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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thurs., Dec. 24, 1970—SEC. B, PAGE 9
Christmas Still Has Same Meaning
Today's Christmas tree is apt to be plastic or aluminum,
rather than nature’s own fir, spruce, or pine. The glow of tiny
beeswax candles on a tree is replaced by strings of twinkling
electric lights.
Santa Claus, once transported only by reindeer-drawn sled,
may now arrive by helicopter.
Through the years, the ways of celebrating Christmas has
taken on many forms. In spite of changes, the essence of the
season, the basic spirit of Christmas stays the same.
Above all, Christmas is a time for togetherness and rejoicing.
A modern Christmas, just like the old fashioned Christmas, calls
for family gatherings, friends, merriment, fun and feasting.
ART WINNER . . . Madonna by a Lily Pond, a water color
with pastel blue dominating, was done by Lemuel Patole,
Bombay, India, was a winner in the annual Christmas Art con
test sponsored by the Committee on World Literacy and Christ
ian Literatures.
Thinking Ahead Helps
Christmas Preparations
Thinking ahead to Christmas
throughout the year can earn
time for you, and you won’t be
struck with panic every time you
hear that awful countdown of
“00 more shopping days until
Christmas.”
Tuck a little notebook where
it’s always handy. If you listen
through the year, you’ll be sur
prised at how often friends or
relatives will say, “That’s some
thing I’ve always wanted” or “I
wish I had . . .” Jot it down then;
these are always the wishes
you’ve forgotten by Christmas
time. Yet these gifts are the ones
that say you heard, and you re
membered.
Christmas Gifts and Taxes
If you are a businessman,
you perhaps take it for grant
ed that your annual Christmas
payments to elevator oper
ators, office and delivery boys,
doormen, maitre d’s, etc., are
all deductible business ex
penses. But a tax court last
year underlined that you may
have a tough time making
these deductions stand under
Treasury examination unless
you can show that the gifts
or tips were “appropriate,,
helpful and related to your
business.”
Be reminded to keep proper
records of your business gifts.
Tradition is about the only thing
old-fashioned about the tree that
families decorate and gather round.
Gone is the day when families
make a snowy trek into the woods
to choose and chop their own
Christmas tree. The spirit may be
there but the choice is not. Federal
and state owned lands are generally
off-limits to tree hunters and there
is a scarcity of private preserves
where natural stands of trees may
be growing.
Half or more of the Christmas
trees are grown as a crop on plan
tations. Officials of the National
Christmas Tree Growers Associa
tion report an estimated 40 million
trees are cut annually for market,
the vast majority grown in the
United States. Canada is another
important source, exporting between
eight and ten million trees to the
U. S. each year.
“Yes Virginia” Now 80
Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas
— who at the age of eight
made famous the question:
“Is There A Santa Claus” is
now eighty.
It was her letter to the old
New York Sun that brought
the often reprinted reply:
“Yes, Virginia, there is a
Santa Claus. He exists as
certainly as love, generosity
and devotion exists, and you
know that they abound and
give to your life its highest
beauty and joy.”
A CHRISTMAS SEMINAR
For middle class, middle aged
parents in America, part of the
Christmas holidays is a seminar
in which the children and their
friends, between parties, explain
the facts of modern life to the
old folks.
Christmas Decor
Make ornaments such as snow
men, Santas, stars, lambs, angels
and gingerbread men from alum
inum foil. Paint them a variety
of colors. These are gay for out
doors and weatherproof.
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