O’NEILL FRONTIER
* O. H. CRONIN
CTNEILU NEBRASKA
Lord Alfred Douglas, eight maryuls of
Queensbury, has brought stilt against
ths London Evening News for printing
an obituary based on a false report of
his death. Ths defense pleaded that
with the exception of the report of death
sll statements made by the News were
correct. Ths obituary recalled Jjord
Douglas' alleged friendship with Oscar
Wilde. Plaintiffs council admitted that
Lord Alfred had been "misguided enough;
to become the constant companion or
Wilde," but maintained that "In England
a man Is allowed to repent the follies of'
his youth."
John Kipling, son of Rudyard Klp
IIrdf who has Immortalized the British)
Tommy in verse and story, has Anally
been listed among the thousands of sol
diers who vanished In the war without
leaving a clew to their fate. The last
word of the author's son was In October,
1918, when he was reported wounded and
missing In northern France. It was
learned later he was on a British vessel
bound for the Dardanelles, and he was
thought to have reached the Oalllpoli
, peninsula, where some of the Aercest
fighting took place. But here all trace
is lost. Toung Kipling was IS years old
when he entered the army.
American seedlings have been planted
along the Cbsmin des Dames, Lille, Val
enciennes, In ths Ardenne mountains,
Luxembourg, Ireland, and Scotland.
American Douglas Ar Is growing In al
most every section of the British Isles.
Twenty-flvs million seeds have been
presented by the American Forestry As
sociation to each of America's former
allies.
Bkylands, country home of the late
Francis L. Stetson, noted lawyer. In the
Ramapo hills of New Jersey, which
Andrew Carnegie called the most beauti
ful estate In America, lias been sold to
Clarence Lewis, a New York broker,
of a reported price of $250,000. The es
tate covers 1015 acres and was estimated
to have cost between $1,000,000 and $8,
000,000. Bkylands has 28 mllea of roadway,
a stone manor house, lakes, sunken
garden, golf course, and numerous lodges
and outbuildings.
A postal card which was among stolen
mall, found Its way to the ownir this
week, according to the Pioneer, Boone,
la. The card was written by J. M.
Kelly, of the Bloux City Printing Com
pany. complimenting the publisher of
the Pioneer on his paper. It was dated
June 10, 1921. The night of June 10
bandits stole several sacks of mall at
Arlon. The card, thrown away as value
less by the bandits, was found In a field,
a little the worse for the wear, but was
returned through the malls to the pub
lisher.
W. Iv. Ocorge, English novelist and
feminist, whose friends say he Is one
man "who knows all about women," will
remarry. The bride this time will be
Miss Kathleen Gelpel, tennis player of
note and former employe of minister of
munitions. The late Mrs. George died
on the last American tour of the nov
elist. immediately after the wedding
Mr. George and his bride will sail for the
United States for a lecture tour, In
which the novelist will discuss the se
cret of domestic felicity before American
audiences. '
Unprecedented low water In Lake
Champlain has recently revealed two an
cient battered hulks in the mud off Fort
Ticonderoga, where they have Iain sines
1780. They are none other than the
bulks of the Enterprise and the Trum
bul, of Benedict Arnold’s fleet which at
tempted to capture the fort from the
British In that year.
A Virginia woman, noticing that light
plug had struck ft tree near her hen
fawuae, went eut to look after the wel
fare of a hen whose eggs were sou to
hatch, and found the skeleton of the hen
still sitting on' the eggs, but the bones
were as clean as though they had been
scraped. The meat and feathers lay
near by not even scorched.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, the flrst wom
an to sit In the cabinet of British Col
umbia. has resigned her position “as a
protest from the women of British Col
umbia against public wrong doing.” ”1
have been In the unfortunate position
of having to assume responsibility of
government acts without being In a po
sition to criticize,’’ she explains.
