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V ."; , , , K5fw--- . W...v -.... ' ..' . 7'"vT. ' -,, '!. . 'i H.You Don't . Get The '.Mijwpuri Herald, You .Don't , Q$JieNews 1.00a Year .! ; dJSP$ WMMMHiHHBHBMB yy kvtm&m .. vA.JS.V.TTJ ' j.i.y.ii", "r "Of the People, f fefe eople, For the.Pelt'i?!! IrsC tas. All th BaM in , ,- iVi."ia . .'-...- " .&m uS.iWv? WJVffifl ' V. VOL. 15 HAYTI, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1922 Jl'.fcV ,No&,a .JliSSRPW -4d v.- i i : It ?.- -- iwr.i - in rc. w " , , .s.! v 4.4HH.4.HHf4f4.4H...j..' ,x-fr m m m m imEBmimuimmmmm. & is "s Chrltma number Tfte Spirit of Christmas Time comes always and, alas, at a precocious age nowadays, when the "Santa Claus myth" is no longer be lieved, but the time should never come when the ideas and the imagery of the Christmas fairies, of Mother Goose, and the carols of the old, old Yuletide should lose their hold upon us. We should never become too old or tc lost in ma terial things, or too engrossed with the struggle and conquests of life, nor too dulled by its defeats, to enjoy and be lifted up by the spirit of the Christmas time. In fact, we think there should be a law enacted making it a felony to de stroy the illusion of childhood, espe cially the personality of Santa Claus. It is thelsaddest" day in the life of a child wi ' the bitter discovery is made that the vl ."arable spirit of Christmas is a myth. It is a hard-hearted person who be comes an informer, and the court should show no mercy. If you wish to throw off the burden of years, if you wish to become young again, if you wish to tread the paths of the past and go back over your yester days and be a child again, just go out on the sti'eets now, here in Hayti, or any other places where The Missouri Herald circulates, and watch the eager-eyed children clinging to their mothers' hands, looking with awe and admira tion at the store windows filled with toys and the many things the child loves. Forget your own pleasures for a moment and join theirs. Listen to the whispered conversations of the little ones. Hear their wondrous speculations as to what the venerable saint is going to bring Christmas night, when every thing is as "still as a mouse." Watch them turn the pages of the papers like this issue of The Missouri Herald and count the number of Santa Claus pictures to be found therein. If you do, and have any heart in you at all, you will toss care to the four winds of heaven and become youthful again. On this day of days the childish hope and joy reaches its ripe fruition. It crystalizes expectation. It is the best event in the history of the year. Keep it such. How any person could think it proper .to destroy this illusion is beyond all comprehension. The storekeepers, as tired as they are, derive a certain stimulant in the laughter of the children at Christmas time. Of course, when the child grows old enough to become wise, and acts the innocent for the present it expects, it is different. The joy is lost then. The pleasure becomes logical. But that time comes soon enough for us all. wer P m siojJSSSiSDh ef38!52Els?i.t.s . SSaSRKKftMKKVrfj. S ' 'tJUHSH I m Wi j "PEACE, GOOD WILL" HE best Christmas sermon the world has ever heard was the first. It was short and simple : "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men." And the child whose birth those words heralded came among men to preach that simple gospel. Theologians have, in many instances, with strange, perverse blind ness obscured and darkened the appealing beauty and simplicity of that divine message. Jesus went up and down the world holding out white hands of peace in benediction upon humanity, saying in His tender compassion, "Let us love one another." And because His words were so simple, so understandable, the world has clung to Him through ages of fear and doubt and disputation. More and more the Christ spirit triumphs among men, and it triumphs because it is the spirit of perfect love. It takes no scholar to grasp that spirit. Every kuman heart has felt some measure of the love that makes human brotherhood ; there is none who cannot understand what "peace, good will toward men" means. Only as the spirit of love works its way among men, teaching them new kindness, to mercy, to justice, can Christmas really be celebrated in the world. Whosoever has hated his human brother, whosoever, high or low, has wrought against his fellow, whosoever has withheld sympathy and service from a neighbor that man, be he ever so pious and prayerful, has never entered into the spirit of Christmas. And wherever men love one another, and help one another, and bear each other's burdens, and dedicate life and hope and aspiration to the good of their fellow men, eager to achieve a world in which justice and truth and charity prevail there indeed is the spirit of Christmas manifest. For there they have learned the new commandment, the eleventh and greatest of them all ; "Love one another." . -H-'H''tJ"H''M', t444 4 V " '.- :V Spirit of the Holidays Only a few days remain before Christmas. Already the streets are thronged with shoppers and sight-seeing children. Childish chatter and youthful merriment fill the air. The spirit of the holidays are again upon us. And it ought to be about the best Christ mas we have ever had. We have been bounteously blessed. We have had bet ter crops and have more money than we ever had before. In this we speak for the people of Pe'miscot county as a whole. Now is the time to remember that "it is more blessed to give than to. re ceive." At least, so we have been told i since our earliest days, and so the Book of Books admonishes us. We hear it .emphasized once .again aithis season o ' tfre year. OlSr hidayrfMou'ght3, should take the form of generbus1"planning -if or fcf the happiness of others . There is only one way to infuse in to Christmas the spirit of the founder of the feast, and that is to make the giver a sharer in the joy that is brought by his gift and return in a blessing to him. Go back through the years, you forgetful elders who fret with disap pointment over your children's apparent selfishness, and try to recall one occasion when you really felt it more blessed to give than 'to receive. Is there somewhere in that happy past an incident that might have served as the suggestion for a Christmas story of the type that thrilled us in" the old time magazines, the story in which the poor widow's home was made happy by the unexpected appearance of Christmas fairies of no ethereal sort. Can you not feel again the chill, stinging wind of the clear country night, or the murky air of the city streets, see the glitter of the snow drifts that spark led like mica coating on a Christmas card? Can you recall such thoughts and not grow young again and feel your heart soften? If so, remember and realize that poverty and destitution are never so keenly felt as at Christmas time. . Let no sense of condescending pa tronage mar the sincerity of your gift giving this year, to those you love or to the poor. There is plenty of time after you read this in The Missouri Herald to plan and prepare. That is mainly why we are issuing this big Givers' Guide today. Read the advertisements herein and take advantage of them. r Open your hearts and purses so that when on the midnight air of Christmas eve the old song is borne, it may be your happy ex perience to have added your share to the jdy that all the world should know on the birthday of the Prince of Peace. fr4 m m to e& fk Hs!! ., A .-.. J Vt -v , A .a :&