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History from the file, ot Th.
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 vean aflo.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1950 (Monday)
Despite a rash o traffic
mishaps which sent more than
30 persons to hospitals, Ore
gon police reported only, four
accidental deaths during the
three -day Christmas week
end.
The Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce has petition
ed the civil aeronautics board
asking permission to be rep
resented at a hearing In Wash
ington, D.C., which will con
sider a proposed upward revi
sion of airline rales to the
east.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1940 (Wednesday)
The Medford post office
handled the largest volume
of Christmas mail In its his
tory this year, according to
Postmaster Frank DeSouza.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "First
returns from the Christmas
accidents reveal not a single
Santa Claus ignited his cotton
batten whiskers on a pink
candle."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1930 (Thursday)
Forest fire damage in Ore
gon during 1030 was the
smallest since 1018, according
to the forest service.
A considerable amount ot
Christmas mail is still in the
post office awaiting a belated
delivery.
40 YEARS AGO
Doc. 25, 1920 (Saturday)
"Listen Lester," a musical
comedy, will be featured In
tonight's Christmas program
at the Page theater.
Christmas was observed to
day throughout the city and
county with a general display
of good cheer.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25. 1910 (Sunday)
No paper today. Merry
Christmas.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct fi superior;
seven or eight (s excellent; five r
la is good.
1. Who is Sir John Giclgud?
2. Bible: What was the orig
inal name of Abrahnm7
3. Correct the followlnx
"The fox dived quickly in his
noie. '
4. Was "When Johnny
Comes Marching Home
popular song in the Mexican
War, Civil War, or Spanish
American War?
5. Was Vermont one of the
original thirteen States?
6. Docs a filibuster have
the effect of hastening, or of
delaying, legislation? v
7. What is the abbreviation
for the word Admiral?
8. What is a cygnet?
8. With what Island Repub
lic in the west Indies do you
associate the phrase "Piatt
Amendment"?
10. Is caraway the name of
a bird, herb, or vehicle?
1. Shakespearean actor and
producer. 2. Abram. 3. "The
fox dived quickly into . . ."
4. The Civil War. 5. No. 6.
Delaying. 7, Adm. 8. A young
win. 8. Cubi. 10. Herb. ,
MEDFORD.
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Merry Christmas
In every country in the world with a Chris
tian heritage, Christmas, under one name or an
other, is observed with a huge number and var
iety of symbols, customs, legends and traditions.
But everywhere it is a day of hope and re
joicing, of friendliness and good will.
The tales which' have arisen about Christmas
would fill many books,
traditions in different lands.
1WIANY of the customs have a pagan origin,
but have been so adapted and blended with
the religious aspect of the holiday that they are
now as much a part of the celebration as the Na
tivity itself.
The Yule log, the Christmas tree, the use of
candles and lights, the sprigs of mistletoe and
holly and greenery, the hanging of stockings,
Santa Claus and his reindeer (which are pecunary
American), and very likely the timing of the day
itself, near the winter solstice all are derived
from sources other than strictly Christian ob
servance.
And, in large measure, they help to account
for the universality of
brated in this country
Christian and non-uhnstian alike.
N recent years a movement to "Keep Christ in
Christmas" has grown up, motivated in large
part by objections to
the holiday, and perhaps, to a lesser extent, by
objections to the traditional but non-religious
nature 01 certain aspects
It may be, however,
universal as it is largely because or the wide
variety of ways in which it can pe celebrated
within the many traditions.
TO SOME the sacred commemoration of the
To others the festivity
mount.
To all it is the hardiest, most iovful holidav
of the year, and the seasonal greeting, "Merry
Christmas!!" is as nearly universal in America
as anything can be in this wonderfully diverse
nation. E.A.
Psychology at Christmas
The Catholic Digest tells a Christmas stoiy
we like about a young Red Cross girl who was
working in an Army hospital overseas.
Came Christmas clay and she found many of
her patients overcome with gloom at being away
from home, and hospitalized, on the most home
centered holiday of them all.
Nothing she could do individual little Christ
mas trees, funny gifts,
seemed to lift their spirits.
buciaeniy she had an
CHE came to a halt in the middle of the ward,
J dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief and
cried: "Oh, boys, I'm so homesick. I can't pre
tend any longer. I feel just terrible."
ihe results were startling. One soldier said,
"Aw, come on miss, it's not that bad." "Strike up
some music, boys," ordered a sergeant. "We have
to cheer her up.