A church In Denver last Sunday night
paid worshipers 25 cents each as an ob
ject lcsBon against miserliness. Each
person entering the door was given an
envelope with a brand new quarter In it.
On the envelope was printed a series of
things the quarter was too small to buy,
and the series ended with this: "Bust
most people think I am terribly big when
1 come to church." The pastor preached
a sermon on miserliness.
Shortly after Issuing notice that gam
bling must stop, the mayor of Helena,
Ark., found a note on his desk saying:
“We commend you for this stand and
pledge you our support. Ku Klux Klan ”
A two months old strike In the Virgin
islands Is threatening the next sugar
crop. The strike la the result of the
decision of sugar planters to reduce the
wages of field laborers to the pre-war
basis of 50 cents a day; or, on a piece
basts of $1 to $1.25 per day.
A * tV1-*! V vuov Ml a Blio ID
Sealed the fact that as the law now
stands, there Is nothing to prevent any
*no from buying or selling or keeping
on hand, any amount of typhoid or tu
berculosis germs, or any other deadly
bacilli. Parliament will be asked to ren
der eclentiflc murder more difflcult.
Walaenburg. Colo., reports that virtu
ally all of the independent mines of that
district have announced wage reductions,
some as high as 30 per cent., to enable
the companies to compete with the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron Co., which has an
nounced a cut of $1.00 a ton in the price
of coal, and 30 per cent, in the wages of
their miners. _ ______
Texas has declared war on t\i"e pint
boll worm. It Is to be "a tight to the
Onlsh, regardless of cost."
Mrs. Pat Conway, of Tom Green coun
ty, is the only woman jailer in Texas,
but she has held her Job for more than
10 years.
Enow and cold weather has depressed
the activities of illicit moonshine estab
lishments In the northern woods, says a
dispatch.
Canada's Held crops this year, accord
ing to government estimates, will bring
an aggregate financial return of 31,260,
000,000.
The Westinghouse company announces
a 32.000.000 contract with Japan for ma
chinery to be used In two hydro-electric
plants for the Toklo districts.
Cff two operations performed the other
day by Dr. Adolf Lorens, one was a
repetition of that of a couple of decades
ago upon lolita Armour, daughter of
the Chicago packer. This time the op
eration was performed upon Frieda
Weiger. 3, of Clifton, N. J„ who had a
congenital hip disease. The child was
anaesthetized, and without the use of
the scalpel the bone was manipulated
back Into its socket. When it was heard
to snap Into place the lower part of lh«
child's body was Incased into a plaster
cast, and thus she will remain, just as
Lolita Armour did, until the the bonei
have attained their natural position and
function as they were Intended to.
IRGANIZATlOli !S
I IT L1SOLUTI1N
Former Congressman Telli
Farmers How to Proceed
To Get Highest Prices
For His Products.
Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 16. — Dan V.
Stephens, of Fremont, former con
gressman, told the Nebraska Farmers
Co-operative Grain and Livestock
Association convention Wednesday
that organisation was the solution of
the problem of getting what he term
ed "right prices" for farm products.'
Ho said farmers’ agents should be
stationed at central markets to keep
in touch with the producer and when
the latter had some stock to sell the
agent could go to the packer and ask
the price, and If too low, the producer
could hold his stock at home. Such a
scheme would prevent shrinkage, he
declared.
"Why, men, when we raise our stock
and fatten It and ship It to the central
market to sell It, vre take what?” he
asked.
"Just what the packer through the
commission men give us. What else
can we do; we can’t ship the etock
back home. We pay much attention
to the various ways to Improve the
raising and handling of stock but we
have left undone, so far, the most.
Important of the whole business—
getting right prices.”
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GOES TO HIGH COURT
TO COLLECT BALM MONEY
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 16 (Special).—
Miss Jennie B'ellers of Humboldt, who
secured a judgment of $22,000 against
her long lime sweotheart, Louis II.
