The Log Champion of Activities

Between 1914 and the late 1960s, the Champion Paper and Fibre Company published an internal newsletter, called The Log, to share news about the Canton mill, the community, and its employees. After 1940, news from the entire “Champion Family,” which included mills in Hamilton, Ohio; Houston, Texas and Sandersville, Georgia, was featured in each issue.• ... IN TinS ISSUE Impo-rtant Announcement ~ _____ - - - • 5 " It' Not as Easy as It Reads" .. - - - S Spea.km.CJ of Large Salaries - -_ • -. -. - 5 Editorials __ ..••.• _ . ~ __ ,... _____ - -- __ 6 CHAMPION FAMILY NEWS Hamilton Division • _ . . _______ H--. . 8 Cantoa Division ____ • __ ••... _. __ • _ 25 Hou ton Divis:loD ________ . __ • _ _ _ 37 OF CHAMPION A C I I 'VITI ES O:ECEMBER 1944 VOL XXVI NUMBER 11 • .· •. Have y~u ever heard the wind in the pines, And the rustling of leaves at night, And at by the side of. a com~ade . R ound a campiire's fnendly)1ghu Have you ever climbed to a mountain top Where oft, cool breezes blow, And seen, sp read out before you, God's green garden down below? ·Have you ever laid awake at night And studi ed the stars in the sky, And heard the rush of a mountain stream Or a far off eagle's cry? If you've ~ p ent one day in the mountains, Travelling o'er its sod, You've spent one day in Heaven · Communing with yo ur God. ' by L aA;J ant W. Olsen Salt Lake City, Utah PUBLISHED BY "THE CHAMPION FAMILY" HAMILTON, OHIO : CANTON, N. C. : HOUSTON, TEXAS : SANDERSVlLLEr GA. Esta.bliahed 1914 • - • - • Thi:rtiedl Year of P.ub1icatlon the: pap~t for the covel' of thiJJ maqutne is Champion I<tom.ekote, and the paper for i!;ie Jnside paqea 1a Champion White Satin Refold Enamel. We ma.nu1acture many qrades of bleachtd. pf<Pet$, Mac:hlA• filtiahed; tuper C.tclndered~ and Coated. · \ )uld •uu lik H. li\ wh ·n; n 1 uld nut :;~ • the ,UJLhi e f fony d. ys ;; tit \ ? ·dl, i th • nig-hts n.' t<o ,h(tt, ·ml .ou at not Jhl· t(' gl't l'll lJc•h l Cp in {'I) r {\ ·el ' ' hour< 1 ju,. t m •, tJI to p lint rn ' ·. \1 -k , 1 hich is lout .~ · mil · 111 nh u th Jctic ~ir k. for h .r _ th inhal:it nt: n th · , un I fNt d ,n d m-i r g d l " i 1 t e r {.'.a c n-n ~ t l l; "Hl s , t f d 11 .\ · w ·, r h- - ·r_:_the ·un ju t o -n't . hi nc · 1 e 'rrit llY )f 4 L ·ka, om1 ri~~ then rtln st rn J'art of ·. rth , m ri •. \\Cl th\.: l 1 t. l ·ridi n an inrlnding · ~trir of l~ nd n.t~:nclin r ·c l1'l • i. n d wn t b ' P..,cift a·t · nu b--rd lj,cnti ' land .. andlh .l miall rhi r eta . \la.-ka i.., >:.Urround d by th 3 At ti an n th . lL rth: th' n nln . ; rerrit Jries r (an J a, nud Briti ·h 'o]- mbia. n he east; by the I a ific c , n, 1 the uthv t ; and n he w H, by Berin~· e . an 1 th . r ti e n. It s ar i, art r .-im t 1_~ ~ .c' ,quar mil -ab mt ne-flft'l1 h -jz { th l . ited 'tate . • • of prJ:\~ Ctor, I i } · &k~, rf h • fit lc nto ., 11 gi lat ur · Cl)n-n in F 1 . Mo · t S1r t qic Pl c Th L 1c 1 'II t.l \Villi · itch 11, i credited wi h ayin nnnY_ y·, ·' •o: ' 11,1, k· .i l~" mos c n ral pi· cc in h \'orld f l_r , 1rcraft.- l b ·J1 ·v , H1 h · fu urc. he who hulJ ~ Ia ka _\ tll hoi th ,wt rid, 'nd 1 hi11k ! i the mo t stra e ic place I I) T C World. ' Jon u h api I ~i y f Ala ka, i si uated at he hcad-w. t •r of h ' C · stincau "hannel p osi e u las sland, ab 1 1t 1, 00 mile n r h f S n Francisc . Quo ing from . · el-on' 'on1pl ~ · :.. cycl . ·dia: ''I i~ . mining an~ fi-h,ng town, nd a ba of supr.!H:s for he nunm and other mr re t<-; f th t rc ,.j ·n, s well as a t ail-di ~ tributing (.en er for all poirt w tw rd. Thcr' rc various manufacture· uch as lumber pr du t , r, ci ~ars c c.