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THE OltECON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1921 Isaued Dally Except Monday by TI1E STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY .r. . . . . 216 S- Commercial St., Salem. Oregon (Portland Office, C27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic S27-S9) MEMBKB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone Ralph Glover . frank Jaskoskl L. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 11. Circulation Department. ESS Job Department, 683 Society Editor, 10 Entered at the Postofflre in Salem, THE STAB OF BETHLEHEM .' Ieaec hath her victories no less renowned than war," said Milton more than tbiee centuries ago. McLaughlin, in his "History of the American Nation," speaking of the period immediately following the war of 1812, says: "When the war was over, America turned her attention to the tasks of progress and of peace." , American historians of the present dav find manv parallels in the periods 1914-1920 and 1805-1816. Wilson, likp Jefferson, preached democracy and practised autocracy. Wilson, like Jefferson, was confronted with a situation where "an American ship might refuse to he searched and in consequence he hlown out of the water." Efforts were made in 1806 to hring England to terms by some means short of war, and Monroe and Pinekney .' . A Hflt I A.I A tKAfltlf w T.AH,1a .lilfttl T t C J turn w. ....C.w.n.l 4a A ft n 4 , as satisfactory. "He ought either to have accepted it or to have prepared seriously for war. He did neither." A similar situation confronted Wilson with respect to Germany, and he ' followed Jefferson's example. Wilson, like Madison, at length "timidly and reluctantly yielded" and "thus there fell upon his shoulders the unwelcome, ill-fitting task of leading in war ' In 1816 James Monroe was thosen president by an overwhelm-ipg-vote, and four years later he was re-elected with only one electoral vote against him. The eight years under Monroo's administration were commonly called "the era of good feeling." The "era of good feeling" from 1816 to 1824 was national. An era of good feeling from 1921 to 1929, under Harding, bids fair to become international. The conference at Washington is achieving results looking toward peace far beyond the dreams of the President who initiated it and of the able and far-soeing American delegates who were appointed and have been given the widest opportunity 'to participate in it. It was truly pre . dieted that the conference would center on Pacific problems ond their solution. If there is any outside of war, it is to be found in the proposed four-power treaty, the basis of which is understanding. , . ' Certainly it can be said that reflexes of the "get-together" Attitude of the delegates to the Washington conference are already displaying themselves in other portions of the globe. The Anglo-Hibernian treaty which gives promise of culminat ing in the Irish Free State is a case in point. If the English and the Irish are able to harmonize their difficulties there will no longer be good ground for the bitter feeling exhibited toward England by Americans of Irish descent. The overtures being made by Chile to Peru to end by peaceful means the 38 year old stalemate known as the Tacna-Arica dispute is another example. The text of Chile's recent note proposes that the long delayed plebiscite in that territory.be expedited so as to do away with . the necessity for maintenance of excessive military establish ments. .. . . " Turning to economic questions, it will be found that almost everywhere there is a change for the better, marked in some countries, slower in others," but generally perceptible. ; The Washington conference is creating world wide return of confi dence. (The nations of the earth are encouraged by the belief that the vast sums heretofore devoted to the upkeep of nou productive armament and men, are, in goodly portion, at least, to be'turned to productive account for the benefit of humanity. This is a glorious season.. Not Nativity we celebrate December with such fervor and faith as we Good Will; Toward Men I" - BCH0OL j . . STUDY t. sroftxs Copyright, 1921 Associated Editors i CUB REPORTER LEARNS HIS LESSON Gets Chance to "Cover" Story of a Big Accident, Writes ; "Masterpiece," and Finds Out Something One ot the rules the newspaper reported follows Is: "Get all Im portant information la the first paragraph." , Three days before the Fourth ot July, 1905, F. J. Duncan Clarke, now a managing director of the Boys' Club Federation, and former chief editorial writer of the Chicago Evening Post, secured a position as cub reporter on a southern newspaper. . ."I had been hanging around the office for three days." began Mr. Clarke, when the writer aske hem to tell of his first new6papei Job, "waiting for my chance Nothing bad happened. Tht Fourth ot July rolled round. A celebration was being held in the morning . In the court house souare. . 'i - Gets Assignment ' , " 'Go down to the square and fool around a bit.' the city editor directed. 