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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

Christmas? Because Yule is the ancient word for wheel-referring in this instance to the path of the sun in the heavens.
 Think a moment. Is not the Scan dinavian origin of. our Santa Claus obviously suggested by the reindeer he drives? And why does he have the curious habit of entering houses by way of the chimney? Presumably because in far northern attitudes the dwellings in winter are half-buried in snow.
 Always The Sun God
 Interesting, is 1t not? But there is a whole lot more that can be said about the Christmas divinity, wher- ever and in whatever guise we find him.
 Not merely in this country and in England, but everywhere he is by origin the sun god.
 We picture him with a pack on his back. It is filled with blessings for humanity. At Christmas time, when the sun begins to come back to us from the south, we look forward with eagerness to the arrival of that giver of all good gifts, the solar luminary, whose rays produce our food and keep us warm.
 Let us go back a few centuries, to the times of the ancient Romans. We find them celebrating Christmas, at our date annually, calling it the fes- tivaI of the Saturnalia. It was held in honor of Saturn. the sun god, and was
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attended by orgies such as do not command our approval
 When the new religion, Christinity, had got a fair start, and it's priesthoo was able to rearrange things suitably, eXpediency suggested the advisability of preserving the heather festivals so dear to the common people, remaining them. and so modifying them as to eliminate their objectionable features.
 We say that Christ was born on Christmas Day, but nobody really knows the month or day of the Saviour's birth. They are not estab- lished by any Scriptura1 authority; the Gospels make no statement on the point. It is understood that the early fathers of the Church arbitrarily chose December 25 as the day, for the req son that it corresponded to the date of the Saturnalian festival.
 So here we have the sun god again not as divinity we recognize, but (if the above understanding be cor rect) as determining the date of our own Christmas. Doesn't that seem odd?
 Santa And SilenuS
 A curious point worth noting incl dentally is that our own Santa Claus of today corresponds rather closely, in a descriptive way, to the principal figure in the Roman Saturnalia-that
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
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world and wins fame and prominence as a dancer. She is sought and won in marriage bya young society man whose father resentS what he considers a mesalliance on the part of his son. Irene, however, has a series of trying incidents and events, but is weighed in the balance and found not wanting.
 Ward Crane and Charles Gerard, bearing before the camera today, SUD- port Mrs. Castle in this production.
 "Exit-The Vanp''
 The story of ''Exit-the Vamp," written especially for Ethel Clayton by Clara Beranger. is a novel one. It deals with a young wife who befriends another woman who rewards her by vamping her husband. When the wife who is devoted to her husband and children, realizes that her husband s love is waning. what does she do?
 Instead of creating scenes likely to provoke a scandal, she decides to vamp her own husband-to use her rivals weapons against herself. She l does so with success, but the process is a difficult one and what transpires makes up one of the best picture stories in which Miss Clayton has been | seen in many a day.
 Lon Chaney
 | Lon Chaney, beetle -browed and l stern-1ooking, but really a very gentle 1 person, halls from Colorado Springs. l He had a natural hankering to be an | actor; and St an early age, appeared with his trother in a play of their
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

