Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-10

make your mouth water? It Does of coursei
otherwise you are not normal and should be put
in solitary confinement for about 4S hours be.
ginning Christmas Eve. Nature apparently created
the turkey especially for the family feasts OF
Christmas and Thanksgiving.
And here's an odd thing 1t was America that
gave the world the turkey yet this delicious
piece de resistance of the Christmas feast is get
ting scareer year by year. Not only is the produc-
ton of turkeys not keeping up with the increase
in population, but is actually decreasing year by
year. We are raising not more than some
thing like 100000 turkeys a year nowadays,
which is not enough to go around among
population of more than 100000,000. Chicago for
example, probably paid $250,000 more thiH year
than last for its Thanksgiving turkeys.
good guess is that the near future will see
us raising wild turkeys on a large scale The
experiment has been tried in several places and
gives evidence of proving successful. The domesti-
Gated turkey Is a hard bird to raise The wild
turkey on the other hand, seems to be able to
take care of himself and to multply-with room
and natural conditions. History shows that the
North American continent just alive with wild
turkeys once upon time
NTISTLETOE as a time-honored part of the
Ava festivities of Christmas may be doomed--so
the rising generation should make hay while the
shines-or words to that effect. Mistletoe is
supposed to have been sacred plant much
in old Gaul and Britain. For this reason it
under the frown of the church AS late as the
Nineteenth century it was forbidden in English
churches-and still may be! Now it is rapidly
disappearing because of Christmas demands And
top of this the United States Department of
Agriculture has declared war on the mstletoe in
the national forests and expresses the hope that
within ten years it may be eradicated You see
the mistetoe is parasitic plant, which fourishes
on the life sap of the tree on which it grows.
So the Agricultural department has declared it a
forest pest. However, the main supply comes
from the South, where the national forests are
inconsiderable. And Oklahoma remains final
refuge for the mstletoe devotee-for there it is the
state flower.
CHRISTMAS time again emphasizes the fact
- that all the wOrd-eXcept Young America
is increasingly reading the Bible. The printing
presses are busy day and night and yet cannot
supply the demand. More than 100000 vol
umes have been printed and distributed this year.
Evary day brings word of new editions of new
FORMS of new translations. There are something
like 1000 languages and dialects in the world The
whole Bible has been published in 159; the New
Testament in 1873 more; portions consisting of at
least book in 428 more From Albanian
Arabic and Bulu to Yddish, Zapotec and Zulu
almost every tongue has it's Bible Yesterday the
American Bible society gave an order for 100000
copies of six separate books of the Scriptures
Mark, Luke, John, Acts and Proverbs-each tiny
book to be sold in America and South America
for cent Today French publisher announces
an edition of thirty Volumes with Hebrew and
Greek texts opposite the French. Tomorrow there
will appear translation of some new tongue or
dialect. China, torn by civil strife, increasingly
demands the Bible. Russia is the only forbidden
ground; the Soviet authorities will not permit it to
cross the frontier
This increasing worldwide demand for the Bible
emphasizes anew that Christianity is still the dirty
ing force of Civilizations that the central fact of
Christianity is Jesus Christ-His life and person.
and that the Holy Scriptures are the fount and
inspiration of Christmas Day