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WEClMrt t !ti» see of fruition, the .jpt> of hrlnalns^ p«ace to world would he done She h«» her young sons Sift daughters that good rtttWWlhlp Is a Christian 4qty; «|« must teach them BOW ihat perfect cttt- •enstiApU0pHes tolerance; that SttlgtlBlon and general Ised hatred are part of ths old Adam In man; that the pledge of love and service which the Christian takes at his teMsn or confirmation «tat>r*cea all mankind --the #t»ole population of the City of God. She must teach that war is not really glorious, but a calamity; that behind It lies always larpo Wickedness. She must tench, finally, that to be Christ's faithful soldier means, In this age, to be a •oldter of peace. Han? Utere as»Jn an walks of life who feel that tlKrtrpplicatlon of the principle of "The Golden Rule la necessary to save the world. And Apparently It It first necessary to make better ^citizens. Says Mrs. Thomas O. Winter, prnrt / mztf When MOmms Amur* dent of Glubs: ST. LUKB. CHAPTER n;10-ll. •~J® the angel aaid unto them. Pear not; far bt* *0M I bring you good tidings of great Joy, whtok •Mil be to all people. For unto you is born this day In thS eitr at TIsiM • * flfivlor, Which is Christ the Lord. ' By /OHM DICKINSON SHE* MAX IHUS the announcement on the first Christmas Day. No word* in all the world are bo familiar. No message was ever so important. No anniversary la so universally kept. There I*, but one possible exception: ' tfca message of Easter, "Chriat the Lord is risen today." 60 it is that all the world, celebrates on Christmas Day of the "good tidings of great Joy"--celebrates it - a?ef the fashion of flesh and blood humanity, birth rellgjoaa observance and with material good ; At Christmas play and make good ctnea V For Christmas comes but'one* a year. .• your choice between this version and Chit oae used above. In any event the "good cheer" la an elastic phrase and covers a multitude of joys-- and a multitude of activities as well. Why, evea the few pictures used herewith suggest an almost endless chain of Christmas cheer and Christmas activities. Now, there's our dear <?ld Ufccle Samuel post-., matter, for example. He's * busy old 1 rntlwiina * at all seasons of the year, for he mns tlie biggest business In all the world. But at Christmas tfmal Too see, the dear old postmaster's official slogan is, "Deliver all Christmas mall by noon, Oec«c ber 24!" Bo Uncle Sam, as postmaster, began last October to get ready for the Christmas rush. By December 1 he was all set and on his mark. The "mall early" campaigns pf recent years have had an appreciable effect upon the public aitt $ach season the processions to the post offices of the land begin a little earlier. Possibly the campaigns against careless wrapping have also had some e£ fleet, but don* mention the subject, if you want Uncle Postmaster to continue to look pleasant. . Also, no Blatter how fervently you may wish for a "white Christmas," don't let your Uncle know about it. For the snow that gladdens your heart means grief for Uncle Bam--the heavier the fall, tli# greater the grief. Snow means delay in the last-hour deliveries of qiail and adds like everything to Uncle's Christmas bill. Two years ago a snow in New York City cost him $300,000 extra for motor vehicle transport alone. Yes; Uncle Sap tea a Christmas bill--the same as Dad. Extra apaab'on the trains for the malls coats him a million or so. Extra motor tnicks, $500,000; extra clerics, $1,000,000; additional caiy riers, $350,000--these are some of the larger items among the extras on his Christ mug mall bill. Then there are extra millions of money order blanks, extra millions of stamps, miles of twine for m» wrapping poorly-tied packages, thousands eC square feet of emergency Warehouse space and hundreds t>f other items. Hoover, Uncle Sam has the satisfaction of doing a whopping big mail bualness; probably he takes in something Ilka $8,000,09© more in December than in any other tn<g»th. The American people--105,000,000 of them > --dertainiy do rush their postmaster hard at time. with the Christinas trees live away Vp northeast corner of the United State#--* Buckport Center, Me. They were helping to load a car of trees and stopped a minute "to have their pictures* took." And where do you suppose the Christmas trees were going? Why, all the way to . far-off Texas. And here's something to make one ' do some thinking; It cost about 2% cents each to cut and haul and load those trees. The Texan who bought one of them probably paid all of $8, and maybe $4. No wonder the experts have much to say about the middleman and the cost of distribution. Maybe some day Uncle Sam will take this Ohrlstawa tree bgstneaa into his own hands and furnish the trees for the whole country from the national forests. These national forests have to be thinned