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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1922)
RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA. OmEP V f! By joiin Dickinson siiekman jJTsMriSMp fifSKt -f9 &JZy$ fll I v VHU mv uihln n u Twin Sisters' slope ICilS-.TlPlV . HjIHmJ !EaffiatriV X tf V ' 9 fe5 In the Bncky Mountain Nnttoiint Park Hides the December moou lu blue- black sky To light the Old Year out, tho New Year In. Tahosa "Valley In tho Mountain Tops All rimmed about with lofty snow- elad peaks, Is dazzling with new-fallen snow; ltd cup Brims over with the sllv'ry radiance. Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak, "King of the ltockles," with Its tow'rlng crown Atop Us monstrous, dark, grim precipice A-glltter in the Hood of silver light. Behind me rise The Twins to tlmberllno, Recumbent In silhouette as If carved By tho chisel of tho Master Sculptor A part nnd parcel of a perfect wholo Planned by tho Master Architect himself. Perfected through the ages by Ills will Tlmt.wlth sheer beauty makes the henrt to ache. The hours pass on. The moon sinks and Is gone. Myriad stars that blaze like beacon fires 'Take up the watch the weary moon has quit The Old Year passes out; comes In the New Without a souud, a token or a sign. There Is no hint of life. Can it be true 'The sun will shine again and day come back And life leap In tho glad green spring once moro And Time grant unto us another year? .And now Is staged with ceremonious pomp The recurrent miracle of tho dawn In setting worthy of tho Master's art, With glories worthy of the glad New Year: Behind Tho Sisters grows n pearly glow; Tho King's o'ertopplng crown glows ruby red; Low-lying clouds In Tho Pass to the south Aro shot with gold; the sky-line of the pines Against their glory stands raggedly out. Tho rim of u great golden disk thrusts up Above the silhouetted Sisters' crest. Deer, Meadow, Meeker, Lady Washington, Buttle, Lily and Estes Cone change white For rose tints. Wooded slopes doff blnck for green. Tho Sisters, ns the sun mounts In the sky, Call back their shadows from tho Vnlley floor. A breeze wakes up nnd dances forth to help Tho trees shake off their burd'nlng robes of whlto. A crested Jay tilts In a shelt'rlng pine. A snowshoe rabbit goes sedately past And makes tho first murk on the untrncked snow. Across Tahosa Valley smoko goes up nine ehlmney-smoko that tells of kindled hearth, With family nstlr and life nnd love I And there stands' Longs unchanged, unchange able! Now I know glnd spring shall come again, Summer time, harvest time, nnother year. And so Is born to us this glad, New Year, Nineteen Twenty-threo Anno Domini "In the Year of Our Lord," tho Son of God, Who taught man, "Do as yo would bo done by," Who died upon tho cross to save mankind. There Is an old saying nnd wise: "Lot the dead past bury Its dead!". Its wisdom, however, lies largely In what It really means rather thnn In what It actually says. For burial does not mean both burying and forgetting. And it should not. What tho udugo menus Is this: "loot's turn over u new leaf tin New Year's day, 302.1, and try to make a better looking page than wo did In 1022!" There Is said to bo "no new thing under the Bun." Certain It Is that we are digging up records nowadays that show human nature to have been about the same In 4,000 15. C. that It Is now. So doubtless man has been making New Year's reso lutions ever slnco there was nny New Year's day, And doubtless he has been breaking them Just as regularly. And doubtless tho cynics and the pes simists and the professional jokers have been laughing over the performance through the ages. Nevertheless, this recurring New Year's pep lormnnco Is a lot moro than merely the material for a Jest. In fact, It Is one of tho things that keeps "nllvo tho faith In human nature and the hope that tho world la progressing year by year toward better things. Thero are, of course, many foolish people who llvo only to ent, drink and bo merry. And there ore tho predatory ones, who tako what they wnnt If they can get It. Rut most people bollovo In a future llfo and aro always trying, often vaguely And half-unconsclously, to llvo the kind of a life that seems to them fit to survive. Hence their I New Year's resolutions. Many a man In his heurt (on New Year's day would bo, with Itobert Brown Ono who nover turned his back but marched breaat forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right, were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held wo fall to rlao, are baffled to tight better. Sleep to wake. The poet speaks truth. Frovhtencc has so cre ated man or evolution has so shaped him, If you prefer to put it that way that there Is no greater spur to his soul than the Incentive of the un achieved. Always' the unaccomplished that seems worth whllo challenges his ambition, his courugc, his determination. Man has already accomplished much on this earth so much that he has now n vision of