The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1944, Page 11

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1944 s FRRG SOLETETY R RN . ; SER3G SEUEE ECCCGC t = REZRFN RRRRRRRRR RRIRRIRAS SOECTETTRN Saades RERRRRERRRRRRAS SRR RRRERRR AR 5 k. The long awaited occasion is here and with it the opportunity of renewing friendships . . . of saying to our acquaintances that all our good wishes go to each of them and our heartfelt thanks for the pa- . tronage that we have had during the time we have served the people of this community. So, for Christmas we say, * PEACE FOR YOUR PATHWAY * WISDOM FOR YOUR WORK * PROSPERITY IN YOUR UNDERTAKINGS Thompson Optical Company T3 214 Sec treet ' No Matter How You Say If, 'LOCAL CUSTOMS . IrsStill"Merry Christmas™ / BETHLEHEM, N. H., © " LIKE TINY VILLAGE OF REAL NATIVITY g RS 4 | BETHLEHEM, N. H—This peace- | ful little “Christmas town” nestizd | |in the New Hampshire hills bears | a striking resemblance to the Holy | 2| village for which it was named #|1ts location is similar to that of | ¢| Bethlehem in Judea. and strange- | @lly enough, it is a village of inns @lend Jewish people, just like the| Jireal Bethlehem in the beautiful ?|story of the Christ Child. This ;‘slmtlalil,\' exists however, only in| ¢/ summer when 32 magnificent ho- | /;; tels, taverns and inns, nine of which | é’thxerv* the Jewish dietary laws, are [eux Noel) or % hosts to those who come, year nner‘Weihnachten.) ¢ |vear, to enjoy the beauty of green | 9 |fields and purple mountains. At | /j;cnmnmsnrln the population is less] ¢ |than a thousand souls, and most of 4|them are natives whose hardy an-|Christovym. cestors built their log cabins along | | Bethlehem stri | hotels now stand A (355G 35 TREVOR R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R AR R R R R R AR R R R AR RRRRARRRN Our. dnnual |ama (Spanish) where the palatial | eest. AR R RR R RRRRR AR RN RRRRRRFRRRRRRRRRN May bright as a song and rad- iant with the warmth of >ne1ghb0rly hospitality and joyous good fellowshlp.' SNAP SHOPPE: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA AREOLD AND ODD; § MERRY, HOWEVER People of the United Nations may (AP Features) say it differently, but they all mean; one thing: Merry Christmas! | Along the sandy backroads of Here are the season’s toasts in|Alabama the tots and the hoary- foreign tongues: haired are setting off strings of| Belgium (Flemish) Vroalijke’staccato fivecrickers in the still| Kerstmis. |night * * *'in a tiny fishing ham- |' Prazil (Portuguese): Boas Festas.|let at Hatteras the folk still have | China: Gung Tsu Yeh Su Sun/two weeks to walt for their real Tau | celebration * up in New Eng- Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Re-|land the lights are dimmer than | public, EI Salvador, Guatemala,|usual but the spirit is bright * * *| Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pan-/down in the southwesi corner of | Felices Pascuas. | North Carolina devout pilgrims are | Czechoslovakia: Vesele Vanoce. |climbing to the tip of Burger moun- | Ethiopia: Enkwan Eberhan Led-|tain for re-enactment of the Na-| ateo Yaddarasawo, | tivity ° | Fighting French: Joyeux Noel. This is Christmas, United States Greece: Cala Helstougena. {of America, 1948 A. D. Haiti (Freénch) : Joyeux Noel. | Every town has a celebration, but India (Hindustan): Christmas|bere are some of the unusual, the Mubarik. strange, the old-fashioned Luxembourg: either French (Joy- German (Frohliche Grimy-faced coal miners high in the ‘Ortiz Mountains of New Mex- jco have been saving and preparing for months to make their town of Madrid (pop. 430) a mecca for| thousands. Madrid’s celebration, in | the heart of the fiesta-country, is a tradition, In early Dccen]bc-x"i s : | |¢very man, woman and child In|y, fisherfolk of tiny Rodanthe, jtown helps string electrical llneh.‘N T ! h 2 4 {install sound sgstems, trim 350 out- | N C- observe "Old C f'f"y““":( H) >, door trees, comstruct mecm\n.zm,l““““ Nn,th( on January 5 eep- g displays and a dozen Biblical scenss.‘f““ up a (u‘stum »llmL dates b"“,( For & month the lights shine on ‘U‘[l\? founding of the (on}mun(t}. 5 in magnificent spectacle. Built on l"“‘h T\\ivlvfth.thL Wh\bhmm? ‘h thie' ‘mountainside is a miniature [® 4oy carly for some unknown re Béthlenem, whilé above it in tab-|50n-) Santa Claus comes on Christ- {batix Trightened shepherds gaze up- | 128 h;’v. but when he returns for | .Across the nation, in Pennsyl-|iayes care of naughty children while yania's Moravian district, another|gu,iq aqministers to the good. { Bethlehem carries on atraditional candlelight ceremony that was be-| At Murphy, N. C., the Churches :g\xfi in 1756. The church service is|of God prepare a replica of ancient \kmown as the “love feast,” which | Bethlehem at the eastern end of a | signifies the pringing together of natural amphitheatre between Ten all classes. Afterwards, in Morav-| Commandments and Sermon on the {ian homes, children hurry to find|Mount peaks. On the afternoon the “putz” a minfature landscape |pefore Christmas at the hour coin- | that is another age old tradition. ciding with midnight in Palestine, | Another Pennfwl\'flnm group | the Nativity pageant is enacted ledrrying on as of old are the | Bwedes in Philadelphia. For them ,the Christmas season hegins with a pageant on December 13, Santa Lu- | efa Day, in the parish hall of his- |torie Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church, built in 1700, Down at Winston-Salem, N. C, Moravians hold