The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1942 Page: 3 of 24
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THE SEALY NEWS, SEALY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1942
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May Christmas wishes sent your way
come into port on Christmas Day, and
For ourselves? All we ask is your
continued friendship and patronage.
This is good enough for anyone.
So we say to you not just as our
customers in 1942, but also as our
friends and acquaintances which you
have indeed become.
The holiday spirit of 1942 rules the land
today. It is King of all, despite the wars
of men.
May your way be gay;
your pleasures unending;
your Christmas a merry
one; your New Year a
prosperous one.
These are our wishes
for you.
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Christmas V
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Bad weather and bad insects
caused cotton forecasts to be
revised downward by 210,000
bales during September, bring-
ing the total to 13,818,000 bales
—28 per cent more than last
year.
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Just the friendliest of wishes for
your happiness and cheer at Christmastime
and always.
Wishing you and yours every happiness
and blessing for 1943 as we leave the old
year and enter the new . . .
May 1943 be a happy year
for you and all you
hold dear
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May we take this opportunity to wish
you the happiest Holiday Season pos-
sible.
mas Born.” He suggested that
those born on December 25 be
assured a birthday present in
addition to the regular Christ-
mas gift and that it be a de-
fense savings bond or stamp.
Riordan estimated there are
360,000 persons in the United
States who were born on Christ-
mas. Among them are Robert
L. Ripley, the late May Rob-
son, actress, and Gladys Swart-
hout, singer.
SCRAP WITH YOUR SCRAP
There is more hope of a fool,
than of him that is wise in his
own conceit,—Bible,
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We hope that you enjoy to the
fullest all the happiness and good-
ness of this Christmas Season.
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• Milwaukee, Dec. 23.—A so-
ciety for the protection of birth-
day gift interests of those born
on Christmas day was propos-
ed by Hugh L. Riordan, Mar-
quette university professor.
Riordan, who will observe his
birthday Friday, injected a
timely element of patriotism in
his plan to organize an “Am-
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could retire and consequently
live longer and more happily.
To combine scriptural wisdom
with that of the modern Ed
Wynn, one might ask, “What
shall it profit a man if he shall
gain the whole world and be-
come the richest man in the
cemetery ?”
Aristotle, Socrates, and Scho-
penhauer were great philso-
phers, but they led unhappy
lives. That is also true of re-
ligious leaders like Calvin and
Luther, and writers like Nietz-
sche. Calvin and Knox were un-
happy because of their sullen
dispositions. Persons of vacil-
lating nature are unhappy. Ber-
trand Russell says that unhap-
piness is caused by mistaken
views of the world and the
strain of a highly competitive
civilization. He urges tolerance
as a personal virtue, and as one
that should be cultivated.
The deadly enemies of mind
and body are fear, worry, hate,
faultfinding, envy, and jeal-
ousy. They all bring unhappi-
ness. High blood pressure is
made much higher by these foes
to good health. They are the
depressing emotions. Arnold
Bennett was right when he
said, “Worry is evidence of an
ill-controlled brain.” Dr. George
Crile contends that worry af-
fects every celi in the body.
Certainly it is much more ex-
hausting than work.
READ THE WANT-ADS
The world’s largest clock, in
Jersey City, N. J., measures fif-
ty feet across the fact. Its min-
ute hand, including counter-bal-
ance, is almost forty feet long,
and can be read three miles
away. Built in 1908, the clock
weighs 2,200 pounds—the pen-
dulom alone accounting for 400
pounds. The top of the minute
hand, which travels more than
a mile daily, is nineteen feet
long.
SCRAP WITH YOUR SCRAP
Mirth is God’s medicine. E-
eryone ought to bathe in it.
Care, sadness, anxiety—all this
rust of life—ought to be scour-
ed off by the oil of mirth. It is
better than emery. Every man
should rub himself with it. A
man without mirth is like a
■wagon without springs — in
which one is made to jolt by
evry pebble over which it
runs.—Henry Ward Beecher.
THE REAL SPIRIT
OF CHRISTMAS
• Christmas is not a time
Dr a season, but a state of
mind. To cherish peace and
good will, to be plenteous
in mercy, is to have the
real spirit of Christmas. If
we think on these things,
there will be born in us a
Savior and over us will
shine a star sending its
gleam of hope to the
world.
—Calvin Coolidge.
