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Show THE Thursday, December 5, 1940 -- SAFETY FIRST- - FT i low City of New Orleans Likes Its Fireworks W fcUAi -: y. .Mlj mm the question, it was easy to be gin celebrating Christmas, instead, with the firing of skyrockets, Roman candles and firecrackers. Once started, there was no stopping it. Shooting starts several weeks before Christmas, and every night the tumult Increases. Parents consistently caution their children to save the firecrackers until the twenty-fiftbecause they won't get any more. The boys and girls refuse to believe this prophecy, but feel that Providence will not allow them h, Everlmos'i 132'' cording to the United States forestry service, you can do it this way: Divide the weight of your tree by four and buy that many pounds of ammonium sulphate. Dissolve It In water, one and a half pints to each pound of ammonium sulphate. Cut the end of your tree trunk on a diagonal, put some solution In Jar and stick the diagonal butt into the solution. Add solution as the tree drinks it up. DONT be excessive about Christmas "spirits. " DON'T leave toys exposed where people can trip on them. DONT leave your tree in the house after It becomes dried out. DONT allow steps and sidewalks to become icy to cold weather. During Christmas you'll probably have many guests; sprinkle salt or sand In dangerous spots. unless DONT drive carefully you want to live and enjoy 1941. Weather prognostlcators have found means of forecasting most of the coming year's weather by cocking an eye at the sky dnring Christmas week. Ton may not believe them, bnt here are a few of the varied and conflicting beliefs about Christmas weather: If the sun shines through the apple tree on Christmas day, there will be a good crop the following year. If Ice will bear a man before Christmas, It will not bear a mouse afterward. Thunder and lightning Christmas week means much snow in the winter. Wet canses more damage than frost before than after Christmas. If it snows Christmas night, the hop crop will be good next year. At Christmas meadows green, at Easter covered with frost. If windy Christmas day, trees will bring much fruit. Christmas wet gives empty granary and barrel. A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard. A warm Christmas, a cold Easter. A green Christmas, a white Easter. r A r 1 ' 4 kakittisattisaVi Night Shift on the Grand Coulee Do your share by establishing one small unit of perfection. A home in which a man and woman love each other and their children. It is only when we get many such tiny solved individual problems that we can hope to solve the bigger ones. By KATHLEEN NORRIS THESE times one day at a INtry to live exciting time, and do your best by that day. Take it hour by hour and minute by minute, and polish those fragments of time as if each one was priceless which indeed it is. Stop worrying along vague and general lines, and take firmly into your hands those lines God has given you to hold. Ask yourself how much When the day's work la done on the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia river, In eastern Washington, the serenity and cheerfulness and night's work begins nnder the glare of powerful lights that make a striking picture against the surrounding courage you impart to the black hills. The dam, which Is now nearing completion Is being built by the Bureau of Eedamation. It will family circle; whether its e be the greatest structure on earth. members like to get home to you look to you for inspiration and comfort and reasBuddhism man-mad- Japanese Shingon Anniversary " r If you are doubtful about certain lamps in your Christmas tree string, nere s an easy way to check for those that are burned out Remove the regular lamp from a five-ce- ll flashlieht. Then straw in the lights one at a time. While they wui not burn brightly with such low current, they will glow If stall good. Burned-ou- t lamps wiU not glow at surance. . f I ' h . ' r',.-- ft .i Y ti Si i' ' - - '" - - 1 J Shown In Seattle celebrating the l.lSOtb anniversary of tbe founding of their sect, tbe Japanese Buddhism Shingon, are (L to r.) Bishops S. Hasn, and T. Ohlre, and Vice Archbishop Jl&be Matsohashl, all of Japan. Vice Archbishop Matsuhaahi spent 15 years In holy eecloslon atop Mt. Koya in Japan, and la one of Japan's most revered religions characters. Indo-Chines- Inspecting Guard of Honor e Try " r ... I 1 (1 t A i IL 'Jh , , ; ... Cliristmas Tree Bulbs r:i I J -- , . grf ... Youngest Mayor FT g . i i i - 1 ' ' )m a, MaUamlya (right) Japan's special envoy U French la company ef FretKB fficiats, and Boknre Bonikl (left), Jap consul-generat llandl, tntpetling an gaard ef bo nor, apoa his arrival at flaipbong. Matsamiya was appointed to this diplomatic pst la the French colony sbertly after the Vkby geverameat capitolated. IlaJIme Inde-Chin- lndo-Chlnei- te led and will come back to their senses one of these days. Dictators will die and peace will be on firmer ground and after the darkness of this temporary fury, we will see the dim beauty that means a new dawn. Well, you may not fully believe her but what a tonic she isl In spite of yourself you find yourself more hopeful; and when you quote her at home