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SET YOU FREE"
Is There A Santa Claus!
| EX-EDITOR VISITS
Ex-Editor Leonard Hall and
| Mrs. Hall of Charleston, Ore., were
I week-end visitors with friends in
A Southern Oregon National I Ashland. They were accompanied
Defense committee recently has. by Wendell Prime of Newport,
been organized in order to make brother of Mrs. Hall. Hall reports
possible a more effective mobili-1 that
tho fishin's
fiahin’a still
aiill fino
that “
"the
fine," ” a,)-
zation of trucks in this section in j though bad weather has kep».
the event of an army call.
them in for several weeks.
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The organization is headed by a
five-man executive group of which ENDERS IS INSTRUCTOR
W. D. Whittle of Ashland is a |
Jack Enders, lieutenant in the
member.
United States army air corps, is
Truck owners are requested to now serving as an instructor at a
register their equipment at the new Texas airfield. Lt. Enders,
chamber of commerce in order to who is a son of Henry Enders of
make complete the census of Ashland, previously was located
available trucks.
i at Kelly Field, Texas.
LET’S BE THANKFUL!
Thanks for the memries we’ve built through the years;
Thanks for the sunshine that shone through our tears,
Thanks for the friendships far better than gold;
The joy of our loved ones to have and to hold.
Thanks for the prosperous years we have seen,
Thanks for the lessons in years that were lean.
Thanks that we realize each year more and more—
Indeed we have much to be thankful for.
DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER
Litwiller Funeral Home
We Never Close—Phone 4541
C.M.IJtwiHer
I
Mercier I leads S. P
About People You Knote
• Mr.« Bertha McKinney of I .ill-
coin is spending the holiday.« with
hei parents. Mr and ! Mrs A H
1'eachcy.
• Mr and Mix M F Cox <>r
Stayton were Sunday visitor.« Lt
the home of Mr and Mi
1 c
ROGER'M. KYES ~
Erwin.
• Mix.« Jean Flideger and Mixx
IT’S A SMALLER WORLD
Mary Graham. U of O students,
Not very many years ago. a are spending Christmas vacation
with Mr and Mix I R Frldegei
farm family was a pretty isolated
and self-contained unit of civiliza • Mixa Gertrude Engle of Rich
tion. The problems of that family, mond, Calif is a holiday visitor at
and the solution the home of Mi and Mrs F 8.
Engle
%
of those prob
• Mi«« Eleanor Cooinbe, an in-
lems. were fair
,xtructor in th<* Seattl«', Wash
ly well confined
I schools. is visiting with her pai
within the | entx m Ashland
fences of the • Manlev Leggett who attends
farm itself.
I * e government vocational school
That has been , in Eugene is spending the holi-
changed by 1 days in Ashland with hlx mother,
inven- jiurs. Fannie Leggett.
modern
tions.
• Mi .ind lira Aithm s Tayloi
First came ' are spending the Christmas hull-
Kye»
the automobile, I days in southern California
with its traveling companion, the >• Mr and Mix Jim O'Neil of
hard-surfaced road. .That made I Klamath Falls are holiday visitors
the farmer a better and closer in Ashland.
neighbor. It became an hour’s trip . • Mrs Bill Ford and aon oi Duns
to town and back, instead of a muir, Calif. are visiting at the
I home of Mr and Mrs M T Bums
whole day's journey.
Then along came the RED, • Mi and MI I Kenneth Grubb
which brought the farmer his mail, have returned from a two weeks
' trip in California
and his daily paper, right to his
front gate every day
He began • Mr and Mis Ellis Stevens of
j Portland were visitors at the home
to know what was happening, not
of Mr and Mrs W J Stevens last
only in the county seat, but in the
week.
nation and the world.
• Mrs Esther Sullivan who has
And finally the radio arrived, been visiting friends in San Fran
with the effect of making the cisco has returned to her home in
whole world a group of neighbors. Ashland.
There was a time when there • Dr and Alls L W Stolf. rx are
could be a war in China, and we spending the holidays with rela
wouldn't iww a thing about it for tives
m
Portland and
Battle
six months. And every school boy Ground. Wash
knows that the battle of New Or • Mixx Charlotte Short. I.yndcl
leans was won by "Old Hickory" Newbry and Everett Nance, OSC
several weeks after the war was students, are spending tht* holi
days with relative.« in Ashland
over and peace declared!
That can never happen again. • Lirry Flagman left Wednes-
day evening for Albany to spend I
Wc know about battles in Europe,
Christmas with relatives at Al
or torpedoes in the Indian Ocean,
bany. He will return to his posi
actually while they are taking tion at —
Broady Bros this week-
place. Truly, it’s a smaller, more end.
intimate world.
• I E Vining who Was confined
The benefits we have all enjoyed to the Community hospital las’ 1
from modern transportation and week has returned to his home
modern communication must not and is reported much improved
be regarded as one-way tickets to • David Fortmiller I' of O
[ better fuller living. If we have dent, is spending the holidays with
j more neighbors, we must have his parents. Mr. and Mrs Charles
more neighborliness.
Fortmiller
A drought, or a war. on the oth • Miss Ethel May Robinett, stu
er side of the world, which used dent at Mills college, is spending
to seem a million miles away, now a three weeks vacation with rela
takes place, so far as effect is con tives here.
cerned. in our own yards. We tiate
become a part of the world, Per- HILT NEWS
haps we sUll live off the main
■
"f
highway, but our Individual farm, • The Club hotel W«l
large or small, is itself a part of a Christmas party Wednesday
the world, with a full share of re evening by the Hilt Girl Scout
troop. There was a beautiful tree
sponsibility toward the millions of
The girls exchanged gifts and
neighbors we now have.
each brought a gift for the mo
We can no longer tell ourselves
thers. Babe Bernheisel played the
“Let those foreigners settle their
part of Santa and Rita Sultanu
own affairs; I’ve got troubles of was Mrs. Santa. Games were play
my own." That doesn’t work any ed and refreshments served
more.
