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ERB la still a town In Palestine called Bethlehem- - It lies on one of the high round.. ed hills of Judea and on the north there is art open grassy spaee that still bears the name of Shepherds' Fields in honor of the shepherds who were watching their flocks on that Christmas night when the angel brought to them the "good tidings of great , . joY." ; ' "Thou Bethlehem Ephratab. though thou among the thousands of Judah, yet 'out of thee shall lie come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel... Now shall he he great unto the ends of the earth." Trent the ends of the Earth travelers cornell this spot ,where the star shone on that eventful night so long ago. Here they enter the Churrh of the Nativity whkh shown to visitors as the authentic stable Where ithe Christ Child lay. For the Christian world, Bethlehem is fragrant with the, tenderest and sweetest of be-litt- , , ; - , r , -- 1 I ..tmentorl ft ' ,,,' 1 ;. ,'' P- - t' , , 1j ! , I l fJ i ,' ; A' ,.. ir; 4 l'. I . .. --- - 1 --- "i. - a ,, , - , -- i :- ' ' , , - '''7,, ' . '....;-'- - ' -- ...M,,,.,L , , - nt 0,nel ' Fulty Indc,,,Tut-L.- 1 - - - ;.n.,'Llts .0..47z. .Night ,,, , COME dayiPerhaPt, there Will be a history of the United States Lines, with partictv lar emphasipupon Its tradition of, skill and heroism under emergent-- circummancee.There is hardly a vessel of the fleet that has not on more than one occasion been con fronted with-- crisis on the seas andsnatch.- ad front death the crews and passengers of storm-tossefoundering vessels. Me Americas of Captain- 11- A. Pedersen, is the latest to meet successfully the test of seamanship and , arising when the elements seize upon-a stricken vessel and threaten-it- s destructiott.z On a dark night and in the midst of a gale' off the NoVeScotis coast, the Anierican Far., met came upon the fishing schooner Fieldwood, with a crew of twelve ., 2 ..., , - - ' - ... ., - ,s.--- 7 N.-- t - I Ma master, with the modesty of men who follow the sea and who take high courage for granted, submits a rather perfunctory report of what must necessarily have been a , t thrilling adventure and one which called,dozen finest a the but not once, dines, forth, quality that can be found in the soul of man, a willingness to tile for others. Chief Officer Gulbe and Second Officer Knowlton, Captain Pedersen says, did "excellent work during a dark night." This is a res. trained tribute which nevertheless speaks volumes for the courage and the of these men and the members of the crew who worked under them. To save and not to destroy is the real nature of man. ' children celebrate his comirtg. He is the Prince of Peace and by obeying Ms precepts, the world may win for itself relief from strife. Above is an artist's conception of the Christ at the age of 12. econom ic aspects of war are its most significant and Important factor they are nevertheless something to be considered When thought is given to the whole broad and barbarous undertaking. Primarily, war is horrible because it destroys life, causes Intense, human suffer' trig, produces maimed and mutilated bodies, by' no means Seeing The Good 'World friendliness can be best fostered by seeing good and ignoring evil. I will, in extending this love, forget that., there ever was a Napoleon. Instad, I will look at some sculpture by Rodin. I will dose my eyes to the fact that Great Britain is imperialistic. I will remember that Shakespeare and Shelley and Dickens and Gahworthy were Englishmen. Somebody will say, 'Germany,' and I will hum a bar of the 'Pilgrims' Chorus.' I will let myself know only of the great accompishmentsof these countries in literature, music, art and philosophy." Dorothy Mischel. inspires burning hatreds and brutalizes those who , engage in it. tut, the material losses arising from war are not to be ignored. Even before Japan's venture into China, which was to have been something in the natUre of a pleasant military Interlude, designed to gain rich holdings, with. a minimum of effort and sacrifice, Japan's finances were In a precarious condition. In fact, one of the incidental purposes of the Chinese incesion was a diversion of the minds of the Japanese people from their domestic trials. But the brief excursion of a month, the time allowed for the accomplishment of the contemplated objectives, is running into years and the end is not in sight The most recent news from Tokyo is that Japan Is spending $4,000,000 a day for the conduct of its undeclared war in China, and that included in the 1939 budgetwhich will be the largest in the Empire's historywill be for the adventure in im$1,350.000,000 perialism It is of such national policies that revcs lutions are made. There is nothing in the prospect at presen- t- to suggest that Japan is not committed interminably to warfare in China, whose armies are defeated and defeated but whose people are never con- Prayer Thou. Who hast gievn me eyes to see.... Give me a heart to find out Theet And read Thee everywhere. Keble. ,''...-.