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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
At tlm opening of the short term of the Sixty-third conRrcKS on
Turaday of this week, President Wilson appeared in person before
the joint session of the house and senate and read his message in
hich he made HURRestions and recommendations for legislation that
ho believes is needed. It is printed in condensed form in this issue of
The Herald on page four of section two.
The message breathes that spirit of candor and earnest solicitude
for the welfare of the people that has already made the president's
state papers famous and his administration popular. Not only is his
interest in the people of our country shown, but his sympathy for the
ictims of the monstrous European war is manifested.
We are glad to be able to give the message in this issue of The
Herald, and recommend that all who receive a copy of the paper read
every word of it. It will be better and more profitable to do that
than to form an opinion from the comments of newspapers and poli
ticians. We believe that the readers of this paper as a class think
for themselves and form their opinions from their own thinking, and
to such people it is a pleasure to recommend the reading of what the
president has to say to congress directly, and indirectly to the whole
fountry, on national issues.
METCALFE'S OMAHA NEBRASKAN
As a. writer Kiclmid L. Meteall'e is the peer of the noted editors
who have given lustre to America's leading newspapers and maga
zines, lie has a way of expressing himself that holds the interest of
the reader, whether he agrees with him or not. I or this reason, as
well as because of the fact that he was formerly editor of the Omaha
World-Hcftild ami later associate editor of Mr. Bryan's paper, 'I he
Commoner, the first issue of The Omaha Nebraskan under his editor
ship, which was announced a few weeks ntro, was awaited with a gcod
deal of expectancy. It appeared December '.), and shows that Mr.
Metcalfe and his assistants arc "on the job."
The Nebraskan was an interesting publication when edited and
published by JStatc Senator elect Henry C. Richmond, but under the
new regime shows some marked improvements. Already it has men
enlarged, and if the cordiality with which it has been received is an
indication of the patronage that will be given it, we may reasonably
expect that it will be increased in size again soon.
The Herald has been an ardent supporter of Kicliard L. Metcalfe
in politics, because of believing in the progressive democracy which
he has so ably advocated for many years, while we have no com
ment 1o make at present on his efforts at pacifying the warring fac
tions of the democratic party in Nebraska, we are glad to express ur
emphatic endorsement of the political principles which he champions.
With the season '8 greetings, The Herald extends to Metcalfe and
The Omaha Nebraskan most earnest wishes for long life, prosperity
and a continued useful career.
CHRISTMAS ORDERS AT POSTOFFICE
It may be a tut early in the season but alter all Christmas is
near and before many of us are aware of it the great season will be
here. That is the way the potsmaster general looked at it, for he
has been issuing instructions to local offices with reference to the
Christmas mail. He anticipates that the volume of parcel post dur
ing the Christmas season will establish a new record.
In order to prevent congestion in postoffice lobbies, post masters
Are asked to urge the public to obtain in advance the tags which must
be filled out and attached to insured, CO. D. and registered parcels.
Attention also is called to the necessity of having parcels properly
wrapped and addressed. The address of the sender must appear on
the face of the package, preferably in the upper left hand corner. All
parcels must be presented at the postoffice window or given to rural
carriers and not placed on ordinary mail drops.
Of course, the postoffice will be helped, just as everybody else w ill
be helped, by early shopping. And then the people will be helped
themselves by shipping with care, that is packing with care ami ad
dressing with care. It is a wise policy to ship your gifts early. Put
a little legend on your package: "Not to be opened until Christmas
day." In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the injunction will be
heeded.
The postmaster general call special attention to the insurance
feature connected with the parcel post system and advises that the
public make liberal use of the same. The feature is one of the very
test that has yet been developed in connection with the parcel post
and many people have not, as yet, come to the point where they have
familiarized themselves with it, and make the use of it which should
be made.
ammunition. Some persons have been indulging in criticism of Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan for permitting such shipments. No
less a person than Congressman iJartholdt of St. Louis indulged in
Ruch criticism at a public meeting in Chicago recently.
