THE OltECON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON
SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1921
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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
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, 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"
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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"
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in human effort would we have
skill.
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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.
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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.
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