out anyway In the practice of scientific forestry. And this would save the denuding of thousands of acres of private lands which need the trees and the destruction of hundreds'of thousands of young trees which should be saved (Or the future needs of the people. Our nation-wide use of Christmas trees and "Christmas greens'* Ife fast despoiling our woodlands. The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America, the Garden Ctab o{ America and scores of affiliated organizations BBite in paraphrasing a familiar quotation by saying our woodlands are being "botchered to make a Christmas holiday." Just the same, the picture of the little Maine b«ya with their Christmas trees iets the mind $a Vti wtiuij Christmas tl Iphe boys la "the nort j running on the joys of Christmas in the fiofne-^ Joys which have no end. For, aside from Its ofbet . manifold aspects, Christmas Day is pre-eminently a holiday of the home and the family. And Its symbol is the Christmas tree, as Its basic idea is the Christmas cradle in Bethlehem. And the softening influenceof Christmas in the home radiates Its influence everywhere until he is a queer man indeed who does not wish in all sincerity his neigh* bor a "Merry Christmas." I > Yes; Christmas time is a veritable contagion ot£» happhiess overflowing into merriment. Childhood thrills at the thought of it Youth hails it with delight. Maturity gives it welcome. Old age grows young again In its JOys." Our social Instincts have fair play for once. Hospitality comes into its own. It is a beautiful season. Writes Shakespeare? - X' \ - ">* V ' Same say that ever 'gala** Uat awo^ eosmf^-v^. Wherein our Saviour's birth Is celebrated. The bird of dawning: singeth all night long, And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad: The nights are wholesome--then no planets Strike; No fairy takes, no witch hath power to ehama, 80 hallowed and so gracious is the time. Another picture--that of a great turkey ranch in California--sets our mouths to watering for the Christmas dinner. And why not? The manor woman or child who doesn't await It with eagerness is not normal and should be put in solitary confinement for the dtty. Nature gave us the joy of satisfying a healthy appetite and it is not hard to believe that the good old dame created the turkey especially for Christmas--and Thanksgiving. If anyone dare deny that cooking is a fine art in the presence of the Christmas turkey--oh, what's the use I Great is the "good cheer" of Christmas time. . But there la. more to it than the Christmas tree and the, Christmas feast. And in our heart of hearts we all know it--every one of us. That Is why all the world celebrates the day. The ' spirit of the day is kindness, gentleness, forgiveness, toleration. This spirit appeals to all of us. It could not appeal to us If we did not believe ii^ . our capacity to respond to It. Century by century the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth has forced horoQ these points, says Prof. Hartley Burr Alexander, ' in "Nature and Human Nature": First, refuge for the weak, alms to poor, freedom for the slave; then chivalry, and all that fine devotion to the caus? of the helpless and the hapless which, through the spread of Christianity, brought a ray of Illumination into the barbarism .< of the Dark Ages; and Anally, under the eaves olf v. our own years, tl«e recognition of the rights, polit!4 cal and economic and human, of all men and womei»> and children, of all humanity, to participation in the great hope of minkind. These things have been affirmed by Christianity from the day of it* founder; and It is the vigor ©t U»i*-iUBrmatlon which has put Into democracy a spiritual pow« and a living force. The World war tore away the- "foundations of our conceits" and "stript us of our sufficiencies." , But the world has attempted to supersede the Gospel with various artifices of reason and logic. Who shall ssy that man does not believe in and want goodness and beauty and feel the dearth of them? Who shall say that the salvation of a chaotic world Is not "The Golden Rule"--the spirit of Christmas extended to every day of the yew? says Will Irwin in "Christ or Mars": - ' If all the Christian .sects, combining with one another and with Juda-n on this single issue should start the wor!: of educating their sons and daughters in the Illusion and immorality of war. we should wltfciB a year smu* the changing mood Women's Every otd conventloft Is tort ay being challenged, •very hoary institution is shaking to its foundation-- church and state, science, philosoplty. art and education are before the Judgment bar. Out of the Chaos of old traditions comes a new cosmos, (or the mind of man demands cosmos as a condition, of sanity. No Institution is more subject to this readjustment than the home. We are seeing it, not through a mist of