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Merry [Christmas fI.LNo. 16 II Fashioned ristmas Dinner r-Day Holiday For vilian Employes On Schedule igious worship, a series of s an old-fashoned Chrst iinner, and a four-day holi or civilian employes are on 'uletide schedule for Moore ■al Hospital, a survey of ac s planned reveals, line with War Department ives, civilians employed at > General Hospital will be off iber 22-25 inclusive, Satur hrough Tuesday. Saturday unday are not regular work, and Monday, December 24, e an off-day instead of Sat , December 29. Post offic- Jso announced that civilian yes will have December 30 1 and January 1 off, Sunday rh Tuesday. _ tary personnel will observe ,y hours on both Christmas Jew Year’s Day. on Thanksgiving Day ? mili personnel will be permitted ng their families and one jnal guest to the - Christmas • to be served at noon. menu will include fresh cocktail in* orange baskets, rackers, roast turkey, oyster ng, giblet gravy, candied parslied potatoes, buttered peas, celery curls, ‘cranberry olives, hot rolls and but lince pie, tutti frutti ice , fruit cake, coffee, milk, , cigarettes, nuts, and Post Chaplain Ellis U. Young bl has announced a full sched of religious worship during • Yuletide. A midnight mass 1 be said on December 25 by aplain Charles Meyer; and a ond mass will follow at 9 a.m. otestant services be held at :-15 a.m. to be conducted by aplain Ypungdahl • Episcopal nmunion services are scheduled ■ 11:30 a.m. to be codnucted by i Rev. John H. Rhys of ack Mountain; and Christmas pper services are slated for 4:15 n. Special decorations are to placed in the post chapel for e services.,, Chaplain *Youngdahl also an unced for the post chapel a iristmas cantata to begin ot 8 n, Thursday, December 20. The ntattt will 'be presented by the oore (General Hospital choral ■oup augmented by' the Com. unity ChornS of Slack Moiin dn. A total ’of 75 voices will > heard, 'fhe cantata Is entitled The Story , of Christmas” by latthews and will be broadcast v,m the chapel over WWNC, sheville. Chaplain Youngdahl also an ounced a Christmas party for the tiildren of all military personnel n the post. It will be held at the ost theater, Monday, December 4, at 3 p.m., and will feature anta Claus, movies, a Christmas locking for each child, and a entriloquist. Mrs. Frank W. Wilson, wife of he commanding heads he party committee, and she is king assisted by Mrs. Lyman ► (Continued on page 8) W—- | I . 1 ' “t 111 *■»*■• ri" "tr Bill Hill says MERRY CHRISTMAS THE BLACK MOUNTAIN news «T7TT«r nrmvr vwt -w * : j The Origin of Christmas Celebration On December 25th “Unto you is both this day in the city of David a Saviour who is Christ the Lord.” “Joy to the world! the Lord is come: Let earth receive her King, Let every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and nature sing.” The Gospels do not tell us the day of Christ’s birth. Christmas was not celebrated in the Chris tian Church during the first cen tury. The celebration as the birthday of Christ is wholly arbi trary. The world about us cele brates the winter festival. They now call it Christmas. The sea son is one of the most beautiful of the year. The celebration for many today is as apart from the birth of Christ as it v#s for those celebrating the festival before Christ came to give it a more joy. ous and a hallowed significance. As Christians we can combine the Christmas customs, using the Christmas tree, the evergreen ad vent wreath, the candles, the fire place log and Santa Claus- M e must not, however, become so en grossed with Kriss Kringle that we fail to see the Saviour. We would not give up the pageantry of Christmas,—stores dressed for the festival occasion, wreaths, the display of gifts, dancing lights streets decorated, carols pealing Zout into the frosty December air. Yet, we must go beyond all these. In the midst of the joys and festivZities, we must not lose sight of the One who is the Sun BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C., DECEMBER 20, 1945 of Righteousness, made flesh that those who believe in Him might share His eternal Glory.” Native customs of nearly every. native in the world have been ap propriated in our Christmas cele brations. The singing of carol is an inheritance from the first. Christmas. During the 7th cen tury when songs of low seqji ment were allowed to be included, carols fell into disfavor. During ; the middle ages they returned to favor. When the Old Morality plays of the 13th Cenutry began to lose their spiritual qualities, they fell into disrepute. The sa- j cred tableaux have been re claimed. The Romance before Christ dur ing their midwinter festival, the j Saturnalia, decorated their halls with holly and exchanged gifts ornamented with sprigs of holly- j Cn Christmas Day in Alaska, superintendents of Government Reindeer Stations are said to har. j ness the tamed of their reindeer and hitch them to sleighs. These sleighs are filled with bags con taining gifts and provisions. One sack is left at each village hut as a reminder of the Christ Child The custom of placing lighted candles in the windows comes from Ireland we have been told. It i believed there that eyery Christ mas Eve the Christ Child walk once more through the land These lighted candles are Hi: guide! est He lose His Way. “Now the birth (literally Gen esis) of Jesus Christ was on thi wise.” (Mat. 1:18). No- other “KEY CITY IN THE LAND OF THE SKY” “wise”. Angels announced both His conception and His actual birth. The angel Gabriel an nounced the begetting (Luke 1 19- 35.) the angel Michael (Luke 2:y) The angel of the Lord, cf. Lan. 12 1 and Jude V-9) announced the birth. With him there was a mul titude of the heavenly host (Luke 1:3). On September 29, “Michaelmos Day” or “the beast of Michael and all angels,” is celebrated in many parts of the world. On the 15t.h of the Hebrew month Tishri, September 29th of our calendar, is the Feast of Tab ernacles of the Jews. Shepherds were still in the fields. They did not keep their flocks out in the open during the winter months. The Roman census usually fell between August and October. “The word was made flesh and tabernacled among us, (John 1:4) His manifestation to the world at the time of the Feast of Taber nacle would have been most ap propriate. (His sacrificial deatl was at the Feast of the Passover. (Frim