Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1927, Page 43

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON D. €. DECEMBER 25. 1927—PART 5. ‘White House Through Years Has Reflected Nation’s Christmas BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER. HE great lawn, loved by the squirrels in the long Summer days, is covered with a mantle of snow. ‘ ley festoons hang suspended from every glitter. ing tree. The windows of the beauti- ful old house are warm with the light and color of gay wreaths and wel- coming candles. Pedestrians along the Avenue pause instinctively to | §a% a moment and =mile at the | gracious scene. Even the hronze fig- ures of warriors in the storied square across the wa; seem through their | fey Rarments to stir to life under its reflection. Christmas has come once more with its glamouy and itx mys tery, and here, at the heart of the Nation, has taken the most famous home of all into its magical embwace. For more than n century aund a quarter now has the White louse known Christmas, and in its varvin pageantry all the chanzing movds American custom have found th place. President has followed Proesi dent, each with his own ideas of the ways of living: each one bringing from his own section of the country something that has uniquely vepre- sented that section. The stately | rooms and corridors have echoed to | the boisterous feet of children for whom the whole earth has plaved Saint Nick, and they have hushed to the rustle of the gowns of gentle and lovely ladies. Surely if ghosts are happy, Christmas in such a place must bring a gathering bevond de- scription. People remember that it is only a few years since President and Mrs. Coolidge first had carols sung on the north lawn of the White House, hy a cheir, with the Marine Band accom- panying, and any of Washington who would come were welcome at the nappy service. So has grown to full stature one of the thrilling moments of the year. * X ox x 'HERE are many reminiscences of the present occupants of the White House at .Christmas time. There was Mrs. Coolidge's gesture, during her first year, when she sent | messengers with armfuls of La France roses from the executive conserva- tories to the “girls” who had. she maid, “put such beautiful care into the preparation of her official trousseau.” in_one of the select shops of the city. That same Christmas Mr. Coolidge sent a message to the MacMillan ex- pedition, 11 degrees from the North Pole, using amateur operators to relay 1he story over 4.000 miles of space, he- cause the “Bowdoin,” ship of the expe dition, carried only an amateur radio ®et. And I think it was last ve: when “Cal,” the dignified, was caught Z (LAUS DURING A € AS CELEBRATION AT ONE OF WASHINGTON'S THEATER Photo by Harris & Ewine ON HEADQUARTERS OF THE SALVATION ARMY LAST CHRISTMAS, WHEN BASKETS WERE DISTRIBUTED |h‘a TO THE CITY'S NEEDY, All Types of Celebrations Have Been Held by Heads of Successive Administrations—People( Have Taken Pride in Happy Holiday Entertainments of Children of Presidents From Earliest Days—-Christmas Tree in Closet. Photo by Harrie & Ewing. in the role of the perennial small bo | that is inside even Senators and Pres That was the only White House dents, and rather shamefacedly ad- | Christmas, however, that this part of mitted that he had been *peeking” |the Adams family was to enjoy. Jef-| into some of his packages. ferson came in the following March, | It is stories like these that bring [and John Adams went back to New | back the older tales of other days in | England in bitterness and humiliation. the Executive Mansion, and of other Seven administrations later John Christmases it has known. Quincy Adams added his years to the | Imagine, if you please, that you are family traditions, but there were no living in the vear 1800 A. D. in the|children in his household. City nf Washington—"city” hy grace Py of name only. The new home of the| _ . 