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By GUY BUTLER
Anot he r Christmas is
coming on apace midst the
mad assaults of the last
minute shoppers while the
merchants and their armies
of clerks seek
to fulfill the
craving of
Ameri c a n s
for the toys,
the gadgets,
the gowns,
the furs, the
perfumes, the
candies. et
cetera, to
bring some-
body happiness on that very
special occasion.
Some think Christmas is
vastly overplayed and that
people completely lose sight
of the main objective in the
observance of the Holy Day
marking the birth of the
Lord.
They prefer to blame it
upon the manufacturers,
the stores, seeming to think
that if they didn't offer so
much and such a variety of
goods ranging in prices from
a pittance to a fortune there
would be less emphasis on
the “vulgar" phase of the
picture Too much commer
cialism. they say.
And the inevitable answer
is. of course, commercialism
is there, to a very large ex
tent But is the company
that made the items o' - Hao
merchant who offers them
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The 72 hours of Christmas
That's how long Southern Bell's low Long Distance
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and Christmas day. This means you can call out-of-town
friends and family early and avoid the Christmas day
rush. And dialing your own Long Distance calls direct
will make holiday calling even more economical because
you get the low station-to-station rate.
So start celebrating early this year. On Saturday. And
have a merry Long Distance Christmas!
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P.S. The same low rates apply over the New Year's weekend.
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to the shoppers, really to
blame. The public demands
something new, different,
expensive, medium priced
and cheap, and the suppliers
are only meeting that in
satiable demand
A preacher I heard last
Sunday touched upon that
subject to his congregation.
“There may be much to
be said about, commercialism
of Christmas" he said, “but
the joy of giving, mixed with
the joy of receiving, and the
motive behind the giving, to
gether with faces lighting
up with happy smiles are
well worth it all. They re
move the so-called curse of
commercialism.”
“Didn't Jesus preach
about the great joy and sat
isfaction of giving?"
Indeed, it is emphasized
throughout the Bible and
this Christmas idea of giv
ing has snowballed to the
point that it shall remain
forever a part and parcel of
us.
And that is good.
The color of lean beef
comes from a protein sub
stance, according to Miss
Nelle Thrash, Extension
Service home economist at
the University of Georgia.
Meat from older cattle is
darker in color due to the
increased amount of this
protein substance.
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Ntwapaper
1961
WSK&f Better Newspaper
Contests
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
Cone
Completes
Study
Wayne Cone, 1055 East
Pineridge Drive, Forest
Park, claim representative
for the State Farm Mutual
Automobile Insurance Com
pany, has returned home
after completing three weeks
of technical study at his
firm's home office at Bloom
ington, Illinois.
Cone works at the firm’s
service center, 2631 Buford
Highway N. E„ in Atlanta.
State Farm maintains the
school on a year-round basis
so representatives may be
informed of the latest meth
ods, policy contracts and
procedures in claim servic
ing. This year some 500
claims people will attend
classes there.
Sensing the News
The Quality of America
When the “Census Clock” reached a count of 200
million in recent days, Americans understandably
took pride in the growth, size and wealth of their na
tion. In population and territory, the United States
exceeds the wildest dreams of anv of its Founding
Fathers. .
But there is a danger in a
people thinking about their
country simply in quantita
tive terms. It is marvelous, of
course, that this once almost
empty continent has become
the home for so many peo
ple. Nowhere else on earth
are there so many material
rewards and so many oppor
tunities for personal de
velopment.
Nevertheless, Ame r i c ans
have to be concerned about
the qualitative aspects of the
republic in the final third of
the 20th century. They owe
a duty to their forebears and
to their descendants to ask
about the quality of pa
triotism and the strength Os
constitutional government in
this land. The American her
itage is not simply one of
living space and material
wealth. It is a spiritual her-
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Our forefathers sought the truth
and built a nation
on the foundation of God's word.
May we always celebrate
the birthday of Jesus Christ,
humbly, with reverence
and as free men.
Merry Christmas
L GOLDWATER
| ON WALLACE
JOHN J. SYNON
It is pretty well known, 1 take
it. that Barry Goldwater is no
mental giant. That’s all right; few
of us are.
But it is another thing to
flount one’s ignorance; that is un
forgivable.
And that is precisely what the
erstwhile Republican nominee did
in a recent newspaper column. I
say he did it in ignorance; ig
norance is the kindly word.
His piece, ostensibly, dealt with
George Wallace but, in actuality,
it was an appeal to vote Repub
lican good, bad, or indifferent
— vote Republican.
"Wallace cannot by any stretch
of the facts I’ve been able to put
together”, Goldwater wrote,
“draw enough votes to throw the
election into the House of Repre
sentatives”. What votes Wallace
will get would otherwise go to
the Republicans, therefore, Gold
water’s reasoning ran, all a Wal
lace candidacy can accomplish is
the denial of the election to the
Republicans and the re-election
of Lyndon Johnson.