'I've sent someone else to corer the celebration, but may be you can pick up something, too. ?f'It wasn't a very lively assign ment for one so ambitious as I. but I had resolved that no matter what I was told. to do, I would do It. provided It was honorable. ' "So I went down to the square. There was an Immense ciwd. 1 saw other members of our' staff, as well as men from the rival newspaper, getting their stories. But I con Id see nothing for me to do. So, after an hour or so. twan dered back Into the office of my paper. ... "Things were pretty Unlet. The only other person In the office was the assistant city editor. ' ;"Suddenly the 'phone rang. The assistant city editor answered He made some, hurried notes on a sheet of paper." Then, after hang ing up, he turned to me. Another Job , ' ; " 'Mrs. GUmore, : the wife ot Tom GHmore, the distiller. he an nounced, 'has Just been rntt over ty a train, according to this , Manager . .Managing Edito- Cashier Manager Job Dept. Oregon, as second class matter. APPROACHES ITS ZENITH since the birth of' Him whose 25th could the world have said now posses: "Peace on Earth ; The Biggest 'phone call. I want you to get the story. There's no one elae here to do it.' "I saw this was my chance to show what I could do. 'Where'd it happen T' I asked. The editor nam ed a place in the suburbs of the city. I had been In town only a tew days, and didn't know how to reach this place, so I asked for directions. He told me the way. "I Jumped on a street car, care fully taking the one my superior had directed. And when we got to the end of the line, which was supposed to have been near to the placo where the accident occurred I learned that I was just two miles from the spot. The directions had been wrong. "Of course, I recogni2ed the im portance of getting to the scene of the. accident before the body of Mrs. Gilmore was removed and before all witnesses had left. So thanking my stars that I possessed long legs I started out on the run, covering the two miles in record time. Disappointment "But when I arrived, no one was in sight. The body had been taken away. AH the persons who had seen the accident had left. I was about to take a car back to the office in despair when I was hailed by a man from the rival paper. 'So you're out here cov ering the accident, eh?' He knew I was a green hand. 'What did you get?' I replied 1 had nothing. Then he did something unusual. Take the car back with me.' says he, 'and I'll give you all I've got about the accident.' Newspaper men generally keep the r stories from their, rivals, but this man was on the square. He gave me the entire story and I hurried to my desk and typed it. It was a masterpiece, I thought. I turned it over to the city editor. "As he read it he frowned. ' He turned to me, Well j says he. 'what happened to Mrs. Gilmore when the train hit her?' She was THE DEADENING GOSPEL OF IDLENESS (Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) Humanity has long been taught to look forward to a state of idleness as the heaven in which the Messed are to spend til?1 ages ftf eternity. It is perhaps not strange, therefore, that nany of the ignorant and unthinking, the lazy, the rattle brained and the dissipated have the foolish of human enjoyment is to live in kind; to have every .selfish, physical, animal want and desire gratified without laboring to procure the means for their grati fication. Perhaps we ought not even to be surprised if many of these human derelicts mistake the red flag of IVilshevism, now floating in the cast, for the once through some upheaval or break upon the world. To begin with, there is no warrant in the teachings of Christ or the New Testa meut for believing that heaven is a place or state of idleness, nor that the saints and angels are an aggrega tion of celestial drones with nothing to do but to sing and enjoy the beauties and delights that surround them. On the contrary, Christ teaches in words clear and unmistakable that action, achievement, service, determine the status of men in the life to come. He himself is an example of untiring ffort for the good of others. '"He went about doing good."' His words to His disciples were: "He that would be greatest among you, let him be your servant." The man who has not felt the thrill of achievement has riot yet begun to live. The human being who makes a hated and unwilling task of his work or daily duties is only a slave, even though the shackles that bind his- mind and his limbs are of his own making. The idle, the unambitious, the lazy, are already half dead, and the narrow grave will but fittingly com plete the work of their own purposeless habits of thought and life. Those whose lives do not make the world richer or happier or better are only drones, driftwood, rubbish, that clog the streams of progress and civilization. We are led by reason as well as by the Scriptures to be lieve that God values a human life solely by what it is, by what it does, by what it means to the world ; and that under His laws the world is so ordered that the man wiio springs to his work with hope beaming from his face, with energy quiv ering in every fibre of his being, and with insistence forcing him irresistibly, not only gets the greatest pleasure out of his work and his life, but by labor thus made pleasurable he gets a