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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD - Ofcls .v. 'v x, 5er r ewiiw t. 'V , 259 York, v ' s v " s fjsiionnl Topics 5 interpreted '' ern ium H V ' ESS. - V'':'x I N x s xVixrxtxif Proposing a .,u. -the western hemi- X 'X ''WnXv o' X XxX Considering all of the factors inin the Monroe doctrine, there volved "d i0t sphere. President seems no conclusion ahead but Roosevelt in his eventual abandonment of that proajjon at Buenos nouncement When I I speech lClC fr ;i Aires has directed do not mean that the say that of principles the Monroe doctrine need be thrown ,. to two important positions m into the ocean. Yet, the name has taken has States ,, been the focal point around which relations. Whether Mr. ft'' t much antagonism has been built up .u jo intended or whether yoai of the circum-Th- e and the romantic Latin blood of heTery nature nevertheless has set up South America can hardly be ex'" Nf the ne-0- r pected ever again to subscribe to teeveii, the American people tawti,. of the thi Monroe doctrine by that name. seliit5 and has nrd, Has doctrine What, then, is the course? Monroe j 3 raLtoo the t9 roof up for fresh scrutiny Monroe doctrine, whether It The Wil-3- t ;. of president Woodrow so intended, has placed was ever ? ter irj J were designed to establish dfKStc&K - the United States in a position collectivworld peace by where it is made to appear as a tcstov-j7 on. Chicago boss. No nation of people enjoys aseie,Cau? nk that it must be admitted eing bossed. So, if the Buenos policies for inter-,- 1 Aires conference is to result in a he Wilson definite understanding oy which the peace have jo. worked. them peoples of the western examines who ( hemisphere frankly must recog-tn- e are welded together m an effective j and outstanding Inescapable group, some understanding must be to be the evolved which will replace the ill key have proved s of an idealist will engenderec by the Monroe dochow-mtrine. Possibly, that understanding i constitute a landmark, lies in the direction being followed in so doing it seems to me as a guide on by President Roosevelt. Apparentshould serve ly, he is willing to subordinate the wttodo. Candidly, the WilRKFT fr ei beer aw ms, beautiful in theory that Monroe doctrine and concede to o um those other peoples on behalf of the ere, have been shown to be DKE. United States the end of our overbecause they did not consider nor the chicanery of Eu-- i lordship. 3tV statesmen. They were pred-- j Undoubtedly, it will be a slow upon a belief that the world Present generations process. in their desire rs were sincere throughout the South American nahe farm a it is Sud but true tions will be and suspicious for a time ie tosn j uch is not the case. In other and will move with caution but Nation .the Wilson theories that were who believe in evenare there many mhom d up into a supergovernment tual agreement among the western "specia,. called the League of Nations nations on a general policy that y (aunoked the element of human will keep us all out of European and ty and ,ty. Far Eastern entanglerncLts to a equires only a brief review of greater extent than ever before. istory of the League of Nations ow can The thing that may break down veal the definite conclusion that eat Is tt the apparent Roosevelt plan is the lack oi sin-- ; is an absolute on wan of drawn swords and circumstance on the part of the European cocked rifles in Europe at the momen. Each one has been It is entirely possible that ment adawith gains and v btfore concrete adhesion among the ges accruing to his own North and South American peoples d actions have been per-ecan be accomplished, explosions in to the core with selfishness, Europe may take place. If they times aggravated with desires do. propaganda agents of the cont ersonal distinction. The league flicting powers will be abroad own in dealing with Russias Attempts will be made to a and Germanys Hitler. It alienate various nations in the westa mighty flop in the move-tern hemisphere, to align them with check Italys Mussolini in one side or the other in the Europia Having flattened out, none It may well be e three above mentioned has pean controversy. that this condition will ruin the 4 i espectfor the league authority, Roosevelt program before it gets i you add to this the absolute f under way but a start has been t'sal of the league as a world made and succeeding generations ace as was done . iA by Japan, will profit if the peoples of North me less than nothing left will!; and South America can come to iesan themselves as an individual regard ahly a.. ssolmi said the is willing to make sacrithat other group that day and br der to straighten out the Euro-- . fices necessary to cut off European role it connections when the European , pean iRO pel ilsoman would tangle statesmen insist on fighting. be neces-lusloera drr hTSsJ sary to wipe out There is yet one more thought Wil-- a all of the lcldn's the South American sesconcerning illusions. leat Is J He could have sions. There are students of ined he cos n only to the Wilsonian ternational affairs who already are er poU which we entered the itsaying that history has repeated war, namely, the "war to self and that the United States has mo the world safei for democra-LateMEAT lost, as usual, in its diplomatic dealD it will be remembered, ;o,S ings. They are saying that the reTorld war was "the war to end vision of the Monroe doctrine and r boy, Neither of these smote slogans bore thi rebirth of that policy under a Each was an a of a '( illusion, a dream new name represents a gift by the rfid peace held he flaf by a great United States. It may well be that londeN bose only weakness In as-3among sch has occurred. But convicARO world leadership was that saner minds, I believe the than listed other statesmen as he tion is that the Monroe doctrine alur de 1 (i the American people, to ar- ready has undergone so many alterafl il a sound conclusion and stick ations and revisions that a major 0 ; or a 250 Rg operation on its structure will clar;m not 1ANC 3 Prepared to say that the ify the picture. The Monroe docPolicies led us in a ound til wrong trine was designed originally, of le ac remains, how-a- t !Sn course, to prevent European nations the war that was to make from gaining a foothold in either or!d safe for democracy led of the Americas. That danger Is J into destruction ol democ-an- d definitely past Why, then, is It the establishment of fas-to perpetuate an anti,TE and communism in various necessary that has no purpose i of the policy quated world as an important it seems to me Thus, longer? any rB the government of peoples, that if a revision, even a casting asoirj of this, of course, was not out of the Monroe doctrine can elimnor predictable at the time inate suspicion of our government's lcs were initiated. It is all inpurposes among those peoples Pain now, and however, that it is same the hemisphere, 1 habiting President Roosevelt can very not too much to pay. a governed in his new move the He can a upon a basis There was a great oanquet held oast a hope of success be-- 1 one of the hotels in Washington at is quite apparent that the a few das ago. It orth an1 South, can wm! not unusual for is Birthday themselves if t rrangements banquets to great Prevention Observed of war relate only be held in the eslcrn Inter-SJif- J hemisphere. , , i are a,ars will have to be con- - capital city but mostoneof tothem which I The odiously. But among just banquets. had a significance 5. , &n horities with whom I have refer, however, ate It commemunusual is hi that ,ab quite this problem, there establishment of the the orated If doubt that the celenf cHecti vist action, first United States patent office and ... hundredth one birthday. its brated ,ed,in the Wilson policies inSomething like eleven hundred anything, it must be L repre018 world but to a ventors, research scientists, ..o0 01 the world. sentatives of industry and patent office officials entered the great dinThen, n Tictal agenda, the ing room by candlelight. outline of the Buenos the toastmaster waved a wand over of Aires conference, one of the greatest inventionswas N0 g room the and time modern that no reference m the "anted at all was made bathed in an electric brillianceseen. of which has never been like to doc. the Monroe t told the story PParently, that course had The action typified, in the 0 development scientific owcd. The Monroe doc-o- p of, j ticklish matter among United States and throughout the thbor, to the South. Frank-c- y world. d not tt like it S) Writers Neipaprr Union. I - , , BOlOOtb ? 3 i) ore eace-- j v con-onl- y na-H- is o o slo-i-po- d r, 11 i S By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T F CHRISTMAS this year is a healthier (and therefore a happier) time for many thousands of Americans just how tfiany there is no way of know-n- a part of the credit for that fact is due to two women. One of them was born on Christmas Day 115 years ago and the other was mainly responsible for giving her a little scrap of paper which has become as much a symbol of Christmas time as holly wreaths, pine trees, red candles, carols, or even Santa Claus himself. No doubt, you are familiar with the names of both Clara Barton and Emily P. Bissell, but you never happened to SCENE IN think of them in connection with the idea of a healthy, when she saw the horrors of war happy Christmas. The purpose in northern Italy in 1859, and she of this article is to show that gave unstinted aid to that society during the conflict of connection. n At the joint request