-The city has an'exc Hen s bo l y tcm, fine pu lie buildings, one of whi h w s recen ly built by he fed- Discovery of Alaska eral gov rn nt a a c t of $6 0.- m hi torians l tlltnd the t a man: by th name f Juneau ha teamship communicati n tt:... De, hne.f. vi 1 ed iaska in 1 -1- 2. 'w sn ff, a Ru · ian 'a me with other Ala kan t wns. and wi h San ,~~ ":iJ' t,. la ka in 17 1) but \'itnl' 'riner, a ani h navigator is Franci sc and eat- ~~' generally a, redited a the di~ overer of Ala ka. He reached tl . Popu lation f «;' tf!~ he 4 la~l·a Coa~t at on roler Bay n ar Mount aint Eli as, J uneau in 1940 V in 1741. Ca tain Jame- k, the " no·li h navi ator x:- was about 8,500. plored the Ala kan oa t in 177 , a far as Bering Strait. Sitka (formerly ther c nduc ed exploration. alon the coa t in 1793-4, but accordin to the mo auth n ic r c rd the first permanent ~ .1 ~ 4! .....1.0 ~-0 , tlement ,,-a - made in 17 at Three Saint Bay, on K diak ., v ~v ~ v I land, by a R us ian trading company. In 1799, the Rus- tf! L~ ~ sian-American Fur Tradin Company was granted a mon- O" ~~" (i ~ opoly of the fur trade by the Ru ian government, and ' · ~5 d \ e w Archangel) e tabli bed po t at F odiak, itka, and o· her points but 0 f. tf! V A~.,.. was the former O\ ·in(.r to abu_ es its_~ hart r wa revoked, \~ ~~~ til..." • capital of laska. and a Ru stan ·11l1tary ov rnor wa ~ II!..-, L r It i located on the nt t Ala_ ka to.. replac_e the company i,~ , ~~ +V . . 1; e t c a t of the repre~enrative. 1 h " n1ted Stat s op- ~ ~\t/f:J ~ tsland f S1tka or Bara nof, ~ 5 miles ened negotiati n . in 1866, to pt1rcb.a ~ A,(/ O i uthwest of Juneau. _It ha a deep the . laskan t rn- o"· ~ harbor, e, cellent for shtps, except that tory from u sia, (; d-, it i jc bound a great pa rt of th y ar. and in ~ 1arch 1 ~67 (/ t--~ Popul ti n a bout 2,300. a treaty was 81 n- Fairbanks, j l cat d n the Tanana River, and i the d, wh reby laska n rth rn t rminal f th . Ala !·a r ilro. cL It h... a g od was ·d d t 1 1ni · S.tat ·s, f r 'h7,2 in g kL >n • o b r 18, 18 7, the n 1 m 1 ransf ·r t I· rIa· 't, itka the Ru i n l uprial 11-g was I ·r·J cWlth .' ars and St i1 w<. r r is· I o · lask , 'h • pri · r aid to Rn s~ n f r the T -rritor r of Alls a,',·' ab Ut ~ c· nt r a r ' . ( n r } s n, 1 r h , p , f ( r , ·11 i 1 ' 1 J · b ' . I y \ :t IS "'.:.""au·, !h.· F u:sians, who r · cl b · ~n lo i ;)'rip on r1 ir F: at~,t - r.n tlom!lll 11, pr f •r •d l · . etl I sl 'L o · fri ·nd tin r th. n llnv·itfallt>af .' J<-' r ev r 1 y <~ rs Ia k.a wa rmr (J Tav T fTic ·r. bm in l f r · civil ov nn rnt. ln 1 Klondik J nd at 1 m in 1 99, go ern d L , n l rni ·d ta 4 . n r · m pr ision- ' old \< . di o r d in th Thi attra t.ed large numb r harb r and durin .· the p n s as n, it ha - nne ti ns ·with he I r steamship lin s { · m N m , a m·, S anle, nd Van uv r. P pul tion l:~f re "vV rid \Var IT , wa ~ ou 2, . 'Th • niv 'r it ( L sk ,, i Io at 'd in Fairr anks. r. h rl Bunnell Pr sident f th Jni r ity f Aln - k., in 1942, ·· id, ' Fairbank ill rr L ' b a r'<lt int r-nati n I ·iati .n ·nt r. All y u h ~ v · t i i 1 k t th •lub • t tha .' In {· t, • irbnnks, \1 ~, hl, i::; m. w n ·arl r I t th I r , t w rl l itie than nny th •r pot. Frm •airbnk t N Y(r ,we,r inr . rn1•d tlu itis 270 · ,il -·s · 3 ,5 ~0, toT k n; ,lto t If ">c w; 4, l , t Lond ·m; m.l t, ... JO t n ·rl in, b I plan . An . 'Cl1tiv r th I an m ri ·an Air Lin '., hr ,· h . 