David's marriage and that he is the father of little David. Nan dies peace fully
 The boy is taken home by Judith and appears as David is about to ad- dress his congregation. Little David, driven by some impulse, goes up to his father whom he tells My name is David" Seeing his sister present, David suddenly understands that this is his child. For a moment a struggle rages in his heart; then his better nature triumphs and he suddenly makes up his mind. Saying "I am Judas!" he tells the stunned congre- gation of his secret marriage to Nan" and acknowledges his child.
 Louise Lorraine Miss Lorraine takes the part of Jane Porter in the serial Adventures of TarzanI' She braves death at the fangs of lions and in one startling scene is borne bodily away in the trunk of Tantor, the huge elephant. She is called upon to face many wild
 beasts of the jungle. make daring leaps across wide chasms, leap from branch to branch in the upper most parts of huge trees and in one in stance clings to a slender rope While below her Numa the lion makes futile jumps for her.
 Maurice Flynn Maurice Flynn was born in New York City in 1893. At Yale his ath- letic tendencies became manifest inn mediately On the track he went in for the weights. hurdling, broad jump
 and the middle distance Sprints. AS fulIback of the Tale football team Of 1913 he made his mark as a football star.
 His first work was in ''The Silver Horde" Then followed Going Home" "Oficer 666," Dangerous Curves Ahead" "The Last Trail His first star picture will be '"The Real Man." a story of the border lands.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
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~ ORIS MAY was born in Seattle, M h Washington, October 15, 1902. & 3 At the age of three she began Asp the study of music and when she was six years old she had created such a furore in Seattle that she was given a life membership in the Ladies' Music Club of Seattle and Tacoma. She played in public constantly and herself.
 Her father insisted that she learn every kind of athletic sport, and the attic of their Seattle home was turned into a gymnasium, and here Doris spent several hours a day doing trapeze stunts, boxing, fencing and wrestling.
 She decided to go into pictures and started by doubling for Mary Pick ford in The Little American" which De Mile at that time was directing Doris did all the water stunts in that picture Following that she was en- gagged as leading lady for Charles Ray and appeared in His Mothers Boy" "The Hired Man." Playing the Game,'' 'sThe Girl Dodger," "The Law of the North "Hayfoot Strawfoot" and was then co-starred with Douglas MacLean in "231k Hours Leave," s.Mary's Ankle" "What's Your Illus band Doing?" Her latest play is s.Eden and Return
 French Heels''
 s'French Heels'' tells the story of a young and gent1y-bred girl who is forced to make her own way in the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

is to say. the roistering Silenus. the disreputable tutor of Bacchus. Our conception of his physical attributes has been fixed for all time by inn mortal poem, ''The Night Before Christmas:
 His eyes, how they twinkled! His
 dimples, how merry!
 His cheeks were like roses, his nose
 like a cherry.
 He had a broad face and a little
 round belly
 That shook when he laughed like
 bowlful of jelly
 It seems to have been deemed nec- essary to replace Silenus with some other parsonage, to be the principal figure in the made-over and decorous Christian festival. Obviously the ap- propriate substitute for a heather god was a saint.
 Nobody knows why the choice should have fallen upon Saint Mich olas of Bari, a godly man who seems to have been venerated in the Near East for centuries before Western Eu- rope knew him at all In Constan- tinople a church was dedicated to him about 560, A. D. Later on his fame extended widely, and so great did his , popularity become that in England, before the Reformation. no fewer than three hundred and seventy six churches bore his name. Of these the | largest, dating back to the twelfth century, still stands at Yarmouth. But there was nothing suggestive of our Santa Claus about the good Saint Mich o1as who in England was i venerated for reasons which had naught to do with Christmas. He seems to have been particularly re- | garded as a protector of fishermen.
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own production. He was sixteen years old at the time.
 Since then, Lon Chaney has been property man, wardrobe man, been in the transportation business and also an interior decorator. However, he has always come back to acting. He had his first screen experience as slap-sfick comedian in 1912.
 But Chaney soon found himself, and became a screen villain and a1l-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

Judith, and his weak-wiI1ed son, David to walk the austere paths of life, form the mainstay of the plot.
 Beresford is concentrated in his love for his son David. whom he has destined for the ministry. He has also decided that Judith, rare and beauti- full flower of the New England hills, who loves the fine things of life, shall lead a humdrum life of household drudgery, and that she shall marry
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
Joe Hurd. an uncouth and common

Joe Hurd. an uncouth and common place neighbor.
 David. before leaving college is se- cretly married. Nan, who had promised David not to disclose the marriage, is driven from home. and goes to New York. Judith rebels against the attention of Hurd, and also goes to New York, whereby good fortune she meets Nan in squalid sur roundings, and discovers the fact of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

round character actor. He has played in such pictures as False Faces. ''The Miracle Man, Victory" Treasure Island,' ''The Penalty" "Ace of Hearts and 'The Night Rose"
 Hail The Woman
 The grim intolerance and religious fanaticism of old Oliver Beresford, who seeks to compel his daughter,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07

