b 2 Prince Rupert Daily News Wednesday, December 24, 1952 A Childs an independent daily and N wspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupern rn and Central British Columbia, Member of Canadian Press — Auuit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Deily Newspaper Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limitea 4d. FP. MAGOR, President H. G. PERRY, Vice-President Subscription Rates: ey US: per yes 0.00 i Sate $1. ; per year, $1 DRM ATARD f AY carrier—-Fer week, 25c; per month By mail—Per moth, 75c; per year, 8¢ authorized as "cond class rial! t the Post Office Department, Ottawa Letter to Santa Dear Santa: Please put into my stocking a large piece of Human Kindness so that I will be able to treat others as I would wish to be treated myself, of Vision t 3 h which will give me a better understanding of the ‘ I would also like some of the Breadth ' this is problems and hopes of my fellow beings. If will you add a portion of not enough by itself, Tolerance? Har ino seen the difficulties of others I will then not immediately shut my eyes to them. Would you also inelude a vial of Graciousness? This is the magic ointment which does so much to ; se hear 9 speates “0 Aas make life smoother and creates more pleasant “ai dae a human relationships. If I have this, no one can say whén I’m gone that I lived for myself alone. Please leave for me a generous package of Good eine ean a Cheer. This is a very important item, Santa. If ite rivers we are cheerful and ean cheer up others, too, a lot Chapter Xf of the things that are worrying us don’t seem so Jesus, looki wn from the : ; , af for all of them hig after all, Where there is laughter, nothing can who Killed Him he very much wrong. : ney I could also use a box of Faith, This-is a won- : ‘ ‘ . . . 1 : more than ev derful stimulus when the going is tough. It gives aaiae ’ f words. Ye poor ‘ i ] us the power to look up and to realize that we are mother of Jesus, stood at of the cross, and never took her eyes off her beloved Son. She Please also give me the Courage of Conviction. %@w Him die , 1 ‘ ‘ ; Now all who loved Jesus were , If I.do not have this, I will be untrue to myself and crying.” They wrapped His body ‘ na sheet and laid it in a little not all alone in a life that sometimes seems dark. therefore untrue to those who depend on me. j one house calléd a tamb. And rolied a big stone against » door to keep His body There are many other things I need, Santa, but I will not ask you for more this Christmas as you will probably be busy filling similar requests by others. If you can bring me the gifts I have listed, perhaps the rest will. take care of itself, But c . i riends came to thetonth to pray I had better warn you that I will alwaysibe.thinking But look! How: car irday the Stone lay fast the door of the tomb. On morning some of His born in all the people since then people today ht in the garden, He has risen from the grave.” ast books written by the late Pulton ws af The Greatest Story Ever Told This presentatien of Mr. Ourster’s ewapaper publicktion by the well- visited with His friends. He told hem He must go back to the Father in Heaven but that no me who loved Him would ever Father, for they be alone again: Por I am with you always, her, loved Him even to the end of the world,” That is what He promised them the day He left the world 2nd rose to be with His Father in Heaven And His promise of life forever was for you and me and for everybody he wonderful story of Jesus The this be? ’ : Something wonderful i this , ‘athers and mothers and boys P | : . i. 4 Something Wond 1 sore ing of what else T need. I think it’s best that Ayvay. irtbelievatle hasddappened .28@ngitls today and tomorrow , : T oS eee pees d‘always and always Yours hopefully, The stone. is roied away from RUPERT. he door of the tomb | VictoriA REPORT eee te. 6 Jabal: are the garden. |Notk dead, bu "5 by 3 K. Nesbitt - has risefrsfpom the grave That is why the story is not’) he afd bis Japanese gangst« The tomb 4s empty finished yet. You and I can @e?pals’titerally sRot' the United The body is gone from the # part of it if we know the secret, grave : whith is ave and bring to God Each of us can help Or hurt pega ris Sunday when Jesus @ose veach other. Jesus wants us to VICTORIA—A visit to the Pro- bride and t yifrom the dead, was the first help each other. Let us all try to vineial Archives is always worth their parents’ Baste as when He live as J@Sus taught while The other day I wa ig- time, and then the guns prove He had told the Were everyone to love’ Jesus ying through old paper. and from the bastions. The bell e | peopit lave God and with the whole-heart, how won- files, by of rélaxation, when Middle of. the Forf rings—the Sur neighbors, therelis no death derful tis world Would be. No I tHfat it ist 100 dogs howl, the mesfre muskets Dut Jife forevs n Heaven with more greed or hate. No more that a marriage im-.