SHEPHERD VILLAGE
PLAYS BETHLEHEM
• Les Baux in France, a vil-
lage of shepherds, put on one
of the most dramatic Christ-
mas celebrations in the world,
and has done it yearly for over
a thousand years. The peasants
act out the whole Bethlehem
story with real oxen. Thousands
of visitors come every Christ-
mas eve to see the event.
— BUY WAR BONDS —
The best thing to give your
enemy is foregiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a
friend, your heart; to your
child, a good example; to a
father, deference; to your
mother, conduct that will
make her proud of you; to your-
self, respect; to all men, char-
ity.—Balfour. t
E. W. JOSEY, Pres.
G. R. Borgel, Vice Pres. Abe Levine,,
Hugo Hess, Cashier Joe Krchnak, Cash
Sealy, Texas
bring you their cargo three — Health,
Friends, Prosperity.
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HAPPINESS?
By Oscar C. Mueller
• Herbert Spencer said, “Vig-
orous health and its accompany-
ing high spirits are larger ele-
ments of happiness than any
other things whatsoever.”
Disraeli asserted that public
health is the foundation on
which reposes the happiness of
the people.
The younger generation, par-
ticularly small children, are
better nourished and otherwise
physically cared for than their
ancestors. They have a right to
health and happy surroundings,
and they have them compara-
tively oftener than of old. When
that right is ignored there is
sure to be trouble in later
years.
Concepts of Happiness
Happiness is an illusive
word. Perhaps no two persons
could agree on a thing so fugi-
tive. In every age there have
been countless attempts to de-
fine it.
Aristotle believed that the
ultimate object of life ought to
be happiness. But the question
remains: What is happiness ?
Plato said, in the Dialogues,
that “happiness consists in the
use of a thing, not in its pos-
session.” This assumes some
form of activity, but is still
vague; for the use may lead to
misery. Henri Bergson says:
“Happiness is the’ realization of
the creative possibilities of a
man.” Does this mean that
happiness lies in creativeness,
in creative “use of a thing,” as
Plato puts it? But many a crea-
tor—poet, painter, inventor, en-
gineer, or architect—has. been
among the unhappiest of men.
None could have been more
fiendishly tortured than Count
Giacomo Leopardi, who worked
magic with words.
Some one has observed that
a happy man is one so interest-
ed, so absorbed, and so lost in
what he is doing as to forget
himself completely. This seems
to imply that at the moment of
happiness one knows nothing
about it, that one is conscious
of it only in retrospect at a
less happy time. Stevenson
sang, “The world is so full of a
number of things, I am sure we
should all be as happy as
kings.” But there is seldom to
be found a person who, lured
by curiosity, takes a profound
interest in the world’s number
of things.
Carlyle exclaimed, “Wondrous
is the strength of cheerful-
ness!” Addison: “Cheerfulness
is the best promoter of health
and it is as friendly to the
mind as to the body.” Frank-
lin: “A laugh is worth a hun-
dred groans in any market.”
Goethe: “It is not doing the
thing we like to do, but liking
the thing we do, that makes
life more blessed.”
Another aspect is pointed out
by Sidney Smith: “To love and
be loved is the greatest happi--
ness in existence.”
“A cheerful friend is like a
sunny day shedding brightness
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| Thackeray: “The world is a
| looking glass and gives back to
€ every man the reflection of his
i own face. Frown at it and it in
1 return will look sourly upon
1 you; laugh at is and with it,
| and it is a jolly, kind compan-
l ion.”
| Beaumarchais, French dra-
| matist of the eighteenth cen-
| tury, wrote the gay “Barber of
| Seville,” but most of his plays
€ depressed his auditors. He,
| however, was always optimistic
| and happy.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff, noted bi-
l ologist, urges us to believe that
B human emotions are noble and
g natural, and in a measure this
| thought will bring us happi-
| ness.
Many are happy under unus-
= ual circumstances. James the
| Fith, the father of Mary Queen
| of Scots, was particularly hap-
g py when mingling, disguised,
| among the peasants of the vil-
= lage
In “La joie de vivre,” Zola
= paints a fine portrait of a man
| suffering from the pangs of an
| incurable malady, yet always
| optimistic.
g In most instances it is striv-
i ing for success and finding only
1 ultimate failure that has caus-
| ed unhappiness. Many business
I men and professional men keep
un# on piling up dollars, when they
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Kendall, C. P. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1942, newspaper, December 25, 1942; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1597504/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.