A@ # That is the name borne by wy the jolly Christmas god in Holland. But nowhere else, except &E the United States.
 Undoubtedly we got the name from the early Dutch who settled the town of New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Is land. But they were not acquainted nor are the Dutch in Holland today with any such pot-bellied, roistering Christmas divinity as the one we know.
 Whence, then, did he come to us? The answer is. from England. He is. to the last descriptive detail, the Father Christmas beloved by many a generation of English children, and since ever so long ago a conspicuous figure in the folklore and literature of the British Isles.
 Is it therefore to be understood that our Santa Claus is of British origin :? Yes. and no.
 The English acquired him: adopted him, as one might say. They got him from the Northmen-the fierce folk of Scandinavia with whom in earlier
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
His Fes tival, the World Over, Celebrates the Re- turn of the Solar Lumin- ary to the North = As We Know Him, He is a Reincarnation of the Morse Deity Thor.
BY RENE BACHE,

YH RHY do we call him Santa E A Fl Claus?
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Arizona republican., 1921-05-10
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

NEW YORK. May 9-Stock trad ing today was highly irregular in re- spect to price changes and occaslon- : ally unsettled, the undertone afford ing a striking contrast to last week confident and broader movement.
 Motors and related shares were the heaviest features. sustaining eX- treme declines of to 6 points, pre- sumably because of further readJusr- ment of price schedules. In the fi- nancial district talk was heard of an impending trade war, but this was secuted in well informed quarters.
 It was generally understood in in dustrial circles that present produc tion of motors, their accessories and kindred specialties was barely 50 per cent normal
 Oils, steels, equipments and tex tiles were sympatheticdlly influenced because the motor division reacted from 1 to 4 points. Miscellaneous yielded to the same extent.
 Rails were more or less stable They rose briskly in the later deal ings on buying of the leading trans continentals and coalers at gross ad- vances of 1 to points and impelled short covering in the better known industrials, although oils showed fur
Arizona republican., 1921-05-10
Livestock
Chicago

CHICAGO, May s.-Cattle-1s.00 900: beef steers. butcher she stock. stock CTS and feeders, mostly 100 25c high CT; choice long yearlings, S9.30; top heavy steers s9.25: bulk beef steers, s7.75dS.50; bulk fat she stock. s5.506 100: bulls higher. largely s.00d6.75: calves lower: bulk vealers. ss.OO79 900.
 Hogs-37. 900: mostly 10d 25c high CT than Saturdays average; lights and mediums well sold early. others slow: top, s9.0O: bulk ss.45 a go: pigs scarce. 2564oc higher: bulk de- sirable, SS25mS.50.
 Sheep-19 900: sheep and feeder lambs. 25c higher; springs soc high CT: wooded lambs. top. s11.75; bulk s1i.00G 11.50: shorn top early, s1O.40; few here. best not sold: choice Cali fornia springs. s12.00G12.50; good 130fb. shorn wethers. SIPS.
 Kansas City
 KANSAS CITY, Mo. May s.-Cat- . .tle-13,50O; beef steers, steady to 15c 'higher. mostly steady to strong: top yearlings sS.75; best heavy steers. ss.65: bulls. strong: calves mostly soc lower: top. $500; many sales s6.5O6S.50: stockers and feeders steady to weak: fleshy heavy feeders. $40: choice stockers. SITS: all oth- CT classes steady; best cows, s6.50; odd heifers, $500.
 Hogs-12. 500: opened 10 to 2Oc higher; close, Is e 25c higher: best light hogs to packers. sS.55; bulk of sales. ss.10@S.5O: pigs 15 10 25c higher; choice kinds. S9.00.
 Sheep-16 900: sheep steady; shorn Texas wethers, s5.35 66.50; lambs, 15n 25c higher: best wooded lambs $1O.S5; most light offerings, s1O.35@ 1885: shorn lambs. s9.60 spring lambs, sf1.50; heavy goats. S3.95.
 Denver
 DENVER. May 9. - Cattle - 1900; steady to strong; beef steers. s6.75@ 500; cows and heifers. S5.5067 .00; calves sS.0Om11.00; stockers and feeders, S6.000 100; bulls. S4.000 $50.
 Hogs-14OO; market 15d 25c high CT; tops, $50; bulk. $7.65GS.25.
 Sheep-5.000; steady: lambs, s9.30 @1O25; ewes s5.50G6.25; spring lambs. s9.5O610.50.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-10
MESA YOUNG WOMEN. TAKE 40O-M|LE SEE ARIZONA FIRST" TRIP