The leading editorial in laRt Sunday's Omaha World-Herald
pointed out clearly that, under present law ami international usages,
the president and secretary of Rlatc have no authority to prevent such
shipments. What is needed now is a law by congress authorizing the
president to forbid the sale of war material to countries at war in all
parts of the world. Tallowing is an extract from the World-Herald
editorial:
The present rule la. In the United Statea and other nations,
that war material la contraband. It ia aubjerl to seizure on tbe
high aeaa and tbe shipper and buyer have no recourse. But there
la tio rule, either dometalc or International law, to forbid ita Bale
and shipment by citizens of a neutral nation to a belligerent na
tion. The ahipper takes his chances that the consignment will
safely reach its destination. If It ia Intercepted by a nation
agai i i -Mcli it if lo be used tbe shipment may be aelaed and
com to ti. ' ..e of tbe captor, and the vendor or vendee, as
the (. y be i out of pocket. Hut no rule or law of neutral
ity I violated .j the fact of tbe sale and shipment. Certain ex
ceptions are to be noted to this rule. as. for example, it i not
permitted to lit out warships In the porta of a neutral nation.
And. to cope with the Mexican problem, congress adopted a Joint
resolution authorizing the President, at his discretion, to forbid
the sale of war material! to an American country in which domes
tic disorder existed promoted by the purchase of war supplies in
the United Statea.
Trealdent Wilson would have no power to prevent the sale
of wir material In Europe. What is being done now is what has
always been done. It la what It was legal to do during the Russo
Japanese war, during the Boer wur, during the Franco-Prussian
war, during the Crimean war, and what was done, notably by Eng
land In furnishing war supplies to the south, during our own Civil
war.
What the World-Herald baa suggested is that congress change
thia rule; that it enact a law making It a violation of neutrality,
with fitting penalties attached, for any citizen of the United Statea
to lend money for war purposes, or to sell arms and ammunition
to be used by any other nation against a country with which the
United States is at peace. The World-Herald baa thought favor
ably of such a course, radical a departure though it would be
from all precedents, because It believes that righteousness, siti
cerily and common sense are greater than precedents.
It makes no difference who profits by the use of our guns
and powder and shot. It makes no difference who Is killed, who
widowed, who orphaned. We are at pence with all the warring
nations. As to their differences we are neutral. We look on
KiikHhIi and Ilolu'iniaiis, on French and Germans, on Belgians and
UuHMiins us our friendsas brothers and cousins through whose
veins the same blood courses as through our own. We cannot
look with indifference, much less with delight, on the slaying of
any of them, on the destruction of their nationality or on the ruin
of their property. We know that every day this war is continued
but serves to pile up fresh burdens ou the great mountain of bur
dens all humanity will have to bear, for generations to come, af
ter the war is ended. We know that a part of those burdens
will be our own. We know that for decades, in America as iu
Kurope, there will be no home on which the heavy hand of the
price and penalties of war will not be laid. It is enlightened self
interest, it Is common humanity. It is the precepts of ethics and
the command of religion, that we cease from prolonging thia war
for a profit and that we do all that we properly may do to stop it.
with the spirit of childhood. Our greatest happiness on that day m
in seeing the children supremely happy.
On that day we celebrate the birth of the Christ-child, wke
brought peace and good will to men. On that brithday, more thai
1,900 years ago, the Wise Men of the East, bearing gift, started
their journey to see the Savior of the World.
The practice of giving gifts on Christmas day is of that aneitat
origin. Mayhap that practice falls something short of tho spirit that
should fill our hearts when we celebrate the birth of the Christ, but
in the eyes of Him it is far more acceptable than any mere lip servioe
we might render. It typifies Lovn and Uood Will, and Christ aaid
that Love is the fulfillment of the Law.
Sometimes we hear someone say that the practice of giving gifts
on Christmas day should be discontinued. Surely we who love tke
children will never say so. And if we extend the practice to include
the grown-up children as well as the children in years and iu stature
we only bring happiness to a few more million hearts.
But sometimes the baby girl's faith in Santa Claus has been shat
tered, for all too often the rag doll has not come. The boy who couM
be made happy with a sled on Christmas day has many, many times
cried himself to sleep on Christmas night because Santa Claus forget,
him. And the heart of many a mother has been more deeply hurt e
Christmas day at the disappointment of her little ones in not receiv
ing the gifts they expected so confidently than at seeing them go huu
gry when the daily bread has been too scanty to satisfy the physical
longing.
