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The Exeter Times, 1919-12-25, Page 6Unrest and Christmas Peace Bethlehem is reel, It is a 'place to God. ill; the highest, which' travelers• may go. I have been, And on earth peace among then, int 'whom he is well pleased," there myself within the last six p months. Myriads of devout pilgrims To the traveller standing on a Beth- lehem hillside the sweet old story seems newly real. It was a place turn their 'steps thither as soon es the event, as 'well as a universal message. present paralysis .of normal life is When we localize it we understand cured. New highw ays have peen more vividly its ewer -present meaning. one The old carol seems like an into re- that bythe war,so o e dmay p tie now go from London to Bethlehem by nation written yesterday:— . rail, with only two brief feriages "It came upon the midnight clear, on the way. That glorious song of old, Bethlehem is in itself not the most From angels bending near the earth beautiful of Judean towns; probably 7b teach their harps of gold; Peace on the earth, good will to men, that distinction to day belongs to Ain. From heaven's all -gracious King'. Karim, where Elizabeth dwelt and ,flee world in solemn stillness lay, John the Baptist, the kinsman of To hear the angels zing. Jesus, was born, and where Mary went to visit her cousin before the birth of the babe of either. To -day Bethlehem has lost much of its Oriental char - "Still through the cloven skies they •come, With peaceful wings unfurled, .anter, because of the many modern And still their heavenly music floats Christian buildings in it, which de- O'er all the weary world; votion and missionary zeal have rear- Aboveits sad and lowly plains ed. The,population is mostly Chris- They bend on hoveving wings, tion; and the main industries are the And ever o'er its Babel -sounds working in mother-of-pearl and olive The blessed. angels sing. wood. Bethlehemites are distinctive in both dress and appearance, prole- "And ye, beneath life's crashing'load, ably owing to Crusader blood and in 'Whose forms are bending low, iiuence Who toil along the climbing way A Pen Picture of Bethlehem.„ With painful steps and slew,— Look now! for glad and golden hours On a terraced hillside, with the. Come swiftly on the wing; limestone rock outcropping, and vine- 0 rest beside the weary road. yards tucked away' on tiny ledges, and And hear the angels sing. olive trees growing on the stormy soil, is built the "4little town of Beth- lehem,” with its gray, square, flat - roofed, limestone houses, 'standing al- most solidly along narrow streets. Through the doorway the visitor from Jerusalem, which is only five miles away, may see the men and women tailing at primitive lathes amid the , dust of mother-of-pearl. Alas, the workers are not many now, for war and starvation took a heavy toll of Bethlehem. The shops where mother- of-pearl articles are sold are few and meagre, and their principal sale is of regimental badges to the British sol- diers. British troops guard the town of "For lo, the days are hastening on, By prophet bards foretold, When with the ever -circling years Comes round the age of gold; When peace shall aver all the earth Its ancient splendors fling, And the whole world gives back the song Which now the angels sing." Christmas Help for To -day. Whatever maker that first Christ- mas real and near is a message for our own day, for we need to hear, above the clash of class, the strife of strikes, the pandemonium of profiteer- ing and the harried hunt for happi- Bethlehem to -day and keep watch by ness, the old, old truth sung by the the Manger. For long years Turkish I angels ever Bethlehem's little hills soldiers guarded the Church of the that the Peaoemaker has come and Nativity, which housed the e. .esnas_1that good will has been incarnated in ties of three warring Christian faiths a manger. That is the most present —Greeks, Latins and Armenians. Nowa and practical and important 'of all a genial Tommy •stands at the en -1 words for our day. To find a solu- tranee to the erypt containing . the1 tion of our riddles, the calming of Manger, "to keep the, priests from 1 our unrest, the way of light in aur -scrapple, and from swipin' eachi hour of darkness, we needbut to go other's lamps," he says. . Sectarian i bade to Bethlehem and find the real - strife shows at its worst at the Church; sty of Christmas. of the Nativity and the Church of the Hely Sepulchre. The oldest Christian edifice