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Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-16
BY MARIAN RoNSALL DAVIS.

ny MARIAN RONSALL DAVIS.
EHHE war lays It's hand
1 upon us this Christ
mas.
The Ginning carols NAV
seem almost lost amid the
blasting of the guns, The
candles in the windows Of
our homes will shed their
little beams into a world
brilliant with liquid flame.
We will celebrate Christ's
birthday singing -. and
on earth peace. goodwill to-
ward men, while we urge
Our sons to train their minds
and their bodies for the kill
ing of their brothers. But
the Red Cross has taught
those of us who have suf-
feredS to see double: and it
viii be a Red Cross Christ
mas this year, wherever
Americans are grouped to-
gether.
This is what / near by
seeing double: there are over
100000 members of the
American Red Cross and the
campaign drive now opening
should result IN over I5,OGO,-
600. That doesn't seem big,
for we have become used to
larger figures. But the
woman off In some lonely
place, far from the inspira-
ton of her Chapter, making
with her work-worn hands
things to keep our soldiers
and sailors warm, the dress
ings that viii help the heal
ing Of some woundS-that
one woman seems great. She
is the spirit of the Red Cross.
The War Fund of $780,
100000, generous as it was,
has a way of turning round
and seeming small. Twice
that sum was spent in this
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CotiHiIN ldSl year lOr CdlluN.
We have learned To talk and
think in billions. But one
cent can buy enough iodine
tn disinfect a wOund-and
the diSinfection of that
wound may save a human
life.
And, after experience with
the wounded, there comes
the time when one sees in The
horror of the shattered flesh.
the beauty of the spirit.
TT is a strange holiday for
l. MS Americans, with our
new excitementS and DIR new
emotions: cur new soldiers
IL cantCnmentS or foreign
trenches. and our new sailors
On mined seas; reports of
our first dead. and our letters
from the front: our fears and
our Citations: and the occas-
ional fash of vision of hum
dredS of thousands of bows
and men in khaki in miles
upon miles of army barracks.
Many of them, too, are
aching with new tenderness.
1t is the time of times, in
our new puzzlement' and
need, to sing the Christmas
carols Of glad prophecy. The
city chimes and village Or
CANS, singers going from
door to door, will chime and
peal and carol as they never
have before, the Christmas
message of good tidings and
great joy which shall he to
all people.
We owe it to our men to
sing it with full hearts, so
that the spirit of it will reach
their battleships and their
camps. They must never
forget the happiness of this
Christmas, the. last, doubt
less, before they go across to
offer-all they have.
The Red Cross is trying,
and expects to send every
man in training a Christmas
parcel of ChristmasSy things
as symbol to show him how
much we care, and the things
we cannot say in words. The
boys in their barracks will be
celebrating, swapping pres
ents, joking and singing,
adding a Christmas song to
the familiar round of swing
ing choruseS. But before an
other Christmas perhaps a
million more young soldiers
will have followed them over
seas.
COME of them, until the
~ day they put on the uni
form, knew only school fun
and home love. Their stock
ings were darned, their favor
lite things to eat were cooked,
every minute of their holi-
days planned, their young
hopes regarded with yearn-
ing eagerness by their fam
lies. Some of them were
born seemingly to be knock
ed around, and have the hard
and lonely end of things.
Both are going abroad to-
gether now, serving the col
ors, defending our lives with
the offer of their own.
There will be a day when
one of these boys will be hurt.
Suddenly his strong young
body will be quite helpless.
He will be far away In a diff
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IN THE NAME OF FRANCE
/ THANK YOU.
God receiv. your Souls! =
Farewell!

