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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1917)
WORLD HAPP E BRITONS SURPRISED IS He f ft "Don't pm Until f ft CGhrialmafi!" I Destruction of Eleven Vessels in North sim I INTERNED SHIP CURRENT WEEK WIRELESS Sea by Germans Announced in House of Commons. London The successful attack by Ifi T.nrm KntK tent a aitt to p Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi of Noted People, Government! and Pacifle Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing;. The administration bill to increase the number of cadets at the Annapolis Naval academy was passed late Mon day by the house without debate, and now goes to the senate. German naval forces have made a foray into the North Sea and surprised a convoy of merchant ships, sinking one British and five neutral vessels and.four mine sweepers. The period of virtual inactivity con tinues in France and Belgium, except for reciprocal bombardments on var ious sectors and here and there smal ler operations by reconnoitering par ties. Mrs. Jean Kellet of North Yakima, Wash., has received a telegram from Halifax, N. S., saying that all mem bers of the family of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Hillis, were killed in the recent disaster there. The second court-martial of enlisted men of the 24th Infantry, negroes, growing out of the riot and mutiny of members of that regiment at Houston, the night of August 23 last, was begun Tuesday at Fort Sam Houston. No restrictions upon the price or distribution of lead are deemed neces sary at this time by the war industries board. This was announced , Tuesday after a conference between the board and the principal lead producers of the country. Miss Hariet A. Varney, a nurse of West Upton, Mass., was found not guilty of the murder of Mrs. Pauline Keyes, the 10-months bride of George H. Keyes, a Boston real estate man. by a jury in the Norfolk county Super ior court. , Unidentifiedbodies of 200 victims of the explosion at the Halifax, N. S., disaster were buried Monday after public funeral services conducted by Protestant and Catholic clergymen. Nearly 100 of the bodies were charred beyond recognition. The official text of the armistice be tween the Russians and the Teutonic allies confirms the unofficial reports that it is to run from December 17 to January 14. The compact embraces all the fighting fronts where Russian troops have been engaged and also ex tends to the naval forces of the con tracting parties. President Felix Galonder, in the first public speech he has delivered since his recent election, said at Gene va, Tuesday, that the Swiss people were ready to pour out their blood against anyone who might attempt to invade their country. Switzerland, declared the President, would defend her neutrality to the end. A mob of more than 100 men storm ed the county jail at Billings, Mont., Tuesday night, apparently in an effort to seize Juan Juarra, a Mexican sec tion hand, who shot and killed Patrol man Enos Nelson. After battering down the front door of the jail the mob was held by Sheriff Stone Matlock and his deputies until police officers ar rived and dispersed it. The residence of John D, Rockefel- ler In the suburbs of Cleveland was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday. The rapid spread of the flames led to the belief that the fire was of incendiary origin. Mr. Rockefeller is now living at his winter home in Tarrytown, N Y., and the estate at Cleveland was in charge of a caretaker. The house con tained many valuablejpaintings, tapes, tries and bronzes. Another payment of $25,000,000 to Italy Thursday, the first for jnany weeks, brought the total actually paid to that government from the $500, 000,000 credit allowed up to $320,000, 000. Western railroad lines were ordered by the Railroad War board Thursday to send 100 locomotives to aid in re lieving traffic congestion. The Bolsheviki have dispersed the senate, the highest Russian court, and all the other courts at Petrograd, in keeping with the recent decree of the people's commissaries, substituting new revolutionary tribunals. Tha only opposition met was at the congress of county judges, who refused to be dis persed. They were arrested. Bishop Paul Jones, of the diocese of Utah, of the Protestant Episcopal church, Thursday appeared before a committee of three bishops which met in St. Louis, to consider charges of disloyalty ' that have been made against him. HavanaThe house of representa- tfvna ThnraHuv tmrlit nrlnntpd ft rfwnlil- : tion declaring a state of war to exist between Austria-Hungary and the Ite nnhlifl nf fhiha. The action was taken following the reading of a message from President