5 Presidents has been building for some SFFERSON'S loss of his deepls time, and although it is still unfin-|* loved wife before his election and ished, i being made ready to receive | his liking for extreme simplicity made its first residents. It is not altogether | his holiday seasons quiet ones, except | 2 pleasant place in which to take up, When some of his grandchildren came that residence. Huge, unheated, some on a visit. His two daughters were ©of its bedrooms h ing leaky ceilings, far too occupied with their own fami not enough servants available, lies to be much in the White House bells, no firewood, surrounded b (Martha Jefferson Randolph was the| mal, swampy land and a raw, incom- | mother of 12 childien), and it fell to| plete settlement, the “President’s Pal- | the lot of the wife of the Secret; of | ace” is grand in name only. But the te to arrange such parties as were | splendid sphit of Mrs. John Adams, its | given. But “Dolly” Madison was equal | new mistress, glories in the 10 those oeasions quite ax much ing of such handicaps. Hater ones : Year day, 1801, she has succeeded in| Then with the shift having half a dozen rooms put into | hersell sufficient order to enable her 1o hold | Lady the first reception of a long line, | of any played thereby setting the precedent. jru y with eedless to say, the week preceding i that eventful moment the first White even with the disusters attendant upon | House child fthe house really wasn't | the War of 1812, the burning of the | Vel R B BT L “white,” you remember, until after the | Capitol and the ignominjous flight of jxo tselossly on the duciing gionids o8 British had done their worst), Suzanna | the presidential family, “Dolly” never| Bladensburg. = But in the full tide o dame. o Titte orphan sranddaughter, |lost either her power or her prestige. | fostival now no dark forboding romes. had found that Santa could make his|It was not until 1819 and the Monroe | And the wedding does take place, ata way to this strange place as well ax| Administration that the “palace” was later dx_w. but very quietly. % to her former home in more settled | restored and ready for occupancy, but | The Christmas Ix of today hark Massachusetts. It ix thix same Su.|in the meantime “Dolly” carried her |back in their popularity to the John zanna who almost immediately makes | court and her gorgeous turhans to the | Quincy Adams regime. when = Mrs Terself famous for her 4-year-old abil-| Octagon, to one of the seven buildings | Adams. American born and bred, hut ity in caring for her possessions. at Nineteenth street and Pennsyl-| famitiar also with life abroad through Visited by a small girl named Smith | van'a avenue, and finally to the de-| her association with her husband's dip. one afternoon, a tea party was hegun. | lizht{ul residence in Lafavette Rquare |omatic vears. made Christmas a time Put the smail Smith was evidently |Which now houses the Cosmos Club. |of merrymaking. Rands of negroes overcome with malice, for she smashed | An incident of Christmas eve, 1815, | went about the still muddy streets, Fuzanna® precious tea set. undoubt. | is told in the letters of Mre. Benjamin | singing before the great houses. 1t edly the new one that had graced that | W. Crowninshield, wife of the Secre- | was the time of the peerless group of fret White House Christmas, Suzanna, | tary of the Navy in Madison's cabinet. | statexmen. Webster, Clay and Cal- with swiftness and dispatch, bit off | “Last eve she writes oh Christmas |houn, and conversation flourished the head of the Smith's resplendent |day, “we passed at the President’ Many of the old English customs were wax doll and boasted about it ip her | took the girls with us. Found several | revived along with the carols. Yule adult vears as one of the great matis-| gentlemen there and a lady from Ken- [logs crackled and hlazed on hearths fartions of her life! {tucky who is come to make a visit | from the White House to the lowliest Wbly of the following first ax the week there, She had the parrot brouxht in ¢ for the girls, and he ran after Mary 1o | season ch her feet. She screamed and | Christy Jumped into a chaic_and caught hold of Mrs. Madison. We had quite | frolic there, returning soon after 8. | Tea was brought in after we went.” Monroe, the Episcopalian, began hix | Christmases with service at old St. | | John's, and in 1819, there was great r joicing in the restoration of the Man sion. 1t becomes now the Wh both in name and in fact, | war scars having been he | paint. which