There Is n mother who works IN
her home and her church for the
Red Cross who said that the high
est points of her life, and her deep
est happiness were the times her
son, new young second lieutenant
home on furlOugh, talked with her
as they washed the dishes together
at the kitchen sink.
How it is these humble things,
and not the dramatic ones, that
bind US together and thrill us nowl
How to those whom the war has
touched, people are not so much
Generals or Colonies, or Presidents
or servants or ice-men or tailors or
scrubwomen or Kings, as fellow
human-beings; and how the hope of
carrying on what thousands of
radiant youths have died and are
to die for, centers upon the little
children.
THIS is thinking in Red Cross
WAYS. For the ideal of the
Red Cross Treaty signed in
Geneva by the delegates of nations,
is merely this: that every. suffering
human being in war, whether be-
longing to friend or enemy, shall be
sacred to the Red Cross. Yet the
symbol of that treaty is so great,
that it is the meeting ground of the
most conflicting race and the most
conflicting creeds; of men and wom-
Ell and children; OF black and white
ard yellow and red; of rich and
poor; of jew and Gentle; of Catho-
lie and Protestant; of Buddhist and
Sonfucian; of artist ands artisan;
of matcrialiSt and idealist; of SOL
der and civilian; " general and
private; OF Foe aid Adversary
he Red Cross ..
So we put candles in our win
dows this Christmas Eve, that the
fiickering point of light shining
through the Red Cross on the win
dow-pane may say to the way
farer and the soldier and the
sailor, things too great for words.
They will understand. Tor in this
overwhelming trouble we have be-
g:ln 60 be simple of heart together.
The poor and the rich have begun
to understand the others sacri-
ices.
Aud SO we can sing Christmas
carols and not be hypocrites; for
the guns that are killing men SO
ansuishingly dear TIC Us are blast
ing out OLE wrongs and old hypoc-
ricieS
The Red Cross is our home way
to help. The need is too great for
us 20 compass even in orr minds
The organization of the Amcrican
Red Cross can do the ShingS We
cannot do ourSelveS-it can ar
range the shipping, and earry our
gifts, It can get them to our Men
Il can, &c we let it, look after our
mems hrtlc children left at home.
Ii YOU are not a member of the
Red Cross, YOU are needed beyond
voUr Imagining.
Please hclp-because You are *
needed
~ get the Red Cross to our boys
and oar men
This Is a Red Cross Christmas,
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Editors Mail

Editor Tho Star Tho rc.
ment ia doing its best 10 70. ,,,-
ers for the farms. and altbo 60
every effort Is being MAD. a.
farmers complain that there /. -
enough labor What IA the ~.
ble2 wv
II is because the farmer,
getting 70 be hogs They wa, !.
all With wheat at t2.7Oa h,,.s !. y
bankerB will loan money IN -,
crops. But the farmer Ia mn 80
hed. lie only offers from ,ss !.
40 a month ~ man ybo,,
wants 30 work from dAyll1t, y y
dark. which means 70 10 IA ~ y
Il day
with the cost o' living do,,,a.,
since the outbreak Of the va, ~
farmer Is paying the same ,or n
that he did before. Good farm 49,,
east N tho mountains will n,oS...
20 bushels ~ wheat 10 m. -.
Many farmers have 1000 80
That means 1000 bushels. or ,,s.
I 900 for the crop. ''
10 u any wonder that labo- 49,.
desert good wages In the e,,y =
help the farmer OUT "
Lot the farmer pay tho pr,e. q.
labor that Ia paid in Canada ,sS.,
and there will bo a rush nv a.
farm, just as there was whsp G.
ada Advertised for labor m ~
grain fields. Yours truly.
d. p MERIT
1927 w. si,h ~
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OF this very day. unless Jarvis vas
again engaged. Ia which case he
might telephone. and they would
mako other plans Jarvis froSned
over n ten minutes.
Might as sell 10 and get II
over" he remar cd ungraciously
He telcphoned Strong hls accept
ancc. and asked II he might meet
him At the restaurant lie did not
wish strong 70 know the new adj
dress Tie would keep his strug
gle and hts poverty to himself.
That vas certain.
Tho two men mot al n roof gar.
den. each determined to suppress
his instructive dislike OF the other
because % Bambi They found n
table. aud after a short period OF
stiffness they foil into easy talk of
books and plays and men.
Il had note from Mrs Jocelyn
few days ago"
Did you2
Il wonder n YOU would lot me
see your Songs OF the Street. she
told me about"
she spoke Of them 10 your"
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ccBcaY'
"If you IKE No one ever calls
me by that name"
That's why ! choose H. Good.
bye My regards 10 the father"
"Good.bye. friend. I'm ecstatic
over your news"
80 am over any news that
brings you Happiness Good night -
After ho left she sank down On
the couch again. her brain nwhirl
of her new sensations and Ideas.
That Richard Strong had learned
~ care for her during these
months Of intimate association
over the story. came with as great
surprise as tho astonishing de
mand Of Mr. Frohman.
Then she began 10 plan how she
would toll Jarvis the story Of her
adventuring into the new field. her
swift success. and now this last
laurel leaf Suddenly new idea
lifted iis head suppose Jarvis re-
fused 90 come into his Own. under
her mantle. as n we're? lie would
/ hr proud and glad FOR her. OF
course. but maybe he would resent
taking his first chance from her
hands. Long she sat. and finally
she laughed. nodded her head. and
clapped her hands.
"Oh, yes. that's tho way" said
she.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
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ANOTHER ONE oers MIDDLE D