'n quot ·d • s sa. ing "The • mpon lc 'I p _l its InsL n bnsin s as t r ut .hi h mi ·It b" : teo leu . ross i h < rth I a iG iqt Thu , it ,' •n s. th tim rnigltt rut b · ar li r, nt, ' I n th us· n I f mu lr i -m oto 1~ d } lan 1 lr 1 1 wn ur th · run r ,, d 'airbank, and oth r l skan citi · ry da .in th fu)m all part of th ' rid . The di J ry of gold in the i in it f m n th ::rrd coin ular in 1 98, led t th 1,wdin · f th ity. 1 ld dredgin is th' rn t i]:np rtan .indu tr ;_ Th r i an airport I ated i.n N me. Pop ulation about 1,700. t Right· lllustrative of hemlock and pruce forest at Bond Bay. West Behem Canal Alaska. Below: Aerial view of Wrangell. Alas­ka. Below. right: Comm·unity HoUs-e and totem pole on Chief Shakes Island. Wrangell. Alaska. Forests AccordinO' to the be t autho ritv the forest and wood­lands of Alaska, co er about 156,250 quare l!liles. The most valuable trees are th west rn hemlock, Sitka spruce, western red cedar and yellow cedar, .in the coast forests. ' ' hite pruce, white birch) p plar, balsam, cot.t nwo ?, an~ aspen i in the interior. The total tand of nmt cr, 1 e ' tJ­mated at 75 000 000,0 0 board feet. The F clera] F rest Ser ice claim , that ·Alaskan for ~ ts can produce a billi · n feet of lumber a year perpetually.-A g d pla for a Pul1 ~!fill. Fisheries and Minerals The fisheries o-f Ala ka a re ajd t be xc dingly rich . .J . It is Alaska's leadjng prod uct, and pr due .. mur · than ej hty per cent o{ the nati n's tota l salm >n output. S m year , more than $50,0( 0 00 worth of sa lrnr n J av · n taken out of the water alan( AI ska's h r · . Salmon ·fi h­eries extend from 1 tchikan in ' JUth ast Ala. ka, al m r}' som 2,000 rniJ s of sh re, to B ist I Bay, and b yonJ. Alaska i al o rich in min ra1 -o-oiJ, ._i lv r, oal, c l pa. and platinum. ld dcpo. its w r known to " ist in · la ·ka for many yea rs before di. co ry of ri b "old p ia ~ ·r in t.h · Klondik reg1 n of the up1 r Yukon Vall •y in 18 J -7 < ld has been mined at Klondike, '1 red well, in th T a nnna Hills, Fairbanks, Bonnifield, Ka ti hna , l1 n k , and Iditarc,d. Copper minin is car ied n at Ke chikan in Svuthea t }\'Ias­ka; the Copp.er River a in, and Prin William SounJ. There a e three area f hi h- rade oal in Alaska : the B rin River f1eld, in the Controller Bay re ion; NlZJtanu "' ka, north Cook Inlet; and the Nenana Ficlcl. Only a relati ely mall ar a of Al sl a i actually ulti­vated, although, \~le under and th ' t m r than a milli n and a quarter a res are uitable ~ r fanning. In u~h t~n Alaska, vegetabl · and small fnuts, sn h a are grown m New England, thrive. Further n rth , grain nd potat. are successfully culti ated. Ha · and f rag - are th · l dmg agricultural cr ps. Transportation Th' development of Ala I it is i1tcnd t, h , l: n gr atly h mp red by ina l qunte ran , p rtati n fa iliti . Th railway mil a i a lit le mor th an 1. 00. H r, th sc wh h ·~ c pent some ·tim in laska t 11 u ~ that kans ar the most air-mind · d 1- ~ l ·und r th Am ri an fiag Altb mgh Ala h1 is in g n "t .. :~ l rm uncl el p l r but in th is on r ·s1 "Ct, tbc I c pl " nr c,·tra lin aril pr - gr' .i . Th · T ritor r h ' tS rnor ~ th n f rL airport.. 1 - ka'l1 chillr "n who ha n 'V 'r ::Pen a tr·lin ( r an nul m bil - ake 1h ' airphw a, a matrer of ur~ "- ·E r, b cl fli s in J ska. It is th onl r m an f tr Jt ,· p rt ti n bet 'C n (3) ns-Lh · do t am is fa st l oming h .. 1 t . 1 :ka fr n1 the nati ve t nn 1-.. - ·k- a, m ' ns (Th ;n: t .Land .'' 