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EDITORIAL
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FTVTTVTVTO ITTTI tttt
"OLD: GLORY"
"America For Americans"
HOW ABOUT tllli TOWN?
Every merchant should be a good
rtizen—interested in bettering the
town lu which he gains a living.
■Herg are some questions he should
*sk himself aud his townsmen:
Who knows our town in- on the
map?
Who cares other than our home
reiki?
What Joes our town mean, indus
trially to America?
Anything?
What is its rank in the American
deve'opmeut game?
The oli town caunot right her
b»ules without you and me to
booit. We can boost, at least, if
we do cot build.
No town is better ;ha>n her men.
Xc town ever went ahead without
men to push her ahead.
A lazv farmer allows his crous
to run to weeds.
▲ lazy townsmen allows his town
to rua to weeds—literally and fig
uratively .
Weeds and crops do not thrive
well togetner. Weeds and town
development do not know each other
Let's cut down the weeds.
Let's cultivate the ground.
There is a reason for our town
being oa the map, or it would not
b# there.
Let us study our town a little.
We will discover our advantages,
tell o'tere; let's pass the informa
t«l ofh»re; lett's pass the informa.
tlcu ar«und; send it abroad.
Our private business is important,
and must not be neglected, but
our general business interests are
Inseparably associated with the wel
fare of the town.
If th» town prospers we will have
a better chance to prosper.
Whet are you, and what am 1
willing to do to make our town
more prominent on this map?
CONFLICTING DEMANDS
Grea' Britain, France, Italy and
oar ow» army have all been pre
seatfng without regulation or re
rerve their maximum claims upon
our young and overstrained organ
of war production. We have lis
tened, la our eagerness to do every
thing at once, first to one and then
*o another, We have not been able
to satisfy any. The decisions have
been reached in detail by subordin
ate officials, and for fluctuating
readout, rather than as a whole
br a central strtaegic authority
whos« tusiness is to plan effective
warfars against the central powers.
The German general staff has but
to watch our clumsy attempt at
satisfying the conflicting maximum
demands of all the allies, to pick
cut the weak place and the fa
vors bl« moment, and then to strike
•atfdenlt and successfully. That
Is what the German general staff
b*3 beeu doing ever since the be
fclanlng of the war, and that is
wha\ I; will contiuue to do.— J£x. 1
"A Little Child Shall
Lead Them"
HRISTM.VS Is the apotheosis of
eufeeblement. It Is the exaltation
of childhood. It Is the glory of
the little child.
We celebrate this festival ill hleak
December, the uucrowued mouth in our
uortheru zone, lighting its dull skies by
the eternal tires of love in human hearts.
There is not in all this land a home
where the rain beat* through the roof,
where the mother and father gather the
children more closely to shelter them,
but the Christmas truth Is shining,
"Blessed are the poor."
There Is not a homeless boy who In
the December night creeps out of the
snow into an empty dry goods box in
the alley, .uot a little fellow up under
the rafters of the poorhouse on the
county farm, not a foundling left In a
basket at the rich man's door, not a
I shivering, tiny girl unfitted for a tight
with the storm, but the new truth of the
Christmas spreads its wings over them.
"Wheu I am weak, theu am I strong."
Who is weak? Who Is infirm ujion his
feet and walks with a enst.-h? Who Is
afraid of then»i t'aenst wind? Who says:
"I am better: yes, I think I am getting
better. But somehow I do not get my
, vigor back?" Who leans up against the
bale of goods on the half hidden coun
ter and knows that she- came back to
work too soon? Who was born blind?
Who hears the unfeeling call for an
iron will aud has it not, for a tireless
energy and confesses that he lacks It,
though he prays to heaven fo» this
foree that others have?
To all of you the Christmas has Its
meaning. There never was a conqueror
like the child in the cradle. God hath
chosen the weak things to confound the
mighty. For years the history of
the world's civilization has been the
story of the gentler virtues, the poem,
the song and the triumph of suffering
well. The race is not to the swift nor
the battle to the strong. Every letter
of that senteiice is eternally true.
The grandest things that were ever
done on earth were done by men and
women who had the spirit of the child.