.Howe, who had courted her for 22
years and then jilted her, was in su
preme court Tuesday asking that her
claim be paid out of a $30,000 mort
gage that Howe’s mother holds.
Three days before her breach of
promise suit was begun Howe sold
his land In Richardson county for $65,
000 and the purchaser gave the $30,
000 mortgage back In the name of the
mother. She claims this represents
the value of her life estate In the
property, together with rents and pro
fits of past years. Howe took the re
mainder of the purchase price and left
the jurisdiction of the court. Miss
Fellers clalAis it is all a part of the
scheme of the Howes to prevent her
from getting the amount of the judg
ment.
RAILROADS NOW SEEK
TO REDUCE RATES
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 16 (Special).-^
Application has been filed on behalf
of all the railroads In the state for
leave to make a reduction of 10 per
cent. In rates on farm, garden, or
chard and ranch products, to waive
the usual 30 days’ notice and to make
the reduction effective January 1. The
Interstate commerce commission has
given this permission on Interstate
shipments, and the roads now desire
to have It apply to all shipments pure
ly within state borders.
It Is not certain that the commis
sion will grant the request. It insists
that the reduction ought to be at least
17 1-2 per cent,, which the federal
commission applied to wheat and com
but fot which the suggested rate was
substituted by the carriers.
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NEBRASKA MAN KILLED
A8 TRAIN STRIKES AUTO
Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 16 (Special).—
Hebert Luedtke was kilted Tuesday
when a Northwestern train struck his
auto east of Creston, It was reported
in Norfolk Wednesday.
80UTH DAKOTA NINTH
A8 PRODUCER OF CORN
Pierre, S. D., Dec. 10 (Special).—
According to figures compiled by the
SUite immigration department, South
Dakota stands ninth In the Hat of corn
producers for the year 1921, having
taken a lead over Kansas in produc
tion of this cereal. The total pro
duction of the state for the year Is
placed at 116,032,000 bushels, almost
8.000,000 above Kansas. The states
which stand ahead of South Dakota
in their order are: Iowa, Illinois, Ne
braska, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Ohio, and Minnesota. Iowa leads any
other state by practically 100,000,000
bushels ut 428,000,000 to 304.000,000
for Illinois, the second state.
FORMER MISS CROCKER
IS FACING BIG SUIT
New York, Dec. 15.- -Through the
arrest last night of John C. Oldmtxon,
a lawyer, on a charge of extortion, It
became known that Mrs. Amy Crock
or-Gournud, formerly Princes* Mis
slnoff, was defendant In a $100,000
alienation suit brought by Mrs. Eliza
beth Schill, wife of Bruno Schlll, for
mer purchasing agent for ihe Eslhon
ian republic.
Mrs. Gouraud is ihe daughter of the
late Edwin Bryant Crocker, California
millionaire, and has been four times
married. She inherited u fortune and
is prominent socially.
laborite’ is ELECTED.
London, Dec. 15.—The government
suffered a defeat yesterday in the
parliamentary bye-election in the
southeast division of Southwark,
Thomas Naylor, laborite. being re
turned over Owen Jacobsen, coalition
liberal. Naylor received 6,561 votes;
Jacobsen, 1,653 and Horace Boot, in
dependent-conservative, 2.037.
STARTCNEWMCVeTo
“CURB” JUDGE LANDIS
Washington, Dec. 15.—Declaring
Federal Judge Landis Is putting on a
spectacle of barnstorming as bad as
Babe Ruth, Representative Leo, re
publican, Brooklyn, today Introduce 1
a bill which would drive Landis out
of his Job as head of organized base
ball. The bill, if passed, will forbid
any ftdera Judge from holding an
cthtr salaried office.
STOCKHOLDERS IN
Salary of President Causes
His Ouster But Friends
Bally and He Is Given
Charge Again.
