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PEACE AND GOODWILL

Christmas is a season of rejOic-
ing, of generosity, of the exchange
of tokens of affection and esteem,
of worship and of warmth of heart.
In all its aspects one phrase recurs
most cOnspicuOusly, peace on
earth, goodwill toward men," It is
long since the established leitmOtif
of our Christmas celebration. Those
words are on countless cards, in
hundreds of carols and anthems, in
millions upon millions of homes.
1t is small wonder that we should
yearn for peace and that this ar
dent desire should give a poignant
reality to what is often a readily
accepted phrase. Our peace is
threatened on all sides. At best it
is uneasy. At worst it is shattered.
So deeply are we immersed in
strife of all sorts, indeed that the
very word peace" comes to have
negative aspect. We sometimes
think of it merely as the precari-
GUS absence of outright military
clashes. In this mode of thought,
if there is no overt killing there is
peace" Such a concept, surely
is false and sterile. For peace is a
presence, a positive thing. It is q
frame of mind, mode of behavior
a social and individual attribute, q
goal and its joyful contamination
The meaning of our Christmas
phrase, in this respect, lies in it:
entirety. 1t is peace and goodwill
Peace because there is goodwill
Peace that arises from and is root
ed deep in goodwill. Without tn,
goodwill there is no peace. Witt
goodwill, peace is the natural, tn
inevitable, accompaniment.
This is true in the lives Of ma
tiOns today just as it is true of eacl
one of US as persons. The threat
to peace in the troubled wOrl
scene arise so largely from the lac
of goodwill. Other things, such a
greed, ambition, the lust for pow
er, suspicion, revenge, have bee
allowed to OYershadOw and crow
out that essential feeling of one
ness with ones neighbor that is tn
heart of genuine goodwill. Whe
an individual or a nation honestl
wishes to see all neighbOrs happ,
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theless continues to follow a policy
laid down in 1915 by White and
his grOup-such men as V. Frank
COe and Harold Chaser, who have
been named as Soviet agents by
Elizabeth Bentley.
In the light of what we now know
about Harry White, it seems
criminal folly not to reexamine this
policy very carefully indeed.
Here are the facts. In 1915, under
the urgings of White, Coe, CHASER
and Co., the United States made a
remarkable decision. Enemy-Owned
property which had been seized was
not to be returned to it's former
owners at the wars end. This
decision directly reversed the U. S.
policy following World War 1, and
ran contrary to every principle of
international law and tradition.
In 1947, Italian nationals pro-
perty was returned, but to this day
we have not returned the property
of German natiOnals-nOr, it APP
pears, do we intend to do so.
! This behavior seems inexplicable
when we consider that the West
German nation has become one of
our most valuable allies in Con-
tinental Europe. Yet, while we pour
billions of dollars into the German
economy, we are treating their
nationals more shabbily than we
have treated any former enemy.
The reason for this seeming para
dox may be clearer if we think back
to the so-called MOrgenthau Plan
now revealed to have been the
brain-child of White and his
friends. The purpose of this plan
fortunately never adopted in whole
was to reduce Germany to The
weakest country in Europe, a course
which would have played direct
ly into Soviet hands. One provision
however, which was adopted, called
for confscating all German assets
abroad, and that is the essence o
our Alien Property policy today
1t appears that the ghost of Harr,
Dexter White still hOvers over Yves
German recovery. The Administra
ton has a clear-cut duty to re
draft this inequitable law, in justic
to a country struggling to rebuilt
itself as our ally.
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friends have made the Milford Chronicle what it is
today.
We owe what success we have accomplished to
our friends, and subscribers - to you, who in the
past have shown such friendlness, such generosity
and such staunch support. The publishers deeply
appreciate the friends the Milford Chronicle has
made At this time when the spirit of Christmas pre-
vails when the gladstone period of gift-givng is
uppermost in the minds of the people, it is only
BETTING that we should express our appreciation in
this manner
mas of your lives and in doing say it is from
the bottom of heart
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OUR AMERICA

