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THE MOUNTAIN VIEW TIMES
WORLD NEWS
SEVEN DAYS A
GLANCE
PEACE NOTES.
The Gorman note In reply to tho
Entente, delivered to Paul Dutasta,
secretary of the Peace Conference,
says, among other things, that
the German government is unable 10
effect such reparation in the manner
demanded by the protocol of Novem-
ber 1, because the execution of the
demands formulated in that protocol
would compromise irretrievably Ger-
many’s economic life and also render
Impossible of execution the other enor-
mous obligations which the treaty Im-
poses on Germany.
+ + +
Three hundred tons of bread grain
shipments have been collected in re-
sponse to an appeal of the Swedish
Red Cross to the farmers of Swedou
to relieve conditions at Vienna.
+ + +
President Wilson has intervened in
the Peace Treaty dilemma with an an-
nouncement that he had "no compro-
mise or concession of any kind in
mind," would make no move toward
the treaty’s disposition, and would
continue to hold the Republican mem-
bers of the senate responsible for re-
sults and conditions attending the de-
lay.
+ + +
The answer of the German govern-
ment to the latest Allied note has
reached the German delegation in Par-
is. Because of decoding and trans-
lating the document it was not pre-
sented to General Secretary Paul Du-
tasta of the Peace Conference until
later.
^ 4 4
It has been learned from a French
source that the disposition displayed
by the British representatives in the
conferences in London is considered
“excellent’’ and that both sides are
pleased with the progress of negotia-
tions on various matters discussed.
These included the Adriatic situation
and the Russian problem.
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Germany’s reply to the last notes
from the supreme council of the Peace
Conference has ben sent to Ver-
sailles, it is announced in Berlin. Noth-
ing relative to its contents has been
given out, except a hint that it re-
ciprocates the conciliatory tone of the
last entente communication.
4 4 4
Andrew Bonar Law, the government
leader, answering several questions in
the house of commons, hinted that the
Adriatic trouble was a subject of dis-
cussion between Premier Clemenceau
of France. Foreign Minister Scialoia
of Italy and Premier Lloyd George as
was also the Russian situation and
Turkey.
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Appointment of a commission to in-
vestigate the advisability of bringing
home from France the bodies of Amer-
ican dead was proposed in a joint reso-
lution recently introduced by Senator
Frelinghuysen, Republican of New Jer-
sey.
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WASHINGTON.
The American embassy at Mexico
City was directed the other day bv
the state department to make repre-
sentations to the Mexican government
regarding the kidnapping of Fred G.
Hugo, the American manager of the
Dobie ranch near Muzquiz, by Villis-
tas.
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The long drawn out debate on the
Cummins railroad bill was interrupted
by a demand, put in the form of a
resolution, that the senate investigate
reports that vast sums of money had
been raised to help put the measure
through congress.
I More than thirty persons were In
Jured, several of them badly, eurly
| the other day, when a street car
] loaded with workmen hound for tho
\ Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
1 shops at Havelock, near Beatrice,
■ Neb., overturned.
+ + +
James W. Gerard, of New York,
former ambassador to Germany, hns
signed a minority nomination petition
as a candidate for President of the
| United States at the South Dakota
primaries in March, it was announced
at Pierre.
4 4 4-
Congress has been warned thnt If
the railroads were turned back to
their owners without enactment mean-
while of legislation for protection of
the properties, two-lhirds of the road3
would be in the hands of the receivers
within thirty days.
4 4 4
Industrial courts to settle Industrial
labor disputes must be provided by
the government. Senator Kenyon
of Iowa declared In an address before
the Lawyer’s club at New York.
Strikes are no longer private fights
between employer and employe, he
said.
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The United Fruit Company announc-
ed recently that its West Indian, Cen-
tral and South American passenger
service interrupted for five years by
the government’s war requisition of
its steamers, will bo resumed early
next nlonth.
4 4 4
Rather than be separated from Alex-
ander Berkman, her companion of
years, Emma Goldman announced
through her attorneys that she had
abandoned her legal fight in the su-
preme court to prevent her deporta-
tion to soviet Russia: with Berkman
and some eighty other radicals.