of the authorities and the Stras-bur- g On Christmas day, 1821, a baby "Comite de Secours, she girl was born in the farm home superintended the supplying of of Capt. Stephen Barton near work to the in poor of that North Oxford, Mass. Her par- 1871 and in 1872 had chargecity of the ents gave her the name of Clar- public distribution of to issa Harlowe, after the heroine the destitute people of supplies Paris who of Samuel Richardsons Eigh- had undergone the horrors of teenth century romance, but siege and the reign of the Comwhen she grew up, being a mune. At the close of the war -minded young woman she she was decorated with the golddropped that romantic name and en cross of Baden and the iron became known simply as Clara cross of Germany. Barton. Founding of the Red Cross. If she had been a boy, perhaps Upon her return to this country she might have followed in the in 1873 Miss Barton inaugurated footsteps of her father, who had a movement to secure recogniserved in the Revolution under tion of the Red Cross society by Mad Anthony Wayne, and the American government and joined the army. As it turned finally, during the administration out, she was destined to go to of President Arthur, saw her lawar, even though she was a wom- bors rewarded. Naturally she an, but she went to alleviate became the first president of the pam and suffering, not to cause American Red Cross when it was it. organized in 1881. Miss Bartons humanitarian la- Clara Barton was a sickly child but by engaging in vigorous outfellow-America- ns J 1870-7- 1. Twilight of MONICA. CALIF. the king marry Mrs. Simpson or should it be vice versa and Mrs. Simpson marry the king, in either event the happy outcome is bound to prove blighting upon a large coterie of slightly weatherof the beaten SANTA practical- door exercise she changed her- self into a robust young woman, a fact which was important to her later career. Even while engaged in teaching school (in 1854 she established at Bordentown, one of the first free public schools in New Jersey) she kept up her outdoor exercise. When she went to her New England home for summer vacations she worked in the garden and in the hay field. In winter she was a devotee of skating and other winter sports. Service in the Civil War. After a very successful career as a teacher Miss Barton went to Washington and served as a clerk in the patent office where she was working when the Civil war broke out. Then she determined to devote herself to the care of wounded soldiers on the battlefield and she was instrumental in organizing the sanitook tary commission which and sick of nursing charge wounded soldiers in the field and in hospitals. She served with the Army .of the Potomac and in 1864 she was lady in charge of appointed the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James. In 1865 she went to Andersonville, Ga., to identify and mark the graves of Union prisoners buried there and in the same year President Lincoln placed her in charge of the search for missing men of the Union armies. As a result, her bureau of records traced out the fate of more than 30,000 unknown soldiers. she During the years lectured on her war experiences 1866-6- 7 XT' crop of 1925. Anyhow, it was AN ARMY HOSPITAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR a similar stamp in order to raise money for the pavilion which her state division of the Red Cross wished to build. For Miss Bissell to think wTas to act, so on December 9, 1907, two pretty girls in Red Cross uniforms took their place at a table in the post office Gibbons; from other places leaders in public life, philanthropy and education all leatured on page one. A Great Success. On January 8, a check for $1,013.97 was sent to Miss Bissell, the proceeds of the North Amerin Wilmington, and began selling, icans part in this preface to for a quarter each, little pay en- stamping out the plague several velopes labeled thus: times the sum Delawareans had wanted to raise and feared they 25 CHRISTMAS STAMPS could not get. And as much more One Penny Apiece Issued by the Delaware Red from other sources in PennsylvaCross, to stamp out the White nia. All told, Delaware and Pennsylvania raised $3,000 from this Plague. first sale of stamps. Put this stamp with message As a result of this success, bright Miss Bissell was able to induce On every Christmas letter, the authorities of the American Help the tuberculosis fight, Red Cross to undertake a nationAnd make the New Year betwide sale of tuberculosis Christter. mas stamps in 1908. Influenced These stamps do not carry any by her leadership, womens kind of mail, but any kind of clubs, religious, groups, various mail will carry them. publications, as well as local Red Cross chapters gave their supenThe first days sales were to the sale. By such united port