Page 2 Suqar House, Utah January 2, 1958 INDEPENDENT by Richard J. Maughan, B.S., L.L.B. This timely article is being reprinted because of many requests from our readers. At Christmas, play and make good cheer for Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser (1524-158- 0) Each of us, during this season which is more compelling than any other in our society, will react to Tho-- mas Tusser's thought as ex-pressed In his little jingle. We do so be-cause our pa-gan ancestors, thousands of years before Christ, built fires at the ; ,t v ' I . ',.. . - ? v i ' of Saturn, the god of seed sowing. What resulted was a natural intermingling of customs, and many of the Christmas time antics of today stem directly and Mithra rather than from the warship of saturn any homage paid to the Prince of Peace. The ancient Romans, during the Saturnalia, decorated their temples, and gave presents. The Druid3 of ancient England gathered mistletos as a religious symbol, and the Saxons symbol-ized their seasonal celebrations with holly, ivy, and bay, while in England the yule log was an instrument of maigc. This admixture of customs rose to its height, as an event of merrymaking, in England from half of the 17th century. The custom was then to appoint a Lord of Misrule and let the chips fall where they may.... which they did! This English "Saturnailia" was changed by the Puritans in 1644, when they prohibited such practices and ordered a practice of the Christian concept of the day.... they were somewhat successful. But, the mixture of pagan and Christian customs persists, and one of the reasons for this is aptlv shown in the following quotation from Bede. Ecclesiasti-cal History of the English Nation. Here Bede puts forth the orders of Pope Gregory I. "let the shrines of the idolg by no means be destroyed: tut let the idols which are in them be destroyed. Let water be con-spcrat- ed and snrinkled in these temples; let alters be erected so hat' the neonle. not seeing the temples . destroyed, may displace prror. and recognize and admire time of the Maughan winter solstcie to provide light as a help for the sun god to bring back the longer days. This force which has been in-grained into succeeding gen-erations, by one means or an-other, comes to us today very subtly as a law....it is as much a law as any statute that was ever passed.and would be much harder to change. It helps to control and hold together our society. It has such force that it causes whole nations of people to move at once and in the same general direction. Any concept which can do that is more of a law than any edict declared by a king. Looked at in this light, the bright thread of Christmas can be plainly seen running through all the concepts which make up our seamless web of the law.with the general effect of holding it all together. WHERE DID IT COME FROM? In so-call- ed Christian" count-ries, we usually think no further back than to the-birt- of Jesus Christ, and give that as our reason for whatever we do on the 25th of December and its season. However, it doesn't take much observation to make out that most of the activities rampant at Christmas time have an origin .about as far removed from worship of the Son of God as anything can be The fundamental basis for the activities at the xvinter solstice justify a conclusion that our holiday is more pagan than Christian. The ancient peoples of the northern hemisphere really got the thing started, because they were much concerned with the advent of more light after December 21st, it meant more heat, an easier life, and trops fof food. This became fitted into their religion and fastened onto their lives fiecurely as a superstition. The bonfires, the feasting, and the religious rites of that time of year all greeted the Roman legions on their cam-paigns of conquest, and made themselves felt in the govern-ment of the ouaer marches of the Roman Empire. After he Emperer Canstan-tin- e (AD 272-33- 7) declared that Christianity be the religion of the Roman Empire the celebra-tion of the birthday of Christ beg-a- to take form, but no set day was used until the year 354 AD, when the Latins trans- - the tree God. And because they were wont to sacrafice oxen to devils, some celebration should be given in exchange for this, thev should celebrate a relirious feast and worship God bv their feastlnff. so that still keeping outward