The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 4

® PAGi. FOU “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Posto tices einer N. D., as Second GEORCE D. MANN” - - - ae oe Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - -. - Fifth Ave, Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively. entitled to the use for publication of all news credited toit or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of specia! dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year we Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . ast Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside“of North Dakota..........+. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Editor toy THE GIFT OF A SMILE A fine subject for conversation today is the Christmas gift. If one isn’t disposed to talk about what he has given he is quite willing to turn the spotlight upon what he has received. In no home are the joy- bringing gifts hidden beneath the proverbial ' bushel basket. Indeed, the very best place in the whole house is made a showroom for the proper display of these tokens of remembrances. And you are glad to have them to show, for they mean, not so much that you have added to your stock of worldy goods but that you are hon-| ored with the friendship of other humans. This means much to man, or woman. Naturally, too, your mind will dyell upon gifts you have made. And here, too, your thoughts will | run alng the friendly path. You will be glad to think that your gift is so highly appreciated be-' cause you gave it, rather than for its material value. So much for the gifts that may be displayed. There are others. Usa i There is the gift of a smilie, the pleasant word, the helping hand. These are more valuable than anything else you ever have given. Yet the¥ cost the least. There is the gift of sympathy, of friendliness, of patience. They, too, are com- paratively inexpensive. Indeed, all these gifts cost so little that even the poorest of men can af- ford to be quite liberal with them. Why not give them? ; You may be certain that the gift of a smile will be appreciated, today, tomorrow, any day. It will be a gift welcome to young and old, rich and poor. Also, and this is important to the giver, it will leave as warm a glow in your heart as it brings to the other. It is these smiles and cheery words piled so high today that makes a MERRY; Christmas Day.; Would they not do as much for other days? This, is, they say, the Christmas spirit, which is nothing more than a happy combination of smiles, cheer- ing words, and loving hearts. Why not discontinue the custom of He this | combination away upon the shelf immediately af- ter Christmas? eee a eee ‘HEROES AND THE KAISER Wilhelm Hohenzollern is living off the fat of the! land over in Holland. Sixty servants cater to his | slightest wish. He is warmly clothed and housed: abundantly fed, and Has the wisest physicians at his| beck and call. He doesn’t deserve that, does he?! No, of course not. It is owing to no fault of yours! that he is getting snch royal treatment. On the other hand, right-here in the U.S. A. some | ‘that first Christmas. Of all songs, it is the one | \ ‘ BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE stil don’t know,’’ says Dr. Andrew H. Palmer of the? United States Weather Bureaus Scientists figure that the heat at the center of the earth is 195,000 degrees Centrigrade. This. is-a hot stove to be sitting on. But each year the in- sulating erust protecting us against the terrific un- | derground heat is said to become.thicker, due to the earth’s steady cooling, “ik In ancient days when the earth’s erust was /yé7 , thinner, this old world must have been an wneer- > wr tain ptwe to live, George Darwin, noted English geologist, thought that the moon formerly was con | nected with the earth, that it was blown into space it 3 by a combination earthquake and voleanie disturb- | anee, It went out like a cork from a jug of home | brew. This is another argument against the jo; of living in ‘‘the good old days.’’ TOYS FOR/GIRLS AND BOYS. '"" Toys are made. larger, more elaborate and. more costly than ever before. Life-size toy bears, and affes as high as their prices stand beside | mechanical toys of almost ineredible ingenuity -in | the toy shops this Christmas. ‘ But: : ; an Kindergarten teachers who have made play ‘their | life study say children frequently derive more pleas- ure and benefit from simple and inexpensive toys. | : 3 eed ro Little girls often prefer tiny doll dishes to larger h. It’s the same with toys for boys. 1’s liking for a toy inereases with |] ’ ones. lief that a chil the toy’s size is an illusion of adults. “ An automatic toy has only a brief interest. For instance, one that winds up and races in a cirele. | A child's greater interest is in one whoge operation | he ean direct and boisat Elizabeth Harrison, a national authority, “The choice of toys should be based not so much on what a toy is as on what a child'ean do withit. "| “The instinctive delight in putting their own ‘ thoughts into their playthings, instead of aceepting | the ‘thought of the manufacturer, explains why sim- expensive ones.’?- There is no occasion to pity the elfild who has only simple and inexpensive toys for Christmas. This child may have all the best of it. , France offers to name a street-in honor of ‘Veni- zelos. What a spot for a Greek restaurant. A Philadelphia man was killed’ by drinking hair tonic. He must have curled up and dyed. Our Armenian mediator will pay his own expenses. é f ° Tle is one man.in ten Morgenthausand. Cuban paitek! complain that American money is full of germs. Reply John D. Rockefeller is a mighty healthy old man. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may _ not. express the opinion of The Tribune. They /are presented here in order that our readers may have both eides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. DR. VANCE’S CHRISTMAS SERMON / By Dr. James I. Vance This was the song the angels sang down from heaven’s heights on the waiting, wondering world | our town and broken world.needs most now. Men need to be réconciled to one another." ‘Have we not had enough of hate, of antagonisms and alienations and estrangements? Have we not had | enough of fighting? Is it not time for men and nations to be friends? The war is over. Let us bury its animosities. ‘ hundreds of thousands of HEROES of that war are! The war-hurt fiations need bread and work. getting far from a royal treatment. They aré not They need raw materials and markets. They even getting a fair deal. Some of them, disabled’ need credit and capital. Their-need for all this is by service in that war are in sore need. There are not enough hospital accommodations for all of them, Many are so bound up in red tape that they feel themselves denied the squaye deal. Does it strike you as justice that Bill Hohenzol- lern should have castles and servants galore while thousands of the boys.who stood between the former kaiser’s greedy hand and our freedom should suf- fer want? Any time anybody tells you that ‘too much is asked for the soldiers’? compare what they receive with what this ex iser is getting. é SITTING ON A HOT STOVE Scientific machines record the worst earthquake that has taken place on the earth for several years. Some scientists think it was a submarine quake, possibly a new mountain range being erected at the bottom of the Atlantic peean. Let us hope so. The Japanese will yawn when they read about this latest quake. They recorded 8,831 quakes in eight years. That’s three a day. Away back in 1703 Yeddo, Japan, -had the worst earthquake in recordgd history... It killed 200,000 peqple. What causes earthquakes? Scientists do not agree. Some attribute them to voleanic action, gthers to slipping or sliding of the earth's crust, a desperate. But they necd good will more than they need bread. | How often shall a naticn forgive a sister nation? | Seventy times ‘seven, which is a heavenly way of saying there must be no such thing as unforgive- ness. This is the note Christmas should gound throught the earth on ths anniversary of the Sav- ior’s birth. We cannot better honor HIM than by forgiving cne another. The ministry that is:neecrd ted iz the min} istry of reconciliation. Gcd has no song of hate for the Christmas angels to sing to, men. “Leave there thy gift upon the altar; ‘first b> reconciled to thy brother, then come offer thy gift.” Human brotherhood must take in humanity, else it is a counterfeit. _ The invisible choir is filling the sky again. The angels are preparing to sing their ‘Christmas ‘hymn. Listen. What will they sing? They look on our strife-rent world, and then they sing an old song: fat “Peace on earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all-gracious King, * * * * O, rest beside the weary road And hear the angels sing.” iS ple toys are often more pleasipg to children than | ¢" The be- | ¥ “fh MI = : ARTES ye, ted Bay 7 December, 1897. . “Dear Lditor—I am’8 years old. + “Some of my little frien “Papa says “i “Ple “11 West Ninety-fifth Street.” except they see. prehensible by their little minds. be extinguished. children nor men can see. and unseeable in he world. =. ‘ hood. FRI DAY, DECEMBER 24, 1920 IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS? There are somé things that cannot ‘be told too often. One of these is if Charles A. Dana’s famous Christmas letter to Virginia O'Hanlon, a girl re Z4 of the New York Sun, then edited by Mr. Dana. = reprinting this, the most noted. of all Christmas letters. This newspaper delights in THE LETTER say therecis:no Santa Claus. ‘if you see it in The Sumit’s so.” ¢ tell. me the truth, Is there a Sante Claus? VIRGINIA O'HANLON, THE REPLY ‘ Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been af- fected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not balieve ‘They think that nothing can be which is not com- All minus,. Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In. this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the beundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, here is a Santa laus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity.and devotion exist, and you know that.they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. how dreary would be ‘the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be_as dreary as if there were no Virginias.. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable’ ths existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would Not believe in Santa Claus!’ You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your.papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus , but even if they did not see ‘Santa Claus, coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither Did vou ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nebody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. love, romance, can push aside thal curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. ginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. Only faih, fancy, poetry, Is it all real? No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of child- It was written in | new pr: | have admired -his splendid portrayals \ | ith the Movies ! In “The Cradle of Courage” which comes to the Eltinge theater tonight William §. ‘Hart, the famous Para- mount star, appears as a policeman— | one df the most striking ro‘es he has had in many months. It