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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1928)
Salem, Oregon Tuesday December 25, 1028 Features : Earl C. Brownleb Sheldon F. Sackett - . Publishers : Editorial''-: ImmmflSmm- f ; , h , ; r I i You don't have to preach honesty to men with a cre ative .purpose Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something and the instinct of Workmanship will take care of his honesty. The writers who- have nothing to say are the ones you can buy; the others have too high a price. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate his product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't. Walter Lippman. The Best Aye for Christrtias TJEFORE memories of last night's fireside happiness shall A3 fade into the splendid light of this beautiful Christmas day, ?to the accompaniment of young America's Christmas horn: echoing with the merry laughter of little children (f oi whom this wonderous day is preserved against the cynicism and faithlessness of th egeneration) let us join with truer philosophers in wondering: What is the best 'age for Christmas?" -. Verily, there are as many answers as there are ages. It Is, mayhap, that lovely day when one is four or five or six; when Santa Claus and his charges are brave realities to charm the mind and fill the heart of childhood with a joy past understanding; when we take small account of the sizes of chimneys and believe implicitly, because we have faith and because it is so easy to believe when one is four or five or six. Or, it may be, the Christmas age is when one is seven or eight or nine and Santa Claus has been reluctantly turned aside as one more of the myths with which the imagination of childhood years is flamed. Years when father and mother are most certainly the symbols and characters of the divin ity that sanctifies childhood. Yet the Christmas age might equally well be when one . Is ten or eleven or twelve, and dolls and drums have served their merry purposes and there are graver things in life; when we're coming into a bit of realization of the love that gladdens and jrlorifies the happy Christmas season. However, if that isn't quite the right age, it, after all.j may be found somewhere in the buoyant teens careless, headstrong days when comes understanding, at last, that Christmas is a saintly day; when out of a cascade of youth "there shall be taken time and" thought for truest, finest things. ... Naturally, now. that it suggests itself, one really may not come to Christmas age until 20 years or more have been marked upon the scroll and one can take a fuller measured part in the giving and receiving knowing for once the bless ing that may go with a token. Nor will we think of insisting that at 30 or beyond to 40 or from there to 50 is either too young or too old for Christ mas, for it is much in how you look at it and from where; whether you're five or fifty. So, too, it's all the way you look at it, when we make bold to suggest that the best age for Christmas is that exact and thenceforth lasting age at which we may sit back con tented, soothed by the memories of those other Christmas ages, and enjoy to the utmost the pleasure that others get from the Christmas our means and our love and our know ledge of the richness, the happiness and the beauty of life give to them. That's the Christmas age, no matter how many years it be. It is the age of the golden rule, of peace ' and a great; good will. i The Biggest Fight V I EUROPE has regained the ground actually lost in the total consumption of sugar during the world war; though in one period, 1918-19, the peoples over there were using only a little over half the tonnage they consumed in 1913-14 v They have i in f act now definitely passed the pre-war consumption of about 7,700,000 tons -But they have not yet made the per capita increase of consumption of the rest of the world. But the growth of consumption for September and October, if kept up, will bring the countries of Europe to the rest of the world in average gain; will show an annual consumption of 10,000, 000 tons. j ' The consumption in the United States will be about 7, " 000,000 tons, much higher per capita than Europe's; but this has held ever since sugar came into general use. The world consumption will next year be about 27,000,000 tons. We are to see in the next few months a great effort to secure better tariff protection for the sugar industry of this country, with a view to its large expansion in the (continen tal) United States. There are two sets of demands on the Dart of the growers of sugar cane and sugar beets One that the rates of duty on sugar be increased and the free importation of Porto Rican, Philippine and Hawaiian sugar be restricted; the other that an adequate protective tariff rate be charged on sugar from any country, including i our own insular possessions. These demands do not men tion though they no doubt infer the abolition of the 20 per cent preferential that is being allowed Cuban sugar, which is by far the greatest stumbling block in the way of the expan- aicra ox ine sugar industry oi me uuneu ouu. Cuba is looking out for her own interests, for which she 'cannot be blamed. That country ships 230,000,000 gallons of molasses yearly to the United States, from which are man ufactured 60,000,000 gallons of alcohol. That country now proposes to put an export duty on this molasses, in order to keen it and have it made into alcohol in her own country; taking the place of gasoline, etc., for motors and general power purposes. - There are many interests tied up with the sugar indus try of this country So many and so far reaching that this part of the fight over the tariff bill that is to be prepared by congress will without doubt be the hottest and greatest of the whole bat tie that is being staged. 