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J VOL. XLIII. \THE SUN\ A LIVl WIIKLY NI.WMAPII FT. COVINGTON, N. Y., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1927. NO. 34 FORT COVHKTOI WnmkHn to, N. V* * ISAAC 1. LYOKS «LOP • YMT OntaM* «• *»•• General Btrttotw DAS. MACARTNEY & SMITH Physicians and Surgeons Fort Covlngton, N. Y. Phone 38 F 2 Office Hours 2 to 3 1W. BLACKETT, B JU H.D., CJL FORT COVINOTON, M. * Moabor •€ of Phjslclaiis «ad •mill Qb Offloo Houroi 1 to 4 P. M. »nd 7 t» t P. M. GEORGE J. MOORE- LAWYER Offlos vocond e*tr*ae* *• * of : !•'» Bank. Malono, N. T. Now 'Phono, 167. FREDERICK G. PADDOCK Lawyer ?6 West Main Street, Malone, N. V. Specialize* in drawing and probate ef Wills, Administration of Estate* Accounting of Executors, Administer Guardians and Trustees. G.L. REGAN Lawyer Office ovor the Pooteflloo FORT COVINQTON, N. Y. How Wo4iMisdw and oaob weak. - 1 ISAAC N. LYONS FORT GOVlNtttON, M. V. Notary Pubtto Wtth Seal Call or addroao THE SUN a C ANDERSON —DentJft— rort Covlngton QM Admlnletere* j ei«s5««sssssc=ii;.-AV YOUR PRINTING --ml ATthtik •f Tow U WeHelpOorCo»- With Pratwtihk Profitable PUBLICITY -»*?• PRJNTDtS' INH H AS been rapov abkfbrthounfidi of business sqccessss throughout the country* Everybody ki town may know you but they don't know whst you have tosefl. tilUereldiHfc «H1. tewatfcleMfie. Thla, w«asan*d trade beeeme a *IM pow.r wh« its roota tl* ianlifht of publicity. M THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVEf TISE IN THI8 PAPER WILL QIVl YOU BEST VALUES FOR YOUI WONTY 4IS should be the most successful Christmas in our I history if we try to make it so. Let us crowd hate I and its kindred, suspicion and gloom, out of our hearts. Let us focus our e#es ort that guajmg star wkkfe ted the Wise Men o, a poor abode, and iruhe^vfannth of its glow rekindle in ourselves the genial flame of charity* Let us, for the day at least, forget the things that worfy us. In their places let us substitute thoughts of the many things for which we may be thankful. Let us forgive our enemies and lean more heavily upon the staff of friendship. Thus each of us will become a center of happiness and able to spread that cheer which is at the heart of Christmas observance. No season of the year so delightfully excites one's imagination or calls more sympathetically to one's tenderest emotions. We do not need to be reminded that the festive occasion conv memorates the announcement of the religion of peace_and love, for the feeling is all around us. It expresses itself in tranquillity for the old and in joyous promptings for the young. 4 it '4 I -Happiness is in die air. —~'&£ The penetration of the Christmas spirit entourages us in the faith that the world is growing better, for it cannot be other* wise than that the recurrent planting of such seeds year by year tends more and more toward the fruition of universal love and brotherhood. Our greeting to you is for a merry Christmas and the wish that ail of us n*ay carry much of the spirit and blessings of the day into every other day of the year. Thus shall we draw nearer to the fulfillment of the ideal typified by Christmas. THE PUBLISHERS ' 1—General view at unveiling of Columbus monument that was presented to Richmond, Va., by Italian citizens of Virginia. 2—S. S. Kresge of Detroit, head of a chain of stores, who pledged $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon league for its educational fund. 3—Crewa of rum chasers at Gloucester, Mass,, getting their guns ready for the holi- day rush of rum running. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Lindy Scores Again With His Nonstop Flight to Mexico City. &***^^^ iWhen Phillip Received That Christmas Gift P ftlSClLLA was making pumpkin pies. The fruit cake bad been ripened and the turkey lay in festive •• state, stuffed with sage and onion. Al- though it was really a chicken, one didn't mention that, no more than one mentioned the fact that daddy was Santa Claus, or that the little black stockings which hung before the hearth fire would not be very full. There was only one blot in Priscil- la's Christmas joy. \I can't give Phil- lip anything,\ she, said to her mother, worriedly. \It isi^'t as if he were a youngster and satisfied with red-yarn knitted mittens, or as if he were a poor boy, even, but when he sends me orchids, mother, I—I don't know what to do.