MESA. May sE"Seeing Arizona flrst' was observed by party of Mesa young women over the past week end and the many points of interest they worked into the nearly 4e0 mile trip in the brief two and a half days time is truly remarkable. Leaving here last Friday noon they took in such places as Roosevelt, Pay son. the Natural Bridge, the Cliff Dweilers. Globes Miami WinkIeman, Kelvin and Florence and numerous other points of interest along the route. The party was cnaperoned by Mrs. J. NJ. Greer and included as it's members Miss DeLano, Miss Alice Adams. Miss Shay and Miss Dins- moore. all of who anne teachers in the local schools and Miss Cogs- more of Phoenix.
 The party made the trip in a sev- eu passenger car with chauffeur at the wheel who was acquainted with every inch of the road travelled and who knew the interesting facts about the various places visited Friday night was passed at the Roosevelt dam lodge and early the next morn ing the party departed for Payson and the Natural Bridge The coun- try in that vicinity was blanketed with few inches Of snow which added 10 the beauty of the surround ing country and the novelty of the tour.
 Fruit growers in the Payson dis trict suffered severely from the cold snap of Saturday morning. a mem Der of the party stated. practically all of the fruits except the apples being killed. 1t has been a dry season for the cattlemen. but much optimism was expressed by them over the pros poets for feed as result of the snow fall of Saturday.
 The auto party returned to the Roosevelt lodge 1o spend Saturday night. and early the next morning took in the Cliff Dwellings near there and continued on to the Globe Miami mining district The return to the valley was made Sunday. the route via Winkelman and Florence being chosen to complete the round trip.
 Civil War Veteran Dies Here
 Capt Milan c. Edson, veteran Of the civil war and a noted writer, died last Saturday evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. l.. F. Cooper. southeast of Mesa, funeral services
Arizona republican., 1921-05-10
GOLDEN EAGLE MINE
 |S ID BE REOPENED

WICKENBURG, May 9.-F'. C. Skadan of Los Angeles was in town last week on business connected with resuming operations of his mining property north of town. known as the Golden Eagle. Work will be started in d short time. This property was worked some few years ago and proved to be very good mine. With the reopening of this claim. makes that vicinity quite lively once more
 The big steam shovel of the Santa Fe is still in operation tearing down the hill west of the depot. The earth is hauled away and made into a double track roadway west of town :. With the completion of this work Wickenburg will have much inn proved railroad yard.
 Paul Harmon, clerk at the Bray ton Commercial store. was quite i'll for a few days last week, returning to work Thursday. The vacancy in the store was filled by O. R. Jaycox
 Receiver Baxter of the Central Bank has on file at the bank copy of the report of the Central Bank which any depositor can examine by calling at the bank.
 Mrs Marie Savage, daughters of Mir and Mrs NJ. NJ. Fishe" ft Mon day night for Aguila to spend a few days visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Miller on their ranch IS miles north of Aguila.
 Lou Carlebois who has had several thousand sheep in this vicinity. left last week for his summer range ir the northern part of the state. They have been shearing at his ranch two miles north of town.
 The pupils of Miss Phillips room in the Wickenburg school. comprising the fifth, sixth and seventh grades accompanied by their teacher. en- joyed a picnic on the banks of tht river last Friday.
 Mrs. Gladys Rogers of Phoenix spent a few days last wess1 visitins her parents, Mir. and Mrs. E. J. Ford
 Adolph Kirk and family of Salomt have moved into one of the Charley Miller residences on Second streel north
 Miss Marjorie Ford left last weel for her new home in Roswell, New Mexico.
 C. H. Rolfe, agent for Standard Oil company at Glendale. drove III last week and spent a day with hi: friends.
 Granville Fain of Phoenix ant Prescott was in town for few day'
Arizona republican., 1921-05-10

