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TATIONS -
ALY, R
RO RS e hath done to me great
, things, and holy is his
)" name. And his mercy Kon
" o them that fear him from
generation to generation. He hath shewed
strength with his arm, he hath scattered the
proud in the imagination of their hearts. :
Gospel of St. Luke 1:49-51.
R e b e se e i 3 | A ——— ST A
Have you a favorite Bible verse? Mall to
A. F. Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel.
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Fable of a Dead Santa Claus
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Murder! Mystery! Whodunit!
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—This is a fable and,so, of course,
isn't true—but like all fables, it pictures a situation
that might well come to pass—if certain people
don’t watch out. It seems that an international
character named Santz Claus was found dead in
bed with his boots on one day. While external
evidence at first gave the impression that the old
gaffer had died a natural death, there was some
suspicion that he had met with foul play. The
mystery was: Who would dare to do such a dirty
deed? . f
Mr. Claus had considered himself 'something of
a citizen of the world. He spoke many languages,
fluently. That is, his money talked. He made his
home in the United States, and it was the taxpay
ers of that bright and happy but inflated land who
financed most of the old man's international
generosity.. .
At first, when the old codger had- gone on his
spending sprees only once a yeér, nobody minded.
But since the early days of the war, he had been
in the habit of playing Santa Claus every.day.
* Some said they thought the old coot had gone a
bit batty in his dotage. Others started a movement
to have him locked ‘up, ‘and a guardian appointed.
But nothing came of it. Then the body was found,
quite dead. A ‘
ONE WHALE OF A WAKE :
There was one whale of a wake. Mourners came
from all over the world. Most of them didn't have
to come very far. They were’already there, waiting
for the next handout. They were peqple whom the
old goat had tried to help in one way or another,
over many years. There weeping, wailing and teeth
gnashing was really something.
But as this emotional jag wore off, and as the
news got around that Mr. Claus had died without
mentioning them in his will, the woe turned to
resentment against the American taxpayers who
had been financing all these give-away programs.
It was they who must have done this thing.
- They had no right to do it, complained the
mourners. If the American people were going to
behave that way, why all these mourners and for
mer beneficiavies would simply go back home and
invite in the bad men‘from the other side of the iron
curtain, whom Mr. Claus had tried to keep'them
from playing with, How would these Americans
like that? . : ‘
These Americans, who had been standing around
the walls watching the wake, finally had.taken as
much as they could take. They went outside .the
room where the body was lying in state—in state
of decay and bhankruptcy—and . conferred among
themselves,
A SPOKESMAN EXPLAINS THE CRIME
Then a quaint and somewhat uncouth. citizen
came back into the room and, acting as spokesman,
addressed himself to the former beneficiaries as
follows: :
“If you want to know who killed ' Santa Claus,
look for the stains on vour own hands. It was you
who dome him in. You worked him to death. No
body could carry that pack of his'n around 365 days
a year passin’ out stuff.
~ “When the war came along, you thought this old
sucker”—with a jerk towards the corpse—“would
see you safely through. He did. 'And how did you
ifreat him?
“First you milked him on the Lend-Lease racket.
‘When the war surplus stuff was sold you at 10 and
25 cents on the dollar, some of you tried to resell
it ‘at a profit, and you kept the profit. Or you let
those glys from across the tracks snitch it off'n you.
© “We backed the old spendthrift to the limit. But
that wasn't enough. Now you want us to sign up to
help you fight your wars. You try to let on that it
isn'® your war, but our war. It's your skins that
have to be saved. And you'll pardon us if we say
that from where we sit, it doesn’t look as though
You .were doing everything you could to help your
selves, A ‘
~ "Sure you've had a tough time. Nobody here
denies it. Everybody here wants to help you. When
you didn’'t have enough to éat we helped relieve
your shortages. We charged you nothing. We'll keep
on doing it.
*Now, when you start blaming us' for your
troubles and saying they're all our fault and our
responsibility to take care of, that we can't take.
That’s why we decided to put Santa Claus out of
business. He's dead now. How do you like it?”
~ JRobert Douglas, borne in Scone, Scotland, was
8 student of fruit cnemisiry and in 1912 was able
-@9 extract and prepare commercially the fruit in
~ Bredient peciin, which makes fruit juices jeii.
