The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1944, Page 39

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1944 THE DAILY % S é ANGHURS AWELBH ok ( (¢ Mgt 1ol FOR A « GRAND (e OLD-FASHIONED May your ship re- 2 AMERICAN um o port mext year abundantly fill- y CHRISTMAS ed with health, hap- piness, and prosper- ity. Merry Christmas to you all. FRRFRRRRRRFS P %3 ’ AR R R AR IR IR AR RRRRRN RS N RRRRRRRRIRRRRR 3 v SRR RRRRRRRIRERRRIRRIFIRRART) £ 3 - AR RRR RN R RRRRRRRRRRRARRRRRAG The season’s best to you and yvours during this best of seasons! Because this is a time of good cheer we want to express our heartiest Christmas ot wishes to one and all, with ut- 5’! most sincerity. g, R e N O N N fi; 2 4 Feusi& Jensen | b4 DOUGLAS NN | | . Of course you know that we really don’t need Christmcs to & make us realize how much friends mean to us, but perhaps it docs take the good old American Christmas Season to remind us to tell you so. At thistime § our thoughts readily turn toward those with whom our success is so closely linked—to our , & many customers whom we are glad to call our friends. ; Because we are very close to you, we un- 4 derstand some of your problems. We look for- jg ward with confidence to a contiruance of the grand friendship and pleasant relationship # for many years to come. It is our sincere hope # that the New Year may bring you prosperity s in bountiful measure and real happiness. 3| :: e NN oo NN NN NN o VooV oo o ooV N NN NN NN NN WA R R R AR R R R R R AR AR RARA R R IRRRRRRRRRRR B E SI sEll ER ’ . ) NEW YORK — Everybody knows | the Bible EMPIRE - JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGE THR er of* all of the Bible, or some portion of time — especially at Christmas—but g not everybody understands that it fyear. were sold throughout the world last | is one of the most tinkered-with The Bible tinkers are not the AT (HRISTMAS books in history. Publishers, schol- | many translators always at work, ars, and the laity can’t keep their | either. - These take care of great hands off it | languages such as Chinese and IS THE BIBLE By JOHN SELBY Associated Press Arts Editor In 1940, there were 5,267,529 copies of the Bible, New Testament and Gospels sold in wardrained China alane, and the American Bible So- ciety estimates that 25 million copies i XK, RGO TRRRRRRRRS [o BRRRRRRRRRRRAG SEASON'S HOLIDAY GREETINGS TO YOU ... AND WE mean YOU At this period we feel that our sincere good wishes should be extended to our friends and customers. We earnestly hope that your Christmas Season will be fill- ed with good cheer and pleasantness, JACK FARGHER OB OEOROGFEoG | Modern Library, an abridgement SCECEUCEtRNNNY b g 4 4 ) AR R RRRRFRRRRRRRRRSFRIRF I RRIRRRRRRRRRRRRNRRANY $ May the teachings of Him whose birthday we celebrate at Christmas, prevail at this time when the world looks to the enjoyment of peace and contentment. 4 And as the Star of Bethlehem lighted the way to the manger, so today the faith in' our hearts will lead us to the fruits of our hard-won Victory.! HARRY RACE — Drugs 2 2 9 SR ot Vot oNoNoNoNoN oot ot o o o ot ot VoV oNoNo Voo VNN o o oV oNoNoNoNoNoNoNoN oV oNoN N NN\ NN o Ny e 2 S J ‘ Another slightly disconcerting " sential words are not in basic Eng- J | /) ) | Arabic; of little languages such as Miskito, which serves only 25,000 people on the central American coast. Nor are they merely laymen with an itch to express themselves. The Catholic Church now has ,a | rpvised New Testament, its first | since Bishop | version two centuries ago. And the | Church is at work on the Old Tes- | conceived the idea of a voluntary «5 | tament. Both of these are drawn |teX on Christmas greeting cards | { from the Latin Vulgate; a distin- [ Which would benefit the poor. He | ig guished Catholic scholar, the Very | 8ained permission from the ministry © ) Rev. Francis