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) p i PAGEZL J' TW**VO* The Christmas Spirit Chîristmnas is here again. Souiethiîîg uap- peus fo people, f0 the whlole world, at Christ- mas time. If lias been the samne ru-ilt down flic ages. Eveu Ruine feltflie spirit that camne froui ils îataeonibls. lIn spite of ail flic tragedy flînt louds tlic world fodav, ('hristrnas .vill alîvays îrciniu a finie of vîtury. '[lure %vill lie cnîpty chairs at maîuy tables Ihis ýear. Soune will nieyer he filled ag-ain. But tliere (nul lic 110 defeat in flic benrfs of peuple -wlmu]lave flue truce Chuistunas spirit. The birfb, tfl ife, the deatb îun apparcunt defeat, of Jesus Christ, have sfood flue test of ail these years. Nofhing flic world lias ever knowui 5< eomipletely nnswcms thue lonug- iugrs, tlîc feaus andl fle (lisappi)niueuits of lis aÎ.I. uifle spirit of Christmuas tlhe hates. flue prejîudices, flic false desires. ail uîelt awaN. This is thc secu-et, isuî't if, of filue uew wold wc il want. Somcwlîere w-e have lost thec siuigleuiess of purpose ilbat nade flic Wise Meni kep oui followinig fle star. We bave beconue couinpieai cd andlooluk hi iew systens or mauî-iiade selienes. liec'iuse wc ivon 't buuuible our puide mi(. lîke fIe Wise Mcii, kuicel i simple oledicenelefome flue mlanlger. Auuy luuîuewiff kunws thaf you. canuiof make a g-ond ouielet wiflî badl,. egs. lutflic saune wav vou ('aniof liiild a sonnd country wifhu people whlo have a '"îe-first" philosoplîy. Jusf as flic Babe of Beflleuuî uisliered iin a new world, so every Chrisfmas w-c bave anofler tliauce of bildiuîg flue new world that H1e and mauiy since have died for. Per- haps on Christmas Evc as we kuicel f0 sav our prayers w-e eau ask God f0 show' ns low we ean help fo make this Chlrisfmas spirit permanent. Maybe if will lie anl apology that will lical some gmîîdge or mistunder- standing. Wliafevem if is, flic hope of a new world lies in tlic spirit fliaf cornes from obe- dience f0 fliese inuier promptiuîgs. This is the realif y of truc peace oun eamf h anîd good will towards men. These Yulefide expressions were in- spired by the spleuudidi addrcss of Rot arian Ruev. J. E. Griffith. w'hieh appears ini this issue. V_ General Motors Post War Plans A practical Christ mas message was given f0 the people of North America, fo govern- ments and f0 flic ammed services every- whcre b>' fli head of flic world 's greatest warfime arsenal auîd flic world's largesf peacefime auto builders, Alfrecd P. Sloauî, Cliairman of General Mot ors Corporation, wlicnlhe spoke Frida>' befome flic Second War Congress of flic Nationîal Association of Manufacturers in. New York City-. Mr. Stoan revealed thaf lis corporation aloîîc proposes to couifribute Five Hiuîdred Mil- lion dollars for post war coniversion anîd retooling "f0 lilp preserve flic free enter- prise system" and continue employmeuif in- fo peace days and sustain a naional in- come of Onie Hîîndrcd Billionî Dollars per ycar. lie dliallenged industialists ever>'- wlicre fo take a like agg.ressive attituide. Sayiuug flat flere lîad been f00 mucli "IJopia" and f00 little mcalisuuî ii discîissing post war goals. lue enplîasized fhiaf people must realize fliaf liard ork, greaf cm cf- ficicncy and much f ime w'ould lie ueeded to repair flic daniages anîd make up lusses oc- casioned by war. But lie w'rued thaf rneauî- time w'e nust first win iewar whicb is uof yef won by an>' means. Geuiral Mofuu-s s flic first big corporation I 1orne onf witli a public auniouuicenieuif of aul over-ali speuîding programme for imiînediafc post war impie- meutafion. But ofluer corporatiouîs, suicli as Goodycar Tire and Rubber C'o., have already taken up nunit expanion as reporfed ini lasf wcek 's Stafesman. In flic face of so mîwh falk and flico- refical pauîaceas of goveruuuneuts. plannuinig committees and Marxuauî vsiouiaics. fluespe moves by indusfry sliould cuuîîe wifh liarfen- ing effeef upon flic appreieuive muiiids of millions of people at home anud flrougiout aill fli armed forces fightiîîg for liberty, secumif>' and a beffer way of life. Mr. Sloan asscrfed flree post w'ar "'musts"-maximum emplovmenf, natiounal defeucee pol ices de- signed f0 pmeveuîf a third world waîrand< foreigmi fade on al basis (if iutcrualionl equify. \Vitlueon('erfed goodwvill auid îruad visioun we cati achieve flic objectives sfafcd and people geuerally ivill ui<i fail fo nocte flic practical impeftus guveui f0 post wvar pros- perit> initheflcpnus anuoiiced b>' Mm. Sloan. V_ we enjo>' in coinfort muid safet>' our Christ- mas feasts. Man>' lîmd tflulit if w'ould be aIl oî'em before 110w, but Chunrchill