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Shall We Lose Everything We've Been Building For 1951 Years? Ja J OMORROW we celebrate an event that occurred 1951 = years ago. It was the birth of that man whose life proved that
any and all men, by following his teachings, can overcome those things in human nature which, make it difficult for
men to live together in peace; and to bring out those .
characteristics in men that make it possible not only to live together in peace, but to find satisfaction and joy in
their individual and community life.
These teachings have never been fully practiced. But
‘they have been sufficiently practiced that there has been
built in the West the most hopeful civilization the world has ever seen—one that gives promise, if it is allowed to continue, to move ever closer to its ideals of human perfection. : . » On this 1951st anniversary of Christian civilization, that civilization is threatened with destruction. The Christian world is menaced by a combination of
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IF WE do not summon the strength to avert general
yar, or to win it within a reasonable time, we know that
Christian civilization may be wiped out and we shall be plunged back into that night of paganism into which the star shown 1951 years ago. : i We have faith in him whom Jesus Christ taught us to gall our Father. But as realists we know that our God Tightly helps only those who help themselves. : So we recognize that in this hour of danger, we have to do a mighty lot of thinking, of praying, and doing. : Let's start this Christmas with the thinking and the raying. Why has Christianity after 1951 years failed to gather sufficient strength and power to make impregnable the givilization which grew out of it? :% Is it because Christians have failed to see the vast
ifference between the Judean world into which Jesus was
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‘born and the Western world of today—have failed to see the
fncomparably greater opportunities and challenges which fhe Christian faces today? Is not this an hour of mortal danger because we have not fully seen and used those
opportunities and met those challenges? Se. SEE THE great difference—Jesus was born in an
occupied country, in a society governed by a local tyranny which in turn was subjected to the tyranny of a conquering empire. He and his early followers were severely restricted in the means and the extent to which they could establish Christian principles in business and politics. Christianity for a long time was an underground movement. The Kingdom of Heaven which the early Christians planted in the heart of man finally flowered in the democracy of the West. "i ; Has the modern Christian fully seen how much greater are the opportunities and challenges offered him under democracy—how Christianity under a slave society might have to be confined to an individual's life, but in a free society could be- realized in institutions and government itself? Christianity brought freedom, and freedom produced
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‘a rich and, complex society. In this complex society the
Christian's opportunity is accompanied by a necessity— the necessity of boldly taking individual responsibility in labor relations, in politics, in international affairs. Religion in a free society must be more masculine than it could be
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CHRISTIANITY is the same religion today that it was 1900 years ago. Biit we need to apply it more powerfully to the changed conditions of today. If free men turn their backs on their inherited religion and become modern pagans, slaves to the desire for things, they are as much slaves as were the subjects of the Roman Empire, If, by failing to take responsibility
for politics, they invite in the modern Nero, they should not be surprised if the horrors we see in a current film should return to America as they have returned already o the territories under Communist rule. : Quo vadis?
Christmas Suggestion
OR YOUR Christmas giving list: One pint of blood for the armed forces in Korea. A mighty big Christmas present for a wounded fighting man and his family. : ; ; It’s easy to do. Simply call your nearest blood center (LI-1441) and make an appointment. Blood is-urgently needed in Korea—now. It will be needed whether or not an armistice is signed. Men who already are wounded won't get well overnight when, and
if, there is a truce. The wounded need it, in large quantities, _
all along the road to recovery, just as badly as a man just fallen in battle. :
You can give blood if you are anywhere from-18 to 60. If you are under 21, you will need the consent of your parents or guardian.
The blood center will check your medical history and make tests to make sure yon are physically able to give blood. If not, they will say so. aly . A pint of blood is a_gift of life. And life is a mighty fine gift for a man who has offered his for you.
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When what to my wondering eyes Should appear, But a miniature sleigh And eight tiny reindeer.
A bundle of toys He had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler Just opening his pack.
With a little old driver So lively and quick, | knew in a moment : It must be St. Nick!
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The children were nestled All snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums Danced in their heads.
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KEY STONE . . . By Bruce Biossat
Christmas Will Stand
As Barrier to Tyranny
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 —To the Western world, Christianity is a great foundation stone. On it are built many enduring religions. Rising from it, too, is the West's ennobling morality, with its exalting emphasis
on individual human dignity and the brotherhood of man.
When we observe Christ's birthday, we honor the Son of God. We do more. We honor a way of life that lifts man himself to a pinnacle. Christmas is always a reaffirming of faith in our fellow men, of hope for their betterment.
From time to time, since the advent on the world scene of the latter-day dictators—Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin—we have heard pleas for tolerance and understanding of their “different” way of life. 28 8 WE HAVE been told that we must view these tyrants objectively. How -do we know they are not necessary agents in a vast social upheaval that will“ usher in a far better life for all men? How do we know they do not represent the “wave of the future”?
