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Show a q: in ape. m to, ce. p ft r number 15, 1927 Christmas Dy v ELMO SCOTT WATSON Chrlstmases would De incomplete in-complete without mention of the first and most historic his-toric Christmas of all. For bad it not been for certain events in the little town of Bethlehem In Palestine some m centuries ago there wouia J haan lift Christmas to be cele- Id each year, hence no Christ-Is Christ-Is to be characterized as "historic." tat those events were have best j recorded by "the beloved phy slit' sl-it' St Luke, who, more, than any of the four apostles who have en the story of Christ, has given I historic background of those 3. And, this is the story of that on Is I historic Christmas, as at L.UKe id It came to pass In thosa days, there went out a deorea from jar Augustus, that all the world lb 8k i'.i be taxed. id thle taxing was first made when inius was governor of Syria.) id all went to be taxed, every one fhls own city. d Joseph also went up from Gal-ont Gal-ont of the city of Nazareth, Into la, unto the city of David, which Is d Bethlehem; (because he was of iouse and lineage of David:) I be taxed with Mary, his espoused I being great with child, id so It was, that, while they were it, the days were accomplished that ihould e delivered, tid the brought forth her first-born and wrapped him In swaddling :ies, and laid him in a manger; be- there was no room for them In rfnn. Aid there were In the same country ierds abiding In the field, keeping ush over their flock by night, tfd lo, the angel of the Lord came I them, and the glory of the Lord round about them: and they ' lore afraid. fd the angel said unto them, Pear ifor, behold, I bring you good tld-of tld-of great joy, which shall be to fcople. lief; won: 3 ig 1 i If ir unto you Is born this day in the of David a Saviour, which is f the Lord. Ad this shall be a sign unto you; 4 all find the babe wrapped in swad- f clothes, lying In a manger. Id suddenly there was with the I t multitude of the heavenly host mg Godr and saying, -fry to God in the highest, and on ' Pce, good will toward men. W It came to pass, as the angels 1 eons away from ihem into m , the shepherds said one to in. f. Let us now go even unto Beth- 7 , ana see this ' thine which l to pass, which the Lord hath Mown unto ns. f ltly ;ame with haste, and found , nd Joseph, and the babe lying manger. 1 when they had seen It. they Lu.T11 abroad tne saying which Si ,, em concernlng this child. T",ey that heard it wondered i thing, which were told them ' e shepherds. ft Mary kent sll t-h. iki... ''I f I them in her heart S I i 'Ti18 God for R he things 11 5 lMo'tr ana seen-as b H Were the ,'vents en, which ,: V'flm t0 br'ng about the -i ;;ffl(Jeu wlebration of December J f m? ar. However, this ob-I ob-I I r;idi(1rt t once,for the 1 J crf idence. of a feast having I" .,neld ,n h(nor of the birth of i T ? Egypt about 'he year i ZmsY the resuIar observance J STT began sometle in the f 1 f-n century, it Wns n nlii IS CeDtDry that the celebra-lame celebra-lame a general custom. ISni eSting t0 note that the ld Sn'a? ebraon in the New a Place only a little more InY. ZTS after tnat ev W?1' referred t0 "Ue 4nrT Amer''a. Soon after J h. C, had found- during ie of , 5 t0 whlchhegave the on . whose Cay s cele- "VII l?l irisonn tan til.. Chrlstmas day St Sut and Rickets leof Sg,ht 19 th best prevents preven-ts ton. . Vh disasaring and fi sh dlS!a9e 0f ildhood, fto Dr "Jy in China, ac-s'fl8t ac-s'fl8t .h' . Hartman, a German ? h tl. ,has had ,on8 cxperi- hiS aTeg,ass Jn tQe win-j win-j ort'. therefore, there I ? Jo' i Jr- M " - : If-'L i . . iWI o . . " 1 . . . ., - -r 3 I ru with ' ' . ' J ZT on tht Delawara, 1778, 1 TAc BaffZe o Trenton IN Chrittmas-day in Sevmty-Shi uur ragged troops, with bayoneU fixed, For Trenton marched away The Delawara seel the boats below I The light obscured by bail and snow! But no signs of dismay. Our object was the Hessian band, That dared Invade air freedom's land, And quarter In that plan. Great, Washington he led as on. Who streaming flag, la storm or sun, Had never known disgrace. In silent march passed the night. Each soldier panting for the fight. Though quits benumbed with (net. Greene oa the left at sis. began. The right was led by Sullivan Who ne'er a moment lost. Their pickets stormed, the. alarm was f spread, That rebels risen from the deal Were marching into town. Soma scampered hers, soma scampered there, And soma for action did prepare! ft But soon their arms laid down. fjl Twehr hundred servile miscreants, M With all their colors, guns and tents. r wars tropnies ot tne day. The frolic o'er, the bright canteen. In center, front and rear was sees Driving fatigue away. 