is annually ren Monroe, with her great love of punc- tilio and her familiarity with foreign lands, brings the formality of the court to the New Year reception, when | in 1820, the House Is n opened to | the publie. And Father Christmas hax fmn:vl A young ) o entertain [ xonx, and the children of fler hix Tonz wait, and Maria Hestep | Preston Bliv, his fviend, were Fow Liakes 1o her position with joy | i to help (il the aching vold L pride. It s at her Christmas "'I-Inh" <‘|1. \lll.::'l‘nxln\"‘“::‘np el Gonver ur, her iaiher’s festive A nder ie spedl of mis- |5 “‘“‘“” i PVeN, - abins, and the graced 1 day. * % x for do OW the scene shifts with and rapidity, as it could probably no other country in 1d, and the frontier crosses the eshold of the south portico in the person of “Old Hickory.” Despite his grief for his misjudged and sorely treated wife, dead of h just three mi ths before his inaugu: .| vation, he buried his personal feelings |and carried on his rough-shod way with the fortitude dier that he was, Among his most human cha Tove of children was outsts Wl his grandehildren, the Donel in the teris. Dolly™ x Iirst | ant rule that | | e nonx “ighis,” snowlalls, o rouns of et, ot which n + with the ¢hoic itted by the President id g through (he clegiancies of 1 corridors, With sometimes the general and sometimes Martin Ruren taking turns being it these are vivid glimpses of & man who knew how to be humble as well ax conrageous Rest of all, however, is the often. recounted story of a Christmas eve when the children insisted on hanging Imitation watifully ildish inter with the an the most brilli ) thetoe and 1 IU i only a few monl the plans for the b i must be sot axide for the tragic death rites of friend Stephen Decatur, f % later that it weddin fireplace, calling out as they left him, “Now let's xee what Santa will bring you Mr, Uncle General Old Hickory Jackson, President of these United States. It was the secretary, his adopted son, who found him in the early morning hours weeping a man’s tears over the fantaxtic child gifts hid- den in the steetch of woolen hose, And so it goes on. Van Buren took hix &eason with dignity and splendor Willlam Henry Harrison gave young Chief Justice Taft Looks Back at Christmas Days of the Past BY ANNE HARD. | |yond any other. Looking hack over T | my life, it seems to me that every ITH a Christmas-morning | day has been good and that no dany 100k in his smiling eyes and |could have been any different. The e e i b e lone” way in which Chrixtmus stands Jips, the man who hax out In the way mengured the highest re lnnm-‘n l:l.md“‘ n'l" ax the wards and the greatest responxibilitios | which we think of others. You through bis lung life of public service [member in the ‘Christmas Carol's the Chief Justice of the United Ktatex o am sure Thave always thought dreamed back for a moment acroms heixtma s time when 1C hax come his 70 years. 1 the veneration due “No ¥ingle Christmax stands out s Hite waered origing i€ nnything belong- more remarkable for e than ans Ik to 3t ean be wpart from that -an other, for every Christmas in my life a kood time; u kind of forgiving, has brouzht me happiness, and charltable time, when men and wom ing back acroms them a1l § can think en keem hy one consent to open their of nothing § would chanze if | could shutup henrts freely “Eyery Christmax 1 zet ot my old people helow them wn If they really eopy of the "Christmas Carol and read were fellow passengers to the gra again of Tiny Tim and y..; n the and not another race of creatur tears start 1o my eves, Do you re hound on other journeys’ member? Do you remember the “Surely these peaple ny find themselves irked hy Christinas “'Bob said he didn't believe there giving. For giving in Christmas, Not ever was such a goose cooked. 11| RIving of prexents, merely, hut gIving tenderniess and flavor, size and cheap of A will, Not giving of Kindnews pess, were the w,»m»’ ‘v)y aniversal | | to one's own, merely, but of kindness edmiration and the voungest ¥ v all the world. 10 a chanca (o re Cratchits were steeped i wage and momber the forgotten. 