in the world covers the traditional and uni- versally accepted •site of the Manger.. dllside was the village khan,' and Joseph lodged, and; still the usage, was; into the limestone, wn out of the, v the church a door so; person which has nee,1 asj Our time's turmoil takes a thousand forms; its real need is only one. Cam- ouflaged by humanity's hectic pur- suits of pleasure is a deep -flowing de- sire for real peace—peace among men and pease in the human heart. We are weary of war, and much of our current restlessness is only a reaction against its work and its woes. We think we want easier lives and pleas- anter times and greater prosperity; in truth, our need is for peace of spir- it and for an era of good' will among all men. Until our overwrought and light - seeking 'World follows the shepherds to the place of the Christ it will not, e.healed of its fret and its fears. The' :ve of God, made personal and near in Christ, is alone sufficient to satisfy the present quest. If red -stained Russia, distraught Europe and be- wildered Asia and perturbed America ould only hear, as if for the first, and in fullest reality, the mess -i of Christmas they would not need olution or Bolshevism or any of desperate remedies they are now ng. the Christmas truth is the; a living and supreme 'God, in man; of a loving Saviour, ear the character of God,. vine spirit of good will 4n bring in that golden best described as the aaven. The brother - eh the race struggles ily when Christmas oken everywhere.- . EANAKO Saki oik WV; k10tao e Al o ft DOJO .41oseiNag, igTA, Utitro%s fat*,`ta Kde ?mos vim 'Naw C�Seov R �+ witNC �.R et %Kt ov o+i s as �Nic �tIMM uNv VocZ t}se 1a 'fN yiila' ev. Nese 6 2 ro7 — Gst SiUSt,'$oMaBODY! 11U. WiatoTeas e erZY Um. Timsr Rao Gone: Satan+ A. Chance F or a Million! NO HOPE OF RELIEF FROM H. C. L. Export Trade Berg Fostered at Expense of Consumer. A despatch from Winnipeg says:— There is no hope of relief from pres- ent high prices for aome time to come, according to a statement just issued by members of the Board of Com- merce. There will be no relief, the commissioners declare, until interna- tional trade conditions return to normal. • "With the high price of wheat and mill feeds and the creating of the foreign demand for all products, it is hopeless for some time to expect any relief from present price conditions," the commissioners assert. Present conditions have been seized upon by some dealers to profiteer, the board charges, but all high prices are not the result of profiteering. Many are due to natural increases forced by conditions growing out of the war. That export trade is being fostered to the benefit of the manu- facturers and producers at the ex- pense of the consumer, is another allegation. THRIFT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN U. S. Women Organized to 'Fight High Cost of Living. , A despateeh from Washington says:—An army of 4,000,000 women, representing, ten. national organiza- tions, has :been organized by the sav- ings divisions of the treasury depart- ment to enter the fight against the high cost of living. 1 NFLD. DOG SAVED 92 PERSONS Scram to Shore With Life Line From Wrecked Steamer. nirent Spends 000,000 Pei Day ,m London eays:— nditure of the to Novell). - d9,00' as A despatch from Curling, Nfld. -• �. ._.. CANADA'S SHARE IS $35,000,00% Proceeds. Froth. Oversees Cann teens Goes Back to Soldiers.. A despatch from Ottawa says:— Canada ays;Canada has received .$35,000,000 es her share df the proceeds of the op-. eration of canteens overseas by the Army and. Navy Board. The question now arises how the windfall will be utilized. The money is the remit of Beginning January 1 and extending soldiers' patronage of array canteens to April 1, a great thrift campaign overseas, and will, it is understood, will be conducted ,in all effort to in- go back to the •soldiers. One sugges- duce women to keep strict accounts of ,tion which has been made is that it their daily expenditures in order to should be administered by the special study of thein to eliminate unnecese department oi! the Canadian Patriotic sary items. According to the •plans, Fund, which is handling the • eerie-, amounts saved by this means would be invested in Government securities. Women's 'organizations which have been enlisted in ,the campaign include the Association of College Alumnae, •bur"sed by a ,soldiers' .organization. In Daughters of the American Revolu- Great Britain, where the canteen sur - tion, General