That argument is so fallacious
as to be ludicrous.
Here, let me do what Gold
water failed to do, incorporate
facts, “stretched” or otherwise.
Let me, by example, demonstrate
the shallowness of his thesis.
Just 20 years ago, in 1948,
Strom Thurmond and another
Wallace (Henry, The Red), ran as
Third and Fourth party candi
dates. In that election, a switch
from Truman to Dewey of 17,865 -
popular votes (of 3,808,403) cast
in California, and a switch of
7,107 popular votes (of
2,898,475) cast in Ohio, would
have denied the Electoral-College
majority to Harry Truman, and
the election would have gone in
to the House.
♦♦♦ ♦ ♦
That is, less than a quarter of
one per cent of the vote in Ohio,
and one half of one per cent in ।
California would have done it in ।
1948. The razor thinness of the
vote in those two States alone ।
spelled the difference. ।
A person wonders if, “by any ।
stretch of the facts,” Barry Gold
water doubts that more people, ।
today, are prepared to vote for I
George Wallace than voted for i
Thurmond. Or, “by any stretch •
of the facts”, that more people, <
today, are prepared to vote for •
Senator Eugene McCarthy or <
By Thurman Sensing
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Southern States Industrial Council
itage of individual freedom.
And to many thoughtful
citizens there seems reason
to be troubled about the
state of this heritage in our
times.
Certainly, patriotism is
alive; it is vividly alive in
the young Americans who
fight so bravely in Vietnam,
even when the political lead
ership at home is grossly in
adequate in spelling out the
reasons for the conflict. But
some of our institutions and
part of our way of life are in
difficulty these days.
The Founding Fathers cre
ated this republic as a
bulwark against all forms of
tyranny. In their time, they
saw the tyrant at work
through the agency of the
British Crown. But threats
to liberty also have their
some other person of the New
Left, Bobby Kennedy, say - than
voted for the red-led Henry A.
Wallace.
If so, let me give him another
fact: Strom Thurmond got but
two per cent of the popular vote.
At that, he garnered 39 Electoral-
College votes. Henry Wallace
polled about the same percentage
of the vote but received no
Electoral-College votes.
Now, then: Last May, the Gal
lup poll credited George Wallace
with about 15 per cent of the
popular vote, nationwide. Gallup
said, in a three-horse race, Wal
lace would sweep the South. The
South, it should be remembered,
carries about 110 of the 270
Electoral-College votes needed to
elect. And while 1 have seen no
reading on the popularity of the
New Left, I would hazard it is
quite strong, what with anti-
Vietnam feeling rampant and ris
ing.
♦** * *
So, under the circumstances,
how can Wallace seven times
stronger than Thurmond in 1948
do other than throw the elec
tion into the House. “By any
stretch of the facts”, that is the
minimum probability and to deny
it reflects political ignorance.
Moreover, the Republican par
ty, it should come to understand,
is no longer the “other” party in
a two-party system. It is but a
diminishing Third, after the Dem
ocrats, and after the Independ
ents. Gallup, again, is my author
ity. He says, 42 per cent of the
voters think of themselves as
Democrats; 31 per cent as Inde
pendents; and but 27 per cent as
Republican. That set of figures,
it seems to me. should devalue
Republican ego by, let us say.
14.3 per cent.
*****
Barry Goldwater won the ad
miration and support of millions
of Americans, not as a Republi
can, but as a man of principle.
Yet, here he is. through ignorance
or otherwise, selling “Republi
canism" good, bad. or indif
ferent.
I would suggest there are many
of his admirers who would think
better of him if he got away from
that sort of politician-itis, stopped
seeking to dissuade people from
supporting a candidate whose
stand offers a choice, not an
echo.
contemporary manifesta
tions.
( Today, for example, we
have the evil of Big Govern
ment—a mammoth bureauc
racy that inhibits the indi
-1 vidual’s exercise of personal
freedom and eats his sub
stance through oppressive
taxation designed to reward
one segment of the popula
tion by robbing another.
The Founding Fathers
could not have envisioned
the emergence of Big Union
ism—a virtual state within
a state that often operates
i as though it were not an
swerable to the law or to the
legitimate demands of the
public. Today, American
freedom Is restricted by the
bold maneuvers of Big
Unionism, which—like some
robber barons of old—at
tempts to stop transporta- i
tion of people and goods.
Americans have not :
thought deeply enough about '
how their rights have been i
eroded in the last 30-odd ;
years by the government i
that is supposed to protect I
them.
In the early days of this j
country, the right to work i
was unimpaired. A man ;
could take any job for which I
he was qualified. He did not I
have to seek the permission j
of any organization or I
group. Today we find a j
vastly different situation. In J
less than half the states is j
the right to work guaran- j
teed by law. In the other j
states, a citizen is not wholly
free to get a job. The union '
power structure in effect j
“owns” the jobs in many in- i
dustries and lines of busi
ness. An employer is not free I
to select his employees; he i
must adhere to conditions ]
laid down by the union I
bosses. This situation is one
of the biggest threats to I
freedom in America today.