Lincoln, Neb.r Dec. 17 (Special)/—
In the opinion of state officers, the
real trouble that has precipitate the
request of minority stockholders of
the Farmers' Investment Company for
a receivership and an accounting Is
that the company’s assets are not
liquid in character. The company
aold about $500,000 dollars’ worth of
slock to farmers in Nebraska, Iowa
and thereabouts. It dealt largely in
Colorado lands and farm loans. The
lands are not selling now, and mort
gages are not marketable either.
There have been differences nl
opinion between groups of stockhold
ers in the last year. Previous to that
the company had paid dividends and
was prosperous. When the pinching
times came complaint was made that
Warren .1. Lynch, the president, was
paying himself too liberally in the way
of commissions. For the same reason
the bureau of securities had declined
to allow more slock to be sold unless
conditions were changed.
II. A. (Jeorge became president and
sued Lynch for an accounting. A
little later he retired as president,
and the Lynch group again came
Into control. It dismissed the suits
and hired Lynch to run the business
at $1,000 u month. Now minority
stockholders repeat these charges and
demand a receiver be appointed on
the ground that the company is in
solvent.
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MYSTERY EXPLOSION
STILL IS NOT EXPLAINED
Bayard, Neb., Dee. 17.—Following
an explosion that blew out the frogt
of the store operated by the Sixberry
Harness Company and set the struc
ture on fire, Henry Sixberry, the pro
prietor, was found lying unconscious
on a pile of bricks with severe cuts
and bruises about the head.
He was rushed to a hospital, where
he recovered consciousness eight
hours later.
He was unable to offer any ex
planation as to the probable cause of
the blaze. He said he had unlocked
the door and started to enter when
there was an explosion, and he re
membered no more.
Oil used on harness was kept in
the building, but how it could have
become Ignited cannot be explained.
Sixberry’s bill book, containing
more than $100, and his keys were
missing from his person.
WORK ON YANKTON BRIDGE
WILL NOT BE HALTED
Yankton, S. D., Dec. 11 (Special).—
Work on the Meridian highway
bridge across the Missouri river here
will go steadily forward as weather
and river conditions permit in spite
of the prevailing financial stringency,
it was unanimously voted by the
stockholdiers of the Meridan Highway
Bridge company in annual meeting
here. The sub-structure will be com
pleted this winter, and the Nebraska
approach, together with the protect
ing embankment to keep the river in
place, will be pushed to completion
before high water comes In the
spring, It was decided. In preference
to going ahead with the steel' struc
ture first. It Is estimated this will
mean postponement of the steel con
tracting for about four months. The
chief risk, that of a change in the
channel of the river, should be over
come first, the stockholders felt, and
the aim will be to harness the stream
to the South Dakota side as soon as
possible.
All directors and officers of the
company were re-elected. The offi
cers are: D. B. Gurney, president;
M. P. Ohlman, vlco president; E. J.
Dowling, trearsirer; M. R. Magner,
secretary. Directors—S. M. Hohf, W.
E. Heaton, M. 1’. Ohlman and D. B.
Gurney, all of Yankton, and T. A.
Anthony, of Wuusa, Neb., P. W. Hoes
lng, of St. Helena, Neb., and W. B.
Roberts, of Omaha, Neb. The report
of the treasurer showed the company
to be in very satisfactory financia’.
conditions. A total of 8,894 paying
shares of stock have been sold at an
expense of a little over 3 per cent.
MISS DALY TO OUTLINE
HER CAMPAIGN POLICY
Mitchell, S. I)., Dec. 15 (Specie-./.—
The South Dakota nonpartisan league
has arranged for a public reception
which is to be hold at the city hall
this evening for Miss Alice Lorraine
Daly, the league's candidate for gov
ernor at the 1922 election. Aliss Daly
is expected to deliver her campaign
keynote at this session.
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WORK AND MATERIAL
ARE BEING DONATEL
Yankton. S. D., Dee. 15 (Special).—
Yankton county Is this week witness
ing Its first road graveling enterprise.
