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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1920)
The Earth Has Grown Old : tippi PmUmw i 'Iff . J " " ftinv.ur. Alex . ill? rartlj las grown nlh tuttli tta burin of rare. Hut at (Uljriatmaa it alroap & young; Mip ipaxt of tyml burns toatrmw anil fair, Ana tta uoitl full of mask brraka forty on air, Mpn tip song of angola w sung. 3t is routing, olo rartlj, it is routing tonight! (0u fyr- snomflakrs tljat rourr soo Uip fat of Qfyrist-QIoUa fall grntlr anb mtte. Ano tljr uoirr- of t ist-QIi)ilb trlls out uiitl) orliglt QTIyat ntankinb arr- tip rljilbrrn of iob. 1 QTlye frrt of ounthlrst utaij malk in tbr firlo Ul;rrr tip frrt of tip l?olirst Ijaur trob, Sljis, tljia is tlr marurj to mortals rruralrb llljrn tip Bilurnj trnmprts of OUjristmas haur pralrb, (Ulyat utankinb arr tip rhUorrn of ob. Phillips Brooks Peter and the Mulberry Tree By Christopher Grant Hazard . OME dogs have names. There was Caspar, the pup. lie had a name, but he was too young to know It. There was old dog Bar ker. My father used to make Barker sit up and listen. Father would sny to me, "No orderly boy would leave his lint on the floor like that. Barker wouldn't do it. It ho were a boy." Then Barker would bark, once. Then my father would risk Barker If he was a good dog, and Bnrker would bark twice. Some dogs have no names. The little black and white dog across the Btreet Is Just a dog, but he will come when you whistle. There Is a dog near here who knows the butcher cart when he sees It coin ing. He driven all the hens out of the yard, so lie can pick up the scraps of meat that full from the cart while of meat that full from the cart while the butcher Is getting the meat ready. This dog hasn't any name. He Is so selfish that he Isn't worth nam ing. Once there was a tree, and It hnd a name. It was a mulberry tree. The man that owned the tree had a dog, too. Ills name was I'eter, and no lit tle dog was ever more fond of meat than I'eter was of mulber ries. He would bunt around In the grass, under the mul berry tree, until he hnd found every mulberry that had fallen down. Then he would run against the tree and bump down a lot more. Some children heard about Feter and the mulberry tree and It made them think of something. It made them think of Using up a Christinas tree, with many little pack ages upon It like mulberries and then bumping the things off for Christmas gifts. Mi w So, this is Just what they did. Charlie had the first bump. When he picked up his package he found that he had a round hole with a square peg In It. There was a bit of paper tied to the peg, and on It was written: "Get Into the right place." Harry's bump brought down a square hole with a round peg In It. Its paper said: "Don't get into the wrong place." Then Frank gave a bump that was a regular butt, and he held up a square hole with a square peg in it These words were with them: "A place for everybody, and every body In bis place." When Dick bumped, he go a round bole and a round peg. "What does this mean?" be shouted. "The same thing," answered Frank. "Sure," said Chauneey. Chauucey was the littlest He was so little that he used to take his doll to bed with him and talk over with It, before be went to sleep, the things they hnd done that day. And he had Just leurned that word "sure." He was so proud of It that he used to say It to his father Instead of "yeth sir." Chauneey would soon learn that "sure" was not as nice as "yeth sir." Then the girls said It was their turn and they began to bump. Ruth got an alphabet, so as to learn not to say "hikjliunop." Sarah had "a headache In her knee," so Mary bumped for her. Down came a pulr of rubbers and Mary put them on "Inside outwards," Just to try them. Then they all bumped the tree for Chauneey, who wasn't big enough to bump hard enough to make anything fall. Such a lot of things tumbled off. There was a baseball glove Ruth tried it on and her hand looked like a hassock; a breastpin Sarah pinned It on her sleeve, "where she could see It;" two doll dress patterns; a new doll's hat a small hat ; a set of dish es, a doll's high chair; and a tooth pick. Chauneey was like the old woman who lived in the shoe. He didn't know what to do with all his things; but he was careful to use the toothpick every time he took a drink of milk. There was still one package left It was In the top of the tree. One little girl, her name was tucy, had not had anything. So the chil dren let her pull the top of the tree down to get this package. And there was the dearest doll that ever came off of a