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5 , Gf 4 san EA) PL AHR .-..EEATURES nt sp The Daily Times-Gazette oo. oSRAWA WHITBY , * 'PHE OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WEITBY GAZETTE & CHRONICLE (Establshed 1863) v1 , Tides-Ciagette 1s & of the C Press, 0 Daily A the O Dailfes Association and the Audit Bureau of The Ostiadian Press is exclusively entitied to the use for s despatches in this paper credited or Reuters and also the og Tights of special A. B.-ALLOWAY, President and Publisher 7. L.'WILSON, Vice-F and Managing DI 'M. MEINTYRE HOOD, Managing Editor + ~SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Port , 24c per week. By mall, outside {very areas, anywhere In Canadas and England, od as aa oe, +o Post Office Department, DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION for NOVEMBER 9,138 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948 To all our readers and friends, we extend sincere good wishes for a happy and joyous Christmas sea- son, observed in the spirit of peace on earth and goodwill to all men. | The Christmas Story (St. Matthew 2. Ito 11) Naw when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. Saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the King had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem' with him. ; .And when 'he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born, ¥ And they said unto Him, in Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet. And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda art not the least among the princes of Juda for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. "Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. - And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, Go and search diligently for the young child, and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. When they had heard the king, they departed; and lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy, And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child, with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped Him, and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts; gold and: frankincense and myrrh. (St. Luke 2, 8 to 19) : And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by 'night. And lo, the angel of the Lord: came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. , Aud the angel said unto them, Fear Not, for behold I bring you geod tidings of great - joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the |: - Lord, ; And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall : find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel 'a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Er ~~ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth "peace, goodwill toward men, * And it came to pass when the angels were | gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us nbw go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing Which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto ug. : « And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger, : ~ And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying whjch was told them concerning the child, "1 . And all' that heard it wondered at those heh were told them by the Mary ry] pl}: these - things, and th he phi | Lord." The Meaning of Christmas How beautifully simple, yet how ri¢h in meaning, are the Christmas carols that are sung lustily at this joyous season. Take for example: "Hark, the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King. Peace on earth and mercy mild, ~ God and sinners reconciled." Not only was the birth of Christ super- natural and altogether uniqye because He was "born of a virgin" but also because He was welcomed by an angelic host and was given honor befitting a King, which He truly was, : The real purpose of the incarnation is well expressed in the two last lines"of this simple stanza. Christ came-to bring peace to man- kind as He provided a means by which "God and sinners" might be reconciled." - The message of the "angel of the Lord" who appear&d unto the shepherds who were "keeping watch over their flocks by night" was a 'very definite one: "I bring you good: tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people, for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the It is the Saviourhood of Christ we would remember at this glad season. We would emphasize it because it is too often over- shadowed by the glamor and tinsel and the pretty platitudes which we all enjoy at the festive season. Someone has expressed th thought in the poetic lines: "He did not only come to teach, It was to save He came, And when we call Him Saviour, We call Him by His name." May each one of us at this happy season not only "come and adore Him" as the sweet Babe of Bethlehem, hut also recognize in' Him "Christ the Lord" who came to "recon- cile God and sinners" and who has made peace for us "through the blood of His cross." Hearts In Right Place The immediate and overwhelming re- sponse made by the people of Oshawa. to the appeal of The Times-Gazette for funds with which to buy a specially-equipped wheel chair for a crippled Oshawa man shows that the citizens of this community are ever ready to respond to an appeal which |f tugs at the heart-strings as'this one has done. In less than twenty-four hours from the time the appeal was made, more than enough money had been donated to provide the chair for this unfortunate map, with sufficient left over to take care of some of the needs of his wife and three young chil- dren. Thus a little seven year old girl's faith in Santa Claus has been more than justified, because in her innermost heart she will be- lieve that it was the immortal saint to whom she made her plea on Sunday last who made that wheel chair possible. Perhaps she is nearer to being right than older people will believe, for it is that spirit of sharing with others that is typical of Christmas and of Santa Claus which puts it into, the hearts of men and women to help in easing the burdens of the afflicted and sorely tried. The ready response shows the hearts of the people of Oshawa are in the right place, and on behalf of*this needy citizen 'and his family we extend sincere thanks to all who contributed to this worthy