Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1958 — Page 10

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7 & ay i JLvihfi < wlb ; ■■o ' B ■B W Joyfully, carolers sing glad V’ S tidings of the season. Sin‘•’A cerely, we wish Christmas , A Eg ff i ” peace and happiness for By/y ? you and yours. MU- DECATUR W | EQUIPMENT CO. IM ■C’ A * r : : ■iwf : 1 \ W ! W& »aiHSfcfrj ..*ii t W I \aß cLZ dflEßiffw I —" I ■■!!■■ ■■■■■■ It I HI ■■■■ R" i What’s a happy holida * mai,e °** Tinsel and Ihjy I* oll /* music an[| merr y - making, love and laughter k / ••• we wish y° u an abun * llanCß °* all thßse anil more throughout this most festive and inspiring of all the seasons in the year. F. C. BETTER Metropolitan Life Insurance — Phone 3-3680

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Urge Americans Keep Christ In Christmas

EDITORS NOTE: The following dispatch reports the results of a United Press International poll in which leading clergymen from all parts of the nation were ashed to appraise America’s Christmas celebration and offer specific advice to families on how it Can be made more meaningtai. , By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International For several years, churches have been imploring Americans to “keep Christ in Christmas.” Many Christian families ar? "ready, even eager, to cooperate. But how? What can one family do to rescue the birthday of Christ from commercialization ... to make its real significance clear to children? United Press International put the question to 10 of the nation’s leading clergymen. Their answers, as could be expected, varied widely. But there were several common themes. Virtually all of them emphsized the importance of worship — not only attendance at church services, but worship in the home, with the whole family taking part., “Read the Christmas story from the Bible gon Christmas Eve,” counselled the very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, dean of Washington Cathedral. Explain Meaning of Christmas “Let the father of the family explain to the "children in simple words the meaning of Christmas.” said the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, Episcopal bishop of California. Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans recommended “the recitation of the Rosary every evening in the family circle, and the preparation of a beautiful crib to be unveiled in every home on Christmas Eve.” Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington said Christmas should be treated as “a day [of thought” as well as a day of I merriment. “Begin the day with i the family singing a Christmas carol. . .then let each individual meditate upon the significance of the first Christmas gift, which was God's gift of his Son.” Most of the clergymen agreed that exchanging gifts is an appropriate Christmas custom — if | it is done in the right spirit. But I they deplored the giving of expensive gifts for business reasons, I for purely social motives, or for . show.

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Asks Unselfish Approach “It would be better to stop the custom altogether than to let Christmas giving, so degenerate ” said Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church. The Rev. E. C. Scott, stated Clerk of the Southern Presbyterian Church, said' the best antidote for a “selfish” approach to Christmas is to “center our thoughts and gifts on those from whom we can expect nothing in return.” And ' he emphasized: “Not merely gifts of money, but of time and companionship.” Bishop Christopher J. Weldon of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass.,. offered this suggestion about gifts: “Let those to whom you are giving gifts know that these gifts are being given to honor the birthday of the Christ child, and to imitate his example of opening the heart to others.” Asks True Significance The Rt. Rev. Thomas K. Gorman, Catholic bishop of DallasFort Worth, said care should be taken that Christmas cards, as well as gifts, have “true Christian significance.” Greeting cards that have no religious theme — and especially the so-called “comic” cards that has shown up in recent years — are entirely inappropriate, he said. Several ministers urged that Santa Claus be de-emphasized. The Rev. John T. Tavlarides of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia, Washington, said Santa Claus has been so thoroughly “identified with commercialism” that his symbolic value has been lost. Msgr. Irving A. Deblanc, director of the Family Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, suggested Santa Claus be quietly replaced by the real-life Saint Nicholas (whose name, pronounced “sinter klaas” by early Dutch immigrants to America, gradually evolved into the modern Santa Claus.") Saint Nicholas was a Christian bishop who lived in Asia minor during the fourth century A.D. He distributed gifts to children, and to the poor, at Christmas. His gifts, always anonymous, were intended as birthday gifts to the Christ child who, when he became a man, said “in as much as ye do it unto the least of these my brethren, ye do it unto me.”

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Continuing Fight On, Tuberculosis In World

By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — Tuberculosis scientists aren't happy about the public’s increasing disrespect for tubercle bacillus. Regardless of the wonderful new drugs that have made it easier to cure tuberculosis, it cannot be forgotten that TB remains a communicable disease which can menace anyone. The principal anti-TB drugs are streptomycin, isoniazid, and paraaminosalicylic acid or PAS. They (slaughter tubercle bacilli by the multitudes, but neither in the first onslaught or in many onslaughts can they kill all the bacilli in a tuberculous lung. Three to six months of daily drug taking are usually necessary before the patient's sputum contains no bacilli. This means lung destruction has been arrested and the patient can be turned out of the hospital, since he can no long er transmit his disease to others. But he may well contain bacilli still. They are “sleeping" but will awake and multiply. Then lung destruction resumes and he is a TB transmitter again. That happens, of course, only if he stops taking a drug. He must not stop for a minimum of 18 months. Millions Are “Positive” Another potential menace to public health is the fact that 35 to 50 million Americans are “positive” to the tuberculin test which means their defensive chemistry once engaged tubercle bacilli successfully. They were attacked but didn't succumb. But bacilli “sleep” in many of them and many awaken and make them both tuberculous and TB-spread-ers. Practically all the new cases come from “positive reactors.” Still another danger is that of the estimated 80,000 active anti, inactive cases of tuberculosis in the United States — ong, half unknown to public healths authorities or private physicians. TB is conspicuously a waxing and waning disease. An active case is one in which the disease is on the upswing; when it swings downward the -case is inactive—until it swings up again. To have some 400,000 of these unsupervised “unknown” carriers around spreading bacilli displeases public health authorities. On Way Out They and tuberculosis scientists don't want to panic anyone, and have no need to. It can be demonstrated mathematically that tuberculosis is on its way out in the United States- and Western Europd, and certainly the chances of any healthy person catching it are infinitesimal compared to what they used to be. But so long as tubercle bacilli exist in any individual, family, conCmunity, city or natipn public health is endangered in some degree. Despite the * relatively low estate of TB today, the federal, state, and local governments, plus private organizations such as the Christmas seal supported tuberculosis societies, are spending approximately 775 million dollars on it annually. ~ This money goes to treat new. and old cases, to find the bacillrspreading unknown cases, to seek new and more effective anti-TB drugs, and to explore the remaining mysteries concerning the disease and the bacilli. Tuberculosis

scientists and public health authorities would like a knowledgeable public, rather than an indifferent, complacent one, in order td wipe out the disease sooner than it could be otherwise.

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