couraging but Miss Bissell soon and enthusiasic effort more than saw that they would not be able was raised in the first to sell enough of the seals to raise $135,000 national sale. From 1907 to 1910, the National Tuberculosis association had been organizing a nationwide warfare against tuberculosis. Soon after the launching of this campaign came the establish ment of open air schools for the care of delicate children, many of whom were known to have been exposed to tuberculosis. Other children who appeared anemic run down, and in what was in those days believed to be condition, were a also sent to these schools. The tables to deuse of termine the health status of children was very popular, and youngsters 10 per cent or more underweight according to the tables, were automatically dubbed and listed as candidates for the open air schools. It was in 1908 that the first school of this type was opened in Providence, R. I., and it was not long before others were scattered all over the country. These pioneers had the support of the foremost scientists, but very few funds for their work. To strengthen the organizations effort, the American Red Cross and the National Tuberculosis association joined forces to conduct the Christmas seal sale together. The partnership between the Red Cross and the NaAmerican to Clara Barton, Presentation of the Original Red Cross Flag, Made by tional Tuberculosis association Chairman John Barton Payne at National Headquarters in Washington. lasted 10 years. During that time bors did not end with the wars. the required amount of money. the scarlet emblem of the American Red Cross appeared on the During the eighties she was busy So she made a trip to Philadelnewsof sucaid annual Issues of Christmas seals. a to of the enlist work the phia superintending double-barre- d coring the afflicted in the great paper there. It was the North In 1919, howeve, the cross, international emfires which swept Michigan, in American and its president and blem of the anti - tuberculosis the floods on the Ohio and Missis- editor was E. A. Van Valken-burto first been the who had at the and great sippi rivers Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania. displease doctors by proposing She served as president of the publicity as the weapon to use American Red Cross for 22 years against the white plague. Van Valkenburg immediately and to the end of her days, which came in 1912, she was the living saw what a great opportunity exponent of the spirit which has was offered by Miss Bissells promade the Red Cross the great- posal. He placed at her command every facility of his est mother in the world. to publicize the Christmas As a result, the idea. seal who woman As for the other in years past (and tins year) has presses which were printing the a seals in Wilmington couldnt turn contributed to making them out fast enough to keep up "healthy, happy Christmas Miss Emily Bissell she was a with the demand in Philadelphia eo a disciple of Clara Barton in the and the surrounding area, humanitarian work of the Red Philadelphia printer was enlisted. Cross. Back in 1907 she was secin Through its Washington correthe Red Cross of the CLARA BARTON retary state of Delaware and was try- spondent, the newspaper got the permission campaign and trade mark of the ing to raise money for an open postmaster a generals booth in the PhilaNational. Tuberculosis associaair pavilion to help in curing to put up children in her state who were delphia post office lobby. Five tion, was also embodied in the days before Christmas the gov- design of the seal. Since 1920, afflicted with tuberculosis. Four years earlier a man ernor of Pennsylvania and the the seals have been "Tuberculosis Christmas seals. named Emar Holboel, a postal Pennsylvania branch of the naclerk in the post office at Copen- tional Red Cross indorsed the stamp. Four days before ChristThe use of these seals has behagen, Denmark, had conceived mas an editorial urged that "A come an the idea of selling special Christaccepted part of the holmas stamps and using the pro- Million Mercy Messengers be iday celebration in this country ceeds to build a hospital for tu- bought by the people. Two days a veritable Christmas tradition. berculous children in his country, before Christmas "Happy New Since they came into existence IBs idea had been highly suc- Year was added to the stamp through a chain of circumstances design, the demand having grown in which two women, serving hucessful and one of his who had become an so. The day after Christmas manity by their work in the Red million were American, Jacob Rns, wrote an more than tohalf a state played important parts, and na- Cross, city, article about it for the Outlook distributed that is the reason for remembersummer of 1907. tion. ing Clara Barton and Emily