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Pace Eicht THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Dr. Spaugh Dr. Herbert Spaugh- Everyday Counselor TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS I. THOU SHALT NOT LEAVE CHRIST OUT OF CHRISTMAS, making it “Xmas,’ for this is the sign that thou art lazy minded, and spiritually listless. To most minds “X” stands not for Christ but for the algebraic unknown. II. THOU SHALT NOT VALUE THY GIFTS BY THEIR COST, for verily many shall signify love that is more blessed and beautiful than silver and gold. III. THOU SHALT GIVE THYSELF WITH JOY GIFTS. Thy love, thy personality and thy service shall increase the value of thy gift an hundred fold and he that receiveth it shall treasure it forever. IV. THOU SHALT NOT LET SANTA CLAUS TAKE THE PLACE OF CHRIST. In many homes, Santa Claus supersedes the Christ Child and Christ mas becomes a fairy tale rather than a sublime real ity in the spiritual realm. ‘ V. THOU SHALT NOT BURDEN THY SER VANT. The shop girl, the mail carrier and the mer chant should have thy consideration. VI. THOU SHALT NOT NEGLECT THY CHURCH. Its Christmas services are planned to help spiritualize the Christmas season for thee, thy child and thy household The churcn represents Christ, the only true defense against the rising evil of Communism. VII THOU SHALT NOT NEGLECT THE NEEDY. Let thy boun tiful blessings be shared with the many who will go hungry and shiv er with cold unless thou art generous in their time of want. VIII THOU SHALT BE AS A LITTLE CHILD. Christmas is the day of the Christ Child Not until thou hast become in spirit even as a little child art thou ready to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. IX. THOU SHALT PREPARE THY SOUL FOR CHRISTMAS For verily most of us spend much time and money getting gifts ready, but few seconds in preparing our souls. X. THOU SHALT GIVE THY HEART TO CHRIST Let thy Christmas list have Christ at the top and thy heart as the gift. For in so doing thou art as the Wise Men of Old, and .verily thou shalt find thyself bom again on Christmas Day. Each year at Christmas we reprint these Ten Commandments for Christmas by an unknown writer. We found them a number of years ago in the Gideon Magazine We need them this year as never before. Hills, past Bethany to Jerusalem and then to Bethlehem. Enroute modern cars pass many a camel caravan reminiscent of the trans port used by the three wise men. The wise men went to Jerusa lem before going to Bethlehem. I and so u’ill the tourist of today. [ His hotel will be in Jerusalem When the wise men went from I Jerusalem to Bethlehem, they probably left from the old city’s maple leaf ham and cider sauce, pumpkin pie, Indian pudding, all nave a mmage. There will be apple cider, too. Cider was so popular in 18th cen tury New England that every good farm ..ad its own cider mill. History records that one inn keeper, Col. Ebenezer Crafts who founded the Pubiick House m Sturbridge, was famed for his power to lift a barrel of cider end drink from the bumrhole. The following two recipes are from the chef at Andover In:n Cranberry Nut Bread Two and .•r»e-nail ups of all purpose flour. 2-3 cup sugar, 3% teaspoons baking powder, 1 tea spoon salt, H teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Vi cup orange juice, 1 beaten egg, Vi [ cup milk. Mix ingredients and add 4 ta blespoons melted butter or mar- ! garine, Vi cup chopped nuts, I’i i ups cranberries, 1 tablespoorj grated orange peel. Bake in a Stx5-inch (opproximately) loaf pan. Sweet Potato Valencia Take 4 large Valencia organges. Cut in half and remove about | 1-3 of tha puip. Boil and peel' Thursday, December 16, 1954 about 6 medium-sized sweet po tatoes. Mash and whip thorough ly with butter or margarine, salt and pepper and 2 tablespoons honey. Fill oranges to a peak. Heat in 375 degrees F. oven. When done, add 1 marshamllow that has been cut in small pieces to the top..of each. Return to the oven for a few minutes. Serve piping hot. A & P Employees To Shore $2,300,000 tic it Pacific Tea Company throughout the country will share more than $2,300,0<MP in pre-holiday compensation this year, it was announced today by Ralph W. Burger, president of the food chain. Every employee with as much as six months’ service will re ceive a part of the annual fund voted by the company’s board of directors. Distribution is sched uled for December 17. ' T * We Do All Kinds of Printing —Except Bad Emplo . e s of the Great Allan-1 CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. TOYS FOR THE BEST BUY IN TOYS STOP AT JOE'S ESSO SERVICE A COMPLETE