Roosevelt Standard | 1953-12-24 | Page 11 | Germans First Lighted Christmas Tree Here

Germans First Lighted Christmas Tree Here German immigrants, homesick for the traditions of their native land, were the first to decorate', Christmas trees in their homes in the United States, according to tradition. Historians believe It was about the end of the Revolution that the practice began to grow in the colonies. Before that the Pilgrims forbade Christmas celebrations on the grounds they were pagan. And a Massachusetts law in 1689 subjected sub-jected anyone to a fine who observed ob-served the day by feasting, re-' training from work or in any other manner. TB deaths in Japan have been cut 70 per cent by the United States Army.