Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 December 1920 — Page 4

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OUR CHRISTMAS WISH

JT REQUIRES not the occasion of Christmas with its joys, cheer and prevalent good will, to arouse in us a sense of the appreciation due patrons of this paper. In our hearts and mxtds are grqtitude and good thoughts for you during every day of the year; but Chris tmas hallows our sentiments and makes their expression fitting and timely. Such as we haire accomplished and such good as may be traceable to our efforts would not have been possible without your sustaining power and co-operation. If in any sense we have upheld a beacon, you have supplied oil for the lamp. If ours has been a chariot, yours has been the motive element which has kept it on its way. All characters appealing to or endeavoring to entertain the public, must be given a certain meed of applause ott they cannot exist. With those engaged in publishing a newspaper, the applause comest in the interest which readers manifest in its columns and in an occasional word of approval. The practical help of subscribers and advertisers has enabled us to maintain a publication standard; their encouragement has furnished: the degree of pleasure necessary as an incentive to our daily tasks. May the spirit of Christmas work for you the full d gj ce of its bountifulness. May you be enabled to get the same amount of pleasure and benefit from these columns that we have derived from, making them. The Publishers

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PU8HT OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN STAGGERS

3500,000 Facing Starvation Can

Only Be Saved by America's Response to Joint Appeal.

It Is utterly Impossible for one who

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FRIDAY !KCiOMBER 24. 1920.

Again 'imr comes that the necessnri life are to take a drop. Hut wh.'ii ihv time comes. It Is the rumors a nil not the necessaries which drop.

Once upn a time the candidate made a hit by kissing the babies. But now that the mothers can vote well, campaigning Is going to be complex.

What tries one's patience In connection with that delayed message from Mars Is that all this time Mars probably has linen rattling the re

ceiver.

When woraeu discover the relation between efficiency in government and the subsequent economy in living, they will be no uncertain factor In politics.

Nelthtr employer nor worker want

the early Autumn In Europe to visual-

Izo what the children, of the Eastern

antl Central portions of the continent

face this winter. To say that 3.f00,000

children liave no alternative to starva

tion or death from disease excopt American Aid, is startling but Independ

ent observers by the score and cart-

ful acientiftc surveys of the economic and crop conditions overseas brand the figure as conservative.

In Poland, xor instance, v ! ere 1,308,-

000 ouiigstYS last year subsisted al

most entirely on the one free Ameri

ca u meal u day thai they received, con ditlans as H-later closes down, are

worse than ever before. The BolsheTik Invasion stripped largs pmions of tha country of all grain. Professor E. D. Durand, Food Advisor to the PoHsh government, after an exhaustive survey, has reported that octy forty per cent is available of the food necessary to carry, the pc-pulatio; through the winter. ' In the city if Vienna tests conducted In the American Relief Administration food kitchens showed that 52 per cent of tbw children rbetween the ages of G and 14 wart seriously undernourish-

palling. Estimates reachlnglhe American Red Cross s to needs for medical service In the destitute arefls tills winter Include: Old Ar3trla-Huigary, 750, 000; new Poland, 1,500,CX); Czechoslovakia, 200,000; Serbia, 150,000, and Koumanla, 100,000. In the .Iscal year of 1919-20 the Red Crosa has reached with the veritable gift of life 1,500,000 children in the affected areas. Tuberculosis Is prevalent to a terrifflc degree. Five children out of seven in the city of Warsaw, for Instance, have been found to be tubercular. Typhus Is widespread ; rickets, the right hand of under-nourlahiLent is alraos ULlversai. and cholera lifts Its grim head constantly In one place and another. The European Relief Council, comprising the American Relief Administration, the American Red Cross, the American Frierds Service Committee (Quukers), the Jewish Joint Distribution C inmittee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in Anieri ca, the Knights vt Columbus, the Y. M. C A and the Y. W. C. AM seeks $33,OoO.OGO with which to meet the Situation. It has estimated that at least J23.000.000 must be hod for food and $10,000,000 fo medical service to avert absolute disaster nmoi j the threatened children. Checks may be sent to your local committee or to Franklin K. Lane, treasurer European- Relief Council. 12 Broadway, New York, cr to the Child Feedlnr .Fund, Lkc'ary Digest, NYw York City.

