Vol. 6, No, 4/Vj
Charlotte College, Charlotte, N. C.
December 15, 1954
Miss Cone Named to College Board
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A CEhrtHtmaH iKrsHaiu'
Janet Robinson
The Christmas Story contains many messages. So many
have written on the thoughts that come when one reads that
“there was no room for them, in the inn.” Others have dwelt
on the angels’ message of “Peace on earth, good will towards
men.” Perhaps there have been fewer who have written on
the thought that is equally striking and meaningful—the
contrast between the Caesar who taxed the world and The
Christ Who was born in a manger.
Perhaps we have never linked these two thoughts before,
but surely we see the message in them when we do. Caesar
Augustus, the Roman emperor, had so much jiower that he
could by his touch set the machinery of government in motion
over almost the whole civilized world, Jesus Christ came into
the world as a baby, born in a stable and placed on some hay
in a feeding-trough for animals. And yet, today Caesar is
almost forgotten and no one knows much about his deci'ees,
while time itself is marked by the birth of a Child to a humble
subject of Caesar, a subject who was only a cipher on Caesar’s
tax-rolls. The world remembers practically nothing about the
emperor who could tax the world, while The Child for whom
there was no room in the world has become the object of
worship of over half the world.
Caesar was the embodiment of pride, Christ of humility.
Caesar lacked the power to even live his own life righteously,
could probably issue a decree that would control the lives
of men and women from the Euphrates to the Atlantic, from
Ethiopia to Germany. Christ, Who had all power in Heaven
and Earth and had been dwelling as God in the Ivory Palaces
of Heaven, could come to a world, scarred with sin in the
form of a helpless baby. He had even made the world that
had no room for Him.
The humility of Christ! Surely this is one of the great
messages of Christmas, even as it is one of the great messages
of Easter, For the humility of the manger is surpassed only
by the humility of a cross. When the real message of both
is accepted in the hearts of men, then the peace of which the
angels sang will fill the whole earth “as the waters cover
the sea.”
Miss Bonnie E. Cone, Director of
Charlotte College, has been named
a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Southern Association
of Junior Colleges.
Her selection came during an
election of officers November .30
HE CAME!
The little boy bounced out of bed
and on to the cold floor, his eyes
gleaming, his heart thumping, and
h's little legs carrying him into
the living room where a small
Christmas tree was placed in a cor
ner. The little boy rushed by the
tree and on to the big fireplace.
He stopped suddenly and turned to
see if anyone was watching. After
being sure that no one was spying
on him, he quickly reached into the
lower part of the chimney. He with
drew a sooty arm and several fish
hooks which he had carefully
placed as a camouflage near the
base of the chimney. Tied to one
of the hooks was a note. With
trembling hands the youth unfolded
the paper and stared at the scrib
bling which was written in what
seemed a hurried manner.
“Dear Bucky,” he read aloud,
"Ordinarily I don’t approve of little
boy’s doubting that there is such a
character as I. But fortunately for
you I realize that you were too
young to be sure about me, but now
you know that I am real, and I do
come around on Christmas Eve
bringing toys and joys to all good
little boys who believe in Saint
Nicholas, Yet, I must warn you,
never try to catch Santa Claus
again because he knows whether
you have been good or bad. Hiding
fish hooks in the chimney isn’t ex
actly good, I shall forgive you this
time—but not any more . . ,”
Seven year-old Bucky ran to his
father’s bed, and with an exciting
tone of voice cried out, “He came!
He came! There is a Santa! He left
a note.” As the little boy’s father
took the paper and read its con
tents, he too realized that there was
a real Saint Nick, and that there
still is a real one, for the hand
writing was not his own and he was
sure that it was not that of his
wife. Furthermore, the man rea
soned, no one but Bucky and Saint
Nick knew the hooks were in the
chimney.
Slowly the youngster’s father re
peated what his grandfather had
at the association’s meeting in
Louisville, Kentucky. George M.
McLendon, President of Hinds Ju
nior College, Raymond, Mississippi,
was chosen president of the asso
ciation.
told him. “As long as you believe in
Santa Claus, he will come; and
when you cease believing in him, he
will cease coming.” This could be
true. Maybe Santa still comes; but
since so many older people refuse
to believe in him, he just doesn’t
leave them anything. And since he
doesn’t leave them anything, they
refuse to believe in him. So they
buy toys and things for the chil
dren—eliminating the chores that
ordinarily Saint Nick would have
to do.
So it was in Bucky’s family, there
were two people who rushed all
over the community shouting, “He
came! He came!”
EXPERT SAYS COMMUNISTS
HAVE NOT CHANGED GOALS
\ United States author and
newspaperman W'ho has spent the
period since the end of World War
II investigating and studying Rus
sia and its philosophies said on No
vember 30 that there has been no
change in Communist policy with
the Stalin-Malenkov switch. But
the new Russian regime brought
with it new tactics, said Louis J.
Alber, who was in Charlotte to
speak at 7:30 o’clock on November
30 in the Central High School audi
torium under the auspices of Char
lotte College,
Mr. Alber has made several trips
to Europe since 1945 and has spent
all of the intervening years since
World War II studying the phil
osophies and actions of the Com
munists.
Russian Aim
Mr. Alber declared that the Com
munists— and thereby Russian —
aim is to conquer the world.
“But where Stalin was in a hurry,
these new fellows are content to
take their time,” he said. “The
Malenkov regime is trying to undo
some of Stalin’s mistakes.” Two of
Stalin’s greatest “blunders” he list
ed as:
The defection of Tito and the
Korean War. The first he said we
failed to take proper advantage of,
but “it helped us nevertheless,” and
the second brought a great deal of
unity to a then disunited free
world.
Mr. Alber said that we (the free
world) had been lulled into a sleep
before the Korean War (which he
calls an alarm clock) and added
that the “talk of co-existence is
lulling us to sleep again.”
“The aims of the Communists
have not changed,” charged Mr.
Albei, “They intend to conquer the
world. They would prefer to do it
without a shooting war and by
keeping the world intact and they
are willing to take their time. They
are in no hurry.”
Noting that they have better
“salesmanship” than we have, Mr.
Alber said they study the propa
ganda markets before loosing their
barrage of sales talk, and then it
is done by natives of the recipient
land, not foreigners as in our case.
But perhaps most important, Mr.
Alber said he believes the free
world can win the present war
(“and it is a war when one nation
tries to take over another regard
less of the means”) without pre
cipitating a shooting war.
His basic formula is to exert
more pressures, ideological—politi
cal, economic, diplomatic and cul
tural—than Russia. Add to that his
belief that Russia definitely does
not want a shooting war, in fact
is strongly bluffing, the fact that
Russia does not have sufficient oil,
that Russia’s internal economic
conditions are at a low ebb, and the
fact that her satellite countries
would buckle with the right pres
sures; and you have a strong side
of his argument in favor of a gun-
less war.