THE PAGE TWO the dissident PoelallMts ami the left Republicans to enter his cabinet, no It Is made up of radical Socialists. TilK Al Smith Joins "Tories" Who Demand Sound Dollar; OjipoMtion to Koosevelt's Monetary Policy Grows; Califoruians Lynch Two Murdering Kidnapers. f I DWAIJI) W. IMCKAKI) agency who was low bidder on a recent truck offer of the Dypart-inen- t of Agriculture but complained recently that new bids bad been asked for trucks of not lens than six cylinder motors, said Ford detillll" for till' assemliveries could be made with such bling tf congress promptness that the government nears there Is a would iive money and declared fast growing fear that If he did not receive the order he would appeal to Comptroller Vr.it tin- - Inflationists In th:it li(!y General McCarl. will move for the of the big employers to starting of tin? monFIRST for ey irlnt iiiK presses. alleged violation of the Between till! "loagreePresident's reemployment ries" ami the Infla- ment Is Loft, Inc., which operates a Alfred E. tionists stands Mr. chain of restaurants and candy Smith It o o h e v e t, Htill stores throughout the country, Gen-erI Johnson ordered the company seemingly iiiiTturlii'il, Insisting on to remove the blue eagle from Its carrying out further hist gold trading plan for I ' v u i K the dollar stores In Washington, and charges and thus increasing commodity made against It by tin- - New York prices, with some form of still. nidacompliance board were under Intion to follow either a gold standvestigation. President C. G. Guth of the company denied the ard devalued dollar or u commodity price index paper dollar. That the dispute over the President's monetary policy Is not parti- THOUSANDS of furious san Is emphiisizi'd hy he stand tak the Jail at San en by Alfred K. Smith In an open Jose, fought a desperate battle with letter written for the December Is- the police and dragged out Jack Holmes and Thomas Thurmond, sue of the New Out look but released confessed kidnapers and murders to the press In advance. of Brooke L. Mart, the young son Mr. Smith expressed his disbelief of a prominent merchant, and Is fated Democratic that "the party hanged them to trees In t ho city to be always the party of paper money printers, free park. Fifteen thousand persons, many of them women and children, Bllverites, currency managers, rubwitnessed Ihe lynching and cheered ber dollar manufacturers, and crackon the mob. That any of the lynchpots." lie added that If tills Is to be so ers ever will he punished Is highly "the Issue Is more than a partisan improbable. The crime of the two one, because we are dealing today victims was peculiarly diabolical and cold blooded and It Is likely with the party which actually holds even the authorities, unofficially, which office, responsible government welcome this reversion to Is not merely advocating cure-nilvigilante methods of dispensing JusIn a campaign, hut which has In its tice. Gov. James Uolph had rehands the present welfare of to send troops to help the people and the future of our fused sheriff, and later "When told of the most cherished American Institulynching, said : tions. . . . "This Is the best lesson that Cali"What we need in this country U absolute dependability In our fornia has ever given the country. We showed the country that the money standards. It Is the only state Is not going to tolerate kidthing which will restore confidence. naping !" The latest fiscal moves of the have undermined pubr OGER TOTIIY and three com- lic confidence. They have created pardons, tried In St. Paul for uncertainty. "Uncertainty paralyzes business, the kidnaping of William Ilamm, better than did the Calidiscourages private Initiative, drives fornia and murderers. kidnapers the and into hiding, money places The four Chicago gangsters were entire burden of sustaining the population on tiie central government. acquitted by a .jury. It was the first defeat for the federal govern"In the absence of anything defiment In the kidnaping cases In I am to for be better, nitely known which it has figured since passage I a return to the gold standard. of the Lindbergh law at am for gold dollars as against bathe last session of congress. loney dollars. I am for experience The Touhy crowd, however, were as against experiment. If I must still to lie tried in Chicago for the choose between private management of business and management of a kidnaping of "Jake the Rarber" government bureaucracy, I am for Fnetor. private management. ISSOl'RIANS followed the ex"I am ready to go through a cerample set by the San Jose tain amount of deflation if the Califoruians and resorted to lynch choice is between this and outright law to punish the negro nssallant I choose must Inflation. If