Christmas is the day to minister to the desire of the heart. There
are .4 days when we may minister to the physical needs of the child
ren and the mothers who must go hungry and half clad but for char
ity, (hi Christmas day let us not forget to minister to the heart's de
sire. Food and clothing the poor must have every day in the year,
else they starve or freeze. But on this one day may we not see to it
that the baby girl has her rag doll.
The Columbus Telegram sued a man who owed $2.35 on subscrip
tion, and in the trial in the district court, the judge directed the jury
to return a verdict in favor of the newspaper. "The amount involv
ed was only $2.35," says the Telegram, "but there was a broader
question to be decided that of whether the defendant could refuse
to pay for a newspaper whieh he received ami accepted for a periaJ
of time after the date t which his subscript ii.n h id been paid, whea
he had not previously served notice ou the publisher to disconlin'ie
it." The assumption on the part of a few lhat the law furnishes a
cloak behind which a delinquent subscriber can hide, and evade ;.a
honest obligation, is very much mistaken. Wayne Herald.
Took Moving Pirtiirtv
Moving pictures of Alliance's busy
si reels und of the new auto fire
trnek in act ion were taken Sat urday
by Or. O. K. Condra. direetor of the
Nebraska conservation and soil sur
vey, who had been attending the
Htate irrigation association conven
tion at Bridgeport and who stopped
in Alliance to show Nebraska pic
tures and to take some pictures lire.
Prof. Condra showed pictures at
the Imperial Saturday afternoon to a
small crowd. In the evening Hie
crowd was large and the pictures
were enjoyed by those who attended.
During the day he took pictures of
Alliance's main streets. The new
fire truck" was taken out for a run.
Prof. Condra also took a trip into,
the country and took pictures of
farms and ranches.
The pictures taken will be ehowo ,
at the exposition in San Francisco,
next year in addition to being shown
In other portions of the state.
I .hp n
Pate.
O'uta-
o roll ei'l M. -.-! miiiM
Johnson. Messrs. Hewit
rie. Wood and Stern.
The ui in ut ps of the previous ineei
in;: were read and approved.
The monthly report of the librar
ian was read and accepted.
The following bills were read and
ordered paid:
Mrs. Wilson, lihrariau. salary $4 0
Messrs. Shafer Walters. Jan
itor service
T. .1. Threlkeld. repairing fur
nace
City of Alliance, lights
Mrs Wilson. Incidental exp. . .
20
2.25
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
Kocky Mountain News:
All over this prosperous land of ours millions of happy children
are living only iu anticipation of Christmas. They are thinking of
Santa Claus by day and dreaming of hiui by night. They are happier
in their anticipation of what the good St. Nicholas will bring them
than they can ever be in a realization of their fondest hopes on Christ
mas day.
St. Nicholas is the true patron saint of the rich and the poor
alike. The lisping girl who knows almost daily what it is to be cold
and hungry is happy iu her faith that Santa Claus will bring her a
rag doll. In her yet trustful childish heart she nourishes a hope that I 'ood distresses you. your kid
he may have left for her a "rocky horse," or perhaps even a dolll1"" Aiw'aM'reHe'n?
that will "go to sleep." But she has implicit faith that Santa will ; tomorrow b ytaklng it 'tonight.
uoi rorgei ner ami mar inc rag don, at least, will come.
The child who has never known want is happy, too, in her ab
solute confidence that Santa will bring her what she asks him to
bring. Her dreams are of beautifully dressed dolls, as large as her
self, and of teh finest playthings the toy-makers have devised. But
she can be no happier in her anticipations than is the hungry child of ! the library board was held Wodnea
povei ty in her dream of a rag doll. jday evening. Dec. 2. President H w-
Christmas is the national Children's tlay. We who are onlyttt presiding,
grown up children enjoy Christmas day only as we become imbued The following members rpoinled
Total $68. 7B
After discussing waya and meaaa
for the purchasing of books, upon
motion made by Mr. Stern, seconded
by Mr. Pate, the rental system of
books was unanimously adopted.