the “love feast” too, |end the Christmas “putz” is dis-| played. But highlight of Winston- Norway: Gledelig Jul. Poland: Wesolyel Swiat. Scuth Afriga; Geseede Kersfees. Soviet Union: 8Se Rozhdestvom The Netherlands: Vroolijk Kerst- Yugoslavia: Sretan Bogic Boston is planning its annual| Christmas tree on Boston Common, Newburyport, Mass., has under- taken the job of raising enuughI money to send every man and wo- | |man from the city in the armed! serv a Christmas check. your Christmas” be Up in New Hampshire, Episcopal | Bishop John T. Dallas, has called | e o ; ; upon the public to discontinue this | Balem's holiday activity is the com-| cyjgimas the giving of “habit munity party in which 50,000 per- gifts.” sons take part. | Another North Carolina city, Wil- “Habit giving,” the Rt. Rev. Dallas | mington, claims the “world’s largest |says, “is but an expression of hur- | Christmas tree,” a 300-year-old live |ried friendship. Forget the gifls and | cak that is the cerfter of festivity. do the harder thing, write a pe Ouf on stormy Hatteras Island, |sonal note as a token of good will DAVIS E S U S S ST S S S RIS A B R B e D e e e e e G y HAVING NO BROTHERS OF THEIR OWN, the five and a halt years old Badgett quadruplets of Galveston, Tex., have “adopted” four members of the various branches of the armed services and have sent them Christ- mas packages. The gifts were sent to Sgt. Doral P. Chenoweth, 22, Charleston, W, Va., Army Air Forces; Pharmacist Mate Harry M. Biggs, 23, Shelton, Conn.; Pfc. Walter Culberson, 24, U. S. Army, Rome, Ga., and Bos'n Mate C. C, Cunningham, 24, Holland, Mich. (International) Christmas Wéel; 7 Offers Chance fo Predii Weather Weather prognosticators have tound means of forecasting most of the coming year’s weather by cock- ing en eye at the sky during Christ- mas week. You may not believe them, but here are a few of the varied — and conflicting — beliefs about Christmas weather If the sun shines through apple tree on Christmas Day, there will be a good crop the following year, If ice will bear a man before | Christmas, it will not bear a mouse | which afterward. Thunder and lightning Christmas week means much snow in the winter. {frost before than after Christmas. If it snows Christmas night, the hop crop will be good next year. At Christmas meadows green, at Easter covered with frost. If windy Christmas Day, trees will bring much fruit. Christmas wet gives empty gran- ary and barrel. A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard. A green Christmas, a white Easter. the | | QUADS PLAY SANTA TO SERVICEEN STORIES@F REVEALED Fortunately, the "‘ldlll"" i the minds of some to tell the truth to the kiddies—that there isn't a Santa Claus—isn't catching on as well as they hoped. Everybody—and this includes the kids—enjoys a good story, especially around the Christmas season. Down thirough the years have come many beautiful stories jam- med with the kindness of the best in humanity. It is from such stor- |les that many of our Christmas | customs have come. For the ob- | servance of such cvstoms the United tates is indebted to many lands. Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Ger- many, England and Holland all | have done their bit to contribute to cur added enjoyment of Christmas customs and traditions, To the Holy | Land, more than any other, all civ- | llization is indebted for the match- | less history of the Christ child. | One writer who has investigated | the observance of the birth of the Christ Child has noticed one cur- |ious fact. That is, Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church. Iranaeus and Tertul- ian, early church fathers, omitted it from the list of feasts. Accord- ing to what Origen noticed in the Bible, only sinners, not saints, cele- brated their birthday. 2 It was in the year 200 A, D. that evidence of the feast of Christmas was first noted. This was in Egypt. And it wasn't until years afterwards | that December 25 was dectded upon |as being the date for the celebra- tion of Christ's birthday. W | that time Christmas was celebrated dates Eight on various days, one of the being as late as May 20. hundred years after the first feast of Christmas, church authorities used the term Christes Maessi, from | comes the English word | Christmas. This was in 1938. 'SPORTSMAN (CUTS | ; Wet causes more damage thnn‘ mEB (Mnm‘ The true sportsman of the woods, when cutting Christmas treés (aftér obtaining permission) will net cut | trees so close to the highway that their felling will mar the | beauty. He will, when possiblé, :& |his trees from crowded clumps, | where thinning wil ‘ trees, and he will ni until he finally finds the tree he | wants, leaving the others to die as | A warm Christmas a cold Easter.|dry out, causing a summertime ! hazard. % %re always glad of the opportunity to say “Hello” to our friends but somehow no oc- casion &f#ords a better opportunity than Christmas to add a word qf good wishes. The associations we've enjoyed in the past are many and we are grate- ful for them. We appreciate what they stand for and with the passing of * each year, we become more and more impressed with the true value of gen- | uine.friendships. The faithfulness of those whom we strive to serve has been invaluable in the progress of this organization. In recognition of your consideration and patronage in the past, we desire to express our sincere good wishes to each of you for a happy Christ- mds and a New Year filled to overflowing with joy and prosperity.