whnt his goal should be so much that ho Is now nblo to see how fnr he has fallen short of reaching that gonl. And no ago has been so well equipped to movo on to that goal as this present age. Never has the incentive to the achievement of that gonl becjn so strong. For man cannot stand still, no must press onward to tho gonl or fall back nnd loso much that he has gained. Failure to reach the gonl emphasizes the Incompleteness of nil that has been accomplished. And this shining goal Is nothing loss thnn tho message of the sea son: "Peace on earth, good will to men." Prnctically this means tho reformation of human nature. And the reformation of human nnturo means nothing less thnn tho world-wide applica tion of precepts of Christianity to tho Affairs of mankind. Christianity wns blamed for not preventing tho great war. It has since been blamed for not pre senting tho industrial strife and the economic Ills nnd other evils that have nfllictcd the world. Per haps tho best answer in brief to this charge Is tho utterance credited to George Bernard Shaw: "Christianity has not yet been tried." It Is a noteworthy fnct that during the Inst year men of affairs, speaking from the viewpoint of business nnd not that of religion, linvo publicly dcclnred that In ttie application of the teachings of tho Gospel lies tho ono cure for the Industrial Ills growing out of world-wide economic warfare. Somo of them have gono so fnr ns to declare that nothing but a sincere acceptance of CJirlstlnnlty can save society from utter ruin nnd civilization from n complete collapse. It Th not contended by them that Christianity contains a pnunccn that will nt once euro nil In dustrial nnd economic Ills. They know that no such panncen exists. They ndmlt that Christian lty does not teach economics ; does not Instruct us to production and distribution; does not, In short, t forth n system of Industry In nny form or Bhnpe. They start from' u different busls and their reasoning Is nbout like this: Christianity, however, does set forth n mornl formuln that can bo npplled nt nil times to all systems. This mornl formula Is an nctlve solvent of wrongs under nny system. Its nppllcntlon can cure the defects of nny system, not so much by chnnglng tho system ns by changing the nttitudo of men townrd one nnother. Practical Christianity would not tolerate Injus tice of nny kind. With Injustice of nil kinds ban Ishod from tho affnlrs of men nnd nations existing economic and Industrial systems would cither re model themselves or would bo cast aside. In short, economic regeneration would come nbout us a by product In connection with tho lnrger mornl re generation of mankind through the acceptance of Christianity. For In tho Inst analysis tho faults of systems have their sourco In tho hearts of men. A stupendous undertaking? An Impossible vision? Well, thoy ask, what other courno Is there? The converse of tho proposition has been trle'd to tho uttermost. And where Is tho world? Appar ently civilization, lu this Twentieth century Is fac ing the great crisis. George Washington, 183 yenrs ngo, us America's 'first president, proclaimed America's first notional Thanksgiving day. And his prenmblo declares: "It U the duty of all uatlona to acknowledge tho Providence of Almighty God, to obey Ills will, to be grnteful for Ills benefits, and humbly to Im plore Ills protection and favor." As everybody knows, George Washington was no llnr. So that when he wrote these words he wrote them because he believed them. In short, the United States of America wns con ceived nnd established In exactly the spirit set forth In Washington's words. Tho nation of his tlmo was a Christian nation. Its sense of de pendence upon God wns very real because of real ization of perils past and dllllcultles to come. It saw the guiding nnd protecting hand of Provldenco In the past. It hoped for a continuance of guid ance nnd protection of Providence In overcoming tho problems nnd dllllcultles of tho future. For America was then n child among the nations nnd Its way to maturity looked long and perilous. America hns now come to thnt maturity. And ho Is n dullard who cannot see the hand of Provi dence In our national history since the beginning. In the 1311 years slnco George Washington's first Thnnksglvlng proclnmntlon America hnB accom plished much. It has made Its mnturlty rich nnd powerful. Today America stands tho wealthiest and most favored nation of the globe so rich and so favored thnt a pre-war prediction has come true: America hns emerged victorious and tin-i harmed from tho Grent War nnd without a friend nmong the nntlons of earth. America Is too1 wealthy, too powerful, too resourceful, too well able to move on townrd Its destiny without "en tangling alliances" to pleaso tho rest of the world. America Is so favored that It must hovo n enro lest In Its complnccncy It thanks God It' Is not as other nntlons nre. , It Is true Amerlcn Is not ns the Turk, who Is pounding on tho gates