Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-12-23

EDITORIAL COMMENT
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.
W. c. Black, Editor

%T7HE Christmas spirit is abroad in all the land. Shoppers
throng the aisles of our establishments from the cross
roads store to the mammoth city department trading place
seeking and finding useful and pretty things that will convey to
those upon like thought intent, the Christmas message of love
and peace and good will. Happy children in wide eyed ex-
pectation glance curiously at the bundles that are borne quick.
ly to garnet or basement to reappear i'll due course of time upon
the Christmas tree, and eagerly survey the shop windows com
pairing their wishes with the stock in store, hoping upon hope
that good st. Nicholas will remember them when he comes down
from that mysterious region that exists as a verify in the childish
mind, Mails are burdened with tokens, express cars are freighted
with them, Christmas trees have been transplanted from the
moist woods, to cosy corners and made to blossom and bear
strange fruit in a single night. Christmas anthems will be
chanted and Christmas carols will be sung tomorrow in churches
and Sunday schools as a prelude to the joyful outburst OF
melody and praise and gladness that wells from the youngsters
hearts on every Christmas. And over all, the spirit of happiness
and good will glints and shines.
"Christmas gift calls the happy and exu1tant voices Of ex
pectant little ones, in merry challenge of one days favor. MERRY
Christmas" calls their successors to the glee and clamor and
excitement of the Christmas time, until it has come to be
recognized, not only by the child, as the time for gift giving, but
adults and the custom impressed on our minds in childhood fol-
lows US through life, and cold is the heart, no matter how old,
that does not receive a Christmas gift, with thankfulness, not for
its value, but in commemoration of the Joy that it once brought
to our own childish minds.
And thus with giving and receiving, with unspoken memories
touched with the "tender grace of a day that is dead, the
message of peace and good will, old but ever new, will be pro-
claimed tomorrow.
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tory and scout as immaterial to human happiness and welfare
the sweet story that, caught from the lips of the shepherds that
watched by night upon the plains of Bethlehem, has come singing
down the ages a sweet refrain, ofjoy and peace, bringing cheer
to all who know its truth.
IF the editor of this paper was asked to subject the press OF
Nevada to a criticism, our first reply would be its lack of
courtesy in giving contemporaries credit for original matter. We
do not mean to accuse the brotherhood of plagiarism, but IN
many cases news matter, and oftentimes editorial matter is
clipped bodily without a semblancc of credit to the sheet that
perhaps lost a lot ofenergy and gray tissue in its preparation. The
practice has become so fragrant that authorship is sometimes a
matter of conjecture with the intelligent reader, whose quest for
knowledge may lead him to peruse more than one journal
Gentlemen of the press, if we are to have the best feeling one to-
ward another, lets abolish this practice of stealing the others
ideas before they are cold, but if we have said anything worth
repeating lets give credit. The Standard editor is willing to con
TESS that we have fallen into this abominable practice and has
stolen news items at times in the past, bat our conscience hurts
us, and with the cooperation of the press of the state we
promise abstenance from further breach ofcourtsey.