sentiment but clearly as the unit of society and government, and pre-eminently the .canter of two primary needs--first, the individual aieed of satisfaction, which makes possible "the "pursuit of happiness" and, second, the social need of providing a breeding place for oitlsenshtp. .. "St •ggSays Willis J. Abbott: - The great need of -Jhe world today ** that ther* mould be unity of thought and endeavor among nations strong enough to impress tbeir convic tlons upon the whole world, and this need can only he met if those convictions shall be of -a nature to bring good to mankind aa a whole and not to advance selfish national Interests. ' Surely ail men can join in this Christmas prayer by Jean S. Mllner, Second Presbyterian church, bdianapolls; ~Our Fattier, as we bow before Thee in this glad »n of the year. In which the whole world does mor to the day of birth of the Oreat Teacher of Mien, we pray that the ears of all mankind may hear again as If upon the midnight stillness, brooding over star-lit hills of ancient Judea the song of the angels who sang, "and on earth peace, good Will toward* men!" Almost two thousand years have come and gone sthce the echo of those angel voices tell softly, like falling snowflakea upon the ears of a listening World. And yet, O God. how far we are from putting into terms of concrete living the sweet and tender beauty of this ideal, "good will toward men." Teach i s, we pray Tlfee. that within the compass of those few words there is comprehended not only the essence -of the Christian religion, but of all that is true and noble and enduring in all religions. « ' Our world la torn and broken. It Is filled with hatreds. Jealousies and sinister suspicions. Where the red curse of war has killed and burned and destroyed, O merciful God, bring peace. Where famine and disease stalk in ghastly company with the grim reaper. Death, O God. bring health and life and plenty. Orant that nations may be more concerned with giving than with getting Justice, and In the place of selfishness which has divided the nations of the earth give, O God, to all governments and to all peoples that good will toward each other which alone will unite and bring enduring peace. - - The painter's brash, the graver's tool and the r Jtfulptor's chisel have been busy with representations of Jesus. But in all the world is there a likeness of Him with any dalm, however remote, to authenticity? Read, then, this word picture of Jesus, attributed by tradition to Publius Lentulus, aaid to have been a Roman centurion in Palestine storing Hjs lifetime: -There has appeared In this, oar day, a man of Stoat virtue, named Jesus Chriat. Who is yet living amongst us, and with the Gentiles is accepted as a prophet of truth, but His own disciples call Him the Son of God. He raiseth the dead and cureth all manner of diseases; a man of stature somewhat tall and comely, with a very reverend countenance; such as the beholder may both love and fear; His hair is of the color of a Albert, full ripe, and plain dpwn to His ears, but from His ears downward •omewhat curled, and more orient of color, waving about His shoulders. In the midst of His head goeth a seam or partition of hair, after the manner M the Naxarltes; His forehead very smooth and 'plain; His face, nose and mouth so framed as nothing can be reprehended; His beard somewhat thick, agreeable to the bair of His head for color, not of #ny great length, but forked in the middle; of aa Innocent and mature look; His eyes gray, dear and Quick. In reproving He Is terrible; ^admonishing cour- . teous and fair spoken, pleasant in speech, amidst gaavity. It can not be remembered that any have 4iaen Him laugh, but many have seen Hitn weep. In proportion of body, well shaped and straight; His hands and arms most beauteous to behold; in Speaking very"temperate, modest and wise; a man •( singular virtue, surpassing the children of men. Mysterious Kindness Bound Up in Bundle |FTKR the joyous excitements of Christmas Day they all sat about the biasing hearth fire with happy r e m i n i s c e n t thoughts and called upon the doctor to tell them a story. "I will,** he said, "upon ode condleach one of you must throw a fagot upon the blaxe anil tell a •as Isag aa It barns, .than I will 1; So they did. and pleasant and laugh- Ing interest went round until the torn came to the doctor. "Well," said-he, as he threw a larger fagot into the fire, "my story is not yet a day old, and still it is not a little one, for, as I went my round of calls tbm morning I was surprised to see a larva handle tying in front of the door at a cottage by the roadside that looked naif It were in nee* of paint and everything $lse. Curfous to understand the matter, I stopped to investigate it and discovered by a card that was pinned upon the wrapper that the bundle was designed for Mrs. Cafferty. Knocking