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PAGE 6—SECTION C THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1960 s * A * X * M A A $ S A S A 5 y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y g I y To all our friends: Best wishes for a very Merry Christmasf SEARS CATALOG SALES STORE » Newberry, S. C. y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y * g s g g s g 1 s g g family be blessed and contentment this Christmas! MILLS’ GULF SERVICE Good GULF Products College and Harrington Sts. y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y V y y y Phone 9163 ^ y iSii€tC«C««^««€««'€ t €*€ , «*€'€«€««€'«« > >€ i ««€«6l€^*€«€*€ «€!««€ i« ! «!€«€'€*€*€«€«'!€«€tS!e^ g 8 | y y y y y y y y y y y y y y V y y y y y y y y y y 8 y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y w y w y y 8 w y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y © ^ It wouldn't be Christmas if we didn’t get in touch and extend our greetings to those we like so very much ...Have an old-fash ioned Very Merry Christmas' B C. MOORE AND SONS "Buy from Moore and Save More" 1408 Main St. Newberry, S. C. y y y y «w* y y y y y w y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y Bf S^ff Make Christinas A Happy Time Christmas is a time for feasting and joy throughout the land. And it is a time of sadness and tragedy for hundreds because of care lessness. Every Christmas lives are lost or ruined by careless accidents. Some occur from falls while putting up decorations, or bums while cooking, or fires in the home. But the greatest toll takes place on the nation’s highways. accidents on both Christmas eve and Christmas day are about twice as high as the annual daily average. Be Careful Early darkness plus bad weather add up to poor visibility. Fogged windshields also make it difficult to see and avoid accident situa tions. Rain, snow and ice mean slippery streets and highways, but thousands of holiday drivers fail to adjust to these hazardous con ditions. Loss of lives in home fires is always greater at Christmastime because of decorations and Christmas trees. Some Tips Here are a few Christmas safety tips: 1. A small tree can be just as pretty as a large one and is less of a hazard. 2. Stand the tree in water to retard drying and set it up in the c\>sle«t part of the room. 3. Use fireproof decoration of glass and metal. 4. Don’t set up the electric train near the tree. 5. Check lights for defective wiring. 6. Discard gift wrapping immediately. 7. Don’t leave lights burning on the tree when away from home and inspect it often to see whether it is drying out. 8. Discard thi tree when the needles start to fall. AT CHRISTMAS Thousands Visit Holy Land Jerusalem and the Holy Land at this time of the year attracts .housai ds of Christians from throughout the world. They come by every n. ans of transportation to visit the shrines and Holy places so mportan to the Christian world. In BethL em they find the Church of the Nativity, traditional scene of the birth ^ Christ, which is cared for by monks of many sects. From the Mount of Olives, where Jesus prayed and wept over Jerusalem, visitors can see the great beauty of the Holy City and the great wall that Herod built. Beyond it is the Dome of the Rock which tradition says marks the place were Solomon built his temple and Jeremiah hid the Ark of the Covenant. The Garden Near Jerusalem is the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed the night before he was killed. Some of the olive trees are said to date from the time of Christ’s entry into the Holy City. The garden is cared for today by Franciscan fathers. The tomb of Mary, mother of Christ, is near here and attracts many pilgrims. Visitors to Jerusalem today can not enter by the Golden Gate. It has been blocked and they must use the Dung Gate which leads into the North African Quarter. The Holy Place From inside this gate one can see the holiest places in Christian- dom—the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, erected over the place where Christ was crucified and buried. It was completed in the twelfth century by the Crusaders and many different Christian orders have shrines here. One of the many traditions of the church is that the keys are kept by a Moslem of the family of Nusaibeh. This custom has beexvin prac tice since the time of Saladin, who was Sultan of Egypt and Syria from 1174 to 1193. Supposedly by letting the family of Nusaibeh keep the keys to the church it will kd^p peace among the many Christian factions. These are but a few of the many shrines and Holy places that have attracted millions of pilgrims throughout the centories and will con tinue to do so for centuries to come. What is perhaps the nation’s moat reprinted editorial was written in the year 1897, in response to a school girl’s simple question about the validity of the Santa Claus legend. Virginia O’Hanlon, then eight years old, sent this question to the editor of the New York Sun: “Dear Editor: Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says. ‘If you see it in the Sun it’s so.' Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?” The answer to this question, penned by an editorial writer named Francis Pharcellus Church has become an American classic. Here it is, in full: “Dear Editor—Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus ...” Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus but, even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are 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 inside, 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, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the super nal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else more real and abiding, No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he 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.” The popularity of holly as a Christmas decoration is not mere ly because the plant retains its prickly green leaves and bright red berries after winter’s cold has withered other forest greenery. Before the Christmas, Romans sent gifts of holly to friends to mark the December festival of Saturn. The superstitious Druids kept holly in their dwellings, as an invitation to the “spirits” to enter and seek shelter from winter cold and winter winds. The early Ger mans used holly in an observance which marked the return of the sun from its southward pilgrim age. In medieval times, holly was used as a remedy to treat a va riety of aches and ailments. Some early American Indians even at tached twigs of holly to their shields, in the belief that some special powers within the holly would make them more formid able in battle. Holly, like mistletoe, is sur rounded by legends and supersti tions, dating back to pagan rites and rituals. We modems attach no particular significance to our use of holly as a Christmas dec oration—other than that it is ‘’tra ditional” and "pretty.” Yet, we use so much more holly than our ancestors used that today the plant has all but disappeared in eome sections of the country. *• THAT’S FOR ME . . . This is the time of year when young eyes have a special glow when they stop to admire the bright store windows along Main Street. The sight of a girl and a doll . . . well, that’s a part of Christmas, too. Know Your Tree In many states, it is possible to distinguish different types of Christmas trees, as they are graded, inspected and tagged before being marketed. In the East, Balsam and Douglas fir and spruce are the favorites, with pines becoming more popular each year. In the mid-South, long-needled pines have long been preferred. In the West, firs and cypress are the choice. Here is an easy way to dis tinguish between these trees: Needles of the fir are 4-sided, blunt and soft to the touch. Spruce needles are usually stiff and sharply pointed. Pine needles are from 2-5 inches long, supple and attached to twig in bundles of 2 to 5. New Packages, New Assortments See them at our Candy Dept. NEWBERRY DRUG CO. 944 Main St. Phone 158 Newberry, S. C. For a Merry Christmas! THE FASHION 1312 Main Street Newberry 7)hank far your J^pgal Patronage T & C CLEANERS 1508 Nance Street Newberry, S. C. MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR! m rnrnnmm AS WE ENTtR tfle 48fb year tomers, we p(edge t<> ^ ^ ^ cus- ° C ; nt;nue * *e confidence and ^ y ° U 9-Ven us in the pasf< ^ SUpport ^!ch IT gives us great pleasure fo made » possible for us ♦ ' Peonage have - ever since ^ ^ fo a PPear on our streets. ^ 655 Carna9es be 9a< AS VVE APPR OACH this g/a d ho ,. to you and your f am :/ .. , ' ^ SeaS ° n ' We P a “se ^ m ° Sf ^Pereas N,vv Yelr 6 ^ and AGA ' N ’ WE W/SH You and ave 6Ver ex P er, enced. * • O A Happy Holiday Season! SMITH MOTOR COMPANY TELEPHONES 777 & 172 NEWBERRY, S. C. 1309 COLLEGE STREET