4 4 4
A record for the production of but-
ter Is believed to have been register-
ed by the yearling Lulu Alphea
of Ashburn, which produced 13,669
pounds of milk, from which 1,000
pounds of butter was made in the year
ending November 1.
SOUTHWEST.
Gas fumes escaping from the bap-
tistry in the Trinity Baptist church
at Oklahoma City, rendered uncon-
scious nino women and children and
very nearly overcame the entire con-
gregation. The Rev. J. L. H. Hawkins,
pastor of the church, was partly over-
come.
4 4 4
A. W. McWilliams, county coro-
ner, blames a family cat for the death
of the 4-montli-old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Wilford at Oklahoma City.
The father returned home from work
at 7 o’clock and found the baby dead
at its mother's side.
4 4 4
The end of the 3trike in the Kan-
sas coal fields came when Alexander
Howat, president of the United Mine
Workers of America for District 14;
Thomas Harvey, secretary and treas-
urer, and John Callery, attorney, en-
tered into an agreement in Governor
Allen’s room at the Stilwell Hotel
with the governor, Ben S. Gaitskill
and C. D. Sample, receivers for tho
supreme court, for the resumption of
mine work in the state at once.
4 4" 4
J. C. Krauth, president of the Sha-
ron State Bank, and an unknown man,
thougnt to be a Wichita Falls, Tex.,
oil man, lost their lives in a fire which
destroyed the Reece hotel at Sharon,
Okla\, recently. The fire is thought to
have started from an oil stove.
♦ ♦ ♦
FOREIGN.
A Hungarian terrorist, Schon, who
had been in refuge at Vienna, was kid-
napped by two Hurtgariau detectives,
who hurried him across the frontier in
a motor car and took him to Budapest,
where he now is in Jail. Schon was
a prominent figure in the last revo-
lution.
SUPREME COURT REFUSES
PERMISSION FOR A FARE-
WELL JAG
NEW YORK-KENTUCKV CASES
Both Decided In Favor of the People
and Wartime Prohibition Is Held
To Still Be In Force And
Legal.
Washington.—Wartime prohibition
was held constitutional by the su-
preme court in a unanimous decision.
Thus vanished the hopes of many for
a wet holiday time.
No decision was rendered on the
cases involving the constitutionality
of the Volstead law, the prohibition
enforcement act framed to carry out
the intent of the prohibition amend-
ment to the constitution.
In passing, however, Associate Jus-
tice Brandeis did hold that the pro-
hibition act was binding on the states
as well as the federal government.
The court entirely reversed the con-
tention of the wets that the wartime
prohibition was outside the war time
powers of congress and pointed out
that wartime control of food and rail-
roads still were in effect.
Federal court decrees in New York
dismissing proceedings brought by
Dryfuss, Blum and Company, to com-
pel internal revenue oflicials to per-
mit tho withdrawal from bond of
whisky for beverage purposes, were
affirmed by the court.
Kentucky Ban Dissolved.
In deciding the question the su-
preme court also dissolved injunctions
restraining revenue officials from in-
terfering with the removal from bond
of about seven million gallons of
whiskey valued at approximately $75,-
000,000, held by the Kentucky Dis-
tilleries and Warehouse Company of
Louisville, Ky.
The signing of the armistice did
not abrogate the war powers of con-
gress, Associate Justice Brandeis said
in reading the decision of the court.
Justice Brandeis said the government
did not appropriate the liquor by stop-
ping its domestic sale, as the way was
left open for exporting it.
New York Case Affirmed.
The decision in the case was made
in supreme court docket 602, affirm-
ing a lower court decision in the case
known as “Alphonse Dryfuss, Eugene
Blum, Eugene Basche of New York,
versus William H. Edwards, collect-
or of internal revenue.” The case in-
volved the right of Dryfuss to with-
draw distilled spirits from bonded
warehouses for beverage purposes.
They attempted to withdraw fifty
barrels of whiskey by offering cash
which was refused by the internal rev-
enue collector. Tire withdrawal wa3
not permitted.
