The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1939, Page 20

except Sunday 3 COMPANY Junf"ll Alaska by the President Vice-President and Business Manager § au as Second Class Matter. )N RATES: d Douglas for $1.25 per month. t the following s months, in advance, $6.00; one month, # ly notify the Busi- 4 ry of their papers.% they will prom ity in the delt Jusively entitled to the use for republication or not otherwise credited in this paper fi ed herein ¢ AS ST IH\\ THA r H! \\\ ()'[IIIR PIBII(AT]ON : (PUH(I D Cl()&l‘ TN(‘ National Newspaper Rppnsen(anvu with Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New# REPRESENTATIVE—Gilbert A, Wellington, 1011 Amancanfl S| 1 & pank Buil THE CHRISTMAS SEASON “peace on earth, good will toward men” has rolled around again. Seldom has it come upon a world so badly in need of its benign influence. But if Christmas and the old Jesson it repeats to mankind may appear a mockery to the mil- lions of inhabitants of nations at war they still mean much to an America at peace. The blessings of providence continue to rain down. upon us. This year, more than any other, we can call ourselves the most fortunate people on the face of the earth. We are at peace; other nations are at war. Business with us is better; other nations face impoverishment. Our people are free; in some other nations men, women and children know not the meaning of freedom. In Alaska particularly we have had a good year. The bounty of land and sea continues ours. Progress has been made in 1939 along a hundred fronts toward an even better and more prosperous future. This is the only Christmas there will be this year; the only one . . . one short mid-winter day that is more beautiful than any under the summer sun. It is made beautiful by the event of two milleniums ago which it celebrates and by the spirit of giving which it calls forth. Let this C hristmas morning be one on which you will awaken to that rare happiness which comes of the knowledge that you have done your best to make this indeed the best day of the year for as many others as your gifts, - greeting cards and friendships will reach. Draw closer to those about you with a new deep sense of gratitude that you will spend this Christmas in Juneau, in the United States of America. Above all, remember that Christmas, more than being just the morning after the visit of Santa Claus, is the anniversary of the most wonderful thing that has happened yet on this earth of ours. That there is little peace and still less good will toward men abroad today is not the slightest blemish on those teachings of almost two thousand years ago. It is only proof that we have . mot learned the lesson. Since the day Christ walked upon the earth, and despite His sacrifice for mankind, there have been thousands of wars and uncounted injustices of kindred nature. " Yet civilization has managed to survive and in spite of itself progress, May it continue to do so, in the warmth of the Christ- = ‘mas light kindled so long ago. The season of IT°S A FEAST DAY TOO In case such reassurance would set your mind, if not your stomach, at ease it is interesting to note that public health offi- cials have set their seal of approval upon your Christmas menu. The good ‘things we hope you all will be eating at your holiday ~ tables are also good for you. The Christmas dinner recommended by science includes a first course of fruit cup, grapefruit or tomato juice (minerals and vitamin C). Whether you eat roast turkey, chicken or pork will make little difference; the significant contribution of each to health is protein. Sweet potato, rich in both carbohydrate and vitamin A, is given the call over white potato which pro- vides only carbohydrate. Recommended vegetables are string beans, squash, onions, celery, cranberry sauce and lettuce salad. . All contain needed minerals, with the beans, squash and salad also contributing a divident of vitamins. Dessert may be either pumpkin or mince pie, either of which contains calories and perhaps smaller amounts of minerals and’ vitamins. This holiday dinner, typical of American and Alaskan tables, is far superior, modern science holds, to the feast you used to eat at Grandma’s. The tables groaned in those day: Living closer to the source of supply, the cooks found it easier to pro- vide a half dozen or more vegetables and several kinds of meat. All of which was bad for you, the dieticians say. In fact, it's a wonder you survived to enjoy this Christmas of 1939. Variety in food is the keynote today. But the menu planner should be sure that “variety” is actually meeting all the require- ments of the inner man. With a menu such as that recommend- ed here, you can’t go wrong. But we have been taking rather a winding path to the Christmas dinner table! Let’s draw up our chairs and see if we can make practical application of our knowledge of nutrition on this festive day. MERRY CHRISTM \\ Press dispatch from London: . “British nurseries will have Christmas toys this year that * will make the war games at home almost as rvulisti(' as the “Western Front. All planes of the Royal Air Force are re ;nmluu-(l Z'and there is a bomber that is guaranteed to fly 1,000 feet.’ -y With—or without bombs? i America, the Lord be thanked, has no boys to be got out of % the trenches by Christmas. Christmas is for Iln ()H](lill as you've been told before. \Eathu will feel the effects of the holiday season after the first "'W the year, when the bills start to arrive. e irginia = “Yes, indeed! *\7%% “Virginia, your little' fm\nds are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age—they do not believe except what they see— they think that nothing can be which is not comprehe'nsible by their little minds. » “All minds, Virginia, whefher they be men’s or> hlldx)én s, are httle. o) “In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in. his intellect, as compared with tfiq\gqg/ldléss world about him, as fmeasyred by the intelligence THI: DAILY ALAbKl\ EMPIRI: WLDNESDAY DEC 20 1939. Back in 1897, liule Virginia O’ Honlow wrote the following Doier toighe editor of the New Some o my e friends e 1/,(.. o it rhsu,. The ofitor wrote o nesupaper childich ples. Tris eprinted herés capable of grasping the whole >—— of truth and kn(;%led 6. “Yes, Virginia{there )—sea Santa Claus. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poe- try, no romance to make toler- able this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world wou]d/\ke extinguished. “Not behéve/}/ Sag /a,Ckus‘ You might as well not b in fairies! . “You might get yo{lfi?pa to neys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no hire men to wateh in all the zhim- Santa Claus—the most real things in the world are those nei- ther children nor men can see. “Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there—nobody can con- ceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen agunseeable in the world. %0 % “You tear apart the baby’s rat- tle and see what makes the noise inside;but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. — Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside the cur- tain and view and picture the su- pernal beauty and glory beyond. “Is it all real?—ah, Vlrglma, in all this world there is nothing -else real and abldm)g(: “No Santa Claus vmfi\k God! —he lives, and he lives forever— a thousand years from now, Vir- ginia, nay, ten thousand years from now, he will continue to makeglad the heart of childhood?”