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Christmas the
Glad Day for
All the World
VERY country and every people
have their own special holi
days, both national and reli-
I
gious, but Christmas is a day
■ forali countries and all people. It is
■ the world’s holiday.
■ It is a day of gladness, as it should
■ be, for it commemorates the birth of
■ him who brought to the world the
■ greatest gladness it has ever known or
I will ever know, though it were to last
I for countless aeons to come.
I So universal is the application of
I the celebration of Christmas that all
I men are included In it, whether they
I be of high or lowly station, rich or
I poor in the goods of the world.
I It is a time for kindly deeds, for
charity, for gifts and all that goes to
make life gentler and sweeter. The
I hardest heart can scarcely escape its
softening influence, the most sordid
miser must struggle to resist Its
promptings to generosity.
At first the day was a day observed
) professed Christians only ; now it
• observed by both those who profess
themselves Christians and those who
make no such professions. Its warmth
envelops all.
This being true—and no one will dis-
pute it—the meaning of Christmas
trows ever clearer to us. Its meaning
‘beyond all that we have already said
I it. Christmas means that, ultimate-
■Z. the whole world will become one
vast brotherhood.
And it is entirely logical that this
should be the real meaning of Christ-
mas, because that was the reason Christ
came upon the earth whose birth is
celebrated by Christmas. It was tc
make all men brothers that he lived
and taught and toiled; it was to sc-
complish this that he gave himself up
voluntarily to a cruel death on the
tempts to dispute the miracles he per
formed, but these attempts have also
failed.
There Is no question now in the
mind of any historian worthy of the
name that Christ performed all the
miracles that are related of him in the
Gospels. He undoubtedly healed the
sick—the leprous, the palsied and the
others. He turned the water Into wine;
he fed the multitude on a few loaves
and fishes. He raised the dead.
Men may differ, as indeed they do,
as to whether or not Christ was the
divine son of God, but even those who
in the face of every proof reject this
claim still regard him as the purest,
the noblest and the greatest man that
ever walked this earth. Every man
does not worship him as God. but no
man defames him. He is the vision
and the hope of all men.
When, In mockery, they crowned
him king with the cruel thorns, little
they thought that he would rule a
world at last—a world in which all
races vie with one another to render
him their homage.
Now comes again in the swing of
the years another Christmas day. May
it be a glad and a merry one for all
our readers.
party clothes tor the whole family,
extra special cooking and preparation
for guests.
“Then wc set about doing these
things. At first it goes well and we
enthuse. The common, everyday affairs
interfere and complicate matters.
“At the beginning of Christmas week
—with many frills deleted—we find
ourselves growing tired, awfully tired.
But we see that it's impossible then to
stop and rest. That’s where the strain
begins. We feel compelled to finish
what we’ve started and to carry the
program through to the last item of
buying, making, packing and shipping.
"Unexpected demands interrupt.
Then the strain begins to tell on our
nerves. Perhaps we don't say anything
for fear of spoiling Christmas for the
others, but in our hearts we wish man
kind had kept Christmas free from this
sort of thing.
“When Christmas day comes we are
too weary to bother about the true
meaning of it all or to take very keen
tnings which our present physical and
mental strain forbids. Throughout the
rest of the year. If any one felt In
clined to send a regular gift to a
friend or relative, that could be done
very easily and the recipient would
know It was a voluntary, not a com
pulsory, remembrance."
“It's a great idea,” said the brown
eyed woman’s husband, cheerfully. “A
bit of real affection In place of some
of the monstrosities now exchanged
would be a great improvement.”
“You can make fun If you want to,”
she replied, "but when the world
wakes up to the real meaning of Christ
mas—and the war I believe has helped
to wake It op—you’ll pee the effect
spread over the entire year. Then
the first of January won't be asso
ciated with bills and pills, but with
the genuine eagerness to live the next
12 months better than those preced-
“In the meantime,” sighed her hus
band dramatically, "I hope you haven’t
bought me another smoking jacket”
"That reminds me !” said the woman
with the brown eyes. T haven't time
to be sitting here talking. And It won’t
be any of your affair until tomorrow
morning, anyway.” — Chicago Dally
News.
