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WALTER SHE AO, WNU Correspondent
(First of two columns on *
the federal budget.)
Behind the Figures
There is an old saying that fig
ures never lie, but that liars may
figure. As a result, a man with a
sharpened pencil can make the fed
eral budget prove most anything by
the complex set of *igures contained
in that document.
For instance, there was a story
released recently without any ex
planation whatever to the effect
that “President Truman has col
lected more taxes from the Ameri
can people than all other presidents
combined.” That statement, as far
as it goes, is true, but by the same
token President Truman has distrib
uted back into the pockets of the
American people more tax money
than all other presidents combined.
Economists who study the federal
budget strictly from a dollar-and-
cents basis take into account fac
tors which are not revealed in the
figures approved by the congress.
These factors are the programs
which the government operates as
trustee through trust funds. They
include unemployment insurance,
old age and survivors insurance,
and veterans life insurance.
As a matter of fact, the Bu
reau of the Budget estimates
that for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1952, payments to the
public from the budget, includ
ing these trust funds which have
been growing for several years,
will exceed receipts from the
public under present tax laws
by 12.8 billion dollars.
Most taxpayers get the impres
sion that the 1952 budget of some
thing like 76 billion dollars, recent
ly approved by this congress, is a
green light for government bureau
crats to go out and spend it all in
this fiscal year, come what may.
The fact is, however, that out of the
new money appropriated for 1952
only some 37.1 billions will be spent
in this fiscal year. Some 34.5 bil
lions was appropriated prior to this
year and 57.3 billions will not be
spent until 1953 or later.
• • »
ictual Expenses
ie actual expenses of running
ie government is about $1,351,000,-
000. However, we see an item of an
estimated $1,429,000,000 for “agri
culture and agricultural resources.”
The natural inference is that’s a
lot of money to run the Department
of Agriculture, when actually it does
not include administrative expense.
The sum is broken down ap
proximately as follows: Farm
price supports and related pro
grams, $504,000,000; agricultural
land and water conservation,
$357,000,000; rural electrification
and rural telephone loans $269,-
000,000 (which is payed back);
farm ownership and operation
leans $141,000,000 (also paid
back with interest); and re
search and other agricultural
services, $148,000,000. This takes
about 1.6 per cent of the total
budget.
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General Government
Getting back to the $1,351,000,000
cost of operating the general gov
ernment, this is broken down ap
proximately as follows: Operation
of all the agencies in the executive
division, including 29 boards and
commicsions, nine cabinet offices,
12 departments and agencies, five
temporary agencies, and six execu
tive offices, $427,000,000; civilian
employees retirement fund, $320,-
000,000; management of all govern
ment property and central services,
$205,000,000; legislative and judicial
functions, $73,000,000; weather bu-
«eau, immigration control, etc., $162,-
fOtt.OOO; and dispersal and other
functions, $164,000,000.
• • •
Economic Aid
Even the multi-billion appropria
tion for economic aid to foreign na
tions of something like $7,000,000,-
000 finds its way in pa.t back into
the pockets of American business
men, industralists and farmers, be
cause the fund is largely credit for
machinery, food, armament, etc.,
bought in this country.
And for the sake of the rec
ord, although about $2,000,000,-
•00 will be paid out in old age
1 and survivors Insurance this
year, there is a balance in that
fund for more than $16 billion.
There is a balance of $2.8 bil
lion in the railroad retirement
fund. 4-^
The expenses of military services
and international obligations eat up
68 per cent of the budget; interest
on the national debt, 8 per cent;
veterans benefits, 7 per cent, and
all other functions, 17 per cent
Gamblers Quitting
The federal law requiring gam
blers to purchase a tax stamp to
operate is driving the professionals
underground or out of business. Ac
cording to latest reports only 1,200
have filed for the stamp. At least
17,000 were considered potential
. customers. One bookie expressed
the general attitude o£ gamblers:
*Tmg! quitting. This racket was
tough enough in the first place. Now
with the G-men breathing on your
neck it’s strickly for the birds.”
Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUVER H
United States Senator
Fifteen of a Series
California: Where Lobbyists
Grow Big and Mobsters Thrive
Crime and Corruption in California had a special flavor—exotic,
over-ripe and a little sickening. The rackets, like the state itself,
were big and colorful.
For years, parts of California literally have been infested with
every conceivable kind of gambling racket. The “take” runs into
the millions.
One big gambling racket broken up in Los Angeles after the
California Crime Commission went into business was the so-called
Guarantee Finance Co., which posed as a legitimate loan agency
while fronting for a $6,000,000 bookmaking combine. Its records
disclosed payments totalling $108,000 for “juice,” the California
gamblers euphemism (in Florida,
it’s ”ice”) for “protection” money.
The Los Angeles city police de
partment was headed by a deter
mined officer, Chief William H.
Parker. Our committee, however,
was not impressed by the Los An
geles County sheriffs office.
Guarantee Finance Co. shrewdly
had set up its headquarters in a
particular political “island” known
as “Sunset Strip” inside Los An
geles proper. This was county ter
ritory and,, accordingly, not subject
to the tougher Los Angeles police.
One of Chief Parker’s aggressive
officers, Lt. James Fiske, finally
became so incensed by the sheriffs
inactivity that he entered Sunset
Strip and came down through a
skylight into the huge telephone
room of the bookmaking operation.
Out of his jurisdiction, he was
unable to make any arrests, but he
did tear up all the bookies’ mar
kers so they were at a loss as to
how to settle their bets for that day.
As a result. Lieutenant Fiske said, a
stern letter was received from A1
Guasti, then a captain in the sher
iff’s office, demanding that city
police stay out of county territory.
A county grand jury was prob
ing payoffs to law enforcement offi
cers by Guarantee Finance. The’
grand jury foreman and four coun
ty officials met in secret to plan
the inquiry. The only other persons
let in on the plans were two process
servers who were to serve sub
poenas. The very next day, some
one “leaked” the plans to Sammy
Rummel, lawyer for gangsters, and
reputedly the brains behind the
mobster, Mickey Cohen.
+ # *
A series of incredible events fol
lowed. First, Rummel arranged a
rendezvous with Captain Guasti.
Guasti, in turn, arranged for the
“mouthoiece” to meet that night
with Captain Carl Pearson and Sgt
Lawrence Shaffer, of the sheriffs
vice squad. At this meeting, Guas
ti said, Sergeant Shaffer actually
exhibited to Rummel the sheriffs
confidential files dealing with the
Guarantee case. Next morning
Rummel was found dead—kfiled in
his yard by a close-xange shotgun
blast.
• • •
Police Chief Parker, who has
made life miserable for Mickey Co
hen in recent years, told us that
he does not go along with the
rumor that the little ex-pug is now
a second-rater.
Mickey, gambler and bookmaker,
extortionist .and all-round rac
keteer, is still decidedly important.
His “business interests” invade
many spheres, including prostitu
tion, Chief Parker said.
• » •
*T have never been a strong-arm
man for nobody,” Mickey howled
at us, almost hysterically. “I have
never bulldozed anybody in my
life.” His testimony contradicted
thi?. There was the time that one
Max Shaman entered Mickey’s
“Paint Shop” (Mickey always,
seemed to have either a paint shop,
a jewelry store or a haberdashery;
some investigators. are unkind
enough to believe that he used them
as fronts for bookmaking.) Mickey
had had a fist fight with Shaman’s
brother, and Shaman “came in
with his gun.” Mickey pulled his
own out of the desk, killed Shaman
first and was acquitted on his plea
of self defense.
There was at least one other ar
rest on suspicion of murder, and an
assortment of beatings which Co
hen admitted he had administered
to various characters.
Mickey painted us a lugubrious
picture of his financial condition.
