RS ii PAGE THIRTY Le , SATU ade 3k rrr : jr-- Wil ; oh : ; a America Again Expresses It 'on Two Sides of the Atlantic: N° CHRISTMAS like that now hovering on the horizon ever before happened to the United States. A year ago ® American soldiers were in Franee, but history had yer to make its greatest background. Things have happened since then. The great thing has happened for 'whith a nation strove, and the era of "peace on earth' draws nearer and clearer De. spite the anxieties of a troubled world it is possible to fignrethe possibilities of a new era, and meanwhile the Christmas season brings with it a light of higher hope and cheer to all well wishers of the creed of brotherhood. The nation 'adanced' itself'" in the year now drawing to.a close It has advanced a long way on the high road toward momentous ideals, Over seas there will be a Christmas such gs milhions of Americans never saw before It will be a season of Christmas boxes, of home-looking thoughts, of proud memories, of strange tasks and of perplexities growing out of strange tasks It will nevertheless bé an American Christmas wherever Americans are ' Trust. Apierican boys for that. And it will icarry the devout wish that adother year may see Europe and all the world a happier place. At home it will be a Christmas of new images which the fancy of youth and of age will invest with sentiments that must ever remain old. Santa Claus may travel in a biplane, but his message is the same old message--a message owned by no greed or sect, for Christmas belongs t6 all the world. It cannot be doubted that the sentiment of thanks giving, which began its expression on Thanksgiving Day, will come to its finest fruition at Christmas. To every individual the day must have iis special meaning--u meaning that cannot always be openly joyous--but na: tionally the day must inevitably rise in the year 1918 as the crisis of the sentiments and emotions which have been molded by 4 momcitous year, :