A two-mlle stretch of highway, an
extension of Douglas avenue leading
past the cemetery and connecting
with the Meridian highway near the
state hospital, is being surfaced as a
community project by means of do
nated labor, teams, gravel and money.
Moses Gudinundson. ulleged leader of a
cult which practiced wife sacrifice, or
the interchange of wives by agreement,
at a colony which he founded in the
Tintlc district, is on trial at Nephi,
'Jtah, on a charge of adultery.
INDICT MINE OFFICIALS
FOR 36 FLOOD DEATHS
Vancouver, B. C„ Dec. 16.—General
Manager E. J. Donohue und Chief
Engineer C. P. Browning, of the Brit
annia Alining and Smelting Company,
a New York corporation. wer
charged with manslaughter here
Thursday in connection with the re
ent flood at Britannia beach, which
resulted in 36 deaths. A preliminary
hearing will be held Friday.
PREFERRED PEN
TO FIRST WIFE
Bigamist in Nebraska Prison
Finally Agrees to Care for
Children if Given His
Freedom.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 19,-rPrison had
no terrors two years ago for Hurry
Snethen, faced with the alternative
of returning to lhe with his first
wife or go to the penitentiary on a
blgsmy charge, according to the story
he told the state pardon board: SneUi
or. is a Cass count/ prisoner.
“The judge gave me the chance to
escape prison by returning to my
ft.st wife, but I to.d him I preferred
the penitentiary,' Bnethen said.
V* hen Snethen's appeal for pardon
was first heard, last summer, Miss
11st her Nord, of Omaha, wife No. 2
In his marital troubles, appeared in
his behalf, stating she wanted to
marry Bnethen.
Bnethen today premised to support
the three children of his -first mar
riage, if released. Miss Nor i had
objected to this proposition lust
rummer. *
HEAR BANK8* CLAIMS —
AGAINST FAILED INSTITUTION
Lincoln, Nob., Dec. 19.—The claims
of six banks in other states totalling
$20,000 on certificates of deposit held
by them in the Farmers State Bank
of Halsey, which failed two years ago,
, will be heard in district court at
Grand Island December 21, It is an
nounced here. Judge B. P. Clements
will hear the cases. The state Is re
sisting payment out of the bank
guaranty fund or the bank's assets on
the ground that no money or prop
erty value was deposited in the bank
at the time the certificates were is
sued.
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WOMAN HANGS SELF
TO THE BED POST
Unadllla. Neb., Dec. 19.—Mrs. J.
Schmidt, about 50 years old, commit
ted suicide Tuesday by hanging her
self from a bed post at her home
northeast of here. The body was found
by neighbors after Mrs. Schmidt’s el
derly mother had gone to them for
help. She had called to her daughter
who had gone upstairs and receiving
no response and being unable to
climb the stairs, called the neighbors.
Mrs. Schmidt's husband and daughter
were in town at the time doing their
Christmas shopping. Recent financial
reverses are given as the cause of her
act.
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McKELVIE PRICE PROBE
IN NORFOLK MONDAY
Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 19 (Special).—
Tlie state price investigation com
mittee opened operations in Norfolk
Friday under methods which were
pursued in Lincoln. Special Investi
gator Campbell is here preparing the
probe for Secretaries Stuht, Kenne
dy, Hart and Attorney General Davis,
who will sit at hearings which will
begin Monday morning. Business
men, both wholesalers and retailers,
will be t:alled In to be interviewed
under oath regarding prices. This is
part of Gov. S. R. McKelvie's state
wide price investigation, which he
hopes will help to ullay unrest.
HUNTING FOR WORK, MAN IS
KILLED IN RAILROAD YARDS
Grand Island, Neb., Dec. 19.—L.