All the money he had in the world
was in his pocket, he said. Check
ing his roll, Mickey sadly told us
it came to only $286. However, in
four years, Cohen had “borrowed”
approximately $300 000, he said,
from various sources. Most re
markable of all his loans was the
$35,000 he said he had borrowed
from the president (no longer
there) of a Hollywood bank, without
giving a note or paying any in
terest.
“What do you do for them,” I in
quired, “that makes them so gener
ous with you?” Cohen replied: “I
can’t answer that; they must just
like me.”
Our Committee had uncovered
some interesting facts on Mickey’s
method of reporting income to the
government. These interested the
Internal Revenue Bureau, too, and
after our final hearings, Cohen and
his blonde wife, Lavonne, were in
dicted for alleged income tax
evasion over a period of three
years. Instead of paying taxes on
approximately $318,500 income,
they reported and paid on only
$87,500, the government contends.
(Cohen was found guilty and sen
tenced to 5 years in prison).
The piece de resistance of our
West coast investigation was the
apearance of Arthur H. Samish,
the portly million-dollar beer lobby
ist. Californians have had snatch
es of his squalid story before, but
never in quite such detail direct
from the lips of the master string
puller himself.
Samish stands over 6 feet, 2 inch
es and must weigh better than 300
pounds. He is bald with a monk’s
tonsure of grey fringe, and a face
of bland innocence. He gesticulates
freely in the grand style, stabbing
the air with his horn-rimmed glass
es or fiddling with his watch chain,
a heavy affair of white gold or
platinum, made up of large links
which form his initials.
From his 1949 tax return, we
knew Samish’s gross reported in
come had been $143,697. Of this
income, $90,999.94 represented fees
from his “public relations” clients.
The principal contributor was the
California State' Brewers’ institute,
which provided a modest $30,000 in
salary and expenses, plus control oi
a $153,000-a-year slush fund.
A 1938 report from Howard R.
Philbrick, investigator for a Cali
fornia legislative committee, had
charged: “The principal source oi
corruption in the legislature has
been money pressure , . . The prin
cipal offender among the lobby
ists has been Arthur E. Samish...”
It was the Philbrick report which
credited to Samish the famous dec
laration that he was “the gov
ernor of the legislature”—and “to
hell with the governor of the state.”
The State Brewers’ institute, a
non-profit organization, has a spe
cial so-called “5-cent fund.” For
every barrel of beer produced, the
brewers paid 5 cents into a fund
which Samish spent as he saw fit.
Into the 5-cent “Samish fund,”
over a period of six years, $953,-
943.19 has flowed. All but $43,913.29
of the $935,000 has been spent by
sole and exclusive direction of Sam
ish. Some of it, he admitted, went
to pay his own personal hotel ex
penses when he was presumably
engaged in business for the insti
tute. He didn’t mention this in his
tax returns.
The fireworks began after our In
vestigator had gone over the books
and records which Samish had
turned over with flourishes. It de
veloped that Samish’s personal rec
ords and books were in understand
able shape, but there were no rec
ords concerning the “Samish fund”
of nearly $1,000,000.
We asked him what happened to
canceled checks and stubs written
on this fund. He said he throws
them in the wastebasket.
Finally, he relinquished to us a
typewritten “analysis.” It wasn’t
muck of an “analysis,” It merely
showed that most of the big checks
—from $10,000 to $40,000—were
made out to “cash” or “contribu
tions.” Samish admitted that
“ ‘cash’ and ‘contributions’ are the
same thing,” and that these items
in most cases meant that money
was distributed by him personally
—and in cash—to good, honest, out
standing officials that subscribed
to “the temperate use of beer, wine
and spirits . . .” He demanded no
receipts from them.
He made contributions to the can
didates of both major parties, but
he couldn’t seem to remember to
whom he gave the money.
Next week: How the Laws Are
Enforced in Upstate New York
Condensed from the book, “Crime In
America.“ by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951.
Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Dlst. General
Features Corp.—WNU.
WHEELCHAIR BURGLAR
Cripple Boasts He's Master Criminal
OAKLAND, Calif. — Leo Whaley,-
a husky cripple of 15, doomed to
life in a wheelchair because of a
childhood accident 11 years ago,
was caught burglarizing a home
here. Booked for investigation, he
proudly boasted to officers that he
had masterminded two young gangs
In previous burglaries.
Police Lt. Leon Carroll said that
youpg Leo had the “most perfect
set of pick keys I’ve ever seen.”
The youth demonstrated his ability
to the awed policemen by opening
police files.
Whaley “cased” the Harry J.
MacDonald home to see that no one
was there, then entered through a
rear door that had been left un
locked. He told police that he at
tended classes for the handicapped
at a local elementary school.
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EIGHT
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PARALYSIS
JANUARY 2-31
Outof Jh&toia ™
Many common everyday 1 " phrases
and expressions are often glibly
and comfortably employed with lit
tle thought as to their antecedents
or origin. Frequently these ex
pressions endure for generations
simply because of the succinct way
they reduce a description into a
small flavorful capsule. Present
usage, however, may bear little
or no relation to the original or
specific meaning.
“A very fertile source of such
expressions is to be found in the
fields of guns and shooting,” says
W. G. Burckel, process engineer of
the Remington Arms Company,
Inc. “In the days when gun, pow
der horn and shot pouch were al
most as necessary as pants—and
often provided them—a lore came
into being that colors our thought
and speech to this day, adding
crispffess to our expressions when
used In connection with matters
far afield from arms and ammuni
tion.
Comparisons Cited
“Suppose we examine a couple,
with comparisons of their present-
day usage and original meaning.
Take the expression Tjock, stock
and barrel.* When one accepts a
proposition lock, stock and barrel’
it means that he ac
cepts the matter in
its entirety, without
reservation. The ex
pression stems from
the colonial days
when a gun, once ac
quired, was seldom
scrapped or disposed
of for a new one. In
stead, when a part
wore out or was broken, a new part
was made or procured, such as the
trigger and hammer assembly (the
lock) or perhaps a new barrel.
Therefoire, when it was desired to
emphasize completeness of Any
thing, the essential parts of an es
sential article were itemized . . .
Tock, stock and barrel’, the whole
gun.
Makes “Big Fuss”
“Today we use, in a derogatory
sense, the statement ‘He is just a
flash in the pan.* ” This signifies
that the person referred to is one
who makes a big fuss, is noisily en
thusiastic but whose actions are in
consequential. Or it refers to an
individual who accomplishes some
thing ' worthwhile once, but only
once. A ‘flash in the pan* was much
worse for the pioneer armed with
a flint lock musket or rifle when
he stood face to face with an angry
bear or when meat for the family
stood poised for flight only a few
yards away. If, at such a time, he
pulled the trigger and the priming
powder in the pan at the breech
merely burned with a flash without
discharging the gun the shooter
was the victim of an embarrassing,
disgusting, and sometimes even
tragic, experience.
Lingo of Shooting
“Here are a few of the common
expressions of today that originat
ed in the lingo of shooting. A
little fanning of the embers of
memory will undoubtedly recall
many more.
“Lock, stock and barrel, flash in
the pan, our plans misfired, set
your sights high, scored a bulls-
eye, draw a bead on something.
“Keep your powder dry, all short
of the mark, straight as a ramrod,
overshot the mark, loaded for bear,
sharpshooter.
“Goes off half-cocked, all primed
for the occasion, hair-trigger
nerves, hold your fire, a straight-
shooter, hit dead center, lined his
sights on.” — Remington News
Letter.
This Should Help
The Ontario department of lands
and forests reports that the- sea
lamprey, eel-like menace of the
Great Lakes fisheries, is winning ac
ceptance as a table delicacy.