strength ami development that fits him for larger work and greater responsibilities. In this favored land at least, the prizes in business, in industry and in other lines of endeavor generally go to this kind of men. It is right that they should. Any other result would put a premium upon Iistlessness, inefficiency and indifference. Who can conceive of a spiritual or religious man being an idler? As he "grows in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord" he hears more and more clearly the call to effort, and he counts every day lost in which he has not wrought to the limit of his capacity for truth, righteousness and humanity. - Bolshevism and all the other spawn of Socialism, by what ever name they are called, would change all this. They would have the world believe that the prizes now awarded to honest, efficient, energetic and conscientious effort are all wrong; that thrift is not a virtue; that to be forehanded and acquire more wealth than is possessed by the poorest of inens a crime;; and the man who has the capacity to organize industry and the means and will to employ others is an arch criminal vho is to be annihilated. These Socialistic isms want no captains of industry, no learned professions, no proprietor of stores or mines or factories wicked (?) enough to ask their fellow men to work for them. They would not even be satisfied to reduee all humanity to the dead level of mediocrity, but they seek to elevate the most ignorant, inefficient, undeveloped and unsuc cessful into the positions of power and make them the rulers of the 'world. It seems almost unbelievable that such doctrines could have any considerable following even. in dark Russia. Yet light in this country they are spreading. It is time that normal meu and women should make a determined and organized effort to com bat them. Everybody, no matter what his status, should be glad that we have had inventive geniuses, wizards of industry and leaders and captains in every line of human endeavor. Through their efforts the processes and means of production have been so enlarged and cheapened as to bring within reach of the humblest the things that in the last century have so enriched the human life, and that a hundred years ago the richest could not procure. Little Paper la the World killed,'. I replied. Then why in the name ot catfish didn't you say so in the first paragraph? You've got it burried at the bottom of the story.' "Then it dawned upon me and I learned my first big lesson in newspaper writing that I had forgotten to put the biggest fact in the first paragraph." ' ONE REEL YARNS I MISS CHRISTMAS EVE 'Eve sighed and looked out over the sunbaked plain. "Tomorrow is Christmas, tomorrow is Christ mas," she sang a bit sadly. "At home they are doing Christmas shopping, and making holly wreaths, and the air is crisp with Christmas. And here it's no use trying to pretend that it is Christ mas at all." She turned around and started back into the house. "Well, here's my little Eve. my Christ mas Eve." said her father. "What is the matter with your face? It doesn't look Just r'ght." He slipped his arm about her. "Nothing, only only this is our first Christmas away!" In spite of herself. Eve began to cry. "So that's it." said her father. "You miss an old time Christmas. Go out and take a walk in the garden, and I'll see what I can do." When Eve came back into the house she found an invitation to take dinner with the daugh ter of the chief consul, who was a great friend of hers, so she smiled more cheerfully and ran on. When she came back it was after nightfall a warm, quiet, tropical night. She had brought ber friend with her to. spend the night. Her father met them at the door. '.Come in," he said solemnly, "we're having a Christ mas Eve celebration." Wonder ing, the girls followed into the living, room , of the long, low house. . 4 The floor was covered with conception that the very aemoj affluence without effort of any millennial dawn which all at! revolution they believe is toj HTJMOB PLAT WOES Edited by John H. Millar torn bits of white paper. "This is snow," said Eve's father grave ly. Then he pointed to a "fire" made of red paper, which stood in one corner. Pieces of wooden boxes were the "yule logs," and strips of red paper, kept waving by an electric fan, were the flames. The girls looked around and giggled. "You wanted a real Christmas Eve," said Eve s father, "so here goes." He clapped his hands, and in came Joe, the native porter, grinning from ear to ear, and wearing an old red soldier suit and a white 'cotton beard. The girls greeted him with shouts of laughter. "That sounds better." said Eve's father, "but isn't this what you wanted?" "I see how silly it is," Eve an swered, "to want Christmas to be just the same everywhere. After all it's not in any outside place, it's inside." TODAY'S Pl'ZZLE "I-l-b-t-e-t-g-v-t-a-t-r-c-1 e. " Fill each blank with the proper letter and you will have an old adage often heard at Chuistruas time. Answer to yesterday's: Irene, Maud, Marjorie. Answer to "today's: "It is bet ter to give than to receive." So TO EO MOW tat, .UT SAMTA C-US" MILV COM! Vet how manv of these' leaders had if a big reward for their achievements had not come to them! iiuliiduallv? Without such regard there would have !, -eti. 5 luoe wool. I be no v,: fff.