Christmas points up the differ
ence between Communist way Of
life and our way as does no other
season. Christmas is based on love.
Communism is based on hate. Love
is the Creator. Hate is the De-
strOyer.
Yet human nature is so consti-
tuted that hatred is a greater adj
hesive than love.
The hatred of nearly a billion
persons, under the Hammer and
Sickle, for their fellow men threat
ems to outlaw civilization.
If we had to reduce civilization
to one word, we would call it
Kindness"
Nature, herself, from whose ma
tural resources man must wrest a
living by his blood, sweat and
tears" is hostile, cruel, resistant
and rigid.
Since the battle of man against
nature is universal and relentless,
the battle of man against man is
burdensome and useless.
1t leaves no place for sanctuary,
and kindness is the exception, not
the rule.
The Twentieth Century world
pTides itself on having attained an
unprecedented degree of "civiliza-
ton"
But the Twentieth Century man
exhibits an unprecedented degrees
of barbarism, as his hatreds
threaten to explode life itself, by
deliberate intent.
Hatred is such a persistent
problem of human behavior that
it probably has roots in a biologi-
cal belligerence that served the
cave man well, as a defensive me,
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TEIE CHRISTMAS PARADoX

The coolest" line of poetry in
the English language was once
marked by William Lyon Phelps as
being from Keats: "The owl. for
all his feathers, was a-cold." There
is a shiver in the very words: vet
surely nothing could be more bleak
and cheeerless, more completely
expressive of the disappointments
inherent in the human lot than
eight fearful monosyllables falling
at the center of the Christmas
story. For there was no room at
the inn" Any one who has ever
Travelled with bright hopes. who
has cherished visions of a Preside
and a good dinner and rest at the
days end, must know the awful
sinking of the heart that comes
with such a rejectiOn-the closed
door, the hard, unchallengable fact.
Yet 1t was the miracle of the first
Christmas that in spite of the dis
appointment there was in the stable
glory and warmth; and in all the
Chrlstmases since then, down to
this very day, men have found the
occasion for joy, even though ban
ished from the inn of their desires
In this epoch of open and hidden
wars, Of ideals Knocked and hopes
deferred, it might seem that more
than ever before the door is closed
in mans face. Yet he turns and in
his own way, from faith and vision
and the deep wells of instinctiv.
kindness or cheer, he builds {
habitatiOn whence light and warmth
still shine forth. In the great city
we have seen through the lat
weeks and days a spirit of simple
neighborliness mounting; and mel
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Times Change-But Joys Of
Christmastide Endure
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good many folks of acquaintance folks who
have turned their backs the half century mile
stone get a great kick out of relating that when
they were young virtue and innocence were common
traits. This, they say, was especially true in the
observance of Christmas.
Fifty or sixty years ago, they are wont to say,
faith in the basic principles of Christianity
deeper. No one would think of pausing to question
this or that dogma Theirs not to reason why,
to appropriate phrase from Tennyson.
We of today think live in a cynical age. In
a matter of little more than 80 years your man
of so has experienced the terrible catastrophe of two
world wars. Looking across the Pacific today we
see the misery and tradegy which follows in the
wake of the smoke and the fire from something that
not called a war; but which every bit as
deadly. Moreover, in many respects it was more
battling than either Of the two that shook the
world to it's foundations.
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cnanlSm.
But man has presumably been
domesticated from the savage ami
NAL he once was. Modern man calls
himself a rational animal.
Nationality means the power to
deliberate-to choose between COM
peting courses of action or compet-
ing ideas, or between love and hate.
Since the consequences of mod
ern hatreds is suicide, as well as
homicide, our choice should be love.
But love is a two-way street.
Theoretically, we can love those
who hate us, but it doesn't work
out in practice.
We must protect ourselves
against those who cling to ancient
and OutwOrn hatreds as the mott
walton for their behavior.
Christmas is q religious festival.
The purpose of all religion, and
most theologies, is to narrow the
field of mans natural" hatred.
We in the Western world, and
many in the Eastern world, are
enjoined to love one another.
God, Himself, is described as the
Father of all, in order to empha-
size that we are His children and
are brothers, indeed.
The late Harold Laski, the IA
Their of British Socialism, once
pointed out that the order of our
world is based on the teachings
of two men - Jesus Christ and
Karl Marx.
Jesus Ataught love.
Marx taught hate.
We see no hope against the forces
of hatred except in the rise of a
| great spiritual leader whose power
over man shall be love.
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The Wonder