1a'a chance onion 1 the exebrow v Ry me one by the unespect “ApS 4o you remember Christrias e your Christ. aing” hecaune I's the other ““The copper! That war the wutiog W and 4 i door e that! That In hadf o e Lepwd -~ Bushed with the puddin sy Dad), i huarad g bl w oo terns oA kit with Chisti the 1o o san? orhat i mas It s L of others bover vear we may be "Ul &t h mas our wind B her people. 1t tay be only fu & few houre but for that littie » avery One LRInKe 0f eome ore clse 417 sy be A5 & Dig family hike ours —tor b 1 ia the day when the boe e home. Or, it may be, for men 8 Vi family, unly s Christ Was in & But somehow 1he | g nristmas et Wil creep in u‘m mas will get his chance 10 Khow ....I sppreciatinn for the el sepvicey ol otherm, snd I wili be Christmas the ghver in the thoyght of vy pleasuie pany otherE Ly that minute of hin e drawe B check for people whe buoked aiter him Mine war & i which old fraoi had & greatey Vet iy e wrong wha in the pod ot of warhing bk the e pudding was A smell bk cloth. A ! The Wlue eyex shine with the expres. sl of w chids on Clristmas o iy Lowdiing ek over this long lite Packed with experience, he cion sl il winy b wonld ik clige wodiny of it Dues 0t nut prove st ta th chnritable 1o the kil i et theee i | Vol Clistinas all the yene? Onee more Yo ead hin fuvorite CCBIx s Carol” L hought 1 qiite ax ey whonld wiinkde i Chel eyes i Brins o ave the aalady b dess ot T tive fonn Hin o ow heunt " Lol and that wis quite enough for him.* Big Wll ey comei'm et thee o M i bt ol o rpeek bt cin i i nited o it P B b She great resson iher Lrbad in o . clephone Cable, AT 18 thought to be the larkest telephone cable tn the world of | the submarine sort is that opened not |long ago for messages, when direct telephone communication was ohtained hetween Pomerania and Kast Prussia . The over wires 100 miles long that ar ey Ther® ver® [1ald in the Baltie, To comply with ught he hud meningitie and the |8 provisions - of the Varagillea hen s e Wickeved om the | reaty, the line had (o aveld the ot o T e e | PolE corvidor 1o the wen, The cable el o o Sk g | A% W% e of telephione condue D ikas ita Tk and three single lines for telograph oy Wi ke W mesnigen, Phe dines e dnsilated wnle anid well agadn and of hiy with paper and covered with lead, ve famiily together for anolher infarced by w double helix of wtost apidlle /8 3 wirem Phe onteide covering is a jute Chylstmas | compoind and e protected by oan Pl | A walvanized atiands of sleel, UNDERWOND WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STAT Covyright 10727 by Underwond & Underwood no club RN Wik waye superlatively & tamily day. In terrible the White Houwe, on the secondd ooy Lin the went wing there ix o wort of it the bl that mnde an Our daughter Welen wink ey of e 1+ chnrades xhe wonld o suid how the odd coryidors Gt cing with dnughter during s | Dobidnywe al the aimteun abilities of the hoye and their | our “ he il iogh Ve pad | worked | (i he have | w Chrietmas i) ing foienids Sihenl whinue Pt honn wnl having him e Chriat [l here when L New $ngland ne of Phinkexi here 16 no single « thin thuse ol Then thers was the time he Lin &l my Hife which means any Drlstines seemed fuie we went (u the Piilippines, when "ol Jop nov any kliangs eaperience be fust o [ Curistmas, v indignities | of the great sol- | vl | up a sock for him in front of his own | which all Christ. | and 1o think of | ® [ ful. ! well thnt | | | Leaia, vof ¢ i T, viete W the gaping ¥ foaxt xucl as they ied existed, the Patterson chi | Andy Stover A ik Chad A fine bl give their Christimias Lo st ros ndd 400 il hweing then Jesse had @ party ate one, was e Sherman nin only one Christmas, hecause an ath a few months later. But Ber COUrse, o ek fler Lo Prexident himself A Npan. i he Tylers had not « ol davihter, Alice, and a s | well, but also younger consing, n | ews and nieces, and again the | ion vesougded to the ring of children's | thtul eht | voices a in Kringle's pleasure | idgo At Inden tree, President Tyter himself { Grang. a fow years 1t directed _one fancy-dress Christmas | ggugh not such an clabor party for his tiny granddaughter, { g paster of ceremonies { WhOTE et uKBICE | other than his uncle, . presided from a throne specially | The disputes atten set up for her | ing of the lay ] Then there were presidential Chrisg- | @0e mirrored in aparticularly