Show I A I THE HE C Christmas holidays ar are w well vell ll past The L r 1 holI holly has been tossed in the fireplace I the Christmas tre tree has shed its needles all allover over th the carpet the last ast remnants of the I turkey have been made into hash and a fair share of Juniors Junior's toys are broken But there is one thing that we we can keep for Jor a while That thing is a realization such as we ve g get t anew new every Christmas that this is isa isa a pretty good hearted good hearted world after all People Peo pIe by and large are pr pretty tty good Selfishness Selfish i isn't nt univ universal ness ness and generosity isn't as rare as asit it might be Christmas we say brings these facts home t to us For For example not long ago the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers printed a story telling how the chit chil dren of striking coal miners in Ohio weren't going to have any Christmas The children's childrens chil chit t drens dren's parents were desperately poor most 1 of the kiddies weren't even getting enough I to eat and presents were out of the ques ques- k- k tion lion Well it ft may comfort you to know t that after fter that story was printed gifts of r food clothing money and toys showered in in on these miners People who had never neverseen neverseen seen an an any of the miners people who vere were yere entirely ly out of sympathy with the strike it itself itself it- it I. I self w went nt out of their way to see to it these children could have some some sort of a ai i Christmas Makes you feel rather good doesn't it Heres Here's another like it f c I A few v. weeks weeks' ago there was a story in inI I I the pap papers pape s telling how a li little tl girl out in jn il Los Angeles Angel s whose father was too poor to buy her a doll got so lonely that she kid a little baby jn in its its- buggy and kept it it all afternoon Now a woman in Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago has asked for the address d ress of this littIe littIe lit lit- tIe tle girl so that she can send her a doll dolI The woman never saw the little girl she just wanted to be kind to her her had had a gen generous genro ro s i impulse that she had to obey Ik k These things are commonplace familiar f f perhaps Yet they are just the things that can carry with us They reassure us as I 30 to the motives the worthiness and the good of our fellow men and women They persuade us once more that people are pretty fin fine after all For pr it is eternally true despite all aU that cynics cyniC may say that people will always respond to an appeal to their better natures The only trouble ordinarily is that they lack leaders to make the appeals The response response re re- is always waiting i |