And so it went. As
merriest Christmas any
naa gone overseas . . .
Cross worker. E.A.
Poetry at
Among the many other traditions of Christ
mas is that of poetry.
Perhaps the most famous of this genre is "A
Visit from St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke
Moore, which did more to establish St. Nicholas
(and his familiar lineal descendent, Santa Claus)
as a symbol of Christmas, particularly in America,
than anything else.
DUT it always seems to draw out those who
'"'otherwise don't attempt poetry or if they do,
don't publicize it.
Several examples will be found on these
pages, and if all of them don't live up to FJC's
description of "petal perfect," we can indeed
overlook this in the warmth of the season.
And, as to poetry as such, we shall have a
lurther announcement some time next week.
E.A.
Most Blessed Story
The shepherds in the fields abiding .
Were first to hear the joyous tiding:
"To God in highest heav'n be glory,
And peace on earth!" So runs the story.
But ever and anon proclaim it,
Till men and nation, in one spirit,
Prefer to honor each the other
And Christ as Lord and Elder Brother.
Then may again the angels' singing
Throughout the whole world go ringing:
"To God in highest heav'n be glory,
And peace on earth I" Most blessed story.
A.E.J.I
as would the different
the day, which is cele
by just about everyone,
overcommercialization of
of the celebration.
that the holiday is as
and gaiety are para
nor a lively ouartet
inspiration.
it turned out, it was the
of them had since they
especially a certain Red
Christmas
Dennis the Menace
'Of COURSE, THgy NEVER LOOK LIKE MUCH BEFORE
ipu GET THE PJ?Stf7& UNDER THEM."
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
RELATIONS WITH EUROPE
There is some uneasiness
in Europe arising from a feel
ing that American attention
is turning
away from
Europe to-
wards Latin
America, Afri
ca, and Asia.
This uneasi
ness exists
believe, only
in the minils
of those Euro
peans who
Lippmann
have not yet adjusted them
selves to the fact that West
ern Europe has recovered
from the war.
Inevitably and happily the
relations between Europe and
the United States are changed
by this fact. In this country
we now look upon the Euro
peans not as our clients and
dependants, but as our part
ners. There is no more need
for baby talk or a bedside
manner or for a nanny in
Washington.
We have not lost interest
in the alliance but we no
longer think of it as a delicate
child needing constant atten
tion. The child has grown up
and he is out in the world.
And we now look to him for
help, material and intellec
tual and moral, in dealing
with the grave problems, too
long neglected, in the other
continents.
IF I had to make a guess, I
would sav that this chanced
relationship, once we all get
more used to it, will bring
about more consultation, ra
ther than less, with London,
Paris, and Bonn. During the
post-war era, which is now
ending, we have to an un
healthy degree coupled our
aid and our protection to
Europe with a stubborn and
self-centered conviction that
we know best and must have
our way. To differ with us on
any of the great questions,
such as China, Germany, or
the newly emerging nations,
has only too often been re
garded as morally reprehen
sible. On the European side there
has during this period been
an embarrassing subservience
not only to our principles but
tn our fo bles and to our fol
lies. There has been a fear of
speaking out as a good ally
should lest the Administra
tion take offense or Congress
be annoyed and the flow of
aid cut off.
To all of this I would say
good riddance. Let us have an
alliance of equals.
riiHE need for an understand
ing among equals is most
conspicuous in Africa - in
North Africa, Central Africa
and in South Africa. Although
Americans are deeply con
cerned, we have to start with
the recognition that we can
not have an independent
American policy for Africa.
We are inhibited because we
are such a long way from
having solved the problems
of our own citizens of African
descent. For that reason alone,
although there are others as
well, we can practice philan
throphy but not international
politics in Africa.
This means that we have to
play our part through the
United Nations, through the
Commonwealth, and through
the French Community.
We cannot ourselves deal
with the Algerian problem
We may be able by wise and
judicious diplomacy to do
something to help Gen. de
Gaulle solve it.
We cannot deal with the
Congo except through the
UN, and it may be, eventual
ly through some understand
ing with Moscow, possible to
let the UN take the Congo out
of the cold war.