money white woman. A mob of a between the leaders of the past, at St.young battled with the poJoseph with all the errors they have made lice and National Guardsmen and and with all the selfishness they took Warner from the Jail have been guilty of, and the Inex- and Lloyd and burned him. Gov. hanged perienced young college professors Guy B. Park declined to comment. who hold no responsible public ofGovernor Ritchie of Maryland fice, but are perfectly ready to turn Into guinea sent state troops to Princess Anne 130,(HM),(K) Americans and they nabbed four alleged leadpigs for experimentation, I am goof the crowd that lynched a ers who be to for the have people ing The local authorities had negro. I And It Is. the what made country failed to act in the matter and the Bay this with full knowledge of the fact that there are many things In governor took It Into his own the old order of society which I hands. The prisoners were taken should like to have changed and to Baltimore after a mob had fought to release them from the which I do not applaud or even soldiers. But almost Immediately they were returned to Princess Anne on habeas corpus writs and ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT no comment on Mr. the court there released them on Smith's letter, but it drew from the ground that the evidence was Insufilelent. General Johnson, NRA administrator, who was at Warm Springs, a has a new premier and characteristically violent burst of ERANCE s a new ministry. Camilie denunciation. The general also made has succeeded Albert an unwarranted attack on Profeswho was overthrown by the sor Sprague, calling him a "hitherto chamber of depuobscure professor" who "by a ties, and has formed dramatic resignation obtained his a government that little hour or two to strut across the r includes fourteen of stage." This of a man whom the Bank the former minishad been of England paying $25,000 ters, among these a year to act as Its adviser until the being President persuaded him to come Pnladier and home and serve our treasury In a In other re- like capacity for $10,000 a year. 4 spects his selec- 4v ,f tions. it is asserted by the Wnr 1?" IT WAS announced in Paris, bear the l--l department that the low bid for f j stamp of the trucks for the conservation corps pnt,e of i.:,lim.,rd was made by Chevrolet Motor comChautemps Herriot, and many oiTer an of $029.10 with per pany the new cabinet is designed believe unit. return The next lowest bidder was to prepare the way for the Herriot that veteran Socialist. Northland Motor company of Rethes-(3a- , of was turned out of the premiership Md., a Ford dealer, whose bid because he wauled to was f 071. 10 per unit delivered at a year ago pay the war debt due the United at for deliveries $C,sr..l0 Detroit, and lias refused to take part Chicago and $087.(50 on deliveries at States, In the government un'li after DeLouisville, Ky. cember 1") the anniversary of his The Chevrolet bid was for trucks and that of the Ford downfall and the date when anothr trucks. The er installment is due. of After France dealer for has repeated its act repudiation, of War the departspecifications Herriot probably will again become ment provided for not less than premier. motors. Chautetnps was unable to pp- B, I Sabine, head of the Ford llfl" InuiMv i(hv ov.-- i v h Lt'iird return to the "sound money" by the increasof those hom tin Pres ing iiuinhi-ident has termed "lories" ; for, as the for m r 1 a ; I green-backer- s, old-tim- e s Jr.,-fare- d M Sar-rau- Sar-rau- t. Influ-Camill- e 77HH )0 Farmers Grr'n corporation, which has been fighting for years for full membership In the Chicago Board of Trade, proposed an amendment to the grain exchange code which would compel the board to grant It and other cooperative full trading end. clearing privileges. Gov. W. I. Myers of the federal farm credit administration. In a to Administrator Farm letter George N. Peek, which went Into the record, gave the full support of the government to ttie amendment. Two other governmental spoken-men- . Dr. J. W. T. Duvcl of the grain futures admlnlhtrutloti and Wendell Byrd, special assistant to the attorney general, likewise approved the Farmers' National proposal. In view of these manifestations of federal sanction. It was regarded as virtually certain that the amendments would be approved despite the serious opposition of the exchanges. ,. , of the of Technology are now ready to proceed with their attempt to smash the atom, for the huge generator designed by Dr. R. J. Van De Graff successfully passed Its test at Round Hill, r ft,, if . mma mam y?