Medford mail tribune., December 13, 1956, Image 30

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OUIL- MEDFOHO (OIIGOIT) MAII, TRIBUNE
Thurid7, Deetmber 13. 1951
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Americans To Send Two Billion Cards During Yule Season
New York IU.R. Americans
will exchange two billion Christ
mas cards this year according to
manufacturers of the decorative.
pasteboards.
Depending on your individual
taste and the size of your pocket
book, the "season's greetings"
cards will set you back any
where from two cents to two
dollars, per unit.
Look for a significant change
in this year's Christmas cards.
You will note a definite shift to
religious themes. In recent times,
religious Christmas cards ac
counted for less than five per
cent of the total sold. This year
t h e proportion of religious
Christmas cards will be well
over 25 per cent, according to
Milton K. Harrington, president
of (Chapel Art Studios) the in
dustry's sole exclusive manu
facturer of religious Christmas
cards.
He attributes the change to the
general rise in religious thought
and church membership, and to
the determination to "put Christ
back into Christmas," expressed
from many pulpits in recent
years.
The Holy Family will be domi
nant on this year's Yule cards,
according to Harrington. The
most popular sellers, he pre
dicted, will be cards which fea
ture illustrations of the Madonna
and Child, scenes from the Na
tivity, the sheuherds and the
wise men, and the Star of Beth
lehem. Santa Not First
Harrington revealed some oth
er rather startling facts about
Christmas cards in general. For
instance, Santa Claus isn't as
popular as one might suppose as
an adornment en Yule cards.
Kris Kringle, he said, ranks
about seventh.
Nor is the reindeer the reign
ing animal. The camel is the
most popular beast on Christ
mas cards. Next come Donder,
Blitzen, and the rest of the air
borne gang followed by the
donkey and, finally, the lamb.
Harrington said the Christ
mas card custom began just a
little more than a century ago
when, in 1843, a British peer,
Sir Henry Cole, commissioned
an artist to draw up some cards
which he could send to his
friends. A Bond Street merchant
received one of the cards. He
liked the idea, had it litho
graphed (with Sir Henry's name
deleted) and offered the cards
for sale to the public.
Shortly thereafter the custom
spread to America. The first
American to send out a Yule
card was R. H. Pease, a mer
chant in Albany, N. Y., who op
erated a variety store. Some
where around the middle of the
19th century Pease senPa cd
to his customers whichQb8re the
message: "A Mterry Cnrfttmas
anjg a HPpyONe TfcarQrom
gease's Great Variety Wore In
the 'Sample of Fary."
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FATHER SAVES SOH FROM LION Eleven-year-old Erlan
g-enholm is lifted onto a stretcher at Garden Grove. Calif., after
being mauled by "Cubby," a 3-year-old lion. The animal escaped
from her cage during a street show and attacked Erlan. The
hoy's faer (back to camera) went to-the lad's rescue and was
maulpd as he attempted to force the lion's jaws from the boy's
log Cubbv was recaptured by her trained, George Fraser.
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A Nifhol's Worth of
Comment On This and That
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Wahinfton (UP) Except
in th9 crcuJ?the camel hasn't
tig)ie us Yankees much good. But
' the Army wants
us to know that
this is the 100th
anniversary of
the Army Cam
el Corps.
The brute
with the hump
didn't last lont
mill t arily. In
In fact th long
jawed critter
which doesn't often need water
ing hadonly a short dry run.
That was back in 1856 when
a platoon of the club-footed
hunch-backs were employed to
lug the Army's gar across the
arid mountains and deserts of
the wooly West.
JeOerson Davij was the sec
retary & war. He rushed through
a bill, which Congress finally
okayed, calling for the colossal
sum of ,j30,0r to pick up a
bunch of camels. o
The idoa was to push the mule
back in front of tr plow where
mulrs belonsed.
Seventy-five ca m e 1 a were
brought In from Asia Minor and
Africa at about S50 a hump.
They were stabled at Camp Ver
de, a spit and a holler from San
Antonio.
Earned Their Keep
To their credit, the walking
water tanks did a fine job for
a time. For one thing; the cara
vans helped ojS-n new wagon
routes from the Gulf to the Pa
cific0 o
05Bt after a hile the Army
men btsa to complain that their
new jire animals smelled to
high heaven. Nr only that, they
ftid. the humpers scared the
heck it ob small children and
Vrses broke foose from their
Craces. 0
And even worse, the camels
turned stubborn nd refused to
(ioe a foot from &ie center of
a mountain trail-o-even with a
fire bu:& under. 0
Di.n the vgflT between the
Qlates things didn't get any bet
, ter. n " ,
By HAPJAAN W. NICHOLS
9nited Preii Feature Writej
"herd" on the rump and sent it
skidaddfing. Later, he thought
better of it and rounded 'cm up
for a "camel caravan," between
Laredo. Tex , and Mexico City.
Then came the robbers. They
stole irrost of the rest.
But some of the camels es
caped. Many lived to a ripe old
age, as camels go, and wound
up in mrnageries. They were
considered to be "Army vete
rans." ,
If there is any moral to this
tale, it's this advice from the
Army News Service:
"Next time you see a camel,
you might salute. Could be it is
an ancestor of a veteran of the
Civil War."
Cpmiels sloshed throogh the
swamps from camp to camp.
O S$ie of them perished while
Ioshing.
0 In 19G, the Army auctioned
off one grot;$ of humpers jt
sn3thir: like 31 a head to Be-
0 a?Ac' Coitpwood. Thie fellow, ped-
curd five of the ananals to a
, circus.
Bad Investment
Feeling like a n-n who had
made St bad
Coop-
Dillon in Doghouse
Af Stale Department
Washington (U.R) C. Doug
las Dillon, U. S. ambassador to
France, appears to be in disfavor
at the State Department for say
ing Soviet threats stopped the
.nnIo-French attack on Egypt.
Dillon in a recent interview
said the threat of Soviet inter
vention not U.N. censure was
the primary reason that France
and Britain halted military
operations in Egypt.
State Department Press Offi
cer Joseph W. Reap told re
porters Wednesday Dillon was
"expressing his personal views
in answer to a question."
Dillon said he didn't think
"moral persuasion" stopped the
Anglo-French operation because
Britain and France had gone
ahead with it "despite sharp
critcism in the United Nations
and in the United States."
O wood swatted the rest of the
Professors Blamed
For Journalism Drop
Sioux City, la. (U.R) A
journalism professor told editors
and publishers at the 35th an
nual meeting of the Interstate
Editorial Assn. they were partly
to blame for the decline in the
number of college journalism
students.
Prof. George Phillips, head of
the printing and rural journal
ism department of South Dakota
State College, said his school had
51 journalism students in 1950
and now has only 22.
"Stop running down your own
profession," he said.
Phillips said publishers and
editors often speak disparaging
ly of their profession, "but they
really are in love with it."
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