The envied of all women will be the lass who confesses she isn't old enough to vote!

Another valid objection to canned music Is that so much of it Is positively uncanny.

the kind of misunderstanding that will- ."

create Inducement to prolonged and cx- vw ueu"""- V."" tensive Importations of what should t,eisCht,y subnormal and m.ly 4 rer cent

approached ma state or a normal

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produced hare.

It might pay the man who grew a fnrden in his back yard if he would now dig for coal.

Can you remember the family group that used to gather around the coal stove of an evening? That Is what they will gather 'around this winter Juft the coal stove.

American child.' jUber! :a.i Relief Administration Is feeding .'100.000 Austrian children every day now, and

there is no chanre,of dlmuultion of

need before nex. harre it.

The sptct&dA cf the medical needs

The wise suitor will henceforth ascertain the politics of his sweetheart before hegpopsthe question.

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HEN Christmas comes I never

mind the cold. I like to get up prompt an go to

school, An' do my sums, An clean the walks 'thout waithY to he told Though I like sleddin better as a rule, Or buildin forts but nothin ain't so bad, When Christmas comes. When Christmas comes I'd Just es lief give half M$ cooky to the baby, an take care About the crumbs. It's fun to make the little fellov? laugh, An I don't mind his taggin' everywhere. He can't help bexn little! I'm not mad When Christmas comes. When Christmas comes I don't forget to give shoes. a wipe, en scrub nr? ears a lot Till mj head hums. An mother says'That boy's too good to live!" But Fm not 'fraid of dyin cause I'm not No different from always only glad, When Christmas comes!

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If wo!aen are to vote, it necessarily

fallows that more candidates will win J

vith Ci'öse shaves.

Christmas hymn . Temple of Canadian

Sing, Christmas bells! Say to the earth this it the morn Whereon our Savior King is born; Sing to all men the bon, the free, The rich, the poor, the high, the low. The little child that sports in gle The aged folk that totteringr go Proclaim the morn That Christ is born, That saveth: them and saveth iie! Sing, angel host! Sing of the stars that God has plated Above the manger in the east; Sing of the glories of the night, The Virgin's sweet humility. The 'Babe with kingly robes be-

dight Sing to all men where'er they be This Christmas morn, For Christ is born, That saveth them and saveth met Eugene Field. S S CHRISTMAS TIMES. Christmas times In Georgy! know It by the way The little boy Is talkin 'bout the toys every day; Fer he's seen 'em In the winders wher his mother walked along. An "What you goln to buy ki?" Is his everlastln' song! Christmas times In Georgy! Jest as sure as fate; TTnMxr It Ii t Vi mtl Hrl that h.me

aroun' the gate, Waitln with a kiss fer xne when evenln comes along;

An "What you goin to buy met" Is their

everlastln' song! Christmas times In Georgy! 'Peara to me that they Are in a powerful hurry for to 'mind yoj o the day;

Aa If the old-time fellers that's Uve4 !

mighty long Didn't know the time o' Christmas 'thout

that everlastln' song! But thank the Lord, there's some one In the homes aroun' us ylt To kiss us all fer Christmas so's we never kin forgit! An' thank the Lord fer Uttle ones that think the time Is long An make us young forever with the music o that song! Atlanta Constitution. CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS

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(From Province, Vancouver, B. C.)

The Mormons of Southern Alberta are completing arrangements for the dedication of their new temple which has been in course of erection at Cardston, Alberta, for the past seven years. It will he dedicated by the head of the church, President Heber J. Grant, sometime this summer or fall. The structure is one of the religious wonders of Canada. From an architectural standpoint it stands unique, as it is an original design by the Stalt Lake architects who designed the ;Mormon Temple there. None of the classic types of architecture have been followed. The design is massive, simple and impressive. The marble walls reinforced with steel are eight feet in thickness. The temple is the central object of the town of Cardston and the various other Mormon settlements in the vicinity, and presents a magnificent picture with the majestic snow-capped Rockies for a background. The temple will cost several million dollars. The material forming the outer walls, most of which was bought in British Coumbia, is said to contain $40,000 worth of gold. The length of the building is 235 feet and the height 110 feet. It is surrounded by an outer court, and the whole will form the centre of a beautiful square in which will be designed lawns, flower beds,

Chime soft and low, glad Christmas bells' We, too, will sing. Will bring our gifts more precious far Than frankincense or costly myrrh To Christ our king. Our consecrated lives we'll give; With trusting, loving hearts we bend To plead for grace and strength to live And honor hlra, our precious friend. Selected.