juenocai recommending uch declaration. German warships on a convoy in the North sea, resulting in the sinking of 11 vessels, as announced in the house of commons Tuesday, came as an un comfortable surprise to the British public. It is expected to cause a re vival of the serious criticism of the admiralty, such as at the time of the successful German attack on a convoy of Scandinavian merchantmen in Oc tober. Added to this is the raid made off the Tyne last Wednesday by German warships. As a result of these two expeditions one British destroyer has been sunk, another seriously damaged, five trawlers and eight merchantmen have been sent to the bottom, another trawler has been damaged and a num ber of men have been killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Among the prisoners is a nephew of Viscount Grey, former foreign secre tary. According to the Danish accounts, the force which attacked the convoy consisted of four cruisers, in addition to destroyers. A painful aspect of the affair, from the British public's point of view, is that apparently all the attacking vessels escaped and re turned to their bases. Another un pleasant feature is that the British cruiser squadron detailed to protect the convoy against surface attacks, for some unexplained reason, was not on the scene. Vice Admiral Beatty im mediately opened an inquiry. The in vestigation will be hastened as much as possible. " According to the testimony of sur vivors, both here and in Scandinavia, the fighting was of most violent charac ter. The Gerimans poured hundreds of shots into the ill-fated vessels. Testimony given at the inquest over the victims of the German attack on the British convoy shows that the at tack occurred between 4 and 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, and that the en emy destroyers fired as rapidly as pos sible for a few minutes. A Swedish steamer was torpedoed twice, the sec ond torpedo cutting the vessel com pletely in two. Of the crew of 20 on board, 16 were either killed or are missing. No assistance was rendered by the enemy boats. British destroyers came upon the scene and rescued the sur vivors. TROOPS ATTACK BOLSHEVIKI Fighting Continues in Region of Don Capture Ammunition. London Reports on the Russian in ternal situation Wednesday indicate that fighting is continuing in the Don region and that reinforcements have been sent south from Petrograd. A Kiev dispatch reports that during the disarming of the Maximalist units there the Ukranian troops seized 72 cannon, 350 machine guns and 5,000, 000 cartridges. It is stated in other advices that the Russian government commissioners are drafting an ultimatum addressed to the Ukraine and recognizing the inde pendence of the Ukraine but demand ing an immediate expression of the rada's attitude towards the Bolsheviki authorities. The rada had issued a statement de clining to recognize the people's com missioners as comprising the govern ment of all Russia, inasmuch as the Don, the Caucasus, Siberia and other parts Of Russia have their own govern ments. In connection with the signing and publication of terms of armistice on the Russian front, it is Btated that the Rusisan delegation at Brest-Litovsk has been augmented to include M. Poknovsky, president of the Moscow soldiers' and workmen's council, and others. The Maximalist organ Prava takes occasion to denounce -as untruths the allegations that the Germans in the armistice negotiations demanded the evacuation of Petrograd and Finland, the disarmament of the Russian army and a grant to Germnay of a monopoly in grain exports. Naval Reserves Exempt. Washington, D., C. Amendments eliminating from the oil land leasing bill all references to the opening of California Naval Reserve lands were introduced Tuesday when the bill came up" in the senate. Senator Pittman, in charge of the measure, agreed to ac cept them. Speeches in support of the bill were made by Senator Kendrick and Senator Borah. Senator Borah said the people in the Western Btates are opposed to the leasing plan, but owing to war conditions, realized that some action was necsesary. Tax Extension Proposed. Washington, D. C. Legislation to subject all federal officials except the President and members of the Su preme court to the excess profits tax was agreed upon Tuesday by the house ways and means committee. There has been criticism because the "occu pational tax" of the war bill lays upon the income of professional and salaried men, when they exceed $6000, a tax of 8 per cent in addition to the regular income tax, but exempted members of congress. Dairy of Captain Exposes Trick Played at Honolulu! BAND DROWNS SOUND Revolutionary Propaganda la Dissem inated From Hawaii at