of Europe, with oil tho as surnnce of n victor who nsserts thnt he has wiped out past defeat by present victory nnd demnnds new opportunities for crimes against civilization. It is true Amerlcn Is not ns the Bolshevists In Russlu, who nppnrently nro growing rather, stronger thnn wenker, seeming to gnln strength from the ruin they have wrought, nnd parade their Red Army ns an object lesson to tho nations of earth. Yet America sadly needs to tnko heed of tho Eleventh commnndment, "Love ono another." And it needs n Twelfth commandment, "Thou shnlt not profiteer." For tho profiteer, It hns been said, "takes the Eighth commnndment by the throat, knocks the Tenth commnndment on the hend and treads the golden rule under foot." And ns for tho Ten commandments handed down from God nt Mount Slnnl It Is Increasingly evident thnt it Is the tnsk of tho good citizen and tho church and tho press to build up tho mornl manhood nnd, womanhood that Is suffering alarming deteriora tion. There nro many who believe that In acceptance nnd practice of prnctlcnl Christianity Ho Ameri ca's only hope of emergence from the greed nnd lawlessness of 1023, Anno Domini. In this connection the progress of a movement begun In the United States by "Christian Business Men" will doubtless bo watched with Interest by tho nation. In somo American city probably Detroit will bo held early In 1023 tho first convention of tho Federation of Christian Business Men's clubs. Probably 100 clubs In the principal cities of the country will be represented. "To search out nnd upply tho laws of God In nil commercial relations between ourselves nnd nil men" Is tho stilted pur pose of tho federation. All members ngreo to mnke tho golden rulo fundamental In their commercial dealings. The clubs reserve nt nil meetings a chair for Jesus Christ, ''tho unseen Guest," whom tho members acknowledge to be their "directive hend." At u recent conference In Kansas City, Mo., dele gates were present representing clubs In Knnsns City, Now York, Philadelphia, Lincoln, Neb., Tulsn, OUln., ,8t. Louis, Wheeling, W. Va., Oticngo,' Rochester, N. Y., Cincinnati, Columbus, O., St. Paul, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla, Columbia, Ua, and .Detroit GTilE Amepjm LCGM (Copr for Thti Dpirtmnt Supplied y th Amtrlctn Lfton Nw Service.) BLIND MAN MEETS OLD BUDDY Drltlsh Hero, Here to Attend Inter- allied Veterans' Convention, Recog- nlzes Voice of Former Comrade. Although ho Is totally bllnftv Cnpt. William Appleby of Great Britain was ono of tho most cheerful delegates to the Interallied Veterans associa tion co n v o n 1 1 o n which mot In Now Orleans In conjunc tion with the American Legion national gathering. Cnptnlu Appleby was especially hap py when Uio dole gntloti of war heroes ntoppod In Capt. Wm. Appleby Indlonnpolls on the way from New Or leans, for only a fow minutes before his arrival there he had mot, by strange coincidence, a man whom he had' not seen nor henrd of for twenty-two yenrs, but who wns in hts regiment, Lancashire Fusiliers In 1000, and who wns, born only ten miles from him In England. Captain Appleby recognized him by his voice. As Alfred Ernest Evans, an Indian npnlls engineer, wulkcd through the train ns a member of tho Indlonnpolls committee to welcomo tho heroes, he wns stopped by an Englishman who nsked his name. "My name, sir, 1b Evans," ho replied. "Alfred Evans, of tho Lancashire Fusiliers?" he wns nsked. "Yes, sir. Who nre you?" "Cnptnln William Appleby, your former regimental commandor." And then they begun, busily recall ing Incidents of tho South African battles they fought together In 1000. "I recognized Mr. Evans' volco the minute I heard It," the English horo said. Captain Appleby lost his sight In the second battlo of Yprcs. lie has nlso been wounded 20 times. Ills pretty nineteen-year-old daughter Olga, his constant companion nnd his "eyoB" since be lost hlB sight, accompanied him on tho American trip. WimM i4i 'fVhrlr GUDE IS AN EXPERT OARSMAN Washington (D. C.) Legionnaire, Car ries Off Junior, Intermediate and Association Prizes. It takes years to produce a good anrsmnn, rowing experts clnlm, but Grunvlllo Gudo, a Washington, D. O., member of the American Legion, won ono of tho big gest nntlonal con tests after ho had been rowing only six weeks, thereby establishing a prec edent In the sport ing world. Gude won the Junior, Intermediate and association oventB In one after noon with only short Intervals of rest between races at the Middle States' regatta. Tho Washington Legionnaire la at his best In the sculling races and Is ex pected by his buddies to win a national championship ono of these days. Granville Oude. RADIO OUTFIT FOR HOSPITAL Oovernment Institution at Colfax, la, Equipped With Bet Provided by Members of Auxiliary. Patients In the United States Got irnment hospital 75, at Colfax, lu., are enjoying dally, and nightly, all the good things which como through the air from many brondcastlng stations, with a