The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-04-14
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Val, the popal Spanish secretary of
stall, is to blame for the unfortunate
affair. Colonel Roosevelt has take
broad view of the matter and dropped
1t. and the affair will pass now, appar-
emily, without much further comment
which is Col. Roosevelt's expressed
wish.
|
Speeches of an inflammatory kind
continue to be made in this country
concerning the inevitableness of a war
with Japan over the commercial con-
troll of the Pacific and the Far East.
| If there is anything wickeder and more
| unjustifiable than this, we do not know
what it is. The motives are not read
! lily discoverable Whether designing
commercial interests are at work,
whether the advocates of greatly in
/ creased navy and army are pressing a
| scare lever, or whether theorists are
talking to create a sensation, the eff
fleets are unquestionably bad, both
/ here and in Japan. If it were August,
the talk might be laid to the silly"
season; as it is, the government should
take pains to make it's attitude known,
and righteous public sentiment should
put to confusion those who are by
words fomenting strife. This nation
| is not yet merely a sordid and mono
| polistic seeker for a market for it's
wares, nor catspaw for combinations
capital. Let us have peace.-Missions.
A movement is under way in Salt
Lake City to send the tabernacle choir
| of that city to compete in the chief
choral contest at the Royal National
Eisteddfod of 1911, which is. to be held
in Carmarthem, Wales, says the Salt
Lake Tribune This announcement has
created considerable interest, both in
Salt Lake City and throughout the
country. 1t is probable that another
choir from America will also take part
as there is a strong movement on foot
| to organize choir of Welsh voices
| from Wyoming Valley, Pa, which will
| include selected singers from Scran-
| ton, Wilkesbarre, Edwardsville, Ply
mouth and Nanticoke, at which places
there are large colonies of the ancient
Welsh stock This great Welsh festi-
/ val is held each year, alternately in
| North and South Wales. This year the
festival is to be in Colwyn Bay, pref
/ ty seaside resort on the northern
coast, and number of towns are COM
peting for the place for 1912. The gem
uine Eisteddfod festival is held under
the laws and according to the rites and
ceremonies of the Gorsedd of the
Bards of the Isle of Britain. This
festival is always proclaimed with full
ceremony at a Bardic Gorsedd year
and a day before the date of the Of
fetal opening of the ceremony This
ceremony of proclaiming is always
held in some SYLVAN spot in the open,
and is exceedingly picturesque, having
come down in its purity through the
ages, and today it is said to be identi-
cal with the ceremonies performed by
the Dhnids 5000 years ago. One writ
er who attended one of the recent fes-
rivals graphically describes the superb
/. singing of one great Welsh hymn
i ("Great God of wonders, all thy
works." etc. on the last line of which
4 there is a glorious run for the bassos.
4 This was taken up by at least 1000 to
/ 5000 bassos, and the roll of the bassos
was like peals of thunder reverberat-
ing through the building. At the finish
the writer states that his Yankee. COM
panions was amazed. HE was hang
i ing on to column about four feet
i above, and he exclaimed Gosh! that
ticks creation. Should the taber-
nacle choir determine fully to take
part in this great festival it will be
i a great undertaking, involving persist
ent drilling for some time as the Welsh
ehoruses are said to be giants in the
choral line. However, to send choir
from Salt Lake City, will renown to
/ Utah. and to the West in general.
The expense would probably be s25,-
i 900 or more for such an expedition.
4 The premier prize in the festival is
i $1,000. t#
i The subject of the Rockefeller
Foundation is calling forth much COM
ment from every side. BY many it is
met with unfavorable comment and the
/. cry of tainted money is heard The
! opinion of The Watchman is as fol-
lows: Mr.. John D. Rockefeller's pro-
posal to incorporate practically his
, whole estate for philanthropic pur-
poses, is, we believe, unparalleled in
the history of the world. Large estates
have been incorporated for business
purposes, to carry on commercial en-
terprises which would suffer or be
destroyed by dividing the estate; and
large corporations have been formed
tably the Foundation of $10,000000 for
the Advancement of Teaching by Mr..
Z Andrew Carnegie and the General
Education Board to which Mr.. Rookie
Teller gave $53,000,000. But a Founda-
tion with an immense endowment, the
trustees of which shall have liberty
without limit in determining the dis
tribution of the vast sums at their dis
posal, is unprecedented. This is SIM
ply what Mr.. Rockefeller plans to do.
The application to congress for incor-
poration in the District of Columbia
reads: "The object of the said cor
poration shall be to promote the we'll
being and to advance the civilization
of the peoples of the United States and
its territories and possessions, and OF
!, foreign lands, in the acquisition and
4 dissemination of knowledge, in the pre-
vention and relief of suffering, and in