Federation of Women's plus amounts to £35,000098; an Clubs, National Catholic War Coun- organization representative of the cil, National Congress of Mothers and army and navy, and headed by Sir Parent-Teacher Associations,. Nation- Julian Byng, has been formed, and is al Council of Jewish Woe'nen, Nation- al Federation of Business and Pro- fessional 'Vernon's Clubs, National League for Woineree Service, •Wo- man's Departxnent of the National. Civie Federation, an; the Y.W.C.A. SEES FILMS OF PRINCE'S TOUR i priation voted by: Parliament last session for soldiers' civil re-establish- ment. Some n-iilitarer men eontenc4 that the canteen. fend should be clis- Royal Family View C.P.R.. Movie in Albert Hill. A despatch from. London says:— The Albert I•Iall was crowded on Wed- nesday afternoon when the King and Queen and Princess Mary and the younger princes attended a display given by the Canadian Pacific Railway Cherry, a British officer, is here in on behalf of the London hospitals, of connection with the payment of the flims depbicting the Prince of Wales' amount, Canadian tour. Sir George Perley - ---- presided, and the Royal party remain- Duke of Hthnilton's Art asking for suggestionsas to the ,nnan- nee in which the money should be disbursed. The fund arises from the operations of the army and navy canteen board. That board was formed wheu'the sys- tem under which canteens 'vera op- erated for the .army ,and navy by pri- vate parties under contract was abol- ished. The airny •• and navy canteen board handled canteen supplies for all British naval and military forces in Great Britain and France. Re surplus is now being divided pro rata- among the. countries whose soldiers patroniz- ed the canteens. Australia has accept- ed £2,000,000 in •payment of its pro- portion of the fund. Canada is receiv- ing $35,000,000 as its share, and Col. ed during the greater part of the Treasures Bring Million show. The audience maintained a running fire of enthusiasm as the pie- says:—The ic- says: The passengers and crew of tures of every town tho Prince visited the coastal steamer Eth,le, numbering were shown. • 92 persons, were brought ashore on a life -line which was run out from the ship by a Newfoundland deg after their vessel hit upon Martin's Point. Boats could not make the hazardous passage from the stranded steamer. All effort to shoot the line ashore failed when the line became caught. A despatchf ram Parissays:-- Menthrough did not dare attempt the trip Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, through the waters, and so the dog was recently receive& t the Academy. was put overboard. The dog bravely c•f 'Moral and Political 'Science here. took the line in its teeth and battled The president of the academy, in an against the rough sea, the line being . ad res sa . d a e 'ted `Ii t h rai i n e e r a tt ti de 1 1 released. theg n`, ing room, and $9,750 for the seven - With block and tackle the Ethic's in tn- war of Belgium and her Ki and eulogized the patriotic firmness teenth century ask panelling of the crew, aided by fishermen on the shore, ® _ picture gallery. Ger- rigged a life-saving device, using a of Cardinal Merc,�er during the Gel The black marble staircase, which boatswain's chair for a carriage. One man occupation o, the Belgian king - boatswain's by one in this chair 91 cif the 92 dem consists of a double, flight of steps sty. , end 'a gallery, failed to find a pur- sons aboard were hauled to safety. Cardinal Mercier inn response prais- ed King Albert for the leadership of chachaste'. A baby sixteen months old was pulled Itis people, and paid tribute to France The palace stands in the heart of ashore in a mail bag. the Lanarkshire coal mining district, hc, Ethic, which had been engaged and herallies, who, he declared, offer - The show was repeated at night to another large audience, and was pre- i'tded over by Sir McLaren Brown, gen Cardinal Mercier Honored in Paris j , ENGLAND. 