Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-12-22
In Coe We Forget.
It's hank giving =.
By ELDRIDGE THOMPSON

Columbus County, rush isn't pleasant at all You've
and can't locate it. The fngs for the Yule Tide dinner
are still to buy and wonder how you'll get around to
putting them together they are in the kitchen It's
some season of the year! <#gzs.
The children of starting on that nere
racklng holiday period You hardly face the noise
tha Is to endure for the next several days There
will be toys under the tree Christmas Eve that win
make noise cars thatl into the furniture bikes that
Will tall agafpst the wall and the paint Job
horns to blow cowboy outfits with cap pistols oranges
and candy that seem to have of being left In the
nelghbors house and dozen other situations that don
come to mind rightnew.N II
them and down shelf has pulled eyssy
any JOY your life BY attending business party every
night in the week. 1 - a.s>.,u~~-." -.
had mild fuss yof sts over n the amount Of money
She gift 5r n to 9 tS o qss
shape, and assult your patiences have with
the office Of help a a ss fiiisd with .on,.x
lens and confusio sudd enT find yourself wishing
that Christmas did, and yoq better
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are typical Amert ARdbas kJnS Aaf&3 ispoi,E
ing to be ashamed se -
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But let's take note of a few thiieHsesS - Deo
friends too heavily with our troubles.
How about the fellow who hasn't drawn paycheck
in three months and his unemployment compensation
out December l? He's got three children too and they
are expecting Santa Saturday night OF course, their
Daddy has tried to explain to them that it is likely Santa
won't come to their house this year. but how child
understand that Santa misses boy girl who has
been good all long? How going to tell em
Then there's that soldier in Germany, Korea Iceland
Newfoundland a dozen other places where American
troops keeping watch be assured of peace
on earth, good will toward men,?
How do you suppose the fellow feels at Christmas
time whose wife has been the hospital for several weeks
and the bills building up far beyond his available in
come? And that wife who SICK how about her children
without Mother around to tell them the story of Jesus and
the coming of Santa Claus?
And those thousands that each get help through
the Salvation Army churches civic clubs and fraternal
mas morning And they'll be thankful. But what would
you do if bag of all little brght-eyed
girl received from Santa this Christmas?
The Mother with bro ken down stove to cook the
little food in the house. she is probably thankful there
something left to but thinking up new way to
blend cornbread potatoes and colard into some
thing that looks like big tasty turkey is truly burden
really not, it's an mpossibity.
those that that while scrubbng clothes
old fashioned rub board the warm side OF the
house." cutting wood for the stove fireplace with
dull
worked for Christmas and deserve to enjoy it.
But lest forget this is also time for Thanks
giving.
There's other time when men and women are so
willing their hearts to the world It's season
giving because observe the birthday OIL the Chrst
Child, whose real name is Saviour
Christmas. The we look forward to, the time
of long calendar that tempers our minds and
makes human beings Of again But we
different from the rest of the American people, We
good"