upon the door, I at last induced the woman herself to open it Heading the card to her, 1 lifted the bundle into the room, whereupon she caltefl out in a loud voice: 'Here, you, Miket Nora, Hose Timothy; Patrick. Bridget and Kate, come here you spalpeens and se phwa* the ieprechsuaa hava brought ye.' "They came, from above, below, and from nil sides they came, 'and it It many a day since I have seen as much joy as came out of the mysterious kindness that was bound up in the good things of that bundle." n Before they went to bed they voted the doctor's story the best Christina* story of them alL--Christopher G. Hasard. (ft l»a. Weeters Hewepapet ttaloa.) President Coolidge Approves Ran i 4 Rear Admiral Peaiy^St , Companion. ,J SPECUl HRED Washington--A dash by air for the North pole wiU be launched by the Navy department next summer. Secretary Denby announced that President Coolldge had approved the project as "of great practical value." A special board of naval officers, headed by Rear Admiral Moffett, has been appointed by Secretary Denby to prepare plans. ' , • The project grew ont of ^the d£*lre of Robert A. Bartlett, explorer wh*» sailed with Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary on thei steamer Roosevelt on the expedition of 1906-'09, which saw the Stars and Stripes raised over the North pole, again to ,make that journey in the re-equipped Roosevelt. It was pointed out by experts that If a new "drifting" expedition w ere organized by the navy, others, perhaps under another flag, might complete a journey to the pole by air before the Roosevek party could make half the distance. The decision to employ naval aircraft follcrwed. Admiral Moffett's board has at Its disposal all the government's records of previous Arctic explorations. The last lap 4f the journey may be undertaken in airplane equipment with skiis for landing on the ice with the navy dirigible Shenandoah. In writing Secretary Denby under date of November 20, President Coolldge expressed the belief that it would be "carried through with the thoroughness and efficiency which marks every project which the navy undertakjM^ ---------------- Governor McCray of ktfiana - Arrested; Released on Bond Indianapolis, Ind.--Warrants calling upon him to answer the charges preferred against him in eight indictments returned by the Marion county grand Jury Friday, were served on Gov. Warren T. McCray Monday. The charges mentioned in the Indictments were embezzlement, larceny, forgery, obtaining money by a false statement and issuance of fraudulent checks. The Indictments followed grand jury Investigation of his affairs after he had issued a statement last August that „ie was unable to pay Ills creditors. ^Twelve friends furnished bnpd for his release. * * 'if ^ t - « Wv* _ payfla a finer coffee I owe rouao NET WLIGHT Murdoch ft co W/ RNINQ Oar Monarch Coffee is NBVEft H>!a in bulk M.r£$ White House Unsafe: Asked for Immediate Repairs Washington.--The White House has been declared unsafe. Conditions there are such as to require that immediate remedial measures be taken to prevent a possible calamity. These disclosures were made by Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers of th? army, In his annual report to the secretary of war. Congress Is asked for $400,000 for the work of reconstructing the interior portion of the famous building, / make It secure. - c w er Banker Insures Life for M $75,00C; Killed in Blast Bloomington, 111.--L. A. Arnold, director of the Arnold State Bank of Colfax, died Monday from burns received when the gas tank of his automobllejwhich he wns filling, exploded. •His Mta narrowly escaped death, having just left the car. The cause of the explosion is not known. Mr.* Arnold came to Bloomington early Monday, where he took out an insurance policy for $35,000. Another policy of $40,000 was taken out a week ago. s T. Testifies McCray Lost $100,000 in Gram Indianapolis, Ind.--Gov. Warren McCray dealt In grain futures through the now defunct Sawers Grain company of Chicago and his account sustained a loss of approximately $100,- (100 in 1923, William Simons, who, was president of the company, of which the governor was vice president, testified late Monday at the hearing on the petition of three Fort Wayne, Ind., banks to hava the executive dedared a bankrupt Federal Board Refuses Revaluation of Roads Washington.--The interstate commerce commission refused a demand to reconsider all of its work in fiscal valuation of the country's railroads. Petitions making such a demand, presented by the national conference on valuation of American railroads, which Is headed by Senator La Follette, were dismissed. No More U. *. Cardinals, Rome.--No new American cardinals will be created by the next consistory, it was announced at the Vatican. 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