Robinson, of Ayer, Neb., Is dead and
Andrew Sneidowls, of Ottosln, la.,
is perhaps fatally injured as the re
sult of an accident in the Ravenna
yards of the Burlington at 1 o’clock
Friday morning. The men were beat
ing their way west In search of work.
They stopped off the rear of the
train, to limber up, when It stopped
and it backed over them.
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HAT PIN REMOVED
FROM BOY’S STOMACH
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 19.—A five-inch
hat pin was removed from the intes
tines of Dale Fisher, 12, a ward of
the Masonic home at Humboldt, Neb.
He is reported as getting along
nicely.
Dale swallowed the pin a week ago,
when he engaged In a contest with
six other lads to see who could stick
the hat pin farthest down the throat.
Dale won.
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PI PHI MATRON, 60. KILLED
BY LINCOLN STREET CAR
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 19 (Special).—
Mrs. A. M. Eberly, matron of the Pi
Beta Phi sorority house, was struck
by a street car here Friday evening
and died a few minutes later. She
had been bouse mother five years. She
was f>0 years old. The motorman, It
is charged, made no attempt to stop
his car after striking the woman.
BRITISH AIRMEN CARRY
MAIL OVER DREAMY NILE
London, Dec. 16.—Air mail service
between Cairo and Bagdad has been
inaugurated by the British royal air
force in the middle east. The scheme
is arranged as part of the regular
training of the R. A, F. The length,
of the air line is 840 miles, the route
from Cairo being via Ramleih, Am
man and Ramadie to Bagdad.
A saving of 10 to 14 days will nor
mally be effected by this service.
ROCK ISLAND WONT JOIN
WITH SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Chicago, Dec. 16.—Reports that the
Southern Railway and the Rock Isl
and soon would merge into one large
transcontinental lino Friday were
branded as false by H. G. Clark, assis
tant to the president of the Rock-Isl
and.
“We know nothing of the plan here."
J he said
"LOVE AND A MERRY XMAS."
Holiday Giving, So Often a Perfunctory Duty, Can Have
Deep Meaning if Authentic Spirit of Christ
mas Is Remembered.
By Prudence Bradieh.
me annual rebellion against Christ -
mas and the futile annual talk about
a "Society for the Prevention of Use
less Giving” are now in full swing, as
we go forth to do our share toward
destroying the Christmaa spirit and
keeping alive the business of com
pulsory present making.
A few days ago I heard a little girl
say to her mother:
"I think I'd rather you wouldn't
give me anything for Christmas this
year.”
"Why not?” exclaimed the mother,
in amazenment.
"From the way you talked to Aunt
Julia about what you were going to
give her I Just guessed that maybe
you would feel the same way about
giving anything to me.”
"What in the world do you mean?
What did I say to Aunt Julia?”
"You said: 'Oh, dear, I wish you’d
go and pick out your own present,
Julia; I’m an busy, and I’ve got so
many people to think of—the chil
dren and all.’ ” The child’s imitation
of her mother's querulous tone was
convulsingly accurate.
"Well, you know it’s true," said her
mother, laughing and flushing in spite
of a note of anger; for the shot went
home. “The list of people I've got to
give to is a terrible one, and I don’t
know when I’m going to get time to
attend to it—to say nothing of ex
pense. Of course I like to give things
to you children; that’s entirely dif
ferent."
"Are you going to give presents
that you don't like to give?” the child
asked.
“No, I guess not; not exactly that.
But people won’t understand-”
"Won’t understand what?” the child
persisted.
"Now, Mary, don’t bother me with
any more questions. When you get
older you'll know for yourself-”
"But with every- present you give
you always put a nice little card that
says: ‘With love and a merry Christ
mas.’ When Aunt Julia buys her own
present will you write a little card
like that to go with it or must she
write one for herself?”
"Prudence Bradish!" cried the
mother, "did you ever know a girl
like this, to ask questions Just to
make her mother look like an idiot?
You Just run along, Mary, and stop
making fun of your mother.”
