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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
Home Heating
Hints By John Barclay
1Gs1E@0 Heating Expert
Don't Shake Down Low Fire
Give Fresh Coal Good Start
Then Shake Crates Gently
Heating Expert

THERE'S little fault with the
4 firing method of quite few
home-owners that I should like to
correct. They have mistaken
idea that when a fire is low, all
they have to do is to shake the
CRATES vigorously and the fire will
flare up again.
Nothing could be further from
the fact. A shallow, burned
out fire cannot be revived by shak-
ing most of the remaining Goals
into the ashpit. The simple way
to revive it is to add sprinkling
of fresh coal, giving it time to
ignite. When it is burning we'll,
shake the CRATES gently, stopping
when the first red glow shows in
the ashpit.
Then refuel the fire, remember
ing to fill the firebox to the level
of the bottom of the fire door.
This will provide deep fire,
which is considerably more eco
nomical than shallow one, for it
burns less coal and lasts longer
period of time. Also, it minimizes
the attention you have to give a
shallow fire in trying to revive it.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16

ITO modernize the old walnut
I chair at the right the pieces
under the arms were removed and
most of the carving covered up.
The padding at the back was re-
moved entirely and replaced by
fiber board which was covered
by loose cotton filled cushion
tufted like an old. fashioned bed
comfort except that the tied
thread ends of the tufting were
left on the wrong side.
This back cushion was fastened
in place with tapes that slipped
over the knobs at the ends of the
upper carving. If the knobs to
hold the cushion had been lacking
it could have been tackled in place
along the top on the under side
by using strip of heavy card
board to keep the tacks from pull
ing through the fabric as shown
here for lacking the box pleated
ruff1e around the seat as at A.
A plain rust colored heavy cotton
upholstery material was used for
the covering.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
SEEKING Your Will

You are seeking your own will.
You are seeking some good other
than the law you are bound to
obey. But how long will you find
good? 1t is not.a thing of choice. 1t
is a river that flows by the path of
obedience. / say, again, man can
not choose his duties. You may
choose to forsake your duties, and
choose not to have the sorrow
they bring. But you will go forth;
and what will you find? Sorrow
without duty-bitter herbs, and no
bread with them.-George Eliot.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
For Chest Colds

Distressing cold in chest or throat,
never safe to neglect, generally eases
up when soothing, warming Mus
terole is applied.
Better than a mustard plaster,
Musterole gets action because it's
NOT just a salve. It's a "counter-
irritant" stimulating, penetrating,
and helpful in drawing out local con-
gestion and pain.
Used by millions for 80 years.
Recommended by many doctors and
nurses. All druggists. In three
strengths: Regular Strength, Chill
dren's (mild), and Extra Strong. APP
proved by Good Housekeeping.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
Making Over Chair Of the Gingerbread Era.

step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev-
cry type of room and purpose.
Making lanpshades, rugs, otto
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a
copy should send name and adj
dress, enclosing Is cents, to Mrs.
Spears, 210 South Desplaines St.,
Chicago, Illinois.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
THERE was not to be any

.THERE was not to be any
Christmas tree at the little
church at the head of Smoke
Greek that year; and of the several
families who lived there, not more
than half were expecting Santa
Claus. The dark days had left the
dismal little valley or hollow even
more gloomy than it had been in
better years, when the mines across
the ridge in the next hollow gave
some employment to the heads of
the families of Smoke Creek.
Jim Knox, who lived at the very
head of the stream, was perhaps
the most: unhappy of all in the
little settlement. His wife and
only child, son of seven, had died,
and his nearest neighbor was Joe
Halfway, bitter enemy with whom
he had had many difficulties. So
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
First Christmas Carol
When Christ Was Born


