The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1918, Page 4

4 8 PEACE AND PROSPERTY ARE AMERICA'S CHRISTMAS GIFTS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a a a ree Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : : - 5 i 6. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winfer St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bidg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Asociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVA Daily by carrier per year .....- Daily by mail per year (In Bisma: Daily by mail per year (In State outs Daily by mail outside of North Dakota. THD STATE’S OLDEST NEV (Established 1873) Gedo Baditor PEACE CHRISTMAS! NOW LIKE THAT FIRST CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA! Peace Christmas! Two happy words! So like the First Christmas in old Judea! There’s a Young Child lying in a manger now as them. There’s a Bethlehem Star shining now as there as them. Three Wise Men saw that Star. All men may sce this Star. ‘THE STAR OF FREEDOM FOR ALL FOR- EVER! That’s the Bethlehem Star of this Christmas time. THE YOUNG CHILD IN THE WORLD'S MAN- GER; TODAY IS PEACE. Let no Herods drive that Child away into some far Egypt! As a new spirit of good will came to the world on that faraway Christmas 1918 years ago so a new spirit of generous giving has come to all this Christmas of 1918. Witness the gift to suf- fering nations, to neglected children everywhere, to the halt, the maimed, the blind of war. The Christmas spirit the Young Child brought to Bethlehem, “least among the cities of Judea,” has lived through the centuries, through the storms of haté And’ bloodshed, and today fills more hearts than beat in all the world in that faraway “You may. change. the"maps. of the world;: your may fill the skies with battle-smoke by day°an light the night with the flames. of war; you. may-"\, : rock the foundations of civilization in tremors of fury, but you can’t change or kill Christmas! Christmas always is and’ always will be the high day of the Young Child. ¢ In the joys of the Child the cares of Age ar lost. In the joys of others we lose our own griefs. Christmas always softens sorrow. “PEACE BE WITH YOU.” TAKE NOTE OF AMERICAN THRIFT! Much has been said of the thrift of the French. Much has been said of the waste, the absence of thrift, among Americans. Now comes evidence to upset the old time no- tion. A few days before the armistice was signed the lines of depositors in all the savings banks of many American cities began to lengthen. Day after day they increased in length. In one New York bank the deposits for November increased $1,000,000 over those for November, 1917. In the whole country the savings banks deposits are $4,800,000,000. Savings bank officers give various explanations of the sudden increase in deposits. Some ascribe it to the release of hoarded money, to turning — into bank vaults of gold and silver and bank notes hidden away by persons, particularly of German or Austrian birth or descent, who feared their possessions might be subject to seizure by the alien enemy. property custodian. Whatever ‘the explanation the flow of money to the savings banks continues. December prom- ises to show almost as well as did November the country over. Savings bank funds are invested mostly in real estate mortgages and seasoned bonds. Increase in deposits means most money for building opera- tions. If building materials were at a figure to warrant it this sudden increase in savings deposits would suggest that real estate activity is near. THE BIG LESSON TAUGHT BY THE SAV- INGS DEPOSITS IS THAT IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE NOT THRIFTY THEY ARE NOW ON THE WAY TO BECOMING AC- QUAINTED WITH THRIFT. In Liberty Bonds and savings banks accounts the American people have upward of $20,000,000,- 000 to their credit, practically all due to savings. That is approximately $200 per capita, not con- sidering the two billions subscribed for War Stamps. ‘ Thrift is sure coming to America! BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, DEC. cig HEARTY WORDS OF GOOD CHEER FROM NATION’S BUSINESS MEN. BY E. C. RODGERS. , American business will be busy all during the 1919 reconstruction year. ‘ That is the forecast, the promise and the Christmas gift of the leading busi- ness men of the United States. These captains of industry were ask- ed to look ahead and tell the people of this. country what they saw, and to interpret their vision as it relates to industry, capital and labor. From their spoken words I gather this: a There will be no panics, hard times, vast unem- _ Ploved armies, discontent, revolutions, starving in 1919, 4 There will be, on the other hand, no disposition to garner extravagant profits. ‘There will be a strenuous and consistent effort to nail down prosperity so firmly during the