is a complete departure from his tern dramas, but none the , for it gives him a char- avy demand nd dramatic pow-: e is certain to elicit from the thousands who and who will welcome for seasons pa | his new productions with open arms. This is the third of his personal pro- ~ ductions for Paramount and is regard- 4 | ed es fully up to the high standard set by “The Toll Gate” and “Sand” the two preceding pictures. The “Barbary Coast” in San Fran- | eigco, the haunt of the submerged tenth, the underworld habitues, crooks is the scene of the story E the transformation of a man inthe! vortex of great events how heiwits: honor and love after youth spent:in the lowest circles of society. It was adapted by Lambert Hillyer and also directed by him. Joe August, A. S. C., was the photographer. Ann Little is leading woman and Thomas | Santschj has the heavy role. Gertrude Claire also has .a_ strong character role. soe re 1 ¢— a =~ ‘| MARKETS | —_—* Alas! Ah, Vir- MEN 8A TAY GY EDMUND VANCE Some followed Caesar, empurpled at Rome, Whose smile could make or whose frown could mar; Some followed Herod, enthroned at home, But the Wise Men followed The Star. _\ Some followed riches and gauds and ease, Some follower aftef the conqueror’s car; Some followed the form of the Pharisees, But the Wise Men followed The Star. Some followed prophets of musty scrolls, Some sought the circus and some the bar; Some followed wild beasts into their holes, But the Wise Men followed The Star. Some followed lite inYhe wanton inn Some sought adventure near and far; Some in the desert and some in the din, But, the Wise Men followed The Star. Who ‘were the Wise Men? Nobody knows. They left on the records no woynd nor scar _ Yet wise they are called, we may well suppose, Inasmuch as they followed The Star. : And whatever the Light which illumes your earth, And wherever the East, from whence you are, You, shall come to the place of the Joyous Birth, If you do but follow Yoyr Star. (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.) ONS COOKE English zs She is Spoke Dorothy—Didja mcetum? Heliotrope—Nope. - I neve! um. Dorothy—Well, Helen di And just think what she did when she foundum? Heliotrope—Waazzat? Dorothy—She tried to vampum.— | Sun Dial. | His O, on “You have done well in life.” “T hope so. < “You seem perfectly, willing to im- | Part the secret of suécess.” “Yes,” said the great mari, “and I sometimes think iti is the only se- |cret in the world, that nobody cares | about -hearing.’}—iLouisville~Courier- Journal. | | Decent of Man | ‘Little Gir!—Teacher said today | that our ancestors away back were | monkeys. Mother — You don’t believe that, go vou? * “Well, T don't know about it, but I'told the teacher maybe it wasn’t so far back either, ‘cause I heard dad ey that you had made a monkey of 3? him.”—New York Post. \ \ A Inrge Contract Farly Morning Call Erasbit have commissioned me to collect their little account. Stoney-Broke—Then I c ratulate you on getting a permanent job!— The Passing Show. The nsuel Dinner Dance will be held in the McKenzie, Christ- mas night, Saturday, December 25th. | Dry Mined Lehizh _Lignite Coal for Sale. W. J. Dohson, 615 | Anderson St., Phone 659 R. 4 | ceipts, 1,200. {JUST JOKING 1. o——_—— _ 5 & SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK South St. Paul, Dec. 24.— Hog re- Steady. Range, $8.50 to $9.30. Bulk $9.20 to $9.30. Cattle _ receipts, 700. strong. Bulk beef steers, $6.00 to $7.25. Bulk cows and heifers, $4.00 to $6.00. Veal calves ,steady. Stockers and feeders, steady to strong. Sheep receipts. 100. Market slow. Best lambs, $10.50. Generally nominally Best ewes, $4.00. ‘sf MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR Minneapolis, Dec. 24,—Flour un- changed to 30 cents higher. $9.30 to $9.55 a barrel in 98-pound cotton sacks. | Shipments, 58,119 barrels. Bran, $26.00 to $28.00. Sell your cream and poultry to our agent, or ship direct to Northern Produce Co., Bis- marck. Write us for prices on cream and poultry.—Northern Produce Co. ‘eo H. HILL, of Bratileboro, Vt-, + who says he never felt bet- ter in his life than he does now, nithough before taking Tanlac he was in such a run down condition he wasn’t able to do a day’s work for three months. § he has gained thirly pounds. vA “It may sound unreasonable, but when I began taking Tanlac I only weighed 114 pounds and had not been able to work for over three months. Today I have as much strength and energy as I ever had and have actual- ly gained 30 pounds in weight. In fact. I have never felt better in my life, and I owe the remarkable change in my condition to Tanlac and Tanlac alone. “To tell you the truth, I don’t know what would have become of me if it hadn't been for this medicine, for [ had just about lost my health com- pletely and the treatment I was tak- ing was doing me no good. In fact, I had hardly strength enough at times to walk across the room. principal trouble was indi- gestion, and I also suffered from ca- tarrh and nervousness. My stomach was in such a weakened condition that I rarely ate any breakfast and had to live on a very restricted diet. “After reading about Tanlac I de- cided one day to give it a trial, a it seemed to suit my case perfectly, for in only a short time I was able to go back to work. I just want to be eating all the time now, and every- thing—even onions and pork—agrees with me perfectly. I shall always praise Tanlac.” The above statement was made re- cently by G. H. HiN, a well-known and highly respected ‘itizen of Brat- tleboro, Vt. Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette, in Wing by, H. P. Ho- man, and in Strasburg by Strasburg Drug Co. r Adv. we J ts tye * ov 7s wt ry ) a @. wooo aa 4 Phy be Be ye {