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Show ,4 PAGE THE PAYSONTAN, PAYSON, TEN v Christmas Trees by Million UTAH, NOVEMBER 26, 1920. ? 1,V- 4 T large Nurserymen ofgrowNorway prnce for Christmas uses rather more In the middle West, where conifers are not common In the woods, than on the eastern and western coasts, where they fringe every hillside. But the tree most commonly used Is a short-needl- e pine found In the woods of Northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Early In September the Indians about the lumber camps of this region are set to work cutting the1 trees for the market, and by early November a little fleet of vessels makes Its way down Lake Michigan, a Christmas tree hauled to the foremust of each one, that by this sign all may know that In their holds la a cargo which might not tempt a Cnptaln Kidd, but Is far more precious than many a one for which good ships have been scuttled. A Russian Legend g '4 I , i s" 5 Vfc V V" e " & Vs Holiday Greeting v? Our Commercialized Christmas. Christmas Is the decoration day of a commercial age. Then, as on no other day, we face with compassion those who have fallen In our battles moment vve think for wealth. For of the thousands of children who have no share In that oasy life we give our children, and must And the seasons Joy In the charity dinner. Along with the barter to which we have debased our giving within our circle of acquaintances, we piny at extending the spirit of the day to those who are the pawns of our Industrial game. The Salvation army lass, standing cold and numb on the street corner, collecting funds for Christmas baskets for the poor, reminds ns of the wreckage left We In the wake of our prosperity. give a trifle to help the poor temper the bitterness of the year with a couple of hours good eating. Central "WE THE KING, m THEY SAID. Lumberm and Hardware Company, "Wilt thou come with us, Baboushka, Or ever the Star be set? "1 will come and seek the new-borKing, Not yeti But ah. My lords Payson, Utah n must set my house in order, And I must spin and sew," The Star had set ere she made an end. And the winds began to blow. 1 And evermore Baboushka Goes seeking through the wild The Three Wise Men, the shining Star Child. Her King, the new-bor- n But on the eve of Christmas, When there are none to see, She comes with gifts in either hand. To deck the Christmas Tree. Ouck: Ill bet get a raincoat, a pair of rub ' fr here, or something like that for Christmas. I She comes where sleeping children Lie dreaming of the morn, To see if once again on earth The Christ-chil- d hath been born. Marion L. Adam. Pla Crusts. Selden, the antiquary, tells us that Christmas pies were formerly baked crust to represent In a the cratch or manger In which our Saviour was laid. collin-shape- TO WORbHIP Baboushka stood in her doorway When the Three Wise Men passed by, We go to worahip the King, they said, We have aeen Hia Star in the aky. A PE88IMI8T Coffin-Shape- uo d d Men of all the value of The cultivation in the faee of ages have appreciated a cheerful disposition. of cheerfulness, even misfortune and disas ter, unquosl ion ably helps to prevent illness. LvruTgus decreed Ihnt a statue of the God of Min to ho set upin the hulls where the Hpnrtunq rCe. exrequires much more skill and see that I its in framing. perience your preamble, as you rocite it, Is admirably adapted from that of our own constitution.' deliberative The senate is the with treaty.making body, speaking the voice of public opinion so far as at all in a treaty, and there must bo complete publicity, that speaks be extremely carefui with open and free debate. We must must, therefore, of use the in general language, bewipe out all secrecy in treaty mak. never forget, a treaty must cause you ing of this nature and in Hague of the govbinds department every conferences, and all naguo delegates counter to runs if it must be at liberty to debate freely ernment, and, in con as represented in both conference and committee public opinion, means an that a as whole, gress work. It is folv to argue otherwise. of treaty obligations, I am glad to tell you that 1 ultimate asbreach international crime, an shall be able to arrange it so that which, the forfeit would respect of civilized a Hague Peace conference will be We become, like Germight society. called about 1915, and every seven less an international of or more or eight years thereafter, with full many, not do. will That outlaw. control of its own organization and Mr. Evarts and you must have procedure. We must have these consome interesting had talks, and 1 ferences at any cost, to maintain a note cf made am that you glad peace and develop international law. Ho so them aud recall them fully. I shall, have a hard time such in as was he was, always right, Perthe Germans, but what of itf matters. haps the world will leave them out. We Americans scan do nothing America will call the conferences, She is not in our if an actual call is necessary. Secre- with Germany. morals or civilization. in class either tary Roots wonderful instructions to the American delegates to this Perhaps she is still an intellectual conference make all this possible. animal, spleudidly trained and overThat International law can grow only trained, but still an animal. conconstant means. such all kultur' is periodical really through m The reign of peace fcrencofi. We ought to make arrangement follow, for it always comes with a ,vith England and Franco to maintain world peace. In fact, 1 do not bereign of law, I have