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Show December 19, 1941. Page Two SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE . ' ' Tie Spirit of Christmas It is Christmas time. Every person in every Christian nation on the globe recognizes this fact men, women, boys and girls, even lit-tle children, within whom the spirit of St. Nick is so vividly placed. Who is to keep alive the myth of Santa Claus for youngsters who must share a one or two room hovel with an entire family of several children? Fathers and mothers bur-dened with the responsibility of providing necessities of life? Obviously this must be left to persons with more adequate funds. South high school students have accepted the challenge of society, and the majority of home rooms have taken a merry Christmas to a less fortunate family. Students have coop-erated in bringing toys, candy, clothing and nourishing food for the family they have been designated to aid. When a particularly large family needed help, two rooms acted in co-ordination to provide holiday cheer. There is still much that can be done. Fire-men are renovating toys for needy children toys which must be supplied by persons in our city. Families are still without civic help. When these have been taken care of, we may be able to raise our heads and claim that a portion of peace and good will has been es-tablished on this earth. How to Have an Unhappy Christmas Ah cheze, here it is almost Christmas again, and me without nuttin' bought. Guess I'll take my time and go up town about 7 :00 p. m. on December 24 and that will give me plenty of time to buy me gal that book on etiquette. Maybe then she will learn not to try to walk ahead of me .when we go to a show. To think that she hasn't enough manners to let me have the best seat when Tbuy the candy! It's disgusting, especially when I let her buy the tickets. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to buy Uncle Erastus a club so he can protect himself when Aunt Mamie comes at him with the broom. Speakin' of Aunt Mamie, just try catching me paying fifteen cents of my good money for her present. The cheap thing only paid ten cents for mine last year. No, sir, why should I waste a nickel. After all, Jefferson had to build Monticello so that we would have something to picture on the five cent piece. Then there is that sister of mine! I won-der if I could persuade someone to trade me a nice dog for her. Just the thing for her would "be a little red wagon that she could tie Percy in and cart him around. Then she wouldn't have to worry about him going out with other girls. Maybe she will give me a nice piece of chocolate for the suggestion. Yeah, I'll bet. After I spend my dollar and a quarter buy-ing presents for momma, poppa, five broth-ers, eight sisters, six aunts, eight uncles, and fifteen cousins, I'll have plenty of time to pull the baby's hair and trip the old folks. Now that that is all done, guess I'll go to bed. Where is that music coming from? Carolers ! How do they expect a feller to get any sleep? Ma what do red spots on you mean? Do you get them every Christmas cause it makes you look all lighted and decorated? Oh ma MEASLES! Golly who wanted-t- celebrate Christmas anyway? f Wea Qbma asd.-- Christmas coming and me with only a size nine and a half stock-ing, but then I really don't mind because it would be ever so much nicer if you could just give a few things to those nice Cubs of South high school. First of all, beware of Jay Christensen. He always tries to camou-flage those dainty twelves of his . .. Ray Wentworth would like to know the reason he has been hung out to cool off by Peggy Christen-sen .. . Tommy Pierce and Shirley Penney request more rhumbas at the school dances. They are so much fun . . . Maxine Jensen wouldn't mind at all if you brought her that captain --"? --Vy that she likes so well, all wrapped in T cellophane . . . And, gee, Santa, John XmW Riches wants a girl friend. I told him v. oUi not to ask of you such elaborate things L JsC &r and he answered, "Well, I guess we V boys could get along without women, f but, gosh sakes, who wants to ?" . . .' You really ought to send Nathan Full- - fefs mer the book, "How To Play Football r and Keep Your Health." . . . Thelma Urli really ought to get lots and , lots of black clothes to set off her blond loveliness . . . Since the Offi-cer's Party, Gordy Watson hasn't been the same. He wants another one so he can regain himself . . . Please answer Norma Whitehead's x prayers. She goes around saying, QA "'m m ove w ne mos wonderful Jpg man please introduce one!" . . . Bring f (fCOk Lucile Olsen some more of that blue w.. fingernail polish. I think it is so cute ijT bSw As a special favor to the Scribe ml MjJ staff, please bring Ruth Larsen and WVfOVk Ruthe Lundevall the music to Chat- - tanooga Choo Choo. Then we can find U rJi0K TmV out how ifc really sounds . . Karyll cT iT Korth wants a new desk all decorated f& ray ft u with Joe Lewis . . . Ah, and then there's JZtur'' "J Stan Clawson. He wants to know how "i KL.if"'"., 1 to concentrate. The poor boy . . . Carol Jl Jones has been awfully good this past month. She always goes to church. (Since there are three university boys, I guess she can spare me one, so I'm goin' too) . . . Doris Dibble wants Scribe to come out more often so she can go to the printer's. Business, of course? ... I'd certainly- - like to know what happened to Henry Luke. Presumably, all those girls on the Scribe staff must have scared him. Oh, well, Milton Hollstein v is gallantly taking over . . . Santarwe : J jfH are all so happy to see Dee Lowder up Jk&e ' XK t and around again . . For a very spec- - fre:::: ial