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December, 1918
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Vol.X
DECEMBER
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Editorial Etchings
Christmas
To all of us Christmas means much. We grown-ups
put on our dignity and pretend that it is the children’s
season, that we have outgrown it, when we know down
in the bottom of our hearts that we are just as keenly in
terested as the children.
True it is that it means much to the children. Christ
set the little ones before us as true types of God’s chil
dren. He brought to them the dispensation of love. But
he brought it to us also who are of mature years.
The President and Peace Negotiations
Naturally there are wide differences of opinion as to
the President’s participation in the making of the peace
treaty. But, neither individually nor combined, can we
affect his action, and any hostile action on our part might
react to the benefit of the enemies of humanity that we
have had to fight so strenuously to conquer.
Mr. Wilson is far too capable a man to commit such
a blunder as would bring down upon his head the resent
ment of his country.
The treaty which he endorses must have the rati
fication of the Senate and it is reasonably certain that he
will not underwrite a document that the Senate will reject.
Again, our great allies, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium,
Serbia, etc., while they will treat him and us with the
most exquisite courtesy and consideration, are not going
to fritter away the fruits of the victory which has cost
them so dear.
With all these restrictions and contingencies it is
as certain as anything in the future can be that the Pres
ident will walk warily, and will avoid any pitfalls that
might give aid and comfort to the common enemy. It
would be wise, therefore, for all of us to possess our souls
with patience and refrain from criticism until it may be
demanded by failure on the President’s part. In all like
lihood it will never be demanded, for whatever else may
be said, no one can deny that Woodrow Wilson is 100
per cent United States.
And what a wonderful thing it was that he brought,
light and cheer to a darkened world; love and mercy to
a brutal, cruel world.
For nineteen centuries His gospel has been at work.
We have denied it, flouted it, refused it, but despite our
human weaknesses, our greeds, our lusts, and our inhu
manity, we have never been able to get away from the
sound of the still, small voice which deep down in our
hearts keeps on persistently telling us that “Love is the
fulfilling of the Law.” Today our hearts are open to the
Christ as never before.
Today the harried millions of earth know that but
for the spirit of Christ in the hearts of men we would be
facing a hopeless world future. Today we know that it
was the spirit of God that inspired the nations of the
earth to endure all things, to suffer all things, that hu
manity might be free. We could not have endured in our
own strength alone.
Christmas, 1918, means more to us than it has ever
before meant to men. Let us then rejoice with soberness
as we think of the millions of saddened homes, and that
our gratitude may be properly shown let us see to it strict
ly that every human soul within our reach shall share
with us the blessings of this greatest hour since the com
ing of Christ whose coming made this hour possible.
Vv
Hon. Carter Glass, Secretary of the
Treasury
Twenty years ago there went up to Washington, as
a representative in Congress, Carter Glass, of Lynchburg,
Va. He was the owner and editor of a daily paper in a
small city. Not a big man physically, he possessed an
alert mind, an indomitable spirit, and business sagacity.
Term after term his constituents re-elected him. He
was not vain in his own conceit, and so he set to work to
master his avocation of congressman. After a time men,
began to hear of Representative Glass, and as the years
went by he grew in favor as a capable and useful member.
To the pi esent administration he has been a tower of
strength. He specialized on finance and he is now a recog
nized authority on government finance.
It was a most natural thing, therefore, for the
President to name Mr. Glass as Mr. McAdoo’s successor.
He has a hard job. Nobody understands that more fully
than Mr. Glass. His acceptance of the position and his
surrender of his place as one of the leaders of the house, is
the highest posible proof of the quality of his patriotism.
That he will succesfully overcome every difficulty
and make a brilliant record at the Treasury Department
is a foregone conclusion, but it is dollars to doughnuts
that there will be times when he will sigh for the flesh nots
of the House of Representatives. P