Present Validity of Act Attacked.
The case was brought in the dis-
trict court in New York to declare
unconstitutional the war prohibition
act, and to enjoin the United States
from acting under the authority of the
act. The district court denied the
motion tor a preliminary injunction.
The argument of attorneys for the
owners of the liquor advanced the
theory that the war prohibition act
has been wholly shorn of its consti-
tutionality by the indisputable change
in conditions and circumstances since
the time of its enactment. No ques-
tion was raised as to the validity of
the war prohibition act in its incep-
tion, but as to its present constitu-
tionality.
4 4 4
Regional directors of railroads have
been given authority by Director Gen-
eral Hines to remove restriction on
the use of light, heat and power de-
rived from coal, as soon as the fuel
situation warrants. The regional di-
rectors also were authorized to restore
train service.
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By unanimous decision the constitu-
tionality of the war-time prohibition
act has been sustained by the supreme i
court. The opinion given by Associate
Justice Brandeis held in effect, how- j
ever, that tho war invoked “dry” per-
iod still may be terminated by presi-
dential proclamation of demobiliza-
tion.
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DOMESTIC.
The plant of the Menace Publishing
company at Auroro, Mo., publishers
of the Menace, an anti-Catholic paper
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
Is estimated at $125,000, with insur-
ance of $65,000. The fire started in
the basement and is believed to have
been caused by live coals falling from
the furnace door.
4 4 4
Secretary Wilson has declined to
transmit to the house immigration
committee the report of A. W. Parker,
formerly of the immigration service,
regarding the administration of Fred
eric C. Howe as immigration commis
sioner at New York.
4* *1* *i*
The resignation of Dr. Harry A \
Garfield, national fuel administrator,
In in the hands of President Wilson, i
given because he disagrees in principle
with the coal strike settlement pro-
posal arranged by the government and j
the mine workers’ union. i
4 4 4
An order In council has been passed
In Canada giving power to R. H. Prin-
gle, controller of newsprint, to prohib-
it the export of paper by any company
which refuses to comply with his leg
ulatlons. The order Is the result of
the intimation by a number of paper
companies that they would decline to
be guided by the newsprint control-
ler’s price-fixing and distribution on
ders.
4 4 4
The communications sent by M. Lit-
vinoff, the Russian soviet representa-
tive, to the American, British, French
and Italian ministers at Copenhagent
have been returned to Lltvinoff. The
ministers hold that to take official
cognizance of the communications
would bo a breach of faith with Den
mark.
+ + +
The airplane of Captain Cedric
Ernest Howell, one of the British air-
men in the London-Melbourne flight,
was wrecked off St. George’s Bay. is
land of Corfu, December 10 and there
is no hope that either Howell or his
mechanician escaped, according to a
dispatch to Lloyds from Corfu.
4 4- 4-
President Ebert received recently
the members of the Methodist com-
mission on war emergency and recon-
struction in Europe, who are traveling
through Central Europe to extend the
church’s already Important charity
work.
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Besides 114 million Armenians mas-
sacred during tho war, the numbers
of this people are being still further
reduced by demobilized Turkish
troops, who are killing them and rob-
bing them of what is left of their pos
sessions
The Kentucky decision whicn was
overruled was that of Edward Elwood
Hamilton, collector of internal reven-
ue for the collection district of Ken-
tucky, versus Kentucky Distillers am.
Warehouse Company, Levy Mayer,
William Marshall Bulleit.
The decision added one of the final
milestones to the long fight to make
the country dry.
Beer Decisions Nejft Monday.
The court will render opinions
again next Monday, at which time the
beer cases are expected to be decided,
after which the court will recess un-
til January 5.
The prohibition constitutional
amendment will become effective Jan-
uary 16.
On the court's decision on the pro-
hibition enforcement law will depend
whether the federal government has
at hand any legal means for making
the amendment effective. The consti-
tutionality of war time prohibition,
however, the drys are confident, will
keep the country dry until the amend-
ment is carried into effect by law of
its own.
Kentucky Is Hardest Hit.
