The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1943, Page 29

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943 CHRISTMASEVE everal essential precautions which | will [help to assure a truly Meriy The Nativity Store” on Man-| Christmas | Square’ announces that it en-| Don’t ritk using frayed cords and “Menufacture of Mother-|broken plugs. | Beth-| Don't handle electrical appliances lehem. “Mother-of-pearl mantfac-| with wet hands. |ture, incidentally, has become Beth-| Don't yank at cords or run them lehem’s major industry. Much of lunder rugs. the pearl cofifes from the Red Sea Don't ferget to Ruadio Plays Arab Music the Church is a beautiful new po: lice station | IN BETHLEHEM ::.: | of-Peéarl—Best - Souvenir of g Many American - Seldiers Jom Thron.gsof P“- Walking from Manger Square to- around. grims This Year |ward ‘Stus Street ou hear a radio| Dot ng Arab music and you pass | cuits. have insulated lin In 1923 a beautiful evergreen tree, cut in the woods of Vermont, was| sent to Washington and set up in staples on hand for stringing cords o 8 B T |Sherman square. seriond 3 This tree was a gift from Mid- l;’fe.r“m loy&m g 3:‘“’.\_ L""dlcbnry college to the President of h sually 1000 watts Is Asyn. ypited States. It was decorated urn, a taxi ramp (“Two dellars much as any one cireuit will stand.;a“d wired with hundreds of tiny lto Jerusalem, Mister”), an ice cream| Don't neglect providing plenty O"s-lertrm lights, and on Christmas _Chrln’!m:\n tree. #The following year a pernianent service installed so that ated and illuminated. ly followed by cities | communities. Now : many capitol village greens. In Austrs Christmas a boaulxml] RagDoll HasFace i Lifted very year bril- {liantly illuminated trees yrace state grounds, city squares and living tree was planted in Sherman| 1 behind the White House and | underground electric each \‘oarl the same living tree can be decor-| The national example was quick- is ceie- ILLIAM McGAFFIN and lemonade stand, and an Arabic extra lamp bulbs of the Various pi. pragident Coolidge switched on |brated with picnics and (rips in the AP Features mosque with a stately minaret ;siws and colors you're using fori‘me lights of the First Nationall open. These are the external signs of | Christmas cheer, so you can replace $ FAIRED LEH Dec. 24, 1943. A. D.|lany modern town burned-out ones. ‘"m‘“w&fim\\?\‘v\ifi”“‘\w‘i““i)\‘\)‘\,‘iii\‘.‘\,‘\‘i&),\ R ands Twentisth Centur And if you shut out the modern! Don’t put pennies in a blown- 32 | you have jout fuse pilgrims, many of thef in khakifwerid for a little while | follow the path of the three Wise simply to join the bands of modern ing! men tonight to wopship With re-l,iims Wwho are wending their| Don't have high wattage lamp joicing hearts on the hallm\'od‘v ay jut e Church of the Nativity bulbs near fancy inflammable orna- ground five and a half. miles south - nd down to the Grotto where the ments, synthetic materials, paper| of Jerusalem where the Prince of pcil till holds that was woven or cotton. Watch out about using Peace was born’ nearly 2000 years gver thi -tuary 20 eenturies ago. | candles too near draperies, wall-| ago. paper or woodwork. | e Their hearts are full of hope and | Dent plan to have a row of they sing with exceéding joy as a?h((lDE“IS orfER | et teo close to a mirror or the placked-out world observes its fifth ¥ crack it. Christmas of the war. For this| may RAVE EA"]‘O | Aca ahove all, dowt burn rea year there is a promise in Allied candles on your Christmos free » EXX 3 | A blown fuse is a wam-“ i RRRRRR vidtories that it will not be long " less it has first been (i the angel’s message can be reaffirm-| GAIE" YulE IIM[ fireproofed. | ] AR ed. “Peace on earth, good will to-| wred men ¥ Even the stars in the eternal| Nothing spoi’ the festive heavens, once brilliant with won- gaiety of a Christmas