being held at the First Ward chapel Monday afternoon.
 Captain Edson was native of Illi- nois, but for some years past has re- sided in Florida. Giving up his res idence there recently, he came west and enroute to California where it was planned to make the future home, he and his wife stopped off for a brief visit here at the home of the latter's brother, E. F. Cooper Mr. Edson was afflicted with pneumonia shortly after his arlivaI here and he succumbed to the after effects of it last Saturday evening. He was S2 years of age.
 The captain was a veteran Of the Civil war, being a member of Com pany D, 63d Illinois volunteers, and serving from '61 to '65. Thirty-five years of the veterans life was passed in government work in Washington following the war. and since then he has devoted much of his time to writing. In 1901, he published a book on cooperative farming and marketing, and his mission to Mesa was partly in the pursuit of similar work. He had in view the writing of a chapter on the Petrified Forest of Arizona and had arranged to se- cure a part of his data here from George H. Crosby, local attorney, who is a student of that field. Sickness overcame him, however, before the work was completed.
 Funeral services for the deceased were conducted from the First Ward chapel in Mesa, Monday afternoon. MT. Crosby and Apostle Richard R. Lyman from Salt Lake City spoke at the service. Interment was made in the Mesa cemetery, marking the burial of the first Civil war veteran in the local cemetery.
 Scout Head to Attend Conference
 George A. Johnson, recently elect ed president of the Apache Council of Boy Scouts of America, departed Monday evening for San Diego, where he will attend the regional confer enoe to be held there April 10 to Is. inclusive. Delegates from California, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah will attend the conference and a special invitation to the Apache council, or ganized only last week, to send a rep resentative was gladly accepted and arrangements made for the councils president to attend. Valuable infor- nation on scout work will be avail able at the conference and members of the local council feel fortunate in being able to start their work out in this field with representation at the regional cor esntion. MT. Johnson ex- poets to ret . n to the valley the lat- ter part of the week.
 Forfeit Their Bonds
 Rather than appear in court to answer charges filed against them, three persons forfeited bonds Mon day. A Mexican woman arrested near ..z.~.- .-t.% II. = quart of whiskey in her possession forfeited her bond of S20 when she failed to appear for preliminary hear ing Monday morning. Two speeders arrested Sunday night also forfeited bonds of $5 each.
 Move to Phoenix
 Mir and Mrs. Bert Newman have given up their residence in the Trick ey apartments and have moved to
Arizona republican., 1921-05-10

last week in the interest of his sheep.
 According to a report brought m from the Paloma King mine by MT. Crawford, a very rich strike has been made. A party of interested miners went out Sunday to look the ground over and incidentally locate some claims for themselves. The Paloma King mine is in the Vulture district, and as that mine had repu tation of it's own for many years, everyone feels confident that a great future is in store for the Paloma King. This mine has only been in operation since last year.
 Mir. Musgroye came in from his ranch on the Bill Williams last week to spend a few days with his family
 Ora Haan and Pete Davis went to Phoenix Wednesday to attend the funeral of their brother, John Davis. who died in Fl Paso last Monday.
 Ed Rudolph of Phoenix. spent Monday in Wickenburg on business.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-10
GIRL BANDIT IN BERLIN

A masked woman bandit with refined voice and a silvery laugh is stated to be included in the. list of those wanted by the Berlin police for the robbery at a large postoffice which occurred there when seven masked robbers attacked the officials and decamped with about one-fourth million dollars.
 The police according to the Der liner Tageblatt, believe that the same gang engineered the robbery of this postoffice on two previous occasions when the audacity of a woman ban- dit aroused widespread comment in the capital A few nights ago. when more than one million marks in bags and cash boxes had been locked in the postoffice safe ready to be taken to the Reichsbank, the two clerks on duty were startled by the scurry of feet in the street outside. followed by the sudden incrash of the door and the appearance of three men wearing masks who ordered them to hold up their hands; four more bandits sprang into the room. and among them was a young woman who wore a neatly cut black mask. The men had their faces covered with bits of cloth
 The woman. whose suRSl mark failed to hide her bronze hair, seemed to know every corner of the post office She directed the men to the safe in a calm confident manner, and replied to an occasional question in a low refined tone She was heard to laugh when one of the bandits in a hurry to get to their car outside dropped some of the bags containing the loot. After the robbers had satis- fled themselves that they had ob- tained all the money in the postoffice they bound and gagged the officials, who were not released unti Ian hour after the crime.-Continenta Edition