Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1946 — Page 6

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Legion Membership Now Totals 960 The 1947 m*mt»*rahlp roster of Adam* Post 43, American L«glon. now total* 9*<>. commander T. C. Smith ann' tncKl today utter rereiving a report from Ru*«»ll Web dy. membership chairman. The regular meetin* of the poet wm held here last night, during which the report was made. Oywter etew and refreshment* were served following the meeting. Plan* were made tor a New Year * Eve dance. beginning at 10 o'clock The affair will be open to all legionnaire*, their wive*, aweeiheart* and member* of the auxiliary and their bivband*. Tic--

'ljou a /SEa ties ) thoughts of V / Christmas will \ , w. ... 5 r. t / remain with •' ‘ / you for many ‘ • _,V- g S years to come. j . ' ./< Fritz Ellsworth Garage North Second Street i'clK i* * THE BLESSINGS At we herald the approach of another Christmas season, see count our blessings in good friends and pleasant associations. It is appropriate, then, that we extend our warmest greetings and add the hope that the coming year will be the best you have ever enjoyed and that from the experiences of the past we may gain strength for the problems of the future. AMERICAN LEGION ADAMS POST 43 Decatur, lad.

| ket* areuelllna at 82.60 per couple. Food and refreshment. will be !eerved. o— ■ . WARNS WORLD 't’flMinuea From »•»*» nne) e* continue to rr,n*ume more than 3.000 calorie* daily, the report said.! there are countries in which calorie* available per capita are a-1 bout *0 percent of prewar and | some countrle* In which many i P thi* year, aa last, obtain I iea* than 1.000 calorie* per day. i These are part* of India. China and Manchuria. Malaya, Romania. I Austria and Germany.

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f«&J? Christmas. JrittuL! k \ ZS yS ("L ' fir Ar /■ f 'lc fi /flin \i 11 u ,ffce ’"***" 4 tj uIU / I rlr I we » ea wAi* // u JgV fßFfcieb year * * 54 telepbaa* •ervlre eead y»« tbelr very best wishes fer a happy holiday seanow. Citizens Telephone Co.

MERRY CHRISTMAS The Greeting is brief but it comes from our heart — Happy New Year, too. Kocher Lumber & Coal Co. * 1 % Aww ahfcjwj: \\\yw Ki 9 t W ok wi- Ifflk 9 Sr Our Sincere Hope is that all your Christmas Joys will come in large packages - - and that 1947 will be abundant in Health and Happiness. i Merry Christmas To All — LELAND A. RIPLEY Monroe, Ind. — Route 1

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Christmas,' Modern Day Carol Irving Berlin'a "White Christ* maa" haa definitely joined tL* pro* ceinon of Chriatmaa muaicl Leat we hesitate to admit ao recent a creation to the inner sanctum of cheriihed tradition*, let'* aee juat how old aom* of our Chriatmaa favorite* really are. Denmark launched the annual Chriatmaa Seal campaign againat tuberculoala in 1804; Dickena* 'Chriatmaa Carol" waa written in 1843; Samuel Clement Moore wrote 'The Night Before Chriatmaa” in 1822; W. C. Dobion, one of Queen Victoria** favorite artiata, di»patched the firit Chriitmaa card in 1843, and, hiitorically, the flrat Chriatmaa tree waa aet up in 180*. One can Imagine the flrat Chriatmaa carol—the “Gloria In E«cel»ii n of the angela. However, of our popular Chriatmaa carola today, “Adeat* * la undoubtedly the oideat. Ita origin ia controveralal: some , aay it waa a graduate of the Ciaterciana, other* date ita competition varioualy—from 1250 to IMO. Ev«n accepting 1680. **O Come AH Ye Faithful” antedatea—for example—- “ Hark, The Herald Angela Sing” (1780), "Silent Night” (1118), and “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (18M). Thero’a a lot of Chriatmaa tied up in the confident expectancy of childhood and the noatalglc memorie* of grown-ups; ao, “May your daya be merry and wbM And may all your ChriaUnasea be white.” “ A “MEBKY CHRISTMAS” .. . Seme on the read to recovery, some deemed to apeud their live* In hospitals* thousnnds opon Shoo* •and* tl WerM War II heroea are •pending Chriatmaa In heepltala again thia year. Happy deafrite war wound*, fight- | Ing veterans have entered inte the YuieUde spirit. St. Lucy Honored Throughout Sweden St Lucy’s Day, co December 3, inaugurates the Christmas season ia Sweden. On that day the prettiest girt in the household is chosen to impersonate Lucy; very early Christmas morning she will go through the house awakening the household and giving each person a cup of ceffee or some sort of sweetmed beverage. Her costume is traditionally a white dress with a red sash, and she wean a wire crown entwined with bilberry twigs—similar to the American cranberry—studded with nine candles. Liturgically. St Lucy was martyred about 800 A. D. The story goes that Lucy gave her dowry to th* Christians—whoa* courage she admired—lnstead of turning it over to her flanee. The enraged young man informed against her and sb* was condemned to be burned at the stake: unharmed by the flames, she did not die until thrust through with |* rwnL -«- •> ••• J

PORE APPEALS (Continued from Pag* 1) "Your seal must not weaken.” he Mid. “Your aid must always be ready and generous. Your eye must gase only on misery and above all on the tragedy of million* of children and young people among which hunger is slaughterlug *o many. In this manner you at the »ame time will give and receive the ineffable Chriatmaa gift: Peace on earth to men of good will.” He said that world peace wa* in “an uncertain anl fragile"

Peril apt it’s the spirit of good fellowship that prevails in the hearts of everyone. Christmas is the season when each of u. feels doser to friends and when we are given an opportunity to wish the best of all good thing* to those about us. Merry Christmas! SAYLORS BUICK CHEVROLET

no other time during the feor do I. I any of us derive the pleasure, satisfaction V and contentment we receive from the joys ) L ~ of Christmas. The pleasant associations If- -s of friends and loved ones, the spirit of • • - iS good feeling and love for our fellowman . S ore in evidence everywhere and from MM| I these associations comes a stronger con- I * / fidence in those around us. I 1 irvC' Jz !&> Christmas is important! It Is »the x—= season of sincere good will, the spirit ___ = 5 which should go with us the three hundred i l s and sixty-four other days of the year, Let us each pledge ourselves x J 1 toward this goal, j GREETINGS ■ ■ PORTER TIRE CO. SECOND & MARSHALL STREETS

state and that the four freedom* of the Atlantic charter had become a mere "nhadow and a counterfeit" of their original princl* plea. He atruck hard at the anti-clerl-callnm which haa bean spreading in Italy, declaring that "no Christian ha* the right to *how himself tired of thn struggle against the antl-rellglcua wave of the present hour. No one can ire excused for remaining with folded arms, lowered head and trem hling knee* before tUs wave." "ln»tead of advancing towar-t* a real peace." he »aid, “people in vast territories of the glohe and In large section*, especially of Europe, are in a state of constant

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unrest from •rise sooner or |*i, r T *4 of new conflicts.'' ®ba "H on* desires to , Principle, « mur P«'« throw. • n ‘» bMP in ■nd doctrine of HI. crib to cross re< ,J* 0 high mission the N <* «h- will of th* take the world from th. , u , J of error .nd the mud ~r .J, k * The I'ope'a ered to the e<,||e Ke ol " •nd to a world wide li4te -w*. ’•