An enterprising Canadian pur
chased half the catch of lampreys
trapped by the Ontario department
last year. Smoked and cured, the
lampreys found such a ready mar
ket that the processor said he wished
he had bought the rest of the catch
too.
The department of lands and for
ests notes that when smelt first
moved into the Great Lakes, they
were considered an unmitigated
nuisance. Now, however, they are
recognized as good food, are mar
keted in quantity, and also provide
sport.
If the sea lamprey similarly wins
general acceptance as food, so that
fishermen have an incentive to cap
ture it, the problem ends.
AAA
Rock Bass
Bait fishing - for rock bass if
similar to bait fishing for crappies,
and the same baits work. A small
minnow is usually best.
There is one noticeable differ
ence in the habits of the two.
While the crappie will be found
mostly around submerged brush,
rock bass are seldom found in
such areas. They prefer rocky
ledges and shores, or large, indi
vidual rocks in the stream. A steep,
rocky shore usually produces.
Let Holiday Dinner
Reflect Gay Spirit
Of Christmas, Too
CHRISTMAS DOESN’T mean just
packages under a tree, or gay cards
in the mail. A kitchen warm and
cozy, fragrant with the smell of
baking and the hustle of cooking
spells Christmas in its own inimita
ble way, too. • “
The. culmination of the holiday
preparations is the festive dinner,
so let it reflect
the charm and
goodness of
Christmas in its
planning and
serving.
It’s easy to use
holiday green
and red on the
table with flow
ers and ’fruits. Garnish the meat
platter with holly leaves and whole
cranberries; make your salad in a
star mold. Green vegetables can
be studded with stars or bells cut
from pimientoes.
’Mulled Tomato Juice
(Serves 6-8)
4t4 cups canned tomato juice
% teaspoon cloves
4 teaspoons prepared mustard
% teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon basil
Add seasonings to tomato juice;
blend well. Heat to boiling, strain
and serve hot or cold.
• • •
’Roast Ribs of Beef
Select a 2- to 3-rib standing rib
roast of beef (4 to 5 pounds). Place
fat side up in roasting pan on a
rack, then season ‘with salt and
pepper. JPjace in a moderately slow
(300° to 356°F.) oven. Do not cover
and do not add water. Roast to de
sired degree of doneness, allowing
18 to 20 minutes per pound for a
rare roast, 22 to 25 minutes for
medium and 27 to 30 minutes per
pound for well done roast. If you’re
using a meat thermometer, for rare
it should read 140°F., for medium
160°F., and for well done 170°F.
Plan on 2 to 3 servings for each
pound.
* * *
’Scalloped Potatoes with Onion
(Serves 6-8)
6 cups sliced, pared potatoes
2 cups sliced onions
% cup minced parsley
2)4 cups medium white sauce
Partially cook potato slices in
boiling water, for 10 minutes. Drain.
Alternate layers of potatoes and
onions in greased 2-quart casseroloi
Add parsley to white sauce; stir to
blend. Pour over* potatoes and c.i-
ions. Bake uncovered in moderate
(350°F.) oven about 50 minutes, or
until vegetables are tender. ,
• • •
•Cranberry Holiday Mold
(Serves 8-10)
4 cups cranberries
1 cup water
1 cup fruit juice
2 cups sugar
Combine cranberries, water and
fruit juice (pineapple, apple, orange
or cider may be used) in saucepan.
Cook until«berries are soft. Put
through colander, strainer or food
mill. Add sugar to cranberry puree
and mix well. Boil rapidly for 10 to
12 minutes,* or until a drop jells on
a cold plate. ^ Pour into star mold
and chill until firm.
0 0 0
’Spice Puffs •
1 package compressed or dry
yeast
% cup warm water
)4 cup milk
% cup soft shortening
1 teaspoon salt
H teaspoon nutmeg
34 teaspoon mace
1
2)4 cups sifted flour '
Add yeast to warm water and let
stand. Scald milk and place in a
Holiday, colors, red, green and
white are featured In this star
shaped cranberry mold if It is
served on a white platter and.!
garnishes with lettuce or para-
ley and whole cranberries. With
meat or fowl, it provides the
properly tart texture required
for a nicely balanced meal.