The full strength of all Masonic
lodges In California with a total of
67,890 members will be felt In the gov
ernment's 1919 Thrift and War Sav
Ings Stamps campaign as soon as rec
ommendations of the Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons of Callfor
nia made In convention here can be
carried out by the subordinate lodges
The Grand Lodge 'endorsed the move
ment undertaken by the federal gov
ernment on behalf of thrift and warm
ly recommends full co-operation by sub
ordinate lodges,” requesting appoint
ment of a thrift agent In each local or
ganization to cooperate with the gov
ernment in the szio of the securities.
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BASIC ECONOMICS
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p ChristmasQ
The schools are the medium which
we should use to spread among the
American people correct notions of cap
ital, labor, banking and thrift. • • •
The elementary school is none too
early In which to begin Instruction
along auch linea. We are all agreed
that thrift should be taught In schools,
but to teach mere saving or accumula
tlon without showing what the objects
of thrift are, is teaching miserliness. In
connection with the teaching of thrift
there should also be taught the fune
tion of banks. Pupils should be made
by GRACE ARNOLD
HE woman with
hrown eyes was
gazing medita
tively out of the
window at the
people hurrying
through the fall-
Ing snow with
their Christmas
bundles.
"You
are
thinking?” her
husband suggest-
that mere saving does no good
Gazing Meditatively Out of the Window, to see
pleasure In the results of our back-
breaking work, much less to go out and
hear beautiful music and uplifting ser-
mons.”
"I've always wondered why women
cross.
attempt so much."
“Because everybody does. And if
It is a wonderful thing that he was
“About Christ one poor. lone, sensible woman sits
r in a stable, that he was son of a
mas. that’s all.
down and flatly refuses to kill herelf
carpenter, that he never had a dollar
undone the things that working for Christmas, her family ali"
" his name, that he had no home
friends will think she is a quittera
after he left Nazareth, that he was a
Merely social slacker."
wanderer on the face of the earth with
“Not this time, my dear,
“Well.” suggested her husband, "Why
place whereon to lay his head, and about everybody In the world.
not
let the rich people have all the
Tat now, 2,000 years after his death,
“No one could call you
fuss and feathers, and let those in
8 power is over the world as the minded !"
medium circumstances realize they
er of the Roman empire never
“People have the right spirit about can't keep up that pace?”
"They
are
so
full
IL" she explained.
"You don't understand." said the
It Is a marvelous thing about Christ of good will toward men that they try
woman with the brown eyes; “M long
the
trouble
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at as the years and centuries in- to do too much—»hat s — ___ -
as rich folks do it. those less able will
sease since his death, the more real You see, most of us and our
strain to do likewise. That's why the
ne becomes in the thoughts of men
wealthy people will have to see the
and the better he Is understood.
arles and moderate strength-
trend and Institute a change.
.There have been attempts to prove
“I've noticed It
__
“In place of so many mere ‘presents’
at he was n myth. But there never
“We want to give to eversbod"
we must give such things an love, cour
; as an attempt at anything that failed want our homes superscrupulous'z
age. kindness and generous impulses—
80 dismally.
There have been at- We plan festivities which require
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unless that which ia saved la used to
create more wealth. To that end they
should be shown that there la a great
difference between money which Is
merely stored up In a little Iron bank
at home and that which is taken to a
real bank and Is put out Into the In
dust rial world to earn an interest In re
turn. In some of our large schools
there are school savings banks estab
lished. These exist not only In ele
mentary but In hich schools, but In
very few cases are any attempts made
to teach the pupils the functions of a
bank and where the interest comes
from.
A man arrested In San Francisco on
I. W. W charges
Tered War Savings
Stamps In evidence to disprove
It was a good plea.
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postoffice
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