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I Pape Four 5s' EASOh’S BEST WISHES At- you celebrate the Christmas Holidays we want you to accept our sincere Christinas Greetings and our heartfelt thanks for your friendship and patronage Joe’s Esso Service Joe McDaniel — Charlie McDaniel Christmas Greetings TO EACH OF YOU TO THE FINEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD “OUR CUSTOMERS” A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Thank you for your patronage and good-will in the past. Hoping to see you in 1950. Ruby’s Beauty Shoppe Phone 453 •••• i i ay uour III m | i m ii i CliristmS e a eriy urn It is our sincerest wish that the spirit of friendliness and good fellowship will make your Christmas a merry one—and that the New Year will bring to you a full measure of good health, success, and happiness. Thanks for your consideration and patronage in the past. WE WILL OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY From 4 P. M. to 1 A. M. Roddy’s Drive-In And Motor Court Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Roddy THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 21, 1950 ‘Qrandpa 3ro5t * J4elp3 (Russians Celebrate M-idwinter 3estival Although Christmas is no longer a holiday in Soviet Russia, a non religious midwinter festival is celebrated and children receive gifts from "Grandpa Frost." • In Czarist Russia, it was custom ary to well-to-do families with large homes to entertain lavishly on Christmas day. The invita tions were extremely formal and begged the invited to consider that. ‘ ... for thousands of years it has been so; with us it has not com menced, with us it will not cease. Do not, therefore, disturb the festival; do not bring the good people to despair. Without you there will be no maiden festivaj at Anna Karpowna’s." In planning these houseparties, hostesses gave particular attention to the selection of partners for the young ladies. The selection was sometimes very satisfactory and sometimes left something to be de sired. Arrival of the "fair maidens,” each with her mother and retinue, bringing cake and sweetmeats and gifts for everyone, proceeded ac cording to prescribed ritual: the guests sooner freezing in their sleds before the gate than to alight before receiving the greeting of the host and hostess. Having been Ceremoniously wel comed, the guests offered prayers before the icon (sacred picture) and then proceeded to the feasting and festivities arranged for them. Santa Claui <Mit Al 'SuCfGA ^baAAif' On&teaA oj Saint Assailing the Santa Claus myth 1 as ‘foolish fiction' and rival of the ' Holy Child,-the Rev. John S. Mar tin, editor of the Catholic Review, declared in a 1949 editorial that Santa the saint has been lost in Santa the sugar daddy—and that the whole idea is bad psychology and bad pedagogy. "Our children learn about the reindeer, but have never heard of the ox and the ass," Father ^fartin continued and recommended that we: "Leave the man in the red suit to those who have nothing better ... for whom life must end in disillusion and despair." Father Martin’s sentiments are reminiscent of Martin Luther’s I vigorous campaign against neglect I of the central idea of Christmas, which is the birth of Jesus. So, i German children have been taught that the Christkind brings the presents—Christkind being depict ed as the messenger of the Infant Jesus sent earthward at Christ mastime to bring happiness to good children. The modern conception of Santa Claus is, of course, 99 per cent fic tional and strictly American. But the spirit of generosity and thoughtfulness as typified by San ta Claus is neither sugar daddy-ish nor essentially American. Unfortu nately not all children who await Santa have learned from their mothers’ lips the story of the Holy Child.' Santa's Requests Santa Claus still gets letters from youngsters with the same cherished requests—bicycles and dolls. But last year a child wanted a live cow. He told a department store Santa so. Another kid wanted a new daddy because hers was "wearing out on top." "ALL HE WANTS” . . . Young Edward HospUa of Now York makes known to Santa his Christmas wish. Ho said, to sola a phrase, “All I want for Christmas is my two frost ia- 1 Whether he f B fot is > ♦ t v Cooper Motor Company Your Dodge and Plymouth Dealer # 4 frtri i > A 4 v ami r 1 rj T « * I o I V< || Ol > oi ii m mtf/ McGee's Drug Store 'A