Louisville. — Kentucky distillers
and more than 300 Louisville former
saloon keepers were jolted by the de-
cision of the supreme court, holding
war-time prohibition constitutional.
The distillers had 39.000.000 gallons of
whisky in Kentucky' bonded ware-
houses. 9,500.000 gallons of it in Louis-
ville alone, ordinarily worth at whole-
sale $400,000,000.
The former saloon keepers, after
setting the stage for a wet period,
continued the sale of soft drinks,
Christmas the
Glad Day for
All the World
■T^ VERY country and every people
B-i have their own special holi-
JL/ days both nntlonal and reli-
gious, but Christinas is a day
'or nil countries and all people. It is
die w orld’s holiday.
It Is a day of gladness, ns It should
be, for It commemorates the birth of
him who brought to the world the
greatest gladness It hns ever known or
will ever know, though It were to last
for countless aeons to come.
So universal Is the application of
the celebration of Christmas that all
men are Included In It, whether they
be of high or lowly station, ri<*h or
poor In the goods of the world.
It Is a time for kindly deeds, for
charity, for gifts and all that goes to
make life gentler and sweeter. The
hardest heart can scarcely escape Its
softening Influence, the most sordid
miser must struggle to resist Its
promptings to generosity.
At first the day was a day observed
by professed Christians only; now it
Is observed by both those who profess
themselves Christians and those who
make no such professions. Its warmth
envelops all.
This being true—and no one will dis-
pute it—the meaning of Christmas
grows ever clearer to us. Its meaning
Is beyond all that we have already said
of It. Christmas means that, ultimate-
ly, the whole world will become one
vast brotherhood.
And It Is entirely logical thnt this
should be the real meaning of Christ-
mas, because that was the reason Christ
came upon the earth whose birth Is
celebrated by Christmas. It was to
make all men brothers thnt he lived
and taught and toiled; It was to ac-
complish this that he gave himself up
voluntarily to a cruel death on the
cross.
It Is a wonderful thing that he was
bom in a stable, thnt he was son of a
carpenter, that he never had a dollar
to his name, that he had no home
after he left Nazareth, that he was a
wanderer on the face of the earth with
no place whereon to lay his head, and
that now, 2,000 years after his death,
his power Is over the world as the
power of the Roman empire never
was.
It Is a marvelous thing about Christ
that as the years and centuries In-
crease since his death, the more real
he becomes In the thoughts of men
and the better he Is understood.
There have been attempts to prove
that he was a myth. But there never
was an attempt at anything that failed
so dismally. There have been at-
tempts to dispute the miracles he per-
formed, but these attempts have also
failed.
There Is no question now in the
mind of any historian worthy of the
name that Christ performed all the
miracles that are related of him in the
Gospels. He undoubtedly healed the
sick—the leprous, the palsied and the
others. He turned the water into wine;
he fed the multitude on a few loaves
and fishes. He raised the dead.
Men may differ, as indeed they do,
as to whether or not Christ was the
divine son of God, but even those who
in the face of every proof reject this
claim still regard him as the purest,
the noblest and the greatest man that
ever walked this earth. Every man
does not worship him as God, but no
man defames him. He Is the vision
and the hope of all men.
When, In mockery, they crowned
him king with the cruel thorns, little
they thought that he would rule a
world at last—a world in which all
races vie with one another to render
him their homage.
Now comes again In the swing of
the years another Christmas day. May
it be a glad and a merry one for all
i our readers.
Peace
by Ctcile Joyce Keenan
At Bethlehem, the Star shines bright
above the Stable door;
By every road the Wise Men come
who never came before;
The kings, with all their Caravan,
keep watch upon the hill,
While Jesus sleeps on Mary’s breast
—and ail the guns are stilll
The plunder of the world is heaped
about that manger-bed,
Behold! the gifts the TFtsa Men
brought are stained an awful
red.
Poor Mary’s face is white and
drawn, and Joseph’s grim and
set—
For older hearts, tho’ slow to learn,
are slower to forget l
But lo, the Star at Bethlehem above
the Stable door
Shines with a glory in its light that
never shone before!