—*
CHRISTMAS DINlflETO
’Mulled Tomato Juice Crackers
’Roast Ribs of Beef
’Scalloped Potatoes with Onion
Slivered Green Beans
’Cranberry Holiday Mold
’Spice Puffs Assorted Relishes
’Holiday Monsse
•Coconut Snowballs
Beverage Salted Nats Mints
’Recipes Given
large bowl with shortening, sugar,
salt, nutmeg and mace. Blend to
gether and cool until lifkewarm.
Stir yeast mix-
V
ture thoroughly
and pour into
bowl. Add egg,
unbeaten and
sifted flour. Beat
for one minute,
or about 100
strokes. Scrape
dough down from sides of the bowl.
Cover with a damp cloth and let
rise in warm place until doubled,
about 1)4 to 2 hours; In the mean
time, mix together in a small bowl,
)4 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinna
mon. Measure 6 tablespoons butter
in a small pan. After dough has
risen to double in bulk, beat down
in 20 to 30 strokes. Drop by spoon
fuls into 12 medium or 16 small
greased muffin pans. Let rise 30
minutes in a warm place, or until
they reach the top of the muffin
pans. Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a
moderately hot (400°F.) oven. Melt
the butter in saucepan. After re
moving buns from the pans, let
cool for just a moment on a rack.
Dip quickly in melted butter, then
roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• • •
Christmas dinner preparations
are considerably simplified if the
dessert can be prepared in advance.
’Holiday Monsse
(Serves 6)
34 enp drained, crushed pine
apple
34 cap chopped maraschino
cherries
1)4 tablespoons maraschino
cherry juice /
2 tablespoons lemon juice
34 enp sugar
34 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 caps heavy cream, whipped
Combine pineapple and cherries,
then blend in
cherry and
lemon juice,
sugar, salt and
vanilla. Fold id
whipped cream.
Pour into refrig
erator tray and
freeze until
N «A V • ‘
Roast Beef for the Christmas
dinner will come to the table in
a high state of perfection if It -
is roasted in a moderate oven,
on a rack, fat side np so that it
will baste itself. Neither a cover
should be used, nor should water
be added daring the roasting.
i ————————
LYNN SAYS:
Use Ingenious
Holiday Trimmings
Having grapefruit for a holiday
breakfast? Circle the plate with
holly and garnish the fruit with
whole cranberries. Or, heap a
mound of crushed peppermint
candy on the fruit, set on green
leaves.
A beautiful and easy salad for
holiday dinners uses a mound of
red cabbage slaw in the center of
a platter, bordered with green cab
bage slaw on the outside.
firm.
• • •
’Coconnt Snowballs
(Makes 24 medium)'
34 cup shortening
134 caps sugar
2 beaten eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
234 caps cake flour
34 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk
Cream together shortening and
sugar; add eggs and vanilla, then
beat well. Add sifted dry ingredi
ents alternately with milk. Stir only
until blended after each addition.
Fill medium-sized muffin pans %
full. Bake in a moderate (350°F.)
oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove
from pan and cool. Frost all over
with- fluffy frosting, then roll in
shredded coconut. Place on small
lace doilies for serving. To make
Fluffy Frosting: beat 2 egg whites,
dash of salt, 1 cup light corn syrup
and 1 teaspoon vanilla until fluffy
and of spreading consistency.
Bake a holiday cake in a ring
mold, using white or yellow cake
batter. Frost this with hard sauce
to which has been added finely cut
candied fruits.
Sliced tomatoes studded with
stars of cream cheese pressed
through a pastry tube make a prop
erly colorful garnish for cold meat
platters.