UNE OF TOYS Open 6 A. M. -10:30 P. M. Bethlehem Today Holds Same Joy Of Long Ago (By WILTON WYNN) Jerusalem, Jordan — Nearly two thousand years ago, camels carrying the first Christmas P'l'iJaffa Gate on a direct, short grims to visit Bethlehem plodded rou te to the birthplace of Christ, wearily up the winding road ijntn .l<^8, the same route was from Jericho They were the three wise men of the past, the ancient counter part of the modern pilgrim visit ing the birthplace of Christ taken by modern tourists. That Direct road was less than five miles long After the Palestine War of 1948, however, the Israelites cut Most pilgrim-tourists arrive by ij x, * . _ a,r today, but if a traveler ap ! h , c roa , d „ Now J f™»>«tt-Beth. proaches Bethlehem by laud lehem lra,t,t musl - ,ake a rouu ’ this Christmas he will arrive via the wise men's route. The land road takes a round r ore than twice as long At noon on Christmas Eve, the traveler will, jjee Bethlehem's rne lana roaa raxes a round- "***. a about route from the seaport in Manger Square filled with a bnl- Beirut, Lebanon, through Damas-1 ““ n ‘ procession, as the Latin cus and Amman down from the P an arch makes his formal entry into the Church of the Nativity mountains of Moab to the lowest point on earth at the Jordan River near the Dead Sea. Then there is the long winding climb up from Jericho to the Jordan FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years T. E. Jones & Sons The Best for Over Fifty Years preceded by a chuir in vestments,; consuls of Jerusalem in uniform, i and government officials. On the afternoon of Christmas ! i Eve, the traveler should drive j down to the slopes cast of Bethle hem to Shepherd's Field, a tree- covered area enclosed by a stone wall. Here the YMCA conducts a service commemorating the an nouncement of the birth of Christ to the shepherds who watched their flocks in a grotto on th.s de. A Shepherd's meal of meat baked in the earth and flat Be-. J >uin bread is eaten during thL service. Christmas Eve reaches its Clima with the midnight rpass in the Church of the Nativity, pre- s.ded over by the Latin patriarch. At the conclusion of the mass, i procession follows a statute of the Infant Jesus down a stone staircase into the Grotto of the , Nativity where Christ was bom. As many as 10.000 persons i gather outside the church on Christmas Eve, while only a few imndred can get inside Travel lers wishing to see the mass should arrange for tickets far in advance. The modem pilgrim visiting the birthplace of Christ faces problems the wise men never met. For one thing he must un derstand that his Christmas visit will be to that section of Pales tine held by Jordan, not Israel. Both Bethlehem and the old walled city of Jerusalem are on the Jordan side of the demarca tion line which has divided the Holy Land since the war of 1948. i Although actual fighting stop ped in 1948, the Arabs and Is- r. elis have not yet signed a § ( pvace pact Arabs maintain an «' economic blockade of Israel, and g i part of this blockade is a refusal to admit a traveler who has an Israeli visa in his passport. Hotels here are not luxurious, but most of them are comfortab'e | and moderately priced. Although Palestine is not far'i ► from the deserts of Araibia, Christmas here will not be warm. The weather is chilly and brisk. Because the holy sites are ! grouped so closely together, the j Holy Land offers an ideal spot i for the hurried tourist. The visi- ! tor can participate in Christmas i festivities and see practically all | the most treasured Biblical sites i —all on a three-day schedule. CLINTON, S.C. Pins Thirteen Other Stores in Sooth Carolina mmol Holiday Meal Menu Given How about Christmas dinner in the New England tradition? Let’s look in at the inn at Andover, Mass., on the grounds of Phillips Academy, founded in 1778. The gracious red brick Andover Ipn with its striking white column;*, snow on the ground and the fra grance of wonderful Yankee food creates the mood. Here is part of the inn’s Christ mas menu: MENU: Cranberry nut bread, roast stuffed Bay State duckling, roast native tom turkey, baked Fill YOUR GREEN STAMP Books in GET EXTRA GIFTS AT NO TIME For CHRISTMAS EXTRA COSH * I I Stocking your pontry now con moon a J-woy savings for you ot D i x I o- Homo! First, ths shopping timo saved later on; Socond, our low, low prc-hoU- day prices; and third, the S. A H. dreen Stamps you need to complete any unfilled books in timo to redeem those I x t r o Gifts you plunnod for Shrietmoe glviog. So . . . shop hare today for rool, J-woy scringe! 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