+ NHRISTMAS is the time when
men are drawn together in a
~ great unity. Much of this may
be attributed to our response to ia.
miliar songs, sung year after year
to commemorate the advent of a
little Child on earth. The first
Christmas carol ever heard, we like
to believe, came over the field of
Bethlehem, when Christ was born
"Glory be to God on high, and on
earth, peace, good will toward
men,"
But it was 1900 years later that
st. Francis of Assist and his broth
ers took up the singing in public of
carols at Christmas to combat the
unbelief of their time. With lighted
tapers they went about the streets of
the small Italian village pouring out
their hearts in songs of praise. In
the 800 years since then the singing
of Christmas carols has gone around
the world. Wherever Christianity is
known carol singing follows.
The simple vision of a mother
lulling her babe to sleep gives
Christmas music it's strength. Some
sing as a tribute to their religious
faith, others as custom they en-
JOY. But whatever the reason, the
important thing is that more and
more people do it. From such wide
ly different sources as churches,
theaters, schools, clubs, radio sta
tons, come the words of "Away in
Manager" "Silent Night" "Joy to
the World" Little Town of Bethle-
hem," "Hark the Herald Angels
Sing" and "Come All Ye Faithful, :"
sung by soloists, choirs, choruses or
the voices of school children. So
each year new Joy is expressed
through old channels. - Frances
Grinstead.
g Western Newspaper Union.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16

that lonely night of Christmas eve
as Jim sat before the open wood
fire, with the light of blazing hick-
DRY logs his only company, he was
not without fear for his own safety
he knew Joe Halfway had threat
ened his life.
AS he sat dreaming his eyes hap.
pened to rest upon his rifle standing
in the corner of the log room. "That
gun or Joe pathways will some
day tell the tale" he said to him.
self. He meant that one day, like
so many others down the lonesome
stream, either he or Joe would go
and using common mountain ex-
preston, with his boots on" He
did not care much if it should be
himself; life had come to mean but
little for him.
While Jim was thus dreaming,
Joe Halfway sat in another log
cabin but few yards down the
stream. BY chance Joe's attention
was called to book on a shelf.
The school teacher had given it to
his daughter who had died from
the epidemic on the creek. The title
appealed to hinl-"The Christmas
Carol" He took the book and be-
gan to read. Page after page and
chapter after chapter, he read on.
1t was the first book Joe had ever
read. It filled him with new visions
and new ways of thinking. He read
on till midnight and had been so
impressed that he decided to read
chapter from the Bible before going
to bed. BY mere accident the chap
ter was one on the birth at Bethle-
hem. It's teaching overpowered him
he had found the more abundant
life.
On Christmas morning when Jim
Knox went out to the spring for
pail OF water he noticed something
like a card tackled on Joe Hath
ways door. He saw no smoke from
the chimney. Taking in the water,
cautiously he approached Joe's cab
in door, and read the note which
said:
Dear Jim: You will find me
gone. was reading some last night
in The Christmas Carol and in
the Bible. ] read that verse that
told of peace and good will to man.
Said to myself, MY family is all
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
he Housewife . /. ,


PhD LID She hasn't diploma cap gown
Her done the laboratory the library As matter
ofact her findings made usually the street the subway
in the suburban commuters train.
She reads the advertisements this with consea
ton They form her da By them makes her
that she well deserves the title Research Professor Of
Economy" She discovers after em the roll comb
ing high quality with low.
is clear that and all who make and keep
home have the opportunity With the help Of
advertising graduate from the school Of indcminae
buying into the faculty Of fashdious purchases!
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16
Paint Brightens Toys

PamC BrlgntenS Toys
In the basement or the attic many
of us will find old toys the children
have discarded. Christmas is al.
most here and much joy can be
brought into the lives of less fortu.
nate youngsters if we get out these
toys, give them a coat of gayly col.
ored enamel and distribute them
ourselves or turn them over to a
social agency to be handed out to
needy youngsters on st. Nick's day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-12-16

