Show WEEKS WEEK'S WAS I I I a at t 1 x n 3 nI Iry I- I II I f v lj fi yr lr i t i 1 7 NEST EXT S Wo We ed OJ chips and gave Sa nine fifty That leaves us UJ four hips chips on hand band better than log haYing three Sixty hrco old fashioned Christmas o C on hand Copyright 1826 26 New r York Tribune Inc The last great World Christmas Is now almost a a dim memory Its de devastations are almost for tor forgotten forgotten gotten Baby's Babye celluloid ducks are arenow arenow arenow now well squashed Her celluloid fish flAh have sprung leaks and sunk to the tho bottom of oC the bathtub Christmas cards have hao been put away in a II shoe shoo box Christmas trees have gone cone up in a putt puff ot of flame Clame and only their scorched skeletons remain in the back backard ard Atrocities given by well well friends and relatives may now be sneaked into limbo All those which have Christ Christ- Christmas Christmas mas gift written all over them their may now be ba relegated to proper under tho cellar or behind the chimney In Inthe inthe the attic aWe And with the passing or of the he knickknacks have haye passed also the passions which stirred us during the progress of ot the great World Christmas One may now possibly speak freely and frankly on the subject ot of Christmas without being cast behind iron bars bors or stamped as a atry i a pariah lit At ony rate I IDid T think try It and see cc Did the World Christmas accomplish what it net out to achieve Was It das handi-das as efficiently as o It Jt might hav have been Did capitalistic knickknack makers have hove anything to do with bringing it Il about and prolonging World Il Shall we have another Christmas like liko It In the tho future or Is there something we can donow do donow donow now to prevent it Are great World Christmases as they arenow are TOW now waged worth while Are of they they Inevitable Ine product certain phases of oC our human ne- ne ue-luro ue dig dis- disarmament dis disarmament lure turo Is universal Christmas armament a vain ot or Im- Im Impractical imy impractical Im Impractical practical idealists Should Christ Christ- Christman Christmas y man prisoners no now be pardoned Should the big department stores now cancel debts incurred by Christmas shoppers In November r rand rand and December Shall there be human restrictions in the con con- conduct con con- conduct conduct duct of ot our next great Christmas will and will anybody pay any atten atten- to them It if there are arc Or 01 shall we just drift along and let Christmas repeat itself on even evena evena a greater scale than we have known before with ne new added by mans man's Increasing In in- in Why doesn't Edward ud Bok otter offer a prize There is 15 not even a II Hague to try to do something about Christ Christmas t mas sues Cant Can't the affection of human beings be settled amicably with without out the stew and fuss tusa and mer mer- merchandise merchandise chandise bedlam of ot Modern settled Christmas settled out ot of battle as a asit anit It were wire i Yes Tea I think I hive have It all worked out I believe belleve It can c n all 1 be e settled by the creation or coinage of ot a special marker or Instrument of ot Christmas Ex- Ex Exchange Exchange Ex Exchange change In short abort I 1 would suggest that everybody give everybody cx- cx cx and precisely the tho same tame thing I dont don't care whether this thing be sphere or 01 cube or dial or disc or gold or silver sliver or brass or Iron Brass might be best beat I have o a aB friend irk no In the brass brau bras business But B no I will withdraw the suggestion tion Lion of brace b cause I do not want to be accused of ot profiteer profiteer- profiteerIng profiteering ing In this matter I want ant to serve ser mankind darn mankind Tills This standardized marker or med med- medal medal medal al or coin cola or pocket piece or piece table piece I have In mind should l have a shape that will offend no- no nobody nobody no nobody body A sphere might be bo best still a sphere would roll oft off on the floor a cube might bo be bet bet- better better bet better ter still a cube has corners an and they will wear weal out pants pockets pocket perhaps a disc or chip would be best let us say a chip And It should be practically able ablo And AntI I think It should be Inexpensive It should be some some- something something something thing which will involve no taste In its selection and something which will not invite the Inspection Inspection Inspection tion of ot the tag price-tag At Christmas as I sa say every ever everybody everybody body will Kill give everybody e one ot of these let us say brass chips Christmas will be bo merely a calm and peaceful interchange of standardized chips Instead ot of a hectic cross barrage cross ot of fragile heavy undesirable mis- mis miscellaneous miscellaneous mis miscellaneous and heterogeneous i merchandise On Christmas morn morn- mornIng morn morn-Ine Ing Ing we wc will III have Instead of or n 11 house full tull of ot strange and for for- forbidden for Cor forbidden bidden hardware furniture cloth eloth- clothing clothing ing boots and shoes and woodenware wooden and celluloid and glucose all underfoot all bewildering ering ering nothing but a neat stack ot of Christmas chips And further my scheme In- In Involves Involves In Involves tho the extension ot or Christmas to a seven-day seven holiday with In- In Interchange interchange In Interchange of oC chips or discs during the tho entire period Aunt Margaret brings over a chip each cach for Cor p papa pi and mama and each of or the chil chil- children seven dren-seven dren seven In all Father Im- Im Immediately Im Immediately mediately rushes over to the Eel Ke- lys ly's lys ly's to relay two of ot these chips to Harold and Ethel The coinage of only a minimum number of the chips chips will then be necessary as my system will III give a great turn turn- turnover turnover over on each chip Christmas will become a sort of oC game of ot getting rid of ot gifts gUts and the blessing of Dt It all will be that when the dIn dinand dinand and ond roar have subsided nobody will have ha very many In tact fact it IC anybody gives you a chip there will be nothing to prevent your our turning ur-Ing ur right around and giving It I i back to him Tak Talk about peace on an earth goodwill will to men Then we have have It Now r we have ha a a bric-a-brac on onearth onearth onearth earth consternation and clutter Some people may object that this plan gives them no opportunity to put a lot of ot thought and care into selecting exactly the girt gift entirely unsuitable for tor Aunt Jose Jess Jessor or the precise necktie which wilt give Ive Uncle Wilbur Wllbur II bur cold creeps But Dut I say that you can put just justa justas justas as a much love and Christmas spirit Into a sphere cube disc or chip chipas chipa a as you can ean Into a ruined hand-ruined alt sil silver ver platter or picture frame The truth Is there wont won't be anything but love in the kind ot of Christmas I would have th the next great World Christmas be- be become become be become come Instead of ot the he shopping suffer suffer- suffering suffer suffer-Ing Ing we now see sec we shall hoar hear merely fild admonitions to Do your Christmas chipping early The Department can quit taking Itself so seriously and the stores may cease their moan moan- moaning moaning ing There will be no broken n hearts no broken arches no hospitalization or rehabilitation problems no aftermaths no sew sew- sewing sewing ing tho the seed this Christmas of I a greater grealer and gaudier Christmas af- af afler after ter ler a year of recovery I you dont don't like the Idea Ican I call say MY Huh Hub So you want something besides love lovo for tor Christmas do you Worldly gain eh Its It's clear I haven't la any ax to grind rind In promulgating this plan llan Of Ot course I could not have hao sold said these things In the heat of ot last Lut Christmas I thought em cm ot of course I was as a conscientious oh- oh obJector ob objector jector but I didn't tell anybody I was as at the time time- DO |