1. llHi srs wl ba c t rav 1 ·d ~ons id " rably in Ala, J a, inform u. h,.lt c n : is st ·. : r , l. b ' it g ic~anti and n ar l ou ~ spl nd )r. Hen y (; ~Inn tt. [ rm 'r 'hi f 1l '!' < th ·· ( nit ed Stat ·s Cc )lo i ·td Snr c , sa id) ·ls' ( n the arth, is th ·r su 'h ab m lam· ( nd of mcuntain f or l an l ,.b ckr s n rv-fo th one • tnttC • • • < f Calif<- rnin , Ahsl..:t has 1ntr1tlr 'd1;. Th m m tain, un rlaci ·r. f th · C;u; ad Range ar • duplic u · I. · n I ' l thou nd times . ecd d in Ala ht. Th " h ka Cu;l ' t i, t beet m Rigl:tt: Mendenhall Glacier. lunea.tL Alaska. showing bright blue htpine and pink fireweed aqai.nst a background ol snow-capped mounta'i" ns. • Above: Orchard Lake and stand ·of spruce .an .:i hemlock timber near Ketchikan. Alaska. hom a point about due ncrth of Carroll Tnlet and west o-f Revillaqigedo Island. . the show place of the earth; pilgrims, not only Cnited State } but from fa r beyond the eas, will endle s proce ion to see it." from the throng in Ala ka is, not only, centrally located to the Large aggre­oation of world civil ization, but a glance at the globe wi ll convince one that Kodiak, Alaska, is perhaps, 2,000 miles closer to Yokohama, J apan, than San Francisco. From Chi­cao- o to Vladivostok, Ru ss ia, by way of AJaska, we are .in­formed, i about 7,100 miles; by San Franci sco~ it is more than 12,000 mile . At Bering Strait, Asia i only 75 miles from our American pos ession at the top of the globe.-In fact, the American and Ru sian Diomede I slands are only a few miles a art. In a re ent article, by Herbert C. Lanks author and lec-urer on the Ala kan Hicrlnvay, construe ed by the l nited L tates gov rnm m through 1,60 miles of Canadian N rth­west wilderne s tJ Alaska, he tates, '' .. -ot many per ens rea lize that ince the nit d State Army engine ·rs c n-tructcd th pi n r r ad throu h th northw t wildern · , the l"nitecl Stat s Public Road Admini tration has rebuilt it i11_·o a modern two and thre -ca r-width highway op n for traffic, the yea r around." · Another writer puts it thi way "" h ro~d i no bollle­vard, it' trictly a military hi rhway, with ro:wrh, tccp, cur ing se tions, v;rbich wollld de tr y n rdin ..u y automo­bile.- Jetting the car tart d if it tof.S i ~ a •ig. uti ta:k. -It i so cold th e oil in th wheel and transJ. i>l>si u fre 7e. and have to be tha, ed ut.' rn y truck c n oy · from Daw n r t:k, Canada, cOUtbem t rminu f the road. to Fairbank , laska, is 1 6"10 mile one p rat r lriv a fe\ · hour, .and turns the truck O\ ' r t th n x tan. Thu the .onvoy j .., kept running, 24 h . ur::, a day. The extent of the f rtificati n · of the Aleutian Archip Ia~ o i-· a milit· r eue . .. fter the war, mp]e fo rti1 cat1 n (4} • Below~ Braillnq fish trap tn ley Straits. AlaskA. The fi&h are almon. Left: Grand Pacific Glacier. will, no doubt, be erected along the Aleutians whic~ stretch­es out into the ocean 850 miles, beyond Dutch Harbor. It is said that le s than 4 per cent of Alaska is perm~­nently covered with ice and snow; that three quarters of It lies in the North Temperate Zone, and that the whole sou~h­ern coastal stretch warmed by the Japan current, ha m1ld winter temperattlres. As you sail along_ Alaska' . shore , one is dazzled by the sight oJ bright blue lupme and pmk fireweed fringing the coast. The interior regi~n , Alaska' Chambers of Commerce claim, gets very hot m summer} about 90 degree , just a it gets bitter cold in winter. Not many year hence, we b lieve, AI~ ka will be ~ v~l ­oped it populati n will increase at a r~p1d rat , and It w1ll oon b come a great a et to the Umt d States, and tJ1e world. V./ e r t to the Chamber of Commerce, Ala ka, f r ph to . raph to illu trate thi s story, and the r .P}Y w r iv d wa ~, 'We had rather n t hav an~ pub!Jc1~. at thi time. Fairbank i now overcrowd · d h o tL' ll1 ondJtJ ons · r · bnd--w a nnot tak care of the pe pl.e who ar her 110\ . ' Tbe 1 pulati n of la ka is onlv about 0 000. • Tb pt ;f 's r wa dcliv rin the la st le tur of the term. ' 1 h exan