Treasures, they may more readily receive spiritual ioys." THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL Harold Befflie (1871-192- 9) had a thought about, this and put it in words we would all do well to remember, they are these, "The Christian ideal, it is said, has been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and left unaried." Much is said about the Christian ideal, and much has been said about it, much of it is known, not much of it is practiced. It has produced great music (Handel's Messiah), great literature, and great thought. Dicken's, A Christmas Carol, portrays the true spirit of Christmas read it this season. Dickens had a great feeling for Christmas so let me wish you the best of the season in the words from Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions (1865), My best of wishes for your Merry Christmas and your happy New Years, your long lives and your true prosper-ities, worth twenty pound if they are delivered as I send them.. Remember? Here's a final prescription added, "To be taken for life.". ferred a prior feast day from January 6th to December 25th to coincide with the grand feast day of the pagan religion of Mithra. The feast day was known to the devotees of the Mithra as natilis invicti solis, the feast of the birthday of the unconquered Son of Philocalus. This season also wras the occasion for the Saturnalia, a time of feasting, revelry, and general license practiced by members of th Roman Religion in honors SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT 1123 East 21st South Dial IN 52 Or HU 1 The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March 1, 1946, in SaH Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. It is published each Thurs-day morning. South East Independent is pub-lished by the News Bulletin, Inc., and Sugar House Press, Inc., at 1123 E. Twenty-Fir- st South St. Sugar House, Utah. Subscription rates are 3.00 per year by mail. Single copy price is ten cents. Publisher Clair King Editor Emma D. King N A tl O N a i tOi'0Ul O S I A s so cTa ! N 373 JfcARMES HELD THEIR GARRISON CP I fjtinf ' ifV 1WKS ISLAND ASAINST THE ONSLAUGHTS I j 'j M f 1 t'i I 7 ff ' V CP JAWNESS MIGHT FDR 16 PAYS. I VcXr tyj,"1 hl' J THESE BRAVE RSHTINS MEN, WITH I - tlS. AVUr J.C OWer I NEVER MORE THAN PVE SERVICEABLE J IS BunoZSDS NQToS I PLANES, PESTROYED SEVEN JAPANESE I SR GOnrT I '"5ip SEPSIS I iirlkiZ: 1T fC3 YSAXSAGO THAT THE fWfM) I F--- 7f' - Tf ;fr-- A'OCN WAS ENVISIONED --TO PLAN VOUR FUTURE. YOUR GOVERNMENT CPPSR5 YOU HELP BY SUSSESTINS YOU BUY SAVINGS BOHOS. RiVfA'SSR-TH- E series e bonds GUARANTEE "iOUfVOOFCR EVERY $3.00 YOU IK; VEST, WHEW SCK1D3 ARE HELD TO MATURITY. Take It Easy On Ice, Snow By Jeanne Smith, , Dodge Safety Consultant "WINTERIZING" your driving habits as well as your automobile is the secret to safe driving on snow and ice. Here are five important rales for safe winter driving recommended by the Com-mittee on Wi-nter Driving Hazards of the National Safety Coun-cil: 1. When Miss Smith, pavements are slippery, take it easy while accelerating, braking and turning. Drive at a steady pace and get the "feel" of the road. To find out if the pavement i3 slick, try your brakes occasion-ally while driving slowly, away from traffic. 2. On snow or ice, stay well behind the car ahead. To avoid a rear collision, the distance between cars must be consid-erably greater than when the pavement is dry. 3. If you have to stop sudden- -, ly on ice, don'trpanic and jam or "freeze" on brakes. This may send y -- ar into an uncon-trolla- bl . The best way to maintai control of your car during t. .Jden stop is a fast up and down pumping of the brakes. If the rear starts to swing, release the brakes and steer in the direction of the skid. 4. Keep windshield wipers, heaters and defrosters in good working condition. You must see danger to avoid it. 5. Replace worn or smooth tires. Special snow tires are help-ful and, for the worst Jce and snow conditions, reinforced tire chains are necessary. NOTICE Civil No. 114760 In the Third Judicial District Court, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah. JOHN REX HANSEN, d-b-- a- HAN-SEN BUILDERS SUPPLY and LAWRENCE E. HETTINGER, Plaintiffs, vs GEORGE II. HOBBS, P. A. HOBBS, BRUCE C. LINDOW and HELEN N. LINDOW, his wife, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that the above named