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Symbol of Christmas
Love, The Mistletoe Rated
Public Enemy By Aussies
The flame-thrower and atomic
energy — lethal instruments bor
rowed from modern warfare—are
out to kill that ancient symbol
of peacemaking and love, the
Christmas mistletoe.
The unusual battle front is
Australia where too many valu
able trees each year have been
receiving the kiss of death from
the harmless looking shrub. Des
pite mistletoe’s popular reputa
tion as the Yuletide promoter of
romance, it is a public-enemy
parasite in the woodlands, killing
off the trees that play it host.
Australian foresters have fin
ally resorted to the flame-throw
er as a quick executioner for the
plant and are using radio-active
tracers, furnished by the U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission, to
study how the mistletoe saps the
water and mineral salts from the
trees, starving them to death.
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add —
THANK
YOU
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Christmas Mass In Rome
Midnight Mass on Christmas
Eve is the event of the year in
Rome.
Every Roman Catholic church
in the Holy City is crowded with
men, women and children anx
ious to see the processions of
church officials in their splendid
robes. The larger the church, the
more beautiful the sight. And, of
course, the service at St. Peter’s
is the most magnificent in the
world.
At St. Peter’s all the men pres
ent are required to wear evening
clothes and the ladies must be
dressed in black, thus offsetting
the brilliant beauty of the robes.
Even the guards on duty are at
tired in elegant red and white
uniforms.
MORRISON.
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