everyone else partakes of the same Civilization Win Survive. She is at least as reasonable as the fearful and dismal prophets who see nothing but gloom ahead. For all wars HAVE ended, and although Napoleon and Cromwell and many others were all supposed to destroy civilization In their day, and wipe great nations from the face of the earth, somehow they never did. Sanity crept back again, never lost heart or faith. schools reopened, fields were sown; They had mighty little to go on, mourning and poverty held sway for those early colonial women who saw awhile, and then the spring came the shabbiness, the poverty, the lack back, and with it lovers and lilacs and new plans. k of training, the enlistAfter the war the world is going ments, the treachery of congress when Washington's ragged army to need everything that we can give was marching. But that didn't matIt of help and service. They are ter. They knew that issues in this going to need food, over there, life aren't decided by anything you clothes, bedding, medicine, tools. can write on a blackboard or prove We have to be ready with all that by a chart Tbey knew that the and the only way we can give it is King Ananda Mahldol of Thailand final and deciding factor is what is to get our own house in order. (Slam) la shewn here with his moth- in men's hearts and souls, and of Solve America's problems; lessen the need tor relief; lessen unemployer when be was at school la Lau- that they were sure. ment; replace Be Brave It's Contagious. plots sanne, Swltscrland. Today the counand "isms" with a good healthy retry ruled by tbe young king la ai Solve YOUR problem today, with vival of the spirit that the created war with France, according t as charity and energy and cheerful- Declaration of Independence. never that that and doubt announcement Issued In Vichy. ness, And that has to begin with Individwill unite Itself to a thouThailand bad made territorial de- bravery sand a million more scraps of ual homes like yours and mine. mands on the government ef the bravery and hope everywhere in the Homes free of debt and disorder, of French colony. King Ananda suc- world, and bring us ail out to a complaining and discontent. One ceeded King Prajadhlpok when the freer and happier future. million such homes, scattered all Utter abdicated In 1335. Thailand Keep the house clean and peace- over the continent, would be the beIs ruled by a regency nntil the young ful. Keep your own soul and mind ginnings of a new America. Ten man cornea ef age. the same. Keep out of agitating million would make us the strongest, arguments and contentions; don't let happiest, richest, most independent snyone scare or depress you with nation on the earth. Put Own House la Order. glib predictions of dismay and ruin, and if you must think of the madSo do your share ay establishing house that Is Europe today think of one small unit of perfection. A it with prayer. home in which a man and woman to which in see These are the days love each other and their children. life as an adventure, not a flowery A home with a clean, warm kitchen, stroll through the Garden of Eden. and a little garden, and a telephone Sometimes a scary adventure, some- and a radio and a gas stove end an times a breath-takinA home to adventure, but electric refrigerator. of nothing of which to be afraid which outsiders look with admiraexcept fear. Don't let children bear tion and envy. A home with books discouraged talk; don't let the man In It, and winter fires, and laughK . , of the bouse coma to discourage 71 ter, and a flag, and pleasant voices. ment. One small oasis of perfection In a Aa Optimistic Spirit Marches On. turbulent and trwh'd world. For You've of course had the experi- It is only when we get many such ence of sometimes meeting a friend tiny solved Individual problems that In the market or at the club a we can hope to solve the bigger ones. friend who is Irrepressibiy optimisToo few women honestly eager to She doesn't do their part in great national crises, tic and heartening. know any more about world condiforget that those crises are caused tions than anyone else, but at that and brought on by the inefficiency she probably knows ss much as the and Ignorance and discontent of smartest politician, statesman or millions of apparently unimportant citizens who won't live the day lor press agent does. sre better Ue day, and the hour for the hour, that She things says O. Mayor William Kelly ef Fllnl, spirit is won- and make perfect those things they Mica., 22, believed to be the young derful. The People's we love are do control and so lift from the world nations I eat mayor la the In ted States. Maywonderful courage, and the lust one more fraction of its age-ol- d Showing er Kelly Is pictared at the plane, aalions we dislike are merely mis pain. which He plays welt V: :J'41 X HAPPINESS Kathleen Norris sayt there is no need to worry about the rest of the world, or what will happen to us at tome distant time in the future. She advises everyone to live one day at a time, and to make the best of that day. Stop worrying about the trouble elsewhere in the world. Miss Norris says, and concentrate on your own home and family make them as happy and perfect as you can. hope. six-wee- rTV-- It's easy to stop the fall of Christmas tree needles. Saw off a portion of the tree's baae enough so the fresh wood will be exposed. Set a shallow pan of water beneath the bsse of the tree, in which the base should be immersed. A tesspoonful of sugar should be added to the waThe water provides needed ter. moisture and the sugar nourishes the needles, giving them strength to bold on longer. I V".'