'Now, brothers of the patriot bands, Let's sing deliverance from the hands Of arbitrary sway. And as our life Is but a span, Let's touch the tankard while wa can, In memory of that day. -Old Ballad. The first Christmas In the New world and surely it was a historic one was an eventful day for. Columbus Colum-bus and his men. They spent it in a vain effort to save the flagship, the Santa Maria, which had been beached on Christmas eve. Finding that their efforts were doomed to fail, they took what goods they could from the ship and carried them on board the Nina. Since this vessel was too small to carry all those who had been on board the flagship, Columbus found It necessary neces-sary to leave some of his men In a fort which was built on an island and which In honor of the season was called Le Navidad, "The Nativity." Although Christmas was, no doubt, celebrated by the early Spanish and French settlers in the . New world, there is no record of any outstanding events on that day connected with these settlements which would make their Christmas celebration worthy of the characterization of "historic." Christmas must also have been a Joyful Joy-ful occasion for the settlers of the first English colony at Jamestown, ?a., even amidst the privations and troubles of the early days of that colony. For they doubtless brought with them the English tradition of the Old country Tuletlde with all of Its feasting and merrymaking. Quite different was the first Christmas Christ-mas of that other English colony founded "on the stern and rock-bound coast" of New England. The Pilgrim fathers landed from the Mayflower at Plymouth on December 21, 1620. But Christmas day that year brought with it no thought of revelry or gayety to these Englishmen. This first Christmas Christ-mas day found them without shelter from the piercing winds, since the day before was Sunday and no one was allowed to labor and disturb the sanctity of the Sabbath even for the purpose of building some sort of shelter shel-ter from the icy blasts of a New England Eng-land winter. So, Instead of observing Christmas In any such manner as their descendants do, these pioneers celebrated the day with the swinging of axes, the felling of trees and the clearing of ground upon which their rude log cabins were fo stand. When the second Christmas In New England came around there was no Joyous celebration, for still another reason. During the preceding year an- Is nothing to prevent the ultra-violet rays, which cannot penetrate ordinary glass, from pouring into the houses. Cases of rickets are exceedingly rare among the poorer Chinese in spite of the malnutrition and lack of sanitation sanita-tion all too prevalent among them. Won Fame as Poet Jacques Jasmin, the last of the troubadours, who began life as a bar her in Germany, was called the "bar ber poet-" He was well known, and THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH 0 r- MSSSSSSSSSSSIBBBBBBBBBn. ,U'f other ship had brought a load of emigrants emi-grants and of this colony William Bradford, a stern Puritan, was governor. gov-ernor. He formally outlawed Christmas, Christ-mas, as the Puritans of England had done when they had gained control of parliament, because It was looked upon at least so far as the Old English Eng-lish celebrations with their strange mixture of ancient Druid customs and Christian ceremonies as a "godless and pagan rite." More than that, the General Court of Massachusetts, frowning upon the Idea of making the Christmas season a time of enjoyment, enjoy-ment, passed an enactment which stated that "who is found observing by abstinence from labor, feasting or in any other way, shall pay for every offense five shillings. For more than a century the stem Puritan Influence prevented anything but a most Joyless observance of Christmas until the gradual growth of Episcopal Influence In Massachu-sets Massachu-sets and Its association with official power, when the colony came under the direct control of the crown, brought about a relaxation of tha anti-Christmas sentiment of the Purl-tans. Purl-tans. In contrast to the Massachusetts Massachu-setts type of Christmas was that celebrated cele-brated In the great manor houses In Virginia, the Carolines, Georgia and Maryland, especially In those days when George Washington was unknown un-known to fame except as a prosperous prosper-ous Virginia planter. And It was this same George Wash ington who was the central figure In what Is perhaps the most historic Christmas In the annals of America. On the evening of December 25, 1776, the Continental army, led by this former Virginia planter, was drawn up for evening parade near Newtown, Penn., nine miles above Trenton on the Delaware river. Instead of returning return-ing to their quarters they were marched toward McKonkey's ferry, where Colonel Glover's fishermen from Massachusetts bay were manning boats and trying to launch them In the river. It was a cold raw evening and a snow storm had set In. 