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c/ EAST CENTOAL ALBERTA VOLUME XXXXII NO. 7 THE HANNA HERALD ond EAST O^TRA*, ALBERTA NEWS — THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1954 S3.00 — S1NGU COPT 7c joyful an J triumphant, once more the message of Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward M.en rings out through all the world. As it came once upon a midnight clear, may the spirit of Christmas come to your home and your heart, this Day, and bring you serenity and happiness through all the days of the year ahead. liW 1^ -, ,— . , ; PeWLL THE HANNA HERALD qnd gAST CENTRAL ALBERTA NEWS -~ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1934 Momeer of the •.*«&"" TAs. HANNA HERALD C.W2UL Darkest Africa Gets Darker • »<*r CAST CCNT8AL. ALtUrV«i NKWC ^>i^TO^s«j3g38Ss»'<*£:» By G. E. Mortimore Publlahsd by THS HANNA HstftALD All Aboard O. ft. McCrea. Editor. J. 8. McCrea, Bus. Mgr ndant weekly newspaper published .very Thursday lit the Herald ButUIni ...••• '•• .Ms?".-*;;. &]kjJ&K3/7$ffi!*%£r Authorised sa Second Class Mali by tbe Poet Office Departtoent, Ottawa. One Christmas my parents bought I get and fiy it, the three of us could me a mechanical toy. It was a little have a rare time making ths little THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1954 CIRC. 2150 tin man in a tin car that ran down man in the tin car race up and down. —I'll ' I »o= a ramp and up another ramp in a We probably won't find it. But lively fashion. there will be new toys. I hope the Christmas Greetings I liked the toy, in a way. And yet youngster isn't going to be selfish I felt hurt because my parents had about letting us play with ths-m. ON THE EVE of Christmas, man pauses from his In many respects we ore all Pilgrims, drawn given it to me. I was 12 or 13 then doily trials and tribulations to reflect upon by the magnetism of* holy places and sacred (I forget exactly). Did they think I its significance, the bitth of the Christ Child, shrines, all symbolic of Christmas and the birth was still a little boy? and "Peace on Earth, G6oa^iU-4« All Men." of the Saviour. Let us continue in the ways of There were marbles that ran along Yours Truly... the same channel as the tin car, ap As we approach the end of the year 1954, the Pilgrim, with on upward look and laborious Opinions of Hanna Herald readers striving for the holier and better things of life. pearing to defy gravity. Click! Whirr on subject of public interest. the meaning of Christmas, "Peace on Earth, The tin car and the marbles rolled Goodwill to All Men," has not been fully realiz This is our admonition as we extend to our many up and down. It was a neat gadget. ed in many lands and many nations. People are readers and friends sincerest Christmas Greetings I played with it partly to be polite, EDITOR,' Hanna Herald still ill at rest, and the clouds of strife and with the thought that is so impressively contain partly for fun. Christmas, with its mystery, ex struggle have not as yet disappeared from the ed in the following poem "Pilgrims" by Made This was the depth of the depres citement and joy is drawing near global horizon. But, we do believe, that mankind leine Miller: sion. I had no idea then what sac and children everywhere are spend rifice it had cost my father to feed has and continues to mc«ke progress towards "No longer Caesar's legions tramp ing sleepless nights thinking of the us through the year and make a wonderful day ahead. But not in eventual world peace, where the clang of the The haughty roads of Rome, No more to Tyre or Babylon cheerful Christmas. Much later. I Korea . there, children stay a- sword will be heard no more, and men will live heard how he had sold the gold case wake for another reason . they in peace and harmony. Proud kings come riding home; of his watch, and all his shotguns, are hungry, cold and desperately The routes to Ninevah are dark, as well as a great many other things lonely. Fortunate are we in a peaceful nation, to No couriers travel them; he valued highly. This year, when Canadians are again look toward the advent of Christmas, with But still the heart, star-led, shall find But now it was Christmas, and the its many, many Joyous events. It is said that ravening through crowded, gift-cram The road to Bethlehem. World seemed a bright place. A med stores, buying presents and Christmas Is a time for children. True, it is, but schoolmate came to see my presents. toys for their own children, I feel