Instiga tion of German Government. Honolulu While her band was play ing lively tunes to drown out all tell tale sounds, the wireless apparatus of the German unprotected cruiser Geier, interned in this harbor, relayed mes sages between German agents in the United States and Japan in further ance of a plot to embroil the two coun tries in war, according to an article appearing in the Star-Bulletin here. The article, which is published with the authority of the United States Na val Intelligence Bureau, declares that the seal placed on the Geier's wireless by the American government was bro ken by the Germans in order that the messages might be sent. The information regarding the Geier's activity in this supposed plot was obtained from the dairy of Cap tain Grashof, of that vessel, the arti cle asserts. " Grashof 's dairy says, according to the article, that in November, 1914, and Fejbruary, 1917, messages order ing the widespread promulgation of re ports that Japanese forces were to land in Mexico and German forces in Canada were handled by the Geier's wireless, the operators working night and day in order that there would be no delay in the transmission of these radiograms." According to the diary Count von Bernstorff, ex-German ambassador to the United States, and Captains Boy-Ed and Von Papen, his principal aides, figured prominently in the plot. George Roedick and H. A. Schroeder, ex-German consuls at Honolulu and Manila, respectively, are also impli cated. Both pleaded guilty in San Francis co recently to complicity in a plot to establish a revolutionary government in India. A German secret agent known as "K-17" was said in the dairy to have aided in the transmission of these mes sages, and also to have advised the German government of the Bailing times of Danish vessels from here and elsewhire. SHARK PULLS ANGLER TO SEA Woman Fighting from Boulder Drowns When Fish Takes Bait. San Francisco A large fish, pre sumably a shark, pulled Mrs. Anna Conners to her death on the rocks of Moss Beach near here Sunday. Mrs, Connors was fishing from a large boul der. A companion, Emu Bedenbeck, heard her cry in alarm and turned to see her bracing herself against a strong pull upon her line. Before Bedenbeck could reach her she was dragged into the surf. Bedenbeck, after an hour's battle, brought the woman's unconscious body back to the ledge upon which she was fishing. He then scaled the adjoin ing cliff and summoned aid. When he returned he discovered the body had been swept out to the sea. It had not been recovered up to a late hour. "Garabed" to Be Tested. Washington, D. C The bill provid ing for tests of a mysterious machine for utilizing free energy devised by Garabed T. K. Giragossian, an Armen ian inventor from Boston, was passed Saturday by the house after lengthy debate. The measure provides for securing the discoverer's rights if the machine is demonstrated to be practi cable and that the government may use it without charge. A similar bill passed by the last ses sion of congress was vetoed by Presi dent Wilson. The new measure was introduced to meet the President's ob jection to providing that there shall be no patent on the general principle involved. Japan Needs More Sheep. Seattle, Wash. Dr. Issa Tanimura who has been sent by the Japanese government to study the American sheep industry, arrived here Sunday night. He intends to remain here a few days and then tour the sheeprais- ing sections of the nation. "Japan needs 10,000,000 sheep to supply the demands of the country for woolen goods and food," he said. "To meet that demand the country has a total of 8000 wool sheep of various breeds." Dr. Tanimura said he expects to obtain sheep here for foundations of nocks. Teuton Republic Urged. Washington, D. C The committee on public information makes public an article written by Germans and circu lated in Germany urging the over throw of the German war lords and the proclaiming of a republic The docu ment, which was distributed through German republicans in Switierland, declares that peace will not come until Hohenzollernism is overthrown and the German people take their stand for mnit.v and civilization. i WHAT an interest centered in that babe, wrapped in swad dling clothes, lying in a man ger at Bethlehem 1 Prophets were interested, angels were interested, the ages have been most deeply in terested since. The shepherds had perhaps some premonition. The seventy weeks of Daniels propnecy were about fulfilled. It may be at that very time they were talking of the coming of Christ. Suddenly their attention was ar rested by a strange sight in the heavens. It grew brighter and took the form of an angel, and then they heard a voice announcing the birth