mases for 20 yo Bist, i childven: | 1ITE be frow o e those “imported when Mps, | Docomber, 187 is unple tertained her Sunday L onsht Wil obtrude itself - that Christinas \n will b the flest i that a usu ember 2 vas celebr in the ool the Vi TP In 1868 in the no s, this peer White soh articl 1833 ine dent ve looking | MeUundist Chvidtmas dity upon the just and very ol ot With sdelivered | e unjust.” President and Mes anda-hnlf stieet by the pas painted Lasks in eritivism Ay Hayes entert with a tre present we obery wrel, the Metropolitan Tiix dady, Toth st Fouranda-hall and € streets: sl her attention each e 1 e | ve hitldeen 11 Lincaln boys were not too fasm into their | DY tovs and warm clothing for others holidays. Probahly ‘the one l'inmlnl,u“"" fortunate than themselv Inci from the White House ix the one aboyt | ties came Helen lerron of Cincinnati. Tad's indignant democracy. He found, |#% house guest. and there formed hor street urchins playing rather forlornly | When she should be older. As Mre outside the Executive Grounds, They | Willlam Howard Taft she realized her | President’s son, and from the depths » mpecial stories are extant con of A generous heart he asked them in|cerning the Garfleld or the Arthur Followed a battle voval with the [ table fairyland injo the old Mansior cook, who absolutely refused to have [ Marrving there, three of his children Master Tad or no Master Tad! But|gifts from practicaMy every civilize the boy was clever as well as gener: | nation in the world came pouring in pealed his case to the supreme court | princesses from Santa’s best diplo. Lot the household. Lincoln smiled Diatie ponches, 8o many cune, in at the Preshytevian Church on by | Taves, however, went about theie ap Was hinet el she ! extremely well pave 40 turkevs to poor Wl | e -. { to put boyish enthy story that has gone ‘round the globe | 4entally, to one of Fanny Haves' pa one Christmas day, a small mob of | Fesolution to return as First Lady looked cold and hungry to the well-fad | Wish. to dinner. | ehildren, but Cleveland brought a veri amything “to do with such “trash,” | were born during his incumbency, and and, like a budding lawyer, ap-|to the feet of the little White Hous Toy} WOrkshops RY J. MIDDLETON. the other nations combined. Our ex HRISTMAS tovs, of all com-|Ports vary very lttle from vear to modities offered to the public | Year. running in the neighborhood of for sale, least of all remind | $2.000.000. ¢ imports are dropping one « Industey, wuch figure, Toy fmports will prob. tlon, Tabor troublex, overpr Gon L Ably Tun o ltte than $4.000.000 o G, te aention only a few, [ In 19270 This i, it Pt The Christman oy ix inerasivably tied | Hon s practieille the measure Jup with w cortain amount of senth | domestic consamption amd that 60 per {ment, [eent of all toys mawnfacturet The output of the toy workshops, | find their market in () [the world productlon amd factory | pre Amerkean manufactur v be roughly estimated 8t ggap control of the market is 00,000, WIth & retall value not | (ively recent. Two decn s than §330,000,000, [ production was vilued approsi ,"M'h‘;‘_ s A X mately $6,000.000 and our fmporis at R e £5.000,000, most of them coming from States, . Germany. In other words, the Amer L e e, Thy | lean manufacturer shinved atout equal - 4 gl s " Lly with the foreign manufactuver 1 Rreat toy-manufacturing nation, sup- o - v e foreizn manufacturer .-1::-.: -'\‘N;'!hr greater part of ln\n%“ I':‘ _': ‘\'\ll,,::',. :“.”:.NM:‘\-‘ I(x.hrml‘ | #old In the United States, i evvoneous, |\ ¢ bliva | In the Liited Staten, In ervoneann. | utie manufacturer. Our production The production of no single competing | ntry, inel ulln'k vy aven ap. | NAd almost treblad. reaching approx proaches that of the United States, [ imately $14,000,000 and v imports | Tha United Rtates manufactures ap. | Were $9.000.000, showing a. vatio of 66 proxinately 80 per cent of the entlre | rent to our production. OF these | world production, with a value in the | Imports Gevmany supplied $7.718.854 nelghhorhood of $80,000,000, Our pro. | W 56 per dent, Tn 1923 our production Auetion fn almost threo times that of | Wan valued at $36,000,000. eleven t German produetiv entimated at | that