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Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
WE STILL BELIEVE

The people of our world remem-
her and cherish the night with the
star hung high in the heavens when
the angels sang for all men to hear.
We bring gifts, in our world
for we believe in the promise. MOI
gifts for bargaining but gifts COM
memorating myrrh and incense
brought to a stable at an inn. For
we. too. wonder at those things told
by the shepherds; and in our Won
der is our belief, our hope, our
faith. For the people of our world
still believe in those things.
The lights CLEAN. The green
trees stand tall and straight with
their glowing decoration, symbol
of our belief. We sing of the Holy
Night when the country shepherds
were abiding in the fields, keeping
watch over their flock. And we
remember how the angel said
Fear not"
In our world we come now to the
Christ Mass, the Holy Day wher
all these things are remembered 0!
men of goodwill everywhere.
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
FOR our BLESSINGS THIS JOYOUS CHRISTMAS: THANK COD

hearts thank God for blessings in this free
America that makes Christmas celebrations and
Christmas joys possible?
There are other countries where Christmas Day
if it is marked at ALL must be observed covertly and
with no religious devotions. because freedom OF wor
ship is denied. There are countries where family
gatherings may be disrupted at any time by the
secret police where children pawns of the state,
where no one can live, or study or work, except
where and how the state DEGREES. Merry Christ
mast must have a tortured sound on the lips OF a
slave worker or political prisoner or an underfed
child in Soviet Russia
Christmas in America be celebrated more
iovouslv than in many less fortunate parts of the
world That is true despite the grim happenings II
Korea despite the overhanging shadows of war
despite the absence from many households OF sons
and brothers called to service overseas.
Instead of taking casually for granted tn
good things that we have in such abundance, VI
should take time out, this happy day to offer Divin
Providence our humble thanks.
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
BABSON Discusses Cash

There are several reasons for having larger
hank accounts: en- To have cash on hand to take
advantage of the bargains in stocks and merchan-
disc when the next crash comes; and it surely Is
coming some day 90 To properly diversity ones
securities Rank deposits should be considered an
investment the same as stock or bonds. AS the
vaIue of ones stocks increases, should increase
his hank account propOrtiOnately in order 10 nave
nroper Investigation 90 To have suihcleht LuhuS
On hand to pay estate taxes after death 100 many
families are not doing this; hence it will require
mortgage on the home or a sale of the business to
nav these taxes A person siXty-hve years Oh age
sh0uld start a special bank account to accumulate
funds for his death taxes Every year TINS lu"u
should be systematically increased
CASH AND PATIENCE
7 bavo had the responsibility of supervising
literally billions of dollars of investments lh'
rootoct nro6ts which | have witnessed have come
not from buving some definite stock when eVeFyOn'
agreed looked good" but from buying at the rlsI
time This required good old-fashioned CASH AM
PATIENCE Many an old small-town New Ehglanue
who knew little about finance has become n!iilion
aire nv merely storing up cash IN tunes IKE I'll I'll
nresent and having the PATIENCE 10 walt iOI III
right time to buy good securities. ;,
II is true that the quoted value OF CASH tOu"
is low cOmpared with the quoted prices OF mousse
commodities and merchandise but some Oay WI
500 this situation reversed, when the Value Oh OAS
will be higher than the prices OF houses luIhlCui
and all kinds of merchandise, including GOvernmel
ponds There have been times when l have eve
walked up and down State Street Boston, Trying
horrow fifty per cent on Government Bonds, al
every Banker laughed at me! or course, DeheNe
Government Bonds, but remember that you %
oven now get the benefit of them at a discount
95cz by buying certain bank stocks
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
CHRISTMAS. A TIME FOR HOPE AND FAITH

