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$ 4 BA THE OSHAWA TIMES, F riday, December 22, 1967 : SILENT NIGHT (Ke Silent Night! Holy Nightt All is calm, all is bright, Round yon Virgin Mother and) Christ the Saviour is born Child | Holy Infant so tender and mild, | Silent Night! Holy Nizghe! Steep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace, Silent Night! Holy Night! Shepherds quake at the sight Glories stream from heaven y of C) Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah, Christ the Saviour is born, {Son of God, love's pure light, Radiance beams from Thy Holy} Face, With the dawn of redeeming | grace, Jesus Lord at Thy birth, afar {Jesus Lord at Thy birth. THE HOLY AND THE IVY (Key of F) 'tne holly and the ivy when; The holly bears a berry as red they are both full grown Of all the trees that are in the) And Mary bore sweet Jesus wood The holly bears the crown. Chorus: The rising of the sun, the run- ning of the deer. The playing of the merry organ, Sweet singing in the choir. IT CAME It c ame upon a midnight clear That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the! earth, To touct: their harps of gold. Peace on the earth, goodwill to) men, From heayen's all gracious/| King, The world in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies) they come, With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world. Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing, And ever o'er its babel sounds The blessed angels sing. But with strite, The world has suffered long Bencath the angel strain have rolled, the woes of sin and CHRISTIANS AWAKE (Key of F) | Christians awake, salute the happy morn, Whereon the Saviour of the world was born, Rise to adore the mystery of| - love Which hosts of angels chanted from above, | With them the joyful tidings first begun Of God incarnate and the Virgin's Son, Then to the watchful Shep- herds it was told, Who heard the angelic herald's voice 'Behold | And the whole world give back | as any blood Christ | For to do poor sinners good. |-rne holly bears a prickle as | sharp as any thorn |And Mary bore sweet Jesus | Christ 10a Christmas. Day im the morn. UPON... Two thousand years of wrong, | |And man at war with man hears not, | The love song which they bring, O hush the noise, ye men of strife, | And hear the angels sing. | | The love song which they bring, O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing. And ye, beneath life's crushing | load, | Whose forms are bending low, Who toil. along the weary way, With painful steps and slow, Look now! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing, | O rest beside the weary road, | And hear the angels sing. | For lo! the days. are hasten- | ing on, By Prophet bard foretold, | When with the ever-circling | years, | Comes round the age of gold. | When peace shall over all the } earth, Its ancient splendors. fling, the song, | Which now the: angels. _Siwg. In Jail At Christmas, Silent, Suspicious Day By DAVE STOCKAND WINNIPEG (CP) -- Come share the silent and suspicious night that is Christmas. spent in prison. But don't bother waiting up for Santa. "If you're in the damper for Christmas, that's it. If you're on bread and water, you're on bread and water .. . actually a meatloaf diet in most places. They don't come down with a special Christmas din- aer. .... "There're not very many people saying. Merry Christ- mas because there's not much to be merry about. [ don't think I've ever heard guards say Merry Christmas, not even to each other. They don't like working there, not on that particular day unless they're some kind of sadist.... "You'll notice that every- body becomes quiet at Christ- mas particularly, At New Year's the place is torn apart, literally. You yell and scream all night, but at Christmas Eve you hardly hear a sound in any of the pens I've been im. . 'There'. 's really no relaxing of the rules. If anything, they seen to tighten up because they're afraid of riots. Noth- ing is safe in your cell. There's no sanctuary because they're constantly fanning and searching and looking for brews or pills or anything they can find, .. ." BUGGED BY CAROLS Our guide to the inside Is named Jim. At 34, his prisom years are mercifully behind him, and his credentials are the eight, nine or 10 Christmases he spent inside (it's easy to lose count) in a merry-go-round circuit of Canada's jails, re- formatories and penitentiar- les. How does Christmas come to prison? It tiptoes in with fugitive, sadness, Says Jim: "Coming up be- fore Christmas, maybe two weeks. before, you start hear- ing the music on the radio and this always bugs every- one because it's Silent Night and all the other carols. "The music starts to build you up. The married men, they become more silent... more pensive. "There's a definite increase in tension, There's just a sad- ness about the place, too. You ean feel it in the air. "Guys are forever waiting for mail at Christmas time. There's a guy who's been waiting for mail and he's been in (say a year) and his wife stops writing him around Sep- tember. He hopes for some- thing by Christmas and you see a let of guys go crazy around that period of time." Im the federal penitentiaries in particular, Christmas Day itself does bring some relief from the built-in monotony of other indistinguishable thou- sands of hours that make up a year of close-packed confine- ment. There are the church serv- ices, always weil received in Jim's estimation; an extra movie; better breakfast, bacon and eggs instead of the porridge-and-pancake m ai n- Stays; jam and coffee and maybe extra butter. At the big meal later, there might be steak, although the odds would favor ham, The lucky ones might get a Christmas visit from mem- bers of their family--if the au- thorities permit it. For exam- ple, there will be no visiting Christmas Day at Manitoba's Headingley provincial jail. In the case of penitentiaries, the question is often academic be- cause many of the prisoners are serving, terms hundreds and even thousands of miles from home. Generally, restrictions are far harsher in the reformato- ries. "In a penitentiary you are allowed to buy cards in the canteen and you're able to send out any quantity," says Jim. "In a reformatory, at least the ones I was in, you don't get any. You get one Christmas letter you can send out. "If they won't let a man contact his friends, how is he going to have any friends left when he comes out? Say his wife leaves him while he's in there. He's got nothing left and he's got no reason when he gets out to stay out be- cause he has nothing." FAVORS BETTER STAFF The case put by Jim and ex-cons like him i# that Christmas cannot be consid- ered in isolation; that no last- ing good can come from a miser's measure of humanity rationed out for one or two days of the year. For openers, says Jian, bet- ter staff is needed. "The old school should be taken out of there and better people who are interested in their work, rather than just working for a living, put in. This is the only way you can improve anything, I bring good tidings of a Saviour's birth To you and all the nations upon earth; This day hath God fulfilled His promised word This day is born a Saviour, | Chris t the Lord." | 0 COME ALL YE FAITHEUL | | (Key of A) O Come all ye Faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O Come ye, 0 come ye to Béth- | lehem, Come and behold Him, Born, the King of Angels, O Come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord, God of God, Light of Light, Lo! He abhors not the Virgin's womb: Very God, Begotten not Created, OQ Come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. Sing, choirs of angels, Sing, in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above, "Glory to God" In the highest, © Come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. Yea, Lord we greet Thee, Born this happy morning, Jesus, to Thee be glory given, Word of the Father, Now in flesh appearing, © Come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. 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