Christmas tree. It had blue eyes that would open and shut and the cunnlogest frock. Lucy, dow the doll's mother, thought thnt this was the very best gift of all Then, Just as they were going to go downstairs, there came a rap at th floor. . "Come in," they shouted. What do you suppose? It was Sants Claus. He marched In with stockings for them that were all bulging and bursting with good things. What fun they had with him and with all the things he had brought. They had such a good time that some of It spread away around the corner to a house that Santa Claus had not visited yet. . So, everybod had something. This is what God meant the Christmas tree for. After their visit to the poor chll dren, they all went home laughing and Happy enough to wait a whole year for a new crop of Christmas cheer Just as the doe Peter, has wait until another season for a new crop of mulberries. GX 1920. Western Newspaper Union.) 111 A Christmas Day Menu First course Gladness, Entrees Love garnished with Smiles. Gentleness, with sweet-wine sauce of Laughter, Second course Hospitality, In some house Hospitality Is brought on surrounded with Relatives, In oth ers it Is dished up with Dignitaries. In a third, best of all. It Is served simple shapes, but with a great variety of Unfortunate Persons such as lone ly people from lodging houses, poor people of all grades, widows 1 childless In their affliction. This the kind most preferred ; in fact never abandoned by those who have tried it. For dessert Mirth. Gratitude and Faith beaten togeth er and run In the molds of solid Trust and Patience. Bonbons ot Good Cheer and Kind liness. WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. ; COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The volcano Lanin, on the Argen tine frontier, is reported to be in a state of eruption. The volcano is ap proximately 9000 feet high. The Asama Yama volcano, about 90 miles northwest of Tokio, has been in eruption for several days. The ashes are falling over a wide area. Mixed bogs -Bold at 9.90 hundred' weight at the Cleveland, union stock yards Tuesday. This is the lowest the market has been since November, 1916. A 20 per cent reduction In retail price of lumber went into effect Wed nesday in Spokane according to an nouncement by Spokane lumber deal ers, nearly all of whom will Join In the general cut The potato market In San Francisco Is at its record low level of the year. The kingly tuber, ruler of produce row several months ago, is now nothing but the lowly "spud" begging even slight recognition. A large passenger airplane leaving London for Paris with six passengers Tuesday fouled a tree, hurst into flames and crashed to the ground The pilot, a mechanlo and two pas sengers are reported killed and other passengers injured. An appropriation of $400,000 for starting work on the Deschutes irri gation project in Jefferson, Crook and Deschutes counties, Oregon, has been recommended by John Barton Payne, secretary of the interior in a letter sent to President Wilson for approval Announcements were made Tuesday of the shutting down or curtailing of large industrial plants in Elizabeth, N, J. The main plant of the Singer Sew ing Machine company, employing 8000 announced it would close from Decem ber 22 to January 6, because of lack of orders. N The state of Nebraska has filed a brief with the interstate commerce commission, objecting to the proposal of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad that it -be permitted to dis tribute $140,000,000 of its surplus in stock dividends and in bonds as a cash dividend. The Reichstag went on rations of black bread without butter and coffee without sugar or milk Tuesday when the managers and employes of the Reichstag restaurant refused to serve the forbidden foods, "in view of the government's apparent intention to continue raiding hotels to compel them to obey the rationing regulations." ' The Associated Oil company of Cali fornia announces the receipt of advices from Washington that it had conclud ed a lease with the government, under the oil land leasing act, covering 1400 to 1500 acres ot land in the Midway fields and that a tender of $1,400, 000: production from the property, had been accepted by the government as a roy alty. ... i Diplomatic relations .; between " Hol land and JUgo-Slayia have been broken off, it was stated at The Hague Mon day. Holland has recalled her minister from Belgrade and has dismissed the Serbian charge d'affairs at The Hague. The action was taken as the result of what the Dutch foreign office terms "a long series of insults to the Dutch