from his sick bcd in No"th Africa savs: "I liole in 1.944 ive shalhriiig flue beast f0to -' But tlieue can lie no certauit> save iiireas- ing sacrifices and hieavy fi"hfiuuiu ifil Ic end. A legless soldier, Intel>' o ln' ntecd this ' 'There la no otheueucontiulv ki wiu'wifu suai an enormo 'us gulf iii seiiclcw'u fighiting nmen and civilians... and the sol- diers know it. Can we corne to realize just that? OverIllanland, honihs shuri-er dowîî like Christ mas con tetti al, homie. I n 1940 the ,Mr Foi-ce lropped 11,000 tonus, ini 1941, 31,- 500 tous, in 1942, 50,(X)() tous; in 1943, 160,000 tons. These are the Chlristmas cards I bat fl iter and (oeriug iiivited by bombing- Britous and dcuied they could l)e returnied. Thcy are the fortunes of war and the fore- rîîîîucirs of peace. Said an Air Vice Mar- shal., "tlie symiptomis of an approacliing f Germiau collapse are toon numierous 1<) be r over]ooked. 'Tle auomaly of these times asE ('lristinas cornes uipon us ini the fifth %,ear of -,var- is tliat we miist resolutely support and supply thiose whiom wc have commis- sioned to main destruction upon those who souglit 10 dcstroy us. Thus only ean Peace E oui Enrth becomne again fulfilled. _V Let Us Cultivate Courtesy t It is th-e history of war on home fronits that the quality of courtesy becomes stmain- e(1 as war drag-s on and on. It is evideneed « alrnost everywhcre today in differing forms by unireasoning people. 'flere are taut nerves, forced srniles, querulous complaints, abrupt answcrs, impatience witli customers and particularly impatience towvard eus- tomners. It is seen locally with particular ('mphiasis wheî'e womeii and girl clerks, tak- in-g up war's tasks, have been rudely told to "step on it" iu rendering a service, generally by thouglitless, eallow youths out of uniiformn, goingr nowhiere and thinking they must get there in a hurry. It is seen too wlien one travels. But there are shining exceptions whieli reaffirm Ôues fait i ini humanity and the values of courtesy. We recall a few' in Canada 's busiest centres. lIn Montreal we know a station agent, J. B. Porteous, in the C.P.R.'s busy Windsor Terminal. H1e is the very persouifieatiou of courtesy. No matter how busy lie lias a smiile for ail, a elieery word aud sometimeS a story. We would miss a train just for a chat witli him. On a humble salary he's wortli tlousands to lis Company. Not f ar fronii the station tliere's the Scott Cafe on St. Catherine Stre'et, îîot j ust popular because of the good food scrved, but because of the completely impersonal court- esy of the two hostesses. In Ottawa, at the Lord Elgin Hotel the saine unaffected wel- corne is manifested among the efficient womcu personnel. And at the Ottawa General Post Office is a returned soldier at the registry wieket wlio regfisters more than mail; lie registers the ininate friendliness to everyone tliat lias made him known to tliousands. Courtesy eosts nothing but the effort to cultivate it. It is the world's greatest as- set in any circumstances, vital i n any or- ganization, fuitful of the world's finest at- tribute. . . liappiness. t is not rationed. Like mercy "it eometh like the gentle ramn from Heaven upon the place bcuieatli" and is more thanl twiee blessed, for it radiates among a multitude and resolves the drali- ness and distress of the timies either in peace or war. As a Chiristmas message w~e eau do no better service for the tlioughitless than to commend the examples of those to whom w-e have above referred. Courtesy- is the secret of liow to make friends and influence people. Let us try to remember this at all tilnes. -V Health, Wealth and I-appiness Life, liberty, and the pursuit of liappi- ncess w'as the basic concept of tlhe fonding fathers of tlie world 's first modemn demoe- racv. Witliout healtlî there can be littie happiness. This is recognizcd today by for- w-amd looking professional men and legis- lators and Ontario is taking the ]ead with a provinee-w-ide plan for extended health ser- vices. The cost of ill health, sîekness and acecdents is felt most heavily liv those least able to bear it, so in fuilfilment of Biblical in- juuution there. promises to be a rational sharing of the facilities for the relief of suf- feuin- and the expenise inivolved. A plan for Outarjo was presented b:, Dr. J. T. Fair, î'hief provincial medic!al officer. before the ('anadian Publicellealth Association confer- ence the other day. It is propo.sed to divide thie province into population nuiits of 30,000 to 35,000 out- side of self-contained metropolitan areas and set ip liinies staffed liy experts for genecual liealtl welfare. There w-oil lie 65 sncli units witli 15 regional offices requiir- in- 1225 specially qualified doctors. 