The Coming Power Of
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Young Statesmen |
It is guite evidqnt that the young states
men of the United States are coming
more and more into real power at Wash
ington. The coming Congress will from
the standpoint of young men be probably
the youngest Congress ever to take over
the‘man_agement of the government,
That is not to say that it will be short of
the older men, who have had more exper
lence, but that more and more young
statesmen are to be shoved into the fore
ground. This is not a bad development,
tor times change and new conditions arise
that call for more and more knowledge on
‘the part of the lawmakers to meet the de
mands of changing conditions, |
The nation is to be congratulated that
both of the dominant political parties have
a decided incrpase in the number of ac
tive and well-informed pleaders in their
ranks and that they are being sent to
Congress and elevated to governorships
and other important positions in circles
outside the national scenes. Out of such
are to.be made future presidents nad fu
ture diplomatic leaders. 1
While quite a large number of young
men have been recently sent to Congress
and to the United States Senate, they are
by no means too young. Two or three of
th_em have not yet reached their thirtieth
mile post, but in the main they are in their
late thirties or over in the forty years
bracket. They are representatives of the
most active period in useful lives.
They will not fall down on the jobs
assigned them. The American people can
look forward with much confidence to the
services they are rendering. in the, highest
legislative assembly in the world. With
their youth and activity combined with
age and experience of the older members,
great benefits should come to the nation.
. Wit erio i o
A Lesson For The Western
Hemisphere
While other nations are engaged in dis
astrous fighting, the Western Hemisphere
has enjoyed comparative peace, but it has
only been on a comparative scale. The
The United States and Canada have kept
the peace, but such is not absolutely true
concerning South America and Latin-
American nations.
Those nations do not seem to-be able to
get out of the habit of recurring revolu
tions. It is true that these revolutions are
not on a major scale and that casualties
are light, but they serve to keep the na
tions away frem the achievement of their
best ambitions and their most effeetive
contributions to the advancement of civ
ilization. Vo Aoy 4
The trouble arises in almost every in
stance from the too usual uprisings in the
several armies. Armed countrol and not
the ballots of free citizens becomes the
habit of many of these nations. To ever
reach the goal of national success this
habit will have to be abandoned.
There is an agreement between the
twenty-one republics of the Western Hem
isphere to keep the peace and abandon
all wars. And yet during the past year six
of these governments have been over
turned by revolutions. It appears that
these people are never satistied unless
they are fighting. Small gangs of organ
ized revolutionists seize power and over
turn governmenis without ever submit
ting the questions involved to a vote of
the people. Presidents are thrown out ol
office and mulitary dictators are installed
without regard to soleman agreements to
abstain from such conduct. Usually all this
is accomplished without much bioodshed
but it is a distinct handicap to the progress
of good government. _
If the South American republics are
ever to attain to stable ,government, the
people down there will have to curb their
revolutionary spirit. :
Now that the fighting is practically at
an end, we must make haste with peace
plans. Israel will become a big country—
not geographically—but through develop
ment of cultural values, the arts and
sciences. — Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi
dent of Israel.
Today progress is moving at the rate of
800 miles an hour and the man who re
fuses to believe that our railroads will not
some day move that fast is burying his
head in the sand.—R. L. Williams, pre:i
dent, Chicago and North Western Rail
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” A Proof Read’er.:as His Headaches
BYT. W. REED
i A proof-reader on a newspaper,
daily or weekly, has plenty of
‘headaches. Tnis statement ap
plies also to printers and make-up
men and foreman,
, 1 know from experience-during
the twenty years of newspaper
service during my yoqunger days.
I have full sympathy with proof
!readers. They are faithful in the
discharge of their duties, but they
sometimes ‘slip a cog and run at
times into serious trouble. ot
l Back yonder we didn’t have co-
Py, ,%gld,ers to enable us to follo
.carefully the written manuseri
We encountered all kinds of hl‘*fl
writing -and spelling, some of !it
undecipherable, . calling for "m‘
' substitution of -words the best way
we could. That was in the days
‘when.the typewriter hadn’t come
into general use. . "
Before the linotype came 1%;1
use, the printer, setting the type by
hand, made his chief errors in d&s‘e
{tributing of the used type back in
|to the proper compartments of the
'type case after the printing was
lover, for if he distributed the type
back into the wrong box, when
he came to setting up another ar
ticle he would be picking up that
misplaced type and consequently
misspelling words to be caught by
the proof reader. : |
| And it was curipus what ridicu-‘
jlous errors could be made by the
use of one little letter. Sometimes
'the error produced a lot of fun and‘
sometimes it would convert a
properly written word into a vul-i
. gar word, causing the newspaper
much humiliation. Sometimes er
‘rors are most regrettable and at
others it is almost impossible to‘
absolutely eliminate them. I re
member a most laughable error
made once in a Kentucky news
paper, where the use of an “O” 'm-‘
“stead of an *‘i” came near causing
asproofreader to be beaten up and
where the elimination of one “r”
- type inrits correction made it worse
than ever..