government." A landlord and a property owner were sentenced in a police court in Los Angeles Tuesday to serve 40 days each in the city Jail for having dls turbed the peace of a tenant by forci bly evicting him. Sam Borelll brought action against A. J. Edmondson, the landlord, and E. W. Graves, owner of the property Borelll occupied, for hav ing nailed up the doors and windows of the house before 30 days had ex pired after serving the tenant With notice of rent increase. Rumored Intentions of Great Bri tain and Japan to seek a tripartite agreement with the United States for limitation of warship building pro grams came up Tuesday in congress. In the senate a resolution was of fered by Senator Borah, requesting the president to seek an agreement with those powers for a five-year naval building truce, with construction pro grams cut to halt during that period. It would, he said, develop that Great Britain and Japan are sincere in the talk of reducing armaments. IGHT OVER TARIFF LOOMS Antagonism la Met In Both Houses- Each Side Confident. Washington, D. C Presentation of the Fordney emergency tariff bill in the house and decision of Its sup porters to call it up for consideration was followed by expressions of open antagonism both In the house and senate. The opposition, hitherto manifested only to a alight extent, was intensi fied by the filing of minority views by Representative Rainey, democrat, Illinois, denouncing the measure from beginning to end, and by decision of the Benate democratic steering com mittee to resist hasty enactment of any such legislation. ' Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee, in reporting the measure, urged action not because It was perfect, hut because It waB the best obtainable under the circum stances. The report declared that remedial legislation was urgently nec essary to correct a situtation which was described as rapidly becoming worse and likely to bring ruin to the agricultural industry. The filing of the commltteels report disclosed that the measure had been made applicable for a period of ten months from passage instead of the one-year period previously fixed. Chair man Fordney submitted wW-the re port estimates of the treasury depart ment showing that on the basis of vallable Import figures, approximately $130,000,000 in revenue would be de rived from the duties to be imposed under the measure. The commodities enumerated In the bill now produce less than $5,000,000 annually. As finally approved and reported to the house, the bill carries import duties on commodities, which, to gether with the rates agreed , to in committee and the estimated revenue to come therefrom, follow: Wheat proposed duty, 30 cents a bushel, es timated revenue, $2,109,520; wheat flour, 20 per cent, $657,000; corn, 15 cents a bushel,' $137,625; : beans, . 2 cents a pound, $3,091,760; peanuts, un- shelled, 3 cents a pound, $642,540; peanuts, shelled, 3 cents a ' pound, $4,405,410; potatoes, 25 cents a bushel, $1,560,000; onions, 40 cents, a bushel, $787,040; rice,' cleaned, 2 cents a pound, $2,900,660; rice, uncleaned, IK cents a pound, $235,575; flour, meal and broken rice, 1 cents a pound, $5037; rice, unhulled, cents a pound, $70,672; lemons, 1& cents a pound, $881,250; oils, peanut, 26 cents a gallon, $4,333,420; oils, cottonseed, 20 cents a gallon, $2,479,400; oils, soya bean, 20 cents a gallon, $3,837, 000; cattle, 30 per cent $5,851,500; sheep, $2 a head, $102,484; lambs, $1 a head, no estimated revenue; mut ton and lamb, 2 cents a pound, $1,656,792; wool, unwashed, 15 cents., a pound, $9,900,000; wool, washed, 30 cents a pound, $28,500,000; wool, man ufactures of, 45 cents a pound, $11, 250,000; wool,' scoured, 45 centis a pound, $45,000,000. On the vote in the ways and means committee, on reporting the bill, two republicans and four democrats voted In the negative, Representatives Treadway, Massachusetts; and Tllson, Connecticut; were understood to have been the republicans who stood against the measure, while Repre sentatives Rainey, Hull, Tennessee; Oldfield, Arkansas and Collier, Miss issippi; were the democrats who op posed the legislation. IS I III El GREECE i Cheering Throngs Greet Re turned Monarch. . MAKES SIMPLE ENTRY British and French Envoys Are Ac cused by Newspaper of Being Pro-Vcnivelist. Athens. Constantino of Greece, re moved from the throne by action of the allied powers' in 1917, and called back . By the recent plebiscite to re sume his former status, arrived in Athens Sunday. ' He came into the city by train., and t was received at the Palace de la Concorde.