of ¥ and the ratio of imyp $30,000,000, [ Wad dropped - fust 10 veaes from &6 | A comnin of toy produetion for th tte e o deavine the Venr I haw Just b pedeasend by he | American manifaetacer conteatiing 76 | Cormin Guvernment, 10 I tae that [ e cont of the ket | Vil of oo ts e et piven | Mhe st prodiction taken n 1895 fcaren, bt W e Gged e even e eeiiankabile Fvere vided at s et g of the home sty Fiy 000 ab Just o e Jess U0 e far it vear ave nol exactly 6ol 1w Ax e Germnon s [V Wit e Prodietion Yy weem o At not deas Han B0 0g Ty e praduetion of - eltideen's e "\ '“I L :“ :"l" :\‘":':‘ W (e oW heel s, ameinting o alinest e Uit praninetion g . g Sk [ St om i aapte. P JI906Ra - Acliding eniieie vae I:I‘-Y‘YI\IN ».l.,.... of workl produotion st | ve for the Avst e i e I Govermment s st ve JALRG I SR VLT L Teaned consi production Rgurves taken TR I8ie RRE URETe. Cxagh mEvdust |-.§‘ ertage swdule ,|“.““|"" v'hv\‘um &iIven an valued at $7,300,3K0, which ia [0f these toy wheel gawde pasfuciion a Nittle more than b per vent of totul |Fearhed the Riure of gxo.000.00 he | vatio of tmports to - production "m‘l wx competi- [ port our ates viy e nEo our | v producing the United ance, Enzlind, world produntion, Wopped ta 3 par cont: teaving the yakia mnd Japan one ia forced to ar | AMerican manutacturer in almost Mive At production Ngures 1 much | complete contrel of the domestic mar ket the same way aa in the case of Ger | ket nany. The Agures must he judged 1I‘:- ina |nh-ll\nu\\’"a' lfi;“lh and de v exports phis the | mands an explanation. 1t seems to U RN g el Iave e 0 the protective et which amount_consumed by domestio de mand, Thess 1 (tions have an export | WAR granted the industey in 18 With the exception of four vears fignre much larger than domest e oon ml |28 o the fm, when the vate was 28 pev cent [sumption. Franch | wtuction (s extl [Tante1 a1 $10,000.000, or T pev cont of | we had had a it of 83 per cent ad warld production: dapanese ot B8000, [valovem With supplios cut o fron 000, e 1 ARPEOY EAEely 4 per | Germany by e War, tay manufaetuve cont, wnd Crechoslovikln at $730.000, [ 1eceived w grsnt impeti i the United Joww than | per cent. Cambined pro | Hoes and at the close of the way the toy Andustey ashed far a higher LAV clalming (WAt without (t they Anotion of Al ather countries will prob Aty ot axoesd & millian dollacs vt holt their lead over the foy ClEn eampetitor The Uinited Rtates ia alao the great The Industi, asked for 80 per vent Crechoalo | | Wnths the 10 per cent duty ont tov market of the world Its n sumption is greater than that of all bat | ] duty, will | tacturers and the | that fact, that children whe had less hope enefited ma- lives o of wonder in iheir teriadly from the ov * % % ® HE quiet of the McKinle went out in the oming Rooseve Christmas us event, along with th seurry cous days of each year. | we zely wel hung by th and a the presents, ey and chimney room st which on! with aside Mrs, t for a Christma. however, was that eping with anite approve the the boys e Keenly Then o W Christmas on was mtch secrecy Arehie and Quentin eral presents ol their impatiencs verlooked, amd i the way threw open 1 his sud Qo which they e Mnent . tree id disappoin ! th the part n the gen we on Wi I leen W ono k v cret th to the nins 1 s themselves, e Ar P e dec | e the mained in wn_pri edl in o That tr each yea family e * the 0 Archic’s room. Many € for the ye seven-year stay. n ristmas par n the Marine Rand ing feet. Those nights and pride of Washington cr drawing-rooms of the g t epaulets of our Army and Navy. 1905 the President and Mrs opened the off I = n with the annuxl dinner | Cabinet on the of December. decors ved out the as Roosevelt wore mond necklace, the President motif, and hadmired e gift A doubly of the in- he- special | to one The one fiy in the | in | his conservation policy . and of iven ot | ot ctain closet, | Wl dis re- e White House, was held ies were given ng Roosevelts during their Alice and Ethel both their debuts at Christmas halls. played for the pomp xilded In Rocsevelt | ial hospitalities of the to the he to carry Mrs dia from memorable cceasion, hecauze the en. | gagement of “Alice™ and “Nick"” had | recently heen announced, and every. | hody