspian to Gaul, his political marriages, and Rome’s fear, while mocking Zapata’s claims and suggesting few would dare rival Attila’s legacy. The author references Budapest’s founding and a dramatic Rome flight.
Colonel John L. Clem, famed Johnny Clem, remains the last Civil War veteran in active service after Major Daniel W. Arnold’s retirement for age. The piece recalls Clem’s youth as a drummer, his Chickamauga victory, and Grant’s promotion, noting thousands of underage volunteers and even some overage ministers joining the fight.
Frank Wilstach, famed as herald extraordinary to Sothern and Marlowe, retells a western critic’s son story. A four year old proclaims his father’s job with bold wit, saying My father’s a damn at it kick, drawing humor from babes’ wisdom as reported by the New York Evening Mail.
An African river scene centers on a she crocodile guarding fifty one eggs while a mongoose hunts for them. A monitor lizard, a puff adder, and adjutant storks interrupt as the mongoose battles to protect his own brood and the eggs.
The October number features Roy Norton’s Arroyo Jones a complete western tale where a miner fights Wall Street. It also includes Futrelle’s latest in the last series, Henry Milner Rideout’s The Far Cry praised as sea poetry and gripping fiction from Emerson Hough BE Phillips Oppenheim James Connolly Niven Lynde Patullo Van Loan and others. The Women’s World section offers To Mary Edwards 500 and The Ennui Doctor plus a Bayard Veiller play retelling Within the Law and The Dare Devil serial. Maude Warren Crane Lowry Marks Kaufman Braley contribute pieces and poems.
Frederick Minturn writes in Popular Mechanics that the United States will establish a world spanning wireless high power network centered near Belmar New Jersey. The plan links Panama Hawaii Manila Singapore London and Pretoria with a cheap reliable system using ether transmission. He contrasts costs and maintenance with submarine cables arguing wireless offers savings and rapid repairs.
A woman recalls wearing an apple green dress that made her look frighteningly pale. Her cousin intervenes with a health focused plan: hot water lemon juice mornings, no coffee, malted milk for breakfast, vegetable lunches, fruit snacks, and daily outdoor exercise. Over two months she follows the regimen and returns to find a glowing complexion and renewed confidence.
A Bexar County Highway League president, J W Warren, sought a seat on a Chamber of Commerce special train to Aransas Pass for a deep water celebration. Secretary J F Carter led him along the cars until the last one where a large Newfoundland dog waited on the platform. Warren learned his reservation had been humorously placed between a cowcatcher and the tail, then received a comfortable berth as amends.
Vice President Sherman's health is rapidly improving and may allow him to stand by November 4 according to the St Louis Republic.
In a Baltimore Sun report, Mr Roosevelt pledges substantial measures for the District of Solumbig where residents lack a vote, highlighting political concern over representation.
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