9 ' A Child's Gifts THE child whose purchases of Christmas gifts are con fined to the things that each child would most earnestly desire for. himself seems somehow to manifest just about the best Christmas spirit of all. Here is no frantic effort to match in. volume x value the" gifts that may be received "or any consciousness of keeping up with any example in the scope of quality of giving. The child may usually be depend ed upon to buy for those to whom he gives, within his urn itatiora. what he most desires to'possess for himself. He - actually seems to probe his own heart to discover what would -most gladden other hearts. The fact that our young friend may bestow upon us a noisy trumpet or a rosy jimcrack does not lessen the intensity of his desire to reach our hearts, and - should not lessen our honest appreciation. The Pleasure of Giving 1 1 The Grab , Bag December 25, 1I2S J Wuu am if Which state do 1 represent in the senate? Who i the other senator from mjr state'. What separates England from France? What Is the pen name of the Queen of Roumania? Who was the first man to swin the English channel? "Whoso rewardeth evil foi good, evil shall not depart from his house." Where Is this passage found In the Bible? - Bits for Breakfast By B. J. Hendricks . Merry Christmas u And many more of them U S ; With happy new years to match and prosperous ones to boot. m "The next 10 years will be rth more than the past 60." is thenalogan of the town of Black- foot, Idaho. Very good. It will apply to Salem with interest and usury S And the past 10 in Salem hare been nothing to sneeze at, either, compared with any 20 that went before. S Earl Race, former city record er, was down town long enough yesterday to say he is ready to rote for an $8,000,000 bond issue o secure mountain water, and an jther miilion for more sewers In the Interest of sanitation. S ". The other day, one of the Christmas relief funds got a good ;heck, written in lead pencil, and aot at all handsome for pretty but bully for good. There was a luestion as to whether the check was good. It was. It would hare been good if It were written ou a shingle or a board or the back of letter. You do, not hare t make 'a pretty check to make It good. You Just hare to have the proper name with the money in the bank. ( And the right signa ture. . . V "U A green Christmas does not make a full grareyard in this Tal ler, as the saying goes In eastern sections. It generally means that spring days will be with tTsToon. ' Dinner Stories Indignation Senator Borah, discussing an unsatisfactory answer that had been made to a charge of corrup tion, smiled and said: "It reminds me of the English butler. His employer said to him: " 'Heuston. I bet you'vs been at my Scotch.' 'Hexcuse ' me, sir,' said Heus ton, In his haughty way. 'Hexcuse me, but I don't bef." JIMMY JAMS Who's Who and Timely Views Denominational Barriers Seen, to Be Weakening ' By DR. SAMUEL PARKES CADMAN President, Federal Council. Churches of Christ In America. (Samuel Parkea Cadman was born at Wellington, Shropshire, England. December 18, 1864. He was educated at Richmond college of London univer sity, receiving a D. D. degree from Wealeyan ' . and Syracuse universities and honorary degrees from Columbia and. Vermont. He was pastor of Met ropolitan Temple. New York, from 1895 to 1901. and has been pastor of Central Congregational church. Brook, lyn since then. He has written sev eral books on religious topics.) fpHE church is lacing a new I day and I rejoice that de- uuuiiuiuuuai oarriers are weakening. I hope to lire to see the day of a United Protestantism in -America. The church Is never sufficient for her task She is always sitting In a bor rowed light but the is omnipo t e n t because she is an Instru ment In the hands of God for the redemp tion of man kind. We need to flew the rreat first prin ciples o f the gospel of the Son of God with new light. , We hare come to the door of a new day. Christian thinking needs to be deep," broad and expansive. The center of Christian life is not a creed or a book but a life. Jesus Christ stands alone. Next to him are the nronhets of ancient Israel. I fear the American people may rorget the democracy and think . . urn democracy means merely a majority vote. The. majority has been wrong many times. There Is a danger, always, of worshiping the state. The chief obstacle to the kingdom of God is suoer-na- tlonalism. . The Christian church Is pre-emi- Kelflygrainnis BY FRED C KELLY ONE of the bis oQ companies with gasoline filling stations la va rious cities has discovered that it can sell more gas on the right hand side of a leading highway as yon go FROM a city. Inmost places. If filling stations are on opposite sides of street.' the one on the riffht-hand out-going side may be expected- te-do perhaps twice as much business as the ether so I am assured by the manager of a thai of these stations, :. A --.;v:V vw " - i The reason -is staple! . Automobile owners naturally do most of 1 their driving In early forenoon ana late arternooa. They would buy gasoline either on the way to their places of business or on the re turn trip homeward. Bat they dout stop to bay In the morning be. cause they're In too big a hurry. Most people oversleep, have to