Aloysius Spencer, trans- lated the New Testament directly |8 fund to erect a hospital for tu- from the Greek and published his) bercular children. versicn four years ago. | There is still another translation | which bases its distinctive quality |on its source — a translation from | the vernacular, which is to say, from | Aramaic. It s by George M. Lamsa and is called The New Testament according to the Eastern Text; does odd things with our accepted world pictures, too. { For example, the Aramaic words for camel and rope are the same, and the rich man's chance of en- | tering heaven is bettered, for here |1t is a rope, and not a camel, which | must pass through the eye of the i needle ‘versi«m is “The New Testament in Basic English.” Basic English is the simplified vocabulary worked out by C. K. Agden, and (for this trans- lation) expanded by 150 words to a total of 1,000—however, certain es- rake, edt” (Matthew 26:26) ake it"” in this version, ill” of God becomes the " of God, or sometimes His | “purpose.” James Moffatt's translation of the complete Bible has been out six | years, although his New Testament ! was published first in 1801. Two years ago “The Complete Bible” was published in Chicago by J. M. Good- |speed; last year the same scholars furodum-d “The Short Bible" in the 'with the books in chronological . order, and the translations selected i(rom various sources. R. F. Weymouth's “The New Tes- \ tament in Modern Speech” has been | well known for 39 years, and John | Stirling's “The Bible for Today,” |# :‘pmbubly will circulate widely. | _But the tinkers go much farther. essential passages from the Jewish- Christian Bible, but also from seven | & other of the great world religions. | CHRISTMAS SEAL Richard Chaloner's [ young mail clerk in the post of- @ it | *mong tubercular patients, officials ' | Robert O. Ballou’s “The Bible of | | the World” is a condensation of ¥ CBBPRBERR IS IIFRIE % % = \&t? 258 e B 3 3 2 2 2SS ORIGIN RECALLED - : WITH 1944 DRIVE | Season’s on Greefings (6 The origination of ths Christmas ?,é (e (e tuberculosis seal was recali.d by of- ficials of the American Tuberculosi institute as the 36th annudl sale got | © under way. @ Back in 1903 Einar Holboell, then | ] fice at Charlottenlund, Denmark, | to sell the stamps at post offices for In 1907 Miss Emily P. Bissell of ‘Wilmington, Del, adopted the idea and interested the American Red | Cross in the project. The first na- | tional sale in 1908 brought in $135,~ 000 and the amount has grown larger each year. The sale of seals has saved 100,000 lives annuall declare. At the time of his death in 1927, Holboell was president of the Inter- national Tuberculosis Association and a member of the board of di- rectors of the National Tuberculosis Association of Denmark. As a mark of honor to the originator, the Dan- ish Christmas seal for 1927 bore his picture. Santa Claus, perhaps, doesn't smoke—or he would be better in- formed on the quality of cigars. e COCELTELEELEEE L EE v e Devlin’s Shoe Store naacecaeaeiaaeaasacceecacetcEaca AR RRRRR RN R TORRIRRRTRRRRRRRRRRRAX 17;‘; Clitras | brings the vision of a world at peace With an unwavering faith, and perseverance unceasing, let us cling to the ideals of the real Christmas spirit . . . sharing . . . g unselfish giving .". . sacrifice . . - that our Peace, when it comes, may be bvigh_'_and untamished. JUNEAU MOTOR CO. Two-such simpfe words. Yet no other words can say the same thing better! To them we add three more, equally familiar words spoken to convey a mean- ing no other phrase fulfills. Hap- py New Year. And in saying that litile; we say a lot - for we express every good wish it is possible fo have for your immed- jate enjoyment (f the yulefide —-and for your future good for- tune in the year o follow! MAY OUR FRIENDLY RELATIONS ~ ALWAYS CONTINUE. Happy New Year! GASTINEAU HOTEL