gone-the last was Mary. She left
the book to get me on the right
track There's nothing in this hol-
low for me any more. Maybe can
find work by New Years over on
Cedar Creek You and never could
get along. So to make things better
for us both hereafter I am leaving
at daybreak. And Jim as say
'Good-bye,' l also wish to say,
Peace on earth good will to men,"
And as another result of "The
Christmas CAROL two mountaineers
were better men, and though they
had no Christmas cards or presents,
and no holiday programs, the pines
on the hillsides seemed bit green
er and the music of the streams
seemed sweeter.
@Western Newspaper Union.
Evening star., 1937-08-23
WIFE, SWEETHEART
QU|zZED IN KILLING
Chicago Merchant, 40, Is
Shot to Death During Stroll
In Park With Blond, Fl.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 23.-From two
blonds-one his wife and the other
his sveetheart-pollce hoped today to
obtain a clue to the moonlight Staying
of Robert F. Burns, suburban Evans
ton merchant.
The 40-year-old co-oWner of a meat
market was shot and killed early Sum
day by one of two assassins during
stroll in Grant Park. near Chicago's S
Loop. with Miss Lucille Buehler, 81.
At the time Of the Staying Mrs
Burns was en- route home from Rem
sen. Iowa, where she had been visiting
sister for a month. Seret. James
Colman said the widow admitted "a
little spot with her husband pre-
ceded her departure.
Miss Buehler lives at the La Sale
Towers Apartment which was the
scene last year of the unsolved murder
of Audrey Vallette, pretty model
Wearing a low cut black velvet
evening gown Miss Buehler sat across
the desk from Sergt. Colman and re-
lated her story of the shooting.
Il loved Bobby and he loved me
she was quoted by police as saying,
but ! never knew that he was mar
rled. We were walking in Grant
Park, talking about our plans to
marry, when suddenly two men
stepped up to us. l don't remember
much Of what happened except that
one of the men slapped me and the
other shot Bobby"
Evening star., 1937-08-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

TODAY.
Meeting, Library and Child Care
and Training Committees, Columbia
Chapter, No. 1868. Women of the
Moose, 544 Shepherd street, 8 pm.
Meeting. Executive Council. Local
No. 26l, N, F. F. E., ITO Fourteenth
street, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Optimist Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Lions Club directors.
Mayf1ower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, National Council of Cath
olic Women, Mayf1ower Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner, Phi Alpha Fraternity, Nav
flower Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-03

the American line, a subsidiary of
the international Mercantile Marine.
whose stock control was held in Eng
land BY April 2, not one of his
armed ships had met a submarine.
but the President admitted on that
date:
Armed neutrality, it now appears,
is impracticable because . it
is impossible to defend ships against
their (submarines) attacks as the law
of nations has assumed that mer-
chantmen would defend themselves
Armed neutrality is practically
certain to draw us into the war;
Which was what he had denounced
the "willful twelve for saying.
AS Writer Sees 1t
Yet the President had continued to
reiterate that he was treading the
path of peace even after he broke off
diplomatic relations. In his message
to Congress on Feb. 26, 1917, he had
admitted, THE American people do
not desire it." No new issue rose be-
tween Feb. &c, 1917, and April 2, 1917.
For his causes belli, the President
himself went back to the German pro
clamation of Jan 81.
It is clear, then, that Congress did
not force the executive into the war
or into any of the measures that led
to it. It is clear, too, from the Pres
ident's own words, that even after the
invasion of Belgium, the sinking of
the Lusitania, the complete disregard
of freedom of the seas, that the Anne
rican people did not force the Presi-
dent into the war.
Did wall Street" force the decla-
ration Of war?
We shall see.
The second article in this series will
appear in this newspaper later.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-03

earlier (note of July 81, 1879, the le-
gal and illegal uses of the submarine
had not been adjudicated in any in
ternational court, or in any way ana
the Constitution says, Congress shall
have mower to define and punish
offenses against the law OF ma
TONS"
In the debate on the armed ships
BILL it was repeatedly admitted that
the Presidents request for grant OF
power was a request for a war-maK-
ing power, which Congress cannot con
stitutionally relinquish or give away.
In the same debate it was generally
conceded that the arming or convoy
ing of munitions ships would const;-
tute an aggressive act, since NUM-
tions, being absolute contraband, were
subject to seizure and destruction I'M
der all interpretations of international
law. The President, nevertheless, re-
fused to accept an amendment prohl-
biting the arming or conveying OF
ships carrying munitions.
When the armed ships bill failed,
the President assumed the authority
which Congress had failed to grant,
arming private ships with naval guns,
and making no distinction between
munitions ships and others.
The conditions under which these
armed ships put to sea swept all sa-
lient distinctions which the American
and British governments had previ-
ously drawn between armed merchant
ships and war vessels.
Hence the war with Germany may
be considered to date from March II,
1917, when the first armed American
merchantmen or ship of war put to
sea.
The first armed ship to start for
the barred zone was the St. Louis of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-03
CHAPTER IS