In the Highest terms. Said she
had no idea OF your plans In regard
10 them. but that the poems were
strong and true"
Il ain clad she lifcd them
Would you consider letting me
have them for the magazine II they
seemed TO ~ our needs ?"
You can look them over. II yon
like. They won't IT, tho. They'll
stick out like n sore thumb. The
only editor showed them TO said
they wero't prose. and they weren't
poetry. and. besidcs no didn't like
them"
Jarvis drew out an envelope that
no pushed across the table 20
Strong
Look them over. now" he said.
Strong lifted HIS brows slightly.
but took the proffercd pages and be.
Ean To read While his host was 50
busted. Jarvis smoked a good cigar.
the frat in months. and enjoyed a.
lilo didn't care whether Strong liked
them or not. Strong looked mp sud
denly
IN take those. Jocelyn What
do you want for them7"
"Oh. don't know. what are they
worth 10 you7"
I'm pay 5000 for them. Is that
satisfactory
Perfect
I'm mail YOU check In the morn.
ing. should say YOU have been
learning things. Jocelyn That Is
good stuff"
Il told you was getting a new
point OF view"
At the close OF the evening the
two men parted with n surroptltlous
feeling that they would have liked
each other under any other circum-
stances. They promised TO meet
| again soon. As for Jarvis. he felt
that a golden egg had bcen laid for
him in the middle OF tho table on
! the Astor roof Tho one thing that
stood out in his mind was the
thought that he could 20 home
home. to see Bambi. Tho only re-
greet was that Strong had made II
! possible.
The day came. In early December,
when ljambi put tho last word. tho
last period. 10 her book. Instead OF
a moment OF high relief and of
pride. as she had foreseen II. II was
with n sigh of regret that she laid
down her pen. She felt M n mother
might feel who sends her child out
TO make it's own way when she had
put her last. finishing mother-touch
/ upon his training
Ardelia broke In upon her medi
tations,
mir Strong is herel"
"Who?"
"hlr StronR!"
"Mr. Strong Why. he sent me
no word. I didn't expect him"
81 cant help that. He's here
sottin' I'm the liberty"
Dear me-" said BambI. Say
' III be down at once. Watt Help
me to get into my gray gown be
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Let's Go! Let's Go!

United States shipping board ussing around with
q thousand different Of plans back Washington whe
allies suffer because aren't getting ships built reminds
fire department, chief called fire and wasting time
irving whether his red uniform his
blue
Why get busy and build the ships,
Puget Sound shipbuders uptoc waiting for the
word to go" Everything ready in shpyards LET'S
GET ACTIONl
SOMEBODY SUGGESTS food Well. there
could don't exactly
hsnke or eannha
be the only the
mythical would provide
fair line. Hndnbo fall back
kissed like TO be-and other, don't
object.
If BODY body pouring
to be a
the snortage7
LOOKS Uncle esesns take the
PRO opposites.
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Let Us Keep Our Heads

War economy is laudable. but let us be reasonable
about il.
We asked take precautions against waStage IN an
effort food supply This is logical and sensible
But noticed the other day printed item IN which
Seattle society proposed stand dized style OF dress
for all women. a toward dress economy.
This. carrying the thing 10 an unwtse
extreme So lar any knows there isn't going be
any shortage in dress goods No patriotic end going to
be served by skipping along this particular line
On the contrary such ultra and hl-consdered economy
might be reflected in decreased material prosperity OF the ma
ton furry OF struck Canadian cities in tho
first few months Of the didn't do any good
Then came the slogan Business usual and skimpng
stopped in the where skimpng obviously was
necessary, such in the consumption OF foodstuffs
Let's econouizc but let's be reasonable about II.
Anyhow where the dickens is the woman who would pass
up chance buy the latest thing in spring II she
could afford it,
RICHES not, end Al life
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Battling for Coal in France

The meaning OF the terrific struggle between the British
and the Germans around the city OF Lens something more
than a mere British attempt push Hndcuburgs famous
Zine" still further back 1t something than effort
60 force the off French soil 1t Gen Hays brave
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have achieved victory far important than the sinking
of 100 German submarines.
What France and Italy greatly need IN addition TO food
munitions and clothing coal England has been trying TO
supply coal her allies urgently require and Germany
with her submarines endangered and short the supply
Lens is the kew 70 IL IN the heart OF
the greatest coal mining region OF France, For many
months il has in the hands OF the Germans IL they
now lose IT, only short time will eapse until French
miners once more work the precious coal odes And 10
that extent submarine campaign OF nghulneSs will
have been defeated
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COUNCIL CHAMBER