- , ....... ..: ; Christmas THE dawn world-wid- fes- e .... For America. BY, DAVID. LAWILMVCE S. ' Christ the Lord, in his brief span of life In this mortal sphere. gave to thelvorld the greatest and ITIOSi just code of living that has ever been written or spoken sin the dawn of creation. It reflects and embraces all of the fundamental principles true that enter into the establishment of man. Its path is lighted all , brotherhood the way. This code, not only insures peace and happiness in this mortal life, but best of all. reaches far into the eternities to come, and gives to all men faith, hope and assurance of a much greater degree of progress, bliss and true happiness in that higher and broad. er life in the great beyond, It has been mid that man is more like God .would have him be at Christmas time than any other day of the year. Is it not be, cause belays aside all hatred, enmity, Malice and selfishness and gives his every thought J. Potter Of An Idea One single idea may have greater weight than the labor of all the men, animals, and eentury.--Emerso- n. Him Tonight walked with Him along the lonely mad 14a w Him not, my tears a veil 'between burden of the world and my small load; ilia hand touched mine, nad, suddenly serene, I felt my grief grow light and raised my head, Knowing I wu divinely comforted. Yet Hitt supped with Him one night on broken bread Although a banquet lay before my eyes, And I wm nodding at the words they said, My other guests, xo clever and so wise; I did not see His Frilliet and yet I knew He, only, was aware I had been true. I , I . ' JAIIES R. NILSON, on! Come otd Luiu Greene Richards. paralysis, breaking his. health and his heart. - ' , - . - DayCome. , . .. . - S i on! Prepared to Meet the Father -and the Son, Resurrection Then,:. Christmas, Easter,. ' , 1.......,,,LJ , d With gifts of Faith, the power to acquire Great saving works to do', sehich must be Tru. tchleTriuontmph 31 e' Come, Holy Spirit! Mortal souls inspire ,- - ' His election in 1920 led, indeed, to the betrayal of the people and, in all truth, of Harding hireselfpliant tool in the hands of as choice a conspiracy of rascals as politics ever knew. The scene that election night, 18 years ago, was the Harding home in Mount Vernon Avenue, in the pretty little city of Marion, Ohio. Radio had not yet shattered the allerres with its insistent blare, but there was ample news from the clicking telgraph soundersnews of a tremendotu victory for "normalcy." New York State had gone for Harding by a million. The majorities were rolling up in startling fashion. The town of Marion was ablaze with red fire. Rockets screamed skyward and burst high aloft with cascades of gorgeous color. Bands and drum corps marched and counter-marcheThe modest home of the Harding s was ablaze with light as hundreds passed in and out, congratulating the victory in the greatest moment of his life. I, too, after telegraphing my story of all these gay and exciting goings-o-n to my newspaper, went into the house to offer my congratulations to Mr. Harding. And I thought then, as I thought so many times later, how thoroughly he looked the part of president. What a fine figure of a man. What dignity he could assume! What graciousness of man-neAnd I passed from the reception room, clamorous with the echoes of pride and joy, to a sitting room in the rear of the house a room only dimly lighted. And there, sitting alone at an open window and gazing out Into the darkness relieved now and then by ylolent flashes of red fire, was Mrs. Harding. She motioned me to a chair at her side, womanso much stronger. that mrong-willewilled than the man who had just been elected president, her husbandand sat silent for a minute or so. Then she turned toward me with the strangest possible expression on her face, like one who had had a glimpse behind the veil, a revelation of the future. "I' could find it in my heart." she said, "to wish that he had been beaten?' She paused, then went on. "I did not want him nominated. I did not want hint in the White House. But they were too strong for me. He listened to them." I went away presently, thinking how strange it was that the wife of the president-elec- t of the United States could receive the tidings of victory so mournfully, so tragically. But the time was to comeand not so far in the futurewhen I understood the mood of that fine and understanding woman. She knew her man! She had known him all thole years beforehis loveable, ad. mirable traits and his weakness of character, a weakness consisting in a congenital inability to say no to engaging scoundrels who had foisted themselves upon him, rnortgaged his loyalty, arii) had gone to work to loot and steal under his very nose. Harding was an honest manno doubt about itbut child in the hands of wily rascal& Some months after the president's untimely death in San Francisco, I happened to be In Columbus, on my way to Chicago, with a train watt of four hours to get through. I telephoned to Dr. Sawyer's White Oaks Farm, near Marion, and only an hour from Columbus,, and asked Mrs. Harding if I might run over and pay my respect. She requested me to comeat once. , It was a miserable night, with a driving wind and rainY falling In sheets. I took a taxicab at the Marion station and drove through the weeping night, through the streets of the town that had. seen Hardingt glory,For an hour I sat with Mrs. Harding in a room