grim periods, and let us not forget their lesson.
There was Christmas, 1941. Who can forget it?
The numbling shock of Pearl HarbOr was upon u.s.
together with its sudden dsmaying proof that we
were not ready for war, and that the enemy was
General Douglas Macarthur will remember. That
year, his pathetically small poorly equipped forces
we're staggering backward on Bataan in the Philip /
pines under the ceaseess assaults Oh the Japanese
1t was a time of defeat.
There was Christmas, 1914 Can anyone forget
the Battle of the Bulge? few weeks before there
had been high hopes of an early victory, and mil
lions of families were planning for the joyous home
coming of their fighting men that they were certain
could not be long delayed. Then the Germans struck
in a desperate offensive Our troops reeled and the
homecoming hopes in many American homes were
stilled forever. Again it was time of defeat
Now we are battling treacherOus enemy. The
casualties have mounted, bringing sadness to homes
that should be filled with Christmas joy. 1t is time
of uncertainty.
But the lesson today is the same as it was in
1871 and 1914 and indeed, it has been ever since
the birth of a Babe in the manger at the beginning
of our Christmas era. 1t is that peace on earth Will
come that men of good will will triumph II Is
that out of defeat comes resolution for victory out
of doubts certainty that causes will prevail
Even in the dark days of 1941 Americans kne"
that the SetDackS Jney ndU SuIelCu "OlO Oil'J VIII
porary We knew then, and we knew again durln}
the Battle of the Bulge that ultimately we would b.
victorious.
Let that be our conviction this Christmas w
have been assailed by doubts since the setback Il
Korea There have been those who would take TN
Korean involvement a final defeat for eVeTytmh
we believe in. There have been those who wouI
appease the common foe those who have been nile
with hopeless fears There have been many VIII
say that peace cannot be achieved, and we Shout
give up the search for it.
These are the cOunsels of despair and defeatlsn
They are the thoughts of those who have foTgOtte
the lessons of Bataan and the Battle of the Bug
They are the feelings of those who have too lit
R confidence in their country and in themselves.
y But our task is not hopeless, any more than
), was in 194l or 1914. 1t must be approached Wi
81 full realization of the dangers and with full co
= Rdence in our energies and determination to S
it through.
Sc Sc This is no time for despair for believing II
the Korean involvement means the end of everythil
1t is a time, just as the Christmases of l!
and 1914, for hope and courage and faith that eve
- ually peace will come on earth, to men OF good W
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21

Christmas can mean many things
A chd's eyes, round and full OF wonder at
his first glimpse of the Tree on Christmas morning
The smell of spruce and fir and of lOg-fre smoke
and of holiday cooking in the kitchen.
The joyous Christmas services in the church
TO hail the birth of an Infart-King; and the
pounding thrill of the first exultant note OF the
"Adeste."
The giving of gifts, and the ever-new feeling
of pleasure in making others happy.
The family gatherings, and the feasting and
STORYTELLING at fabulously laden tables
The holly and mstletOe and the tinse and toys
the visits to good friends and the singing of we'll
remembered carols; and the day-lOng sound of chill
dren's laughter.
All these, and more, make up our Christmases'
and we have come to accept them as part OF normal
American living.
Merry Christmas!" we excaim. and there is
no doubt in our minds that it will, indeed, be a
merry one for everyone meet.
Merry Christmas!"-But do we, with all our
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21

Christmas has become over the years, day of
family feasting and reunion, of the giving and re-
ceiving of gifts of children reveng in toys dis
pensed by jolly Santa Claus, of holly and tinsel
and good cheer
These are all agreeable customs and adjuncts'
and there is nothing wrong with them-prOyided
they are not allowed to blot out the real meaning
of Christmas, its significance the feast of the
Nativity of Our Lord.
For without Christ there is no Christmas
Unfortunately there are many Christians who
seem to forget the feasts meaning as a holy day
and treat it only another holiday, as the rather
wearisome climax, perhaps, to feverish prepara-
tions that had in them no touch of religious sent-
ment but we're wholly concerned with buying and
selling.
Reason for much of this lies in the understand
able desire to make the day joyous occasion oy
generous giving to loved ones, and to parake there
bv in the pleasure that comes with making Others
happy.
But the JOY of the Christmas season is not dim
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
WASHINGTON Letter - By Robert Nelson Taylor


