The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1943, Page 9

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943 e r———— < ~— » (S 3 £ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ~JUNEAU, ALASKA 3 PAGE TH .‘f tion on fashionable Beacon Hill, . {will tour the district as usual, but b - | their candles will be blacked out. | Newburyport, Mass, has under- |taken the job of raising enough man from the city in the armed . services a Christmas check 1 Up in New Hampshire, Episco- {pal Bishop John T. Dallas, has alled upon the public to discon- |tinue this Christmas the giving of “habit gifts. “Habit giving,’ the Rt. Rev. Dallas ., “is but an expression of hur- friendship. Forget the gifts and do the harder thing, write a personal note as a token of good | will.” -es - ‘SPECIAL FLAVOR OF CHRISTMAS ENRICHES LIFE | There is a very speclal flavor| about Christmas which has nothing ito do with the giving and getting of | presents, and which depends only FIRESIDE FU ance” is Christmas game favorite. - on the spirit which the presents; By VIVIAN BROWN a pageapt on December 13, Santa represent. The adult who can keep| AP Features Writer ‘Lucla Day, in the parish hall of this spirit and not let himself be | | historfc Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) WOrn out and exasperated by the Santa’s not going to disappoint| oy oh puilt in 1700, material aspects of the season has kept a part of his childhood alive and can still feel the thrill which you after all. His Yuletide pack may be short of a great number of | Down at w‘"s""“'s‘_‘}“"" tamiliar toys, but there will be Moravians hold the “love the season holds for children. i games that*all the family can en- %0, and the Christmas “putz The child who has experienced | joy together. displayed. But highlight of Win- {he finest essence of Christmas will | A variety of to-learn, quick ston-Salem's holiday activity is the always look upon the season with action parlor s made of non-|community party in which 50,000 joy and anticipation. His senses | priority materials, is ready. Sister persons take part {will always be stirred by the smell| and brother and the grown-ups| Another North Carolina city, of evergreen, the crackle of holly| oo, will for about limitations on | Wiliington, claims the “world’s 4nd the picture of people loaded the family car. | 1argest Christmas tree,” a 300-year-|down with mysterious parcels. | Some old favorites like RoOK, old live oak that is the center of T0 get the full flavor there must| popular in the horse-and-buggy | festivity {be secrets, hidden packages, whis- age, are being revived this Christ-| Out on stormy Hatteras Island,'PEFings and private consultations., mas. The game has won favor i"}un- fisherfolk of tiny Rodanthe,| TNC'eé must be also increased ten- the armed forces where a variety | N ¢ observe “Old Ci!l'lslmals" or, Sion until Christmas Eve with the} of new techniques has been added |myelfth Night on January 5, keep- |\FAnUC etfort to sleep, thaye e to increase the difficulty of "nm‘im, D cilstons that -gutes beok oy, Dass THOre quickly, or the de-| getting rooked.” | to the founding of the community. IlFm"m‘mo" i e and e Pit, the wheat pit speculation | This Twelfth Night celebrati ~-1for a sight of the unexpected. game of the Nineties, is another| = . & on 1| when Christmas has become too old craze to be revived. The ob-|® 98y early for some unknownelghorate and is a burden instead of ject of this old time trading game |'€4son.) Santa Claus comes on 'y joy, when everyone decides not is to corner the market on wheaat, | Christmas Eve, but when he re-'to celebrate Christmas this year, corn, barley, flax, oats or hay by turns for “Old Christmas” he the children have been robbed of trading cards representing these [brings with him “Old Buck,” a|one of the high spots of childhood. | prains. menacing ogre who takes care of| Life is enriched and quickened by | A game of real estate Monopoly [ naughty children while Santa ad-'an occasional break in the proced- and Finance, another of the rob- jministers to the good. ure of everyday existence, and the both family and service men. Sorry,| At Murphy, N. C. the Churches Season which offers the greatest thé English game that won pop- (of God prepare a replica of ancient Possibilities for such a break is the ber