JACQUELINE suddenly got up
from her chair, strobe into the
hotel, knocked at the door Of her
mothers bedroom, and went in
Mrs. Smith, with her eyes closed
and wisp of handkerchief grasped
in her hand, was lying on the bed.
"Mother!"
The older woman opened her
eyes and closed them again.
what is it, Jacqueline 2" she
said in a weary voice. ST don't
want to be disturbed just now"
1--WE beer talking to Colonel
Lutman."
Eyes, dear. So have I. At least,
he has been talking to me. I'm
feeling dreadfully upset. I had no
idea Colonel Lutman had such a
hasty temper. He shouted"
'He has told me about the
check"
Mrs. Smith opened her eyes.
"Well ?"
Mother, what on earth made
you do a thing like that? It's
awful. It's fraud-cheating-yo
must have known there was no
money there"
Eyes, dear, Of course T did"
"Yet you wrote check and
asked Colonel Lutman to cash it ?''
"No, dear; I didn't ask him. He
offered. suppose let slip that
was a little short Of money, and
he said he'd be pleased to cash a
check for me, and I did it. But ]
never dreamed the bank wouldn't
give him the money for it. I've
often overdrawn my account be-
FORE"
"But for $3.50, mother-as much
as two quarters allowance from
Uncle Alan"
well, the bank would have got
it back, Jacqueline, in due course
and 1 really had to have it. I'm
sure I don't know where all the
money goes. It's no use getting
cross with me, Jacqueline. Colonel
Lutman wasn't at all nice about
it, and really can't stand any
more. Look on the dressing table
dear, will you? I believe there's q
bottle of aspirin"
Jacqueline did not move.
IT suppose you realize, mother, u
she said, that If Colonel Lutma1
had gone to the police -"
ooh, yes, realize that. Colonel
Lutman told me. I was an un.
scrupulous woman, he said, and he
could put me in prison if he chose
to. It's the first time anybody has
called me an INSCRIPTIONS woman
and I'm terribly hurt about it. dear
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-03
. EDGAR N<4ZZACE
ana ROBERT CHR7ZS

and II you start bullying me,
too.
did you give the money back
to Colonel Lutman ?"
Mrs. Smith gazed at her in sur
prise.
"Give it back, Jacqueline? Of
course I didn't give it back. The
Colonel asked for it, but I said I'd
spent it already and he couldn't
have it"
81 see," said Jacqueline. "And
where is it, mother?"
''I'm not going to tell you, JAG
queline. I know what's in your
mind. You want to take it and
give it to Colonel Lutman."
Mother, we must-at least as
much as you've got left"
I'm not going to do it, Jacque-
line," said her mother firmly. "And
I'm not going to let you do it. 7
can't. It's all I've got, and I
don't care what anybody thinks of
me-Tm not going to give it up.
IF it's fraud and cheating and all
that sort Of thing-then I'll be a
fraud and a cheat"
Mother! T wonder you're not
ashamed"
'That's it-now you turn against
me, Jacqueline. Ashamed! Per-
haps am ashamed. Perhaps-all
these years, lying and pretending
and using nasty little SubterfugeS
I-perhaps I've always been
ashamed. You've never thought of
that, have you? You've thought I
was hard, unprincipled, that as
long as I could have nice food and
pretty clothes I didn't care what
petty little meannesses I used to
get them. But I didn't mind your
thinking that as long as could
somehow keep going and give you
everything you needed"
"Mother-please!"
Mrs. Smith dabbed her eyes with
her wisp of handkerchief.
you've thought was just a de-
ceitful, conceited, selfish woman"
she went on, "who didn't realize
the cheap, contemplate sort of life
was leading. But I've always
realized, and I've always hated it
just as much as you have, and now
you're turning against me-" Sud-
denly she buried her face in the
pillow, sobbing.
Jacque1ine went to her and laid
a hand on her shoulder.
''Mother!"
''No-leave me alone, Jacque1ine.
You don't u n r st n d-you've
never understood. I've kept strug-
Cling on, trying to do my best for
you, and you've only despised me"
Mother, I haven't despised you.
And I have realized. I've often
thought how wonderful you WERE"
$50 you may have done, Jacque-
line," sobbed her mother, "but
you've never done anything to help
me. I've tried so hard to fix every
thing for you so that you shouldn't
have to live the sort of life I've
lived, and you've never backed me
UP. There was that charming
young fellow in Paris with more
money than he knew what to do
with. He was dreadfully in love
with you, and everything would
have been splendid if you'd mar
ried him, but you ruined every
thing-just because he hadn't a
great deal of chin"
"But mother, really didn't love
him!"
| s'You didn't try to. Jacqueline.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-03