We were all laughing, but everyone
of us knew that Mary had put her
little finger on a very sore spot. Every
one of us felt the truth underlying
her keen questions. Every one of U3
was to some extent in the same state
of mind about Christmas giving.
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Yet why should it be so? Why
Should we allow the shopkeeper to
spoil for us the wonderful festival of
the Christ Child?
It isn't a question of- the kind of
gifts we give, but of the spirit ti*“
which we give them. I suppose there
are people who Judge the giver solely
by the expensiveness of the gift, but
I am sure they are not many. I
think we are Justilled in resenting a
cheap gift when we know in our
hearts that it represents a cheap
spirit. I resent even an expensive- _
gift when I know It represents -not
the loving thought of the giver but
a perfunctory sense that he must give
me something. I get more Joy out of
tho crudely constructed gift of a
child who has done his best to make
something for me because he loves
mo than I woultj out of a very elab
orate thing purchased hastily with *
mere money in a careless or grudg
ing spirit.
That as I see it Is what is the mat
ter with Christmas. In older days
we used to make things for Christ
mas; lots of them dreadful eyesoree
from an artistic point of view, hut
they stood for forethought and the
real love of the giver. Nowadays we
rush into crowded stores at the last
moment, grab the nearest thing that
"will do,” and both giver and receive*
know that the whole thing Is a sham.
I am not declaiming against the —
purchase of gifts, even of expensive
gifts by those who can afford them.
I am not a sour old bouI who gets no
pleasure out of the brightly lighted
store windows. Indeed, I am Just as
guilty as anybody, though I do try
to put thought into my modest giv
ing. I am preaching to myself as well
as to you who read what I write. In
favor of getting the "Christmas
spirit" into our own hearts first. “Who
gives himself with his gifts feeds
three,” as Lowell Baid.
No matter what Aunt Julia bought,
for herself as a gift from her sister,
she couldn’t help knowing that it rep
resented a perfunctory spirit—that It
embodied nothing real In the way of
her sister's love. The little girl felt
this falsity, saw the truth with the
clear discernment of a child’s un
spoiled sight; the mother resented it
out of a guilty conscience.
The shops are full of wonderful
things—to say nothing of the cheap
and tawdry rubbish that is there,
too—and everyone of them can be
either an expression of real Christ
mas love and thoughtfulness or a
mere thing, embodying the commer
cial spirit which spoils every kind of
relationship.
Christmas, like ail other festivals.
Is what we make of it by the spirit
in which we approach it. There is
time now for all of us to make the
spirit real—this year.
CHRISTMAS JOY IS ONLY SPIRIT
LEGALLY PERMITTED THIS YEAR
Look not on the mince meat when
It is ripe, for it kicketh like a white
mule and brlngeth a prohibition
agent stealthly Into the home to spy
out the evil thereof.
Comes now, out of Washington, de
partment ruling, No. 772, that only
the Chrlstmastide spirit will be per
mitted In mince pie, plum pudding
br&ndled cherries and other allied
dishes, which in time past and here
tofore have been alleged to contain
alcoholic spirits.
It Is true that under the official
interpretation of the prohibition en
forcement act mince pies, et cetera,
are legal and proper if they contain
less than one-half of 1 per cent, of
alcohol, but the ruling of the depart
ment sets forth clearly that culinary
products in which alcohol Is an in
gredient can be made only by manu
facturers of food products who ob
tain a permit from the government.
Must Obtain Permit.
Persons wishing to taint their
Christmas dinner with alcoholized
mince pie and to institute an un
seemly orgy of pleasure by the man
ufacture and consumption of plum
pudding can obtain official permis
sion only by filling out application
form No. 13,921aa, on which required
CLOUDS OF GLORY.
When may. I ever hope to see
A sight like my first Christmas tree?
I came In from the dark and cold
Prepared for gifts and games foretold.
But not for that new sense In me
Of brightness and immensity.
