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have even more than, these are, food for the mind, shelter for the spirit, that which clothes the nakedness of Christ. The ancient people of the Anâ€" gli, in what is now Britain, had in Deâ€" night." There had to be a day set aside for kindness, and generosity, and reâ€" membering those we love, and those less fortunate. immortal A Christmas Carol, there have been a few Scrooges who cried of Christmas, "ah, humbug!" I have beard modern Scrooges call it a shopâ€" keepers‘ holiday, andâ€"a nuisance, but for the overwhelming majority of us, as for Scrooge‘s nephew, it is "a good time; a. kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know oi in the long calendar of the year when men and women open their shutâ€" up hearts freely . .. I say God bless it I" Table Tennis C Scheduling Maf?';u get on without, and a number of wise men have made my suggestionâ€" we‘d There is a certain magic in a day when even strangers bid us be merry; when the mail and telephone and teleâ€" graph and all the means of commuâ€" mication commonly devoted to business bring cheery wishes for "Merry Christâ€" mas!" _ Shopkeepers‘ holiday? Bah! Humbug! It isn‘t a necktie or a dollar bill that we slip into the hand of the janitor or the postman; it‘s good will and thank you for a year of service. It isn‘t a toy train that we put under the tree for Junior, or a muffler that we wrap in red tissue for Aunt Julia, but the knowledge that Junior has alâ€" ways wanted a train, and Aunt Julia kas neded a muffler, and the loving desire that, just this one day, they shall The cold weather finds table tennis Thap: oo the coming mmstonce hok coming Monday the Center Tennis Club had a match with the Service Men‘s Club. Monday after 7, and just play, or try out for the team. When she was a very little girl, my daughter asked, "What would you do if there weren‘t any trees?" "Why," I answered, lightheartedly, "we‘d have to invent some. We couldn‘t get on without trees." _There are quite a lot of thingsâ€" that we shall see the pleasure in their eyes, and feel the warmth of their joyâ€" ful kisses. Believe it or not, and smile if you like, but, atâ€"well, say 60, my wife and I still hang up our stockings. What a lot of love and laughter and mMs‘i‘nflntfifli‘dfn our litfle tree with bright stars and tinsel, and for days ahead, in secret in gay paper, and hide them from one People who like to keep saloons busy aremerely frustrated and ‘ignorant. ‘They need a safer, constructive outâ€" let for their starved emotions. Reâ€" pen to know exactly what is "right"? "Wrong"? Health and contentment are the main goals of life. The people I meet are my friends. Thisâ€"war is a way of punishing us for what we have doneâ€"and for what we have not done! Life is really ‘happy, ready to be enâ€" My kind of "success sincerelyâ€" want ‘it. member the ‘"expulsive power of . a new affection". Men and women are striving for what is "right‘â€"and do you, reader, hapâ€" Others have a right to their opinion. The "scientific method" (going first to life facts, observing and recordâ€" ing these facts, using them, and then reading what the "great thinkers" have said) is the best way to avoid intolerance and find "truth". Li(e-d)lmnfl’n,lqmbh All men are intrinsically "good". Every man and woman is my friend until proven otherwise. Every person is honest. The other automobile driver is going to do something wrongâ€"and I‘d betâ€" ter watch out! f Most people are looking out for me as much as I am trying to look out for There‘s got to be a Santa Claus! with a smile and a ‘think th 1 will be mine if I By Channing Pollock 1941 mas guests are people who, whatever their means, have no home of their own. Why? Well, when I was 19, and away from my home for the first time at Christmas, a very lonely lad, the mother of a chap employed in the ofâ€" fice with me asked me to her home. I never saw her again; she has been dead nearly 40 years, but she and that Shopkeepers‘ holiday! Was it only a shaving kit I could have got for myself that went into that starry packâ€" age, or was it my daughter‘s heart that remembered the time, ages ago, when I said, "Damn that old razor! Some day I‘m going to have one that fits inâ€" to my hand properly!"