| Show Forget the Cash A Thought and Prayer The countenance of Salt Lake City-or any American city-is bright at this season with glowing colored pine bough and dazzling window The sounds of Christmas pour from loud speakers the Salvation Army workers faithfully ring their shrill bells and an occasional snowfall muffles the steps of early shoppers hurrying down Main The University the city's academic community becomes at once a wholesale producer of term papers and concentrated center of pre-final beyond the the slide and the flasks is the Christmas holiday time enough for us to go home again time enough to realize that it's good to be We're going to hear cries of commercialism again this As one former Chronicle columnist will be characterized by the same unholy blending of carols with the noise of traffic in our the same temporary joy of many for gifts and the same disappointment of others for things not The objection may be valid but the we s is Christmas can mean what the individual wants it to It be sentimental can a time when we remember past Christmases and laugh or cry at the dearness of each moment it can mean joyous reunions with family and friends can mean a re-dedication to the Christian hope of everlasting after this wrote Churchman Richard L. a member of the University Board of shall go gack to our pressing back to the pressure of the daily pursuits that make more and ever more upon our And as we we could well determine to take with us the spirit of this which lights the eyes of and puts laughter on their and mellows the hearts of we is not a time to cry The blending of cash register and Christmas bells is apparently an American it is a time to give some serious though to the special significance that Christmas holds for each But after the it may be difficult to the Spirit of Christmas for college students are necessarily busy And we repeat the little prayer of Jacob Astley as a prelude to both the coming holiday and new O Thou how busy I must be this If I forget do not Thou forget |