-)C- , f .; M. -- ; IyiYSICISTS Nr.' . . M&rr r XZJAmMn Jol Roberts lUi. Mass. direct current lightning split from the two giant aluminum cylinders which act as terminals of the generator and flashed between each other and to the roof and walls of the converted hangar which houses It. Tliis first test, witnessed by a handful of distinguished scientists and the anxious designers and makers of the generator, more than fulfilled the hopes of physicists who believe that when It Is In operation to its full capacity of I0.no0.ooo volts It will tear the veil from the Innermost secrets of nature. A 7,1X10,000 volt By ELMO SCOTT WATSON bolt of and crackled man-mad- I Vi AaAv IEN you read the title of this article, did you exclaim, "Men who helped 'make' Christmas why, what does that mean? There was only one man who made Christmas and he was born near- years ago." True! If It had not been for the birth of Jesus Christ, there would be no occasion for celebrating December 2o as Christmas day. And If that celebration had been kept to its original form, there would be no occasion for writing nn article such as this. But the fact Is that there lias grown up around the celebration of Christinas a great variety of customs, traditions and practices which we now as essential parts of that observance even DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR, regard they may have departed from Its original GKN. though ls annual of staff. In Some of these have had such a gradual meaning. report to Secretary of War Dern, evolution that It would be Impossible to ascribe declares that the army's strength them definitely to any one person. But there are is now "below the others which we can trace directly to one or He more danger line." Individuals hence the theme of "men who milwarns that our helped make Christmas" what it Is now In this itary standing Is article. nteenth In rid relative strength, and speaks of the "obvious g of unrest now prevailing throughout the world." The general's recomm- state endations for Inthe army's creasing MacArthur include: efficiency A boost In regular army enlisted strength from 120,000 to 105,000. with Immediate exemption of the enlisted man from the 15 per cent government pay cut. 0 An expenditure of nearly on aircraft, modernization and motorization of the field artilmechanization, lery, equipment anil general motorizaGen. Douglas $200,-000.00- anti-aircra- tion. Maintenance of the National Guard at existing strength with 4S drill periods and two weeks' active training annually. At least 120.000 reserve officers with two weeks' annual training for at least 30,000. At present there are 110.000 reserve officers but only 87.0(H) are eligible for active duty training. Restoration of the 1032 Instruction and personnel scale for the R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C. LIEUT. COL. ARELARDO the hated chief of the Matanzas military district under the regime of former President Maehado of Cuba, and four other former officers paid with their lives for the many murders of which they were accused. They were taken from San Severlno castle at Matanzas, lined up before masked men and shot to death with machine guns. The five men had been prisoners since August 12, the day Maehado was driven from the Island. Chief of the crimes attributed to them was the killing of the five Alvarez brothers, prominent revolutionists, In 1032. RORERT ly 2,HMJ If LEY, trade union under the Hitler government of Germany, has announced plans for the reorganization of Germany's labor unions Into a giant group to which employers and foreigners also will be eligible. The changes will become effective January 1, It was Indicated, and meanwhile unions will not be permitted to accept new members. Unscheme, der the reorganization every employer must Join In his own name rather than In that Of 8 Certainly Santa Claus seems to be an essen tial part of the Christmas celebration. Speak of him and there rises to mind a picture of a plump, e little man who radiates laughter and good cheer. Why should he be that sort of person Instead of the stern, gaunt, rather formidable figure, solemn and majestic In trailing robes, carrying In one hand a basket of presents and In the other a birch rod, as an aw ful warning to naughty children, such as he was when he was known as Sinterkiass, or the Bishop-Sain- t Nich olas, by the first Dutch settlers in this country? The answer to that question is the names of three writers James K. Paulding, Washington Irving and Dr. Clement O. Moore and an unknown American artist. It was Washington Irving who, in his "Knickerbocker's History of New York." in 1SO0 wrote the first description of the new type of Santa Claus and made Sinterkiass. or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of the Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam, the archetype of , all of those Jovial, long