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PAGE FOUR iHE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1925 Capital Jpournal Salem, Oregon kn Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Eicept Sunday at 136 8. Commorclat Street. Telephone 81: Newi 8J UEdllGU PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher second class mall matter at Salem, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier 10 cents' a week, 45 cent a month, S5 a year In advance. By mall, In Marlon and Polk counties, ono month 0 cent. 8 months II 25. t months 2.25. 1 year 14.00. Elsewhere 60 conU a month. S& a year In advance. ' FULL LEASKI) WlltIS ASSOCIATION I'llliSS SliltVlCIS The Associated I'reirs la exclusively entitled to the use tor publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credllod in this paper and also local news published herein. "Without or with offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." byron. Hoover's Crusade One of the biggest jokes of the season is that of our trust-ridden Uncle Sam yelping and yawping vigorously at the behest of big business, through Secretary Hoover against the exactions of the British rubber monopoly in holding un the American tire and rubber manufacturers. And to cap the climax of buffoonery, the congress of the United States has ordered an official investigation of the British rubber trust, while Hoover leads a popular crusade to smite the trust by using old auto tires longer. It is to laugh, to see all this righteous indignation against a foreign monopoly, when almost everything the American people consume is under the control of a government pro tected and tariff pampered American monopoly, The exac tions of the steel trust, the oil trust, the packing trust, the paper trust, the aluminum trust, the electrical trust, and a hundred other monopolies do not in the least excite the re sentment of the multi-millionaire secretary of commerce, or arouse the ire of congress sufficiently to provoke an inves- ugnuon. Instead of censuring the British rubber growers, the ad ministration should be pointing with pride to them as an instance of what that cooperation it breaches for the Ameri- . can producers can accomplish, through organization for con trol ol products and markets. The British rubber growers, like the American trusts, limit their-output to enhance prices and when the American farmer learns to do likewise, he will quit chasing the rainbow of paleralistic price fixing. ibuuuer is auouc me oniy product in tne supply ot which British foresight, capital and industry has created a monop oly on which America is dependent, while there are scores of other products upon which Britain must pay tribute to Americans yet steep as the exactions are, we hear of no howls from the House of Commons in behalf of the British consumer, and no British probe of American combines. . Hoover's crusade is calculated, not only to amuse the world by its futility, but to further convince it that Uncle Sam is not only the international Shylock but so avaricious that he balks at another nation's giving him in a limited way the same treatment he is giving the rest of the world in a wholesale way. In brief it will go far to stamp us the most greedy and therefor the best bated of nations. I hope you won't let Dad both er you," he said to her anxiously. We all have to humor him, and put up with him when he'a par ticularly trying. He's been a great man In hla day, and of course he can't realize that that day 1 over." Oh, I do try," Mary told him. hoping that he wouldn't see the tears that had come into her, eyes because ot Mr. Crandall's scold ing. "Only I'm so afraid that I'm not suiting him." 'Indeed you are," Will Crandall told her, quickly. 'He epo'ke to me, about you yesterday morning at breakfast; Bald you were one of the most capable .secretaries he'd ovro had. You're getting along beau llfully; don't worry nbout that." Mary thanked him for telling her and turned again to leave the room. 'Do you live near here?" Cran-: dall askoJ, walking with her to ward tho door. Mary told him where she lived she hud found a room In a section of town over near the East River, where a number of old houaes were being remodeled Into apartments. The tenement district encroached on It, but there were many lovely old homes left and the block whore Mary lived was really charming. 'May I walk over with youT" Crandall asked. "I take It for grant ed that you'ro going to walk," he added, laughing. "You look ub If you liked to, .and as If you got plenty of exorcise." "I do," Mary answered with a smllo. "I like to walk, and It saves bus fares two reasons for doing it." She liked Will Crandall., Am they walked 'along he talked of his father, whom he admired tremend ouAly, telling Mary some of the many important roles which old Mr. Crandall had played In tho city's history. There wore several sons who were older than Will; he had been out of college only a few years, he told Mary, and hadn't gone Into business becauso he want ed to be an artist. "Dad's given me ono more yeur In which to get a foothold," he told Mary. "Aftor that, It I can't paint oven ono