400 nurses. ,1401snitary o, fficer, 17) veteinarv Froni The Ol taw'a Citizen: Editor of The Bowmianville Statesmian admits that tryiuî to fiuud a col lar-huiton almiosf mmadc i nu lale for churc1-li unle Sndica v jiniugI. Buit w1v the ('ollar button, w~heum ordinary buttons are more plentiful, and ]ess conispicuonls on a plate? NOT NOW GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD The Greatest Story Ever Told [s about the birth of the baby Jesus. As a newspaperman%, it fascinates me, for here in what printers cali a single "stick" of space-here in 300 words-is the greatest story o! ail time. Many times more people have heard or read this story than any other ever told. But obviously only,,a tiny fraction of them lias ever believed it. For the real stomy is flot just that another baby boy was bomn, in the stable o! an inn- nom that nearby shepherds swore by ahl that was holy that they heard angels proclaim. peace on earth and goodwili to men. The real story is that the boy became a leader different from any other who lived be!ore or since. He called himself the Son o! Man-taught that ail men were brothers - demonstrated that nu living human being was too far gone to lie "saved" - cared so little for what "respectable" peo- ple thought that he violated ail the most sanctimonlous conven- tions-had his favorite resting place in the home o! an ex-harlot and the brother wliose life he had saved. 1 Say That Only A Fraction of those who profess to "believe" the story o! Jesus could ever have got the faintest glimmer o! what it is ail about. For it is the story, among other things, o! refugees. No sooner was that baby born than he be- came the centre o! an organized man-hunt, which took the lives o! one whole baby crop. Luckily there was a country called Egypt in those days. So the littie Jewish refugee !amily was able to escape. It is tougher to be born a Jewish baby in this present span o! his- tory. For Herod was a piker com- pared with Adoipl i Htier. Herod said "kill off ail the Jewish baby boys, just in case these Persian fortune tellers; may be right, just in case there really may be a coming 'King o! the Jews' among them." But Hitler said: "Kili off ail the Jews." ' And f0 the everlasting shame o! this generation there was not one modemn Egypt in ail the earth. There was not one country to which the harassed Jews could fiee. So the world, punch drunk and SCROOGE RETURNS WITH A MESSAGE By "Scrooge" Christmas! Humbug! That's what I said as I sat in my cold counting house on Clo~st- mas Eve, a hundred years ago. That's what I said as I cimbad the cold, dark stairs to my room. I said it again when the ghost o! Jacob Marley visited me thare. But bafore I woka on Christmas momning I knew beffer. No one can ignore Christmas. It was meant to be a merry celebration. It's just a hundred years ago this Christmas Eva, that I dis- covered that fact. You remember how Charles Dickens told o! my discovery. And Tiny Tim said "God Blcss Us Every One." 0f course there's no denying that I'm vcry dead now. That al happened a century ago. Stili I'vc come back f0 say that Christmas, 1943, is more import- ant than ever. Today people have an even greater need o! the spirit o! Christmas. In the losing chapters o! my life it was said o! me "That I knew how to keep Christmas wall." s1 Let me, the ghost o! an oid man who learned a lesson late in life, fell you what 1 fhink are the im- portant things about Christmas. It's the time when ail of us stand together to help one an- other. It's-a f ime f0 viaw our brighter hopes, and to hold them out to others. It's a time to open our hearts, our homes and our purses f0 help make thc lives o! those who are not s0 forfunafe as we, more cheerful. Ah, yes! I can see thec wretched havoc o! war around you. I sec the ampty places, the sad- dened hearts, and the many who have no homes at ail. I sec the grim desperate batties o! the armies who fighf for free- dom. But I am an old man who has learned that good can master ill. Christmas! Humbug? Neyer! The spirit o! Christmas, 1943, is hope. Look ahead to a future bright wifh the reward o! triumph ovar evil. Keep that spirit alive in your hearts, and help to hasten the day o! Victory. Lend your money to your coun- try for that purposa. You'll be buying a Chrisfmas presant for the whole world. Then if wil ha truly said o! you that you know how to keep Christmas well. -Wjth grateful acknowledge- ment to the shades o! Charles Dickens. James N. MeLaughlin Tells How Burketon Received ts Name