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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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To all our friends:
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SEARS CATALOG SALES STORE
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ioned Very Merry Christmas'
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"Buy from Moore and Save More"
1408 Main St. Newberry, S. C.
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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.
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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!
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SMITH MOTOR COMPANY
TELEPHONES 777 & 172 NEWBERRY, S. C.
1309 COLLEGE STREET