fund. eo A Bit of Verse eo CHRISTMAS EVE Christmas eve that hallowed time Children sing and church bells chime Sending glad tidings round the earth' The wondreus news a holy birth. A little babe the Saviour came Jesus was this infants name Who came salvation man to give That all believers evér live. On, a bleak cold night in Galillee A brilliant light did wise men tee Guiding them to lowly stall To worship this tiny baby small Brought they gifts of matchless worth Offerings to this holy birth Shepherds worshipped by their sheep While little lambs lay down in sleep Let we then both great and small . On our knees in worship fall In homag: to our heavenly king All good men their anthems sing. ---W. J. Brown e A Bible Thought e There's a tumult of joy O'er the wonderful birth, For the virgin's sweet Boy Is the Lord of. the earth. And the star rains its fire While the beautiful sing, For the manger of Bethleheru Cradles a King "When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman .; . to redeem ..," (Gal. 4:45), ; { Looking Around The World By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Tell you a Christinas story? Why, sure! It's a pelasure, because I'm happy over being able to spend this Yuletide at home. Being among your loved ones at this season is a wonderful privil- ege. Your vagabond reporter knows, { because during the last generation he has spent many Christmases in strange places far from the family fireside. I can't remember oll my Christ- mases but there were, for instance, the front-line trenches in the first world war. If you were lucky there was a tacit truce between the hos- tile lines in recognition of the day. Then you joined in Christmas car- ols, and exchanged cakes and oth- er good things from home with your buddies. There were Christmases in Eng- land; they always followed the Dickens tradition, and the carol singers -- they still call them "waits""--wout™ do their songs be- fore your windows, hoping for pre- sents from within. Most of the waits were small 'folk, their noses pink with cold, who poured out their young hearts in the certainty that you wouldn't overlook their of- ering. Among the most cherished Christ- mases of them all was the one I spent in Bethlehem, ' I gazed across the rolling fields where shepherds were "keeping watch over their flock by night." I stood in the cave beneath the Church of the ..dtivity where tradition says the manger was. There I lived again my child- hood days in the old Vermont Par- sonage where my carefully-guarded treasures included colered Sunday- school cards depicting scenes sur- rounding Jesus birth. 80 our story might run on, but the important thing is that this year we are with our folk at home. Moreover, I believe in Santa Claus, in token of which faith I shall hang up my stocking tonight. Bet you a shiny new penny I get a present, too. And here's wishing the same good fortune for you all. BLACK MARKET Berlin, Dec. 24--(AP) -- United States officials said Thursday night that huge amounts of grain and meat are being diverted to the black market in Western Germany, threatening a serious shotrage of rationed foods despite bumper crops. Too many Germans are us- ing grain to make luxury bakery products and fatten animals which command big black market prices, the officials contended. FIRST CRASH Fairbanks, Alaska, Dec, 34.--(AP) --Ten men were killed Wednesday night in the first crash of one of the United States Air Force's big new four-engined B-50 bombers. The 60-ton sky giant, an improved version of the B-20 superfortress which flattened Japanese industry, grached and burned on a training flight. FIND WRECKAGE Greenwood, N.S, Dec. 24--(CP)-- Bits 'of wreckage, believed to be from a light plane missing since Wednesday with four persons aboard, were found Thursday in Minas Basin, on Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy shoreline. Morden; about nine 'miles-from the entrance to Minas Basin, said they had heard an aircraft overhead and sounds of an apparent crash at sea. Portraits By James J. Metcalfe I Love You More I love you, dear. throughout the year...In every gentle way ++.But even sore J think of you ...When it is Christmas Day.. Because it is a time of joy.. Around the lighted tree. ..And all my happy moments are...The ones you share with me, ..You always help my heart to hide. . The disappointing things. ..And take away the smallest tear. Misfortune ever brings.. You 1jft me up above the clouds .. However dark the sky...And make me smile and say hello. .When I would say good-by...And so although each day you are...The darling ] adore. When Christmas comes around. my sweet. .] love you even more, Residents at. Business Spotlight By FORBES RHUDE Canadian Press Business Editor . + .+ Tired of shopping: well, 365 days of it are coming up and it will be well to get the shelves in order, for the world promises to come calling for about everything Cana- da has. That paragraph was written a year ago and it was true, and there is. surprisingly . little difference in what one might write today. 'Okay, there is talk of falling Bri- tish contracts. (Not seriously fall- ing as yet, let us remark in paren- thesis). Buf we are a country capable of producing a great deal of food, and absolutely we are living in a hungry world--hungry except for us and a fe'v- other favored peoples. If we don't find our way out of that don't Jot us throw the blame on anyone else. We have food, - minerals, wood products, and products of the sea, and we can do a bit of manufac ture. We are, along with the United States, the most prosperous people on earth, and in the known history of the earth. Folks were buying Christmas cards and gifts Thursday and didn't pay much attention to whatever money they might make or lost on the stock markets, and so the mark- ets,» were quiet. . ~ DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE- . ' a . Mac's Musings We welcome The opportunity The festive season offers, To express Our appreciation Of the friendship And goodwill Of those. friends, Who have been kind enough To note these daily musings, And tell us how "=. {They liked them. There are many ways, In which one can Reciprocate The kindly greetings Received at this time, To spread abroad * The general feeling Of goodwill linked. With Christmas, There