The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-24

i'' h'mHelVeh out Tor llncons birthday; there are
Jews who do not recognize January / rs New Year,
Day: there Germans who glumly reserve theii
own sentiments Arnistice anniversaries
hut the spirit OF Christmas. though the day com
memorates the birth Of a Saviour not
acknowledged by several creeds and
races still has melted away any sur
vlyal OF differences, Christian,
Hebrew, NJ ohamm d n n-aii are
touched by day which shines with
human Manifestations Of an inspired
good will, expressed in giving %D~ ca
This age so largely devoted 10 get mS,%
ting finds is reaction crystazed n.y. NCgsK
once year. at least, in tho beautiful
business OF letting go IN place of rak-
ing In. And II is a grand thing that
men and women who worry so much
about how TO take things away from
others should reverse their systems
Of thought and cudgel 'Aeir brains over
how and what and to whom TO give
many at considerable sacrifice oil
with Kindness In their hearts and peace in their
souls
That the day Is set and unanimously accented
Is splendid, for the Impulse thereby has n Rivan
point to which It may work up through the weeks
OF preparation and anticipation, and even the most
needless and careless may not forget Newspaper.
and other gemipublic institutions start consn,cuou
drives for mercy and relief The department s,orss
announce toy exhibits and circusea and they adver
tlse widely their wares. especially dlspIaved o,a
particularly purchased for the Christmas trodo
Millions upon millions Of dollars' worth NJ ooroha,
disc are bought and sold on tho Christmas ,doo
alone, proving that after all even banks ana a.,
shrewdest merchants and cannIest manufact,ror
will stake heavily their solid faith in such nm In
practical thing as national period OF eenerors
giving
Nowhere In the finty economics which dao, g.,
the natural laws of supply and demand ia tbaro
mace mention OF such contingency. Yet thero
isn't sounder business hazard extant than invest
ing In goods on tho presumption that the adven,
OF Christmas Will clean the shelves Prosperous or
pinched America never throws down its Santa
Claus. Theatres may starve restaurants NAV feel
the pressure, but the whole populance VIII extend
itself where gifts can be bought
People who wouldn't recognize solemn obIira
tion to pay S5 for value received to n brotherin
law or cousin win jocundly buy him a $40 present
and would feel like horse thieves II they didn't
Crabs who wouldn't tell you the time of day at anv
other time. send you cooing messages OF affection
and shameless wishes Of happiness Fat men crowd
through 1ammed streets and store aisles, dign-
fled nabobs carry bundles, stern autocrats plot
ahead to surprise the help whom they bully all the
other weeks-it is a letting down of many bars. all
around. and a lot of otherwise suppressed human
ness eftervesces to the surface
Windows lighted up with blazing flrs, kids
are running about on new skates and with amazing
new toys, tramps look seey overfed. llmousnes are
drawing up before doors of novels night leters are
rying about the land with nothing more to say IN
n hurry than that this wishes JOY to that one.
men who have millions are bepmng over 50 neckties
and weird nkstands and initiated kerchiefs that
they will never use, wives who haven't kissed
their own husbands I'm months are al ii again. ele.
vaior boys respond TO the buzzer gold fountain
pens flow glibly and the commonplace mean IN.
compromising values OF this evoluted and circum.
scribed life don't count It is period OF reprieve
moratorium, gush and love. 1t s the best vacation
Americans get, far more beneficial than the annual
Summer hegtra of mosquito,slapping and trying TO
make a canoe 30 sidewise,
In no other land has Christmas taken such a
tight hold it has in temperamental, emotional
America. Surface observers regard us as phleg-
matte, sensible, rather stoid folks, bu, 1t takes
the Christmas season to prove that We are voclf.
erous poetic children bubbling with heatlfic benef-
icence and doggono good scouts when We get our
minds Oft the eXactions Of existence long enough
TO turn toward making others happy with the same
irresistible zeal that put behind making our
selves erficientland successful
In SHOW business" It is a foreseen factor that
the week-before Christmas is the low peak OF the
season, There are many off weeks. but there are
three that may be anticipated regularly Holy Week,
the week before Christmas and the week in Louis
vile, Some troupes pay only half salaries; some
lay OFF, If they can; others take the certain loss:
none plays 10 normal receipts II Christmas falls
on uonmatinee day 1t means added perform.
ance but that doesn't pull the gross to par Christ
mas afternoon isn't bonanza, is that evening
Citizens are mostly occupied In trying TO mako
mechanical miniature railroads run or visiting
grandma OF Illuminating the tree or trying to smoke
tte gift cigar while wearing the gilt slippers loung.
ing robe and crayst simultaneously.
Paprqua the syelte danseuse paid her com
pany and Cancelled he week, making 1t a holiday
for all hands Papriqua was unusually committed
to Christmas as glad and benign calendar de.