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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1953.

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The Story Behind SANTA CLAUS

A

Famous Christmas Carol

Oberndorf, Austria, The great Christmas carol "Silent Night" was written because mice ate the bellows of the church organ here 135 years ago.

The awful discovery was made two nights before Christmas in 1818 when the parish priest and the organist went to the church to rehearse, The only noise from the organ was hoarse puffing: The two men trudged home the first singing of "Silent ward in despair because there Night" Decompanied by a 12- would be no Christmas music string peasant guitar. for the

parishioners. It was bitterly cold, An all-day blizzard had choked the narrow streets with snow,

As the pair pushed their way through drifts, the wind sud- denly died. The sky cleared and the village was bathed In starlight

The 26-year-old priest. Father Josef Mohr, raised his

eyes and remarked quietly:

BAN CAUSES INDIGNATION

Dunn, N. Carolina.

Santa Claus has been barred from the annual Christmas parade here and townsfolk seethed despite a compromise that would let St Nick watch from the sidelines as a guest of honour.

of

The ministerial committee in charge arrangements touched off a withering wave of protest when it disclosed plans restricting the Parade to a series of floats depicting religious events.

The hymn became a villago Mayor Ralph E., Hanna Bald favourite,

the issue was "too hot for one to Bargemen carried it downcarment on" the Balzach River to other Aus- trion communities.

FASSED ON

Magistrate Arthur Wilborn called "the most damnable

thing I have ever heard of in my whole life."

Mes H. P. Byrdi a Sunday school superintendent said, "it

testlly makes me tlek,” ·

Mrs Jule T. Mana said the

telephoned her paster in protest and "he talked real rude to me" but the said he later called back and apologised.

Disgruntled

E. German Christmas Shoppers

Berlin.

A travelling organ repairman who came to fix the bellows copied down the words and music and posse them to churches in other parts of Europe its performance at a "Silent Night, Holy Night Then he added: "All is calm, concert at Leipzig, Germany, bi all is bright."

1831, the carol spread rapidly Legend says that the organist throughout the world. schoolmaster Franz Xovler Father Mohr died in the Alps Gruber gripped the priest's In 1848, so poor he could not

A US High Commission and

Mrs J, W. Temple, Chairman exclaimed That leave enough money to pay for make a fine Christmas

building d committee burial. s friend Gruber of

analysis of East German church died in obscurity 15 years later.

float maid she didn't Christmas presents shows Tho

straight to

know whether the group would that they include: Floods wrecked Oberndorf at men went Gruber's home, brewed strong the turn of the century, de-continue work. coffee ter keep themselves stroying St Nickolaus

Church, City solicitor awake, and spent the rest of and a new village was built Bryan, with his grandchildren the night working out the farther down The Salzach

in mind commented "we have vera and the melody of what Valley, woa to become the most be-

got to get Santa Claus back in love of all Christmas hymos,

that parade."

Erm

would carol."

his

But in 1937, a "Slient Night" Chapel was bullt on the site of the old church with funds donated by music lovera throughout the world.

Shepard

"Coats which lore their shape, ́| shoes which split up the side, watches and clocks which re- use to run, radios. for which no tubes can be obtained, shirls in gorilla and pygmy sizes, electric hearing pads walch catch Arc, Merchants who finance the bicycle tubes with

built-in annual event asked the minis-leaks, anul toys which fall apart terial association to work out the first time they are used,"

plan to

"A study made by the monoth

High expremto

element) Commissica (Berlin down the

citizens. aroused

Public Affairs Division of com- Chairman Charlie Hildreta

from would plaints

published N

In the uttle chapel, the

cherished carol

When the villagers gathered at title St Nikolaus Church on Christmas Eve to celebrate the birth of Christ, Father Mohr told news about the them the bad

will bo sung organ but added that he and again this Christmas Eve us Gruber had a musical surprise the people, of Oberndorf have to offset the disappointment, sung it each year since 1818 ---

Then the priest and theto the accompaniment of organist led the congregation in' peasant guitar. United Press.

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tho

CX-

Santa C plained Arrive about an hour ahead of parade and ride through fire engine. the streets on a Then he'll take a seat as guest of honour in a reviewing stand at the sidelines.

Most people agreed compromise might work

Bill clamoured

Claus to be in

many

consumere

in that Soviet- Hleensed

and

collected. press from refugees shows that the Christmas spirit of Soviet zone eldents will have to stand the test of paying exorbitant prices for inferior goods, which are the probably not the sort of thing Arst but the buyer wanted in the for place," the report stated.

• the

"But givers and receivers of rifis may take some 'comfort in the expectation that the goods

Santa parade.

The Rev. Ernest P. Russell, Chairman of the Ministerini will break or become unusable Committee, quickly accepted anyway," it the compromise,

COMPLAINrs

But the association stood its

Here are a few of the cam- disgruntled ground

on the ban, arguing plaints listed by that "to have Sinta Claus Soviet zone Christmas shoppers. coming at the

1-Rayon socks, where the sad of the would parado

Im-

LEE7

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WORLD

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Added:

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give the whole mie fall out after a few Walt pression that the primary days Shoes which came apart at purpose of Christ's coming

Was 60 that we could have the uppers, and transferred their Sanda Claus."

colour to the customers' stock-

The ministers said "it is not ings, Potsdam thoppers also com- that any of the ministers have plained about the fit one can anything against old St Nick... hardly stand erret for the pain." what the ministers' have been 3. Stove pipes, marked size asked to do by the merchants 11, but provided only with size in to put. Chris back Into 13 Joints Christmas."—United Press.

The Master Stroke

4A children's seat for a 10- year-old girl which "looks like sack. has an ugly colour, and the material ir terrible.

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way, and the front and back are now longer than the sides" 5.A child's toy tmin which one Soviet zone newspaper com plained had a guaranteed life of five minutes."

of City prison officials admitted Soviet zone goods was contain-

Indication of the quality recently they had been duped by ed in the Berliner Zeitung re-

t

New York.

a confidence man pulling what cently, which

complained that

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of 800 pairs of trousers, 122 The man, being held on grand overcosia end 157 suits had larctay charges, walked out of "pockets unevenly sowed on, gaol posing as another prisoner sleeves the wrong shape, collars who was to be released on ball. and

unsatisfactory

The Deparinient of Correction and seams improperly done, and Identified the slick, prisoner as Seneral, an

whe

in

James Briggs, 39, of Brooklyn, Such suits, made of erratz who was in

in the "New Tombs" wool, cost 280-300 marks.-- prison dwalling hearing on United Press.

fugitive warrants

charging him

with grand larceny in New

and Michigan.

Warden Herman J. Ruthazeri

sald a bondsmen posted $500 bail

ONCE BITTEN !

Calcutio.

Members of the Legislaturo

recently for Herbert Brown, 21, Himalayas were invited to see of Sikkim State in the remote

a burglary suspect who was a film in the first movie theatro sharing ถ

with Briggs. A

cell wit gaoler went to get Brown and over opened in Gangtok, found one cellmate asleep and

capital,

the

They promptly introduced a the other awake. The one who resolution In the legislaturo was awake raid he was Brown. calling for the theatre to be An hour later · Briggs-not | closed for 10 years ag ́à "menace Brown — went free. -- United ; to Innocent. Himalayan youth." Press

-United Press.

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