picture- that will soli, I've got to go - Into the business. I'm hoping for the best." "Oh, I'm sure you're going to succeed," Mary told him enthua last i cully. Tomorrow A New Friend. "Gimlet-Eye" Goes Despite the fact that he had resigned from the Marine Corps to continue in the office, Brigadier General "Gimlet eye Butler has been summarily removed by Mayor Kendrick as "director of public safety" for Philadelphia, which high sounding title means Volstead enforcement officer. He fail ed m his effort to .dry-up Philadelphia simply because Phila delphia did not want to be dried-up and refused to be dned-up. While the ousting of the gallant brigadier will bo loudly trumpeted, e&pecially by the gentleman himself, as a triumph of vice and corruption over virtue, nothing could be further irom the truth, which is that Philadelphia, refused to tol erate a fanaticism that attempted to padlock all of the city's leading hotels, thereby jeopardizing many millions of invest ment as well as inconveniencing the general public, merely to make sure no ono took a drink in them. Ihe custom of borrowing army men to enforce Volstead ism is likely to prove fatal both to the cause and the man Only the most consumate tact can enforce an unpopular law for S al' U"fJtted by tra,n,"- discipline and habit foi public office in a democracy. . People resent being tact lessly ordered about as mere automatons, especially in the eniorcemc.it of a sumptuary law . regula pe "onal cus toms that stamps an individual as a criminal fo? X that which mankind had legally done since time began Love s Greatest Gift By VIOLET DARE N1AV YORK AT LAST Mary was too much excited when she Htartod for New Vork on Sut urduy lo feel honicmlck nt leaving tho city where cm a hud lived all hor eighteen years, sho had nlwnya wanted to go to New York; now, when Iib was eo eiicor to start anew, It Rccmed as If everything that had made her bo unhappy had happened for some special reason, bo that sho would reach the point Whero ho did mnl:o tho break. Sho had seen Hamilton that day, for luncheon, and ho had given her her ticket and some money. "IKmombcr, this to just a loan," ho naid, when she looked nt the liltlo thick roll of bills. "You'll want enough to keep you going till your first week's salary, and then some to put In tho bank, so that you won't feI that you haven't anv thing to fall back on. I'll bo In New York inyetr In a few weeks, nnrt I'll look you up then." I When she arrived in New York the next day she was more grate ful than over to hi u, for getting' her n position before ho left home, lie had given hor the name of a hotel whoso manager ho knew and told her to go thero and give . his n nine. When siio arrived she found that he had telegraphed and financed for a initio of rooms which h was to oauipy for a week, nnd in tho rooir.a she found fveral bwl of floivnra with hla card tucked Into one of the huge roues. There wan a nolo for her on the dressing table In tho ted room, "Stay here longer than a week If you haven't found rooms some where else that you like bcttw," Hamilton had written. "The bill 1a to be charged to my account; these pooplo owe me lome money, on a buslnoss deal, and have asked me to take It out In slaying here and they give me a cpeelal rate, so that your room rent ati.1 meals will some to rery little. Please be very happy here.' Sho did feel happy Indeed as she stood In ono of the windows ot the sitting-room looking down over the city. How kind he wm to her, now that ho knew and understood her bettor! Sho went tho next day to the homo of her new employer, Ataitn Crandall. Sho realized a soon an the builer took her into, Mr. Cran dall'a library that working for him would be harder than any other position aho had vor had. She could see that he would be fussy, Irritable, hard to p lease, Jlo looked nt her for a moment without speaking, almost auspici ously. , "Ho you're Alary Walte. are you?" ho remarked at last. "Weil, do you think you can do my work?" Alary was on tho verge ot saying "I'll try," but something told her that ho would not like that answer Inspiration came to her. "Yew," ho answered, speaking I aa bluntly oh ho had. "1 can." llo nodded npprovlnjily. "I liko that," ho told her. "You've jrot confidence in yourself, nt lea-st. Sit down hero at this tablo and I'll show you some booklets I'm interested In." Mary took off her hat and coat and sat down. Hho had expected to get to work at once, but Mr, Cran dall began looking over a pile of papers, reading bits of them aloud and then commenting on them, without explaining anything to her. She learned during tho next few days that she needed pntience more than anything el?e. Mr. Crandall, wasted hours In getting ready to go to work, and really Old very lit tie. llo thought that ho was still Im pnrtnnt In t he business world. , whereas as a matter of fact his sons' did most of the work that he thought was done by himself. He1 was merely a figurehead. I lie lost his temper half a dozen' times a day, scolding her roundly: for tlilnm that were realty his own! fault, llo would mislay things and then blame her becau.se sho could not find litem. He wanted