- ' Those who greeted the returning monarch included Queen Mother Olga, the. regent, and Princess Anastasla, wife of Prince Christopher,- ' Constantino, however, was greeted station, about 100 yards from the Place de la Concorde, without ostenta tion and witli the returning monarch like an ordinary traveler. Constantinue, however, was greeted by the cheering of thousands of per sons who had been awaiting his ar rival. Queen Mother Olga and the Princess Anastacla, dressed In chinchilla furs and wearing picture hats, were stand ing in the royal group. The minis ters also were In the station. In a carriage, drawn by six horses witlh outriders-and followed by troops, a procession with Constantino at its head started for the stadium. The crowd along the route evinced the greatest enthusiasm, .frequently breaking' out of bounds and' rushing up and kissing the harness of the horses drawing the royal equipage. Wild cheering was heard along the entire line of march, the people being almost delirious with Joy. After visiting the cathedral, Con stantino went to the royal palace where he read a message to the peo ple. ' ' The newspaper Kathimerlnl has sug gested that the Earl of Granville, British minister to Greece, and Rob ert de Billy, French minister, should be recalled on the ground that they are pro-Venizelist, but that possibly they could remain as high commis- sionets to carty out the British guar antees which could be embodied In a new .note. jc pointed out that high commissioners have more power and liberty jDf'keition than ministers. . EXPRESS COMBINE MAY BE PERMANENT Washington, D. C. Authority was granted Monday by the interstate, com merce commission for permanent con solidation of the transportation busi ness and properties of "the Adams, American, Wells Fargo and Southern express companies into the American Railway Express company. The com mission said it was its belief that the public would best be served by one consolidated company serving all lines with equal rates. The permit granted by the commis sion was based on an application filed by the four express companies last March. Hearings were held by the commission in August. : The commission divided on the ques tion of permitting the express con solidation, effected by the railroad ad ministration as a- war measure, to be made permanent. Commissioners Me Cord and Meyer dissentedTr'om the majority and presented a minority re port. 46,000 Men in Training. Washington, D. C. The number of ex-service men entered in training dur ing the past fiscal year has Increased from 3606 to more than 46,000, it is an nounced by R. T. Fisher, chief of re habilitation division of the federal board for vocational education, in com menting on the board's annual report to congress. There are at present about 1700 schools and colleges giving training to men in courses approved by the board. Hundreds "KHIed in Violent - Southern Earthquakes Buenos Aires Earthquake - shocks whklh on Friday afternoon destroyed several tovyns along, the .Argentine, slope of the Andes mountains, were the most severe experienced in this country since 1869, when half the city of Mfindoza was laid in ruins. Reports from the area wfaere the shock was heaviest indicate great loss of life and property, upwards' of 150 bodies hav ing already Jieen taken from the wrecks of buildings At Tresportenas more than 100. per ished and at Costa do. Arairjo '81' Were killed and 0' seriously injured. It was feared that more vlctimsjvgre- 3iia uunea.jjnaw ma rums in eacn town. At Tresportpnas, ka -.Valle' 'ah4 La Central not a house . was left vs'taifd- ing, and those not destroyed in other condition. No estimate of the total number of persons injured has yet been made. Inaugural Ball Assured. Washington, D. C Revival of the historical inaugural ball as a feature of the inauguration of President-elect Harding has been -definitely1 decided upon by the Washington commit tee arranging for the- festivities March 4. . ..; The inaugural ball was one of -thft chief events in the . Inauguration : programme of the first inauguration that It be dispensed with. Immigrant Tide Rises. New York. The Christmas rush of immigrants and other passengers anxious to spend the holidays on Amer ican soil reached its height Sunday when eight trans-Atlantic liners ar rived. They carried more than 12, 000 passengers. Japan Hat 77 Million. Tokio. Japan's population, as re vealed by the census recently com pleted, is more than a million under the estimate. The total number of persons In the empire is 77,005,000, of which 55,960,000 are in Japan and 17, 284,000 in Corea.