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Tolerance Between Faiths
In Germany
- The Peace of Augsburg in 1648 ended tha
Thifty Years war which had scourged Ger
many. The war was the outgrowth of the reli
gion controversies that followed the Reforma
tion, initiated by Martin Luther. The principle
accepted at Augsburg to end the religious dis
pute was: "Whose state, whose religion." In
other words, the religion of the prince deter
mined the religion of the people. While greater
toleration in recent centuries permitted a shift
ing of religions, it remained true that the sever
al areas remained predominantly of whatever
faith had been chosen for them after the Peace
of Augsburg.
An article by Charles R. Joy in St. Joseph's
magazine, published at Mt. Angel abbey, shows
hovt the dispersion of peoples in Germany after
the late war has changed the pattern of reli
gions. He cites the Bavarian Wood on the Czech
oslovak border which formerly was chiefly Ca
tholic; but the recent influx of Protestants has
reversed the proportions in some places. "Ems
land before the war was almost entirely Catholic
witjt only 10,000 Protestants. Now there are 80,
00(t Protestants in this region.
While this might seem to set the stage for a
revival of old antagonisms, the opposite seems to
have occurred. Mr. Joy writes:
7 c'Skice the days of the Reformation there has
I never been such close cooperation between Ca
l ' tbottc and Protestant as there is today in Ger
many." Da Eyke where the small Catholic church, ac
commodating only 40, faced a big influx of Cath
olics, the Protestant pastor offered the use of his
church and now both faiths use the same build
ing, at different hours. Pastor and priest hold
each other in mutual esteem.
Ignorance is often the father of prejudice. As
folk become acquainted, as in Germany under
the' stress of necessity, they develop understand
ing and forbearance. This experience in Ger
mfiy might well set an example for other lands
where bigotry and intolerance still persist.
"Vc Virginia, There Is ... "
The New York Sun has set, but the editorial
byTrederick M. Church, "Yes, Virginia, there
is Santa Claus," survives, to be reprinted an
nually by papers across the land. The Virginia,
whose letter in 1897 inspired the- editorial, is
now Mrs. Edward Douglas, principal of a pub
lic school in New York, who thinks that chil
dren have a lot of faith in Santa Claus.
Here is the classic, which promises like Ten
nyson's brook to go on forever:
We take pleasure in answering at once and
thus prominently the communication below, ex
pressing at the same time our great gratifica
tion that its faithful author is numbered among
t friends of the Sun:
i "Dear Editor J am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there Is
no Santa Claus.
"Papa says 'If you see it in the Sun it's
?so.'
"Please tell me the truth, is there a
J Santa Claus?
v "Virginia O'Hanlon,
"115 West Ninety-fifth Street
Virginia, your friends are wrong. They have
been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical
age. They do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which Is not com
prehensible by their little minds. All minds,
Virginia, whether they be men's or children's v
are little. In this great universe of ours man is
a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as com
pared with the boundless world about him, as
measured by the intelligence capable of grasp
ing the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there la a Santa Claus. He ex
ists as certainly as love and generosity and de
votion exist, and you know that they abound
and give to your life its highest beauty and Joy.
Alas, how dreary would be the world if there
were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary if
there were no Virginias. There would be no
childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to
make tolerable mis existence. We should have
no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The
eternal light with which childhood fills the
world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well
not believe in fairies! You might get your papa
to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even
If they did not see Santa Claus, what would that
prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no
sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real
things in the world are those that neither chil
dren nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies
dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's
no proof that they are not there. Nobody can
conceive or imagine all the wonders there are
unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what
makes the noise inside, but there is a veil cov
ering the unseen world which not the strongest
men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only
faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push
aside that curtain and view and picture the su--pernatural
beauty and glory beyond. Is it all
real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is no
thing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he
lives forever. A thousand years from now, Vir
ginia, nay, ten times the thousands of years
from now, he will continue to .make glad the
heart of childhood.
Damage from; recent windstorms in Oregon
stirs up interest in insurance protection against
such losses. It may be obtained directly or in
cluded in the "Extended Coverage" of fire in
surance policies. Insurance companies took a
beating as a result of the severe windstorm of
November, 1950 in the northeastern states. Los
ses paid on that account ran to over $150 mil
lion according to the report of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters. That was a bad
blow for the companies. Recent storms in this
area did no such damage, but a loss is a loss no
matter by whom sustained.
While no competition was staged this year for
Christmas lighting, a trip around the city and
its environs shows that many householders have
done a good job in beautifying their premises.
Worth special notice are houses in Manbrin Gar
dens and on Candelaria heights. Drive around to
look the town over this Christmas week end.
Parents of a; nine-year-old girl in Kansas
City have let her start alone on a round-the-world
trip. She; may be safer at that age than
when she's 19.