Sweeter than frankincense and myrrh
The burning sharpnesH of the fir;
Each lighted candle was a dart
Piercing with unimagined art;
The sugar angel at the top
Attacked my heart and made it stop;
The drawing room became a place
Swimming in hushed and starry space.
Time scatters dust on me and mine;
The tree—the tree is still divine!
Can earth repeat that rapturous gleam.
Or heaven prove such a heavenly dream?
—V. H. Friedlaender, In The Spectator.
Super-Guile at Washington.
To the number of heinous conspiracies
and subtle propagandas which are going
on at the armament conference and
which constitute Its real meaning add
the latest conspiracy revealed In anony
mous memorandum now In active circu
lation. According to this bit of truth
about the conference the whole scheme
was engineered by Great Britain and
the United States for the purpose of
putting Japan In a hole. A partial list of
explanations of the real meaning of the
conference would now run about as fol
lows:
The conference is an Angio-.lapanese
plot directed against the United States,
which is to be Inveigled Into surrender
ing the paramount position on the seas
which is within her reach.
The conference is an Amerlcan-Jap
anese plot against Great Britain for the
destruction of British mastery of the
seas.
The conference Is an Anglo-American
plot against Japan for purposes stated
In our first paragraph.
The conference is an Anglo-American
plot against French prestige on the con
tinent. . _
The conference Is a Franco-American
plot against British oil domination In
the Near East.
The conference is a Hughes-llarding
plot against the United Statees Senate.
Only the lack of space and the neces
sity Of going to press prevent the ex
posure of m*Br additional consplractM
U»t could easily be enumerated.
permits may be issued. It will be
necessary on this application to state
unequivocally the formula by which
said pie or pudding, or both, is or
are manufactured, made, served and
eaten. Permits will sanction the eat
ing of not more than one pie. a day
by a member of each separate and
distinct home. The same may be
said of plum pudding, according to
official report.
When approached for a permit to
manufacture mince pie, Charles J.
Orbison, federal prohibition director
for the "state of Indiana, said th^t a.
permit would be needed by food man
ufacturers using alcohol as a pre
servative, but that no permit could bo
granted to any person to use alcoholic
spirits In the manufacture of mince
pie or other foods destined for im
mediate consumption.
He indicated that he believes the
state of Indiana to be faithful'and
true to the law and that nowhere
in the commonwealth may be found
either mincemeat or plum pudding or
even brandied cherries, except 'such
as may be eaten with impunity and
safety, under Paragraph 47 of Sec
tion A and B of the Eighteenth
amendment, by the most tender and
delicate holiday feasters'.
A NEW KU KLUX.
ANEW Ku Klux Klan to ply its
trade In the northern states is
being organized with headquar
ters in Philadelphia. It is a result
of the split between northern offi
cials and the imperial wizard, Col.
William Joseph Simmons, of Atlan
ta, Ga. The intention of the organ
izers is to enlist the support of tho
disaffected members of the older
body. The new name is the Patriotic
Voters’ League. The thing should be
scotched in its infancy.
The leader of the movement gave
away the idea back of it all when
he declared: “I am going out tomor
row to get some money and I will get
more money than Clayk and Tyler
ever had.”
That’s It: Get the money! No
wonder the leader Is boastfully con
fident, with a sucker born every min
ute.
The Irish Free State, dispatches
say, will insist on being a member of
(he League of Nations, so that tho
lerritorial integrity of the Island will
be guaranteed as against external ag
gression by that much discussed Ar
ticle X. Holy smoke!
Self Preservation,
From Pittsburgh CWronlcie-Telepgrah.
, During a train journey a man dashed
down the corridor of a sleeping oar call
ing out:
“Has anyone any whiskey? A lady haa
fainted in the next car.”
A flask was handed to him
He took a liberal drink, returned the
flask and then said calmly:
"It always upsets me so to see a iadr
faint.”