? What about the crate of oranges that comées every Christmas from a colored elevator boy in Florida? I can buy better oranges, but I can‘t buy what comes with these. Gov. Dwight Green Of Defense Committee devotion exist. . . . There is a> veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that cummandviewndm Of course there‘s a Santal And if there weren‘t, he would be the very first of the things we‘d have to invent. Life must have love and a little childâ€" like faith to be endurable ; and the year must have at least one day when we are more conscious of faith and love than of business and bombs and all the â€"realities â€"nobodyâ€"doubtsâ€"and noâ€" :mothamiltbemomin‘ofmmnim now, and we talked of the great days in the theater, and lived them again until _ long. after â€"midnight. | Irene Franklin, who had been the idol of songs to us, a very Shakeâ€" spearean actor repeatedâ€"and how!â€" the soliloquy from Hamlet. It took Christmas to restore their heyday for goes on our golden pile of Christâ€" truth, is there a Santa Claus?" Every year the Sun reprints the reply it made editorially in 1897: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as ?ru'-.lyu‘bn and ~generosity and the Is it all realâ€" Ah . . . in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding." Mm‘.uorge-Qh;-l--- nounced cceptance Governor Dwight H. Green, of HMlinois, of the fense this world only uninterested people." People are going to speak about me as I speak about them. "Good" somewhere may be found in every personâ€"and I‘m going to look and hunt for that "good"! Cymics, pessimists, and negavatists are sad, disappointed people stricken with a dreadful yet curable disease! dinner live in my memory. who, as a child of 8, wrote to the New York Sun. "Please tell me the the actions ofâ€"men and women. _ Ambition willâ€"not be quieted until saâ€" tisfiedâ€"but ambition must be There is no better place : Highland Park, Illinois! Creators are the real leaders in this worldâ€"and they should be followed! Rigid discipline is good for everyone. The Church is indispensable to a hapâ€" py, wellâ€"rounded life. "There is majesty in simplicity". The "questionable actions" of some where people are. grasp, or what‘s a heaven for?" The world will give me a chance if I honestly and diligently want that chance ! The war will be over in six months, and my best friends will return and learn creativeness rather than desâ€" tructiveness. $ Reading "established literature" is one of the finest ways of improving the Tipâ€"toe living is the top way of life. Last Christmas my wife and I had During a radio broadcast not long ground which may be tilled and adâ€" stark realism is my steady lifeâ€"lea live his The pearl which Mrs. E. A. Cross, 2145 Oak Knoll terrace, Highland Park, found in an oyster whileâ€" enjoyâ€" ing a birthday dinner in her honor at Hotel Moraine Onâ€"theâ€"Lake recently, has a market value of $10, two jewel appraising firms have advised her. Pearl Found By Mrs Cross is Valued At $10 THOMAS A. MORGAN (pictured Mfl-::t manu» facturers of aeronautical and maâ€" rine instruments, noo!v: 2 U.B.Nuvy.h'&h:.m a young man. "This proved :rnlâ€"h-ohkt-n‘u." exâ€"sailor Morgan. Pictured above are new Navy recruits reâ€" ceiving electrical training at one Hello, there! Well, first thing to decide is how much you want to spend for each gift. Make a list of your favorite peopleâ€"put a rough figure after each name~â€"then come with me. We‘ll find the right electrical gift to fit each figureâ€" If you plan to spend up to $10 Wafiic irons last for years . . . you can get one that makes two waflles at a time, and stay in this price range ! . , . Speakâ€" ing of irons, the new flat irons are really something! They make ironing so s«as . . . the right gift for any woman on your list â€"who keeps house . .. or for a girlâ€"with a soom at college .. . and don‘t forgetâ€"a handsome mble lamp is alway a welcome gift. » If you plan to spend up to #5 Does your friend like to drink good coffee? The vacuum years . . . and of course, everybody likes an electric clock for his own room, as well as other parts of the house . . .a pinâ€"up lamp is the handiest thing for lighting up an odd corner The PRESS On Saturday evening, December 6, the Saturday Evening Club will enterâ€" tain with a Barn Dance in the Assemâ€" bly Hall of the Y.W.C.A., 374 Laurel Avenue, to which the public is invited. Christmas decorations will predominâ€" ate, with an excellent Barn Dance Orâ€" chestra furnishing the music. Intermisâ€" sion entertainment, special refreshâ€" ments, and door prizes will highligt the festivities of the evening. SATURDAY EVE CLUB training men in nearly “Mmmhndm Opportunities for advancement, to learn skilled trades, for travel and adventure are identical whethâ€" er a