Dictator Peron accuses the United States of
"newsprint imperialism" and points a shaming
finger at a 252-page Sunday issue of the New
York Times. Considering what Peron did to La
Prensa, Argentina doesn't need more newsprint
but fewer police.
Crumbling British Power Gives Rise to All
1 Kinds of Conjecture on Churchill's U. S. Visit
j. By Stewart Alsop
(The following report was writ
tea after Stewart Alsop's return
tram London.)
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."Winston is going to have to
pull some sort of rabbit out of
his hat when he goes to Washing
ton." This re
mark, or some
thing like i t ,
is often heard
in the inner
Tory circle in
London. To un
derstand why
Prime Minister
Churchill so
badly needs a
. I raDoit in nis
V I oddly shaped
Ai ' hat, it is only
necessary to
consider the ciicumstances in
which he is making this latest in
a series of historic journeys to the
United States. His country is, of
course, again in a desperate
RBnomic plight. In cold statistical
terms, this is the most serious
British economic crisis yet. The
loss of gold and dollar reserves in
the last four months of this year
is likely to top the billion dollar
mark. This amounts to a sort of
economic hemorrhage. Somehow
this outflow of the British econo
mic life blood the' margin ef
safety on which the whole vast
sterling area operates must be
stopped.
Yet ChercbiU will arrive la
Washington well knowing that
by mew the recarrent British
crises are very eld
the United States. The
which has Been gnawing as
me which has
abeat te gnaw threttrh
the leer tn 147, 1S4S, and again
Boor; has been a very real wolf
lTiitMg. -get area when the wolf
1 sterfeetly real, the cry "wolf.
wt&4oe efien repeated, tends
U( lese its tneaalng.
tlt-fias lost its meaning even In
Britain, -through too frequent re
petition. The British, -moreover,
axe -a pcoud people, and when, in
December, 1950, it was announc
ed, that Britain could dispense
with further American economic
afd this had a profound and
ewtotiaeal impact on the British.
"We felt," as one of them said
recently, "as though we could
hold up our heads again." For
Churchill, newly installed as Bri
tish premier, to ask for another
large infusion of American aid
would be a tremendously un
popular act in Britain, however
clear the need. ;
Yet somehew Churchill and
Truman most find means to glae
the situation together again. The
main outlines of a temporary
gluing operation are already
fairly visible. On the American
side, what is required is that
Britain be given: priority on dol
lar purchase ef about 1 per cent
of the total American steel pro
duction. Also required is that
somehow something like $506,
00,900 should be found for the
British out of already appropri
ated foreign aid funds.
On the British side, what is re
quired is the old, tired, familiar
program of Crippsian austerity
this has, indeed, already started,
with Chancellor of the Exchequ
er R. A. Butler's billion dollar
cut in imports. In such ways,
with a little luck in the terms of
trade, the hemorrhage may be re
duced to a less-than-fatal trickle,
and the. British sterling bloc
should be able ; to bump along
somehow for a time.
Yet the fact is that this sort of
gluing operation, which has been
repeated in one form or another
for a long time new, is a way ef
preventing the patient from dy
ing, without really dealing with
the disease. The symptoms of the
disease are : world-wide, and
every year they beeoane
visible. Aaaeag the visible
terns today, for eiamplo. are the
erosion af British newer in the
United States has been unable te
brought en a crisis with which
th United 8tates has
able te deal effectively; the
creasing split between
and British policy an a whole
aeries ef issues; and the sharp
cutback tn the British rearma
ment effort recently announced
by ChnrenUL; ,
Unless the disease is somehow
dealt with at the source, the
symptoms are sure to get pro
gressively worse. For we might
as well face s it. The available
evidence suggests that the poli-
. It is cetainly true that Winston
S. Churchill himself has thought
long and hard about inner nature
of the relationship between the
United States and the British
Empire and fJbmmon wealth. And
it is therefore just possible that
when Churchill comes to Wash
ington the rabbit in his hat may
have a rather startling shape.
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herei And then in the name of
that- RIGHT shall I: not slay
them for mu r d e r i n g their
Queen, and he slain in my turn
by -their countrymen as the in
vader of their fatherland? Can
Rome do less then than slay
these slayers too, to show the
world how Rome . avenges her
sons and honor? And so, to the
end of history, murder shall
breed murder, always in. the
name of right and honor and
peace, until the gods are tired
of blood and create a race that
can understand.
These lines inspire a far more
friendly response than they did
when Shaw wrote them in 1900.
Shakespeare was no moralist.
He was the playwright -who
"held as t were the mirror up
to nature" to show "the very
age and body of the time his
form and pressure." His Cleo
patra is the "serpent of the
Nile", the charmer of men, se
ducer and sorcerer: beautiful,
voluphaius, artful.