—all hurtah! GP6Mgs served out God and Jesus anfi the Holy war portant to the history of thi#t@ll round, there is feasting. rev- | Spirit Only , peace—the peace that province took place in Victoria— elry and jollity and everybody For forty days more Jesus Jesus brings us from our Father that of Dr. John Sebastian Hel- heart and soul, wishes the hand- St@yed on earth, Manyjtimes He Heaven The Frid mcken and Cecelia Douglas some, favorite and favored cou-| < 1952; Kine ‘Fedtures Syndicate. Inc. This text is taken from the The wedding ple very many happy new years on 7 ae f of Je a8. 9 ; ito Ourder in Fort Victoria Dr. and Mrs. Helmcken first ee ' ™ ert Staines took up residence in a small Cel jiildine i th thei ow! When he was an old man, Dr 2 ee Fort — oa By NORMAN aio s home not being finished. The Helmecken wrote his memoirs, 20M€ Nol Deing ac : : . : doctor wrote: ‘The snow was M. M LEOD and he recalled the day he ar- i ; 1 : eT TT rived her 5 eihaak very deep—and partly for this ived here in 18% id went r ae m triad” ty } _ ( Sa ‘ in - ar : en to and “modest reasons ony wits Spending Christmas Eve on Christian world celebrates now “ai] On James Douglas, then head “" r 7. r Parli , , ‘ : slit wis Pe Sa ie i ar underlying everythin he said of the Hudson’s Bay Company, “OW¢ 2 % go out, but after a few)». : ; e later to be Royal Governor of “4YS we went to see Mrs. Doug- Hill is a soul-satis- ie t the Crown Colonies of Vancot las, ‘who scolded us for neglect- . The beau “i ,| Block, with its Peace Tower ver Island and of British Col- ng her—she was really annoyer j ching up to’ the| sky, is well m} —the snow offered no excuse . . . . umpbia ts the se: f 1853 D ae back from the .bustlée -of 5 ; he spring of De r. and : Helmcken wrote: “At a win- , } : ; ~|minute shoppers thronging Mrs. Helmcken moved to their dow of the Fort stood a number 5 , a nUMDEr new house. And a child was Sparks Street, and'‘is: shrouded of young ladies, hidden behind : ,. |in quiet. Inside“the building, the ' hidden behind porn: “Of course, the boy-baby a ; wana med the curtains—and there I saW wa. 9 wonder Helis. naires only sounds aré“the comforting Cecelia, his (Douglas’) eldest yo we 3 ent halree,| tick of the clocks, the’ measured bive-eye@, fair little fellow When he was about a month ot two old, we found him dead in the bed. The anguish felt a daughter, flitting about, active tread of the protective staff making their,,rowuntis, and the rap of a late-workfig news- as a little squirrel, and one of the prettiest objects I had eve! _ ie thee +: we paperman’s typewriter . on - her short, but with a this is indescribable. The poor So ; ; : very graceful, pretty figure—of| j++1. fenow was buried in the It’s a vast cNange from les dark complexion and _ lovely t black eyes, petite and nice. I was more or less captivated.” han a fortnight ago, when the halls echoed to. the. voices of members of Parllament and senators and the staff that look after their needs garden, where the holly now grows, close by our bedroom window, An oval of white dais Later: “I had so fallen in ldve|jes was planted around, with a with Cecelia—that I spent much) daisy eross in the centre.” of my time courting. The-court- Sorrow came again to the HAPPY SECURTYY hip was a very simple affair—| Helmeckens: “My little girl Daisy The vaulted Commons cham- we had hot chocolate and sing-| took croup—she died. Daisy was|ber is the quietest place of all ing—early hours kept.” a little, blue-eyed, flaxen-hairec,;When the House rose on Dec In due course, a marriage was | fair child—full of pleasant tricks|17, it had been bitterly debating arranged, after Helmcken “could|and always hid herself behind | the Currie report charging Jax- prove myself to be a man of) the door in order to frighten me|ity in administration of the good character, which Mr. Doug-| when she heard me coming in.