coming year that it will have to stick by us for years to come. ~ An idealism has sprung up within business. Take, for example, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who brings this Christ- mas peace message: ‘ “Today we stand at the threshold of the period of recon- struction, and, as we turn from the problems of war to the problems of peace, we may look for such success in solving the latter as has been obtained in dealing with the former only as we are animated by the same spirit of co-operation and brotherhood. The hope of the future lies in the perpeutation of that spirit and its application to the great problems which confront us nationally as. well as internationally.” “American business has reason to be proud of its part in carrying out the war program,” said Harry A. Wheeler, president of the Chamber of Commerce of: the} United States. “That page has been written and the pages turned oyer, and a new page of the book of life in America is white before us. May feeling is that American’ business will write, upon this new page, a. record as unselfish, a3 considerate and as glorious as the record on the:page that has just been turned. ; “My belief is that American business will rise clearly above the sordid and the selfish and the material’things und will strive to lead the way to that. high plane /where every man and every nation will havea chancé.to re- build his life and his existence under conditions that will be nearly as possible those ideal conditions poder; which ; we have been privileged to live.” Bes et Ce _dames A. Farrell, president of.the U. S.. Steel \Cokpord- G? ss tion, bases his peace prosperity prediction largely upon the stimulant the war gave to American foreign trade. “Entrance into foreign trade is no longer a matter of choice with us,” he said. Everybody is ready to concede the significance of the fact that the American industries representing the most nearly unbroken record of pros- perity and sustained labor employment are those which have been accustomed regularly to market oversea from 10 to 35 per cent of their products. “The production of commodities upon a competitive basis of cost, in amount sufficient to supply home consump- tion and furnish material for foreign trade, will be the basis of our future strength and prosperity. “In the coming expansion of world-wide enterprise, the ..., pation that, can not only give, its.own trade,.on.both..the...,- “import ‘and export side, the benefit: of complete financial. organizations-and stability, but ‘gan extend to other na-_ eas tions ‘the benefit: of capital and. commercial ‘credits, willbe Hl “ati i great advantage “pver,any:'nation that“ happens tu, f . - _haye’its‘hands fuil_in maintaining its. own equilibrium,’or ‘ ality iteeaey “which, can’ not sparé/eapital ‘ayid credit,” - 2277+ < : jt tina _ Charles. M. Schwab, ' steelmaster. ‘Wad’ director. general. - ts wy a me Tr vot the: Binergency: Fleet Corporation, tells How to:get that oes i , foreign trade which isto rivet our prosperity: @LUKE 2:14 ¢ ’ ns*We.may construc: “hundred .. million tons of: ships, ‘3 ; ‘put’ they will haves i t nati unless we do what mporta hayi, the. of ‘ships, and ‘thi 8. to devise the ways: ‘and beans for the. operation of these ships... Be 4 “A great: merchant macine for. the? United States <is’: essential for'its ultimate success, and-its successful, oper- ation ig:not. forthe. benefit of anyone nian: or, of on. or’aty. one ‘branch of business, but. is-for the” good of every individual citizensof the United-States.” 1 do.not ‘care whether he -i8 farmer, lumberman, “manufacturer or merchant, a:great' mercantile marine is’ essential for every man in the United States. Sd . ' , shape the future of mankind, the hap- “And, lo, the star, whieh-they wil saw in the east, went before them, * till it came and stood over where the young child was. “When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great + Po 5 J joy. * * * There is, this Christmas day, another star shining in the east. It, too, is the star of peace and good will; the star of hope and promise. ~It, too, has beckoned to the wise men of: the world and has guided them to the spot where the young child of peace lies. Darkness and clouds of war have been swept aside and have disappeared from our horizon. ‘The death and desolation of bloody conflict now are but a memory, a thing which happened, and, God granting! may never happen again. Mists of sorrow and suffer- ing are dissolved before the warm rays of a peaceful sun. Smiles are coming back to the face of man- kind, and hatreds are leaving his heart. For unto us is born a new era, a new age, a new life, a new day—PEACE! The young life of this child of peace is coming into being over there in France, and there the star of our hopes shines, striking its beaming brightness into the uttermost re- cesses of the