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lagoons, fish ponds, fountains and walks. It will have its own lighting plant, ventilating- and power system. Massive doors and elegantly carved woodwork from distant tropical countries have been assembled. Magnificent religious paintings adorn the walls. There is a carved baptistry, fashioned after the "Molten Sea'. of Solomon's Temple, supported by twelve brazen oxen plated with gold, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel. There are numerous other rooms such as the sealing room where the marriage ceremony is performed, and others for various rites, anointing, healing of the sick, and ceremonial washings. The building is now open to the public, but after its dedication it will be closed to non-members and no one will be permitted to enter unless he can show a recommendation signed by the bishop. The dedication ceremony will extend over a week, and will be attended by thousands, by the president, the twelve apostles, the presidents, counsellors, the presiding fci$hop aqd the Brcsidias patruich 7

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Y the same token that the

.man who is self-support-

:ing anu most productive is of the most uso to his city, country and state so the state which draws least from and gives most to the needed resource of the

Nation must be of cspcci.il benefit to all its people. Utah, with its vast mineral wealth, its flocks and herds, its orchards and gardens, its woolen and knitting mills, its great shoe factory the only one between Omaha and the Pacific Coast its salt deposits, its wonderful sugar industry which this year will give to the farmers for beets $23,000.000.00 and will supply the inter-mountain region with sugar at a time when only two-fifths of the 5,000,000 tons of sugar consumed by our people are produced in all America, has within its borders everything to support its population,and a goodly surplus which increases from year to year as new parcels of arid land arc subdued hv irrigation. The flag of the United States Reclamation Service, with its pure blue ground and white letters, U. S. R, S.

is really a heritage to the country from the sturdy "Mormon" pioneers who entered the Salt

Lake Valley July 24. 1847,

under the leadership of Brigham Young. The soil was too parched to plow. Water from a mountain stream was turned upon it and as the crops grew the water was used to nourish them in lieu of rain-fall. Reservoirs were then made in the mountains to store the water from

the melting snows; then the government took notice and the results arc such projects as the Twin Falls and Minidoka in Idaho, the Roosevelt Dam ii. Arizona, the $4,000,000.00 Strawberry canal in Utah where a tunnel was made three miles in length through a mountain to convert westward the waters of a river flowing eastward and reclaim a hundred thousand acres ol otherwise useless land, now worth from $100.00 to $2,0J0.00 per acre. Twenty-two arid land states .ly this banner and, as a result of the encrpy snd foresight of the "Mormon" leader have made it possible for tens of thousands of happy homes to be established by people from all over America And this is the land on which Col. Jim Rridger said not an ear of corn would grow, which the Indians shunned, and which Daniel Webster referred to in the Senate in the early 50's as "an arid waste and wilderness" which he would not vote one cent for to bring it a mile nearer to Boston.

Christmas Novelties

Among the best of tho novelties Introduced for Christmas gifts are the handsome beads made of sealing wax. They are strung on silk cord with or without glass or steel beads. The wax Is heated over an alcohol flame, the colors combined and the beadfl shaped over a knitting needle whilfe the wax Is soft Pretty hatpins are Cade In the Fame way.

This country has prosperity, but. Judging from the chorus of howls. It does not seem to be enjoying what It has.

After that expedition , to Asia hat found the missing link. It might devote Its energy to looking for the lost chord.

As we understand It, we want th price of everything to drop about 73 per cent except the stuff we happen to be selling.

Perhaps butter and eggs are exempt ed from the general drop because of a fear that they may make a niess when they land.