December 25th to Septem. her 29 is 280 days. The Grea Day of the featst (John 7:37) wa the eighth day. Jesus was cir cumsized on the eighth day. Clement of Alexandria record, the keeping of December 25 as a very special day as early as A. D. 98. In the second century the cele bration of Christmas had come ii and Origen, a very theologian of the early church felt that it humiliated Christ to the status of “a king Pharaoh.” That the celebration had a pagan orig in is correct. Many customs of the church have been borrowed from paganism of sun-worship, of Baal worship, for instance. There was much controversy about the date for Christmas. In CHRISTMAS CAROLS By Harley L. Barrett Ever since the shepherds of old saw the low hanging star of Beth lehem in the Heavens that De cember night, and raised their voices in praise to the Glory of God, carols have been sung in His praise at Christmas time. Peace on earth good will to men, have inspired men to write carols that will lve to the end of tme. The first recorded Christmas carol was the song that the angels sang on Christmas Eve. It was and has always been, one of the loftiest aims and aspirations of the Christian faith , announcing adn setting the theme and spirit ual purpose of the Clirismtas cele bration down through the ages to the present time. Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good will to men. Perhaps at no other time in the history of the world has this Christmas message meant so much to so many Emerging from the tragic sacri fices and suffering of the recent anti war ravished old world the lesson that the angels sang still holds true. . . . the sth century the decision was made as to whether it should be celebrated January 6th, March 25th, or December 25th. In Ar menia there were even riots about the question. Little by little, the date of December 25th spread (Continued on page 8) The First Noel, is thought to have had its origin in France and later translated into English is one of the earliest carols. From the Sixth Century to the middle of the Thirteenth Century Christ mas carols went into eclipse hav. ing been banned by the Topes, since they had become course and vulgar. Apparently having lost their true purpose, they were sung at drinking bouts and wher ever boisterous people made mer ry. However, in 1224 St. Francis of Assisi formed a group of stral ling singers and slowly revived their popularity and it has grown increasingly since that time. Examples of the historical carol with little or no religious signif icance, are God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, The Boar’s Head In Hand I Bring, and Good King Waceslas Looked Out. After the crusade of St. Frances, the carols took on more of the religious significance cli maxing with the lovely Silent Night, Holy Night, the most beau tiful of all the Christmas carols. DEC 1 94 5 Happy , | New Year $2.50 Per Year Veterans Are Offered Help O i Veterans Are Reporting To Employment Service In Great Numbers 0 War veterans numbered more than one out of every three per sons who visited local offices of the United States Employment Service in North Carolina in No vember, it is revealed by Robert j M. du Bruyne, acting State Diree- • tor of the USES. Os the 114,678 visits in which service was given in the State’s employment offices, 1 46,465, or 40> percent, were of war veterans—99' percent of them World War II veterans. This is a big increase* in the proportion of veterans, the percentage growing from about -31 percent in October, 23 percent in September, 19 percent in Aug ust, and nine percent in January. In November, 7,485 war vet erans were referred to non-argi_ cultural jobs; 2,992 were placed la local jobs, and 60 were placed in jobs in areas away from their homes. Os the 454 handicapped veterans who applied for jobs, 210 were placed on jobs suitable for their handicapped conditions. Veterans whose problems could ; not be handled by local USES of fices were directed to proper agencies in November, as follows: Veterans Administration, 2,442; Vocational Rehabilitation, 68; Se- ; lective Service. 136* training i agencies, 983, and other agencies, - ‘ 1,906. | A decrease of about 20 percent in the number of job openings ii* ! the State from the first to the end of November is shown in the drop from 35,493 November t to 28,494 November 30, Mr. du Bruyne reports. Os the 122,356 visits recorded in local USES offices in Novem- . her, 114,678 of the visitors were rendered special :seyvices; 19,749* were referred to jjobs; 8,411 were . placed in local jobs; and 130 were ♦ placed in jobs in areas away from ? their hoems. Forty-nine others f were given some assistance in h>- * eating suitable jobs. All of these! were non-agricultural jobs. Lt. Robert R. Clements" ♦ Home On Furlou^ Lt. Robert R. Clements, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clements of Hladi Mountain, has been enjoying furlough at home for the past sevf eral weeks. Robert entered vice in June 1942 ami was com missioned in January 1943, ing for overseas in February of the same year. He landed in O-ija Africa in February, later going to Tunis, then to .•: iers he stayed until July 1944. lie then went to Corsica which vrts the taking off place that sent Mm. into Southern France, later to Northern France and Germ :\~f and Austria. Robert was in Dff linger, Germany, wbtqn the sur render came. He was later to La Harve, France where he lfet for home in November and a rf?~ ed in the States aboard the U SIM.. Barine Fox. Robert will re t rim soon-, to receive his discharge from service. Slagle Coming Homer —o — 2-c J. P. Slagle is to arrive home in the middle part of Janu ary. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Slagle of Black MounjUin,. received word in a letter from ! him telling them not to write' any more because he wag being »senfc home. He has been in the South west Pacific for about 20 mcpthh„ Some Beet > 0 ! A beet, grown by Mr. Mi|ls of the Mills Feed Store, now oii dis play in the window of his store, weighs 14% pounds. The to|>s on the beet are still fresh after be ing in the window for several 1 weeks. Space Limited Limited space this week force* j us to leave out some of the article* that have been sent in. These / ■ articles will be printed next week j if they are not dated articles.
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