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CHRISTMAS AGAIN
We have never ceased to believe in Santa Claus. If
we can’t conjure one out of the imagination we have to
become old Kris Kringle ourselves in person and one
time nearly lost our pristine beauty when our cotton
whiskers caught fire on a candle. That night while the
excitement was still in the air, we tried on the new neck
tie the wife had bought us and everybody thought the
fire had started all over again.
Mighty good thing for us oldsters to keep our faith
in Santa Claus. Otherwise we might get old and crabbed
and evniele. Our wrinkled old hearts would shrink to a
nutmeg and we would go around cussing all things and
saying the country’s going to the pot or perdition or
wherever countries go.
And just as sure as God made little goslins, just so
sure everytime Christmas comes around, we remember
vividly that first pair of copper-toed boots with the red
leather tops and the new sled that was all painted up red
and yellow.
It was in later years that* we caught the real spirit
of Christmas and that spirit abides with us yet.
One time we were alone in a big city far from close
friends and relatives but by some strange freak of for
tune we had money in our pockets. It was a real Christ
mas Eve with the snow coming down in great flakes and
the newsboys were crying the Christmas editions of the
papers and the Salvation Army Santa Clauses besides
their kettles on every corner and holly wreaths in all
the windows and tired shoppers struggling homeward
with arms luli oi bundles.
Weil, we took on a few shots of Christmas cheer
and started out to have a Christmas all our own. We
bought the entire stock of every newsboy we met and
t Jd ‘em to give ‘em away, and we dropped a dollar in
e\ery Salvation kettle we met and found a couple of
blind men and made ‘em happy with some nice, new sil
ver. Gee whiz, that was Christmas. Nobody gave us any
thing but a smile but that warmed the carkles of our
lonely heart and we felt we were bringing a little dash
of happiness into the hearts of many that had seen too
little of it. We faced the new day with a lighter pocket
book and a so much lighter heart. It had been a real
Christmas because there is always a warmer thrill in
giving than receiving.
And that brings us down to a thought akin, a thought
we would like to implant in the heart of everyone who
reads these lines.
There is a sort of giving far different from that
of pouring out your wealth in costly baubles that are
soon broken or cast aside, a giving well within the means
of the veriest pauper on earth. It is the giving of the
kindly thought for your neighbor and the witholding of
the evil thought and the poison word. Forget the idle
chatter and rumor. Think well and speak well of your
neighbor until he is proven guilty beyond a shadow of a
doubt. That seems to us to be the real Christmas spirit,
directly in accord with the teachings of Him who was
bom in a manger on Christmas Day, 1929 years ago.
It is said that all radio announcers must be college
graduates. We had feared as much.
Our idea of Santa Claus is for our creditors to show
er us with receipted bills on New Year’s day.
Some hotels are now installing a radio in every
room, which might not be a bad idea if every room
were sound-proof.
Will Moses lead the “wild jackasses” out of the wild
erness?
Maybe those supposedly seismic disturbances record
ed in the United States were onlv heels slipping from
va mns bureaus at Washington when Herby said “Step
on it!”
Seward will be treated tonight
to view one of Alaska’s 2 best bas
ketball teams in action, against
the “Ponies’1, when the Fairbanks
and Seward high school teams
meet in the S. A. C. gymnasium 1
in the first of the two games
that will be played tonight and
tomorrow night.
Coach Theodore R. Gentry,
who’s gentle personality has di
rected the Sectional Champions
for three years, will present to
Seward basketball followers the
gold and purple clad athletes who
delivered that awful mauling to
the Ponies at Fairbanks last sea
son by running up a count of 93
points, to the Ponies’ 33. But the
chances that Fairbanks will re
peat that mauling tonight and *
: tomorrow are slim, as the chief
! “mauler”, Johnny Butrovich, is
safely tucked away, so far as
Sewarc! is concerned, at the U.
; of Washington where he may put
' his “awful” scoring tactics into ’:
practice as much as he pleases, ■
and good luck to him.
But, Butrovich had a thunder
bolt partner who helped him “do j
: what he pleased” against all i
contenders from this section last |
; year, Austin Gibbs, who’s name |
j is greatly respected by all those1
who read the pre-season’s box j
scores. And Gibbs hasn’t joined j
j his colleague as yet. As a *mat- j
ter of fact, Gibbs stepped into j
! the shoes made vacant by But
rovich, and will be seen in the
: pivot position this evening, and
it behooves the Pony guards to
j keep him about 25 yards away
from the basket, or tie his hands
behind his back, if they expect
the scorekeeper to have enough
chalk to mark up his points to
night.
On the other hand, the Ponies
now have a chance to find out
what they can do against this
fast aggregation, with the games!
staged on their home court- The
; whistles wil be handled by Groth
and Kunz, it is hoped.
The Steamer Starr, Captainj
Anderson, of the San Juan Fish
ing & Packing Co., returned to
port last evening from the West- j
ward, bringing a fair number of!
passengers most of whom are en
route to Seattle. With the excep
I tion of one time when a gale held
the vessel up for a few hours, the
j past voyage was an ideal one. The j
! passengers included:
H. K. Carlisle, A- L. Mackintosh,
Miss Marjory Doran, Mrs. J. Nov
ekoff, John Erickson, Mrs. C. Han
sen, Mr. Chapness, Ray Olson, J.
Moin, O. Johnson, A. Kvaness and
Eva Wick.
i The next sailing west of the I
vessel is scheduled for January 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Neville
and family have moved into one
j of the apartments over the Blue
Shop.
It is reported that Mrs. Green
field, well known and popular
| stewardess on Alaska Steamship
Company steamers, passed away
in Seattle a few weeks ago.
Harry West and John Smith, of
the M. S- Bavaria, returned to
port yesterday and will remain
over the holidays. The vessel left
here 19 days ago for the Westward
trapping grounds and it is report
ed that the boys did very well.
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