eat a hasty breakfast and proceed as rapidly as possible to their office, arriving Just in the nick of time. Not having bought gasoline In the taoruins, and knowing that they may be driving after dinner, they top to buy on the way home. Of coarse they prefer s station on the same side of the street, , . I . WanA of this human habit of putting things off, and not buy- tax In the juornlng what can be delayed until afteraoon, more gaso line is sold between :S3 end p an, than during all the rest of the. nent because It is universal. Gov ernment Is local. The most char acteristic creation of God is the Christian church. The American conscience is awakening to the dignity, im portance and appeal of the church. There is no great nation without a great religion. Not government first and then religion, but faith first and government afterward. The mother of democracy Is the ocracy. "My country, right or wrong" is not Christian. It Is not even good paganism. The eternal truths come first. Divine laws are not for today but forever. Obedience to them alone will Insure perpetuity. Dr. Uw V. One-Minute Pulpit The Way of the World By GROVB PATTERSON Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident nnto you If I lie. ' Return, I pray you, let it not be inlQuity; yea, return again, my righteousness is In it. Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern preverse things? Job, vt. 18-30. POLITICS The thing that Is the matter with politics is not politics, but politicians. And the thing that is the matter with politicians is that too often they are not good men Too often they are tricky, dif- loyai, aisnonesu ii nas long been said that the fundamental rule of politics is loyalty loyalty to your friends. And yet there Is prob ably more disloyalty among poli ticians than among men in other lines of human endeavor. The professional politician wants most of all to win what he is after. The methods by which he wins are frequently, with him, a minor con sideration. With' general Indif ference on one side and the dis position of politicians to be tricky. on tne otaer, tne man who really wants to serve the public in an in telligent, honest and high-minded way has a nearly Impassable road to travel. IT'S NOT NEGLECT a certain weekly newspaper. which at one time attained wide; circulation, used to carry at the bottom of the first page the Ilne:i The fact Is that truth is not so much the subject of mere neglect as it. Is a matter of deliberate dis regard. There are plenty of books, magazines and newspapers which set forth the truth. There are uncounted thousands who have access to sound reading mat ter and sound information. But we are still so much creatures of like and dislike, creatures of tem perament and instinct, that we prefer avoiding the truth and liv ing, in a fools' paradise of our own. We desire to believe wnat we desire to believe, rather than what we should know and must know to be a fact. STOCK AND MACHINES , More than three times as much cultivated crop land is used for growing feed for farm animals as is used for producing crops for human consumption. As more power driven machinery comes into use that situation will be changed. Driving through the country one wonders how the peo ple are fed when there are so many thousands of acres of un cultivated land on both sides of the road. Hungry city folks can take comfort from the fact, how ever, that with new and improved methods and more intensive farm ing, the agriculturist has learned how to produce far more per acre than he used to. There is food enough. The main question now is to see that the producer gets a larger part of the high price that the consumer has to pay. Some where along the line the non-producer gets too much. Today in the Past In 1776, on Christmas day. Washington crossed the Delaware river, preparatory to the Jiattle of Trenton. Today's Horoscope Persons born on Christmas day have the courage of their own con victions and they do much to help shape thought. They are natural teachers. A Daily Thought "Christians awake, salute the hap py morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born." John Byrom Every time one of these' col lege professors comes back from Moboow and starts praising the soviet government it calls to mind how easy is used to be to fool the teacher when we went to school. Answers to Foregoing Question 1. Hiram Johnson; California; Samuel Shortrldge. 2. Straits of .Dover. 3. Carmen Sylva. 4. Capt. Matthew Webb. 6. Psalms, xvli. 13. MONMOUTH. Ore., Dec. 24. (Special.) Mrs. J. S. Fuller and Mrs. T. J. Edwards entertained the Social Hour club Wednesday afternoon at the latter' home, the affair being arranged as . i Christmas party. A beautifully decorated tree with an exchange of gifts, and a question-box the latter providing both levity and practical Information were the chief features, suppremented by a delicious collation served by the hostesses. 1 1 Mr (?ajo)0 uSax ' ' Drives Away Thoughts of Cold! He thought Lei couldn't play that night, . but the cold he'd caught that morning had departed. Most professional people know what really knocks -a cold In a tew hours; many go turOugh the Winter witout any trouble from colds.-It's a compound that comes In little white tablets.-Take onej and that first snuffle U-Juat about the last; or several tablets if you have let the cold go until it's ser ious. . Pape's Cold Compound Is all you ask for; and the druggist charges 35c for a package, and it never seems to fail for anybody. 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