age on armed ships. Following the
tabling of the resolution calling TOT
a warning, "for party reasons, tnree
presentatives-Page of North caro-
lima, Sherwood of Ohio and Eagle OF
Texas-announced their intention OF
retiring from Congress because OF
their belief that Wilson was leading
the country into war.
The Presidents other notable con-
test with Congress occurred over MS
request in February, 1917, for grant
of power ito supply our merchant
ships with defensive arms "A
large number of senators and repre-
sentatives opposed the plan. Char
man Stone of the Senate Foreign Al
fairs Committee, refused to handle
the bill on the floor.
Under the Presidents political whip
the bill passed the House, but was
defeated in the Senate by the opposl-
ton of II senators-"a little group of
willful men," the president called
them.
A few days earlier, an amendment
had been inserted in the House in
the Navy bill, reaffirming it to be
the policy of the United States Ito
adjust and settle it's international
disputes through arbitration or media
ton. It was characterized as "a slap
at Wilson,"
Submarine warfare Illegal?
In overruling Congress on the ques-
ticn of warning American citizens
against taking passage on the armed
ships of belligerent countries, Presi-
dent Wilson apparently proceeded on
the assumption that Germanys use of
the submarine was an offense against
''the sacred and indisputable rules
of international law" But as he him
self had substantially admitted year
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-03

had found did not quite meet will
ibis approval was the fact that the
waiter, though no doubt he hac
Fbeen born and bred in the country
lseemed quite unable to understand
This own 1anguage-at least, as il
was explained in Charles little
book.
'Beer!" said Charles, raising his
voice as If mere volume Of sound
would convey his meaning. 81
want some beer and a newspaper
anything but a Sunday news
paper"
aBier, ja," said the waiter.
Sunday" He raised his eye
brows, spread out his hands, and
shook his head.
"You don't understand Sunday 2"
said Charles, and hastily consulted
the index of his little book, found
s'Days Of the week., and began
hurriedly thurnbing the pages.
And then, before the book could
throw any light on the subject, he
heard the blessed sound of very
pleasant voice saying in English,
"Can I help you?" and glanced up
to see Jacqueline, looking even
more attractive at close quarters
than she had looked beneath the
umbrella, smiling at him in a
friendly way.
Charles replied with his broad
est smile.
THANK heaven!" he said fer
vently. 'You speak English. It's
the most marvellous thing that has
happened to me since I entered the
valley Of the Danube"
Marvellous? It's the language
I was born into"
Charles nodded.
"That explains it." he said.
'FWhy you speak it so well, I mean.
You do, you know. You speak it
much better than speak German,
and much better than this chap
understands German. He doesn't
even know the days of the week.
I asked him for any newspaper but
a Sunday one, and he looked as if
I'd asked him to lend me a fiver."
Jacqueline turned to the waiter
and ratified off a sentence in Ger
man which brought to Charles
eyes a look of rapt admiration;
and the waiter, evidently under
standing quite easily what she had
said, turned and hurried away.
Thanks awfully," said Charles.
"And now, will you-if that, sort
Of thing is allowed in this country
will you allow me to offer you a
drink? You can order it yourself,
you know, because the only drink /
know in German is beer"
Jacqueline nodded toward her
table beneath the umbrella.
81 have one there" she said.
Come and join me, won't you ?"
They seated themselves under
the umbrella and Jacqueline, &C
|cepting a cigaret, studied Charles
keenly for some moments; and
then. satisfied. apparently. with the