Have you a small tree or star cut
ter? Mold your hard sauce for the
pudding in a thin layer and when
chilled cut in shapes. Serve around
the pudding mold.
BV DR. KENNETH J FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Luke 1—3. _
DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 1:46
Christ Is the Answer
Lesson for December 23, 1951
Dr. Foreman
E VERYONE is acquainted With
Jesus file baby. The Christmas
festival makes that certain. We
know that the lot of babies in all
Christian lands today is better be
cause of Jesus the
child. His coming
hallowed childhood
and motherhood for
all time. But Jesus
did not stay a baby.
He was born not
chiefly in order to
be cuddled in a
mother’s arms. He
was born to be a
King; he was born
to grow, to teach,
to command, to save. Where is the
festival that presents him King ol
Kings and Lord of Lords? There
are such, but they never had the
popularity of Christmas.
• • *
Bethlehem Was a Beginning
I N innumerable pictures and stat
ues the mother of Christ looms
large, the baby small. In the Bible
it is the other way around. The in
terest of the Bible is not centered
at Bethlehem, important as that
place was in the history of the
world. The songs which only Luke
has saved for us all point ^ar beyond
the manger-child.
Bethlehem marked the great
moment, to be acre, the mira
cle of miracles when God be
came man. Bat that was the be
ginning, only the beginning.
Two of the Gospels fall to men
tion the first Christmas at all.
The two that do mention Jesus*
childhood leave it after a few
v short paragraphs.
If anything is certain about what
the writers of the New Testament
thought, it is certain that when they
thought of Jesus Christ, they sel
dom, if ever thought of him as a
baby. The little Jesus is a helpless
child, depending on the care of his
mother. He is sweet and appealing,
and every one loves him . . . But he
only lies there perpetually smiling.
We like babies, but we have our
grown-up affairs to attend to. We
think babies are “cute’*, but we
take no orders from, we do not try
to be like them. We cuddle them
and talk baby-talk to them, but
when we get ready to talk sense,
when we are in any kind of trouble,
when we need some one to tell us
what to do, we never talk to babies.
• • •
The Power of God
S O, if Christ is to mean to us aH
what he should, it is time we got
into the Bible’s way of looking at
him. He is called the “fulfilment of
prophecy”. What does that mean?
The great prophets looked for
ward to a coming* king, a “Mes
siah”; he must begin life as a child,
because he would be a human be
ing, not an angel.
If our thinking stops with the
babe in the manger, we shall never
realize the tremendous truth about
Jesus. Consider the words that
Isaiah used (Isa. 9:6,7): “Wonder
ful, Counsellor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace.” These are grown-up
words, more than grown-up. They
point to something super-human,
something coming into this world,
a* the Bible puts it, “from above”.
The Christ of the Prophets Is
a person who will ’'rule the na
tions”. The Christ of the apos
tles is likewise no child. Ho Is
the man sent from heaven; ho
is the “power of God and the
wisdom of God” (I Cor. 1:24).
< He is King of Kings and Lord
Of Lords.
A baby lets us do as we please;
but not the Lord of Lords. He chal
lenges the world—from a throne,
not a cradle. What he thinks, wo
desperately must know. What his
will is, we must learn or perish. If
the world is going to pieces today it
is because we think- no more ol
Jesus than of any other picturesque
infant
• • •
The Christ Who Commands
TT is said often, as a kind of slogan,
* that "Christ is the answer”. If
this means anything true, and It
does, it means that the ways of the
world are right ways only when
they are the ways of Jesus. Think
ing, planning, acting—personal and
social living both—it is either as
Jesus would have it or it is headed
for a crash. *
This is not to ssy that tho
commands of Christ are arbi
trary, “Just because . . .” Faith
in him is tho gateway to life,
following him ia/lifo.
A sentimental glow as we pass
the manger at Bethlehem is not
what Christianity means. It means
saying as Paul did: Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do? A Christ who
can ba patronized or pitied is no
answer: the only answer is the
Christ who commands.
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