To anyone who doubts that it's time for America
to cut out the feaher-bedding the yammerlng about
social gains" the making and unmaking vi cOntrol
regulations and the pamperng OF industry Oh laDoI
and of youth that must always provide that defense
wall Of flesh and blood, two stories on TINS weeks
front pages should be shockers.
Allied officers report that expert Russian artll-
lervmen are directing Red gunfre on koreas ives
tern front and have been since the first OF NOVem-
her Chairman Harold r. Boyer of the Defense Pro-
duction Administration announced drastic cutbacks
in military aircraft production schedules instead
of the fve-fold increase that President truman
forecast last December for 1851, the years emo
will see warplane production no more thah oouOleu
This is a sickening confirmation of General Hoyt b
Vandenbere's report earlier in the month that our
planes in Korea are obsolete and msumclehl aho
that industry is providing only a "trickle oil ne"
planes. ,..
OF all the reasons assigned for our production
faiura the most significant and the most dtlcut TO
correct is our tragic shortage of engineers Today 5
Inlanes are so much more complex than even those
of World War IL that today one aircraft worker out
of eight be engineer, compared win one OUT
of % i'm 1913 In those days, only one worker III
| 600 was an electronics mechanic. Today we re-
uuire one of these hardtOtran specialists tor every
"a workers ~.
This is the crisis foreseen by the Thomas A. td-
G son Foundation which, for the past year has beer
@ working under the direction of Vice Admiral HarolC
70 Bowen to rally educators scientists and lnduS
trialists to the need for unified and intensive ell
fort TO recruit tens of thousands of school boys ant
college men to fill the gaping ranks OF engineering
Admiral Bowen did not Overstate the case Wheh II
told the Foundations conference on scientific man
mower only two weeks ago that this shortage threaI
ems the survival of America.
% There is cause for rejoicing in the kremllh lher
is very little in Washington
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21

BABSON PARK, Mass, December 2l-lnvestorS
and others are now going crazy over imitation
Brokers and merchants are saying that the Dollar
will become of little value 1t would have been SEN
sible TO talk this way in the thirtes but then no one
could interest people in imitation. Most people usu-
ally act at the wrong time about everything.
STOCK MARKET AND RETAIL TRADE
Brokers make their living by selling stocks and
tbev have found that the easiest way to sell stocks
today is to get people scared about imitation. The
idea is that as the Dollar decreases in value the
Drce of stocks should increase. This may or may
not be true-but the real question is whether the
Dollar will further decrease in value during the
next few years The Dollar is fully as likely to holu
its own or perhaps become more valuable
/ Since the Korean War broke out, the Country mas
been on spending spree. People have been urgeu
to buy houses, TefrgeratOrs, Washing machlHeS anu
even furniture with the idea that money invested in
real things" is safer than money in the bank lhls
might be true if we can agree on what real things
are With the constantly increasing new Inventions
and changing styles. the only real thing is gooO
. land properly located growing communities
II would be a good thing if the banks would unite
10 sell CASH as the dealers organize to sell cars
HISTORY OF INITIATION
, Initiation has nearly always been with us. From
the earliest DAYS when Kings increased their Spehu
ing money by clipping a little gold or SlFer on III
coinage imitation has been going ON. 1t is true ina
IN terms of s35-&g values. the Dollar is now wort
# only "a cents compared with lO4 cents in 1894; bu
i'm zoos the Dollar worth only 70 cents, atte
= ,bich il came back satisfactorily the abovemeI
j tinnod 1O4 cents During all these centuries, tn
+ business cycle has gone on just the same. irrespe'
H. rive of initiation
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE HAZARD