unlighted except for a flickering flame In the film:dace With the ,tears coursing down her cheeks, this resolute woman who seldom of the wept, told me of the last half-yea-r Hardings in the White House. She told me of her Intl and her preeentimentsof the absolute tmwillingneso of the president- to believe- - that he had been tricked and sold out. andetotme the kre.a101-- 1 Sweet Christmas, Day of ' daysCome dawn. - - law. allleave no one weak and 1 i ----- 7- THE death of Gaston B. Means, crimitud, recalls vividly the book he sponsore'dthe false story that President Harding did notdie a natural death, but was put out of the way because he was about to expose a number of persons in high places, old friends who had betrayed his confidence. Perhaps there wu some truth in the assertion that Harding had at long last realized the villainy of trusted usociates, and that he might indeed have turned them over to the txtYk I I, , iCoPYright 1938. 'rink Features ' Syndicate Inc.) Corn., joyous Christmas day, so waited for, Bring news of Peace and Love, not strife and wan Let dear old "Santa Claus" wtih loads of toys Bring cheery smiles ond shouts for girls sod done, f - Come on! - , , - , Faithful as Jesus' brothers, James and John, Friends, kindred, all who willtime flies and energy in trying to spread cheer and hap. piness to others, following, if 'only temponarily, in the footsteps of the Great..., Master and Redeemer Himself, who gave His all;' His very life's blood.to this end?' Bob Ingersoll once Sait that his creed. was eimply this "The chief of all good is happiness. '., The time to be happy is now,. The place to be happy is here; The is to help others towabey tobab;wha,nppy , ... - - Come, friends, still rathtound through these passing years, Help us with force renewed to banish fears; Leave all that's vain. To God'ss real service come, With Him and Christ tall Their Millennium. New strength for ' - . : . .. ' ' from this sphere of mortal learningblending smile and tear; To enter Paradise where comfort reigns, Much doubt removes and mystery explains, With added light for us to grasp and con Angelic Christmas visitants, Come on! - :: ..,,,,,-...,The il, - Come. cherished ones, promoted of-th- -- Side Of The News - .,,, charms, Come on bine& We do not sufficiently realize the blessing to ourselves that results from a habit of giving. It elevates the character. enlarges the heart, invigofates spiritual life, tends to check in us any inordinate love of money, teaches us to hold our possessions loosely, and to set. our affections on things above. Giving is a great help in getting away from ourselves. --Forbes Moncrieff. r ,. ,,,- - ... ... heart. Bright, pleasing robes 'of happy visions don Blest Christmas dreams with love's, fair Christmas tival for 193 3 has now been ushered In. There's a reason for everything. There's a most sublime reason why there's more rejeicing, jubilation and merriment during this national holiday, by far, than all others cornof the , .,-. ... (DECEMBER Z, 1938) Come, Christmas Eve! After day's rush bring sleep, With soothing touch our tired senses sweep; Let stern regrets and fretful care depart; Penitencepardon cleanse each grateful d ' .. "Come On" "Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a world." Admiral Byrd. Giving . .. ' '-- ...-- Ed tiiiC.11111: :. ' No Failure quered. The day of economic reckoning, when it comes, will be a fearful day for Japan. For comradeship like this we lift the light Within our hearts and worsilip Him tott!ghtl' , , Claire Stewart lIoyety Ton 4ght the world celebrates the birth the l&atit Quist in Bethlehem. Throughout the world men and women and little of kAIIILE the We Worship - . rs i War's Terrible Costs engines for a F:tz....U.,.. , ,,-' L...s,. -- ., - d men. , ., y-- ........ ,, ,,,-,,- acting WASHINGTONI,', pee., 24,-Wha- t Secretary Sumner- Welles said to the - charge d'affairs of the German embassy is not unprseedented, but the fact that the government of the United tSates promptly made It all publle is decidedly unusual. 'For years, representatives of foreign embessies' smd legallentLactingtmder..instrue-- , tkms from their governments, have lodged protests or made verbal "representations concerning articles or speeehee appearing in ' the American press, and the customary answer from our government is that freedom of the press is guaranteed by the Constitution anti that no administration can exercise any legal tontrol- over what the s publishes or what public men say in their speeches. The German govertunent, however, had much more of a point in its protest' this time, for the speech at which complaint was directed was delivered by a member of the cabinet of the President of the United States, and presumably the utterances of Cabinet are subject to control by the chief executive. So, when the German government's envoy came to lodge a protest, he found to his dismay that the speech was by no means disavowed, but proudly acclaimed as the viewpoint of the vast majority of the citizens of the United States. This is but another way of saying to Germany officially that what Mr. Ickes said in his prepared speech was designed to convey to the German people and the world in general that brutality