was enjoying their evident hap- | piness, Home Adelightful tales are told on | “Bsig Rill Taft" and his Christmas ad- ventures when his turn came as head of the Nation. On the morning of Christmas eve, 1910, Mr. Taft was husy in the execetiva ofices with im. portant ecallers, His secretary came in and whispered something in his ear and the President smiled his famous smile, tring them in,” he instructed, and got up frome his desk. The secretars did a% he was instructed, and ushered in three scrubbed and shining n hoys who had come to wish Mr, + merry Christmas, They wers the hoys who served the White House ith it local Apere The President returned their good wishes, and the boys, braver than the others told him they were goe boxers, and sometime ther would come in to box r him if he liked, hat will Le fine ™ dent, good-humeoredly uee——gloves or hare fiats” “Either,” waid the bo out with satisfaction w their freckles, That same day | turkeys to the married i the White House single men who mouths to feed other Fut the best moment of came when Christmas had j the corner. At the troke of a little band of singers dehouched o the White House grounds | hones and hvmn books in try fashion, snd hegan the march up the curving walk to the north portie A stariled policeman ran bastily ou (1o turn them back, but, seeinzg who they were and what thee were ahous |10 do. changed his mind, and joined them instead. | Lifting their v waid the Pre “What do you and went tten all over had st turned midnigh icos In the lovely it of “Adeste Fideles” they pro. zrcssed musically to the poreh and | there stationed themselves for 3 fuli | service. Ina few moments a windaw | above their heads was raised, and PPresident, attired broadls in Vathrohe, out and shouted | “Merry 'Christmas.” The windaw { didn’t stay up lonz. because a rold { wind was blowinz. hut the ohject of the serenade staved hehind it through | the e progiam, and raised ~gain at the end long enough to canl “Merry Christmas to vou, boys, and { thank yeu very m % Merry Christmas, Mr. President singere called hack as they wathered up their possessions and went away inte the darkness, | % THE Wilsen Christmases were, 5o ny of them, wed. or very quiet because of the long illness that ended them. But when it was possible intimate friends were o tained as house guests. The cus of giving turkeys the staff was continued, hut the war made other | ures, except to the fighting men, I-| of «mall moment. Perhaps hough ® ! it was not said at the White Hou it would not he amiss to recal words of the President to the troops in France on Christmas day, 1918: *1 feel a comradeship with vou today which is delightful as I look about these ‘undisturbed fislds and think of the terrible scenes through which v have gone and realize now that tr -| vuiet peace. the tranquillity of settled e | hope, has descended upon us all: and whiie it is bard 10 be so far away from didently to bid vou a Me as. 1 ean. 1 think, confidently ¥ Happy New Year. and 1 0 the lottom of my heart say, s yow” bine leaned en \ i . tn indiviz's greetings to that other W that cime home to their long : the haspitals comes, in 1922, aplementary note. T hope i may be marked with every of happiness and satis- h may come to them, and multiplied testimonies of the con- { tinuing gratitude of the Nation that thev have served so well Which makes the rircle completa. The gracious acts of the present First Lady are too well known to need repe- tition. One has only to ses her of ating at the mission festivities, the starved faces of peglected ch dren looking up to her, to realize how ably she is carrving on the best of the | White House traditions. And of all these traditions the key. note seems 1o he that Christmas is here. as in the humblast house in all America, a festival of the home—the ion of the vear when Pre: itizens alike draw hearth and share n with those most near and faction whi dent_and the family macy only dear. (Conveight. 