seen enough at this con- hove any treaty with them is neces- ference alrondy to make it clear that aary, although, on account of our wo must never depart from the ad- mixed population, mueh of it not at Mr. all Americanized, vice in tho farewell address. it would be better F.varts was right. Wo must keep out to havo one. Treaty or no treaty, America, England and France will always help one another,- - in a pinch, to save civilization. World Peace as Seen By Ewarts and Choate (Continued lions without enlarg. outlying ing tho vote. Ail conferences and work leading np to and following aueh a treaty should bo open and public, with free debate. Europe has bedevilled us long enough with autocratic and diplomacy and aeoret procedures. Lets have dooe with it. from Previous rage.) industrial growtl'vrrf(f oits demands for cheap labor have bonded us to what was going on. As to such objectionable entanglements, as I have said, nshington was right. Europe need .lot woiry We shall' always help her and the world and do our full international duty, and so satisfy all the dictates of the Anglo-Saxos moral nature, Would Avoid Details. while at tho same time we preserve "We should make a treaty of our own household from trespass n id general terms like those of our own tsruptiou. constitution and not a contract of Your treaty as an American idea, many details. Leave leeway for prac- is right. America must lead m all tical interpretation and regulation peace moves and must take tho bui. tour drafts dim of calling the nations aid for future growth. together Do not bother about to formulate Buch a does all that. Theie treaty. except must also bo uu oad to all secrecy, any international questions Every- both at sueu an international the settlement of disputes. gather itself. care of will take else thing mg aud in all of the woild's Jtutuic While human uature is what it diplomacy. That will be a cure all lor is there will always he brawls among tho usual international ills of hunations as well as among boys ou manity. street corners. The police take cure You will, thereJoie, have to buir of most of such matters and the i.t mind that no such intei nut nuial lour skotoh courts see to the rest. arrnngomont for peace will be pos of a treaty provides lor an oilcclivo sible nowadays without a full exprespohee force to keep doe a uitciuu sion of the public opinion of tho tionui corner hghts and uaiotco the world as we and the English undercourt's orders, that is uocossaiy and stand it. Unloss the treaty expresses right. The world in our day cannot that public opinion it will fall mis. ami uUiu have peace in any in), xAuglo-Sameans That that erably. i hope such a Uealy muy bo sigtttu oa procedure must bo followed. Tho OUC of those days, iiuiu ate many must be worked out in an treaty able men, bum in and out of the or congress of naopen parliament senate, still yeuug cuuugu to pu.-with freedom of deabsolute tions, the matter. bate. is made & purely dip it If One manor, i hope, will nevu lomatic performance, with the usual be forgotten, and that niuus to secret bargaining, it will bo stillbetween the fundamedtal dillucucc born and a total failure. I am clear our system of law aud government on that point, and that of Central Euiope. it alfecta However I may have felt hereto- the whole temper of tUo drUeieut fore about some of these matters, races and makes most of our Eu my present conclusions are fixed and repean immigration absolutely unrated onfirmed, and I do not want to do-- ' for American citizenship, it threatens bate the subjects my mind any our welfare, for theso immigrants further. Let us wish good luck to law of and order have no conception th(J who)e lou are voun- project and the function of public opinion able 0nough wjtllC8a as we understand them. in the direction. progress right We must not only koep out of EuMr. Choate said: ropes jealous territorial fights and Choates Striking Words. general entanglements, but we must from Before I forget it (you say Mr. keep those entanglements away ourselves, and to that end must stop Evarts spoke of these matters), x the growth among us of hostile Euro- want to toll you that I am red hot America must pean ideas of law and government on two pointa-t- hat call these conferences, if they are by shutting out certain of these of immigrants. Our t sailed automatically, and that - ee-cr- n a h terms of the treaty you have out- liued, all that is needed for a genoral peco treaty or international 1 have long had in lH'aC0 ,,und Bucl1 a straightforward, simple llan- - You 1,0 1101 "ailt mm'b detail b,lt glnoral torms alll! broad general Powt'rs that wiu adaPt themselves to changing conditions, like tho terms constitution. of our owa federal lf ,ubUo PinUm "U1 ,,ot Bun'ort la 8 8iVeu C880 umlor 8 ,lbornl i actl0U construction of general torms, it not uphold the most carefully framer allJ detailed treaty ever put together. i ad a matter of public opinion. "hon J'ou c(,m0 tho enforcement of treaties, constitutions and laws, uador our American and English sys-nterns. Of courso such a general treaty - , , j li rid of it and check the menace of German military despotism. Certainly we must stand by France. Time Ripe for a Treaty. we found young us realized Germans pouring north through southern Italy in the last week of .Tilly of that year. n get Blocked by Germany. for At The Hague at first Mr. Cheats such a treaty as you have talked had tried to induce Baron v on Richer, on basis a about, putting everything stien, Germany's first delegate, to of law and judicial adjustment, agree to the call of a third conference but it cannot be brought about until on June 15, 1914. This was regarded wired something happens to change or ex- as too definite. The Baron apparently, then communicatclude Germany and the 'Germans. Berlin, ed more deliberately and finally reAs I have said, the world can shut did not want fused, saying Germany them out. it and would not have it before The Prussians are the worlds 1914, and suggested, as a change, not earlier than. 1914.