in.a ti n i ap r are now in the hand_s f the prillter ' h c n 'luded. •Now are ther any qu estt n y u w uld li e an wcrtd ?" . ilen · pr ·vail d for '·\Vho i the print rf" • a mom nt, th en a v tc piped up, .. :\ Chinarn n opened a laundry between a dr_ug t re and a rt: t.aurant. The cltuggi thad a sign: "\Ve Nev r C l c;>se: '~ The r taurant nnounced: "Open At All Hour '. o w1thm a fe\v day~, the 1, undry exhibited thi si n: 11 ~1[e ' No Sle py, '1(· . , A few · eek ago we all received copies of the Fiftieth Anniversary Report to Cha1npions, telling the behind-t he-scenes story of con1pany operations and explaining it financial position. It i a story we're proud of. But -vvav it told in intere ting fashion? Were there some thing , about -vvhich we would all like to knovv more overlooked? Did we n1iss a good bet or nvo in making the story clear? rfhere's only one way of finding out. That's ''It's Not As Easy As It Reads" Recently, we re eived from P vt. Edward DarnelL a clip­ping from the Star and Stripe~, a neV\ spa per publi hed by the doughboy ~ , omewhere in France. It was a short edi­torial illu trated with a picture of three American , oldiers who had been left on the field of battle, cold and still in death , from enem_ bullets. The editorial and picture tell a graphic ~ tory of what i happening on the battlefields of Europe, and the outh Pacific. vVe quote: "vVhen you read about a town after falling into our hands, you sooner or la ter, get into the frame of mind, that it's ea sy. \~r ell, here's how it is. T11ese three Yank ~ were killed, taking a place called Troyes. Ever hear of it? _ 1either had we. Anyway, it was taken. '.:. lice goi n ' vve said when we read a bout it. 'The boy are really rolling~ . These boy ' rollino- days are done. The town they took so 'easily' wa the last town they'll ever see. The rest of their outfit moved on to the next town-and took that too. And the next -and the next. And in every town, there are a few GPs like these, left by the roadside. '~l\llaybe thi picture ought to be tu ck inside every helmet liner in the ETO, and every Stet on in the • tates. Then, every time we gloat over the headlines and take off our skimmers to pat our clve on the head -we'~ see these J es who were hit by the ilver platter on wh1ch the l az1s handed u Troyes.' We are publishin(T the above e@i orial, because it seems to u& such a timely uggestion. \Ve ar inclined to a-loa t over or view with sa~i facti?n, rep r s_of gr at battle fo tl ht and '":on by ou r arm1e , while the b .d1 s of many of our fine Amencan boy are left upon the bat tl efit:ld to be ·bleach d by the weather, , r decay ben ath forei rn oil. Wed rejo}ce over e ery ba tle won, but rem mb r, m boy shed the1 r blo d and gave their liv to win th con­flict. Tho e boys. will never again see tl e ~D untry th ·y lov · best of all, nor w1ll they ever meet on hi a rt h , tho e wl o are near and dear to them. ~~fay th · day of c nft ict o n be over and the boys retiJrn h me to those whom they Iov . "I upp~ e, " sat. d t h e c~.t . ma~, " rh:r are ome queer character around an old vdla e hke th1s " "You'll find a good many," admitted .the nativ 'when the hotels fill up." ' to ask. So we are enclosing a suggestion blank in an early pay en vel ope. Look for it. It is everybody's chance to ex­pres an honest opinion, ·without fuss or feath­ers. Blanks do not have to be signed. Criti­cisms will be taken in the spirit in which they are offered. But PLEASE do return yours filled out, by putting it in the nearest sugges­tion box. THE CHAMPION PAPER AND FrBRE Co. Speaking of Large Salaries vVould you like to earn