world. ; The difference is to be noted: The wise men of today are not coming to the cradle of peace to destroy the child; they come not to bear it away to Herod. They come to give of their life, their brain, their power, that the child of peace may live everlastingly. So they sit at the peace table, these great, wise men of today, from America, from Eu- rope, from Asia, from the four corners of the world. What they do and say and think sof human beings, the progress of civilization. “There are Wilson and Lloyd George, Or- Jando and Clemenceau, and with them sit-in council others of all races, nations, creeds and colors. For this peace is to be the prod- uct of world thought, world effort.and world ambition. It is not a peace for any one na- tion, or for any one group of nations. It is to be peace for all. The weightiest problems of human history are bearing down upon the shoulders of these wise men there, bending over the manger cradle of the child of péace, and the prayers of a world go out from God- worshipping souls this day for divine guid* ance of human brains through the labyrinth they must pass that the fruit of their labors may be peace as everlasting as it must be universal. : : / Confidently do we anticipate such a peace from the hands of the world’s wise men gath- ered:together in France. And-as confidently do we believe that there will follow “good will toward men.” No peace withoit good will could last long, nor would it deserve life. There MUST be good will toward men. It is needful. that we also place. some. em- phasis upon that last word. They must be MEN. Peace does not bring good will to- ward. human brutes, human murderers, in- human hearts. There will never be an era of good will toward the fiends a civilized world crushed’ back’ on the field of -battle. “They are without the pale of good will. They, and their offsprings, must become MEN— real human beings, with human souls and human hearts ere they may share in the good will of mankind. The star of hope promises much, even the regeneration .of: the brutish foe we fought, for it promises— “On earth peace, good will toward men.” Germans spell beer the way we spell Hohenzoll- ern’s next residence. Even the weather feels pleasant, now the war’s “The United States now. has: under. its control between seven: million ‘and: eight million tons’ of. ocean shipping: With the‘eight million or ten ‘million tons that we may add *~* from our shipyards during the next 12 months, the United States will possess, properly and economically operated, a merchant marine that should make our industries secure and establish the greatest respect in this transport period from war to commercial work that, in my opinion, can happen.” i “Prosperity lies ahead for America,” said William C. Redfield, U. S. secretary of commerce. “Of this I have no doubt.” And he points a way to the attainment of prosperity. “Concentrate thought, purpose and effort,” he advises business, and—“LAY NOT RASH HANDS UPON WAGES!” “It was large because Germany made her industries the operating end of her science that her commerce grew. so fast and powerful in the years before the great. war,” Secretary Redfield continued. “It was more Germany sci- ence that German wages that made her competition danger- » ous. The responsive power of well-paid and contented ®\.. labor to far-sighted ladership in industry is the greatest force in production. Not selfishness, not the sheer desire for personal or even national wealth must. control, but the spirit of profit through service.” This “spirit” is defined by Mark L. Reque, noted copper, railroad ,and oil magnate of the Pacific coast, means “a broad humanitarian view of social problems, a sympathetic interest in the welfare and aspiraticns of the masses,,a con- stant and intelligent effort to abolish the poverty .line by- helpful suggestion and wise counsel, a realization that the old order passeth, that labor is entitled to a just wage, rational hours, decent working conditions and that capi- tal is entitled to a profit commensurate with the hazard of the particular industry in question, and that both must work in harmony if either is to survive.” THE FIRST CHRISTMAS Luke 2:8-20. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by “night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you. good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all_people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a. Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger... ; And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest; and on ‘earth peace, good will toward men. - And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is.come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. ‘And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. 3 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as~ it was told unto them.