Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1940 — Page 13

‘TUESDAY, DEC, 24, 1940

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Christmas Rush

* By TOM HORNER YESTERDAY: Dr. and Mrs. Connelly . anxiously await the arrival of their son, Jerrq, and twin daughters, Shella and Kathleen, for holiday vacation. A big family celebration has been planned. It

is the first year all of {he children have

been away from home. The youngsters are: not ‘on the train. Martha is sure something has happened to them,

. CHAPTER TWO + DR. CONNELLY drove home as -" fast as the heavy, rush-hour traffic

- + would permit.

“Now, Martha,” he soothed, hiding his own fears, “there’s nothing

to worry abbut. There'll be a tele- |

gram or a phone cali waiting for us

at home. : Kids probably missed the |’

train. Could happen to anyone. Now don’t get all upset. No need 0 n ‘But Martha could not be com~forted. “I know something terrible has happened. Maybe one of them is sick. But why didn’t they write? Why didn’t they wire? What could have happened?” “We’ll know soon enough. .. . Just wait until I see that young man.

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rying his mother—" “Hugh Connelly, if you mention it to Jerry and spoil his entire Christmas, I'll—-I'll— But what could have happened to them?” It was a different homecoming than they had planned. The holly wreath and its bright red ribbon on the door seemed to have lost all its cheerfulness. Dakness closed in on them as they walked slowly from the car. <“Cleo!” the doctor called from the door, “the kids must have missed the train. They weren't on it. Any phone calls, messages? . . : Cleo! Did you hear me? Any messages?” Then— “Merry Christmas, Mom! Hi, Dad!” And two bright-eyed, laughing girls, clinging to the doctor, kissing him; Martha Connelly crying softly, happily in the arms of her tall, . handsome son. Everyone laughing, crying, talking all at once. And hovering behind them, Cleo, crying, too, and laughing. Standing in a half-shadowed cor- . ner, a dark-eyed girl, small, slender, watched them.

JERRY WAS the first to remember her. “Mother—Dad—". he interrupted the bedlam, “we've brought Mary

home with us for the holidays—| |

Mary Warde—she’s president of the twins’ sorority—" “Both Sheila and Kathleen have written how good you've been to them. We're so glad you .could come.” Mrs. Connelly’s kiss welcomed Mary. . “Glad to have you,” Dr. Connelly agreed. “Didn’t we meet you at the house right after rush week?” Mary nodded, but before she could -answer Kathleen broke in—“Mary’s brother is in the Army, stationed at the Canal Zone. When we found out she was going to spend Christmas at school, alone, we just made her come with us, didn’t we Sheila?” er: brunet duplicate agreed, emphatically. “Mary has just been darling to us all year, Mother. She’s been just like a sister—"

“I hated to break in on your fam-|

fly—” Mary began. oo “Not breaking in at all”’—the doctor’s words were sincere—‘just gives me an extra daughter.” “You all are awfully nice—" ‘ “Cleo,” Jerry ignored all of them —“when do we eat? I'm starved.” Jerry explained their failure to arrive by train easily, as Dr. Connelly carved the roast. go> “Val—Valerie Parks—was driving

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along, so we piled in. She had to rush on, but she'll be here Christmas.” Se “Valerie’s a grand pefson,” Mary said. “I know you will like her.” “She's not so much,” Kathleen put ‘in. “Drives a big car, has a half dozen fur coats—but I do her French for her—and she’s supposed to be a Junior.” “And when she starts ‘lowly pledge’-ing me,” Sheila added, “I'm going to muss up her mascara some day. You don’t have to live with her, Jerry.” “Val’s swell. Mary Hnky so, and she’s lived with her for almost a year. You just can't take it, kid—" : “I'm sure we'll: enjoy knowing

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subject. “Cleo has spent all afternoon on this dinner. I'm not going to let it get told while you argue.” The four of them—Jerry, Mary, Sheila and'Kathleen—dashed out of the house immediately after dinner. “Christmas shopping! Got to get you a necktie, Dad!” “Nice girl, that Mary,” the doctor commented as he settled himself before the fire, lighted a favorite pipe. I know I'm being selfish, Hugh,” artha said. “But I had hoped we'd be alone—just the family, But now that she’s here—" “Now that she’s here, we're going to see that.she has a good time, that she never feels for a minute that she’s intruding. Martha, carlin’, the child is alone; she has only a brother. - Mother and father are dead. Jerry told me. Shes been nice to the twins. It’s up to us to make her happy this Christmas. - “Don’t forget what it would have meant to you, in 1918, to have had someone to go to. We coulda’t afford to send you out to your parents ...” “I know, Hugh, only too well. And don’t worry. If Mary doesn’t enjoy the holidays, it will be no fault of mine. I'll get some gifts for her toMOITOW . . « CHRISTMAS EVE in the Connelly home was ritual. At least it always had been. There was the tree to trim. That was the doctor’s task, and Kathleen had always helped. Sheila had the house to decorate and Jerry collected the gifts, placed them all beneath the tree. Martha was general supervisor. And then, late in the evening, Jerry and His father distributed the doctor’s gifts to his friends and patients. . = There were Christmas baskets to fleliver, 15 or 20 of them—to the family down by the river, on the hill farm—those two had been goIng ever since Jerry could remem-

ber. A box of books to the county checks—to this family and that. For years it had been Jerry's greatest privilege to accom-|

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pany his father on this annual tour. Shelia and Kathleen might peg to go along, but the honor was Jerry's and his alone. .

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By MONSIGNOR LUIGI BARLASSINA “Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Dec. 24 (U. P).— {Nineteen centuries ago our Lord Jesus Christ brought us the inestimable gift of peace now unfortunately almost entirely abandoned or, rather, expelled. Peace is pure, holy and generous and therefore cannot be united with vice, hatred and selfishness which have now become fundamental principles. We must convince ourselves that purely senitimental religion is not religion and is useless to humanity. God’s Kingdom can be established only when religion rules the individual as well as society. In the time of” Caesar Augustus, the world was almost like it is today.

Dad,” Kathleen announced. “Bill Runyan is up from school with ‘Tim Scott. Shelia and I won't be in until late.”

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Dad,” Jerry added. I'd be over, Bus leaves at 9 and I'll catch the 3 o'clock train back. How about wearing your tux tie?”

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Protests would have been useless,

the doctor knew. Jerry and ‘the twins - had made their plans, and somehow. he and Martha were not included in them. Perhaps he had counted too much on keeping things just as they always had been. Jerry was grown now, he’d be finishing medical school in two more years. Youth can’t be governed by routine.

“He explained all this to Martha, after the door had slammed behind the children, He was trying to convince her—and himself, “Well, this isn't getting thre tree trimmed,” he said at last. lot of things to do—alone—and we'd better start on them.” “May I help, Doctor? I haven't trimmed a. tree since I was a little girl” Mary had come down stairs, unnoticed. gli -- “Sure—sure, Mary “Glad to have

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well-practiced, is efficacious. However paganism, known as organism resulting from materialism, is reviving everywhere as seen in the cinemas, stheaters and novels and preached openly from chairs of wickedness exciting all the lowest

With such general shameful demoralization, how can we dream ‘to recover true peace? Restore the family and society will he restored. Let us practice in all integrity the teachings and example of the Divine Saviour. These will dispel our corrupt darkness, bringing the broad daylight sun of justice who alone can begin a true era of peace.

She smiled, a soft, warming smile, strangely similar to Martha's. “I can have dates every night at school,” she said, “but I can trim a Christmas tree only once a year. How do we begin?”

(To Be Continued)

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