11 The freedom of the city of Durltan i has been conferred on LiouteCTeneral Sir 'William Rehm Marshall, The Prince, of .Wales has presented a sup for competition at the St. Dau - Stan's Day ''lower Show. , A team from H.M.S. E celleant de- feated the Stock li xcb'nge Rifle Club at Birley by seven points. W. Emberton Fox, of Norihorpe HalT, formerly ohairrnan of: the Lincoln County Council, died reoenty. The old wooden drib -hall of the 20th County of London Reg.iinent, lack l' " r I. s esti destroyed �y�. lack - heath ha b 5 General Persing, chief of the Amerl• can Forces, has received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford 'University. . ' Percy Reginald Jackson, a ten -year- old boy, accidentally fell lute the- River heRiver Ribble at Aston and was drowned. , Instructional centres tor the train. ing of disabled meg for the building trade are Jibing opened by the Minis, , try of Labor, •' The dead. oocurred at Cheltenham, " recently; of Joseph Hale, a Crimean veteran who had served with the Royal Fusiliers, Thomas Samuels, a collier, fell 500 feet clown a shaft at the Bersham Col. j fiery, Wrexham, and was dashed to pieces, c The closing an Sunday of hair -dress. ers' and barbers' shops throughout the 'United Kingdom has been made come. •pulsory. Burrell Hammond, of\Brarpton Hall, Aylsleem, Norfolk, took shelter under a tree during a storm and was killed' by lightning. General Sir W. Marshall stated at Durham that Mesopotamia might be, made the finest cotton growing coua try in the world. Rats gnawed the water pipes in a house in Scarborough with the result that the ceiling gave way and the hduse was flooded. Ono- thousand oversea agriculturists representing the Dominion forces, visited the hbyal Agricultural Show at Cardiff, Seven hundred laundry workers of Bristol arcon strike, having refused the employers' offer of 28 shi Ys4or a forty-eight hour week. 4t� e an randeitl�u of The children d g the late Sir. Thomas- Fowell Buxton, have placed a memorial tablet to him is St. Thomas' Church, Upshire. A•despatch fropi Lanarkshire, Scot- land,' says:—Hamilton Palace, seat of the late Duke of Hamilton and Bran- don, who was .premier: Duke of 'Suit - land, Seat -land, is being dismantled and even tlie furnishings said at auction. Remark- able prices have been realized from the sale of pictures and jewels. The total • aggregated the equivalent of $1,277,700. Most notable among the paintings was that of the "Beckworth Children," by Potency, which brought X260,000. Other prices were $24,000 for the ,, sltrstr d $15,000 n , II, oak h •a e Charles,: eb for the panelling in the :old state din in the coastal service between Curling ed their gold and blood, mixed with tine tears of �hetr wives and mo Tourand Labrador ports,went ashore last 1tilers, His Second in orde that t in 182 to 1829, and one of its mar - 1 tirtednesday during a gale whale hound vols was a portico cif monolith Corin- south. The wreck was net reported word, for justice and loyalty, as Chian columns which were copied from l t t 1 t is A dssnat.1. from London says? f taught triumph in the wand. • immortalized by .Scott lin one of his most spirited ballads. It was built h reefed forthe given Begins in Marchi _ d ; Here until. the shipwrecked pas'engers , Mann's passring ma ea -- in •ei•e s , Another o�ex.�ea•s torr is , andcreti, arriveddram Bonne Bay, all n being pdan- wi : •havir one 'own in the storm. recent specch he announced that the'' Wales. incl .g g a e f trees th,� red for r,l;e of �i ales. a TI. u.anos o tad£ h,i.at C,an- the Pri King was sending hint to Australia, and New 'Zealand. He will probably sail next March, and be away six or seven months. i War Material Handed Over By Germans to the Allies A despatch from London 'says:--- VTinston Churchill, Secretary for War, announced in the House of Com- mons that the Germans had handed over to the Allies 5,000 guns, 25,000' machine gums, 3,000 trench mortars, and 1,700' airplanes. They had still failed to deliver 42 locomotives and 4,760 railway trucks. The Secretary considered that the Germans had made a tremendous ef- fort to comply* with the conditions imposed upon them. Montreal Places Whole of ntni'to Under Quarantine A despatch from Montreal says: -- "Commencing en Wednesday, thz whole Province of Ontario has been ' placed under quarantine, •so far as 1 Montreal ,•s concerned." This c;eciaion, which was taken on Wednesday'. hg a i the municipal authorities. is now law, E:- land henceforth and until further no- lii@iss . E. Marity, M. tice all travelers from Ontario to this A graduate c;£ Queen's University,city must comply with the demands •who has the distinction of being thei of the Montreal' Board of - Health. ly woihan , School •Inspector ins This else applies to all persons tario. The honorary : degree of conning to Montreal from the United D. was recently conferred upon States and passingthrbugh the'Pr9v- arty ' by her. AnMater, nice of '' Ontario. . • BRINGING UP' FATHER th( 401 tine • `atieerr HER taleWr 4i8RE-` HER. POCYE`r- Shocylc hitSS`► ill; r I//tele %t' Fn; ada are being injured by the nailing of advertueing matter to there. Not only is the bark injured and the cam- bium layer broken, which gives fungi an cpporturrty, to attack the trees, but the spaced behind such signs serve as harbors for moths and other insects. • Rudyard Kipli 3g. On' behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission -he has written,frn earnest appeal to those -neaten: the French and Flanders battlefields to cbserve reverence for the dead. "This is holy ground," says Kipling, "and must not be.