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Christmas Gifts
That please the recipient and bring }-y through
all the years to come.
Is there a home that does not need the kind of gifts that we
have? Endless varities to choose from. Here are just a few sugges
tions, and you must be satisfied with the extremely low prices we are
selling good furniture for this season:
Living Room Furniture, endless varieties, carried in Tapestry,
Velours and Mohairs; Easy Rockers, Cedar Chests, Telephone
Stands, Day Beds, Decorative Pillows and Cushions, Gate-leg
Tables, Breakfast Sets, Floor and Table Lamps, Pictures, Dishes,
Rugs, Table Scarfs, Desks, Book Cases, Tea Table Blankets—Silk
and Down, Comforts, Phonographs, and in every line a splendid as
sortment from which to make your selections.
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THE BOWLES DISARMAMENT j
(Detroit News)
Whlat a n old foggy that Rear Ad- |
mirai Francis T. Bowles must be !
and how out of touch with the spir- !
I'll of the military and naval estab- !
lishment. Wihy, when the confer
ence for limitation of armaments
was under way and tile repreeen
tatlves of nine nations had aasem- ,
Ibled in Washington and had bro! !
with them -whole gangs of experts !
with boxes and hales of documents,
this Admiral Bowles wrote -a letter I
which was printed in the Congres
sional Record in which lie .claimed
that tile whole business of disarm- !
ing was no trick at all. The way
to do it is simply to do away with !
the battleships. The bluff old Ad
miral said "Sink them," but that
may he just a figure of speech. He
probably wouldn't .abject to making
them inro flivvers or other useful
things.
Such an idea isnt likely to take
much with tlie conference, for con
ferences like to figure out percent
ages and -balances of power and !
make a big fuss over their jo-b. But !
the solid sense of all the tax-pay- i
ing, boy-furnishing men and women !
of this country will thin < Admir- 1
;1 Bowles is a prêt 1 y sensibly sort.
Fa shows the same kind of sense
used in civil life evavywhere. If
three or four fellows with guns
s' od glaring it each other in an al
ley Che folks who lived in that com
munity would see to it that those
fa'l ws wore disarmed and if the
guns were taken away the danger
of a fight would he cu-t) to the min
imum at once.
And come to think of It Admiral
Bowles takes a pretty sensible ikisI
tion even from the point of view of
•professional fighting men. Men in
a' 1 ages have been Induced to be
soldiers and ship fighters for glory.
They liked to wear brighitly color
ed uniforms and lots -rtf gold lace
and, shiny brass buttons. The sol
dier nowadays has ho be dressed eo
' •> nn't be seen. The talk is now
t' t "in the next war" soldiers will
•n come above ground, and
• will have to wear almost all
t' g time gas masks stinking of
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chemicals and be smeared over all |
their bodies vvi-tli sj-me heavy grease j
to protect them from corrosive gas :
and to wear stiff impervious dol
ing so that ithe gas cant eat them
alive. There would be more glory
in -being a groundhog. Even the
ships must be gas -masked, and the
poor sailors -a-nd gunners won't get
a breath of fresh air all the time
they are within reach of an enemies
long range guns.
With the game so spoiled, It Is
no wonder that good, old-fashioned
fighting men like Admiral Bowles
should want the whole business
sunk. And if the conferees are sin
cere they ought to be able to see
t-he logic of what he advises. Small
ships of the cruiser and destroyer
type are ample for -a country's de
fense. If the big ships -are abolish
ed. And the nation that is not will
ing bo put its armaments on the
basis -of defense avows itself a bully
and a-n outlaw among the other na
tions. It is doubtful if the public
opinion of any country will back
its representatives In taking such a
position.
YOUTH AT THE BAR.
(Denver News)
A federal grand Jury returned
many indictments this week at Pue
blo. A revolution (has ibeen noted in
the work of the federal courts in re
,uent years, they having become in
great measure federal police courts
due to the extension of the federal
arm over what was once considered
purely local or state's -affairs, a
mater of no mean importance to the
well-being of the republic. Howev
er, more of that later.
The presiding judge wondered at
-the youth of those indicted. The
jury wondered Poo. A new problem
lias arisen. A few years ago, as the
court stated, the persons wh-o were
before that court were in years ma
ture, as a rule often professional
criminals whose status was not hard
to define and whose punishment re
quired no pondering. Today it is
different.
Colorado is no exception unless it
be that the sociological revolution
is not. so marked in a nonindustnal
as in an industrial state. The same
story is told everywhere. The
youth of today comes of age before
his time. He is .-atapulted into the
wide world months ahead of liis
fathers. He is not as well prepar
ed. His temptations are greater.
Juvenile courts, police courts and
federal courts all have problems to
deal with.
Is parental authority to blame?
Are the churches to blame? Are
the schools to blame? All of them
have been blam«d in turn and
wholesale. Not one is wholly to
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blame; altogether they are not to
blame for it all.