\ Phillip was the young man from the city who had been exceeding- ly attentive to Priscilla. Flowers he sent, and fruits and dainty candies, but not the simple, homely kind to which she had been accustomed, ft was not this air of richness though that made Priscilla's heart beat quick and thrilly. It was the simple, boy- ish way of him. Dear? Yes, she had just admitted it to herself. And now he was coming to Christ- mas dinner with her and her happy, humble family and Priscilla in her un- worldliness, felt that she had no gift for him. Her mother, though, was wiser. She looked with a tender, wist- ful pride at her . fair young daughter, the daughter with soft eyes shining, with hair curled gayly in the steam of the fragrant kitchen, with rose-petal cheeks, blushed warm by young love and by Christmas. She finished her cooking and set the long white table where the hearth fire glowed and the Christmas tree was festive with red and tinsel. Then Phillip had come and the din- ner was progressing, fluffy potatoes and gravy all brown, th^ roasted tur- key which was a chicken, really, the old fruit cake and, last of all, the spicy pumpkin pie. The mother watched and smiled, but her eyes were moist a Httle, for every bit of food Priscilla served was as a gift If only Phil could know. But no one could explain to Phil. After the meal was over and extrava- gantly praised, the rich boy from the city seemed comfortably at home. He and Priscilla took a walk through the crisp, snowy Christmas starlight and still she could not tell him that she had no gift for him. Back to the front steps they came, then out of the shad- ows Buddie jumped and ran Into the house. Phillip saw the mistletoe first and suddenly there was no need for explanations. The stars and the snowflakes saw him take the sweetest gift of all.—Maxine Chapman. ? <©. 1927. WMttrn Newspaper Union.) She Helped Kverett Do His Christmas Shopping F OR weeks pretty Clare Reynolds, the new girl of a busy insurance office, worked directly across the table from Everett Moore without having drawn even a glance from him. And this was unusual for Clare. Everett seemed glued to the sheet before him, but Clare, determined not to be the ice cracker, waited and hoped that sometime, somehow, some- thing would happen to force him to look up and speak to her. She iiked this good-looking, earnest-working chap In spite of his utter indifference, and just had to steal a futile .glance at him occasionally. It was Christmas eve and not a word had passed between them. He was still oblivious of her presence. Early in the afternoon Clare put away her things and was putting on her wraps when some one questioned: \Leaving us, are you?\ \Yes the boss is letting w a . off to finish up my Christmas shopping. I—\ \Shopping I Shopping!\ almost shouted Everett Moore, looking up, startled, and for the first tim*, catch- ing Clare's eye. She felt her cheeks flame. \Say are you going Christ- mas buying. Miss—ah—Miss—\ \Reynolds she replied. \Yes. Is there anything I can do for you?\ \Well I should say! I had forgot- ten,'really. Could I trot along with you and get you to help me make a couple of purchases? I never know what to buy for a woman.\ Clare's heart was beating wildly. \Sure I'll help you. I rather like spending somebody's money.\ Out they went together. The sharp wind whizzing around the corner sang a joyous tune to Clare. Everett held her firmly by the arm and deftly guided her among the busy late shop- pers, and within a very short time a floor lamp for his mother and an atom- izer for \'9 sister had been decided on and wdered delivered at once. They then went to a tea room for re freshments, and V ere, over the tea cups, they really became acquainted. It was hard for E/erett to leave her, but she huj problems of her own to solve and time was getting short Christmas morning a bunch of red roses with a note attached from Ever- ett was among Clare's most highly treasured gifts. The note read: \From a~ admiring friend. Why didn't we know each other long ago?\ And Clare also wondered why.— Lily Rutherford Morris. (©, 1987. Western Newspaper Union.) Christmas Joy A man is only an apology for a man If he fails at Chrlstmastide to bring joy to at least ooe man, one woman, one child or one animal.