is no gift That man can give More precious and More significant Than just that gift Of kindly feelings, That radiate abroad To give happiness To others. That is the gift We wish to share With our readers, So that one and all May know the joy Of happiness, not alone On Christmas Day, But throughout the year. And so today, * Our musings end With the ever old But ever new message, A Merry Christmas And "God Bless Us Every one." ® 45 Ycars Ago The town council has made plans to have the ratepayers vote on a plebiscite regarding establishment of waterworks for the town. Oshawa Christmas Fair, held in a large tent on the common in front of the Willlams' Piano Company, was a great success, Coal is now selling in Oshawa at $6.50 to $7.00 per ton for Scranton anthracite, Evidence of a coming industrial depression are apparent by cuts in the wages of agricultural implement factory employees. REDUCE CONVICTION Winnipeg, Dec. 24--(CP)-- The Manitoba Court of Appeal Thurs- day reduced the conviction of mur- der against 70-year-old George Hrynyk, Vita, Man. farmer, to manslaughter and sentenced him to 10 years at hard labor in peniten- tlary. Hrynyk was cenvicted Nov. 3 by an Assize Court jury and sent- enced to be hanged Jan. 21 at Hgadingley provincial jail for the yonet stabbing of his 37-year-old son John, | Civil Service Salaries (St. John, N.B. Globe-Telegraph) The Civil Service Federation of Canada has taken up the case of the Dofninion Government em- ployees, and in submission to the Federal Government has urged that the standard of living of the civil service workers be improved by means of salary increases or a cost of\ living bonus. There has long been a suspicion in the mind of the general public that the civil servant is worse off than his counterpart in industry or private business. This suspicion will be confirmed by a study of the sub- mission made by the Civil Service Federation, showing moreover that this condition has existed' since long before the war years. The rapid rise in the cost of living since 1040 long ago swallowed up and nullitisd the 10 per cent increase in wages which was finally granted civil service employees last year. The plight of the civil servant with a family, bad enough before the war started, has become incom- parably worse since, It is necessary only to cite the salaries paid to Grade 2 clerks in the civil service who constitute the large majority of government workers, to realize the injustice under which they suffer, The starting salary of a Grade 2 clerk is $1,440 a year--at the end of 2 years, his salary is $1,620 a year. Most of these workers are married, male veterans, Compare this wage with the steel plant laborer's pay. After two years' service with rigid examinations, the civil service worker . receives $135 monthly salary; the laborer's pay at the steel plant is $197 per month, In- numerable instances could be cited of the wide variance in salaries paid in other braches of private in dustry and private business. Under the present salary scale, no civil service worker with a family is able to keep up with the - cost of living or begin to maintain a home and provide adequately for his family. The claims of the civil servants for higher pay or increas- ed bonus are well bsed tnd in fact salary readjustments should have been effected long ago by the Do- minion Government, which is above all in a position to know that the cost of living increase is no myth, but a constantly rising index, and that its workers have been underpaid for many years. A condition of oppression such as this would not be tolerated for a moment in any private industry. Christmas Brighter London, Dec. 24 -- (CP)--Chris- tians throughout Europe today looked forward to a brighter Christ- mas than they have enjoyéd in years--though generally a more ex- pensive one. The United Kingdom has the makings of a merrier Christmas this year than last--for people who can acord it. Chickens, ducks and geese are more plentiful and the' Food Ministry has authorized extra rations of some tightly-controlled foods. For the first Yuletide in seven years Britons can get plenty of rum, brandy and gin at controlled prices ranging from $6.50 to $8.50 a bottle. Buyer resistance has forc- ed some British toy shops to cut prices in half. As a' special treat, the Fuel Min- istry has told Britons to use all the electricity they wish the next three days. Ordinarily home use of electric power is forbidden during daylight hours. . Because of the King's illness he and the Queen will spend the Christmas holidays in London for the first time since their reign be- gan 12 years ago. Usually the Royal Family goes to Sandringham, the King's birthplace. In Western Germany, shoppers thronged the stores, but the tradi- tional Christma sgoose went beg- ging. Merchants were asking too much money. The French made ready for the most luxurious--and costly--Yule- tide since the war. Prices were up most 60 per cent more than last year. But shoppers flacked in, buying everything in sight. Medium sized turkeys sold in Paris for about $13 each, Paris night clubs featured champagne at $11.80 a bottle. MERCURY DROPS Vancouver, "Dec. 24 cP)-- Prairie-like weather today had the British Columbia mainland in .an icy grasp with a white Christmas in prospect for Canadas "evergreen playground." The mercury dropped to 12 degrees above zero in Van- couver Thursday with suburban Burnaby reporting eight above, and New Westminster nine. It was the coldest December day in Vancouver in 24 years. NO "EXCELLENCIES" Ottawa, Dec. 24--(CP) -- There will be no "Excellencies" in Can- ada's diplomatic corps. External Affairs officials said Thursday that Canadian high commissioners, am- bassadors and ministers abroad will forego the title "His Excellency" and be known only as "Honorablé™- HIT BY TRAIN Pembroke, Ont., Dec. 2¢ -- (CP)-- Robert - Briscoe, 38, of Pembroke, was killed Thursday when he fell beneath the wheels of a C.P.R. east- bound local train, Police sald Bris- coe was seeing some friends off and slipped when he alighted, falling between two coaches. & j 1 $ Woras to warm every heart... to gladden every festive hour. or And what is more fitting hE ol ET " Tigne at this joyous time than to say in all simplicity and sincerity - Merry Christmas to Alll