of Christ as glad tidings for all peo ple, not to the Jews only. Then suddenly the air was filled with an gels singing as if they had come right out from the air. We know not their wonderful song, but part came to mortal ears, "Glory to God in the highest," etc. We know not who those angels were, but we fancy they were the redeem ed. Adam was there; Eve was there. Eve, who in her maternal earnestness declared at the birth of her firstborn, "I have got a man from the Lord" hoping that that was he who should bruise the ser pent's head. Now, in the fullness of time she had come to witness the birth of the babe who was to be the Saviour of her race. David, Elijah, Moses, the patriarchs, we believe, were with the heavenly host. This song reveals three things : Eirst. The glorification of God through the incarnation. God has glory through his vast work in na ture, his providence building up and casting down nations, etc. In the incarnation there was spe cial glory. It was glory to God in the highest highest, in that it was above all other glory, in that it ex tended to all time and in that it wrought such wondrous good. Second. The great results to the earth. It would result in peace. Strifes, thorns and thistles were abounding. The earth was torn and bleeding by constant contention. With Christ came peace. The result would be universal peace. Third. The effect on the individ ual man. "Good will toward men," from one another, from God. Out of this good will would finally spring peace on earth and glory to God in the highest. Dr. Matthew Simpson. To Make a True Christmas. Don't forget the lonely, the suffering, the poor, on Christmas. Remember that the first and greatest Christmas gift was sent not to the rich and pow erful, but to the poor and needy. Give to those who are near and dear to you, but somewhere, somehow, In your ordi nary life find some one who is near and dear to no one else and make Christmas for him or her. Bam CJfrtBtmaa jr There is a Bosnian legend that the sun leaps in the heav ens and the ttan dance around ' it. A great peace comet Heal ing down over mountain and forest. The rotten stumpt ttand straight and green on the hill- ' side. The grass is beflowerei i with blossoms, and the birds ' sing on the mountain tops in 1 thanks to God. In Poland the I heavens open and Jacob's lad- ' iky. In Auttria the candles are gp i let tn me wmaow mat me Christ Child may not (tumble when he comes to tless the ' home. In north Germany the tables are spread and the lights left burning for the incoming of the Virgin Mary end her at tending angel. The English superstition is , admirably voiced by the myriad minded Shakespeare in "Ham ' let": ' Some say that ever 'gainst that . F season comes Wherein our Lord's birth li cel t ebr&ted. ' The bird ot dawning slngeth all f night long. And then they say no spirit can want aoroaa. The nights are wholesome. Then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath , power to charm, Eo hallowed and to grtcloa is , tne time. W ' me, W t But though that gift I long to W Sf ,ee' ? 2r The packet's label says me K. F nay 2r M "Don't open until Christmas W day." t W Till Christmas day how long ST to wait Jf Sff Ant pine, yet noia mwoiaie jjj 5 The ban, too strict for Adam's f clay, ST "Don't open until Christmat W dayr M On Christmas day shall I be Sr here Jf To joy in that which now 1 were deart And must I heed these runes Xr that say, ? "Don't open until Christmas 77 2? , Should Time, the churl, have power to hold In check each word, each W Through this decree of drear delay, "Don't open until Christmas day." For there be hearts and purses, too Locked fast to Love the long year through By that same word, which fools obey, "Don't open until Christmas day." i Ah, Love, the sages all allow The time for any joy is now Then charge me never more, I pray, "Don't open until Christmas dayl" Arthur Guiterman in Life. Sc, Cbe Golden Cbrtstmastfde T JNDER the far blue Byrian iky Was born the Conqueror of. Death, Who bore credentials from on high ' In Bethlehem and Nazareth. Then came the new and better times; One lone star signaled far and wide,' And now we ring melodious chimes ' To mark the holy Christmastide. Come young and old from every tide! Come rosy maid and gentle swain, j It is the holy That joyously1 we meet again. The holly hangs upon the door. It is no time for work or woe. Now jollity commands the floor, And joy comes with the mistletoe. Bring in the Yule log's ancient flame, The soused boar's head, a rich re past. Let sorrow go the way it came; Let care be to oblivion cast. The tweet clear voices sound without Backbuts and shaWm-'make whole some glee. Twined is the boar's head round about With garlands