] 'Up in Kentucky thére was held
memorial exercises at which the
lorator of the day was an ex-Con-l
‘federate General, a man of ability
land real eloquence, but who was
laddicted to the excessive use of
Bourbon liquor. In the account
of his address the newspaper re-|
ferred to him as a bottle-scarred
veteran instead of a battle-scarred
‘veteran. That was moré than thel
lold fellow could stand and he went
~around to whip the editor. Due:
[apology - was made for the error}
and the editor promised to correct
it in the next issue of the paper.l
{When the correction was made, the
- following statement appeared in{
print: “We did not intend saying
that the General was g bottle
scarred veteran. What we intend
ed to say was that he was a battle
scared veteran.” The correction
was far worse than the original
|error. {
I have read thousands of galleys
jof proof and sometimes I put my
foot unthoughtedly into a mess. ‘
‘ More Trouble
| When the linotype came into
use the proof-reader might catch
a faulty line and so ma%"k it. H
did not call for the changing ot‘
{simply one letter that had been
misused. The whole line had to be
set over, the faulty line had to be
taken out and the corrected line
inserted in its place. And there is
where the foreman, or the make-
Jup man, had his headgches when‘
he would lift out the wrong line,
leave the faulty line in the article
and therefore mix up the whole
Iparagraph. I remember when a
|terribly wulgar word. got by both!
the printer and proogread and
|was not caught up with %‘ the
|foreman of one of the hig Atlanta
jdailies. It was in an account of
,a swell-wedding and the error ru}
~through a whole Sunday edition.
The printer, the proofreader and
the foreman all lost their jobs. The
foreman’ had lifted out the wrong
line. An apology was made in a
double - columned editorial, but
that was too late to get that vulgar
word otit of the printed story.
I have a feeling recollection of
an error in the Banner while I
‘was editor. I was in Atlanta on
a visit when the error occurred.
One of the country’s leading
churchmen digd and my assistant
leditor wrote a beautiful obituary
in which. ‘appeared the sentence:
“When he died he awoke in the
presence of his Savior.? The print-,
er misread the copy and the proof
reader missed the error and what'
appeared in the paper was “when
he died he awoke in the presence
of his sins.” It was several months
before the members of his family
felt kindly. towards us.
The worst time I ever had in
proofreading was behind a lino
type operator who came over from
Atlanta to start us off with our
new linotype machine, which was
the first of its kind to come to
Athens. He was the swiftest op
erator I ever saw and he rarely
made a mistake. I read dozens
of his galley proofs without find
ing an error. It became monoton-i
ous reading the proofs of the arti
cles he set. It made me careless
for what was the use of reading
galley after galley with no error
in them. So I got tired of readingl
Ed Killian’s proofs, yet I had to
read them for occasionally he did
make a mistake and it would be
risky to let the proofs go by with
out reading them.
I remember one make-up man’s
mistake in an Atlanta paper that
caused much merriment, Hugh T.
Inman was running for Alderman
in Atlanta and his brother, Sam
written a letter asking his friends
to support Hugh. The makes=up
'man picked up-a handful of the
type and set it down on the stone
and turned around to pick up the
balance of the article. But he got
hold of a part of another article
and slipped it down at the end
of Mr. Sam’s fine letter. It was
part of the description of a big‘
horse race and as it appeared in’
print Mr. Sam was calling on hisi
friends to support his brother for
Inman, Atlanta’s first citizen had
Alderman and ran right off into
the account of a horse race. ‘
As I said above I have great‘
sympathy for. printers, proof
readers and make-up men. I have
had many headaches and they}
‘have too. Sometimes it meant lit
’tle and sometimes it meant much.