speculation games, appeal tc|Bethlehem at the eastern end of feast of the winter solstice, when ularity during the blitz, is another{a natural amphitheatre between e harvest is over and the spring| best seller. {Ten Commandments and Sermon!MOl Vet at hand — the feast of For armchair commandos, & NeW|on the Mount peaks. Op the after- CPYistmas. interest is Navy Weftup, an air-|noon before Christmas at the hour| TS o 3 RSO plane identification game, developed | coinciding with midnight in Pales- MR SRR i fx’wufidv?";i:rofif”(f? flf.flfiflufii tine, the Nativty pageant is en-| Does he believe in good luck| and used by the Navy as. one nr’a"g:\mn T L ]i"ll‘“"m"?x Gy ;‘"" hidh G- | ; ic ) A - S planning 1ts annual pher coin knife. These clever :_L‘:w"r‘::zx“’f:;f“ium.t.hod‘” 1o "’““,chnst(nas tree on Boston Common, ' knives may be worn as watch charm Alliad und enerav ik 1t but minus lights. Carolers, a tra- or on key chain. ‘The name Weftup is derived from the first letters of the parts of an airplane which are usually observed in determining identity: Wings, | Engines, Fuselage, Tail, Undercar-) riage, and Peculiarities. The game consists of 54 cards giving silhoutte views of Allied and enemy planes.| Though it is the toughest and most technical of the war games pub- lshed for home front consumption,| to the amazement of- game experts, | it has become a best seller. { LOCAL CUSTOMS ARE OLD AND ODD; MERRY, HOWEVER AP Features Along the sandy backroads of bama the tots and the hoary- red are setting off strings of cato firecrackers in the still 0t * * *in a tiny fishing ham- t Hatteras the folks still have weeks to wait for their real ation * * * up in New Eng- ‘he lights are dimmer than wut the spirit is bright * * = n the southwest corner of Jarolina devout pilgrims are to the tip of Burger moun- re-enactment of the Na- p 7 ) ) ) ) ) ) AR R R R R AR R R R R R R RN R AR RRRRERRRR 57 AR RN RRRRRRRRRAR FRRRRRRRRRRRG A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the A. E. F Y Gunfire is shaffering the air below—the enemy objecfive is only afew moments from away. A turmoil of thoughts follow each other within a lone American boy's mind. PDes Moines , Jlowa - | ¥ They're distinct and sure. They've been nurtured all his life in the unclouded al- mosphere of rightness and decency. In the midst of roaring molors and fense anticipation of hair-breadth escape, the boy's eyes are calm, his hands unfaltering We send this greeting for the ' in performance. He feels sirangely at peace. I is Chrisimas night. millions of us back home in ' ; the U.S.A. who are working, praying and giving to help bring you home soon — vic- toriously in the fight for freedom over the world. ‘May the new year be good fo o " We, safe in our gay, Christmas-cheered homes, can maich our faith fo his. We you with good luck, health, : . MUST do fhat, or deny loyaly fo the freedoms for which he’s fighting. We MUST Protaction. and WILL buy War Bonds and MORE WAR BONDS—until Victory. RRRRRRRRRIEERG RRRRRRE RRRPCTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS Christmas, United States a, 1943 A. D. wn has a celebration, but. ome of the unusual, the old-fashioned: ed coal miners high in ountains of New Mex- 1 saving and preparing 9 make their town of 430) a mecca for Madrid's celebration, in art of the fiesta-country, is ition. In early’ December 2an, woman and child in 2lps string electrical lines, und systems, trim 350 out- es, construct mechanized and a dozen Biblical For a month the lights in magnificent spectacle. the mountainside is a Bethlehem, while above ux frightened shepherds 1 at the Christmas Star, € nation, in Pennsyl- avian district, another arries on a traditional The remenibrances of past joys on this beloved anniversary are engraved for- ever in his hearf. And now, af this important life-or-death moment, they have a reassuring effect. “The belief in his hopes arises from his strengthened faith. More than ever before in his life, he is "'alone with God.” And his increased power grow- ing out of his great faith is such tha no enemy can vanquish! P Py AR RN RN RN RN IR RN PR RN AR RRRARRRRARNS bringing together of | fterwards, in Morav- ol CLOTHING CO. DES MOINES, IOWA — U. S. A. age old tradition. Pennsylvania group | of old are the “lhilsdelphia. For them' 3ime: season begins with' RRCRRRRRRR