ing. AS simple the Sermon on the Mount, which
still remains the ultimate basis of Christian be-
lief and in it's essence of the belief of free men of
goodwill everywhere.
There were the night hills, with the little town
among them. And in a stable there born One
Who came to speak to multitudes about freedom
and justice and fundamental right. One Who spoke
in simple tongue in of the beasts of the land
and the birds of the air and the lilies of the fields,
and of mans responsibility to man. The kings and
captains were marching up and down the land in
full panOply, even He was being born and in the
end they seemed to silence Him. But it is His simple
words that still live not theirs; and it is the Birth in
the stable that we solemnly commemorate now, not
the gathering at the crowded inn.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25

Not the least of the wonders we commemorate to-
day the simplicity surrounding the Birth itself.
A carpenter named Joseph went with his young wife
up from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the town of his
fathers, to enroll for taxation the governing RO-
mans had ordered. Bethlehem a simple hill
town of particular consequence at the time
Joseph and Mary arrived late and weary to find that
the inn crowded; they took shelter in the
stable with other late-cOmers. SecOnd-best but
humble travellers could not choose. 1t was shelter
And there, in the stable the Child was born.
Thus the simple beginnings. Add the shepherds
the night hills, the appearance of the angel their
journey to the stable and it still remains of the
least adorned of all the great stories cherish. 1t
is simple the Man Himself and His teach
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25
MAY some STOCKS BE SAFER THAN
GOVERNMENT BONDS?

of such nations as Great Britain
and France are selling at big dis
counts; while the bonds of Germ
any, Austria. and many other
cOuntries-for which their people
paid good mOney-are now value
less.
Imitation and Government Bonds
The United States Government
will never be unable to pay the
interest or principal of it's bonds.
But the question is whether the
Government will pay in 1O0-cent
dollars, as our dollar may be con-
sidered to have been worth Is
years ago, or pay in todAys 81
cent dollars or in 25-cent dollars,
which is probably what they would
be worth when, as, and if World
War III comes. l believe that an
other World War would certainly
result in tremendous imitation
with corresponding reduction in
the value of our dollar.
When a Government Bond comes
due, we are paid only in dollars
irrespective of what these dollars
are worth or what they will buy
in food, clothing, or shelter. Il
you feel that President Eisenhow'
.er is to turn to the left, going
back on his campaign promises tt
make the dollar worth more, you
probably shouldn't buy Govern
ment Bonds. Some readers writ,
me that imitation is simply some
thing for the banker to worr!
about; but if you have Govern
ment Bonds, you had better d.
some worrying yourself.
What About StOcks2
Stocks have many disadvantages
But a sound company which ha
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25

Washington, d. c., December 25
This seems a unfair if not a
dangerous question to ask. How
ever, l feel that owe a frank
answer to my readers. In order
not to offend the Treasury Depart
ment, l could devote this column
to the subject of diversificatiOn. l
could advise investors to have a
diversified portfolio consisting Of
perhaps 1870 in Governments, 1870
in Real Estate, $3.50 in Bank Ac-
counts, 1870 in Corporation Bonds,
1920 in Preferred Stocks, and $50
in Common Stocks. This would
be the easy thing for me to do, but
l feel it would be cOwardly ad-
vice.
Government Bonds
Statistically, Government Bonds
should be the safest investment
The Government can always as
sess taxes to pay interest and
principal. No Corporation can as
sess taxes to pay interest on its
bonds or dividends on it's stock
Another great advantage of Gov
eminent Bonds is that in an emer-
gency the Government can print
money either to pay interest OF
principal. No Municipality or Cor.
pOration has this privilege. There
are also other reasons in favor o.
United States Government Bonds
especially the shorter maturities.
Now let us look at the othel
side of the picture. Probably (
third of the countries in the United
Nations have defaulted on theil
Government Bonds since 1910
Probably two-thirds of the coun
tries in the United Nations ar,
suffering from a decline in thu
market for their bonds. The bonds
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Balancing The Year

