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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 13, 1951
olljr (Clitttmt (Cljrantrlr
Established 19M
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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THIS IS OUR TOWN
By ADELINE
Music That Lives On
There are no more Jbeautiful songs
than the familiar Christmas carols
that will be heard in homes,
churches and elsewhere throughout
the Yuletide season.
The famous Christmas hymns will
live forever. There is no sweeter
music for they lift us upward and in
spire us.
It is both interesting and appro
priate that we familiarize ourselves
•with many of these Christmas
hymns;. As an example, “Silent
Night, Holy Mght”, written in onei
THE BLUE CHRISTMAS TREE
In the public square of a town we
know
Stands a Christmas tree, its lights
aglovy! -
There,* is something different about
this tree,
| Each light is a soft blue — beautiful
to see,
Each bulb hidden in the branches
dark
'Seems to breathe, seems to whisper,
j “Hark, . -
iThe herald angels sing.” Each glow
the blue
;Qf midnight sky, canopying the shep
herd crow!
| Each light a fragment of the radi
ance white
Streaming down oh shepherds that
holy night!
Each soft radiance seems to say,
' “Pear not,
For to you good tidings I have
brought.”
, Glowing sparks, symbolic of the star
Guiding the wise men, who jour
neyed far j
To And Bethlehem’s stable-sheltered
King!
Blue, too, for adoration, loyalty in
gifts they bring.
Yes, a blue tree, reaching outward,
pointing to the sky—
We remember Golgotha — its cross
held high!
“If I but be lifted up from the earth,
Will draw all men—” for this cause
see. They think that nothing can f . „ our ^, vi0Ur f f .
be which is not comprehensible by, List ', 0 . 1 ? saft m Sht air, carolmg
their little minds. All minds, Vir-' . 0eli f c i 11 ’ . _ . . .
ginia, whethei/\hey be men’s or: ( - IIor y 1° in the highest! Peace
children’s, are little. In this great! unto a “-
universe of ours man is a mere ih-i® 0 ’ symbol of, earths expectancy,
sect, an ant, in his intellect as com-! _ awaiting heavenly powers,
CLINTON. 8. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1951
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see it in the Sun it's so.”
Please tell me the truth,
is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon.
Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of a skeptical age.
They do not believe except they
r f hrittm^ ia Bv<» l0V iair t ! P ar ® d wit ^ the " toumiless”"world | Stands a blue Christmas tree in this
Christmas Bve, Itflo, by the local v.. ,. a u tnwn of nnr«t
clerrvman who took the words to! hun ’ 33 measured b y in ‘ 1 tOWn ° f 0Urs '
^ of ^: telligence capable of y grasping the
the home of the village organist ttve
same night, where they were imme-
whole of truth and kflfi^Hedge. Tighter Rein
diately set to the well known tune. „^ es ’ r there is a Santa,.. , —
Or take, “Joy To the World”, writ- Claus - He exists as certainly as love | UrgCO TOr college
and generosity and devotion exist,' Athlpfir Prnnrnmc
and you know that they abound Mrmer,C rr Ogron1S
ten in 1719 by Isaac Watts, based on
the 98th Psalm. He was 45 years old
then and had written about 600
other notable hymns.
Christmas and the music of Bach
and Handel are inseparable, both
master composers of church music.
They composed songs for congrega
tions to sing and also became mas
ters of beautiful, easliy followed,
melodies in their Christmas music.
And so today, the Christmas music ^ c h‘°'childhW''mfs the"world
these noted composers wrote is
you
and give to your life its highest
beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary
would be the world if there was no
Santa Claus! It would be as dreary
as if there were no Virginias. There
would be no childlike faith, then.
sung by men, women and children
in countless churches of many faiths
all over the world. Their oratories
and carols help make Christmas the
joyous, happy season of the year.
A White Christmas
Pleasant as it is to dream of a
"White Christmas” with its carols
and gifts, feasting and merry-mak
ing, the sparkling eyes of children
delighting in Santa Claus anH the,
wonderful Christmas trees, these ^ Se€ - D l? ^ 0U e ™ r , see fairi ® S
things can never symboliize the tre- the lawn Of course not,
mendous significance of the day. I but no P roof that they are
Colleges should keep tighter
rein on their athletic programs,
the South Am Intercollegiate Ath
letic Association believes.
^ Thih is the gist of two sports de-
no poetry, no romance to make tol-1 em Pbasis resolutions adopted at a
erable this existence. We should i recei lhJ^“^ officials meeting and
have no enjoyment, except in sense' re E, OI lf d bere ’ ,. ...
and sight. The eternal light with Thompson, chairman of the
Presbyterian college athletic com-
for:
mittee, and vice-president of SIAA
would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You
might as well not believe in fairies
District I, said the resolution called
Having intercollegiate sports
You might get your papa to hire; ored maintained and c ^ ntrol .
men to wateh in all the chunneys led by the member institutions ex-
Christrnas eve to catch Santa c i us i V ely; and encouraging the SI-
Claus, but even if you did not see ^ to fix definite on the
Santa Claus coming down, what
would that prove? Nobody sees
Santa Claus, but that is no sign
that there is no Santa Claus. The
most real things in the world are
those that neither children nor men
This war-wocn, selfish, distracted
world should welcome the birthday
of the Babe in whose honor the
angels came singing, Peace, and yet
we have no Peace.