pipe- smoking burghers. The next writer to paint a word portrait of Santa Claus was Irving's friend and collaborator, James Kirke Paulding, who in his "Book of St. Nicholas," first published In 1S27, said Santa Claus was "as gallant a little Dutchman as ever smoked his way through the world, pipe fore most." But It remained for Dr. Clement Clark Moore In his poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," to give a more definite word portrait of St. Nicholas and pretty definitely establish in the mind of the public what Santa Claus looked like. How much Moore drew upon Irving and Paulding for his description Is not known but there Is a curious parallelism in some of his words and some of theirs, although Moore, himself, 40 years later said that "a portly, rubicund Dutchman living In the neighborhood of his father's country seat, Chelsea" near New York city suggested to him the Idea of making St. Nicholas the hero of his Christmas piece for his children. Then in 1830 a book called "The Poets of America," edited by John Keese, was published. It contained Moore's poem and the illustration for that was a picture of Santa Claus. (Reproduced above.) Who the painter or the engraver was Is unknown but it is believed that this was the first time a picture of Santa Claus was ever printed. Thus it was Washington Irving, James K. Paulding, Clement C. Moore and the unknown Illustrator of Reese's "Poets of America" helped "make" Christmas by giving us our present idea of the patron saint of the holiday. wf. many-breeched- V&P . S-- Yw 1iMiiry,.,.,1.j. 4 nil elf-lik- What would Christmas be without Christmas hymns and Christmas carols? And what song has been more often sung on Christmas Eve or is more beloved than "Silent Night, Holy Night"? It was on December 24 of the year 1S18 that Josef Mohr. assistant pastor of the newly established St. Nicholas' parish church in the little village of Oberndorf, near Sal.hurg, Austria, handed to Franz Gruher, a schoolmaster of Arns dorf, who was organist for the church, a poem firm. with the request that he write for it a suitable for two solo voices, chorus and best known amelody arranged RANK the reason for the lataccompaniment guitar a as former theatrical manager ter In the little church had the that organ being a and as the compiler of dictionary broken down. of similes, died In New York. He So Franz Gruber sat down at his grandfather's was assistant to Will Hays In the desk Immediately, wrote a simple melody for the Motion Picture Producers and Dispoem anil mat nigin on nnsunas rve, in r, tributors of America. Nicholas' parish church was for the first time "Stille Naeht, Heilige Nacht. sung W. GIBSON, who ERNEST was To the fact that the little organ in Oberndorf a congressman from had broken down Is due the widespread popu Vermont, will go back to WashingThe organ builder. Karl Man In the laritv of the hymn. ton to represent that sta of Fugen in Zillertal, had been sent for to racher GovHe was senate. appointed hy the necessary repairs. He heard the air ernor Wilson to fill the vaocy makehummed it in his native country, where It and caused hy th Oath of Semtor "Por became very popular in a short time and soon ter II. Dale. spread all over the world C. 1933, Wdte i Newspaper Unlom. Thus It was. too, that Josef Mohr and Franz Gruber, two Austrians, helped "make" Christmas. F Zhz Tirst Christmas eve wo Chau-temp- eight-cylinde- Thursday, December 7, 1937 NEPIU. UTAH S. siutde News Review of Current Events the World Over Iiv TIMES-NEW- w James Kirke Rsuldin 9 Einar Piolboell Do you enjoy sending out Christmas cards to your friends? If you do, then you should know the name of Sir Henry Cole, an Englishman, for it was he who originated this custom. Later famous as a social and educational reformer, a pioneer In illustrating chil Henry Cole dren's books with woodcuts of famous paintings. In 1840 he conceived the Idea of sending decorative cards to his friends, bearing his good wishes for their happiness at Christmas. So he went to his friend. J. C. Horsley, a member, of the Royal academy In London, for the design and the result was the card which is reproduced above. But few Englishmen followed (dole's lead and the business of making Christmas cards got under way very slowly In England. It was even slower In getting started in this country. In 1873 Louis Prang, a lithographer of Boston, exhibited samples of his (lowered business cards at the Vienna exposition and they attracted considerable attention. He had an agency in London and one of his women employees there (her name is Unknown) suggested to him that he put a greeting In place of the name of his firm and Issue them as Christmas cards. This was done the next year, so that 1S74 marks the