One of the characters in the
play describes thus the scene
when first she met Mark Antony
upon the river Cyndus:
The barge she sat In. liko a
burnished throno.
Burned on the water: th poop
was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed
that
The winds were love-sick, with
them; the oars were "silver.
Which to the tune of nutes
kept stroke and made
Tbe water whica they beat to
fouow faster.
As amorous at tbeir strokes.
for her own person.
It beggar'd aU description: she
did no
la her pavilion, cloth -of-fold
O'er picturing that VenUs where
we see
The ncy outwork nature: on
each side her
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U. S. Medicd Missionary Kills 'T!
Himself after Chinese Torture.
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By Fred . Ilampsea
HONG KONG, Sunday, Dec. TZ-iJP-Dr. William Wallace, Amer
ican medical missionary in China for 17 years, cracked under com
munist torture and commited suicide in a Wuchow jail last February, !
a Catholic priest' expelled from the Red mainland said today.
Father Mark Tennien of Pittsf ord, Vt, told the story of Dr. Wal
lace's death, and described his own life in the same Red prison. Wal
lace was a Southern Baptise missionary.
Father Tennion said Dr.' Wal
lace stood up to the endless Ques
tioning and lack of food and sleep
for several weeks. But in February
he seemed to crack.
He screamed for hours every
night, while Red guards prodded
him with bamboo poles to silence
him. He became irrational at the
questioning sessions. He was ob
viously ill ana seriously exhaust
ed. Father Tennien said, but the
Reds never let him rest.
One night, no one is quite sure
of the date, he screamed for about
an hour then became suddenly
quiet.
A few hours later the commun
ist jailers saw him hanging by the
neck-from a strip of blanket tied
to the top of his cell door.
The jailers were frightened and
made Father Kennedy, justice of
New York, enter the cell and cut
him down. Dr. Wallace was dead.
Father Tennien said he per
sonally underwent the "mind
washing process of the Reds, but
said his mind didn't wash.
Their stuff sounded like rub
bish when it started and it still
sounded like rubbish at the end."
he said. But he admitted the com
munist indoctrination did affect
many of the prisoners.
Father Tennien said he got so
angry at repeated attacks on
America that one day he gave an
impromptu lecture on how well
the American working man was
paid.
For a few minutes even the com
munists listened, and one asked,
"Do they really get so much? As
much in one day as we get in a
whole year? Is that really true?"
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toed pretty dimpled boys, like
smiling Cupids,
With divers-colored fans, whoso
wind did seem.
To slow the delicate cheeks
which they did cool.
Caught in the embrace of Cle
opatra, Antony was pursued by
the vengeful Octavius. His forces
are defeated on land sea. Then
he falls on his sword, and speaks
to Cleopatra: "I am dying, Egypt,
dying. The grief-stricken queen
puts the poisonous asp to her
breast, "that sucks the nurse to
sleep."
Meekness is an essential virtue
in the life of all great men.
Anonymous
From time to time fears are
expressed over the future of the
theatre. But with such actors as
the Oliviers and such plays as
these and others of more recent
vintage such concern seems to
be borrowing worry. The great
regret is that the professionals
are limited so utterly to New
York and a few other large cities
with only an occasional touring
company, of quality to make the
"provinces."
rrrg Daw njEww
f ,
tical bet made by Left-wing
British leader Aneurin Bevan is
winning bet. Bevan is betting
that simple economic pressures
will sooner or later destroy the
Conservative interest in Britain
by forcing a sharp fall in living
standards; and that Britain will
then go very far to the Left un
der a "Third Force" anti-American
government. If this does hap
pen, the whole structure of re
sistance to Soviet expansion,
built with such infinite expendi
ture of treasure and even blood,
will begin to crumble.
For the first time In his yearly
trips to Britain, this reporter
this year heard a number of re
sponsible British and American
officials talking thoughtfully,
tentatively, but seriously about
some entirely new approach te
the whole Angle-American rela
tionship. There was even talk
about seme sort ef real political
and economic union between
Britain, the Commonwealth
countries, and the United States.
This is an interesting vision
the vast sterling market opened
to the United States, the vast
American market opened to the
sterling countries, in a union of
English-speaking people, more
appropriate in many ways than
a union of diverse European
countries, comprising an immen
se center of power and stability.
No doubt this vision is wholly
impractical, for all sorts of
economic, political and emotional
reasons.
Yet surely it is time to think
very seriously about ways in
which the British economic dJe
ease itself can be dealt with. If
only in order that British power,
the tndlsnensable aaset ef the
United States la the world strug
gle, should cease to be a wasting
Santa Claus, believe him or not, is up to nis ear-whiskers
these days in hard work. We dropped in to see the old boy at
his cozy headquarters in the Shopping Center. There he was
giving out with hearty "ho-ho's," hoisting the
little ones up on his knee (the big ones stand),
listening to their childish prattle and yelling
"ouch!" when they yanked his beard. One lit
tle girl was giving him detailed instruction on
how to get into her home (no chimney). And
a little boy promised to set out some food for
the reindeer on Christmas eve.
