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Show HEM-GENEVA TIMES When They Saw the Star They Rejoiced Full many years the wise men watched apart For one lone star which prophesy had said Would mark the birth of Judah's coming King And they had kept these sayings in their heart. Then suddenly from out the east there shone A brilliant light. His time had come at last. "Make haste the caravan, the oldest said. There is no time to lose, we travel fast. Unto Jerusalem, there to inquire Where the baby should be born to them Then Herod counseling with priests and scribes And answering, they said, in Bethlehem. "Search out the child," the ruler sternly said "Retrace your steps and quickly bring me word So that I. too, may worship at His feet," But deep within a solemn vow had stirred. There's mischief moving in that crafty breast Another route evades this base request.' AT BETHLEHEM The shades of night were falling in the town And strangers jostled for a resting place. "I beg a shelter for my wife this night," Said Joseph and his brown and anxious face Watched Mary standing by his side so pale And leaning for support upon his arm. "You see, kind sir, her hour is near, I must Provide a place lest she should come to harm." This man is poor, there is no point for me To let my house to one who cannot pay This landlord loved the touch of silver coin "I have no room," and quickly turned away. "Rest here upon this stone a moment, love, Perhaps some woman's pity I may find Here in the market place." "Good lady, hear One of thy sex needs help. Woulds be so kind?". 'I have important business for the night." And soon her haughty form was lost to sight. THE ANNOUNCEMENT Above the aged stable door the star Stood still, three weary travelers bowed low And laid their gifts of frankincense and myrrh Upon the hay. "God's Son, come, let us go." And there were shepherds in the nearby hills Tending their flock who heard the Angels sing Of peace on earth and good will to all men Receive ye now your Savior and your King. In eagerness they quickly sped away Into the darkness of the chilly night Till they had found the holy babe asleep Surrounded by a sweet celestial light, Something of heaven and something of earth Flowed into their souls at this strange new birth. Grace M. Candland Bishop and Mrs. Clinton Wakefield of Huntington visited visit-ed here during the week with Mrs. Wakefield's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wells. We wish you well this season. MORGAN Lime & Cinder Block Company. 450 E. 6 South TO YOU AND YOUR WHOLE FAMILY OUR olJEST WISHES. t MAY EVERY HOUR BE PLEASANT AND CHEERFUL PROVO BRICK & TILE CO. Pleasant View If a fu ra (izeil dil izen JliaVi Our anta Santa Claus as Americans know him is a naturalized American citizen, citi-zen, and as such Is America's contribution con-tribution to the Christmas legend. That's the opinion of Dr. Gustav 0. Arlt of the department of Germanic Ger-manic languages on the Los Angeles Ange-les campus of the University of California. "The Norwegians who settle, early In America brought the first version of the modern Santa Claus. who In Europe had been known as St. Nicholas, but never adequately personally described," said Dr Arlt. '"When the American Clement Moore described the jolly, rotund gentleman in minute detail in his poem " 'Twas The Night 'Before Christmas," he assumed the pro portion of living legend and thus became an integral part of Chris tian legend and folklore," the professor stated. Archaeologists' Findings , Bear Out Bible Stories ! Archaeologists' findings ofttimes serve to further establish the authenticity au-thenticity of the story of Jesus. Only recently a group discovered the name of Jesus, carved before 70 A.D. and perhaps by an eyewitness eye-witness to the crucifixion, among inscriptions on 11 early Christian burial urns found in a cave on the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road. The urns may provide the "oldest archaeological record of Christianity" Christian-ity" and an historical confirmation of the trial and crucifixion of Christ, the archaeologists said. A sect of Hebrews, who followed Jesus, denounced Pontius Pilate and mourned the crucifixon of their leader, was believed to have left the writings on the urns in the cave. The Hebrew and Aramic inscriptions inscrip-tions contained common names like Miriam, Simeon, and Matti. The Greek inscriptions and symbols beside be-side them contained references to Christianity! and, it seems probable, to the crucifixion. Electron Microscope Eyes Clues to Causes of Cancer SAN FRANCISCO An instrument instru-ment that magnifies hundreds of times more than ordinary microscopes micro-scopes is providing new clue to the cause of cancer, This revelation was made re cently by Dr. Stafford Warren, head of the medical school of the University of California. He said electron microscope pictures were revealing how cancers are born and grow. Dr. Warren, former chief of radiological ra-diological safety for atomic-bomb projects, said the pictures showed for the first time that certain cancer cells had embryonic arms which apparently enabled them to dig through the walls of blood vessels. ves-sels. Normal tissue cells could not do that since they were too big to pass through the capillaries and were dissolved by the blood stream, he added. This digging ability might be the main, cause of malignancy. Dr. Warren told a divisional meeting of the American Cancer Society. The pictures have been taken in several laboratories, but since the findings have not been published in scientific journals, names of the researchers were withheld. He said they were not members of the California Cali-fornia school. Grant Holdaway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Holdaway is home for the holidays. He is a , r 'I ! CHRISTMAS SYMBOL ... The light of the deathless spirit of the Yule burns steadily In every mind at this season of the year, but nowhere Is it more beautifully typified than In the delighted, wide-eyed look of a child experiencing experi-encing the shimmering delights of his first Christmas. The Raymond Harding fam ily will celebrate Christmas at the home of their son and daugh ter in law, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur student at the USAC in Logan. ( Harding of American Fork At about five ounces to a pait of cleats, total weight of steel in baseball spikes has been estimated at seven to eight tons. , Y . T 7 a old , i o . O . . o o . ax i a a a K E L S C H AND SONS 154 West Center St. TT ftSNSy.WA:.:.;...,- '' 1- -..s.,v.vv...