But as the season approaches with
hope and faith we should all dream
of the White Christmas we used to
know. Christinas is not simply re
trospect It is also prospect. There
are sinister forces in many parts of
the earth which dream not of a
coming whiteness, blit who dream
and plan for war, and who even
attribute black motives to those who
plan and hope for good will.
This is not time for panic and de
spair, though the world picture from
many sides looks dark and discour
aging. There are still reais table
tides and good will in the world
which are bound to ultimately win.
The very stars in their codrsos
fight for those who go on dr carping
of a white Christmas.
Dreamers have ever beea pioneers
of a divine discontent, and they own
the future. Dreams have caught the
vision of a better day, of a justier
order, of a cleaner, kindlier world.
not there. Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the wonders there are
unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle
and see what makes the noise in
side, but there is a veil covering
the unseen world which not the
strongest man, nor even the united
strength of all the strongest men
that ever lived could tear apart.
Only faith, poetry, love, romance,
cam push aside that curtain and
view and picture the supernatural
beauty and glory beyond. Is it real?
Ah, Virginia, in all this world there
is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God he
lives and lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virginia, nay, ten
times ten thousand years from now,
he will continue to make glad the
heart of childhood.
Yes, Turn the Rascals Out
Although there are scores and
scores of bureaus in Washington,
only two of them have been inves
tigated recently by Congress. The
two ace the Reconstruction Finance
And so regardless of the blackness I Corporation and the Bureau of In-
and misery which now hangs over ternal Revenue. In both bureaus,
so many nations, and of the ^^xiety
with which we face the future as a
nation, we must not stop dreaming
for all mankind, and of the peace on
earth which can come only to and
through men of good will.
r t will do our souls good to dream
a White Christmas. •
Yes—There Is
A Santa Claus!
Little children accept the Santa
Claus myth without question, bui
as they begrm to grow older they
begin to have doubts. One of them
in 1897 wrote to the New York Sun
asking whether there is a Santa
Claus. Its anwer, written by Fran
cis P. Church and printed as an ed
itorial article, has become almost
as famous as Dr. Moore’s poem,
44 Twas the Night Before Christ
mas.*’ At intervals. The Chronicle
publishes the letter dedicated to
each succeeding generation of hap
py. questioning youngsters.
Here it is: J
We take pleasure in answering
thus prominently the communica
tion below, expressing at the same
time our great gratification that its
faithful author is numbered among
the friends of The Sun -
Dear Editor—
I am eight years old.
Some of my little friends
say there is no Santa
Claus. Papa says "If you
scandals were uncovered which
could match in corruption any deal
executed by the Teapot Dome men
in the Harding administration.
In the Revenue Bureau investi
gation, there is talk ppw of .a $500,-
000 shakesdown. Charles Oliphant,
$14,8000-a-year chief legal officer
of the Bureau, has joined the long
list of tax men who have resigned
under fire. *
The News and Courier believes
that the practices of the Revenue
Bureae and the RFC are not the
exception in Washington today.
The News and Courier believes
that the corruption is general—
that it extends from the White
House staff through the entire
Trumanite bureaucratic family.
The way to get rid of the corrup
tion in Washington is not merely
to discharge or allow to resign the
few unlucky bureaucrats who hap
pen to be caught by Congress with
their fingers in the public till. The
whole corrupt Trumanite party
$hould be repudiated.
A grass roots movement, to “turn'
the rascals out,” has been started I
in Charleston. It deserves the sup
port of all persons who are sick
ened (by Trumanite corruption.
—The News and Courier.
number of athletic scholarships and
amounts granted to students.
Thompson said association offi
cials blamed “unwarranted com
merciansm” on far-flung recruit
ing policies, alumni pressure on
coaching staffs, and “too slack ad
ministration of athletics by facul
ties and presidents.”
Laurens Plant
Opens After Strike
Laurens, Dec. '10.—Operations
were resumed Monday at the Lau
rens Glass Works, which had been
closed for some time on account of
a strike.
Full production should come
shortly, according to E. D. Easter-
by, president of the company, who
announced the end of the four-
weeks-old strike. The plant nor
mally employs about 400 persons.
Mr. Easterby said that the strike
had been settled on terms satisfac
tory to the company and the union.
Piano Recital
December 17
Mrs. James Pitts will present her
piano pupils in recital on Monday
afternoon, December 17, at 3:30 in
the Florida Street school audito
rium.
The public is invited to attend
this musical event
Welfare Department
Requests That
Names Be Cleared
Mrs. Mabel B. Little, director of
public welfare for Laurens coun
ty, has asked that any clubs,
churches, organizations or individ
uals giving to the underprivileged
for Christmas to please clear the
names with the department. This
is being done in order that there
will be no duplication of contri
bution* by the various organiza
tions, she said. This may be done
by letter or phone.
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