'The wind was from the northeast and beat In the faces of the ragged, barefooted soldiers, sol-diers, who were about to embark upon one of the most desperate enterprises in history. For Washington was planning plan-ning to cross the Delaware that night and lead them on a nine-mile march ovr snowy roads to Trenton where th4 Hessian troops of Colonel Rahl wee celebrating Christmas with feasting feast-ing and merrymaking. The crossing had begun at six o'clock. Washington had planned to have his entire army on the Jersey sldo by midnight, begin the march , to Trenton by one o'clock, so that he could make his attack Just at daylight. day-light. But the river Ice threatened to spoil his whole program and Gates and other generals declared that the whole scheme was Impossible. The iron will of Washington was not to be daunted, however, and although the crossing took no less than ten hours It was finally accomplished. Then he set out for Trenton, and bfter a terrible march, with some of his men leaving tracks of blood In the snow and others struggling along with their guns wet and useless, he arrived In Trenton and Immediately attacked. As be had anticipated, the appearance appear-ance of his army was a complete surprise. sur-prise. Although the Hessians rallied nod put up a stubborn resistance for t short time, the determination of the Continentals could not be denied. Hahl, the commander, and seventy of his men were killed and 1,000 of the Hessians surrendered. So Christmas day, 1776, Is a red letter day in American Amer-ican history because on that day a great commander gave to his country one of the finest Christmas gifts that has ever been bestowed a brilliant victory at a time when the cause ol freedom seemed all out lost. a contemporary versemaker of Parii (mce said he "left his presence trickling trick-ling all over with poetry and vibrating vibrat-ing like an Aeolian harp." Weasel Supplies Fur Pah ml fur comes from animals ot the weasel family. Tbeli tjabltat la central China. The pelt Is heavy, nright yellow and silky nnderfur. top hair grayish Ijrown. A white Hae runs down the back along the -nirtdle from neck to tail and ahng the sides. It Is also known as Chinese marten. 4mM mm mm IBIM" . iff- fit r--fy 1 m 1 v s 1 it . "' "; urn ; j.fi 'i fes (L l M?J i r ' V U . . .1 - VAj rir H J Three steps In the new dance called the Yale Blues, which has been adopted In London by the prince of Wales. The photographs are posed by Miss Margarette Weed and Arthur Murray. New Congressmen Learning Their Duties !"TirTriwnrariTTiiiiiiniir hjej J' niiMiiwiiiwraTsifs'n iiiimi n 1 nirr hit "rn-irn-"-'-! 1 rfl1 "" "" r kflSf ' -nrieM1!!- ,im-iirc?iiriiifrtAiiiliWiifi'rtiiwa-i,'iri'iii"onrif aifiiNwriTiMiioiiiinni iiHrirwiiinr'-vTMrirawin 1 Hi lead With the clerk of the house, William Tyler Page, In the role of prexy, new members of congress attended school at the United States Capitol and were taught how things are done on the floor of the house. NEW TURKISH ENVOY The new Turkish ambassador to the United States, Ahmed Moukhtar Bey, posed for this special portrait in Washington. CZAR OF DAIRIES Dr. C. W, Larson, who has resigned the position of chief of dairy Industries, Indus-tries, Department of Agriculture, to become director of the National Dairy council. Can Be Seen Throagh Horace Have you seen nilda's new gown? nerbert No. What does It look like? "Well, In many places It's Tery like Hilda." Use It Tenant The roof leaks. There's a hole In it the size of my thumb. Landlord If It's the size of your, thumb why bother me about it. (?'' 1. j pi j : ''flftrW; .; ' This Is the New Dance the 1 smti mmws Magicians Amusing One Another -lb jT : h " 'c a ,v-.t Spooks? No, Just magicians at play! When the Los Angeles Society of Magicians held Its monthly meeting the other night, tables Jumped and hats flew off, as shown above. , Auto Roadway I'M! lis i ? ' A y T fa II r 'V H'lM 1 a fir m -k r-,A. . itfiietfa. ' 'V ' t View of the automobile passageway being built through the center of the new Grand Central thirty-two-story skyscraper in New York. It U one of the two viaducts on either side of the Grand Central terminal that Join and pass directly through the new building at a height of one story Into the recently improved Park avenue. PAGE THREE Yale Blues Through Skyscraper I1' l : if "'V.itv t'iK'SU? t" 1 : .)t 's ' t f 111' ' f 1 ft1 |