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Show DECEMBER 23, 1950. VOL. XXIV NO. 7 News and Features ol Interest to Residents oi Davis County. 10c LAYTON, DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH You be too a smart "Santa Claus choose Glades fine for that special treat to special folks all through the Chocolates Holidays. Every is WILL THERE ALWAYS BE A Glides variety beautifully packaged, rich in ingredients, the finest expres-sion- of the candy makers art. CHRISTMAS ? At first glance this may seem to be a rhetorical question, a. foolish question, or a very innocent one. It is not a rhetorical question, for we do not know the answer. We do not ask it foolishly but in measured concern. And unlike Virginias famous Santa Claus letter to the New York Sun, it has no innocence. Foi the answer to that question is in grave doubt., Christmas, with all it stands for, is our mosl hallowed Western heritage. For centuries it has united all civilized nations and peoples. It has shaped their ideals. It has symbolized their commonality, their oneness in diversity. It has linked their destinies more closely than literature or language. Ever between countries at war Christmas has remained bond of spiritual fellowship when all other bonds were severed. The idealism of the West, fostered by the feasi of Christmas, birth of the Prince of Peace, put i curb on the cruelties of combat, tempered treaties and acknowledged all men as children of one Father 7 Popular Boxes that bear the name 9 ef CHOCOLATES i a candy company ten the Now our civilization is threatened . . . truly foi first time . . . by a ruthless, robot creed. Worlc Communism, monstrous, powerful, militant in its growing immensity, makes all its adherents aliei . . . animal and unreasoning, with souls blank o: compassion.. . . faceless men taught to hate and t conquer. There is no compromise with Communism Should it prevail, Christmas will vanish and in i or worse still, our slavi generation be forgotten children will commemorate it as a day of spurious brotherhood under the Red Flag. ... As we celebrate this Christmas, let it be a da? of dedication to the tasks before us. Let us face then bravely. Let us welcome each sacrifice, conscious that we in our time are not a rear guard fighting lost fight but the vanguard of millions yet to conn and that we battle for our beliefs in the knowledgi that they make all men free. 3 As free men we can do no other. 5AIT LAKE CITY, UTAH O , |