—Chas. XIII. Announcing the Birth of a King and Savior I N FACT and fancy, walk by night the squat-walled streets of old-time Bethlehem. A bright star hangs above the house of David—the old Inn of Chimham. Homes are emptied. With fright-and awe the people stand gaz- ing at the flaming herald. To the south and west a cloud of fire has lowered over the fields of Boaz, where once Ruth gleaned barley behind the reapers. The night air is burdened with silent melodies. The strange starlight mantles the village with a stranger happiness. Strange omens crowd the hour. People are gathering down by the old Inn. They stand in silence; men are as voiceless as the night Only the few have dared to whisper. A man comes out of the Inn, now and then he presses his lips against a neighbor's ear and whispers: \Stran- gers from Nazareth—a child Is born.\ Now the people fall back to make room for a company of night watch- ers from the sheep flocks, their be- grimed faces bright with excitement and wonder. They are from the Boaz hills. They tell excidediy the story of angels singing praises to God and an- nouncing the birth of a King and Savior. They have come to see. Fol- low them through the old house into the adjoining caves, where even meek- eyed beasts share the wonder of the night. There are the strangers from Nazareth, and there In the manger their new-born Child. The simple shepherds kneel before the Child and tell the story of the sky. They de- clare the Child Is a King. Scarcely are the shepherds gone be- fore a slight commotion heralds the coming of bearded strangers, travel stained, but richly garbed. They had seen the star months before and they had followed from the east. It was a king they had come to find. They bow down and worship. They pile gold be- side the swaddled babe and till the cave with the odor of Incense. An el- der from the synagogue brings a scroll and reads, \And His name shall be called Counselor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the prince of Peace.\ Then understand—you have witnessed the mightiest miracle of earth. Here is the place where Divin- ity became humanity that humanity might become divinity.-^-William L. Gaston. \ (©. 1927. Western Newspaper U»lon.> Mistletoe and Kissing The mistletoe and kissing are «i- ways Inseparably connected In the minds of Europeans, and as far back as tradition and history can go the quaint berried plant and kissing have always gone >>:m.i 'n hr.v.i By~EDWARD WTPICKARD C OL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH spread himself all over the front pages again last week. Having been invited to visit Mexico by President Calles, \Lindy\ tuned up the Spirit of St. Louis and almost without warning hopped off from Boiling field, Wash- ington, a little after noon on Tuesday. Twenty-seven hours and ten minutes later he landed gracefully at Valbuena aviation field, Mexico City, completing the first nonstop flight between the two capitals. The distance is a little over 2,000 miles. Lindbergh had esti- mated that the jaunt would take 26 hours, but after passing Tampico he was forced t6 fly high above clouds, lost his bearings and went consider- ably too far to the west, passing over Salamanca, Jtforelia and Toluca. He said the trip was the most enjoyable and least adventurous he ever had. Hailed as an unofficial ambassador of good will, Lindbergh wa£ welcomed by an immense throng of wildly en- thusiastic Mexicans. In the grand- stand were President Calles, Ambas- sador Morrow and his staff, diplomat- ic representatives of many other na- tions and a crowd of other dignitaries. The delay in his \arrival had worried them 1 considerably, and President Calles in greeting him told of this anxiety. Calles sent congratulatory telegrams to President Coolidge and Lindy's mother, and issued a formal statement, in which he said: \The United States in sending to Mexico the highest representative of its manhood, will power and heroism, has created closer spiritual and mate- rial relations. I congratulate Colonel Lindbergh and the American people, which is fully justified in being proud of having such a man.\ While Colonel Lindbergh was in the air on his way to Mexico, President Coolidge signed the bill awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor. The measure originated in the house when the aviator visited that body, and in its passage the usual formal- ities were ignored. The senate, of course, put the bill through unhesi- tatingly. T HREE hundred mayors of cities in thirty states held a three-day air- port conference in Chicago for the promotion of commercial aviation, and It was declared a great success. Be- fore it closed the National Airports association was organized and Mayor Thompson of Chicago was elected president. The other officers chosen, were: Vice presidents, G. B. Hegardt, Oakland, Calif.; J. H. Willis, Birming- ham, Ala.; M. E. Wells, Phillipsburg, Pa., and