The men who urge upon us this kind of objectivity do not grasp the fundamentals of their own society. Our modern tyrants, worse even than their most notorious forebears, are ruthless beasts trampling human rights and crushing man’s individuality.
To condone this $bestiality even backhandedly, by declaring that it may lead to something better, is only a tortuous way of, saying that the end justifies the means. And that is a notion utterly foreign to the Christian way of life. " - "
THIS SORT of “objectivity” we can never embrace. For
“the people of the Western
world, through millions of individual judgments across the
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centuries since Christ's birth, have erected the edifice of Christendom. Those judgments were subjective—not objective. They represented the conclusion again and again and again that man was worth dignifying, worth elevating to a
realm where he could be free to work his own destiny.
Therefore, we who follow Christian tenets are irrevocably committed to a course which eschews tyrannical oppression and the destruction of
human rights in any form-or.
degree. Our whole concept of living is rooted in the subjective decision to honor God and man. There is no turning back tc the “objective” study of ways which do not exalt God and man. There is only a moving forward toward fuller realization of the Christian brotherhood of men. =»
THERE 1S no acknowledgement that the devices of tyranny can serve even momentarily as weapons advancing man’s cause, There is only endless insistence that Christian morality be our staff and guide in the grinding struggle upward to a more rewarding spiritual life for humankind.
Let our observance of Christmas in troubled 1951 tell once more of the deep faith we have in the rightness of this cause. Let it speak our denial
that any other path is worth
treading for even a fleeting second of human history.
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HOOSIER FORUM “I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
Christmas Means Beauty— MR. EDITOR: : > Christmas means happiness, for Christ was born
then. It means love, giving but not caring whether or.
not you receive. It means to love Christ and He will forgive your sins. It means beauty and friendship, bright lights and other wonderful things of Christmas. —Robert Faulkner, age 10, 970 Olin Ave.
73 = ‘A Day of Heartbreak or of Joy?
MR. EDITOR: : Christmas Day is tomorrow. For some it will be a day of joy, for others just another day and for still others, a day of heartbreak. How many Christmases have we had in war? How many times have we asked our people to give our boys and our boys to give their lives on the day Christ was born? .As on all Christmas Days during all wars, Christian soldiers n the field will try to make a snow bank serve as an altar, a silent pine his priest. : 2 We will pray and then he will pray that these prayers be inswered. And then he will pray that his people at home will do verything in their power to help God answer these prayers. Are we at home doing everything in our power to help God answer. these prayers? ° We find ourselves caught up in a war of secularism. Our church leaders content themselves with petty protestations
against one another's faith instead of bringing the faiths into °
strong unity. :
2 » ” # ” ” 2 a IN KOREA, it doesn’t matter if a man is a Catholic, Protestant, Jew. It doesn’t matter what church he goes to. If he is struck by a bullet he is either wounded or killed. He is given aid if aid can be given. He is given a burial if a burial can be given. He is given the love of man if nothing else can help. The love of a Jew, the love of a Protestant. The love of a Catholic. The love of God because he is God's creation. Because he is the brother of all men. » We at home have lost ourselves in a sparkling mist of materialism. We are building dreams of push-button living and heaping greater dreams on these dreams and all the while the principles on which this nation, this society was founded, are slipping quietly away.
o » u : » ” 2 NOBODY IS interested in principles anymore: They don’t cost money and they can't add to the beauty of a brik-a-brak shelf. We need to get the mist out of our eyes, dirty up our shoes a bit, brush the dust off that tough, uncompromising American spirit. We need to answer a few prayers coming out of Korea. « —8t. Nick, City.
‘F.D.R.’s Record’
In answer to C. D. C, Terre Haute, statement in the Hoosier Forum, Dec. 15, 1951, the following: “This week, 69 years ago, F. D. R. was born with a gold spoon in his mouth. . . . His record is very clear. . . . During a great depression he used that spoon to feed others. , . . Big bankers never give him credit for saving the country—but he gave them the credit to open their closed banks. ... In the last year, much has been said of his mistakes at Yalta and elsewhere, but no one can deny that when F. D. R. fell as Commander in Chief, he left us the means to correct them. ... It is forgotten that on the day of his death—our military power was the greatest in world history.” . : This was taken from the Alliance (Neb.) Times-Herald over a year ago.
~R. L. Hoffman, 2865 N. Tibbs Ave.