gift for Bob Webb you could send ff"Kf!r him his beloved Tess Saville . . . Bring tSjCj" something real nice to dear Miss Adams r because she really deserves it . . . You f f should mention Johnny Larsen's Chat- - i s tanooga Choo Choo to one of the big 2 railroad companies because he could X nL A certainly bring in the business. ( ( dhsff) You could bring Mr. Davis a formula Vi by which he could keep his fifth period class quiet. Personally, I think it is impossible . . . Please make Shirley Hillam's New Year's party as much fun as the one La Rene Carey had a few weeks ago . . . You shouldn't bring Marjorie Archibald anything for Christmas because she keeps all her boy friends hung out on a limb . . . Here's a cute campus couple, Arlyne Bytheway and Willard McEwan. And so, my darling Santa Claus, I want you to remember that there are only 317 more shopping days until next year's Christmas, so just to be on the safe side, you had better start making toys for our next year's juniors. Yours forever, NOSEY CUB. The Kid Across the Aisle MARY ANN MAHER One really unusual girl. Personality plus, and brains, too. She is as sweet as they come. Always willing to make someone happy. Her pet habit is wink-ing. I ' ? DOUGLAS LINDLEY Whiz at shorthand and active in student affairs. Swell person-ality, good looking. Otherwise, he's just all right. MARY SANDBERG Here's a cute little package who would really make some little boy happy on Christmas morning. Wears her hair dozens of different ways and looks just adorable all the time. CALVIN HATHENBROOK A microscopic speciman of real basketball playing. Ha3 a real smile for everyone, and has a swell per-sonality. MARJORIE ARCHIBALD Another really grand girl. She has so many1 boy friends, the boys don't know what to do. Always ready, willing, and able to help anyone and everyone. Aspires to be a nev3paper woman. DON CHRISTENSEN Has more than one girl's heart. A nice personality, good looks and everything. Likes to go to dances and dance with as many girls as possible. Some fun! The Red Cross Needs You One thousand, nine hundred and forty-on- e years ago, Jesus, Son of God, gave His life to save the souls of men. Today, your brothers and my brothers, our American men and boys are giving their lives to free the souls of men. This great nation, our America, has worked night and day to. furnish war supplies, food, ammunition, battleships, tanks, airplanes, the past two years for the ravaged war torn cou-ntries of Europe. Now today, we, the Ameri-cans who have given so freely, so generously of our wealth and sympathies we are faced with a similar fate of the countries which have been trampled beneath the feet of bar-bario- us warlords. President-Woodro- Wilson in his Flag Day speech on May 7, 1915, before the entry of the United States in World War number one, said this of the flag of our America: "The lines of red are lines of blood nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their own lives and fortunes. God for-bid that we should have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more and in being colored will be glorified and purified." The time has come when the blood of Am-erican men and women must be shed to freshm-en those symbolic stripes of our nation's flag. American lives have already been sacrificed so that "government of the people, by the peo- - , pie, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." We have dug deeply in our pockets for the Red Cross before. We have dug deeply in our pockets for Community Chest drives, for Sal-vation Army drives, and drivtes for other mercy organizations. Now, we are asked to raise an enormous fund. Money to buy band-ages to stop the flow of blood of dying sol-diers' wounds; money to buy the food to fill the stomachs of starving children; money to build hospitals, first aid stations, war she-lters; money to save the lives of American citizens. We can give now. Give, give, give till it hurts. This money is for us, for you and me, your brothers and my brothers, and our American patriots who are giving their homes, their families, their blood, their lives so that we may enjoy a blue sky unmarred by the sight of enemy aircraft ready to drop their deadly cargo. Don't visualize just any man on the battle-field. Look there and see your brother, your father groveling in the muck of war, bleeding from a dozen wounds, groaning, crying, curs-ing the tyrants who have caused this state prevalent in the world today. If, as our leaders say, this is to be a long, hard war, you who are students now, will be soldiers then. It may be you on the battle-field crying, groaning in a living death. You'll need the Red Cross then! The Red Cross needs you now! Money is such a small sacrifice to make to save human lives. Christmas Legends of Other Lands Fascinating is the folklore and legends of the holidays and festivals, and when such legends are based upon thrilling superstition they become doubly so. England is famous for the beliefs of her subjects on various legends. For example, a person turning the mattress on Christmas day will surely die within Ihe year; but it is praiseworthy to bake bread on Christmas eve because the loaves will never get moldy. In the German Alps, it is believed that horses and cattle have the gift of speaking on Christmas eve, and tell each other the story of the Christ Child. If anyone over-hears them they will be put to death immed-iately because it is a sin to try to prove' the tale is not true. In the Scandinavian countries it is pre-valent to feed the birds during the holidays with bunches of oats tied and placed some-where of convenience. 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