Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-26
Gayest Christmas
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fallen franc might have darkened
the day, was by far gayer than it
has been since the war. Berlin, like
wise faced with an economic crisis,
echoed the French capitals revelry
to a less degree, and Moscow well
coined the return of prosperity after
lean years of famine and civil strife
with the gayest Christmas since the
Czarist days.
The United States celebrated more
quietly. The north and middlewest
had a white Christmas and there
were flurrieS of snow along parts OF
the Atlantic seaboard an dthrough
some of the south.
President and Mrs. Coolidge, in
Washington, set the example for the
| nation with morning church, Christ
| mas dinner and a quiet day in the
White House with their son, John,
home from Amherst. New York and
| Chicago, after Christmas Ewes of I'M
wonted gayety, deserted the streets
for the day except for church or
| charity.
In Washington, New York, Lon
! don and practically every European
capital pulpit speakers in their
! Christmas sermons hailed the Lo-
carno pact as a harbinger of peace
and a cause for universal Christmas
: cheer.
A Just Peace, was the subject of
a Christmas sermon delivered by the
| former German emperor in his cha
teau at Doom, Holland, where the
Christmas festivities were attended
by his family, the servants of his
former members of the Dutch no
bility.
! Although religious services were
held throughout the Christian world,
there was no lack of worldly scenes.
In Moscow long lines of thirsty Rus
slams waited their share of the new
forty per cent vodka and outside the
labor exchanges were other lines or
unemployed and hungry.
Paris cafes were crowded with
jewellers, while the liberal press re-
viled the costly celebration and de-
nounced the scandalous scenes IN
Montmartre while soldiers are dying
in the Riff and Syr.a."
Berlin suffered Christmas tree
famine. Many of those who could
afford it went to the country Tor
winter sports. London streets were
generally deserted during the day
but theatre crowds sailed forth IN
the evening and dances were heio
in many of the hotels.
In Rome, the Pope spent Christ
mas with members of his family
,.anaiuad thnnSa ndS
of messages from all parts or the
world.
In New York there were gifts Tor
tho moor. feasts for the sick and
church services after the denomfna-
tional traditions of the polyglot mil
lions.
Bowery missions served dinners to
hundreds of the homeless and jobless.
In the jails the usual discipline was
relaxed, turkey dinners were served,
and religious services held Dinners
were served and gifts presented to
1900 inmates of institutions under the
department of correction, and two
magistrates adjourned court early to
pay a Christmas morning visit to the
prisoners in West Side Jail.
The first religious ceremony of the
day was the midnight Christmas mass
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5000 persons. The mass was celebrat-
ed by Monsignor NJ. ]. Lavella, and
cable message of greeting was read
from Cardinal Patrick Hayes, who is
in Rome. A special pontifical mass
was celebrated at the cathedral at IL
o'clock this morning.
The Christmas sermon delivered by
Bishop William T. Manning at the Ca
thedral of St John the Divine was a
plea for entry into the world court
and a denunciation of the political in
tiuences" which he said ARE at present
holding us back
Few hearts beat unhappily among
Chicago's 100000 as a result of the
coordinated effort of relief agencies.
Christmas baskets were passed out
by the thousands.
Grand opera stars were heard for
the first time in City Hospital when
group of stars from the Chicago
Opera Company pushed a piano from
room to room and entertained the
patients. They also visited the
Speedway Hospital for war veter-
ans.
Chicago said Merry Christmas by
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