Later, when Santa knocked off for a few
minutes to feed the reideer and massage bis
right knee, we asked him about this Santa
Clans business. Well, with a twinkle in his merry old eyes and
jiggle of his round little belly, he said that adults could learn a
lot about the true spirit of Christmas from the kids. Examples:
One poorly-dressed little girl told Santa she wanted a doll for
Christmas then added that he wouldn't have to bring her any
thing If he'd only bring her Mommy some nice dresses. Several
youngsters asked Santa to bring their GI Dads home for Christ
mas. Lota of kids ask for Bibles and one girl said she wanted
her Mother home from the hospital.
In general, though, said Santa, boys ask for trains, log
trucks and mechanical equipment. Girls go for dolls, nurse sets
and dishes. And one grown woman sat on Santa's lap and asked
for a new car and a fur coat. Santa tells them, including the
woman, that he'll see what he can do. "I ask 'em all if they've
been good," he said. "And you'd be surprised how many admit
they have not. I tell them, anyway, it's good to be truthful." One
little girl almost stumped Santa when she asked him to name
all his reindeer. On an average day Santa interviews about 200
children and on peak days as high as 600. He estimates he's
seen close to 15,00 youngsters at his temporary quarters here
this season.
Mr. Claus notes only a few of the kids are afraid of him.
"It's a tremendous thrill in their lives te see Santa. Naturally
they are a little awed and some parents crowd them too much.
The average age of a good believer Is about 6 years. Boys catch
on quicker and .girls keep the faith longer. One mother brought
her little girl in to prove to her that there WAS a Santa Claus,
because the girl's teacher at school had told her differently. "I'd
like to tell that teacher a thing or two," said Santa, so mad his
Jingle bells began jangling.
Santa says his biggest thrill came the other day when a
small lad, his eyes alight with the true faith, came in accom
panied by a boy a little older who had just joined the ranks
of the non-believers. The non-believer scoffed at the idea of
Santa Claus and tried to talk the little one into his way of
thinking. But the small lad suddenly began to reel off a long,
encyclopedic history of the legend of St. Nick and brought out
all the evidence for a belief in Santa Claus. "By the time he got
through," said Santa, "he not only had his companion convinced
but he even had me 'and several innocent bystanders on the
hook." . . . And with that old Santa asked what we wanted for
Christmas, handed over a bag of candy and we hurried home in
get off a letter to the North Pole.
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Dec 24-29
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Korea Orphans
To Receive
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Electric Train
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 22-(A)-A
hundred Korean orphans, who
perhaps have never seen an elec
tric train, have been promised one
for Christmas.
PFC Joseph R. Battaglio (home
address unavailable) of the 27th
infantry regiment in Korea, wrote
General Mills, Inc., asking if it
would be possible to buy an elec
tric train set the firm was offer
ing as a contest prize.
The company informed Battag
lio the train sets couldn't be sold
but he would get one free for the
orphans, being supported by the
regiment.
- The set should arrive on Christ
mas day. It is to leave here by
plane tomorrow.
SUPERFORTRESS CRASHES
FLINT, Mich., Dec. 22-(P-An
air force B-29 Superfortress
crashed near here today. One air
man was killed. Seven others par
achuted to safety. The plane
crashed 18 miles west of Flint,
near the village of Flushing, Mich.
The priest, a big man with a
powerful voice, roared an affirm
ative reply. He was dragged away
to a celL
Names Remain
On Prisoner List
WASHINGTON, Dec 22-iffy-The
casualty unit at the defense
department called in extra per
sonnel today -to try to clean up
about 30 troublesome cases re
maining ' on the Communist-supplied
list of prisoners of war in
J&orea.
a larger than usual'Salurday'frtaH "
worked on the problem names.
Three could not be matched with
rmssing-in-action records I at .the
Pentagon; the others largely ap- -peered
to be confused identities.
The number of relatives of men -on
the list who had been sent ra
tifications remained at 3,163
through the day. The Communists
turned over 3,198 names at the
truce talks. i i
On the ranches of Uruguay there
are more than three cattle and
Three officers and 25 civilians nine sheep for every person.
A Tip of the Hat!
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Only hours now remain before that great day
When Donner & Blitzen start hauling their sleigh; '
The rush, crush, push, shove and scramble is o'er
And shopping will soon be as 'twas before.
So that those who've made it easier for us
To buy those gifts with the least amount of fuss,
Might get some recognition for their jobs well-done
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Whose patience and smiles aided shoppers' chores
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