We can do little or nothing
about the fearful trouble that
Lippmann
is brewing in South Africa ex
cept to hope that the Common
wealth will have enough in
fluence to avert a catastrophe.
rpHE more closely one looks
-- at the problems of Africa,
the plainer it is that no policy
is possible which ignores
Europe, which is not in fact
intimately related with the
policies of the European gov
ernments.
Africa has been a colonial
dominion of the great Euro
pean empires, and it is the
mission and duty of the Euro
pean democracies to prepare
the way for the liquidation of
those empires and the estab
lishment of African inde
pendence. Africa cannot be, as Latin
America is, a primary inter
est of the United States. In
African affairs we cannot lead
the Europeans and the Afri
cans. With a proper modesty
we can help them.
(Copyright 1960 Now York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is Christmas Day.
Last night was Christmas
Eve.
The patron saint of Christ
mas Eve is St. Nicholas-now
adays usually called Santa
Claus.
HOW did the Santa Claus
mvth eet started?
It isn't wholly a myth.
Saint Nicholas was the
youngest and one of the kind
est bishops in the history of
the Church. During the Mid
dle Ages he gradually became
the patron saint of school
boys. European schoolboys
celebrated his feast day by
electing a boy bishop.
Dressed in magniticem
robes, the boy bishop led a
parade that wound through
the narrow streets, hardly
wider than a modern alley
and paved with rough cob
blestones. Sometimes the pro
cession entered the churches
and proceeded solemnly down
their aisles.
There was much feasting,
but on the whole the occasion
was a solemn one.
AS THE Middle Ages waned,
the Saint Nicholas feast
and procession gradually
waned with it. But in Belgium
and The Netherlands they are
still celebrated in many
places.
In the celebrations a person
representing the saint and
wearing the robes of a bishop
rides through the streets on
a white donkey and the tra
dition still holds that if Hans
and Katrinka have been good
children all through the year
they will find gifts in then
wooden shoes on Christmas
morning.
But
If .they have been BAD
children, they will find in
their shoes on Christmas
morning a bundle of switches.
rpHAT is where in these mod-
em days In these ULTRA
modern days, one might say
without fracturing the truth-
we get the story we sometimes
toll to our children. The story
that if they are good little
boys and girls Old Santa will
fill their stockings with gifts
and goodies, but if they are
bad little boys and girls
Santa will pass them by and
on Christmas morning they
will find their stockings
empty. ,
One fears that when we
tell the tale we have our
tongues in our cheeks and
that our children are aware
of it. Anyway, in these rela
tively abundant modern days,
relatively few stockings arc
totally empty on Christmas
morning.
Matter of Fcrcf By Joseph Alsop
STORY OF TWO BROTHERS
Washington-In all the com
motion over the choice of Rob
ert Kennedy for the Attorney
Gen eralship,
f pssraw -4 what may be
r m called the hu
? man point of
this remark
a b 1 e nomina
tion has some
how been
missed. Since
the human
point helps to
illuminate the
Alsop
political point, it is still worth
trying to make.
The point is, very briefly,
that the President-elect virtu
ally had to dragoon his broth
er into accepting the post he
had destined for him.
At Hyannis, in the imme
diate aftermath of the victory
Robert Kennedy had done so
much to organize, the older
brother first offered the At
torney Generalship to the
younger brother. In his char
acteristically uncommu n i c a-
tive way, John F. Kennedy
had evidently made his own
decision about the right way
to use Robert Kennedy, long
before he could be sure that
he would have Cabinet places
to give away. But he had
given no hint of his decision
to anyone, including Robert
Kennedy.
rpHUS the offer at Hyannis
"- tooK rtobert Kennedy whol
ly by surprise. He immediate
ly, almost instinctively, but
still quite flatly refused the
offer. He rightly feared that
such an appointment would
be sharply criticized, and he
was apprehensive that this
would do political damage to
the Kennedy administration.
Hence he did not want the
job.
These same fears continued
to haunt Robert Kennedy dur
ing all the long weeks that
followed his talk with his
brother at Hyannis. But he
was also haunted, one must
suppose, by the feeling he
once expressed during the
roughest period of the Presi
dential campaign. A friend
then asked him whether he
really intended to leave the
national stage and go into
Massachusetts state politics
after election day.