Rhys D. Fairbairn, Toronto, thal Durham County enthusiast con- stant]y delving into pioncer lore brouglif up thc question o! how Di-rlington towns and harnlets gof their names. He wanted informa- tion about Burketon. Now we are able to accommodate him and our readers thmougli a letter just ra- ceived from Mr. James N. Mc Laugîlin o! Burketon, who writes f0 Thc Statesman: "When the railroad surveyed sheli-shocked !rom the self-mn- flicted affects o! deliberate re- fusai to apply one-tenth of thec social taachings, is near the climax o! total war. Yet not a single spot on ail the earth can say "Little Jew boy-a bad man wants to kili you-come in here and we wili keep you safe tili the storm is past and the cvii king is dead." Not even Palestina, whose liber- ation by British arms in 1917 coincided with the thrilling de- claration that this was once again f0 be made "a national home for the Jewish people." For it is easier for rich men and nations to go through that "eye o! the neadie" about which Jesus talked than it is for the Jew to get into the "Jawish national homneland." When The Whole Awful Story o! World War II is written thera will be no more appalling chapter than that of the entire shipload o! Jawish refugees who escaped from the living nightmare o! Hit- ler's literai hall on earth, and who got somehow to the very ports o! Palestine itself, only to be turned back fromn the "Jawish national home" with words that should have read "Jews not admitted here." Maybe the sama power which once stilled the storm on waters near there sent the storm which put that shipload o! humanity ouf o! its misery. And what o! Canada? We al know unless we deliberateiy blind our eyes t0 the facts. No Jewish carpenter with a wif e and baby on a donkey wouid be admifted to this country-with no passport and no money. This is Canada with 1943 years o! "Christian" civilization behind it. This is not Egypt in the year zero-betwe.en B.C. and A.D. But mark my words and put them down in the book for future referenca. This war is almost over. It wiii be followed by sweeping social changes in Europe. Than we will admit "re- fugees" to Canada and other "Christian" countries. And who wiil they be? They wili be peo- pie in the very class which paid Hitler's way to power; who waxed fat on the war-preparation pro- fits o! fascism; and who long since snaaked out to America huge chunks of their weaath by stock transactions involving interna- tional cartels, such as oil. We will take fhemn in ail right. the 'and through hare, Mr. M. Burke ownad Lot 19, Con. 10. He was asked what.he wanted for his land as right o! way. He said, you can have what land you re- quire absolutely frac if you put a station on it and cail it Burke- ton.' Mervin Burka was a grand- father of thc late D. B. Simpson, lawyar, late o! Bowmanville. This was about fthc year 1881 and the railroad started to operate about 1885." People who lack kick, them- 1 selves do most of the kicking. 1 WILL CARRY ON-... a4t4do taeef "VAR neyer takes a holiday, even at Christmas. eeThere will be thousands of vital war calls to put t hrough. And our sol- diers, salrs and airmen will be calling home from al over the country. "I'm glad to do my share, but I need your help. Please relieve the Long Distance load by mailing your Christmas greting ... and doing it early. If you find you must make a Christmas cal1 ta out-of.town relatives, tr' ta do 8o as many days before the holiday as possible. And especially avoid 'long haul' calîs to far distant places. "We shall be very grateful for your co-operation, and so will the men and women who will be at their posts in war plants and raifitary camps throughout the 4qjtý a/jwt Manager Films Mode With War Alcohol -The last aerial photograph fits snugly inta place - and there lies the blueprint of another German target due for a pasting by aur fighting airmen. Pictures taken by aerial reconnaissance are vital links in the chain which will lead to the ultimate destruction of the Axis war machine. Another ink is the camera film an which these pictures are recorded. In making this specal film alcohol s used, just as C Is used for many other essential war purposes-for plastics, explosives, anti-freeze and navigational instruments. In the fdctory, on the field of baille itseif, Alcohol is making a direct contribution to Victory. Because it i5so urgently needed in such fabulous quantities, aur plants aire operating at peak capacity. GO0O0D ER H A M &WOR TSi LIM1T E D. .,- - I I. AsISeeIt.. By Capt. Elmore Philpott Hq , T14F CANADIAN STATFSMAN- ROWMANVILLE. ONTARIO THURS,, DECEMBER 23rd, 1943 DA(Ilv Irlirr%