Reports already coming in oil
fires, property damages and loss OF /
life from combustible decorations,
particularly lights and Christmas
trees, should be taken as a serious
reminder of the tragedy that can
come from careless handling OF
these essential symbols of the hol-
iday season.
Christmas trees are dangerous
beyond ordinary realization unless
great care is exercised to keep the
resin and pitch-flled branches
from coming in contact with bulbs
or defective electric wiring which
could ignite them. All too many
Christmas fires which have destroy
ed homes and made a time OF sor-
row out of what was intended as
joyful celebration have been
caused by sparks from trains
placed about the base OF the tree
or from cotton or paper ornament
which have not been freproOf
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for behold l bring you good udings of great joy
which shall be to all people
IL For unto you is born this day i'll the city
of David Saviour which is Christ the Lord
r. And this shall be sign unto you; Ye shall
find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying
in a Manager.
10. And suddenly there was with the angel
multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and
saying.
a. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men,
u.s. And it came to pass, as the angels were
gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds
said one to another Let us 90 even unto Bethle-
hem and see this thing which is come to pass, which
the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste and found Mary,
and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger.
H. And when they had seen it, they made
known abroad the saying which told them con-
corning the child.
49, And all they that heard it wondered at
those things which were told them by the shep-
herds
10. But Mary kept all these things, and ponder
ed them in her heart
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ed.
The average Christmas tree IN
the flash of a second can become a
flaming torch, filling the room IN
which it is placed with flames be-
yond control long before IRE APP
paratus can arrive. The presence
of children, the inclination of many
families to leave the lights burning
for long periods while unmatched
or even overnight, all contribute TO
multiply the hazard.
Dangers outside ones home null
tipIy fearfully during long holiday
periods, as the mounting totals OF
traffic deaths sadly attest. By all
means see to it that your home is
kept safe. c...
So be careful with that CHRIST
mas tree. 1t is a JOY and an indis-
nensable item for many American
families at Christmas time. But II
; must be handled with the utmost
= caution.
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ignoring the indigenous fact that
he lives on a farm-Or perhaps Tor
that very reasOn-the friends OF a
countryman often send him ten
DAYS before Christmas snug-look-
ing cards on which a big red barn
dominates a snOwbanked dOoryarO.
It pleases the countryman to know
that he has q barn so much like the
one that arrives in the envelope,
and that he can see a snow lands
cane when he opens, not the enve-
lone. but the kitchen door. More
than that, it pleases him that he
has around him so many scenes
and objects that are put on Christ
mas cards. When it comes to the
things that greeting-card folks
think go with Christmas, a farmer
has all the priOrities, without alo
of rural free delivery.
There is. for instance, nothing
easier to find on Christmas cards
than a "Yule log" In the country
lust now "a big chunk of whit
oak from the woOdpile can suppl
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
CHRISTMAS BY CARD

this substantially Another card
specially is portly gentleman
carving a fat goose. Although
farmer plans nothing nearer to a
goose than a nine-pound rooster
or a big fat turkey, he knows a
neighbor down the road a piece
who keeps a nice bunch of geese
and would sell one.
Best and truest, of course, OF all
the Christmas card settings, lar
mer knows that his big barn con-
tains a manger-even if it will be
empty on Christmas Eve. Coming
back from chOretime on one of
these December evenings of early
dark and longer icicles, a country
man looks above the roof line OF
his house to line of trees that
( the quick night has already almost
hidden. Why, he thinks. why above
this forest of trees in the East
shouldn't he see next week a
Christmas star? And entering the
warmth and brightness of the Kit
chen, he sees on the mantelshef
fine array of cards.
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
Average Farm Now Biggest in History
With Less Help

The American Farm is 3513 acres larger than 1t
was in 1870 has a half horse less, a quarter of a
tractor more, about the same number OF RESIDENTS
i'm the cowbarn and half chicken more ACCORDING
to the Bureau of the Census
Compared with 1910, there are 10000 less farms
but the total acreage remains about the same Near
" a million and half more farms we're electrlheu
and 22l 600 more installed telephones from l941 to
1850
We don't know whether the hired man lit out for
the city or whether he got fired, but during the dec
AIDE $4,000 workers quit the soil. TINS Is propaDS
tho most significant statistic in the farm census
Whether we like it or not. the day of mechanical
help and power farming is here. Fortunately moS
Americans like it,
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

of mankind. All around this com
munity are visible the signs Of the
spiritual rebirth.
Christmas is what you make IT,
It's good TO get around, to mingle
with the crowds in the streets or
the stores. The Christmas spirit is
contagious. It's infectious. once
YOU are inoculated gloom taxes
wing and you know that beyond
the black clouds Of war and ag-
/ gression the sun of hope and falth
and good will shines as It olu at
the dawn of the Christian era.
There is reason enough 10 oe
heavy-hearted. Yet Christmas, Well
Christmas is Christmas. ANA II
was not made for children alone
II was made for all of us.
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one and a modicum of the other
remain in the human heart the flu
ture cannot be wholly without
promise.
We should like you to know as
this Christmas approaches that
this corner of the paper, or any
corner, for that matter, is not COM
mitted to despair There is a great
deal of comfort encOmpassed by
the words 81 believe!" When you
believe you have hope and you have
faith.
In this spirit. therefore, in the
spirit of hope and faith, and char
! ity, too, we ask you to look beyond
the clouds as we wish you Merry
! Christmas.
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21