largo rndlo outfit women of the American Legion auxiliary have pro lonted them. Aud disabled veternns who nre nt tho Bellcvuo Vocational ichool nenr Omaha, Neb., are taking delight In a saxophone, a set of bolls-, i trombone and a cornet, presented by tho same auxiliary the Department of Nobraska to complete their orchestra. In tho Iowa hospital, In which there re many Nebraska boys, each bed hns been fitted with a receiver, so tho pa tients may listen In nt any tlmo, nnd n magna vox has been Installed in each corridor sr that alt In the rooms off the corridor can hoar nil the programs. The Nebraska women nlso havo sent boxes to the disabled veterans In hos pitals In Iown, Nebraska, Kansas nnd Missouri, nnd at Denver, Colo., and Fort Bayard, N. M. Qavo Funds for Playgrounds. ' After spending two years In acquir ing funds for n clubhouse, tho Ameri can Legion post nt Mungum, Okla., de cided tho children of the town needed a playground worso than tho former serVlce men did n clubhouse. Accord ingly, the Legionnaires obtained an elght-yenr leaso on a plot of ground and used tho fund they had been so long In collecting to purchase play ground equipment. 5fLW Fi,,Vo"!awPI Joe Sparks. BEST INFORMED LEGION MAN Columbia (8. C.) Committeeman Up on All Hospitalization and Rehabilitation Questions. "The beat informed American Legion member In this country on nil ques tions dealing with hospitalization nnd rehabilitation," Is t ll o w ii v Alvin RA Owsley, Legion v o m m n nder, de scribes Joe Sparks of Columbia, S. C n e wl y-appointed chairman of thu Legion's natlonnl ehnbllltatlon com- ulttee. The ability of Mr. Sparks to co-opcr-ntc with the United Stn tos Veterans' bureau was also named by Mr. Owsley ,as one of his strongest recommenuV tlons. Mr. Sparks' work as Legl; liaison representative at the hendqu ters of the Fifth United States Veter nns' bureau district has drnwn nntlon al attention to such an extent that Legion headquarters has received a Hood of telegrams from the North nnd West urging his appointment since tho Ieglon convention. During Mr. Sparks' term the Fifth district was rated moro than 02 per cent efficient, the highest of nil 14 dis tricts. Out of n totul of 2,000 pntlents In cx-servlco hospitals, 2,100 veternns havo been rated totnl temporary dis utility and -100 claims are being adju dicated. Although Mr. Sparks was well over the draft ago, he served ns n "buck private" In the Fifty-seventh and Third Pioneers during the World wnr. Mr, Sparks was born In Laurence county, S. 0., tlilrty-suven years ago. Later he went to Columbia, where he got a Job as a nuwspaper reporter. Ho was city editor of the Columbia State, ono of the most lnlluentlul newspapers In the South, when he enlisted. Returning from the nrmy, Mr. Sparks became connected with n lnrgo Now York llfo Insurance company. Ills work with the Legion has been In At lanta and In New York. WA THAT WELCOME COOKIE JAR Recent Addition to Hospitals, Provided by the American Legion Auxiliary, Is Welcomed by Veterans. If you imagine for a minute that the veterans In the military hospitals throughout tho country don't appre ciate tho cookie Jars which tho Ameri can Legion Auxiliary established re- The Hospital Cookie, Jar. cuntly, Just note the expressions on tho faces of theso three ex-soldlers. Theso veterans are from tho Govern ment hospital at Kansas City and tho National Military homo nt Leaven worth. At the present rate of con sumption, patients from these two hos pitals will have eaten In tho course of a year cookies which If placed sldo by side would extend 12 miles. Snmo cookies I NEED OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE Director of Legion's Americanization Commission Cites Reasons Why Many Were Disqualified. Most of tho physical defects which disqualified almost n quarter of tho men examined In tho army draft could havo been prevented by adequate physlcnl education programs, according to Gur Innd W. Powell, director of tho Amer ican Legion's Americanism commission. A prominent medical authority mnkes the following statements on tho subject of draft disqualification, ac cording to Mr. Powell: "1. Heart disease could be prevented by proper strengthening of the henrt through physical activities, removal of physical defects such as had tonsils nnd Infected teeth. 2. Mulformntlon of the limbs may be prevented to some extent by propor physical activities. 3. Defective vision oftentimes could bo prevented by exercise. -1. Underslze would not exist In ninny cases If there were physical nctlvlty nnd propor In struction In regard to nutrition, prep aration of food and the like. C. Hernia undoubtedly in tho majority of cases would bo prevented by tho development of abdominal muscles. 0. Instruction lu care of tho feet and selection of shoes will prevent n large proportion of fiat foet." A Little Hint. ActorWhat' are tho rates at this hotel? Clerk Throe dollars up. In your case three dollars down. American Legion Weekly. l v