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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 21, 1957,
Your Friendly Neighborhood
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ATLANTA, GA
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Back in the autumn of 1943, a
small group of mothers of young
children who were banded to
gether under the name of the
Catholic Mothers’ Study Clubs
of Dubuque, dreamed a dream of
bringing the Christ Child back
into Christmas.
America was at war: there
were many scarcities, yet busi
ness was excellent. Money was
being made and spent — furious
ly, swiftly, thoughtlessly. Every
one was rushing around in the
weeks of October and November,
getting Christmas gifts for the
boys overseas and the folks at
home. The whole emphasis was
on the material aspect of Christ
mas.
One day while I was in a big
department store, shopping for
necessities, a half dozen people
stopped to talk, briefly, on the
things they were buying for
Christmas. My little son, aged
five, was with me. He listened
attentively to the talk, but said
nothing. Finally, his very silence
aroused my curiosity, for he was
always a great one to chatter. I
asked the reason.
“I was thinking about the
Christ Child,” he answered,
gravely. “Isn’t anyone buying
Him a gift?”
(Could he have had a present
iment that in barely a decade
he would spend Christmas with
the Christ Child to whom he had
great devotion since babyhood?)
I could not answere him. A
lump came into my throat as I
realized that my child had put
into words a great national fault
—the almost complete omission
of the Christ Child from the
Christmas scene.
I went home determined to do
something about it. At the De
cember meeting of our study
clubs I brought up the subject of
bringing the Christ Child back
into Christmas.
The mothers made many plans
that night. First of all, every
member agreed to have a crib in
her home and to send religious
Christmas cards.
We made plans at that meeting
for an outdoor crib even while
we realized the tremendous work
ahead of us in getting our citi
zens to change their wavs and do
j honor to the Christ Child in a
public way — instead of glori
fying Santa as King of Chirst-
mas.
After the meeting, I came home
and wrote the article called “Give
Christmas back to Christ.” The
highlights of this brief article
were these:
1) Put the spirit of the Christ
Child into one’s heart.
2) Work to erect religious dis
plays at Christmas in stores, pub
lic buildings, hospitals, libraries.
3) Send religious Christmas
cards.
4) Erect a Christmas crib in
every home.
5) Work for an increase in
charity in thought and word as
well as deed, not just at Christ
mas but throughout the year.
The article was sent to “Ameri
ca” and accepted.
Breath-taking response came
from the readers. People wrote
from many states, saying they
were doing something within the
next week to honor the Christ
Child.. One pastor wrote that , he
devoted his,entire sermon on the'
19th of December, 1943, to "Giv
ing Christmas Back to Christ.”
As the years went by, bur stu
dy-clubs'grerv yri number and in
fluence.' People who had begun
to correspond with me in 1943
erected cribs in 1944. This in
spired our mothers who intensi
fied their own work in giving
publicity on the Christ Child to
their own newspapers.
Then great organizations took
over the work in large cities.
Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Minne
apolis, Chicago, New York, Den
ver, St. Louis, Los Angeles, ral
lied to the cause. Great stores
began to erect religious displays
in their windows. Pictures of the
Nativity appeared in buses and
street cars. Choirs began to . sing
Christmas hymns at certain in
tervals in large department
stores. Outdoor religious displays
sprang up in many states. Mil
waukee began a billboard cam
paign that drew national praise.
In Burlington. Vermont, Cath
olic. and Protestant groups united
to make that city a bla/c of
glory for the Christ Child with
Outdoor and window displays that
edified thousands of visitors.
Hastings, ,Nebraska, instituted
a pageant in honor of the Christ
Child. On a Saturday night, for
merly the greatest shopping time
of the pre-Christinas season, the
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city paused for two hours to wit
ness a Nativity story. All store
windows were stripped of meu?
chandise and displays. Instead,
each window had a crib or a re
ligious picture.
And in Dubuque, our dream
came true when the Retail Mer
chants Association erected a
mammoth outdoor crib with life
like features in historic Wash
ington Park. So magnificent wa3
this crib that the Associated
Press sent out a picture of it.
But today, as we take count
of the places that have honored
the Christ Child and will do so
again in 1957. we find that there
are many localities where the
Christ Child is still neglected.
While there are many edifying
displays in the downtown shop*
ping districts, there are thousands
of neighborhoods where there is
no sign of recognition of the
Christ Child. The remedy for this
-situation is neighborhood actiopl
I know of a group of neighbors
who got together one evening in
mid-December of 1953. Within
three days, they had erected a
crib in a little park in this rest*
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