St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21
Christmas Twelve Times A Year

Christmas Twelve Times A Year
If you are fortunate enough to have completed your
Christmas shopping will probably read this
before Christmas We had no choice because this weekly
paper publish Christmas edition December 81
four days before Saint Nick" is scheduled pay all of
his good" little boys and girls visit
This afternoon we found time to go back the files
of this look Christmas editorials of the past
ten years Some were good some poor and others powerful
bad Not of them inspiration for this piece
Time which has been wasting rapidly all day prepared
for what usually biggest edition of the year. finally
caught with and here trying put paper
feelings which should through mind at this period
of the year.
Most editors try to do profound job special occasions
and especially in their Christmas message to their readers
Usually they have papers the size of this they up
using either convenient Western Newspaper Union canned
editorial writing something very puerle AS many
readers know the Christmas editions usually the edition
by which the editor gets his tout of the red financially
BY the time ne has captured sod) ad he find an
driven the sales force to sell he's tired he's r"v
bounden duty!
Before the there disposition on the part of
ScoerS to suggest that the annual Christmas holiday
period becoming too commerazed Strangely since the
world OF humans has through much trial and travail
during the past four not has your correspondent
heard the old charge of too much You get
the feeling that people have been through so much
that commercial they going use the outlet of
Christmas giving to help them forget the darker side of life
The stores have been packed and jammed Despite the
shortage of prewar merchandise of standard grades and
trade the people buy and buy to give and give The
now too commerciazed is good for the people Anything
holiday or circumstance that makes all walks of
worth keeping defending against the charge of
commerciaism
AS matter of fact each Christmas we feel like suggest
ing that instead of having Christmas year why not
celebrate every month? Don't laugh Just think how
good would make you feel to have stranger say each
month IL times instead of once merry Christmas"
Instead of receiving card rich sentiment
dear friends only you would be able to enjoy
kindly printed words twelve times year. Even the much
magned Christmas ties which males coming twelve
times would allow the recipient time exchange them
readily Of could get that Christmas good
Fellowship with man into month to month existence
would forego the gift giving part of Christmas for
Notwithstanding December of heinp
the month when Dads pocketbook takes an awful peng
Christmas like the circus be the chdrens special
dish holiday Now, however, the olsers Guido the kids
celebrating Most Chrstmase bring back to us elders fond
memories of days by Suggestive of that thought
Eugene Fields "Jest Fore Christmas"
Most all the time the whole year
round there amt no flies on me-
But jest fore Christmas Pm good
There lust such thing bad kids around this time
of the Even staff members who adults become
agreeable and show greater interest around this time
of the year. It's in the air
saying in this that the year of 1915 biggest
We thought readers would want to know this
Christmas time because they the who made
growth possible The paper still growing regular
sempubc most newspapers well this tuned their
programs first to keep the effort in full gear This
most other large small is going through the
period which call reconveson preparing to play its
in the coming years which face ALL
Because the community so much YOU can be
that when wish all of readers advertisers critics
constructive and deStructve) Merry Christmas you
believe us when say really and truly every bit
of it.
We repeat MERRY CHRISTMAS to YOU and YOU
and YOURS!
And still think ought to have Christmas the year
round