Frank Sudheimer, St. Paul. Minn.; secretary-treasurer, Howard C. Knotts, Springfield, 111.; director?, Mayor Toomey of Pine Bluff, Ark., Mayor F. A. Cook of Niles, Mich., and William B. Stout of the Ford Airplane company. O UR second naval airplane carrier, the Lexington, was put in com- mission at Quiacy, Mass., ou Wednes- day and Capt. Albert Ware Marshall took command. The Lexington, de- scribed by naval authorities as the most powerful naval vessel afloat, is a companion ship of tbe recently com- missioned Saratoga. It had been un- der construction at the Fore river plant for several years and cost $45,- 000.000. The ship is ST4 feet Ions, of 33,000 tons, and is capable of making 39 miles an hour^ S ECRETARY OF THE XAVY WIL- BUR, with the aproval of Presi- dent Coolidge, submitted to congress legislation authorizing the construc- tion of twenty-five crufsers, five air- craft carriers, thirty-two submarines and five destroyers, the estimated cost to be $725,000,000. This is understood by navy officials to be the first five- year increment of a proposed twenty- year naval building and replacement program wEich contemplates the event- ual expenditure of between two and three billion dollars. With the excep- tion of battleships, this program would place the United States almost on a parity with Great Britain. Secretary Wilbur hopes to have work on the program started at once. His plan is to have five cruisers, one ir, and~a number of sub- marines and destroyers begun each year. All would be started in five years and the last ship would be com- pleted in nine. The bill does not carried to safety. Then the walls of the ancient structure collapsed. ANTON Communists, aided by ft number of Russians, revolted against the Nationalist government and seized • control of the city after looting and burning business places and killing a lot of men. American specify any definite period.' r\OCUMENTS published by Hearst U papers', relating to alleged pay- ments by the Mexican government to four United States senators, are being investigated by a special senate com- mittee. The documents, of which fac- similes were printed, indicate that $1,- 200,000 was put in the hands of A. M. Elias, Mexican financial agent in New York, to be divided among Senators Borah, Hefln, Norris and La Follette. These gentlemen all entered vigorous denials of any connection with or knowledge of the affair, as did Dud- ley Field Malone, named as the Amer- ican intermediary. Senor Elias testi- fied that the documents were rank forgeries. Their authenticity was as- serted by Mr. Hearst and several of his employees, who told how they were obtained. N OT satisfied with the tax bill sub- mitted by the ways and means committee, the house, in' committee of the whole, made various radical alter- ations last week and Thursday night the representatives passed a measure which provides for tax reductions ag- gregating $290,000,000, or $65,000,000 in excess of the maximum set by the administration. The vote was 366 to 24. The bill repeals the automobile tax, cuts the tax on club dues in half and increases the exemption from ad- mission taxes from 75 cents to $1. The tax on corporation earnings is reduced and the exemption increased. S ENATOR REED'S slush fund com- mittee decided to take up first the case of Senator-elect Smith of Illinois and asked him to appear on Friday. However, Mr. Smith sent word that he could not be present then and re- quested that a date be fixed immedi- ately after the holiday recess. It had been reported that Mr. Smith might drop his battle for a seat in the sen- ate, but he told interviewers he had no thought of resigning. O KLAHOMA is in tfie^midst of one of its periodical political rows. The legislature, or a majority of both houses, decided that Gov. Henry Johnston and some other state offi- cials needed investigating. The gov- ernor refused to call a special session of the legislature and the state courts ruled that a session uncalled by him would be illegal. The representatives gathered for their meeting, neverthe- less, and the National Guard was called out to keep them from the cap- itol. They held a secret meeting and voted articles of impeachment against the governor, the chief justice of the state Supreme court, Fred P. Bran- son, and Harry B. Cordell, president of the state board of agriculture. The charges included incompetence, diver- sion of state funds, extortion and other mis-behavior. The governor then permitted the senate to meet in its chamber