Show cult to believe that the russian people T have for america other feeling than respect and love for we fed client when they were starving ar and their gratitude lins has put a new household word in the Ittis inn ian guage ahra the native pronunciation T IL of A it A the initials which symbolized tile american reller administration may say that punt punishment sh and revenge await the american bourgeoisie from i i t alie 1 ie E european u proletariat but alie th e russian i 1 ss la n proletariat ar IV go on crying ahra just tile the same battle ju tills this feeding of russia wit ans s tile the biggest piece of pure philanthropy in all history it Is immoss impossible ible to believe that it will not lenvi its effect on V 0 tile the future cob oa real toura bouw and now it Is 18 said gald that this winter will again seo see A starving A PCs abot ht 7 01 dis children in russia rusa in ih spite of the off official lelal soviet pronouncement X 94 not no in coment that rt J I 1 X 11 ll l l j ji tho the famine was at p f f T V ra tin an end and of tile the eky ftc W export by tile tho t i J J I 1 I 1 I 1 J J i pv soviet gov government ern af of millions W Z of bushels of rusi r r I 1 I 1 I 1 Y r vy voy 70 T u 1 I atom 33 ons 4 fey a a A 1 1 17 i V i ir ij V F A riv p 0 it m fort and lafi jaim jl J J i k jo no of etwo P nw by JOHN DICKINSON bherman fiman IIII HE spirit of christmas A T D 1023 in the united states of america la is the saino ns as it was in 1022 2 and us as it has been for many a year celebration of the anniversary of the birth of christ Is universal and does doeg not differ except in unimportant details from froin bangor to san diego and from seattle to miami over more than million square miles little of territory and among more than ono one hundred and five million people yes even in plymouth mass and in jamestown va la Is christmas day of 1023 celebrated in tile the samo same way which fact in itself shows show how in throb three hundred years a fringe of scattered colonies along tho the atlantic has grown into a close 1 knit and homogeneous nailon for time flino wits was when the christmas that wits was celebrated in virginia was anathema in massachusetts and tile the cavalier pitied and derided tile kober minded pilgrim and the bigoted puritan the virginin virginia settlers bothered them nott not at all over religion they brought liroi ight tile the established church of england and oil all its observances with them thein na it a matter of course their great purpose was to extend the life tin and power of england in the now world and to cut into tho the power and possessions of tho the spaniard so tile the F F ia V H m celebrated christmas at jamestown according to homo home traditions as faithfully as the conditions allowed and as the great religious festival of that church was christmas christinas the virginians made much of tile the day dak moreover they wore were just the sort or of folk foik to enjoy it many of them were and soldiers sons accustomed to pleasure and jollity rather than to religious meditation and tile saving of souls tho the rIl pilgrims grims on the other hand had from tho the church oj of 1 england had discarded nil all that sn sa of ceremonial and had rejected the social and joyous side of christmas fur for the serious and religious side aide they collie came to the new world to worship la in peace after their own fashion they cared little for place or wealth and nothing for liow how the rest of the world worshiped what social joyousness ss of abe thc holiday season that survived in them was gradually built up around thanksgiving lay day i tho the puritans differed from both the and tile the pilgrims they had I 1 not separated from tho church of england as wi had tile the pilgrims but had brought the church with them thein to re jford forin it uke jko the pilgrims pilgrim they lind discarded all ceremonial observances mild those of christmas were especially distasteful to them thein mhd puritans unlike tho the pilgrims were determined to make all iliew toiv world worship luc carding to the puritan idea they developed if government that was in effect an autocratic theocracy in which achurch church and ana state were one they never w want so far at as to abolish christ en tiuis 9 day as s did oliver cromwell and Ws I 1 ito un L in england by act of IX rk S iz parliament december 24 1052 for be seven v years but they practically ignored christmas christinas and made thanksgiving their lay day of rejoicing so fattier father christmas santa claus saint nicholas and kris kringle came to the american people by way of virginia VIrgin la and tile tho jolly dutch burghers of now new york ali and liow how great the change three hundred years hath wrought I 1 america may still have tho the well known and justly famous puritan conscience but state lias has nothing to do with chil church reli lind and christmas day Is a holiday of national ob observance sarv with the same meaning coall the people who has not loved a little child lie he knows not christmas day most important perhaps of all phases or of christmas celebration ts Is tile the fact that millions of people tire are think ing of the same thing at the same time Kell Itell glon which as tho word shows should be a ligament binding men together seems actually to have boon one of the greatest dividing forces in the world but tile the christmas era dle die has a humanizing appeal that pulls all men closer together each year back I 1 travel at least for one night and enjoy with tho the children in fancy this sight eight it if peace abides abided 1 with us good will toward men tie because wo we are children with childs faith again we catch a glimpse of the universal brotherhood of man tit nt christmas when tho the fingers of children pull families citizens communities nations closer together with tho same lin impulse to make tho the world happier with a merry christmas ill 1 little hands how they tug at tho the heartstrings heartstrIng heart strings sl I 1 the miracle of christmas the god in the child the child in tile the god for the moment at least makes the whole world kilt kill A photograph reproduced herewith shows bishop shipman blessing a 1922 christmas ship on its departure for the stricken areas of the near east to many a child over there santa claus claua la Is spelled A america merlea and though the handful of Rui russians who have grasped the powers of govern maent may wish america ill it Is dial groin grain and ma ala geu gen henry T allen alien who comm commanded anted american forces on tho the athine declares that a minli nuni of children in germany must be fed for days tit at a cost of nearly alx ix million dollars truly tho the santa claus clans whose name Is spelled Ainer america leall will be a busy bilgy saint r 0 an old time feature of the christmas celebration in E england bids fair to make it a belated appearance appe artince in this country the singing of christmas carols some solle of which go back to times before the memory of man mail of course the singing of carols lias has always lind had a place tit in church services in this country almost everyone knows several by heart but the new iden idea la is that these christmas carols shall be sung at corn com gatherings and even upon tile the streets set programs by trained singers denyer denver seems to have taken tho the lend lead last year and to have made a great success successor of the singing of carols over singers carried the alie message of good cheer in song to every part of the city god rest you merry gentlemen tho the carol reproduced herewith dates back at least to the seventeenth con cen tury in quaint verses it recites til the e new testament story of the birth of jesus and lias has been sung the world over by english speaking peoples the seventh and last stanza stanz stanzas als Is this 9 now to we lord sins sing praises all you within this place and with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace this holy tide of christmas all other loth doth efface 0 tidings etc thomas hardy tho famous engie english sit novelist in ills his under the greenwood Greenwoo a tree tre lias ila a chapter devoted to christmas C caroling us its practiced by the humbler peasants ile he gives the following words os as part of an ail ancient and timeworn carol transmitted orally from fit fa ther to son through the generations remember Ro ne member adams tall fall 0 aou mans alan ne remember member adams fall pro prom heaven to hell remember adam adams s fall how lie ho hath conder rind all in hell pe there for to dwell in bethlehem lie ho was born 0 thou man alan in bethlehem lie he was horn born for man kinds sake in bethlehem lie he was born chr aas mas apy I 1 V the morn our savior sa vior thought no our fauls to take |