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Show cJlic BzttufizA a HONORABLE MENTION Once again we are living in a season of gladness, joy, and wor-ship. wor-ship. Christmas time! Once again, also, the cry is raised that the Yuletide season is becoming only a medium of commercial ballyhoo, bal-lyhoo, that its holy beacon is dimming, dim-ming, and that its true intent is being misinterpreted. It has been urged that we turn our back on the modern Christmas and follow the pattern of our grandfathers. It is doubtful if even our most radical advocate for the old-fashioned Christmas, however, has ever driven his car through the electrical elec-trical fairyland of our city without reflecting on the birth of the Saviour Sav-iour as he gazed at the brilliantly lighted star decorations. Few, indeed, in-deed, are those who have not JJirilled to holy songs broadcast by modern equipment, or stories printed print-ed by news presses. Today families are being well taken care of through social societies, so-cieties, sub-for-Santa projects, etc. How many generations of the past have been able to make this same statement ? Can we -say that these things are merely parts of a gigantic advertising adver-tising program, that they are schemes to provoke a higher buying buy-ing scale? The same statement was made a hundred years ago, and perhaps will be made a century cen-tury from today. Light the Christmas tree, cook the-turkey in the electric oven. As long as there are persons with Christian ideas and ideals, no amount of advertising or progress can overshadow the Christmas spirit and its true purpose. |