‘Political Smear’
MR. EDITOR: : : I notice you always print C.D.C.’s letters to the Forum, which
. contain nothing but smear and falsehoods, but you will not
publish anything that tells the truth about the Republican Party. I can see how you would be ashamed of their record. If Talburt gets tired of smearing about mink coats he might try what he could do about two Republican governors here in Indiana that brought such disgrace on our state, ; » * One had to go to prison and the other one was found guilty
but escaped prison through the statute of limitations.
The records in the Courthouse will show that is not smear, but truth, Your paper any more is about as petty on politics as the News and the Star. :
“Try to" cheer your father up! When he played Santa for the
neighborhood kids, his old suit fit him without any pillow for stuffing!"
In your ediforial in Tuesday's paper you are trying to blame this new inflation on the President, when you know as well as I do that the Capehart amendment is the cause of it. Some of us have a mind of our own.,- .. ==K. B, City
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And'to all a good night!"
YULETIDE . . . By Frederick C. Othman
Not Even a Mink Stirring in Capital
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—It was the .day before Christmas and all through the capital, nothing was stir-
ring, not even a mink.
I dropped in on the furrier, who remodeled Mrs.
0.’s old muskrat, and he said the mink business here was worse than bad. Some of his customers even were trying to trade in their pre-investigation “minks on furs a little less conspicuous. ; Let us not dwell this Christmas Eve on a subject so sad. Let us not even shed a tear for the unhappy plane load of my cohorts who followed President Truman to Independence, Mo., and there will - spend their Christmas wishing they'd gone into the shoe business. It is better, I think, to take a look at-the White House, now emerging from a remodeling job that cost nearly $6 million, and beginning to look like a Christmas card again, In the backyard of this mansion, not far from President Truman's back porch (which was not remodeled) is the national Christmas tree. :
,. THIS MAJESTIC fir has been strung with jungle-jan-gles and electric lights which President Truman will turn on by pushing a button in Independence at dusk, EST, it says here. This is a tale that I pre- _ fer to believe.
One of my more industrious .
comrades, who was taught as a child not to believe in Santa Claus, has delved into the bowels of the White House. He checked the telephone coms pany and the presidential electricians. This led him to the discovery that the President's tree turning on is a phony: He says, and I quote, that Mr. Truman tells the people on his radio address that he is pushing the button. And a little man in the White: House cellar is sitting there with his own ‘radio turned on. At the proper moment he throws a switch, the big tree glows, and peace and good will wafts across the continent. Truth is truth and most of the time is a great thing, but now I wish my man had stayed in the press club playing pool. The government’s industrious press agents have pro-
duced lists of what all the cabinet officers and most of the lesser bigwigs are doing this Christmas. I could repeat the word, but let's just say that the big brass is far away. » “ »
SO ARE MOST of the lesser bureaucrats, Washingtonians somehow never seem to regard the place as home. For weeks they've been swamping the ticket offices; the last couple of days they've been swarming the airport and the railway station. The powers-that-be decreed that Dec. 24 would be
a holiday so that all hands got _
a four-day week-end, Before any taxpayer figures he’s been gypped by this, I hasten to add that the clerks will have to make up this day by working next Saturday.
‘Our town, meantime, is a
pleasant place, like it used to be before the New -Deal. No traffic to speak of, plenty of room in the restaurants and seats on the streetcars. I'm enjoying it to the utmost. Seeing things I've missed all year on account of too many people in the way. My favorite is a nGeorgetown flower shop that carries as a sideline (I just saw the sign) a full line of dynamite and blasting supplies.
CHRISTMAS
WHEN joyous songs ring in
- the air... . and hearts feel light
and gay .., it isn’t strange at all, at all . , . Christmas is on
its way...when little children look in_stores . . . with eyes that seem to glow . . . the reason is that it is "time . . . for Santa’s gifts to flow . .. when wreaths of holly deck - each door . . . and tinsel comes in view . . . I don’t have to explain it all , , . for Christmas time is due . . , and when a holy spirit takes . , , the place of hate and greed . , . the season of great joy is here , , , and it’s our greatest need.
~By Ben Burroughs,
What Others Say—
GAMBLING is gambling, no matter whether a bet is made on a horse race, a dog race or a football game , . . and no matter how small the bet may be. The fact that (Sen. Estes) Kefauver and (Sen. Herbert) O’Conor have bet on the Sugar Bowl game is . + . evidence that they are two insincere hypocrites.—Gov., Fuller Warren, of Florida, on friendly bet between Senators who wagered a native product of their home states on their state
; > & & AMERICA'S plant dispersal program is a complete myth, More than one-half of our population and Foon ei of our manufacturing capacity is subject to oblivion in case of atomic Jttack.—Leonard Yaseen, of Fantus Factory Locating Service. LE
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try to give our
young medalists some new ideas.—Nellie Tayloe Ross, U. S. mint
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