The Coral Gables Times

Some members of the Round Table panel of suburban newspapermen who contributed to the findings of this article: 1 Ken Clayton, News, Raytown, Mo. 2 Wallace Conover, Somerset Messenger Gazette, Somerville, N. J. 3 Peter J. Donaghue, Life, Skokie, III. 4 Robert D. Fowler, Daily Journal, Marietta, Ga. 5 Norman F. Hirsch, News, Highland Park, III. 6 Grant Howell, Daily Tribune, Royal Oak, Mich. 7 Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., Evening Capital-Maryland Gazette, Annapolis, Md. 8 Robert V. McCarthy, Progress, Penn Hills, Pa. 9 Charles O. Morgan, East Side Journal, Kirkland, Wash. 10 Houstoun Waring, Arapahoe Herald, Littleton, Colo. 11 Kenneth R. Weaver, Eccentric, Birmingham, Mich. 12 Martin E. Weiss, Times, Westbury, N. Y. 13 Ray Zauber, Tribune, Oak Cliff, Tex.

How Does Your Town Keep Christmas? Continued from page 6

tival of the winter solstice, and found this happily appropriate. "For the winter solstice," he points out, "is the time when the day begins to increase and light to triumph over darkness. Surely the old-time fathers may well have been moved to see the relation between this long-established natural truth and the new spiritual truth symbolized by the birth of Christ, the light of the soul." Religious observances are not, however, without their difficulties. In line with the Supreme Court decision that the use of formal prayer in public schools is unconstitutional, objections were raised in Skokie, Illinois, to putting up a life-size creche on town property, which had been a custom for years. This, it was said, amounted to using public property to support a purely religious symbol. Some very hot words were exchanged at a town meeting, at which the authorities had difficulty in keeping order, before it was decided that the creche could stay. Perhaps our editor in Marietta, Georgia, summed up as well as could be done the special meaning of Christmas for suburban communities. "Christmas," he said, "is a very real spiritual experience in a small town. And Marietta, though now a thriving suburb, is still a small town at heart." Our Christmas wish for all towns is that they will never grow so big and become so bustling that they will not remain small towns at heart at Christmas time.

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