New Ulm review., 1917-12-26
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Christmas day comes. this year at such
a time as to make it difficult for us
to wish our readers the usual Happy
Christmas, or to allow us to sermonize,
newspaper style. .yon the day. All we
can think of at the present moment
is that Christmas is coming but when
the paper reaches our readers, Christ
mas will he thing of the past. House
mothers will he going about the house
picking up scraps of paper and other
refuse from the floor, tripping over the
already half-discarded toys of the child
rem, packing away gifts which have
been received but which it will be hard
to find use for. House fathers will
have gone back to work after day
of idleness in the home, feeling half
ashamed to be glad the Big Noise
is over, and wondering just how: much
the Christmas Bills will foot UP to.
The Children, having had considerably
too much to eat, are fretful and peevish,
feeling somehow or other disappointed
in the joys that Christmas brought. I
This is the way the people will be I
feeling by the time the Review reaches
them this week and it makes it rather
hard to. write an editorial that Willa
fit the temper of the readers when
right now we are still filled with the
happy expectancy of the season, and
with the feeling of .ssPeace on Earth,
Good Will to Men" that thrills through
the world in the busy days that precede
the anniversary of the Nativity. e
= In a newspaper plant there are no
more trying days the year thru than
those OF the first part of December.
Everybody wants everything done "be-
fore Christmas and the usual routine
of work must be much disturbed to
accommodate the plans of those
who have not prepared early enough
for the Christmas rush. This is probably
true Of every commercial establish
ment as well as of~the printing office
end no doubt there are many business
places as we'll as homes that need
someone to go about as housemothers
do, and "pick up the scraps and pack
away" the remains. We are all apt
to feel more or less that Christmas
season is bore and nuisance on the
day after.
So there is little use to sermonize
in paper that comes to the readers
hands when they are feeling as they
are after Santa has been and gone again.
But in spite of that, we want to say
we really believe that there is nothing
better for the old world than the annual
recurrence of Christmas time for it
does briag about, tho it may be only
for short time, feeling of kindliness
and brotherhood that is certainly not
wasted tho its results may not seem to
be very permanent.
"A reader took us to task-When. we we
wrote a couple of weeks ago about
getting the christmas Spirit" into
our hearts, Wanted to know why
we did r.: extend the season for this
kindly feeling to the wkole year round.
If we felt Christmassy the whole year
round there would be nothing different
then to distinguish the season from any
other and it would be commonplace.
If everybody was kindly and brotherly
all the time there would be no need
for preaching either from the pulpits
or from the editorial sanctum.
Half the world would lose its job if
everybody filled the heart with Christ
mas Spirit enuf to last the year round.
There would be no evils to correct and
to endure. In short, the Millennium
would be at hand and there would not
be really much of any reason for existence
because there would be nothing to strug-
gle for
So we say again that the Christmas
Spirit, tho it last but few short weeks,
is blessed thing, making of hundrum
lives something very interesting and
pleasant, and filling the heart with
kindness toward all, "a pleasant, kindly,
forgiying time as we think it was
one of Dickens story people said.
We are glad the season comes. It
paws in spite of what it costs. In fact,
~, we think the cost shows just how val
l1a,oie thing the Christmas Spirit
Is g the old world.