it is also a time for adults, to pause and reflect "It isn't far to Bethlehem ToWn! He was rather a sharp-mannered lad confident that they will not want a upon its significance, and vow that for centuries older than me. I showed him my new little Korean boy or girl to go hun It's anywhere where Christ comes down football, and a book. Then he look to come, it will always be for our children and And finds in people's friendly face gry on the holy day. That is why I their children a time to rededicate ourselves to ed over toward the tabic, where the am writing this urgent appeal to A welcome and abiding place. machine,stood. the significance of Peace on Earth Goodwill to you, to ask if you can bring our plea The road to Bethlehem runs right through "What's that?" he asked. All Men. for help to the attention of your The homes of folks like me and you." "Oh, I got it for my birthday last readers. Under the Unitarian Service July," I lied .miserably. Committee's "Operation Codfish", Who's Doing The Urging? My schoolmate gave me a patron one dollar will provide a daily meal ising and sceptical grin, and left. to a starving waif for two whole THE LONG - DISCUSSED improvement of the 'sents somewhat of a paradox. Either Mr. Taylor I looked toward my father, and months. After visiting hospitals and feverishly began to play with the orphanges all across South Korea bridge over the C.N.R. dam east of Hanna is a little "slack on the job," or Dr. Cross is a new toy. has finally come to a "head." Hon. Gordon E. during my round-the-world survey very persistent man, in looking after the affairs "It's fine," I said. "I really like tour last summer, I discovered that Taylor, Minister of Highways announced that the of his constituency. Just where the "urging" it." responsibility for the bridge now rests completely -^^^ASS^A/— *9*~*t the most desperately needed item in came frsm, we have our own ideas. However, He shook his head wearily. "It was the diet of Korean youngsters is pro with the provincial government, and the C.N.R. a clever thing," he said, "and I tein food. Therefore, the USC pledg now hos "nothing to do with it," other than use members of the Board of Trade and the general thought it would amuse you. But public know that a goodly percentage of "urg ed $50,000 worth of a Canadian sur the water that lies under the structure. you seem to be too old for it." plus food . protein-rich codfish! ing" did not come from either of the two min "No, Dad," I told him, "honestly In Mr. Taylor's letter to the Board of Trade By Benjamin Beveridge Codfish to Korean children is a isters, but through the Board itself, which kept I'm not too old for it. Gosh, look at great delicacy, and one single dol he winds up by saying that he has had "contin The Top Shelf it go." ual and strong representations from the Hon. up for several years. All Mr. Taylor has to do now lar will provide the gift of life to And I played with that toy, off a friendless urchin for two whole Dr. W. W. Cross, in regard to the necessity of is "urge" a construction crew to get on with the and on, for several weeks, until it'months improving the situation at this point." job of improving the bridges. This "urging" will It used toi be said that if you could I sell wrote for the background. His developed a mechanical fault, which Judging from what Mr. Taylor says pre- meet with the general approval of all concerned. get a ticket (to a play on New York's wartime masterpiece "Warsaw Con- we meant to correct but somehow The USC is still $45,000 short of, Broadway the- play wasn't worth see certo," will outlive even Beau Brum never did. The toy was laid aside. I its $110,000 Christmas objective and ing. And it is stills quite impossible mell. I wonder whether it is still lying in the money must be raised before to get a good/seat* there at curtain Water has flowed under many | some dusty cupboard of my parents' December 25th. If tevery Canadian time. But not sV in 'Toronto. There's bridges since steroscopes were first house. gives just one dollar, they will en Other' a slump; in theatrical patronage there taken into our parlors, since the That day when I felt ashamed of joy their own Christmas so much and no explanation is forthcoming— days of cylindrical phonograph re my schoolmate seeing the toy was a more, knowing that they have in EDITORS unless it is tbe current attraction cluded a Korean orphan in their giv The Poet's Corner cords and the earphones we used to milestone, I suppose.