beginning s of the Christmas card In this country. So Sir Henry Cole, the Englishman, and Louis Prang, an American, can be added to the list of men who helped "make" Christmas. Do your letters go out bearing a Christmas seal as well as a postage stamp these days? If they do, it's because Einar Holboell, a clerk In the post office at Copenhagen, Denmark, while sorting the mountain of Christmas mail In 1003, had the idea of another stamp for letters which should combine a Christmas decoration idea with some practical purpose. He went with his plan to the head of the postal service and others with Influence and authority. And so, when the first Christmas seal committee held a meeting to discuss the pur pose and use of the possible Income from the Christmas seal, and it was decided that the first object was the erection of a hospital for tubercular children, and, In general, the income from the seal should always be for the fight agnlnst tuberculosis, in one form or another. Upon application to the then King Christian IX, Holboell secured the permission to have a likeness of the deceased Queen Louise on the first Orlfr-tmaseal, and the king became so in terested that he himself selected the picture which he wished used. The success of the venture was overwhelming. The first printing of 2.00O.000 seals was Immediately Increased to 6,000.000 and over 5,000,000 were sold. Since that time the Christmas seal sale in Denmark has brought in enough money to erect large numbers of sanitaria and convalescent homes for tuliercular patients. Hoi boell, the modest postal assistant, became post master at Charlotten Zund, near Copenhagen. and a Danish cross of Knighthood was his badge of honor. He died of heart trouble In his sixty second year on February 23, 1927. In 1909 the Idea reached America and when Jacob Riis, a native of Denmark who had become an American, saw the queer little stamp on mail arriving from his homeland he Immediately sent a letter of inquiry to Denmark. The reply was a personal one from Mr. Holboell, who explained In detail the method of procedure. l, Through an American woman. Miss Emily the idea was presented to the American Red Cross, which, after several years of successful sales, turned the project over to the American National association, which has since had charge of it. So Einar Holboell, the Dane, Jacob Riis, the and Miss Emily Bissell, th American, helped "make" Christmas. Bis-sel- Danish-America- If William Eustis, secretary of war In 1809. hadn't turned down the suggestion of President Madison that Joel Roberts Poinsett be appointed quarter-maste- r general of the army, we might never have had those brilliant crimson flowers which we know as polnsettlas as a part of our Christmas decoration. Here's why: Joel Roberts Poinsett was a native of South Carolina, who studied medicine for a time at Edinburgh university and later graduated In military science and mathematics at Woolwich academy. Ill health necessitated a long period of travel In Europe and Asia, after which he returned to America and requested President Madison to furnish him with military employment. Madison made the suggestion of the quartermaster-generalship but Eustis objected. So Madison offered Poinsett a mission to South America for the purpose of establishing friendly relations with the people there and Investigating th prospects of their struggle for Independence from Spain. This led to his becoming something of an authority on relations, to his appointment to a special mission to Mexico In 1822 and his appointment as the first United States minister to that country In 1825. While holding that position he first beheld the exotic beauty of a brilliant red flower native to that country. When Poinsett returned to his home in South Carolina In 1829 he brought with him some of the seeds of the plant and Just a hundred years ago. In 1S33, he sold some of the plants which he had grown in his hothouse to Robert Buist of Philadelphia. Buist named the flower "Euphorbia polnsettia" and although the scientific name has since become "Euphorbia pulcherrlma" the name polnsettia, honoring the man who brought it to this country, has stuck and It has become one of our chief floral decorations nt Christmas Latin-America- n time. Poinsett later became secretary of war In Van Buren's cabinet, after which he retired from public life. In the cemetery of the town of States-bur- g, S. C, is a simple marble tablet which bears this Inscription "Sacred to the memory of Joel R. Poinsett, who departed this life on the twelfth of December, 1.851, in the seventy-third- , year of his life. A pure patriot, an honest man, and a good Christian. To this might be added "lie helped 'make Christmas." C by Wt.tem Nwtpapr Union.