celebration | If there ever was a time when drous tidings, seem to shine more more completely than a fire or ac- Wwe -\1\nul}1 be spendthrifts in sen- | brightly as the glad refrains of the|cident in the home. There are! timent, it is at Christmas. old sengs float up from the cheer- . ful mortals below. “Hark the her- ald angels sing,” they carol as they| crowd about the ancient stone Chureh of the Nativity which Con- nt built on the site of the y Manger in the year 330 i Greatest New tory | KRR SPENDTHRIFT SENTIMENT RRRRRRRRRIOF AR RRFRRRRRFARFARRIRARTARR 2 X7 | AR RIS RRGRRE AR AR R RARRIRRRRRRE R 2 2 2 2N RRRERIRRRRRRRIRGE Hol For this is the anniversary of a mriacle, the greatest news story the world ever has known. And OO0 it marks the nearing emergence of the world from its greatest war. «Silent night, holy night* * *” The o SERRG winter air is crisp and their breaths | ccme white they stand singing CH RISTMAS i 9. on this hill of Judea about the and { weatherbeaten gray stone church "t the NEW YEAR HOLD MUCH HAPPINESS IN STORE FOR YOU. which is built in the shape of a cra Let us enter the church. You must stoop low there for it is but a tiny door, the “Eye of the Needle” they call it. It was made smali, they s to prevent rioting crowds from sweeping inside on their camels and donkeys to continue their fights within. The Holy Land, you are reminded, is a sacred place to more than one religion. The air is heavy with incense. As ‘'you look up you see that the church is roofed with wood. Along either side of the nave are heavy marble columns. Moving about in the lights and shadows are long- beardéd priests. The Greek Ortho- dox (which observes Christmas 12 days later), Armenian and Roman Catholic churches share this holy structure ‘and the three adjoining convents. Let us go forward to the choir now and descend the stone stens to the grotto below which is hol~ lowed out of solid rock. In a gray marble recess on the right hand side as we enter is a silver star sunk in the floor. This marks the actual place of the birth and is in addition symbolic of the star which guided the three wise men. A few feet away on the left is another marble recess marking the place of the manger where Jesus was laid. The grotto is hung with cil lamps and red tapestries and religious pictures. The original manger is now in Rome, you are fold. Rome * * * the war* ** your thoughts sweep back. Then you resume your reverie over the Christmas story. “And she brought forth her first- bern som, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no rcem for them in the inn.” There is no inn in modern Bethle- bem. In nearby Jerusalem, how- ever, there are fine hotels, but it is almost impossible to get a room in them. Two thousand years later and still no room in the inn. There has been progress, though, for this time, if il were happening again, Please accept our sincere thanks for your patronage—uwe hope we may continue to have the opportunity of serving you. G Channel Apparel D o O N O N A A B o o o o o o o o oo NN o o o o oo o Yo\ oNo o NN o e o R e A A AR A (FORRRRRRRRRRRRRR AR RRERRRRRRRRRRRIERRFIIRRRIRRRRARIIRIFRFRRRR, SEASON®S BEC LU CEELELELECEEEE T CEEEEEEEEEE e e SRRRG GREBTINGS A/ot from the standpoint of custom only do we send you this mess- age of Christmas cheer, but with genu- ine appreciation of our pleasant assoc- iations in the past. We extend to you our best wishes, and may happiness and prosperity be yours through all the year. R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R AR RN R R AR R R AR AR AR IR ARRRE e e L TITTITIINN .. faasealy AR AR RRRRR R R R R R R R AR R R R R R R R R R R R RRRRR IR ERRRRIRR R RRRRRIRRRRR’ Femmer’s Transfer ARERRRR NOCCCCC e o RS2 SO oo Joseph and Maty could go to a marvelous modern ‘hospital, the Hadassah Rothschild Universit; HVersity | ogeocsococe Hospital, on Mount