her to do more work than she did, but had no more work for her to do ills man came to Mary one after noon when she was leaving, after Mr. Crandall had gone storming out ot the library and up to his room on the second floor ot the big old home. Christ Brought Love To. Displace Awe and Fear of God, Is Claim The time of tho birth of Christ, or the original Christinas day, her alded a now aspect In which God yns to be rngnrded, it was stated by Rov. Thomas V. Kcenan in his Christmas sermon at tho now St. Vincent Do Paul church of Salem. At that first Christmas time, Fath er Koonan old, tho idea of love was substituted for awo and fear. Father Keenan took for his text tiie passage, "And tho angel said unto them, 'Fear not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the peo plo, for this day Is born to you a Savior, who Is Christ the Lord.' ' "What over records," tho speak- or continued, "there wcro of the visitations of God to man, either "Known But to God" x few - v. . 33 IPS? JkA "- ' w - c, m , tea kp Upon the crosses thai stand over Ihc graves of 1,082 graves of unknown American soldiers in France will be chiseled "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier, known but to God." The cross at the left is for the supposedly Jewish dead and the oilier for the dead believed to be Christians. In the sacred books of tho Jews or in tho vague traditions, all that had hitherto borne trace of His visitations were made in sucn a way ns to strike awe and some times even terror and dismay into those who had witnessed them. The ffrcat bul kof mankind had, before the coming of the Lord, little re liable guidance about things super natural. "Though pagan darkness lay Hk null of deulh upon tho fuco of I the world, yet, even In the worst of times there lingered at least In the Imagination of mankind an Im prosslon that apart from, but very near to, the plodding life sense, there was another and a very dif ferent world, the world of spirit. Men were sore .afraid when on un usual occurence, any unwonted sign of marvellous portent, gave ground for thinking that the world of spirit was about to make a mani- fostaiton of itself. And In truth. If mankina nna a knowledge ot tho Inspired books of Judea, they would have found enough In them to explain nnd justify this natural feeling. For. according to theso books, thoro was erv real nnd ulmighty God who had made the world and tho men who dwelt in it, and who, having made them, had not flung them from him to be ruled by chance, but who had kept them fat In Ills almighty hand and presided ovor the shaping of their destines by a providence that overlooked noth ing In Its marvelous minuteness. And this God had made a visitation to Ilis creatures and lie had made them usually in a way that was well calculated to make men's hearts troubled and afraid. "Cut there was now, In the full ness of His mercy, to bo another words that could be found to her air Its arrival were tho words of the real angel, "Fear not, for be- and an abiding visitation of God to man, so different from those of old that tho most appropriate hold I bring you glad tidings ot great joy." Perfect love cnsloth out fear nnd this time God had come in love. "Man had been corrupted busin the blight ot sin and fallen like a pall ot death over the faco of hu inanity and It had become tho one business of man to hide himself away from the fact of Clod. Ho had been striving through all these years to raise between himself nnd tho God who made him a mist of too fatally had man succeeded lit his design. Kin had mado Its way on earth, but now Gods time nod ripened to Its' fullness and the voice of John came from tho wil derness, proclaiming that the king, doin of heaven was at hand. And whllo tho world slept in tho sllenct of tho midnight, tho kingdom ol God stolo upon tho world as silent ly as the footsteps of tho dawn alcnl down the eastern hills. But silently though God wished ic come,, yet he wished to make Jusi ono announcement of Ills coming. This announcement was mado lo Homo shcphenis, wno pi ui night watch on tho lonely plains ot Bethlehem. "Ves, a Savior was born after all tho weary waiting of centuries." FEDERAL DIVORCE BILL FAVORED BY JUDICIARY ChlraRO. Doc. 20 (AP) Tlio federal divoi'CB bill introduced In congress by Senator Arthur Cap per ot Kansas, ivns unanimously favored by fivo Cook county Judees who have had experience in the divorce courts, though they siiKKcstcd alterations, a sympos ium revealed today. The five have hoard more than 75,000 divorco petitions in tho last fivo years. Judge Joseph Subath expressed approval ot an amendment which woul droquiro the prospective bride nnd bridegroom to give two weeks' notice before they obtain a marriage license. All the judges declared that In ability to perform tho marriage duties and communication of n social disease should olso bo made a basis for a divorce in a national law. H?ilin, Germany The Btory ot Lenin has been made Into n play ignorance! and a wall ot sin. Andwhich will lie prwenled shortly. DUMB DORA By Chick Young &ON.t'N GLVD DORAS BEM& FND FOR EMEGW- -a. 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