plaintiffs have com-menced action in the above en-titled case for the purpose of fore-closing their lien against the fol-lowing described property, to --wit: All of Lot 32, Rambler Heights according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the County Re-corder of Salt Lake County, Utah. All lien claimants are hereby given notice that they shall appear before the Honorable Judge of Di-vision 1 of the above entitled Court, in the Court Room' thereof, in the City and County Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 6th day of, January, 1958, at 10 o'clock a.m. and then and there exhibit and prove their liens ag-ainst the above described proper-ty. The failure of any lien claim-ant to appear at the time and place specified and exhibit and prove their liens against the said property shall be a waiver of right to prove such lien. - JOHN REX HANSEN, d-b- -a HANSEN BUILDERS SUPPLY & LAWRENCE E. HETTINGER By QUENTIN L R. ALSTON HOMER M. JENSEN Attorneys for Plaintiffs c-- o 201 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah. Inventory Time What doth it. profit a man if he gains the whole world (not just Sugar House) and loseth his soul? We heard the story of a man of good and kindly deeds. The man preached good and kindly deeds. He talked good and kind-ly deeds but we heard the story that in the hands of this man the pen was mightier than a lethal weapon. He used it to rob. Of course when a man holds up a fellowman with a gun he is apprehended and is given punishment accordingly. But wrhen a man uses the perfect hold-u- p weapon a pen he can committ the perfect crime. The criminal is most unlikely to be caught. There was a man traveling along a road to Samaria and was way laid and beaten and left by the road to die. There was a man who traveled a shorter distance in Zion to col-lect a bill and was way laid by the debtor . . . the man with the pen . . and was beaten (in a different fashion). "I'll only pay this" and paid half the debt and put his hold-u- p weapon back in his pocket. That ended the week-en- d of the old year. What of the New Year? He is a man of high esteem to his fellow parishers, his fel-low business men, his fellow community neighbors, who hear him on Sunday and do not col-lect from him on Monday. He is in the high income bracket not only tax wise in the state but tithes wise in his church. We look back into the crowded days of the old year, a last glance before the door is slammed in our face, back at the happiness, the expecta-tions of what last year was to be, the sorrow, the joys and the achievement along with the failures. Looking back, we real-ize that it can never be lived again for the moving finger does write and move on, never to return. We have no need to look back to yesterday for yesterday has been spent. But there is a whole new year ahead, 365 days new and bright. What is their pro-mise What doth it profit a man to be so blest? NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given that the partnership of William E. Lee, M. D. Naylor, Jr., and M. D. Naylor, Sr., doing business as Lee Naylor Co. will be dis-solved, effective at the close of business on January 2nd, 1958, and thereafter each of the part-ners will be liable only for their own obligations. Signed M. D. NAYLOR, Jr., and M. D. NAYLOR, Sr., Partners ROBERT B. HANSEN, Attorney I 65 E. 4th So.. f Salt Lake City. Utah Date of first publication Jan. 2, jj 1958. j Pub. in S. E. Independent Jan. ? 2, 9,16 & 23rd, 1958. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank H. Berrett Deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned., care of Ramon M. Child, attorney at law, 201 Dixon Building, 2188 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah on or before the 30th day of April, A.D. 1957. Signed Emory Watts Berrett, Executor of the Estate of Frank H. Berrett, Deceased. Date of first publication Dec-ember 26, A.D. 1957. Ramon M. Child, Attorney for Executor. Pilb. in S. E. Independent Dec. 26th Jan. 2 - 9 - 16. Westminster (Continued from page 1) years with the Association. Under consideration for inclusion in this report will be increases in faculty salaries, acquisitions of equipment, new housing, new classroom and laboratory buildings, consolidation of departments and course offer-ings, and expansion of staff and body. ' BASEMENTS Remodeled I I For ESTIMATE 8 D-I-A- -L , 1