a salary of $52 5,600 a year? D on't believe there are many people who would refu se such an offer, do you? Yet, there are people who say that no ·--­man is worth that much, however, we shall n ot argue the que tion, for we believe every one has a right to their opinion. "Let's see, $525,600 a year, is exactly one dollar a minute- . twenty:.four hours a day-365 days in the year. Suppo e you were paid such a salary} or earned $525,600 a yea r, and saved every penny of it, how long would it take you to make a billion dollars? In fact, do you realize what a billion is r \Nell,_ suppose we look at it this way, if you were -vvorking for the paltry sum of $525,600 a year, and saved every penny of it, it would take you one thousand, nine hundred and two and one-half years, to make a billion. In other word , if you had beenborn in the year 41, A. D., and were still living at the age .of 1,902.5 years, and had earned a dollar a minute since. the day you were born, and saved every penny of it, not counting interest on your savings, you would today ·have only a billion dollars. A bill ion is a thousand million. But, the term is u ed o frequent ly in present-day government finances .it means nothing to the majority of American people-it is just an­other o-overnment expenditure. The interest on a billion doll ar ', at 20 per cent, amounts to twenty-five million dollars a year. 1 oday we are 250 billion dollars in debt, and still <•oin decpeL Two lnmdred and fifty billion at 2 Yz per ent interest per year means that the intere t on our pre ent national indebte<:lness is mor than $11 ,700 a minute, r ix billi on, t\vo hundred and fifty million lollar a e r. Another illu stration might help u to realize how bi the national I. bt is. · "If 50,000,000 people that is ppro, imatel the total number of abl -bodi d worl rs in the nit d State ~ sholdcl pay the g v · rnm .nt $2,400 a ear or na , one dollar an hour~4 hours a \, ek for 12 m nths allowing 2 week vacation, it woull tak t ' y ars t pay off th national deb ." Of con rs , 49,000,000 of the pe pl a r unable t pa one~t e nth th.at an o"unt , th r for the Am ri<.:an people ·will be pa ing taxe. on the pr' ent national debt f r a hundred years r longer. · • S n (reading) - 'Pop, what is a p d strian ? ' Pop-"A pedestrian, my n, is the ra ~ mat rial for an accident." (-5) ' . ~.- \ Publi hed by "The hampion F amity" a a ymb 1 of th Cooperation and Go d Fellow hip Exi ting at the Plant of The hampion Paper and Fibre Company, H amilton. hio· anton Jorth Carolina · Hou ton, T a ~ and ander 'tille, Georgia. G. W. PHILLIPS ____ __ _______ ____________ Editor, Canton. North Carolina REUBEN B. ROBERTSON, JR •.•. __ -- •.. __ ._ .. . _ .. _ . . ... Associate Editor DWIGHT J, THOMSON ..•.• _ . .•.. -·- •.. . -- . . -- •.. . .•• Associate Editor EMERSON ROBINSON _____ . ____ .• _._ .•. Assistant Editor, Hamilton. Ohio A. M. KOURY._ •• ••• _. __________ . __ ... Assistant Editor, Houston. Texas .1/l articles in this magazine are written by the editor except those which carry the name of the author. Christmas Nineteen Forty-Four uF or unto you is hom this day - - - a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." There will be many sad hearts on this Ch,ristmas Day, because of the war. Some will contend, "How can one say 'lV1erry Chri tmas' in a world so full of cruelty-with those who are near and dear to us, on foreign fields, suffering the horrors of a ruthless war, prosecuted by hea rtless dictators?" But, above the roar of cannon and bursting bombs, comes · tbe voice: "Fear not: for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For unto you