A new world lias come upon us al
most without knowing i-t. It is a
greatly accelerated world. We are
eternally looping the loop. The
brake is worn and no longer holds.
An economic scientific revolution
has brought w-ith us, naturally, a
revolution in morals, in society
generally. The machine age has
been to the material advantage of
youth. It, may have taken its re
venge in another direction. Youth
is at the wheel, at the lever, at the
key, at the drop forge. He is joined
to serve wiith the exception of a few
trades; he becomes a man for the
purpose in view in a few weeks; he
is making big wages. His working
hours are not long. He too, is -a
machine; his work is automatic to
an outstanding degree, thanks ,to
modern inventions -and the econom
ic urge. He can return more to his
employer than his father did.
The modern youth, has plenty of
entertainment for his spare hours.
It is built on the accelerated plan,
-too, like his work. The coming of
the automobile and the moving pic
-ure lias revolutionized pleasure -as
well as work.
Self supporting, self sufficient
youth naturally, has little patience
with his elders or with authority,
generally. He is not Inclined td
finish his education; he is in great
hurry to be in the swim. He is a
disrespector of certain laws. Prohi
bition is scorned.
Educational authorities must take
note of the dual revolution which
li-is come upon uhe world. The pub
lic must do as well. The nation at
large is in need of a spiritual -awak
ening. It is overdue. For a brief
time it fluttered over us during the
war and then disappeared.
Five state hanks in Idaho which
hnve closed their doors In the pnst
year have paid their depositors In full
and two have arranged their affairs so
"mt their depositors will get Sfi per
cent of what the hanks held for them,
according to the state commissioner of
finance.
Government to Get Rum Runners
Philadelphia, l'a—Arrests and rc.
tion by the 1 ulted States attorney In
connection with the alleged $" 5 . 000 ,
OtK> rum plot uncovered here, may he
expected shortly. Prohibition Director
Rutter indicated Friday. A transcript
of evidence implicating the head of
an export Arm here, a former high of
ficial in the local United States secret
service and others In the alleged plot
will be furnished Federal Attorney
Coles. Rutter said.
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MODERN MENACE IN CHINA
Living in House Equipped With Gas
Ranges and Feithful Servants,
Has Its Good Points.
Our two-story house consisted of
two big rooms downstairs and sleep
ing apartments and a tiny roof gar
den upstairs. In this roof garden I
spent most of my time, and tiu-io my
son Wilfred and his amah passed
many afternoons. It was a pleasant,
sunny place, furnished with painted
steamer chairs, rugs and blooming
plants in pottery Jars, writes M. T.
F. in Asln Magnzine. At the hack,
rather removed from the muin part
of the house, were the kitchen, serv
ants' quarters and an open-air laun
dry. We were really very practical
and modern and comfortable. Our
kitchen provided for an admirable
compromise between old and new
methods. It had an English gas range
and a Chinese one. But the proper
Chinese atmosphere was preserved by
three well-trained servants, who
called themselves Ah Oiling, Ah Ling
and All I'oh. Most Shanghai servants
are called simply "Boy" or "Amah" or
"Coolie," but ours chose those names
as distinctive for servants there as
James and Bridget are with us. Ah
Cliing did most of the housework and
the running of errands; Ah Ling did
tlie marketing and cooking, giving us
a pleasantly varied succession of Chi
nese und foreign dishes; All Poh, the
amah, looked after Wilfred and at
tended to my personal wants.
From the first I was fond of Ah
Poh, with her finely formed, intelli
gent features, her soft voice and gen
tle, unhurried manner. She had served
uu American mistress before coming
to me, but showed a surprising wil
lingness to adopt my particular way
of doing tilings, whether in making
beds, in keeping iny clothes in order,
or in entertaining Wilfred. On the
other hand, Ah Cliing, elderly, grave
and full of responsibility, was very
partial to his accustomed way of ar
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would dust odd nooks and corners
faithfully', but if I made any formal
Inspection of Ids labors he would in
variably slight their*—-to intimate that
I should not be suspicious, as a friend
explained—a form o' logic that 1
found highly amusing. All Ling, aside
from ids culinary ability, was chiefly
interesting because his eyes were real
ly- oblique—as Chinese eyes are sup
posed to be. and usually are not, and
because his hair really curled—as Chi
nese hair Is supposed never to do.
und does occasionally.
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Advice to Idiots.
Bishop Hughes was talking about
agnosticism at a luncheon in Portland.
" 'An agnostic asked me once,' he
said, 'If I didn't come across a good
many things In the Bible I couldn't un
derstand.
" 'Of course I do,' said 1.
" 'Well,' said the ngnostlc, 'what dc
you do about it?'
" 'My denr friend,' I answered, T dc
Just ns 1 would while eating a nice bit
of plnnked shad. When I conn* to a
bone 1 calmly lay it on one side and
go on enjoying the delicious ment, let
ting any idiot who Insists on choking
himself on the bones do so.' "