- Great barbarians, utterly lacking in any Britian proposed not later than of foi or understanding capacity 1914. Germany would not agree, nor Periodically, would she accept spiritual development. be-- i about 1914, too definite. At last all century after century, they destroy cause at a period the worlds barriers of civilization agreed on a clause or analogous to that which had elapsed outbreak and culture with an since the last conference. primitive savagery. They have no It thus appears' that Germany hail recognized standards for moral con, fixed ideas and felt great tenderness duct or even for fairness in sports. about 1914 even as far back as 1907. See The Two Hague Conferences, All these views Mr, Choate repeat Choate P aIso ?3edly confirmed in many talks between j Dr. MTr Brown Scotts books o.i 190 and 1917. In the spring of 1917 The Hague Conference, and partieu-li- e said to me: Sur- larly his comparatively recent I am determined to do all I can vey of International Relations Between States and Germany, 1914- to bring together the third Haguo couierence as soon as possible altci It is deeidely interesting to recall wo have ioiced the Germans to ai that in his Princeton lectures in 1912 That is going to bo tny Mr. Choate spoke of The Hague as armistice. the happy choice made by the nafinal task, and then I am through. of the place for holding the tions, Tho conference was due m 1915, ami and that in his very conferences, tho president is bound to call it last words in those lectur.es, in reThat is ferring to the fact that .wiililtefeCh forthwith but he wont. clear. We shall huve to wait. A pu the eve of preparing f Jr a third con. ferencc at The Hague, and were punitory committee could have got to celebrating a century of with work and the conference might meet other nations, he declared peace we that in 1919 and 1929. Now, perhaps, it may join with them in wishing a c.tunot meet bctoie 1921, if we have hearty Godspeed to that conference and to all its successors forever, ' got to wait for a new president. Wo (The Two Hague Commences, by will sec. Of course we shall foice an Mr. Choate, pages, 87 92), not to this armistice in tho meantime.' hybrid thing put out at Paris ns a stbl' tbe diplomatic bargaining What is this talk I hear occasion- 8 ar ords, but a Godspeed a or about ally possible league society We have got that at to the ddlbpr'ite work of the World Germany certainly, at tho present of nations! congress at The Hague, as the recogtune will not join in such a treaty The Hague already. That is all we nized peace headquarters of all huis the only way to get and that need, to secure general peace, and must manity. We lick the shall, first, peaco. And so it all eomes to this-- that bo shut out, if need be. Bhe has Germans. Then, I hope, we shall not The shown her character, or rather . her muss things up in any German peace lishedHague is the place firmly estabby international usage whore discussion of world the nationB lack of character, in her backing anil by djnggi-igm'of the ,vor'ld must quickly is Tho That and the Hague meet on the call of an American filling on tho general arbitration pro pduce. thitil conference. Such a world peace pos, hon and other questions at this ap, be baSed up03 international law second Ilaguo conference. preparalory j!aml international justice, administered worit now unnocPHin-Arbitratioand peace do not fall by an established court, and the only revise a:ld the so allied expand in with her views at alL 8ho is a llace to develop that law further and j lfflgue of nations covenant and to ' t0 our Amorl fr.m6 a cxPand 8ad treaty for the tough one. I havo not had so mueto CRn ldea of aB Wtuate international court n nation 0f proper all wars and for the to fun in an ago as I have had In at The Hague, established , inter-by lishment aud perpetuation of ueace and the antics as national the squirming watching usage, glonous neutral1 0:1 oarth and of good wilt amone of Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, point for such work. The International aj) the nations thereof. What President Wilson has ignored their first delegate and all tho other Palace of PeaceW at The Hague is e must dedicate it as America s ready for us. duty that behalf Presi matter for that while Germans, they by the next conference, which 1 dent Harding will faithfully adopt Berlin wired and danced wo think can Americans make a gen and follow. As soon as he has taken constantly attendance on its varying mandates. uiue open world parliament or coa the measure of the interaaOwfia situation he will, as he has clearly In these late days life has become gross. Mr. Choate had no thought that ' indicated, push to & speedy and guc-h- e too precious aud too serious for that himsalf would live to see the be- - cessful conclusion and adjustment sort of purely selfish trifling with ginning of the end he sought. The j the arrangements for a complete We must year 1914 wu magical, as many of peace. great world peace policies. The times are about ripe - 1 j a ' ; Sloe n , X |