1927 ) but apparently stepped in, for the granted duty em. Thix pr Santa industry Cla ction has had th the problems of a big /and are rapidly approaching the ex. | desived effect and the foreisn many facturer ix practically out of the mar o However, even Without this pro tion, since vor industry * sl Cther @ actory industiy, it i be lieved thers woukd have boon remark able srowth, Thix Ix not & dis of u bih or A low t sibdect i itseld to know how this warks out for M Average American Purchaser, A fre tader Will Want to assure vou that means the paving of 10 n ot every doliae t a ion of th Avir, for but it is inte h onts in addi Mt for a toy for the average purchaser In the frst place. the American toy quality tov, One has the exhibits of is ov American manu the entire display OUE larast impert honses to how uniformly the word plies to the American tov, This is saving that all imported toys cheap. On the contrary, some of auality™ ap. nat most heautitul tove on the market € German and Reitish wanw partienlaviv n the case of m Al Nt tovs, Bat the Prexsion yained of (e aparted tevs s that [ T ST TR Y el the Chicper veales Kndel Kk varwty W fine v Wil wot Hat this does Aleviean e PO SN L ey Cture hanical eneval fin ivate ol st U Vi warhet falling ine The wmonnt Wb, o the Wit ol competition, that n adkling 0 dllar ot the peive ISt competition 15 ton keen fur As an evample. several months A certain Beitish vigaette likhitey Mads A stekten ot successtul i foy American favor Thw NOU Rnowing in st what ton th place them. dropped them ane which happened to have 4 duty ot 90 per vent A feN American manu facturers of lghters jumped In and snjoyed an unparalielsd hev-day of prosperity, adding to their selling brice dilferent amounts of the %3 pey cont duty paid on the product of the forelgn manufactuver. Rut \t was something the koose that laid Evervhody got in Auote M. B, there was & hew Hehier _every minute The damesti compethion was oo Keen; not aniy has the amount adled for duiy heen Mopped fram the selling wive, Mofis have hean out, Every one ROows how ek cheaper & dightes he hoaught taday than it could sin A So i safe by sy that does not ma s Nt e Custams brakes Classifica ke Killing the galden exg the vunntng. o merits i~ esting it But it deesn’t quits work out ke that Myt loak ot reatize ave | the are the t | of the World | Look to American Leadership ally affect the purchaser of quali! was £ 70 per cent ad val | Rut there is mo denving that the cheap toye have a selling price almost twice that for which they could be sold. Who huyvs the cheap tovs® The of them ave soid to the man who cannot afford buv better articles for his children. The pearly paid Kbowring man pays the bill, N the graater number of manufactirers are not Ven interested tn competing with the foreign manutacty chean toyvs the tariff as it applies to cheap t ecanamically of little concern the American indy but vitally \ects the foreign, The greater part of these cheap toys of our competitors are made in the b ndustries small villages d mountain homes, With the e family working the trade Buyers travel to these cts and assemble th frequentiy leaving re delivery. In Germany. accord to the Wirtschaft and Statistik the 1103 works or factories S8 are howe works and of 319 peaple emploved in the dustey, onethind of them are poved in the hame industry The total number of United States OV manufactivers numbered only 6L AN 1905, and about TO per cent of VLD ol 100 wake sarners were emplaved infctories noabering $80 o oW Wik Practically our ot inbustey industestized which i in Adlret contrast ¢ the German TER) targe easie |reat Wt e in ® tawe in dust - As b et Itased SO per Brdicion shows a Approvimately 43 per cent In time b American toy ng ners, is hixhiy Vhasg . o This 1§ the the nothe kst Been previonusiy staded M that tiie hax cent. Geoman R ol that Mave tavie NS sronth o and campetitars Mt what assistance has Deen to them® At the close of the Wwar the British manufacturess oam forwand and applied to the War In | Quatries Roard under the safeguand- g of industries act, shawiag tust {how without protection they sould aot meet the competition of the German I French. American and Japanese manufieturer. The appeal was care- Jtly studied and a4 summary & Missal af the whale matier was made WIthout the granting of any pro teation, a protective . Riggest Roek Salt Red | the largast had of salt rock in th World is in Wishieaka. Paland A e miies wide and teat thiek, tong, M