rich and rosemary. And now the foaming wassail bowl Shall bring us comfort and delight. This is the sea- ton of the soul, From golden morn to star ry night. Naught care we for the pierc ing cold, Thedriftei snow or rag ing blast, For Christmas never shall grow old From eons new or centuries past. Quaint mummers mingle in the scene Where pudding mates with Christ mas pie. The rooms are thick with evergreen, And happiness lights every eye. Let Fortunatus turn his horn Of basket loads to famished need, For on this day the One was born Who knew no mark of class or creed. Then welcome, merry Christmastide, Another hour before we go. The rosy girl close at our side We'll kits be neath the mis tletoe. Deep, melloto bells salute the air With benis--sent far wide. Good wilt and joy go everywhere Upon the golden Christmastide. Joel Benton. The Sweetest of All. Christmas la a Jolly day, but let us not forget that it is Christ's birthday and that to make someone else bappy la the sweetest thfcg of all. IN a place built, like Bethlehem, in many cases against the soft limestone rock it often happens that the existence of a cave where the house was to be was a great at traction since it offered a ready made, dry, above ground cellar as well as a specially suitable spot for the household animals and for a Btoreroom. It would seem that Jo seph was at last able to get room in some such back portion of a house, and there, we are told, Mary bore her divine Son. A cavo below the high altar of the Church of the Nativity is now shown as the very place where this augusi event transpired; a little re cess, shaped like a clam shell, its floor of marble wrought into a star In the center, bearing in Latin the (cords, "Ilore Jesus Christ Was Born of the Virgin Mary." A row of lamps hangs round the outer edge, the right to attend to them be ing a jealously watched matter, each of tho ancient churches, the Greek, the Latin, the Armenian and the Coptic, having one or more of these under its care. The evidence for this site is so itrong that most persons accept it as sufficient, reaching Txp, as it does, to within living memory of the days of the apostles. But even if this be an Illusion the fact remains that in this petty village the Saviour of the world was made man for our re demption. No wonder that we read Df the anthem of tho angels, for surely nothing could draw forth the Interest of the heavenly population like the exceeding grace God was showing to sinful man. The scene of the visit of the shep herds is pointed out a3 on a rough slope, facing the village, at some distance to the east, Bethlehem ly ing far above on its mountain seat. One can follow the shepherds in their journey to see the unspeakablo wonder. They would go along the ncn valley ot tfoaz and then up the terracod hill by a path still in use, nor is it uninstructive to reflect that, while simple shepherds wero led by angels to the manger, the high priest and tho great of Jeru salem, so near, slept through that most illustrious night of all history, quite unconscious of what had hap pened, uut we know of it. and mav God grant that if we cannot go with uic siiepneras to bctlilehem we may one day go io the right hand of God and worship him there, who that night lay a little child in Mary's arms. Dr. Cunninehani Geikie. (w iBtmas ifcht&iiutg I It! Perhaps the most heroic at- 4 tempt to keep Christmas in PL conventional fashion under 5r u conventional condt- p titwt wot that made by the i late Lord Wolselcy, when a Kg young olftctr, in the trences m' before Sekntepol during the Crimean v:ar sixty years ago. f lie oiii his comrades decided jKf that the Christmas should cjL be honored end that there f should be a plum pudding. vf 3'Ae "pudding" was com poundei nf biscuit, grease PC o;id tuch fruit as could be ob- Sf tained, the ingredients being $ wired in a fragment of a Kjf Hussion shell. Wrapped in a j0 cloth, it was boiled for some SF Re lit i, ond a tasty reminder Vjf ' the great festival was ea- $jf gsily looked forward to by SI the hungry officers. But before ET tie pudding was considered w "ooo ked" orders came trans ferring Wolseley and Ms tent companions to a distant part of the works. Should they leave the pud ding until their return or eat it at it wast They were hun gry, and the latter course was decided upon. The "pudding" was duly swallowed, and away they went in obedience to orfor. I,ata ihnt ninhi jf Wolseley was troubled with li internal disturbances that ne- cetsitated the doctor's kindly 5r ministration. It seemed, said P the future field marshal, as if tf pieces of Russian shell were rolling against each other f4 inside. It was the only pud f din;, the firtt and last, he Vjf ever made.
