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THE GOLDEN VALLEY NEWS
VOLUME NO. 7 BEACH, GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1942 NUMBER 13
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CHRISTMAS
STILL COMES
Christnms comes into the valley .
Ranges, white against the sky,
Stand like granite waUs no longer;
They are drifts, piled mountain-high.
Let the blizzards bar the highways;
Let the snowslides block the trails,
Roaring down the narrow canyons
Till no wheels can run on rails!
£nowbound camp yet Christmas enters
Even mountain homes like these.
Santa's reindeer might not make it,
But a man can go on skis!
Let the stormclouds hide the mountains
Till no pilot dares to fly.
Still comes Christmas to the valley . . .
There's no barrier too high!
I II II _ II I II I I I
Christmas As
Ever, Despite
The Present War
Ynristmas is here again. Its
merriment is tempered by the times,
but it, more than any other celebra-
tion, appeals to ennobling human
sentiments.
If one is disposed to feel that
conditions this year take from
Christmas its sacred influence, let
]im review the progress of Christ-
mas from its beginnings.
In a fameless village of a small.
subjugated country, a Child was
born to a family of sojourners wh:
had been refused accommodat'ons i
an inn. World-dominating Rom
paid no attention to the incident.
Imperial Rome reached the he'gh
of its temporal power, played it
part in history and became a mem-
ory. And yet, the spiritual power
vf the manger-born King survived.
Pagan barbarians swept in hordes
over Europe. Principalities and
powers were shattered by their on-
slaught, But one by one they came
and bowed in submission to the
Prince o Peace. According to their
limited understanding, they accepted
His rule. He did not fight, but He
,conquered.
For many reasons Christmas
r
never loses its wonder, but for no
reason more remarkable than this:
Its unfailing evidence of vitality.
Repetition of its celebration through
the years of a man's lifetime and
through the centuries of a nation's
existance robs it of none of its
eternal newness.
Familiarity with the customs that
are the main-springs which inspire
its deep-lying affections never en-
feebles it. Its delights, curiously
equal whether spiritually or mater-
ially expressed, remain undiminished
through a prolonged process of hu-
man progress marked always by a
succession of surges and resurges,
of crests and hollows, of high and
lows, of springs where civilization
gorgeously blooms and of winters
where it suddenly falls flat. The
ecstasy of Christmas alone endures
evenly.
For more than nineteen hundred
years the world ,has watched over
its peculiar treasure with a cer-
tainty that although all its other
joys can be taken away from it
through a revocation or tranforma-
tion, the supreme elation embodied
in this observce shall continue un-
changeless, yesterday, today, to-
morrow and forever.
In those ninteen hundreds years
in appalling alternation have come
to the children of thfs sublunary
sphere famine after feast, penury
after prosperity, war after peace,
but through it all, over it all, suf-
fusing it all and saving to man his
spirit which shall save all for him,
indomitably has reigned the irre-
fragible faith in the Christ born in
Bethlehem.
America is far from the Bethle-
hem manger, far in miles and in
years. But America celebrates the
anniversary of the Manger Birth.
It doesn't matter that some are un-
believing and some skeptical and
some scoff. It has always been so.
Yes, there is war--global war.
He foresaw that there would be,
but in an all-powerful, divine known
edge, He dismissed the subject.
"The end is not yet," he said, calmly.
No, he end is not yet. The shep-
herds, keeping watch over their
flocks that first Christmas night,
marked the passing of the hours by
the circling constellations. Those
same stars look down on us, un-
changing in their positions or their
relations.
The heavens declare the glory of
God. They also bear witness to the
brevity of man's little plots and plans
and the futility of all things that
do not accord with the Divine
Purpose.
Let us rejoice and be glad, for
the message of .Christmas is an
eternal guaranty of the invincibility
of the Christian hope.
The holiday spirit of 1942 rules ._
the land today. It is King of all,
despite the wars of men. May we
take this brief, but sincere, time
to wish you the best of Holidays. I J
II li I I I I I
Please accept our cordial wish for abundant
prosperity and contentment to each of yot. And
may we say, "Thanks to all the good friends of
this organization for enabling us to continue to
be of service to you."
FARMERS UNION OIL CO
F- W. Houck, Manager Beach, North Dakota
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from the Court House
Now, when all America looks hopefully to a new and
better year, we pause to take stock of our assets, and
find that chief among them is the good will of our
many friends.
So we renew our pledge to do everything in our power to merit a continuance of your good will. There
are clouds on the horizon, and clouds in the zenith, too, but we face the future with the firm conviction
that now, on the threshold of 1943, we may truly say, as in the past, we wish you a Merry Christmas and
a Very Happy New Year.
LEWIS ODLAND
County Commissioner
M. C. TESCHER
County Commissioner
T. A. WOSEPKA
County Commissioner
MINNIE E. SMITH
County Auditor
P. J. SCHILLO
Deputy Auditor
LOUISE STOUT
County Treasurer
KENNETH STOUT
Deputy Treasurer
A. E. KASTIEN
County Judge
OMA MILLS
Deputy Register of Deeds
L. B. REAGER JUNE MILLS
Welfare Office
FAITH N. MENKE
Supt. of Schools
" DOROTHY GROVE
Public Health Nurse
GUY LEE
States Attorney
GLENN P. COOK
Sheriff
HOWARD STOCKwELL
Deputy Sheriff
EARL JONES
Custodian
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