.-.- KxsSi kiiC$S, Use Flashlight to Test Boy King You may be very sure that in the great first war that gave us America, that gave us our new world of independence, there were women who were frightened, sneering, despairing, doubtful, helpless. There were other women who held firmly to hope and courage through the darkest hours, who knew that the ideals for which their men were fighting were the true Ideals, who ,3 Sugar and Water Stops Fall Of Christmas Tree Seedlet x Brigadier General Robert L. Eichelberger, newly appointed superintendent of the military academy at West Point, N. Y., reviews the corps of cadets for the first time since taking over his duties at the academy. Ci the general's right la IJeotenant-Colone- t Ryder, commander of the cadets. Jl ,,,., fWf7i v . 3 penniless all Srrvtc.) mm. have 13 firecrackers, but g the more wealthy Christmas on JL win the envy of Tropical the Islands in Hawaii M 1 others with their rockets. ITS asking a lot to expect people Enthusiasm Is born in temperate latitudes to get not limited to the young boys, but it steamed up about Christmas In the Is shared by the entire family. Boys tropics. But to children on islands and girls parade up and down the in the middle of the Pacific, Christstreets at night, making a racket mas is still Christmas! writes with tin trumpets and "instruments" Arm in e von Tempskl in Cosmopolithey picked up on the way. They tan. ring doorbells, then run away with On the islands in Hawaii, Joyful laughter. The sky Is lighted up Christmasoutlying is carried in on horsewith rockets and firecrackers beat back, and the Jingle of paniolos' a constant staccato. spurs replaces the Imagined tinkle The fun begins again the next of Santa's sleigh bells. On morning, with greater enthusiasm Christmas merry eve some inner part of than ever. Although a boy may me waits and listens all for fca bankrupted himself the day the tramp of horses' hoofs, night the ringbefore, firecrackers have taken a of spurs, rich Hawaiian voices great drop In price. He must have ing and a new supply because they are singing above resonant guitars for cowboy serenad-ers- , ukuleles; gay cheap. riding from ranch to ranch. Now the Juveniles grow reckless. Like cadenced meles, which put at Whole packages of firecrackers go everlastinf spell upon you, memooff at one fell ries of Chrlstmases spent on the blow; those who cattle ranch my were firecracker R rJr father managed on the slopes of boys yesteraay . . : , r Haleskala, the extiact volcano on are siyrocaei VViK '3 the Island of Maul, persist with unboys today. Ai V S dying vividness. A flr number of night comes on. ; v different the streets seem persons, representing "mm-- vi races making up the sum total of ablaze with ex- humanity, participated In them, plosives and colored rockets. The second morning after ChristAmericans, Hawaiians, Japanese, mas the streets are strewn thick Chinese, Portuguese and their cross with burned pieces of fireworks; ings assembled under our roof but the air is clear. The acrid odor Christmas eve. Each group brought of fireworks 'is again replaced by a flavor peculiarly Its own to add to the perfume of Christmas roses. the Birthday of all birthdays. f WNU mm Offers Chance to Predict Weather Christmas without firecrackers just isn't Christmas down in New Orleans. "If anybody not got no firewo'k he mighty po" say the Creoles gay-lThe more the fireworks, the better the Christmas on the lower side of Canal street. While other people are shooting off fireworks on July 4, New Or leans is swelter- - ' Wf Christmas Week In Christmas Season PWfc i The Quick Way to Peace 'MM., 111 I mwr- VJ0CWG WW 4 festivities out of yi wit WAtT I lighted candles unless It's absolutely unavoidable. Carefully wired electric bulbs are much safer. stove DON'T place the tree near or fireplace. DON'T leave a lighted tree unguarded at any time; you must be on the lookout for fires. DONT use a rickety, unsafe ladder in decorating the tree. DONT place Christmas candles oear the tree, curtains, paper wreaths or other decorations. DONT overlook the opportunity to Ac- snake your tree With noisy July Kathleen Norris Says: (Bell Syndicate you want a truly merry Christmas be but that the frivolity of the season doesn't turn it into tragedy. The Notional Safety Council points out that th Holiday i ere the most dangerous part of the year, replete with auto casualties, home accidents, burns and falls. Keep these "don'ts" in mind and you'll live to see the nets year: DON'T give children dangerous toys, or toys with sharp points. 11 they operate with electricity, be sure you supervise their use. DON'T decorate the tree with ac- - NEPIII. UTAH S. New West Point Head Reviews Cadets Merry Christmas Also Famous As Year's No. 1 Danger Season fceat Outside TIMES-NEW- And why not? |