-ieot motive tor the development ad exeicie of uiifcsiiiil abilitis or Tlie hrrp praying to. arri:s parley ; voii iiet it? of those ho r.re the failure, of t:e ire j.t ihi nadir. io The hero of the next war i.- likely to b Warren G Hat din?, who is dome a mans work to pre - vent it. A IIKISTIAN PEACE Chieftains of the Faith are of th opinion that the final disarma ment of th world will come through the church. Plans ar-e .aid for a uniersal Christian 'onferenee in which methods for the establishment of the enduring peace uf the world will be con sidered. Kev. Kd:ar P. Hiil.jLui eral secretary of the Presbyterian Hoard of Education, is spokesman for the thought. He says that men must recognize their com mon brotherhood and enter into the meaning of Christianity's mes sage to human'ty. Under its acceptance there Is nt further call for strife or prepar ation for conflict. Christianity will be the great est factor in the accomplishment of universal peace as soon as th church ceases controversy over creeds and forms. If the church es can finally agree on exactly who is to go to heaven and who to hell, it would end a lot of con troversial bickering and create a large consignment of peace. If they cannot f:nd accord, how can they expect the rest of the world to reach an understanding? ir the universal Christian conference can forget cre?d and schism it may be a wonderful thing for the world. Los Angeles Times. SUFFERING SANTA! The usual tragedy of the sea con is reported. Santa Claus was a-nnl'inr, o n i !n . . . i f ..... - 1 ' notn3. He noudCl and presently his whiskers b'irst into flames. Th? fire extenlU to his clothing and Santa was o terribly burned tiijt he had en be removed to a hospital. He w;W not be able to : form any more this season. Hut there are seven; I substitutes out cn the job and it is expected that the good work will ;-o cn jrst the same. The incineration of a Santa Chris or tw: cannot 4pc:l our Chrisir-.&s THE EYIIS HAVE IT Bishop Nicholson of the Meth odist church wants to know whether we are going to raise our daughters as Peggy Joyces or Fiances Willards. As Peggy has a couple of million dollars' worth of diamonds in Paris it is likely that the Peggys would make quite a showing if we lei t it to a vote of the g'rls thems?lves. Los Angeles Times. LADYLIKE VAMPIRES The new crop of English de butantes are said to he follow ing the lines of the lithe, tigerish and hectic American vampires in their methods. Their lips are reddened and their cheeks paled in order to give the eyes a chance to glow. The British flappers must have taken their models from the movies, as the school girls here have got beyond thi3 stage and are using more intel lectual lure. The girls might as well learn to use a lasso and have it over with. FUTURE DATES iWernW 2fl. Monday !.! holiday. Urinary 2, Monday Legal holiday. January :t, Tuesday Public -hoo! open. January 4. Wednesday Salem Sjtd phonr oroheT ron-ert. armorr January 19 21 F.lka1 Mardi ' Ora. CHRISTMAS "Christmas comes but once a year Have a Glass and see things clear Some 'glasses' double all we see Best left alone we must agree Our glasses double naught but joy And make one see as when a boy" MORRIS OPTICAL CO. Z04-211 Salm Bank of Commerce Building Oregon's Largest Optical Institution Phone 239 for aD"otntment SALEM. OREGON u in human effort would we have skill. iii:m:v tut. .iat jrK MAN j T!;e appearance o: Henry Ford in Washington in the role of th Giant J auk Man gives a new twist to the Biil:-al phrase about the transformation 01 words i- tr r!ow .'-hares. It " fleet. into iniwfrs" nuw If the other na jtlons will auree to the Hushes i it ,nr- n-ui hnelr hi. ..... i wceon np to t'nete Sam? doer and tuk away the s-r. p hea;. Armor plate wh!?h yearned 'o m.itfh it- ytrencih with shells wiM find itsr-lf in ales that bear peaceful folk to pi.'aic?. Steel which hopd" to vibrate to the lethal n.as'e of the fithtini tops w;U :ind itsflf in a four-im-h cylinder, s iV ct to the caprice of a smutty spark plus. Metal I iniMii r.i thr tan of an : admiral's heel v. ill be 'ueaten into ; thin plates for hoods.' Tinkle. I tinkl ''. It would be more dramatic to take the condemned ships out to sea and drop them into the caves i of Neptune. But the world has, had plenty of theatricals these last i seven years. Henry Ford is not; dramatic when it comes to shop j management. If he says he. can take a battleship down and make ! money out of th metal he menas ' it. And if he can make something useful o it of something wasteful and pay money to the government, for the privilege, so much the better for the national bank roll. -New York Herald. YEARS AND DIVORCE A Maryland man is applying for a divorce at the tender age of 101 years. The evidence ;n I the case largely consists of some affectionate letters sent to his , wife by another man. This is more than he will endure. Ho wants no upstart octogenarians chasing after his spouse. The judge said that he would no grant the divorce unless the hus band would promise to remain ! smg.e for s'x months and thm was