light. Hour for hour, the accounts are balanced.
And yet, the short days provide their own bonus.
The SHOWS come, and dusk and dawn like no
other time of the year We come to a long winter
night when the rides full a white world
and the darkness thins away. For the full-mOOn
night is as long as the longest day of summer. And
the snowy world bleams and CLOVIS with mean
descent simmer
Year to year, We remember the short days but
tend to forget the long nights when the moon
rides high cold and brittle-white world. Not
only the nights, but the star nights, when it
seems one can stand and touch the DippeT. Who
would not cut wood and burn a candle for a few
such nights each year?
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REMEMBER, IT'S CHRISTMAS

Instead of invoking the blessings
of the Infant Saviour, many Christ
mas cards have no connotation with
the Saviour, although some contain
the dying abbreViation of
Xmas" Can't we come right out
and greet our fellows with a plain
Happy Christmas" For it is, de-
spite all the materialistic frenzy
and display, the Birthday of Christ.
The pleasure OF giving and re-
ceiving gifts, the joyous reunions
of families and friends at the
Christmas dinner, are not foreign
to the proper celebration of the
Feast, but happily in accord with it.
1t is only when the religious as
pect of the holy day is completely
subOrdinated to selfish and worldly
considerations that the full sense
of Christmas is banished.
Just remember that it is Christ's
Day-and remember on that day a
prayer of thanksgiving to the Christ
Child for our blessings.
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and women have gone about their
tasks as friends. In homes across
the land where war has laid. the
shadow of anxiety or grief, a deeper
gertrude, love that is close to
happiness has taken up its watch.
These lights and decorations that
so please the hearts of children,
they are the reflections Of an in
ward light, shared in this season
by men of all faiths and creeds, and
sensed even in those distant out
posts where the soldier longs for
home.
There will be happier Christ
masses, we may believe, when the
world moves more closely in har-
mOny with the ancient Injunction
to be of good will. There may come
a time when all men can be with
out fear and undismayed. Yet the
/ essential meaning, the paradox and
the mystery of Christmas will per-
haps never be so strikingly reveal
ed. 1t is the contrast between the
inn and the stable-between the ha-
ven where we would be and the
hard path of life as it is-that
gives to our joy it's special poig-
nancy and lights the day with
something more than candles. To
be kindly, to be unselfish, to keep
the spirit of Christmas in our
hearts even when the promise Of
Christmas is still unfulflled, this
is to celebrate beautifully and ap-
propriately. 1t is to bring to every
home and hearthstOne-on this day
and throughout this imperfect
world-something of the radiance
that shOne about the manger in
Bethlehem.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25

Christmas is not just another
holiday, not just a time for the ex-
change of gifts, for feasting and
for party-making.
1t is the day commemorating the
Nativity of Christ. 1t is one of the
great holy days of the Christian
calendar.
1t is a day of religious Observ-
ance and devotion.
In the growing secularizatiOn Of
the Christmas season in this coun-
try, it has become difficult at times
to recognize the days religious sig
nificance. Many persons of Chris
tian faith have permitted the real
meaning of Christmas to be smoth-
cred under the tinsel of CONNER
cializatiOn.
Instead of the Christ Child in the
bare setting of Bethlehem, the fav-
Ored motif for the modern Observ-
ance of Christmas features an imp
ish Santa Claus, his reindeer and
his overlooking pack of gifts.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25

The short days are upon The winter sOlstice'
is now here but the days change is slight Daylight,
sunrise to sunset, will shorten only another two
minutes before it begins to lengthen The
evening change in fact has already begun, the
years earliest sunset already past but sunrise will
continue to lag through the years end.
Thus the year balances its accounts. In our lati-
tude we know that each year brings the time when
not only the candle but the hearth fire must burn at
both ends of the day, symbol not of waste but of
warmth and comfort The cuts a small arc far to
the south and shadows and cold lie deep 1t is for this
time that We if live close to the land, lay up the
frewOOd and the fodder. Now pay for the long
days of summer pay in the simple currency of day
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25