•run over with levity." 0 -W-0. • 4404, P the -Temple of Vespasian • at Rome, The foundations of the palace have become so affected by time that ,it was found necessary to dismantle the historic edifice. • Brush Air Policy Defined. A despatch from London says:— Winston ,Churchill, Secretary ;for War, has prepared a scheme for the Royal Air Force organizations in. peace time based on the expenditure of £15,000,- first time in her new flat. The young 000 ($75,000,000) yearly. The main couple only had one sitting -room, and outlines provide for one flight squad- the ebony piano, which was 'pre- . , Spirit -Da hers. Oh, Nell, your dress is so sweet! • But whatever made you do your 1 . like that? It makes you look 'lit old. That's what Nell's friend said just as she was off to a dance, anti had no time to altar her hair. She was only just on the right side of thirty, so` couldn't afford to look older. Now, ad`ice given our friends about their appearance is, if genuine, of great value, but it should be given at the right time. The girl above mentioned found it difficult even to talk to her partners. She fancied all the time that they were thinking she was au old frump, who oughtn't to go -out to dances, and were asking her for a dance out of pity. Suddenly, however, she caught sight of herself in a mirror, and was delight- ed to notice she looked quite passable. At once she got into the spirit of en- joyment, regretting she had taken any notice of her friend's words. There ere far too many spirit -damp- ers about. I heard the other day of a 4 woman who visited a bride` for the ren for each division of the army, to co-operate with the troops in all stages of their training, besides three general service .squadrons, and also one or more squadrons for co-opera- tion with the artillery. The ,fleet will have .permanently three airplane squadrons and two sea- plane squadrons. 'e India will have eight service squadrons, Mesopotamia three and Egypt •seven, while the, naval bases at Malta, in the eastern Mediterranean and probably Alex- andria: will each have one small sea- plane unit. • ets- she to who Women workers in France now lav- Again,, it was only the other day 1 erage about $2 a day, while beton a the 'the afternoon with a heard of a. girl who had been out for war they were earning less than. 40 man to cents.a'•ilay. was rather attached, and wanted to inn - Lay aside the pipe and tobacco mid thoroughly, and was quite bright until press well. She had enjoyed herself !see how soon you San save enough to site came across her sister, who ex- • buy thea farm tool you have needed claimed: so long. ''You've n©ver been -gut with Mr.. sent, didn't harmonize well with the other furniture. "Good gracious, Bertha! You must take that thing out of here; ;it simply spoils the look of the room! chirped in Mrs. Tactless. • The bride, who was full of joy and life before, felt her heart sink. There was nowhere else to put the piano: but, she did so want her room to look nice. Tears came very near.her eyes. Seeing the mischief she hadt' ht the visitot' tried to' put thin it, and the incident apparently.pas ed over. Yet it had taken an the life out• of the hostess. • nide0Fli ilArftIFS.11111 • In that frock! You look a per - feet fright!" 'Personally, 1 would pint alI such tact. less folk in the stocks, or pt;y them out in their own coin. There's a tint° to give a hint, and a tune to rest toilet ly silent. - • ' If .one intent,. anything piettaant to say, holding one's tongue isle t it bad: way out. Queer Kaffir Cu heen. The married I affir'women are cont- relied to speak a iainguage different froth that of their husbands. They iney .not evoc .pronounce thein 'hats• menti 11 names, but conmi:n;ly refer to tlhetnas tho father of so-and-so.' ` An irrigation dram beiii banlit on 'he Murray sliver in Atxstralia, wall be 94 feet high .and v t'11 impound• 1,000,+ 000 acre-feet t water, •