finally agreed to. A SWEET WORLD A magazine writer says that within a fw years the average American family will be ordering !ts candy by the ten just th3 same as it does its coal. Folks are using a lot of the stuff and economy will suggest that it be bought in job lots and kept in bins. Candy is substituting for alcohol in keeping the home fires burning. f u MIVCE TIK IVrliar it is taking advantage of the enemy to refer to the sub- jeet of mince p;e so soon after Thacksgivins. b it an arousal and i!!i!U'i..;nt p'.t'uii.: sentiment will not be restrained. The old ud h rents of that one-time great American institution known as mince pie cannot longer be muz zled A tarred ohl edifice seems firabline abeut the:r heads. For the old-fashioned nsir.ee pie hns I et-n substituted a camouflage under the ame name, and loy- j.ilty to an old friend compels tta- lexnosure f th t rati J. What has become of the mince pi of the fathers, whith mother used -to mike ' I'etil that ques tion is answered a larpe and riot ous pr.rty of American citizens will march wnJr the banner of H. 0. Welis proclaiming that eiv ilir.ntion is threatened r.nd the social order is crumbling. Kan Citv Star. IAM AGKI GOODS The Wisconsin supreme court : has decided that the owner of an i automobile is not responsible for injuries that happ?n to his-guests. 1 1 they chance to get hurt in an accident they cannot expect to. recocr civn damages irom tne owner of the car any more thau they would if.they were guasts in h's home. Of course, the may be cases in which this Jnterpreta-. tion would not apply, but in the the principle is reasonable and just. If a man goes riding with a friend he doesn't have a come-back jf Henry climbs hla frame. It is treated as an act of P:ovidncB. THE ROM 1 1 I'liOTTERS Possibly that Warsaw anarchist who has confessed a share in the Wall Ftre.f !..::i: ;:jt is only anxious lor a chance to get back into this country. Life in jail in America is better than running at large in Russia. The prisoners here are usually well fed, at any rate. FIELD OF EXDKAVOK Under the Pacific quadrapact American missionaries are given full play in Yap. They are grant ed all the rights thay ever had and may maintain stations to their heart's content. . It is predicted that the Island will be pretty well flecked with missions before an other season has closed. ANSWERED PRAYERS Keep on praying for tne Wash ington conference, but do not for get to give (hanks for the way in which it opened. Congregationalism x otir Litaes Holiday Call Pacific Long Distance The Pacific Telephone & Telejrraph Company. for Ericrnns The most delicious mushroorA in the world is one that gmwi un. . der th snows in thft higher Alp. -It is comparatively easy to plwo!t ii handful of them if one is used , to standing on a Mepl&dder sevea thousand feet high with a snow shovel in his hand. Rut by the time they reach the tabls of tao New York gastronome they ar worth about a thousand bucks a pound. Nice dressing for the Christmas bird. ART AND THE RATH An eminent English painter and crit c says that art in America s represented by a well ordered bathroom. Our Raphael is a plumber and our Michelangelo a machinist. Well, to have a clean mind in a clean body is som thing. If the Americans use a bathtub for their shrine Jt speaka for clean living, at any rate. We don't care to monkey with an art that leaves a lot of mussy paint on the fingers. BITS FOR BREAKFAST Merry Christmas. V And many merry returns. Salemites are promised a white Christmas, but most of them are yearning for warm south winds to follow soon. S It is likely that the people will have a chance to vote on the gas oline bill. If it Khali ha decided that it has not been properly re ferred by the leginlature, it will no doubt be initiated. S The Oregon constitution says: "A majority ot all the members elected to each house phall be necessary to pass every bill or" joint resolution." One member of the senate died and there was no ., election called to fill his place. It has not been the custom In Ore gon to call such elections. That left 29 senate members. Fifteen , voted for the gasoline bill and fourteen against. The president of the senate ruled that this djd not pass the bill. An appeal to ' the house was had, and he was ' overruled. There you are. It is said Joseph Simon, when he was " I president ot the senate, made a ruling that fifteen votes were sut flcient in a; simU&r case. Of' , course, the dead member i could not vote. In strict construction, 4 the ruling made In the present : case was right. But was that the intent of the fundamental law? There are many fine points In- . volved. - - ' - , . ... ' ' '! c'i. It would perhaps have been " better all around if there had been' ' no special session ; of the Iegi8la- v ture. The initiative tould have ? been invoked for all the leglsla tlon that was important. The reporters say everybody1 ; wants the fair; even .the men, In the senate who opposed the gaso line bill, with a possible single ' exception. Everybody wants the ," fair, but most every one wants the "other fellow" to get under 'the burden of the expense of it. .'..V.'." i-T'-.-.f v-'-- ,' v . V "- ' ' ' i ' ' 1 1." .- 4. t