"You don't get into a show
like this for the fun of It,
or even for your brother's
sake," he answered. "You get
into it because you believe in
something; and if you believe
WHAT with high taxes and
high prices, we moderns
are often inclined to feel
pretty sorry for ourselves. We
talk wistfully of the "good
old days" when (we allege)
everything was lovely and the
goose hung high. It might be
a good idea if old Doc Won-
mug could clap some of us
into his time machine and
send us back to the Middle
Ages. It would be an eye
opening trip for a lot of us
who complain of the burdens
of modern life.
Even a trip back to the
days of our pioneer ancesters
-whom we often think of as
lucky . stiffs, with plenty of
free land lying all around
waiting to be taken and gold
out in the hills to be had for
the digging-might be a re
vealing experience.
BUT let's get back to Santa
Claus.
How, it may be asked, did
we ever get Santa Claus out
of Saint Nicholas?
Christmas:
By ERIC SEVAREID
It is the compulsion and
perhaps the failing of those
who write about the public
affairs of the
t..v ' world to trv
; to find pat
'tern and
meaning and
direction
in diverse and
p a r a d oxical
events. Not
since the
the bleak De
Sevareid
cembers of the
last great war, surrounded by
sorrow immeasureable to the
point of senselessness, has this
correspondent found such dif
ficulty in accommodating the
Christmas meaning to the be
havior of men.
A few days ago I walked
the banks of a lovely stretch
of water called the Holy
Loch, in Scotland. It got its
name, the villagers say, be
cause, once upon a time, a
ship carrying soil from the
Holy Land, destined for the
foundation of a church, foun
dered there and sank.
In a few weeks time an
American submarine will
float in those waters, over
the remains of that consecrat
ed vessel, a submarine carry
ing enough missiles to destroy
human beings to the number
of millions and churches to
the number that exist.
A local minister voiced the
"sensible" view. "The govern
ment must know what it is
1
-4,
in something, you want to
stick around and see it hap
pen." The conflict between
this impulse to "stick around
and see it happen," and his
fear of handicapping his
brother in the heavy task,
evidently gave Robert Ken
nedy considerable pain in the
months after the election. The
pain can be deduced from the
curious, almost desperate
character of his attempts to
escape from the conflict.
AT ONE point, he began to
look for a university job
in Massachusetts, with the
vague intention of entering
politics there later on. On
another occasion, he actually
asked a leading newspaper
publisher for an assignment
as a foreign correspondent, in
order to "get away from the
whole thing." But while the
younger brother all but bat
tered his head, in this man
ner, against the predicament
that caged him, the older
brother held firmly to his
original intention.
It was a moment of waver
ing, to be sure, after the cries
of "nepotism" that were rais
ed when the choice of Robert
Kennedy for the Attorney
Generalship was first publicly
hinted. The older brother then
briefly considered naming the
younger brother to the Depu
ty Secretaryship of Defense.
But the more the President
elect looked at the problem,
the more he was convinced
that his first decision had
been right.
Thereafter the older broth
er insisted; but the younger
brother still resisted. At din
ner with the President-elect
in Palm Beach, just a day or
so before the appointment was
officially announced, Robert
Kennedy again flatly refused
the Attorney Generalship, this
time, as he believed, for good
and all. But at the last mo
ment, his resistance was over
come by a renewed appeal
which the older brother made
at the family breakfast table
the next morning.
rpHERE are several things to
be said about this undoubt
edly authentic story of the
two brothers. To begin with,
it hardly reeks of nepotism,
in any normal sense of that
word. The extreme reluctance
of the younger brother, and
the dogged persistence of the
older brother, are equally
striking. They speak volumes,
both about the nature of the
appointment and the charac
ter of the appointee.
They reveal an appointee
who showed, if anything, an
excess of delicacy in scruple
-an appointee very unlike the
hard, ruthless, and totally un-
HERE is the accepted ex
planation: The early Dutch settlers in
America brought the Saint
Nicholas tradition and the
Saint Nicholas customs with
them to New Amsterdam
(now New York City.) The
English settlers in America
eagerly borrowed the legends
and the festivities surround
ing the kindly old saint. Eng
lish children tried to pro
nounce the Dutch name for
him, which was San Nicholas.