A charge of ten cents a week writ
be made for each book until It ia
paid for when it will be placed en
the free shelf.
Motion was made by Mr. Woed
and seconded by Mr. Stern that the.
book committee be authorized U
purchase D0 worth of books to ke
placed on the rental shelf and wait
carried.
A motion was made by Mr. Woei
and seconded by Mr. Pate that the
book committee be authorized tt
purchase $25 worth of Juvenile
books, these to be placed on the free
shelf This motion was also carried
The meeting then adjourned.
MRS W. W. JOHNSON.
Secret ary .
SEEN IN THE CEMETERY
Take a walk through the cemetery alone and you will pass the
resting place of a man who blew into the muzzle of a gun to see if it
was loaded. A little further down the slope is a crank who tried to
show how close he could stand to a moving train while it passed. In
strolling about you will see the monument of the hired girl who tried
to start the fire with kerosene, and a grass-covered knoll that covers
the boy who put a cob under the mule's tail. That tall shaft over a
man who blew out the gas casts a shadow over the boy who tried to
get on a moving train. Side by side the pretty creature who always
had her corset laced ou the. last hole, and the intelligent idiot who
rode a bicycle nine miles iu ten minutes, sleep unmolested. At repose
is a deofcor who took a dose of his own medicine. There with a top of
a shoe box driven over his head is a rich old man who married a
young wife. Away over there reposes a boy who went fishing on
Sunday, and a woman who kept strychnine powders in the cupboard.
The man who stood in front of the mowing machine to oil the sickle
is quiet now and beside the careless brakemau who fed himself to the
70-ton engine and nearby may be seen the grave of the man who tried
to whip the editor. Kx change.
GET YOUR HAIR CUT OFTEN
Barbers tell us that when cold weather sets in the hair cutting
part of their business falls off. As a health proposition, The Herald
believes that it should not. True it is that men should wear their
hair somewhat longer in cold weather than iu warm, because of the
protection it affords; but this doe not mean, necessarily, that the
hair is to be cut at longer intervals. It would be better, in fact, to
have the hair cut often, in order that the amount removed at one
time will be small. This proposition is so plain as to need no argu
ment to convince anyone that it is correct. Some may object that to
follow this plan would be too expensive for the average citizen; but
it would not. A very little economizing in other things would save
enough to pay the extra expense.
NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES
Public attention iu this country is being directed to the shipment
from the United Statea of war supplie to the belligerent nations of
Kurope, including horses for artillery and cavalry purMse, arms ami
OI.lt liU'KOUY CHIPS
As presidential timber Carranza
seems to be driftwood.
More factories beginning to whis
tle every minute.
With the stockyards and the stock
exchange both open and flourishing.
it will seem like the old times before
the war.
That excellent howitzer, T. R..
seems to be minus an adequate re-'
ment foundation these days.
will Henry James or some other
expert analyst of conflicting emotion
kindly tell us Just how Colonel
Roosevelt feela over the election of
hla stand-pat aon-ln-law?
When John Lind did begin to talk
the burden of his remarks was, "lie
kind to the Mexicans."
John Lind really does possess a
voice, but rabid militarists think he
makes poor use of it.
Still, the soldiers in the trenches
do not notice how their winter flan
nels scratch.
There ia really no need of another
country entering the war, as alt tbe
primary racea of mankind except the
American Indian are already repre
sented.
Turkey seems t obe In the same !
frame of mind aa the small boy who
ia due for a licking. Nothing be can '
do will make the punishment hard
er.
From the size of the jawbone of
that dinotherium unearthed in Tex
as, it must have been the Joseph
Weldon Bailey of its time.
One good form of neutrality is ex
pressed in busy attention to early
Christmas shopping. j
Chicago may have imperfections,
but it points with pride to its twelve
flirtlesa jurymen.
Now each dreadnaught requires an 1
escort of submarines, torpedo boats i
and aeroplanes.
Kanaans are going to present !
brave little Belgium with 100.000 j
barrels of flour out of that great i
wheat crop. Such a gtft la a crown
of glory to any state.
The eternal fitness of things gets ,
busy when a boy who "aaaaed his
mother grows up and marries a wom
an who won't stand for any back
talk.
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