cannot be looked upon passively by a humane nation, and that, with every bit of voice which our goveminent possesses, it would articulate to the whole world its horror at what has been happening wider Nazi rule. It takes drarnatli thcidents of this kind to awaken the chieftains of Germany to the fact that the American people, speaking through their government, look with sadness and amazement at the medievalism which has been relived ha Central Europe. For even the smaller countries are begbatting to Imitate the Nazi decrees and measures, and thus human liberty is benig chiseled away in the states adjacent to Germany. too well how The episode illustrates-a- ll Isolated Germany is and how little her chiefs of propaganda know about what is going on 113 the outside world. Had the German bureaucrats any sense of American customs. they would have known that Mr. Ickes would not have made the type of speech he did at Cle- -' veland last week without the knowledge of his associates in the American government. The German newspapers, controlled as they are as to their editorial expression by Berlin officials, reflect apparently the unfamiliarity of the German foreign office nowadays with the temper of the American people. - water-logge- " , ' ,,, A44,' - , ,: Ickes Speaks . a - ., ' 114 ' - - . Stormy Sea,, Dark, - --, - ...,MW.,, - ' The Ilnizz.--1 Svzles 17ith Its Three Departments Of Gcrcrnment. As Therc..3 Sct 1, erth,Tach, - - ., -- - -- '4, ':. - Ay'''''''' - t:--- ----- ,The, - Constrtutien -Of For - We Stan4 - '',',' - Bethlehem , , .,' good-wil- : "e ,,,,, f 4 1 ' Today the spirit of peace on earth good; will toward men is being mocked by wars and preparations for wars. Pear and sorrow snit bate wring the hearts of the good people of many Inuit But we know on Christmas: morning that the human spirit will not en'dure for a longs.ime the degradation ot these evils. Neither bid nor man will be mocked lorever.t- - Beauty and truth will force their way through the dust and carnage of battle; for it is" only love that survives and is intmortal, and it is the lips of love that whisper always. "Peace on earth, good-wil- t toward men." Truth, beauty, goodness and light strive upward and never die; "crushed to earth, they rise again, for the 'eternal years of God are theirs." Alitthe world has changed since a lovely mother bore her divine Infant In a stable In Bethlehem, "bemuse there was no room for them in the inn." The story of that birth has come singing down through the centuries. It has been heard again and again by men of different rates and in many lands; by rich and poor, by the proud and the ble.Anc it has always borne the message that men are of one fleshthe black, the yellow, the 'whitelinked in the bonds of human brotherhood. No indifference to its fundamental sig. nificance can Mutdo:in the character of Christmas., flow can one fail to hear the strains that come "calm on the listening ear of night? -- - , I '323 , 7 ll : 1 h 4f9 :.. ! , .. :( ft' I I ,,, ....,.. ?. 4 i ,AI , --- ' - t 24 i - :. ' '. - , .1. 'i ee. ''' , , ,..., ...... " ,, 1 - r r , nit echoed phrase t4 this' ihne; 'Merry ,'' ,THE Christmas,'" describet In two words the Ir. spirit of this day of daYs. As we hear the , words, 7Glory to God in the highest and on toward men," we hear ,... earth pleat, good-wil- l Bethlehem and a,,,, over the beating of wings the- sun' or the- eters-- , of, not is that light shines in the midnight sky.' It is the hPlidar-' of happiness and trweetness. It is It day that stirs child nature to the utincet site and The gcpirit that Is evoked warms all hear on this (lay of gifts and rejoking and goodwill, is the spirit of life, of creativeriest; it is born. ot that' 'Orli which Set the stars in .their coursest ,caused the gentle rain to fall, and mad. the earth fruitful. t There can be no real Christmas with,, out this spirit. If the season be ,Thallowed and' gracious, " the Christ must' make it so. Christmas without the Christ is a contratile, tiott In termelIf we could once realize this Ideal of pence on earth and good-wil- l toward merrtha vexations of life would be solved. Then! ivould be no selfishness,. If yott have good-witoward men. you want to do kindly things- for them. If we could have that spirit, wars would vanish from the earth. If we bad that spirit, there would bean end of industrial warfare. So it would go through tvet7- phase of life, and human brotherhood w;uld know no limitations. , "Good Will towar4, nteh," means toward all men, not to any special sect or nation or race. Peace, not for the fortunate of the earth alone, but for human kind, through-- out all the earth. "'Merry Christmas,", let it t be ;Voiced to eierybody; to the whole world; to the good and to the halt to the lovely and the, unloveln. that the tmirit of the Babe, of Bethlehem may lift and bless. Time and space and language lay no limitations on , , 1 - t i 1 ' '-- D:CE.f.Erl SATURDAY . ,,,, r-- I I fi i; 'N., .f.t;;;- ) - ::---. ,. ..'"r1 - ., ', :':';':;:". 'I. -- - le .- ',' ' , .,.... .. '''. ,-,-. , 'he Message Of Chrlitmas' - 'I ,..,-- --, ., ',...1........... S........0,,, 4 I Ot!4... ,!1 ; ,, - - ' ,,et ,.. sALT LAKE CT'! NEV DESERLT - ' a I I - theutpta ' 1 I: .1 I- - |