The haggard hosts of shattered men
out on the battle plain
Have caught the slogan of the skies,
and fling it back again.
“Peace—Peace on Earth f” with
shaken hearts, across the world
they come,
No panoply of war is theirs, no flag,
no rolling drum;
But all are cloaked in spotless
white—the garment of His
love—
And “Peace” their bursting throats
now sing, and “Peace” the
choirs above!
At Bethlehem the Star shines bright
above the Stable door,
By every road the TFtss Men come
who never came before;
The Kings, with all their Caravan,
keep watch upon the hill,
While Jesus sleeps on Mary’s
breast—and all the guns are
8tilll
A Christmas Surprise
nE woman with
brown eyes waa
gnzlng medita-
tively out of the
window at the
people hurrying
through the falL
lng snow with
their Christmas
bundles.
“You are
thinking?" her
husband suggest-
ed.
"About Christ-
mas, that’s all."
“We have left undone the things thut
we—”
“Not this time, my dear. Merely
about everybody In the world.”
“No one could call you narrow
minded 1"
“People have the right spirit about
It,” she explained. “They are so full
of good will toward men that they try
to do too much—that's the trouble l
You see, most of us and our good In-
tentions are hampered by average sal-
aries and moderate strength.”
“I’ve noticed It.”
“We want to give to everybody. W©
want our homes superscrupulously tidy.
We plan festivities which require new
party clothes for the whole family,
extra special cooking and preparation
for guests. '
“Then we set about doing these
things. At first It goes well and we
enthuse. The common, everyday affairs
Interfere and complicate matters.
“At the beginning of Christmas week
—with many frills deleted—we find
onrselves growing tired, awfully tired.
But we see that It’s impossible then to
stop and rest. That’s where the strain
begins. We feel compelled to finish
what we’ve started and to carry the-
program through to the last Item of
buying, making, packing and shipping.
“Unexpected demands Interrupt.
Then the strain begins to tell on our
nerves. Perhaps we don’t say anything
for fear of spoiling Christmas for the
others, but In our hearts we wish man-
kind had kept Christmas free from this
sort of thing.
“When Christmas day comes we are
too weary to bother about the true
meaning of it all or to take very keen
Gazing Meditatively Out of the Window,
pleasure In the results of our back-
breaking work, much less to go out and
hear beautiful music and uplifting ser-
mons.”
‘Tve always wondered why women
Attempt so much.”
“Because everybody does. And If
one poor, lone, sensible woman sits
down and flstly refuses to kill herself
working for Christmas, her family and
friends will think she is a quitter^-©
social slacker,"
“Well,” suggested her husband, “why
not let the rich people have all the
fuss and feathers, and let those In
medium circumstances realize they
can’t keep up that pace?”
“You don’t understand," said the
woman with the brown eyes; “as long
as rich folks do It, those less able will
strain to do likewise. That’s why the
wealthy people will have to see the
trend and institute a change.
“In place of so many mere ‘presents’
we must give such things as love, cour-
age, kindness and generous impulses—
things which our present physical and
mental strain forbids. Throughout the
rest of the year, If any one felt In-
clined to send a regular gift to a
friend or relative, that could be done
very easily and the recipient would
know It was a voluntary, not a com-
pulsory, remembrance."
“It’s a great Idea," said the brown-
eyed woman’s husband, cheerfully. “A
bit of real affection in place of some
of the monstrosities now exchanged
would be a great improvement.”
“You can make fun if you want to,"
she replied, "but when the world
wakes up to the real meaning of Christ-
mas—and the war I believe has helped
to wake It np—you’ll see the effect
spread over the entire year. Then
the first of January won’t be asso-
ciated with bills and pills, but with
the genuine eagerness to live the next
12 months better than those preced-
ing”
“In the meantime,” sighed her hus-
band dramatically, “I hope you haven’t
bought me another smoking jacket”
“That reminds me 1” said the woman
■with the brown eyes. “I haven't time
to be sitting here talking. And it won't
be any of your affair until tomorrow
morning, anyway." sr- Chicago Dally
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