-.-..,v.., .w . W.A (()Ar" ANDERSON LUMBER TROVO, UTAH 28 West Center Proro Merry Christaws m49Yi VALLEY MORTUARY 85 EAST 3 SOUTH provo Gt h i i I ;4 I94Q I I I A !p "X vety fact that (2kiiitmaS f' is with uS ayain ought to fstina jou enoualt, but we (C) want to fdJt tkt liy by mikinf vetyone a wonJtetul kolidiy. 4 ' ' OREM APPLIANCE ORELL DeLANGE, Mgr. 8th South and State Orem vS' xPiys 1040 "iZZgm May the you with excellent gifts of gladness. Fletcher's t?riiujeri of (jifd lan(je )rom Sanla Do Jntgfit lufpert In America on Christmas Eve. there is a merry tinkle of sleigh bells as Santa Claus drives up in a sleigh drawn by eight reindeer. He drives from roof to roof, pausing just long enough to climb down each chimney. From a huge pack on his back he fills the children's chil-dren's stockings with toys and goodies. Gifts that are too large to be stuffed In the stockings are put on the Christmas tree or stacked underneath it. This is Christmas In America but It Is not always Santa who brings the gifts to children In other lands. The Dutch children anxiousl) await the arrival on Christmas ol St. Nicholas. He was the bishop oi Myra. so he is dressed in the tradi tional bishop's robes of black wears a mitre, and carries a crozier. He rides a white horse and is ac companied by Black Peter, his page boy. Instead of hanging up their stockings to hold the gifts, the Dutch children place their wooden shoes In the chimney corner before going to bed. On the window sills they leave a bunch of hay for "Sleipner," the bishop's white horse. It is customary for St. Nicholas Nicho-las to overturn chairs and leave the room in general confusion foi Christmas morning. English children wait for a Santa Claus who closely resembles our own. They also find gifts tied to green Christmas tree, but this custom cus-tom has been in effect only since Queen Victoria was a young bride. She married Albert, a German prince, and it was he who introduced intro-duced this Christmas custom to England from Germany. It is an angel who leaves the gifts in Czechoslovakia. She descends de-scends on a golden chord to accompany Santa. In Scandinavia gifts are distributed distrib-uted during the supper hour. They are brought by dwarfs and the children chil-dren leave bowls of porridge on the doorstep for them. Santa comes riding on a goat instead of a reindeer. rein-deer. The birds receive the largest number of gifts in Sweden. Each family places a sheaf of grain on a pole or on the fence posts for the birds' Christmas dinner. Spanish children place their straw-filled sleeves on the window sills so the Magi may feed their horses while they leave gifts. The older people fill an Urn of Fate from which the gifts are drawn on Christmas Day. Knight Ruppert, who is the German Kris Kringle, is represented repre-sented by a young girl wearing golden crown and gowned in st flowing white robe. She carries car-ries s small tree laden with gift which she distributes. ' The children of Switzerland have their gifts brought to them by a radiant angel who rides in a sleigh drawn by six reindeer. She brings them goodies to eat as well as toys. And in Poland, at least before the Communists came in, the people called at the parish house on Christmas morning where the priest presented them with "peace wafers," which symbolized peace on earth, good will to men. The people exchanged Christmas wishes as the wafers were broken and eaten eat-en before returning home. As Americans observe this Christmas in the comfort and luxury of modern civilization, who among them will pause for a thought of how their forebears kept the holy season? An example of Christmas of the past in America is provided in a study of the history of the old village vil-lage of Kaskaskia, first capital of Illinois, where the pioneers braved the rigors of a new and unsettled world. Despite the hardshios and dis. comfort which prevailed in the days of the early settlers of this land, there was hardly a cabin so humble but what its occuDants found way to keep Christmas. MTV ERRY IS HRISTUJ "lent. GRAY REALTY CO 196 W. Center Phone 370 Tka nnmhr Of hoAn rfApiininff for some ttm, DBS vtv" . Fewer than 400,000 new firms began be-gan operations last year. That number was considerably under the 600,000 that opened their doors tn 1946. It is even less than the number that started in the years Just before the war. Moreover, some 300,000 businesses shut up shop in 1948 (a new post-war high), so the net gains in the business population was less than tOO.OOa THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, i949 new businesses p0Dultin ,.UZ Population per square mil. win i .,. -" the United States, - WV 111 Hal trm in Germany and 2 n i , iw in japan. Knitting Machine The knitting machine vented by a man who becam. . to' at his sweetheart tjl ,.?mf anPT attention to her more to him God willing, there will be no pain of sadness ro mar the Jp render happiness v thar Christmas 1 V. oughr to bring ' V4" ') to all of you SAWAYA'S MARKET AND LOCKER PLANT 4th Suih and State Orem JoseDh T. Blake underwent a major operation at the Veterans Veter-ans hosrjital in Salt Lake City on Monday. He has been attend ing Iowa State College. His wife and children are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Blake. They will return to Ames, Iowa as soon as Joseph is able to travel. Man Works 41 Years at Job With Only One Day Taken Off NEW YORK. - Clockwatchers might get a stiff moral lesson from Carl Graulein. Graulein, foreman at a brick factory, is 68. He has been on the job 41 years. And, until recently, he had never taken a day off, putting put-ting in seven days each week, year after year. He liked his Job so much, he says, that he took a half -day off in 1915 when he married and another half-day half-day in 1945 when his wife died. "My fun is work," he explained. It kept me busy and out of trouble." His occasion for taking off was a two-week vacation in Germany, where he went by plane. "i Mete's health ck3 a uvealtlt o jay (tut i3 YOUNG'S SIGNS, INC PROVO, UTAH UTAH TIMBER AND GOAL GO, PHONE 232 PR0V0 SEASONS BEST i ALPINE VILLA CAFE |