man enlists in the regular Navy or the Naval Reserveâ€"and his pay, food, clothing, medical and dental care are the same. e s (u 5 o â€"A e Npeti ts . " . . . and Electricity is Cheap Items priced at $5 or more may be purchased on convenient terms. C <east vo‘t If you plan to spend up to $25 For people who take pride in serving snacks to their guests, a toaster with tray and service dishes is perfect . . . or you can give a complete electric roaster for this amount of moneyâ€" something you‘ll be thanked for as long as you live! While we‘re thinking about the kitchen, don‘t forget that nothing adds more fun to cooking than an electric mixer . . . and does it save a lot of work ! For someone you‘re particularly anxious to pleaseâ€"a besutiful floor or table lamp will bring years of If you‘re an "unusual" giver, that wonderful new electric blanket is the gift you‘ve been tying to think of . . . ‘keeps people warm all night regardless of changing room temperaâ€" tures, is light as a feather. Costs $36.23 complete with transâ€" former and adjustable thermostat control switch. It‘s ideal for bedroom, sleeping porch or college dormitory. And for a really big Christmas, an electric refrigerator, a washer or an electric sewing machine! I think an investment in the home shows a mighty smart bit of foresight this year. Hope I‘ve helped you fill out your list. Until Christmas Eve . . . Goodâ€"bye, and Geod Shopping / For more suggestions, stop in at your neighborhood dealer‘s or Public Service store. Don‘t put off shopping :: . do it now while selections are best. Lt. William Looby Named Aide to ,Id;. Gen. Willis At Naval School Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Harza, 2299 Pierce road have returned from a three month‘s vacation in Charleston, John P. McMahon Named Commander John P. McMahon, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. McMahon of 130 South Znd St., recently was appointed Comâ€" mander of the first platoon, Fourth Company, First Cadet Battalion, at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensaâ€" cola, Fila., according to an announceâ€" ment by that station‘s Public Relations McMahon attended De Paul Uniâ€" versity and received his appointment as a Naval Aviation Cadet in June of this year. He took his elimination flight training at the U. S. Naval Reâ€" serve Aviation Base, Glenview, III., beâ€" fore coming to Pensacola for primary and basic training at the "Annapolis oi the Air." Prior to appointment as aide to General Willis, the Lieutenant comâ€" manded Company C of the 30th Mediâ€" Office. He spent 18 months working as a surgeon abroad before he established his Highland Park offices. in Highland Park from 1937 to :i-he'unlhdbufinmh the Army. WnMWM@- oapitel rammbg at H s hospital and the Presbyterian hospital, Lieut. William E. Looby, former Wl’f-tmh&.-u named official aide to Brig. Gen. John M. Willis, camp commander. A native of Towa, the Licutenant Loyal Order of Moose, Highland Park held its annual fall dinner for members and their wives at the Kenâ€" mllsinNorthbtookwmm Carl Dill was master of ceremonies. Dinner speakers were Norman Fink, recent past governor and Clarence Roliman, present Governor. The annual Christmas party for children of members will be held Deâ€" cember 21 at Witten hall at 7:30 o‘ clock. Santa Claus will be on hand to give out presents. Christmas carols will be sung around the Chistmas tree. The Highland Park Lions club heard Nels Johnson tree surgeon, Evanston, at their weekly meeting Thursday at the Open House. Johnâ€" slides. Karl Hanson and Ernest Belâ€" mont were ip charge of the meeting. ELKS AUXILIARY The auxiliary of the Highland Park Eilks club held its monthly dessert and meeting Tuesday at the club rooms. Mrs. M. J. Mitchell presided over the meeting. Hostesses for Deâ€" cember include Mrs. Joseph Berube, Mrs. E. L. McLaughlin and Mrs. J. Sheaken. The annual Christmas party will be held December 16. Each member is asked to bring a 10 cent gift fer the exchange, and canned goods for the Christmas basket. The Highland Park Rotary club 'uufl“l-abm l*u-l-fitw‘ ly luncheonâ€"meetng. Nafe was in charge of the program. Scouts of Troop 30, and scoutmaster, M. Warâ€" ner Turriff demonstrated the way in which Boy Scouts can be of service oo m John pating in program were Wood, Raymond Lee, George Leâ€" Clerg, Kenneth Margeson, James Leech, Philip Minorini, Robert Morâ€" an, Thomas Cilroy, James Fahey and Richard Sage. Troop 30 is sponsored by the Rotary club. MOOSE LODGE ROTARY CLUB LIONS CLYB