But they said it quickly and
excitedly and soon the name
changed to Santy, or Santa
Claus.
Try it yourself. Say San
Nick-o-Iaas. Say It fast. You'll
soon see how the transition
from San Nicholas to Santa
Claus came about.
IN conclusion
Merry Christmas! Or
Christmas Gift!, as they're
apt to say in the South.
Can We Make the Paving Hold?
doing," he said, as he rubbed
his chillblained hands in his
frosty study. "It would be im
moral for us to ask them to
put the base somewhere else,
for others to take the risks
involved."
But Scots wear their con
science like thick and
scratchy underwear. The
Presbyterian hierarchy is
brooding and is most un
happy. More and more does
the power of imagination col
lide with the logic of Chris
tianity. The hierarchy does
not live comfortably with its
memories of the last great
war. They had solemnly pro
nounced that they would sup
port the war on condition that
Christian Britain attacked no
civilian populations, and then
remained silent when Chris
tian Britain obliterated Dres
den, on a scale of horror with
Hiroshima.
What is the duty of Chris
tian man who believes in the
promise and verity of Christ
mas? To some of the Scottish
Kirk, like the fiery Reverand
George MacLeod, the former
moderator, the duty is clear:
Let Britain and all others
who will, throw away all nu
clear weapons, whether non
Christian Russia does so or
not.
So great is their power of
belief in the power of their
faith that they have convinced
themselves Britain could then
negotiate for peace from a
greater, not a lesser strength,
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Merry
Christmas
MANY Christmas greetings
are received in the news
room of the Mail Tribune at
this time of the year. All are
appreciated. But the ones that
carry a really poignant mes
sage are those which indicate
an understanding of some of
our day-to-day problems. One
such was on a post card re
ceived from a regular con
tributor of items last week. It
said, "Merry Christmas, and
thanks for overlooking the
messes."
EVER since we were in high
school we've had difficul
ty in remembering all the po
sitions in the President's cabi
net. Not long ago we dreamed
of a mnemonic trick which
works perfectly. It is the non
sense word "stapmclad
simply meaning State, Treas
ury, Attorney general, Post
master general, Health-educa
tion-welfare, Interior, Com
merce, Labor, Agriculture and
Defense. Now, children, how
many can name all the pres
ent members of Mr. Eisen
hower's cabinet? Or Mr. Ken
nedy's for that matter.
TJOBERT Frazier of the Reg
" ister-Guard in Eugene
gives warning to those pun
sters who, inevitably, will re
fer to the Pentagon staff, after
Jan. 20, as McNamara's Band.
ijeminus us a little of a
comment in a Salem pa
per, which said, "Now it's of
ficial. The electoral college
met and announced 'Its a
boy'."
VESTERDAY (this is being
written Friday) a police
car with siren wailing bored
through the fog. An office wit
looked up and asked innocent
ly, "Grass fire?"
. ! ! f
scrupulous fellow Robert Ken
nedy has been portrayed as
being. Equally, they suggest
that the motive of the appoint
ment was not family duty
(which had been amply ful
filled by the first, instantly
refused offer at Hyannis), but
by the considered opinion of
the older brother that the
younger brother was the very
best man for the job.
Whether this opinion is cor
rect will prove, in the end,
to be all that matters about
this allegedly shocking broth
erly appointment. Meanwhile,
when you think of the sordid
connivers and squalid hacks
who have so often been tol
erated in the. Attorney Gen
eral's office in the last 30
years, the current cries of
pious horror seem a trifle odd.
The bold, downright innovat
ing choice of an Attorney Gen
eral who is quite obviously in
telligent, vigorous, and cour
ageous, might better be greet
ed with sighs of relief.
Copyright 1960. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
from the strength of "Moral
Example." Even so, men like
MacLeod assert, better the
Christian man or nation ac
cept destruction than inflict
destruction on others. Better
Communism everywhere, if it
came to such a choice, than
the elimination of the human
race; ' tyrannies pass, as Eu
rope knows.
The current logic of the po
litical faith, of course, is that
only the existence of the wea
pons, whose use in war is not
possible by any logic, will
save us not only from tyranny
but from war itself. The poli
tical logic dominates, almost
everywhere; old Europe
grows stiff with the new
weapons.
