Arizona republican., 1920-12-26
CITY OBSERVES
 DAY WITH TRUE
 SPIRIT 1T XMAS
Joy Brought To Every Home And Needy Are Made Glad = Governor Gives Personal Greetings To Disabled Ex-Service Men

In the very spirit of the holiday, and without regard to the problems that may overshadow the work-a- day world, Christmas was celebrated n Phoenix yesterday as every Pnoenl elan would have had 1t remembereu. There was apparent during the oay and during Christmas eve the cheef fulness and gaiety throughout the clty that is the abiding feature of the an- niversary. and which. joined to a real charity for others and a recollection of the debt owed to the unfortunate makes it unique among the festivals of the world.
 The celebration of Christmas in Phoenix began early on Friday eve ming. when the municipal Christmas festivities and giving of gifts took place ill the Adams hotel. From the moment when the first children gath cred at the hotel in uproariocs antlcl- patton the holiday, as far as this city was concerned was in existence. The municipal Christmas plans had been exhaustively prepared. so that it IS doubted whether ever before were the poor and unfortunate of the city taken care of so well, while glance at the hundreds of children to whom a real santa Claus gave toys and goodies" showed that no little one had consciously been overlooked.
 The next event of the holiday was the midnight mass at St. Mary s church. Long before the beginning of l the ceremony worshippers were enter | ing the large church. and when the mass started the edifice was filled to 1 the doors. Promptly 3t midnight an augmented choir under the direction | of E. c. StuHs burst forth into the strains of Christmas hymn, and then ] into Gloria in Excelsis Deo's from i Rosewigs Mass in G" During the offertory the "Adeste Fideles, which 1 for centuries has been the Christmas song of the Catholic church, was ren- dered. The >celebrant of the mass was the Rev Father Novatus. pastor of 1 St. Mary's. and the deacon and sub
 deacon were Franciscan priests of the local monastry Father Novatus also preached the sermon. The church had been specially decorated for Christ
 mas, the feature being. as IS usual in Catholic churches, a reproduction of the stable at Bethlehem.
 Yesterday morning special Christ
 mas services were held in several Protestant churches.
 Governor Calls on Disabled
 Accompanied by jazz band and a
 couple of singers and dancers, Gov
 ernor and Mrs. Thomas F. Campbell
 spent Christmas afternoon carrying
 brightness and good cheer to invalid
 former service meR in local hospitals
 At a hospital and a sanatorium, vic
 tims of enemy gas in the Mouse I Argonne were entertained with singing
 and dancing and sprightly band music
 Governor and Mrs. Campbell greeted
 the patients, the governor. grippint
 the hand of each invalid veteran an'
 engaging him in brief cordial conver
 sation. The last place visited was tn
 state hospital for the insane, wher
 IS former soldiers were listed a
 mental cases" as a result of shel . shock. The goVernor has been takini
 a keen interest in these cases and saf
 last night a number Of them wer : showing marked improvement. Abou
 the same entertainment program wa given at tho hospital for the insane a
 at the hospitals where tubercular me-
 were being treated.
 During the day the churches of tn 5 city held special Christmas service: } so that the religious observances c the anniversary was gratifyingly com n plete. Many of the churches had hel : their Christmas giving services on tn 7 evening before. so that, with the mu :, nicipal celebration and the specis 1 gifts of the various religious and oth
 CT organizations, the charitable as a poets of the feast were exceptional ] prominent.
 Il As an added pleasure for the chi : dren. Richards and Mace, owners ( e the Strand theater. entertained hun s dreds of children yesterday mornin
 when "Rebecea of Sunnybrook Farm h was the attraction.
 g For sportdom there was a wrestlin t match in the afternoon at Tally's aren n between Pete Sauer. the Phoenix fs f vorite, and George Gion.
 F And, as important, perhaps. as an
 other of the events of the day in Phos 2 nix, was the fact that in scores ar - hundreds of homes the "Invisih s Guests''-the starving children of eer q tral Europe-had a place in the hear o of the inmates and were as surely r, = membered as if they were present z this city during the various obser7 . ances of the day.