The United States also has
within its midst a small j
minority that seeks to pro
mote a new kind of revolu
tion that has nothing to do
with the conservative Amer- j
11l Hymn Is Bent
BY CLINT ^BONNER
Joy to the World
Neither Poet nor Composer Knew He was Writing a Christmas Carol
Os the statues in Westminster Abbey,
one is of Isaac Watts—frail, sickly, gentle
mannered literary genius of the early 18th
century. Another is of George Frederick
Handel—massive, robust and hot-tempered
master of the keyboard and opera. Both
men lived in London; both knew each
other. But neither suspected that their
talents would be combined to produce one
of the greatest of Christmas carols.
It was in 1719 that pockmarked five
foot Isaac Watts wrote a hymn based on
the 98th Psalm. He was 45 years old and
had written, among 600 other notable
hymns, “Alas, And Did My Saviour Bleed.”
“O God. Our Help in Ages Past” and
‘When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”
But the little bachelor’s health had broken
while he was preaching at London’s Mark
Lane Church and Lord Mayor Abdncy
carried him out to his estate for a week’s
rest. That was in 1712 and he was still
there seven years later writing children’s
verse, hymns and books on a dozen sub
jects.
Twenty-two years after Watts wrote his
hymn on the 98th Psalm and published
it in his “Psalms of David Imitated” a big
fat theatrical producer knelt in prayer in
another part of London. He was George
Frederick Handel and he had written some
of the world’s greatest operas. As a boy
Joy to tho world! the Lord is come,
Let earth receive her King,
let every heart prepare Him room
And heaven and nature ling.
Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their tongt employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
From the book "A Hvmn k Born." ' 1959 by Broadman Press, Nashville, Tenn.
ican Revolution of 1776. This
minority is bent on shatter
ing the social order of the
United States by campaigns
of lawlessness, by riots in
the cities, by sit-ins on the
campuses, and by bully-boy
tactics of intimidation
against officials of the law
and the government.
As Americans take pride
in their nation on reaching
a population of 200 million,
they must remember that
the worth of a country's her
itage always has to be proved
by the actions of the living.
This nation cannot live off
the brave deeds of men in
earlier times. Citizens of to
day have to stand up and be
counted against the forces
of bureaucracy, labor to
talitarianism and anarchism
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in Germany, Handel had persuaded his
father to let him study music instead of
law and wound up playing a church organ
in England. And when George Handel
later cast his talents with the theater he
carried his religious training with him. At
56 Handel wanted to do something really
big. And he did. In 1741 he worked and
prayed almost continuously for 23 days
and nights and came up with his immortal
“The Messiah.” It was such a masterpiece
that for more than two centuries the piece
has been drawn on as the basis for numer
ous compositions.
Little Isaac Watts died on the Abdney
Estates in 1748 after his visit of “a week”
lasted 36 years. He was buried in Bunhill
Fields but a statue of him was placed in
Westminster Abbey. Eleven years later big
George Handel was laid to rest in the
Poets’ Corner of The Abbey where a statue
stands to the memory of the theatrical gen
ius who never forgot God.
It was in 1836 that Boston’s choir di
rector-composer Lowell Mason rearranged
a portion of Handel’s “Messiah” to fit the
hymn Isaac Watts wrote in 1719. And so,
while the big statue and the little statue
stand in Westminster Abbey as mute re
minders of two geniuses in their respective
fields, tribute is paid both every Christmas
to the resounding echoes of—
No more let tint and torrowt grow
Nor thornt infos) th* ground;
He comet to make Hit blottings flow
Far as the curse it found.
He ruler the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of Hit love.
that would wreck the experi
ment in freedom by action
from within the republic. If
citizens of today uphold the
qualitative aspects of the na
tional life they need have no
fear about the material suc
cess or security of the coun
try. In the American Way of
Life, freedom is the vital in
gredient. Its protection, as
our ancestors have told us,
requires eternal vigilance.
Israel’s population density
per square mile is 320.7.
This Is Your Invitation to Attend the
CHURCH OF CHRIST
252 Phillips Dr. Forest Park
Sunday Morning Bible Study 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11;O o a.m.
5 v e nin g w °rsh ip 7;30 p . m .
Wednesday Bible Study 7;30 p.m
MALCOLM L. HILL, Minister
Stocking Accident
It is the custom in Britain to
leave toys under the tree until
afternoon on Christmas Day.
During the Christmas visit by
Santa, the stockings are filled.
It was an accident, according
to British Legend, that the
stocking custom was origi
nated. The story goes that
Saint Nicholas dropped some
coins as he was going down
the chimney. The coins did
drop into a stocking, but the
stocking had been hanging by
the hearth to dry.
