Judge — December 20, 1930 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE EE NNN ISIN Useful Gifts 8X Yr: wanted to give Bill something useful for Christmas. Calvin Coolidge Writes His Christmas Card of the world have on annual holiday called Christmas. It is ined that this dey belongs exclusively to youth, but | do not think so. Under our constitutional form of government, Christmas is the holiday of every citizen of our nation and of the world. This is as it should be. This is a step forward. Perr Something that he could imi things out of. ‘Those knock-down 1 chanical sets that kids use to build steam shovels, toy bridges and auto trucks, seemed just a bit too juvenile for Bill. So we've bought him an Austin fT tr, rt VIS IISIsIST 523 333% Christmas comes only once @ year. It comes right after December 24th and is always the day before December 26th. This is en interesting coincidence that is worthy of note. rrot with psitta It is usually quite cold on Christmas Day. Cold is naturally accompanied by cosis. Bill can make a lot of things snow and ice. This gives children an excellent opportunity to skate and coast out of those. He's a professional ‘@ no more beautiful hills then right here in America. estnith. ion of ground, not flet enough to be a plein, not high enough humorist and j This has always been so. Revised Proverb Give a man enough rope, in a cigar box, and it's Christmas! Millions of forward-looking citizens send tings to each other at this time. The usual form of greeting is “Merry Christmas.” Some, more profligate with words, also add “Happy New Year.” If our nation is to progress, if home life is to be preserved, if our future is to be safeguarded, it will be because our people never forget to wish each other “Merry Christmas and Happy New Y My family and | heartily endorse this annual manifestation of good enship and ‘unselfish patriotism. And if you were to question the fel lows who shot Legs Diamond, they would probably tell you that the shooting was a success but the patient BWITIVAVVIVISSISS III IIVIIIVVIVAi_ lived. Sob Story Apse® Means was made of stern = Puritan stuff. True, he lived in the city—the modern apartment house in which he lived was a sharp contrast to the New England farmhouse of hi birth—but his principles, conscience and viewpoint had not changed. He stood now, harsh and unbend- barring the entrance of his apart- ment. Before him stood his erring daughter, begging to be taken in, Outside the snow and the cutting wind had driven all traffic from the streets. But there was no pity in the eyes of Abner Means as he gazed at Prudence, once the flower of his heart, now a blossom trampled in the mud. “Surely, Abner,” sobbed his wife, “you wouldn't turn our daughter out into the streets to freeze on a night like this “I must, Mary,” replied Abner. “It is my duty. She wears no wedding ring.” “But think, Abner. She was only an innocent girl. What did she know of the wicked world? For my sake, let her stay with us tonight.” Abner was no longer able to resist the tears and pleading of his wife and daughter, for at heart he loved them both. He threw the door of his apart- , ment wide open. 3 if “Come in then, come in, my daugh- ter,” he cried, his voice trembling with [RUF emotion, ome in, and we'll all freeze together!" A Great Moment in tie Lire or a Speakeasy Proprirtor —Henry Atrreps The Commissioner himself drops in for a bracer, 4 —ARTHUR L. LIPPMANN. Bn nn comicbooks.com