NEW ALBANY. lnd---fur ven.
ulation purpoece = window was left
open In tho council chamber. and
pair OF pigeons havo built a nest
In tho chandelier
We hear ~ lot ~ city folk build
lug chicken coops IN their back
yards. Which reminds Ne 81 Lake
wood man who said friend Of his
had invested In a chicken coop and
IL turned out 20 be limousine
Editor r u X In order 10 re-
lievc the food pressure am going
10 ralsr mushrooms in my cellar
@. $. r.
sWATTiso ~ c. OF L.
-
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BY Marjorie Benton Cooke

fore You 20
You look an right do way you
H."
ESQ. no This mnn lives IN New
Yora Ardelia Hes used to real
clothes
Richard Strong turned away from
the loK fire at the sound of 3ambin
footsteps running down tho stairs.
Welcome sno said. smiling
Little girl" he smiled. what do
you think brought me down hero
today
$50 idea"
tie took q le'ter from biz pocket
and handed it to her
II am ~ read thiF7"
/ He nodded She opened it and
read
sir Richard Strong.
'Nca York city
My Dear MIR Strong ! have
tcud with very great lntcreft a
serial STORY. published 800 your mag.
Hline. entitled FruuceHoa feel
that there be- the making Of a de.
lightfW comedy 10 The plot 81 this
novel. and ! write 10 ask you
whether q would be possible for
me 10 secure the dramatic rights
from the author hs the story is
Anonymous. ! appeal 10 you 70 put
me 10 touch with the writer In queH.
tlon. shall appreciate an Inn
mediate reply
/ with thanks 10 you. IN advance.
sincerely
CHARLES FROHMAN.
Empire Theatre.
'Sew York city"
Am | dreaming thls1 Does this
mean my book
lie smiled al her earncstnesr.
II does came down TO talk II
over With YOU and zee what you
wanted me 30 do"
What do you think about it -orr
seif?"
= think rs a great idea II will
advertise tho book enormously.
The book Will help the play 10
tho meantime. they both advertise
you"
a play made 81 my thoughts
It's too wonderful said Bamhi
DO YOU suppose he'd let me make
'he play"
4 don't know Would you like
TO- 10 you think you could"
\ DO I've learned lots thru r."
She stopped ~ sudden. and cared
az him why Jarvis must make
I the play. Of course Why didn't !
\ think OF H."
mir Frohmau would. no doubt
wish 20 choose the playwright IN
case you didn't make the dramatic
version yourself
"rd love to 20 sec him. INT
this exciting she cried. as the
| full force ~ what she was EayinF
came TO her. "Oh. It's fun 20 do
things. and he somebody. Isn't it,
/ I don't know. never tried tt
You How absurd Dhtin
guishcd you. saying that TO q
nouycau like me. when there
would have been no me except for
you
That's complicated. but delight
ful OF you. no matter how untrue II
Ia"
Tt ia true II you hadn't hsp
pcned 20 like the first story ] hap
pcned 10 write. We would never be
here discussing my first play
which Mr.. Frohman happens "a
want It's all you"
Mr. Strong suddenly leaned ove'
her. 40 that she felt his breath on
her hair
Francesca, n Il only were ali
me- he said with unexpected pas
sion. She looked up at him. fright
ened. amazed
"oh. you mustn't do that" she
hreathed. lie Strengthened mp n
once
You're right b~g your par
don. Twas just slip"
He took turn up and down the
room. and when he came back tc
the hearth rug he spoke In his
usual matter-offact way.
Il am 20 make an appointment
then. for you. with MI Frohman
at his office 80
III you vii. sho answered
gratefully
Whom viii you come TO New
| York -
ANY day Won can get the ap
pointmcnt The sooner the bet
ter"
He took her hand and held It q
1 moment
Forgive me when seem a hac
friend Trust me
Il do. Richard. do"
"Oh. thank you. May say Fran
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STAR BEAMS

PUTNAM ISN'T THE ONLY
ShELLER
WICHITA FAi.l2S-Tho Lake
Wilson Oh Company has hired
Iicnry Zachary. an official "oll
smellcr." TO smell for oil on their
land
NOW SOMEBODY'S HOME ~
HnILAIrII rA AasnEn
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Mother OF Nine
CHILDREN
Able to do Homework by
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Spr g1rlG Mass After the
birth -. auth baby | was In a
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LITTLE added to ha, you've got makes Just little
he