paid dividends for over 40 years
has some important advantages.
Take, for instance, a GOOD Chain
Store Stock. The store is taking
in dollars every day, but it also
pays out dollars every day to the
manufacturers of the goods which
it has on it's counters. Therefore,
it does not make much difference
to the store what the dollar is
worth. If it takes in only bad
dollars" it pays out only bad
dollars" Initiation is rot a serious
factOr--eXcept as to wages paid.
But here is another advantage
which good Common Stocks have:
The less the dollar is worth, the
more dollars the company will
usually give to stockholders as a
dividend. The above is not true
with any kind of a bond. The in
come from your bonds, whether
Government or Corporation, or
even a Preferred Stock, is fixed
and will not be increased as the
value of the dollar declines.
Don't attemp to speculate in
stocks because of my speaking a
good word for them. Don't buy
untried or uncertain stocks. You'd
be better off to buy Government
Bonds. believe, however, that
your banker can select for you
some stocks which are really SAT-
er than Government Bonds. l say
this because in those countries
where the Government Bonds have
defaulted, Common Stocks of old
reliable companies are selling
higher than ever On the other
hand, l am now buying no stocks
or bonds; but waiting for lower
| DricaS
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It's The Little Things .

1GS lie LIJLle Things
It's not the moisture in the air
that causes the fog, smOg, smaze
and smist that have been plaguing
so many parts of the cOuntry-it's
the condensation neuclei! This
authoritative word comes from T. A.
Rich, a General Electric Company
engineer, who realizes that just
calling things names doesn't help
any, so he has built an instrument
that measures condensation neuclei,
which are minute air-bOrne par
ticles on which water will cOndense.
Explaining what he means by
minute, Mr.. Rich says smoke,
dust and fiy-ash are about the only
visible types of neuclei, most of
them being invisible, even under a
microscope. The smallest one, for
instance, would compare with a
smoke particle like a garden pea
and the Capitol dome in Wash
ingtOn.
Knowing how many there are in
the air won't stop the murk, OF
course, but it does provide a means
of studying the problem, and should
hasten a solution .. not only for
smOg and smaZe but for invisible
air pollution that may be present on
a bright, sunny day.
Just knowing somebody's work
ing on it should make us breathe
| easier!
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A Ghost walks In Germany

Harry Dexter White died in
August, 1948. Worried Americans
are just beginning to realize that
his prO-Soviet leanings still in
fluence foreign policy.
While an outraged Congress con-
dennis those who promoted White
to important Treasury posts, the
United States Government never
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Guilt By Accumulation

Homework" may prove to be a
serious error for Aaron H. Coleman,
a suspended Fort Monmouth radar
expert, who has admitted to Joe
McCarthy's Senate Permanent Sub
committee on Investigations that he
took secret government documents
home with him from time to time.
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We Can't Match Numbers

It now appears that Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson is the
boss of our armed forces, and that
the Joint Chiefs of Staff will go
back and sit down and start
figuring out how to get along with
ten percent less man power. Cut
backs have been ordered in the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps (but
the addition of 10000 men in the
Air Force) beginning with the next
fiscal year, on July LIST. The net
effect will be a reduction from the
present 100000 to 100000, and
budget saving of one billion
dollars.
Aside from economy, it would also
seem to be a good time to find out
how much fighting power per man
we can pack into our forces. I'm
less by virtue of better weapons
training and leadership, we car
give our soldiers and sailors-likt
Sir Galahad-"the strength of ten"
We'll be a poor match for the
| Communist hOrdes.
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1t Might Balance The Budget

Among the 1876 recommendations,
of the privately-financed Tempe
University survey of Government
reorganization, which has just been
made public, is the suggestion that
National Labor Relations Board and
the Federal Mediation Board, both
of which are Independent agencies,
be absorbed into the Labor Depart
ment, and that it be made a servant
of the public rather than a champion
of labor.
Altogether. the Survey suggests
cutting the 70 independent agencies
down to 3O-or less-which is just
what we've been waiting for. But
the Labor Department is an ex-
cellent place to start in.
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Babylonia had a banking system
as early as 1000 B. G..
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What About Stocks E?

Stocks have many disadvantages.
But a sound company which has