| Show the old settler my adear dear san Jua ners human customs and institutions I 1 if they have no fixed and definite standards dards and no sufficient leverage of maintaining those standards degenerate invariably to a point where if they are not discarded for their own utter use are repudiated and crushed out of existence for the unbearable injustice they entail on mankind the Chris christmas chrisom tm s celebration was instituted to honor and commemorate the most sacred and important event in the h history of the world but it de degenerated g e n aerated int into a fixed custom of d debauchery eb a u chery and excess the very OP opposite te of what was at ft i this is not meant to imply that there therea are not still substantial numbers of men and women who cherish the christmas season as a time for expressing their loftiest loft iest sentiments of peace on earth and good will to men and this is not meant to imply that the halloween celebration has become all bad and should be discarded on the evening of the last of october a group of children came to my door with their lanterns and their masks and I 1 had visions of many pleasant occasions which I 1 like to remember but the next morning what I 1 saw and heard was not pleasant to think about nor to remember the damage which had been done under cover of darkness if it were represented in cash would be a creditable contribution in war bonds yet no one benefited by it in the least the only purpose e served by this destruction was the momentary pleasure to a lew few narrow and depraved minis minds innocent people were left to repair their lost property revolving in their minds the sad reflection that sabotage and outlawry unpunished finished Funi shed and unafraid is becoming worse every year in the last 25 years this halloween e 7 en defiance of human rights has grown steadily worse each year has tried to excel the year before with some more daring outrage and at the present rate it is but a matter of time till it will be a very cute trick to set a mans house afire and see him come out with great alarm in his night ci othes we are fighting hitlerism to the death because hitlerism claims the right to live and to gratify its unholy ambitions at the expense of the other man bea before ore we get hitlerism whipped to a point of safety and consistency we will have to establish the fact that the wilful destruction of property is not to be tolerated whether it is done by nazi saboteurs sabot eurs or by the mi misguided youth of our own people ALBERT R LYMAN |
