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Show Mj CHRISTMAS AND THE SOLDIERS , Bia ; j ! A Wght girl who has been helping In itCC'E W Cross work said recently : "One of vf fT urrlflcea ls going to be the giving up '. lij tl run.nmas presonts. Usually T make Al a mat many, but this year I am &L 10 ronfne m' SifLs to tho soldiers.'" VCn? Klrl l,10"S't. she was doing a bravo, beJcS? ''''TlfJclnB thing; and so she was, in a $35 ,V Out Iho trouble is that she. like so ,1$ brothers, did not look far enough into j 5 future. i aof the girls In the United Slates .jV. decide to do the same thins, not j''TouId C'hrlslmas be a dull time, but r? jt"1 probal,l,ty there would be a panic T'w raany mnths had passed. .! ''WARRANTED ECONOMY '- t0 kocp :i country in prospcritv owsecp money In circulation. It Is well -jL .S'J wlblc about our Christmas giving. :1lZXTt' of UH should spend our money w ',Ja""' or trifles. But there ure none ' poor that wc mny nt have a ' ite),mm)r of yeara Si'ls in tho vari- J -srT.?AS htvc Slvn the montli before 1 ffi' 10 sell,n8 read- for a grc-it VJ 'jfilTf troc for thc children whom i ,?liClautR othenvisc might forget. ') hoyea"i that they have worked 5' J ilali , CT0Wn aml It has become al- I iSwiPMsLWc t0 hold a Christmas tree irjuoa. because there are so many N : , carcd for that a tre is too : itcA .'l crtakln'- ar,d o tree could he )( -j lua ,Woul11 hoJd the hundreds of 3 lij n ,tocklnK8 antl dols and baU J.rhH . applcs and oranges and all 0 Www Blles that they brought i T. for lhe children. fQtt... y W0Uld ,,ot b0 outdone. Now A ! Bm..r! IM.nj? Xmax trccs on Christmas 5 X tfnan,'1 V10 " Clausen arc legion. ' A tilT l. n',thout Christmas. Wo -SitHi m, !akc our Klft3 Pensive, we HkitCi. s,vc11 enrol cssly nor rcckloasly. .S! " t0 wlthhold thQ Christ- : W BCVforc ,n a11 lhc a5cs has there ? 1 T ."i.nced for tho Christmas spirit ;ot? ,B, la,,d tl,an at this tlmo of ihi oire-sorrow for thc heroic J n ,lcross l,,o sea, caro for i "idiM nrcmaln bchlnd to he fed and f, ; u a"a comfortod. r ?lrl,laa F'nld lhat she was goini? w tea i Ae ioldlrH as well as those f Inlm ,r 0Wn country, then she ni C S,,, iavo. becn dlBplaj-taEr the ' for . 1 nnlrrate us If wo arc to ' jll'ektt hcrrcmcn abroad and lh0 they "1 1 MM3!110 many w,o declare that i UnoK5.00 Christmas glfU this ;i trtac l?r, for a moment consider -I 1 M ProhaWv SOme oxavagancc that Hlf it icro1?: ror aU the Chrlstmu f 'or u8 to do Just now 3 not to stop giving, but to give with both hands and to give cheerfully. Wc need cheer more than wc have ever needed It In all the history of the world. Wo need the brightness of music and thc crimson of the Christmas bells to help is keep cheered up In this time of strife and sacrifice. Let us not forget what Christmas stands for, for now. If ever, wo need good will towurtl men. Surely we do not need to give less, hut rather do wo need to give more than we have ever given before. CHRISTA1AS GIFTS. Only lot us try to give with discrimination. discrimina-tion. Let us forget the gift which has been customary because .of somo false standard of living lot us fail to send tho costly present to some one far more able to buy tho gift than we are to mako it and Jut us conflno our giving to thc men abroad and thoso whom they have left behind be-hind thorn, to the lonely and friendless, to the home circle and the poor whom wo find "always with us. Lot us glvif as never have wo given before, be-fore, and let us make this Chrlstmastldo a time of cheer, of courage, of faith and-of generosity. This is not thc year to cut out our Christmas giving. |