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iHE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1925
Capital Jpournal
Salem, Oregon
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"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"
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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.
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