In the midst of wars alarms
there are comfort and satisfaction
in the knowledge that for the very
Young. at this season, Santa Claus
rules the world. A world of imag-
erv. a dream world peopled Oy
strange characters, pure of heart
and generous to a fault.
RemOrseless time will wipe OUT
the dream world. The innocent
child of today will become the ser
ious-minded citizen of tomorrow
And the trials of his age VIII O.
real and ever-present; ana the
problems of his age will cry oul
for solution.
Once again the Christmas season
approaches it's zenith. Hope ant
faith will surge again in the near
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21

What is your explanation? Or are
you, like the rest of us, confused,
bewildered, flOundering in sea of
doubt and indecisiOn?
A friend of ours this year sent
out no Christmas cards. 1t had
been her custom to mail many
cards conveying the seasons greet
ings. The money she normally
would have spent this year went
to charity.
It wasn't that this lady had sud
denly gone sour on the world.
But thinking the thing over she
concluded that as people we have
| been retreating further and FUR
Their from the real meaning o
Christmas. Instead of a holy da!
| it's become a holiday.
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
LOOK BEYOND THE CLOUDS THIS
CHRISTMAS SEASON

Simplicity was the mark Of the
stable in which Christ was born.
But we have strayed far and away
from the simplicity of the Nativity.
This is not to say that folks of to-
day should live as did the early
Christians more than 1900 years
ago. They had time Of it! What
we lack, it seems, is the simple
faith of the shepherds who came
from their fields humbly to place
their little gifts at the feet of the
Saviour.
Perhaps a greater Power than we
know on this earth has decreed a
period Of punishment in the hope
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but it isn't. We were new
er any great shucks at
preaching or mOralizing.
On this the most gen.
orally accepted anniver-
sary of the birth of the
Prince of Peace, America
/ is girding for war. And
as we prepare for what
conceivably could be a
war of humiliation we
/ look across the Pacific to
find Americas sons fight
ing to save themselves
from capture by COmmun-
lists who know no God.
The incongruity of it all
| or;xyOc Won tho ChiVnrG
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of bringing us to our
senses. We may yet, in
the fullness of time, sing
of peace and good will
and mean it.
In the last few weeks
you've heard Christmas
Carols coming out of hun
dreds of amplifiers. Next
Wednesday they go back
to the music racks for
another year-their beau
tiful sic forgotten
along with the message
their words convey.
Hope may be dimmed
and faith dulled. Yet as
long as a flicker OF
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
Reds Accept Buttle-Line AS Korean
Ceuse-Fire Boundary

Five months and fifteen days after the first truce
meeting at Kaesong, members OF the UN ana hed
truce subcommittee smiled at each other, initiated
a man and filed out of the circus tent at PanmunJOm
to tell the waiting world cease-fre line for the
heart-breaking Korean War had been agreed upon.
That confirmation would come a day later from
the full truce committee seemed only a formality
But the fact that the line was established on the
basis of the existing battlefront, and hence an
obvious and fortnight UN victory, meant crossed
fingers in the Allied camp.
Brigadier General William P. Nuckols who mas
held the difficult role of information officer through
the months, told newsmen: I'VE hope that setue-
ment of item 2 Uhe truce-line) the first substantive
issue resolved does not establish rate OF speed LOT
the negotiations The UN Command is neither OPP
timistc nor pessimistic, just hopeful
To make the fnally-accepted line effective the
truce neeotiators must settle the remaining PROB
lens within 80 days new line must be drawn
based on the existing battle line II the negotiations
fail about war, of course, resumes NO one nov
expects a pre-Chrismas truce, even though 1t Il
still possible
Milford chronicle., 1951-12-21
The Tortoise And Hare Fable Again

Biggest news from England since the overturn
of the Labor Government, bigger perhaps, is WOro
from London that the British have heated house!
II is one of the buildings at the big atomic research
station at Harwell. ..
The fact that it happens to be heated by atomic
energy instead of wood or coal or peat might llu
oato that our long-suffering cousins were simply
waiting for the ultimate method. But we stlll get
a hig kick out of throwing another log on the hre.