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Show i im dtvQca.ie December 22, 1949 Thursday, Patterson, M. E. C., Thelma Lemmon; E. S., Gladys Brown; E. J., Maragaret D u r r a n t; Manager, Christine Memory; Protector, Lois Whitburn; Guard, Rae Coleman; M of F, Maxine Peterson; M of E & C, Pearl Mahan; Captain of Degree, June Church and Cecil TemFryer; pianist, Mary WorthPythian Sisters, Sterling ple No. 21, held their regular busi- ington. ness meeting on Monday, DecemPearl Mahan was also granted ber 5. Election of officers for the her P. C, certificate tor three coming year was conducted. Those years service as M of R & C.Installation of officerj will be elected were Past Chief Rhoda Rhoda Faitcrson Elected to Head Pythian Sisters Third Section There Will Always Be Christmas Trees WASHINGTON, D. C. (Spe-cj3- j) Fifty years ago a President of the United States banned the use of Christinas trees in the White House because he thought the practice of cutting young evergreens was wasteful. That order, issued by Theodore homo. jalurafizccJ dilizeti anfa Santa Claus as Americans know him is a naturalized American citizen, and as such is Americas contribution to the Christmas legend, Thats the opinion of Dr. Gustav O. Arlt of the department of Germanic languages on the Los Angeles campus of the University' of That advice, good enough 50 years ago to lift a White House ban and convince a strong-minde- d president, is echoed this year by no less an authority than the American Forest Products Industries. Don't worry about the plight of the poor Christmas tree, says this sponsored organization, its as replaceable as the Thanksgiving turkey and just as indispensable to the American ry scene. Christmas Our JUhafs forest hs tI FIRE lelort H or ipoiM lot of boouty lot tho world, it eiutomory i most European coontnot for 0 family to go into tho forot each Chmtmai Waco, cut a hug Yolo log and drag It from tho woods to thoir caught in the act of smuggling a Christmas tree into the Executive Mansion. To escape their fathers presidential wrath they appealed to Americas first professional forester and Theodore Roosevelt's ingood friend, Gifford Pinchot, to tercede for them. Pinchot did, pointing out that proper cutting of small evergreens for Christmas use is not harmful and frequently actually helps a Nearly half of the 21 million evergreens that make up Americas 1949 Christmas tree harvest were farm produced. Nearly nine-tentof the entire crop was cut on privately owned timberland. To augment this domestic Christmas tree harvest, about five million evergreens are imported annually, most of them from Canada. Besides bringing a fragrant freshness of the forest into two out of every three American homes this December, the three-mon- th The Panama canal is Panamas biggest economic asset. CHRISTMAS Roosevelt, went unchallenged until two of his young sons were wood-indust- - held January 9 at 7:30 p. m. in the Clinic Building. The Pythian held their Christmas Sisters party Monday, December 19, at the Clinic Building. Gifts were exchanged by the members at the Christmas party and luncheon was served. Committee in charge included Gladys Brown and Margaret Durrant. These spruce trees from Northern Minnesota's second growth forests vrul bring Christmas cheer into homes all over America, This scene typifies the holiday forest harvest just completed. (Halvorson Trees, Photo) Another German, the sixteenth century religious leader Martin Luther, generally is credited with originating the custom of decorating Christmas trees with lights. Noting how snowflakes on the boughs of evergreen trees reflected moonlight, Martin Luther determined to capture the same effect in his home by placing lighted candles on the tree. The idea spread through the centuries. This Christmas eve, just as they have since 1923, people will gather around an evergreen tree on the White House lawn to participate in a tree lighting ceremony dedicated by the President and broadcast nationally. Forestry-wis- e the United States has traveled a full circle since Theodore Roosevelts day. Christd, ina trees, like sawlogs and have become a crop in America. This countrys forests, if protected and wisely managed, can produce both wood and Christmas trees in quantities sufficient to meet present as well as future needs. tree harvest pours an estimated 50 million dollars into the Nations economic bloodstream. Most American Christmas trees are thinned from natural growth forests. An original stand of from five to ten thousand trees per acre will actually mature only a few trees. Most hundred sawlog-siz- e of the small evergreens, selectively cut for Christmas sale, would sooner or later have been eliminated by Nature in the life and death struggle for forest space. When it comes to selecting a Christmas tree, most Americans have as many individual likes and dislikes as they have in motor cars or hats. Color, limb strength, shape, compactness, fragrance, an pulp-woo- i California. "The Norwegians who settled early in America brought the first version of the modern Santa Claus, who in Europe had been known as St. Nicholas, but never adequately said Dr. described, personally Arlt. ""When the American Dement Moore described the jolly, rotund gentleman in minute detail in hia poem Twas, The Night Before Christmas, he assumed the proportion of living legend and thus became an integral part of Christhe tian legend and folklore, professor stated. mo 1949 For a smile on every face and a carol in every heart we 1 commend you to the spirit of Christmas. Happy holiday. Archaeologists4 Findings Bear Out Bible Stories Archaeologists' findings ofttlmea serve to further establish the authenticity of the story of Jesus. Only recently a group discovered the name of Jesus, carved before 79 A.D. and perhaps by an eyewitness to the crucifixion, among inscriptions on 11 early Christian burial urns found in a cave on the ijsrusalem-Bethleheroad. The urns may provide the "oldest archaeological record of Christianity and an historical confirmation of the trial and crucifixion of Christ, the archaeologists said. A sect of Hebrews, who followed Jeius, denounced Pontius Pilate of Scd mourned the crucifixon thalr leader, was believed to have left the writings on the urns in the cave. The Hebrew and Aramlc inscriptions contained common names like Miriam, Simeon, and Mattl. The Greek inscriptions and symbols them contained references to Christianity and, it seems probable, to the crucifixion. m T Price Theatre RADIANT gloss-beade- , Building d screens be-isi- de Six New Years Days In Every Year Six New Years days in a year? Certainly absurb as it sounds its true. Here they are: , January 1. 2. In that part of the Accident .wherein the Greek Orthodox faith prevails January 1 falls upon our January 13. 3. A traditional Chinese New Years celebration starts February 8 and lasts to February 13. 4. If you happened in on the country of Siam, April 1, youd find a great ceremonial festivity underway nothing less, in fact, than New Years. 5. In Arabia, the iMohammedan New Years is celebrated Septem ber 4. 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