• The Womens Society of Chris
Ixiok at the present world-wide
tian Service held their Christmas
struggle if you want a case his
party at the club house Thursday
tory. We didn't make the war;
afternoon. Hostesses were Mrs
perhaps we didn't contribute a
Stella Roop, Mrs. Arthur Peder
•ingle factor to its underlying sen and Mrs T Anderson. A pro
causes. Definitely, it's not our war. gram which included a piano solo
¡We donft want to be in it at all. by Milma Brown; carols. Silent
But we< feel the effects of it. Night, O Little Town of Bethle
¡whether we like it or not. If you
hem, Oh, Come All Ye Faithful,
Heed any further evidence that we by all; piano and occordeon duets
have a responsibility in this war. by Mrs. De Witt and Miss Marina
tju' t think of what your tax bills Cunial; a song.
"Star of
the
wil’ be next year, and for all the East.’’ by Mrs. Roop, Mrs. Jack-
y< a r to come.
son and Mrs. Pedersen, accompan
V are neighbors of the whole ied by Mrs. Kenneth Brown at the
world.. We have to be neighborly niano
niano solo by
bv Mrs ■
piano, and a piano
Roop, was enjoyed by all present.
Gifts were exchanged after the
serving of refreshments Those at
tending the party were Miss Mar
ina Cunial and Mesdames M Seif,
Clinton Cobb, Ed Wells. Arthur
The Ashland junior high basket Pedersen and children, Don Rose-
ball squad made it two in a row crans and daughters, Carrie Bem-
heisel, Bess Bernheisel and daugh
again Tuesday night when they
ter Carmen. E. Jackson and son
thumped two Sams Valley high
Gene. Kenneth Brown and daugh
school teams at Sams Valley. The
ters. W. Dutro, W Gran. Jo Gold-
Junior high seventh and eighth
enpenny and children, Stella Roop,
graders trounced a like team from
T. Anderson, John De Witt, Harry
Sams Valley 34 to 14 and the
De Jamett, Walter Eastman. En-
varsity won from Sams Valley
zie Wright, and from Hornbrook,
high varsity 31 to 24 after trail
Mrs. Gilbert, Dr. and Mrs Edwin
ing throughout most of the first
8. Richardson and daughter, and
half.
Mrs Hodges who was the winner
Garrett led all scorers in the of the door prize
varsity game with his 13 points • Mrs. E. O. Robinson spent two
Kerr ran up seven counters while days here with Mrs. Frank Oh-
Samuelson, who played only part lund while preparing to move her
of the game, accounted for eight. household equipment to Susanville,
The graders looked better than following the death of her hus
the varsity as they continually band last week. She left Monday
kept the Sams Valley boys in I evening with her brother and bro
check. Jimmy Jandreau and Dom- | ther-in-law of Susanville.
mie Provost led the scorers in this • Ed Grow and daughter of Fort
game with 10 apiece.
I Bragg are visting in Hilt.
For a bit of relief from the baffling world problems
of today we herein reprint that Christmas editorial
classic, “Is There a Santa Claus?" which appeared in
the New York Sun in 1897 and which has been reprint
ed millions of times since.
“We take great pleasure in answering at once and
thus prominently the communication below, expressing
at the same time our great gratification that its faith
ful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun:
Dear Editor—I am eight 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 Santa
Claus?"
Virginia O'Hanlon.
“Virginia, your little 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 comprehensible by their
little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s
or little children’s, are little. In thi£ great universe of
ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as
compared with the boundless world about him, as mea
sured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole
of truth and knowledge.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as
certainly as love and generosity and devotion 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
drear as if there were no Virginias. There would be no
child-like faith then, no poetry; no romance to make
tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment,
except in sense and sight. The eternal light with w’hich
childhood fills the w’orld 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
coming down, 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 w’orld are those that
neither children 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 un
seeable in the world.
“You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what
makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the
unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the
united strength ol all the strongest men that ever lived
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, ro
mance, can push aside that curtain and view’ and pic
ture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. 1» it all
real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing
Jiunior Quints Down
else real and abiding.
“No Santa Claus? Thank God; he lives forever. A Sams Valley Teams
thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten
thousand years from now he will continue to make glad
the heart of childhood.”
Truckers Organize
Defense Committee
Friday, Dec 2«. 1911
• Mr Hint Sirs Lowell A;ei |><
Christ mas al the lioim ot Mi
Ager's paivntx in Kliiniuth ¡•all«
• Ml and Mrs Gilbert Eldai
Eureka. Calll spent Chi siii .i.« ii
Ashland with Mi and A 1 ■
i.
la*wix Mix Eldei ha<l b on visit
ing with relatives here the past
week and Ml Elder accompanied
by Mr la>wls ai 1 ived from Eureka
Wednesday.
• Ruth Ager, dailghtei o| Mr
and Mix L. E Agei. is visiting
wit hrelatives in The Daliex.
•
NARROW ESCAPE
Wotd received tioni Dr M.title
B. Shaw who left for California
leccntly with Mr. and Mix Georg*
Yeo. repoits that they narrowly
1 scaped injury when they clashed
into a trailer which Had been
abandoned in the highway
Al
though no one wax hurt the cat
wax .wild to lx- badly damaged.
First official act of A T Marclsr on
<>r
taking office as president of South
am Pacific was to Issua a war llms
appeal to ths company's CO.000 sm
ployss. "Our first duty Is to our
government and I know ths mon
and women of our railroad will give
a good account of themselves." ho
oald.
practically all the laige
of the United State.« navy
's serve 11.« the heu
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