It may give some people fun tol
read them, but alas there is no es
cape for the printer, the proof.]
reader or the make-up man.
All in all these faithful workers
come out very well with few seri
ous errors but their job is an on
erous one and is not free frbm
headaches.
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egg cases and other mechanical
means.
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Edward R. Murrow, whose ‘I
Can Hear It Now” record album is
winning critical aclaim, presents
a summary and analysis of the
news each evening at 7:45 over
WGAU-CBS. '
Incidentally, on January 1, 1949
at 10:15 p. m. WGAU will pre
sent Murr’lgw’s album. . ... “I CAN
HEAR “IT' NOW.” Remember,;
member, thdt date *is January 1; -
1949 . & 52 10:16- p: ;m. _Everyone
MUST hear it! et i }
The Death Squad is ealled upon |
to fifd ‘a solution fo:“The Case of
Murder and the Banker’s Wife” on
WGAU . and Columbia network’s
“MYSTERY - THEATER” tonight
8:00, B - i
B-DAY IS.JANUARY 2. |
Luigi Basco find§ the road to
the American way of life a tor
tuous path of exasperating detours
and head-<swimming roadblocks on
WGAU-CBS' new comedy series,
“LIFE WITH LUIGI,” heard ‘to
night at 9:30. Luigi is an Italian
born immigrant who has come to
live in Chicago’s ‘“Little Italy.”
Luigi loves America dearly—but
he sees it more clearly and realis
tically than most of us could. In
fact, as he discovers new things
about America, and evaluates our
habits, prejudices and enthusiasms
he lets us see ourselves in a new
perspective. You’ll find radio
comedy at its best when you hear
LIFE WITH LUIGI, tonight at |
9:30. l‘
Christmas is over, but the’
Christmas spirits linger on in the |
case of Charlie Davis,. who wan- |
ders in to wish “MR. AND MRS.
NORTH?” a merry holiday and dis
covers that he's three days late, in
WGAU~CBS’ broadcast tonight at |
8:30. He also learns that while he |
was building up a case of alcoho- |
lic amnesia, acquaintances were at
least as busy building up a murder’
charge against -him. - The’ Norths‘
help him ‘investigate the strange
circumstances of the erime. “MR. |
AND MRS. . .NORTH” .. . 8:30. ‘
“SECRET SAYING” WORTH
THHOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!
The correct answer to the “Secret
Saying” on WGAU-CBS" “HIT
THE JACKPOT” will be worth
thousands of dollars in merchan
dise tonight at 10:00. Bill Cullen
is the program’s emcee.
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Ex-GI Mechs Stay At Home:
Airplanes Now Come To Them
BY NEA Service
BURBANK, Calif. —(NEA) —
In wartime, Jay Heath put on
combat clothes and went out to
Paficic islands ‘as a Navy metal
smith to keep the transport planes
flying. Today he's still serving
military transport aircraft, but
Heath is a civilian mechanci now,
and the planes come back from
the Pacific to be overhauled.
Like Heath, about 65 per cent
of the men who are working on
Pacific planes at the Lockhead
Aircraft Service hase: here, and
others who *work’ gn -Berlin" air~
lift planes at MacArthur TField,
L. 1., got their training a$ aircraft
mechanics in the Army, Navy and
Air Force, :*
~ln the service, they worked at
hundreds of overseas bases. Now
the overhaul operations have
ibeen streamlined, and after every
100’ hours of flg'ling, “the’ big
C-54s which fily #the Berlin: shut
tle or cover the aerial transport
routes in the: Pacific come 'back
to the States fét “cycye recondi-
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means - that fuselgfis are cleaned
and polished, thsat engines gy
removed and completely taken
apart. When the operation is fi,-
ished, the planes are as close {0
being brand«mesw. aircraft g
maintenance can make them.
Eeven the insignia is now. C-H4s
heading back to Berlin no longe,
carry the fancy o Air Transport
Command insignia on their noses:
the sole markiag now is the white
star, with t%ite stripes on
either, side, aga a background
of red.
When a plane is due for “cycle
reconditioning,” it is taken off its
regular run and carries a payload
back to the U. 5. Often the crews
that' fly it backiare slated for
leave in the States. ;
For Meghanie Heath, “cycle re
conditioning’’s turned out to have
a second meaning.
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