Scoups. | There are various rteminders of, the American influénce 'inthis holy city, aside from the Soldier tour-| ists—whose favorite purchases, ac- cording to -the shopkeepers, are' Bibles bound in mother of pearl,! and rosaries. There s, for €x-| ample, the white shell which the, shopkeepers prize as the finest shell for the manufacture of souvenirs.! It comes from California. And there is the model of the Church of the Nativity, painstakingly con- sbructed out of 15,000 pleces ‘of , pearl and intended for the New York World's And may the Hoppi- ~ ness of the -Holidoy P Season be yours through all the coming— NeW 104 to His city He would find many changes as might be expected after 2000 years. But his spirit still prevails and never more so than § today on this fifth—and most hope- ful—Christmas of the war. i The little shops which crowd the | quiet, narrow streets about the Christian Church of the Nativity| are mostly run by Arabs—but they' are Christian Arabs. The physical appearance of Beth- The lehem today is interesting. Church of the Nativity on Square stands resolute guard over| the Holy Grotto beneath it. But round about have sprung up the OO bt AND SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR YOUR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS AT CHRISTMASTIME AND THE NEW YEAR. We are looking forward to serving you during the next twelve months as enthusiastically as we dis last year. In appreciation of your past patronage we promise to make even greater efforts to serve you more efficiently in the future. Juneau-Young Hardware Co. S RRRRRRIARRRF RRARIRRRRRARRARR IR RRRRRARRIRFI RRRRRRRARRE I’s Christmas, and with its coming we weleome the fine spirit of friendliness that goes with it, and are desirous of sending this Greeting to all those we serve and those whom we hope to serve. SARIN’S BEST WISHES for your Happiness inthe New Year é MEHERIN “s JOE S NS NN NN NN SN NN GN O NN NN o N oN o OV NS O 2 OOE S 2 S S S 220N O O Z a> O N NN O O N NN N N NN oo B 3 2 2 A A A A 2 A A e A e AP Features others. ally COLUMBIA, S. C.—The rag doll, s a glorified version of the kind little PR RRR AR R AR AR IR R R RRR AR R AR RRARRRIRR T girls played was a youngster, is back in style. ! The nation’s doll-playing habits, led by a revival of Raggedy Ann, jare being changed radically as a result of the war “The rag doll nhas replaced com- position dolls as fast as the war cconomy has bitten into manufac- turers’ materials,” says Mrs. John 8. Averill, one of the nation’s thou- sands of avid doll colleéctors the rag doll we're getting is a glori- fied creature compared to the € ‘black mammy’ dolls so popular v . & 5 years ‘ago.” 1] g The Columbia matron became in- | () g terested six years ago in “dolloogy” | . : ;i (doll collécting, in the glossary of . RRRRRRARRRRRRRARRA AR AR RRRRFFRRRRRRRARRRARR 5 Now T re also plenty ,of soldier dolls,” Mrs. Averfll says, “and dolls costume of nurses, saflors those engaged in the hobby.) she is adding the new rag dolls to her collection—not the mere cloth- in the stuffed-with=cotton items of years and civilian defense ‘workers. The 1go, but glorified specimens with | war is having a double effect on svelids, eyelashes and glamorous our playthings.” costumas, e pirey e o S The principal classifications of Very attractive for flower ar- rag dolls are effigies of world lead- rangements are large, flat pottety ers such as Churchill and Rooge- leaf-shaped bowls. Colors available velt, movie stars, and characters|are soft thrquolse, rose, gréen and uch as the Kentucky colonel, the white, Give one for Christmas i black mammy, the farm boy and you would please someohe espéci- with when grandma f TO WISH YOU $ A generous share of blessings And May the New Year Bring You Ever ; Increasing Happiness “But RGO RIRRRRARREREGTART/ RRRRRRRRRRRRRRS Maska Federal Savingsand loahi_g.