|ATmy’s works services. Tempers las insisted.” Poor little thing—she was ajflared then, and accusation: And so Dr, Helmcken com-| great pet—and methinks I can|Were hurled back and forth menced building his house,|S¢e her now.” Tod the me i which stands yet, now a Provin-| Four of the Helmcken ehild-| 4+ ame re Rc fry SS cial Government museum near|ren grew up, but young, they | os A rere — ; ” |of debate te arily f en. the Legislative Buildings. would lose their mother. By this lea one ‘ineuieee Miao en Dr. Helmeken may have been| time it was 1865: “Cecelia and|uges the spirit of “peace on interested in his new house, but| her Mother went to the opening) earth good will to men.” he was more interested in court-| Of Something or other on Church) ‘The most impressive feeling ing, for he wrote: “How is it that | Hill—the weather turned out| that comes from being in the | the courting business does not|@d—both took cold. Very little empty Chamber at Christmas| become very monotonous—to look | Notice was taken of this, and my! results from the knowledge that | back, in our old age, this cus- | Wife kept about as she was able,! the MPs who are at home cele- tom seems so absurd—but, nev-| Dut soon pneumonia resulted prating with their families can ertheless, it is imstinetive—and|#"d in a few days the end un-|do so with the happy security | will forever go off—with modifi-| happily came, after having given |of men living in a democratic cation.” ‘ And now for that ‘wedding wi the boy died, Poor Cecelia—she| freedom of unbridled expression century ago: “The day*before it snowed and snowéd-—Dord, how sleigh bells is heard, and ‘bride) Speaker of the Colonial Legis. peng: Shay “ney enid. ins. ar — the " oil, was a power if) HONEST HEARTS a. ae ‘ i ‘ té the | ey Gay polities, and @ beloved) and that, after all, was the whole party hiwries Into the| physician and surgeon. He died| moving spirit behind the teach- church—the ceremony over, the in 1920 when he was 96, w ‘came eee aa = 6 A iful, Gothic Centre i | birth to a boy—a few days later | country. They have enjoyed the | had been a good wife andc/of their thoughts, and need fear | mother...” ;no ill consequences from a dic- | it snowed, The tinkle’of the| Dr. Helmeken lived on, was|‘atorial government for any-| ings of the Man whose birth the! ¥'% was the code of respect for the ndividual and freedom for all All too soon, the spirit of goodwill to all men will, on the surface In any event, s*om to be watered down by the stfideny; voice of political debate But deep down in the Cana- dian political system, the spirit of Christmas prevails the year round. The members of Parlia- ment and the Senate, whatever their political affiliation, are men of honest heart, striving in their various ways to give the people the kind of government Canada needs and deserves Certainly they don’t always} agree on precisely how the country should be run. But they do agree that the people should be free: that they should have the privilege of worshipping the | God of their choice in whatever | manner they see fit And so “God rest ye, merry gentle- | men IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE As | See It Philpott Union Would Solve It THE VERY first articles 'Hitler war, were in favor lef outright federation of ‘the British Common- ‘wealth, the United States democracies of } ' ‘western [urope. I pointed out at the time that and Japan, would the proposed Union-of-the-Free the whole free Citizens could move free- ly within the entire tariff of any kind. There obligations to equal oppertunities for prome- tian (WE HAVE been moved shoves towards such a those dark days That is the seeret of! prodded into action by menace wonderful Boy who WAS) anese militarists came within a @ Stable came to earth hair's breadth of conquering the _ to help people to be happy—not! world. Looking back on it now 1 the wolves just the people who lived 2,000) we in the west were saved more Friday night and all day years ago when He was bern but | py Hitler and Co.'s three fata! riday nign and @ii Ga The = z 8 mistakes than by our own in you and IT and the | telligence President and the candy store man and the ice cream man @N@)ain after the, Dunkirk disaster all. the aunts and uncles and) second. partner, Stalin vellian non-aggression pact and First, he failed to attack Brit- doubiecrossed his in the Machia to let Jesus live in our) would never have entered of her 1¢ story ts not finished 'own free will ause we have a soul to’ As a result af these CORO CRONE Ine Tees Te ee ey ee CCE | WISH EVERYONE ALL THAT {5S cece c . pe | ea. - ~ GREET B. C. CLOTHIERS Third Avenue nena ee er