These words are written in
a Paris office where an
American diplomat, whose
first name is Christian, has
been describing the American
suggestions for duplicating
Holy Loch and its dilemma in
many other parts of Europe,
with scores of Polaris mis
siles. He then flew home to
his Christmas festivities and
devotions, clear of conscience
and who may say for sure
that he is wrong?
Murder en masse goes on,
in the Congo, in Cuba, in
Ethiopia, in Laos, in Algeria.
"Let us find our Christian
passion again." the Rev. Mr.
MacLeod exhorted that Glas
gow audience. But it is the
other, the dark and ancient
passions, that loose m o.s t
easily. The passion of love.
CHRISTMAS has many he
roes, but the one dearest
to the heart of one feminine
shopper we know is a basket-
boy at a local super market
who, during the fog last week,
periodicall ychecked all the
cars in the parking lot. Where
patrons had forgotten to turn
off their lights, he did it for
them.
HOPING to make the Ten
Commandments come
alive to his Sunday school
class, one teacher recently
asked his class, "Why should
we honor our parents?" One
of the replies was this: "Gotta
give 'em some credit. After
all, if it weren't for them, we
wouldn't be here."
REALLY rare are some of
the annual Christmas pro
grams put on by schools and
Sunday schools. One of our
staff members, a connoisseur
of such things, asks, "Why is
it that so often the orniest
pupils suddently sprout an
gels' wings during these
events?"
TNTERESTING Christmas
card arrived at the district
attorney's office the other day.
It was signed, "Bow, Wow,
Wow," and came from Chris
Hagler and his dog control
crew.
SMUDGE pots, lining the
streets and glowing
brightly, might be the answer
to fog problems, someone sug
gests. And they do just that
at the country club, we found
to our relief one day last
week.
THERE are many drivers
who solve the fog prob
lem simply by sighting the
tail lights of another car and
following them. If we recall
correctly, this practice com
pletely filled up the parking
lot at Bear Creek orchards,
much to everyone's surprise,
one thick day last year.
TlfEDFORD High school
played a basketball game
at Hedrick Junior High the
other night, and a senior girl
attended, promising her par
ents she'd be home by 10 p.m.
She called home at 9:30, re
porting she was leaving Hed
rick in a cab, and should be
there in 10 minutes. An hour
and a half later she arrived,
the cab having gone out Grant
st., the driver getting lost,
winding up at Modoc orchards
and radioing in for directions.
At that, she was fortunate. She
was charged only the regular
fare for her around-the-valley
trip.
A RCHIBALD, who frequent
ly comments on the doings
of the day in the column writ
ten by Vic Freyer of the Cap
ital Journal in Salem, suggests
that the perfect gift for the
man who has everything is a
calendar marked with when
the payments are due.
SO WE COME to the end of
another year of Potluck.
The next one will appear in
1961. It's been a good year, by
and large, for the Potluck edi
tor, and since he's a silly, soft
hearted sentimentalist at
heart, despite his crusty ex
terior, he extends to all his
readers (five, at last count) the
warmest good wishes for a
Merry Christmas and a Hap
py, Peaceful New Year.
f ! f
does not seem to lend itself to
collective forms, to tables of
organizations.
Last night I dined in a new
restaurant in the Place de la
Bastile. After despairing of
Algeria and predicting that
de Gaulle would be assassi
nated and France becoma
another blood - drenched
Spain, the proprietor casual
ly mentioned that his wina
cellar was a former Bastilla
cell, still swarming with lean,
grey rats. It is paved over
now, but still here, only a few
feet down the darkness, tha
fears and hatreds, the evil in
man. I suppose this is the only
way modern man can look at
Christmas and its meaning: A
paving, a thick crust.
Here and there it breaks;
we fail in, we climb out. we
repair once more and trust
our weight upon it onca
again, believing because we
must that one day it will hold
us all and for sure. In the
measurement of time past and
time not yet, we stand but a
few inches from our old,
dark cave of origin, and miles
from our summit of Christian
love. After all, love is a new
idea in the world. We are
members of the first, hastily
gathered, blundering paving
crew.
Christmas is testimonial to
the fact that we have learned
at least a few of the tricks of
the trade.
(Distributed 1960. by The
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)