Bismagazine in the of Then came a flood of signed inthe Idea. The Origin sell at Christmas as two women One of those who read Riiss dorsements: from Washington; who helped make it a healthier article was the secretary of the President Roosevelt, Secretary of (and therefore a happier) time Delaware Red Cross, who won- State Root, Secretary of War for their extern Nesaj er I nmn dered if Delaware couldnt issue Taft; from Baltimore, Cardinal Cer-ma- height-weig- ht g, new's-pap- er ' : v h I A 4. f . e 3kmh) about ed 1 i rfLrr?raira Fellow-America- x tiife.1 llllkt O They Helped Make Christmas a Healthier n (and Happier) Time for Their EMILY P. BISSELL and afterward went to Switzerland for her health which had been seriously affected by her strenuous labors during the war. She was at Geneva when the war broke out n and she assisted the grand duchess of Baden in the preparation of military hospitals. Also she became acquainted with the work of the Red Cross, the society of had been organized mercy which TTrtnri Dimrint- A Stt LsS. Franco-Prussia- Tai,h - fellow-countrym- en fellow-Amerioan- VS s. a great vintage year for debutantes, because that was when we had the most memorable of royal visits. And ever have since there been ever so many now somewhat matured buds who, season after season, have maintained front rank in society by being reminded, about once in so often, of the supreme hour when they danced with the then prince of Wales and speaking of him . Irvin S. Cobb m a fondly sentimental tone as "Dear David But even such a precious suddenly becomes mighty pale, mighty puny alongside a prospective achievement which may change the ancient slogan of majesty to "Iloni soit qui Wjlly pense! reml-niscen- Passing of the Train Butcher SPHERES melancholy news that the railroad in the "train butcher is vanishing. Soon, like fixtures of the passing generation, such as the dried potato as cure for rheumatism and the drooping sidevhisker, hell be an extinct species. In my earliest recollections of travel he has a fond place, along with the lunch put up in a congress shoe box, the cinder in the eye and the smell which made every day coach remind you of a woodpeckers nest. On almost the first car trip I ever made unaccompanied twas he who sold me a sealed volume entitled "The Jolly Old Drummers Spicy with a whispered warnLibrary, ing not to break the wrapper before leaving the train for fear of arrest. I remember my guilty feeling, my youthful thrill of anticipation. I got my moneys worth right there. I didnt get' it, later, because there was nothing in that book you couldn't read at a meeting of the ladies aid with Impunity. He was Indeed an engaging scoundrel and engaging scoundrels grow increasingly scarce. Theres nothing picturesque about an "investment counselor doing business with the aid of a sucker list and a new Issue of Bull Con. preferred. so many Ugly Railroad Stations which way youre NO MATTER It seems you must change trains in Chicago, and nearly always, change stations as well Chicago proudly boasts of more railroad stations and uglier ones and situated at more remote and Inconvenient Intervals from one another than any city anywhere. It's as though once upon a time she set out to collect the largest covey of truly homely stations In the world and then the bunch flushed and scattered on her. Yet as far as I can find out correct me If I err theres no structural reason why through cars on most lines could not be switched directly to the connecting lines without being brought Into the heart of the city. Maybe Chicago loves the distinction of being the largest junction point on earth. ' Hungarian Duels YOUR correspondent has been calm about that Budapest doctor's string of nine duels. I lived through several Kentucky primary elections, so a scrap where you dont have to replace any divots afterward leaves me comparatively calm. Theres an average of 300 duels every month In Hungary, but to date the only fatalities are among those who were bored to death waiting for something to happen. Its fine to be able to appease your sacred honor without losing any of your sacred epidermis. If, in the old days, wed only had that system for adjusting political differences, I can think of at least one uncle and several cousins of mine who might still be alive and voting the regular Democratic ticket. IRVIN S. COBB. WNU Service. Wcbulers Greatest Law Cases In a letter to his brother Eztklel Daniel Webster wrote concerning the Sailors Snug Harbor case upon which he was engaged: "I have made a greater effort In it than in any other since Dartmouth college versus Woodward or than it is probable I shall ever make In another. The Dartmouth college case Is. historically, legardtd as Websters greatest effort and a leading case la ail American liuispruduice. i |