and It voted to try him on the impeachment charges but decided that he should not be suspended from office, as is specifically provided in the state constitution. This was in order to avoid the possibility of a dual gov- ernment. The charges against Bran- son and Cordell also are to be heard by the senate. F IFTY or more little children and one nun perished Wednesday night in a fire that destroyed the Hospice St. Charles, an old orphanage in Que- bec. Five hundred children and forty nuns were in the building when the flames, believed to have started in the basement, broke out In a dormitory on the second floor. In a short time the entire building was a mass of names. Efforts of firemen, police, ami the nuns who conducted the orphan- age were directed toward rescue work. Ladders were placed on every side of the building and many children were gunboats were rushed to the place to protect the American residents, forty in number, and a force was sent ashore, where British and Japanese troopg also were on guard. The loyal Kuomintang troops counter attacked while their war vessels shelled the bund, and after a bloody battle they regained possession of the city. About 4,000 were killed in the fight, and there were wholesale executions of captured Beds. The Nationalist gov- ernment, of which Gen. Chiang Kai- shek is again the leader, already had severed relations with Soviet Rus- sia and after the Canton uprising it ordered all Russian consulates in south China to be closed. Quo Tai-chi, com- missioner of foreign affairs, said China was fed up with communism and com- . munistic intrigue and that the Na- tionalists had decided to work along Anglo-Saxon rather than Soviet lines. P OLAND and Lithuania are^not go- ing to fight—at least not at pres- ent. When Dictator Pilsudski and Premier Waldemaras met before the council of the League of Nations, the former demanded bluntly: \Is It peace or war?\ To which Waldemaras replied calmly: \It is peace, I hope.\ The council applauded and then aa accord which leaves the major differ- ences between the two countries to be settled between themselves, or through the good oflices of the League of Na- tions, was agreed on. Lithuania was not called on to surrender her claim to Vilna. P REMIER MUSSOLINI created something of a sensation by an interview he granted to the Tunis Dis- patch. Proclaiming that 'Trance and Italy are as two brothers, quarreling often, but sincerely loving each other,\ he called on France to aid him in forming a vast Latin bloc, including Spain, Portugal and the South and Central American republics. This would give the Latin leaders a world hegemony that would smash the prestige of the United States and transfer the direction of Latin-Ameri- can affairs to the Mediterranean. While professing deep friendship for France, the Fascist chieftain rebuffed England and Russia, explaining that the Italians would never understand •these peoples as they understand fel- low Latins. Advices from Rome say Mussolini considers that the only posible solu- tion of the present Franco-Italian sit- uation is a regular treaty of amity, arbitration and nonaggressiob. H ENRY L. STIMSON, former secre- tary of war, has been appointed by President Coolidge to succeed the late Leonard Wood as governor gea- eral of the Philippines, and plans t* sail for the islands late -inJanuary. The announcement was receiv^d_,with enthusiasm by War department offi- cials, who considered it certain that Mr. Stimson would continue Genera* Wood's policies. The appointment we* pleasing, also, to Manual Quezon- president of the island senate, and th» members of- his party now in th* United States in the interest of inde- pendence for the Philippines. Mr. Stimson won special praise from the President and the State department officials for his work as Mr. C^ idge's personal peace advocate in Nic- aragua during the insurrection last spring. He visited the Philippines la 1920 but has neAer served in an onl- cial capacity. W S. HILL of South Dakota re- • signed as a member of the ship ping board when it was disclosed that he had borrowed money from the firm of Swayne & Hoyt of San Francisco who held a contract for operation of «he American-Australia Orient lin% i'lill's action was characterized by hi* colleagues as a \grave Impropriety.\ He explained that the loan wa? ob- tained to save a South Dakota bank from failuri The Swajne & Hoyt contract was canceled by the board, and President Coolidge nominated Al- bert H. Dentoo of Kansas to succeed HilL I