The sublimest work of the Creator is
the sweet faced little child. It is
everything for the child, heaven please
—ail harvests, ail gold, all schools, all
trade, all government, all the coming
better times. Christmas means, "And a
tittle child shall lead them."—Emory
J. Hayne in New York World.
Few Chri3tmas Toys Then.
Throughout the colonies lu the sev
enteenth and eighteenth centuries toys
were an almost unknown factor, but
wherever Christmas observances were
not frowned upon liy religion feasting
and good cheer were abundant, and
rich and po<>r. old and young, shared
in the games, abundant f«>od and gen
ial atmosphere, lu the eighteenth cen
tury toys l>egu:i to make their appear
ance in the colouies. Some of them
were brought from overseas and had
the enchanting quality of novelty. Lit
tle girls who had helped to mother
their younger brothers and sisters were
delighted with dolls flint were all their
own, to fondle and coddle. A toy was
a thing to be cherished in those days.
—Churchman.
Christmas on Christmas Island.
They never have any "white" Chrtst
mases on Christmas island. The ther
mometer never falls below 70 and nev
er rises above 90 in the shade.
Christians island lies about 250 miles
southeast »f the western extremity of
Java. It is In the Indian ocean and
belongs to Great Britain, having been
annexed in !SSi>. This interesting lit
tle bit of land in mldsea appears to
have been originally a coral reef,.which
by volcanic forces has been raised so
high that at its highest point it sticks
out of the water l.UOO feet. In shape
it is an irregular quadrilateral. It has
an area <• I at"^t ;nty square miles.
KSHMA'nxo THE LOOT
There is considerable significance
in one. of the minor statements in
Chancellor von Hwtling's Reichstag
tjoeech since it reveals that the
Gtrmar.a have not been always ac
tuated by a wanton spirit of van
I dalism in dealing with property of
an Invaded section. There lias
been much vandalism, as the wreck
.of cathiedals and the great Louvain
University proves. But there has
also been a mercenary pplrit. Re
ferring to the italiau situation the
chancellor said, "it has not yet
been possible to collect all the
booty, calculated in money values
at thousands of millions of' marks,
whlcu has fallen into our hands."
Little attention to this part of
the German program has been paid
by the outside 'world. But the
Germans do not fail to calculate the
loci. Andre Cheradame, who vain
ly tried 'o arouse the Vorld by his
book, "The Pan-German Plot Un
masked," a book giving every rami
fication cf the scheme that has since
been revealed by acts which at last
convinced a long-unbelieving jvorld,
has made some estimates pf Ger
many's war loot. In. the November
Atlantic he pointed out some of
th« gains. War profits are being
wruuc from 500,000 square kilomet
ers of invaded territory; the la
lor o' a population of 4 2,000,000
is btin.i used for German benefit;
billions of francs' worth of war ma
terial, including the Belgian Rail
way system, worth 3,000,000,000
francs, .fcas been seized; foodstuffs,
crona, domestic animals, coal, iron
ore, copper, petroleum and tex
tile fabrics have been confiscated
to the value of billions of francs,
555,000,000 francs' worth of wool
alore being stolen from the cities
in Northern France; every class
of finished product and industrial
machinerv in the richest industrial
districts of the world has been re
moved t' Germany, and every class
of peisonai property, t-^ecie, jew
els and securities and many public
ly owned works of art of incalcul
able value have been stolen, fliis
is in addition to heavy levies of
tribute on captured cities anil ob
ligatory loans. M. Cheradame es
'imated the total war plunder in
excess of 10.000,000,000 francs,
pricr to the drive into Italy, over
which Von llertling is so enthusias
tic. No wonder Germany is averse
to reslitution. — St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
C OOI) STVFF, KID!
Tnere isn't much poetry in the
following, but it 5vas written b.v
ten-ygar-oold orphan in the Cincin
nati Orphan Asylum wfio wanted to
say that even the orphans are do
ing their bit:
Eleven little orphans, who love to
romp and play,
Knitted and knitted, and it took
many a long day.
Eleven little kids now too young to
slay,
Buf they knitted eleven pair of
stockings
Fo/ our American soldiers who are
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