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Show CHRISTMAS CHARITY. Christmas cheer has been carried into hundreds of Salt Lake homos through a super-abundant charity this year. Never before has the response to the Good Fellow appeal been so generous. The Tribune obtained the names of 1000 children to whom Christmas would have been a pitiful mockery had it not been for tho Good Fellows. On the final day of the compaign, forty-four children remained to be taken care of, and The Tribune received enough offers to provide pro-vide gifts for even a greater number. The Salt Lake Tt.otary club assessed itself to help iu the Good Fellow movement, move-ment, but the responses from individual individ-ual sources were so numerous that the $154 which the Rotary club furnished was turned over lo a fund raised by the police force to help buy shoes for 300 children. The firemen of tho city nlso displayed the true Christmas spirit, by supplying a fund for Christmas dinners. din-ners. Today they will pruvide fifty families with dinners. All of the other organisations which make special endeavors ou Christmas to bring happine.-s lo the poor have sur-pa:ned sur-pa:ned their efforts of previous. ; erni. Iu spije of tin- lact that moii1 llujn ibc u-ual imniliei' of I'mnilies are m need J - - this Christmas, Salt Luke's charity has I made it possible for all of them to share a little in the joy of this glad day. Christmas this year marks the end of a period of stringency all over the country coun-try and the beginning of a new era of prosperity. From this day tho people peo-ple in all sections of the country cau louk forward to renewed activity in business and to au era of wealth production pro-duction which, if experts like Charles M. Schwab are true prophets, will surpass sur-pass any w-ith which the country hitherto hither-to has been blessed. Material prosperity is not all for which the American people give thanks to the Creator of all things good today. With us the sacred saying, "Peace un earth, good will to men," has a special meaning this year. The aspirations and the ideals of humanity, which seem to have gone down in the general wreck of war-torn Europe, still shed their luster upon a free and happy people. We still believe in the present civilization civili-zation and hope for the better civilization, civiliza-tion, of which the Christmas festival is a harbinger and a promise. Beyond the smoko of tbo European battlefields, beyond tho slums of the great cities, beyond poverty and diseaso, we see the dawning of a better day, when tho ills of mankind shall have been lessened, when the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man shall have shed its quickening rays into all corners of the earth, and when "Peace on earth, good will to men" shall drown out the hideous hid-eous chorus of the war lords. |