The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1943 Page: 4 of 12
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THE DENISON PRESS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 104ft
Batsons Make
Hundreds Here
Happy In Year
While Christmas is generally
thought of as being the time of
year when the average man tries
to do something in the way of
bringing good cheer and the
spread of happiness, the Batsons
of Denison, known to all as Ma
and Pa Batson, who operate the
City Mission on Main street,
make it a year-round proposition
and climax it with a big dinner
for scores of needy ones in
Christmas week. The food
gathered in large part through
offering boxes placed down town
in stores and through a boiling
pot on main street hanging from
a tripod the affair being operat-
ed by Pa Batson for the greater
part of the few days it is a part
of their program.
All during the year the Bat-
sons may be seen on the streets
going about tiheir ministry of
serving the needy ones and dis-
pensing good cheer. Their work
is not intrusive nor do they make
the matter of religion something
unpopular among those with
whom they would work. Theirs
is a religion of “going about
doing good’’ and that is why they
have worn so well in Denison for
these thirty years or more.
They do not advertise the fact
of the needs of others nor let
the rest of the world know who
it is they serve to the embarrass-
ment of the one at the time in
need. For that reason the wor-
thy needy do not mind seeking
them out and asking aid at times.
On the other hand the Batsons
are not so gullible as to be im-
posed on by professional beggars
who go about operating on their
wits to get through life.
Denison is fortunate in having
them here to aid in dispensing
the funds raised here for such
purposes, and, contrary to some
other organizations doing some of
the same kind of work in part,
no money leaves home to fatten
the coffers of a management in
some other city. Rather all funds
handled by the Batsons is spent
on the needy ones here.
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Scottish Rite
Hospital Helps
In Many Ways
Clinton Hall at Denton
Requested by U. S. Army
Denton, Texas.—Chilton hall,
men’s dormitory on the North
Texas State campus, has been
requested by the Army for use
as residence quarters for the
campus unit of Army Specialized
Training 'Program students.
If concluded, the re-negotiated Lt. Gov. John Lee iSlmith
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Lt. Gov. Smith
Compare Salary
RR Men-Soldier
In a speech delivered in Paris
before the Rotary club last week,
contract of the Army with
college in relation to the occu-
pancy of the dormitory, will per-
mit the men to be transfer/jd on
or shortly after Jan. 1. The men
dared that any one who in
way impedes the action of
war is “an ally of Hitler.”
In urging that there be
strikes during the war,
the
are now housed in eight College- speaker referred to the present
owned houses near the campus.
Completed in 1939 at a cost of
;g $257,000, Chilton hall is consid
ered one of the finest men’s
residence halls on a southwestern
college campus. It is built
“ramp” style with nine soprano
units, each unit including a pri-
vate entrance and a bath for
each two rooms.
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SOLDIER BOY
So here’s to you, dear soldier iboy,
And may this Christmas bring
you joy.
Now go and fight against the
Huns
With iron and steel and many
guns.
And then jujitsu with the Japs,
And drive them, too, off all the
maps.
Dec. 24, 1943 —N. G. Coffin.
thr,eat of railroad
strike and said:
workers to
his friends throughout Texas re-
questing Christmas checks for
the hospital, will help maintain
its services to crippled children
of the State in the coming year.
“'Whether or not they get
enough money he could not say,
however Lieutenant Governor
Smith pointed out that a table
of salaries paid to the railroad
men of this country in his
office showed an average month-
ly wage of $300, or $10 a day,
compared with less than $2.00
received by our fighting men
many of whom must give their
lives to defend our democratic
way of life.
“While the government is ap-
parently helpless to do anything
about a strike, it is able to con-
script the lives of our youth for
the Army, to take over business,
and to assert its authority in
many other ways, said Lieuten-
ant Governor Smith, asking that
our politicians in Washington
devote their time not to think-
ing of their political futures but
to work for their country.”
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Dallas.—'Once walking on
crutches and now wearing the
chevrons of a sergeant’ in the
U. S. Army overseas, a young
man formerly a little crippled
boy in the Texas Scottish Rite
•Hospital for Crippled Children
has sent Christmas greetings to
the hospital staff to let them
know of his new rank.
Another former patient is a
sailor in the U. S. Navy, and a
third is with the Army Aviation
Corps on the Pacific coast.
Christmas cards now arriving
at the hospital from grateful for-
mer patients reveal how, since
their reclamation from helpless-
ness in childhood, they are mak-
ing their way in self-reliance.
Many hospital “alumnae” are aid-
ing the war effort by means
which would have been impossi-
ble to them if their handicaps in
childhood bad not been overcome
or improved.
Three boys, from Wichita
Falls, Waco and Memphis, who
shared the same ward years
ago, are now working together
helping make war planes in aj
Texas aircraft factory.
A girl who was valedictorian I
of her Temple High School
graduating class, after leaving
the hospital, is now a secretary
m the ordnance department at
Camp Hood.
The crying need for student
nurses on the home front has
been answered by one girl from
South Texas. Now in Curses’
training in a Dallas hospital, she
runs miles over the hospital cor-
ridors every day. In her child-
hood she could not walk.
The hospital staff looks for-
ward annually to the messages
Christmas brings from former pa
tients telling of their current
progress. A clubfooted girl who,
at 13, ha<I never worn a pair of
shoes, worked her way through
university after operations had
corrected her crippled condition,
and is now teaching school in
South Texas. Listed among for-
mer patients are two University
of Texas medical students, sev-
eral Rchool teachers, a hotel
manager, a dairyman, the opera-
tor of a Texas trucking business
now transporting war materials
for the government, a newspa-
per photographer and cartoonist,
and others.
In its years, the hospital
has received 6,fW>8 crippled chil-
dren from throughout Texas.
The December campaign of
Nathan Adams, Dallas banker
letters to
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£ota of ^mtinga!
Onr best wishes to you for health, hap-
piness and the fulfilment of your deepest
desires during: the holiday season ar.d the
New Year!
Weingarter/s
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Stata to Present “Claudia”
Denton,. Texas.—Thursday and
Friday, Jan. 6 and 7, have been
announced as production dates
for “Claudia,” mayor dramatic
presentation Iff the fall semes-
ter by the College Players of
North Texas State.
Portraying Claudia in the
campus version of the successful
stage and screen production by
Rose Franken, will be Dorothy
Braly of Denton, David Naugh-
ton, Claudia’s husband, ' will be
played by Gerald Holly of iMine-
ola.
Tfhe supporting cast includes
Molly Skinner, Electra, as Mrs.
Brown; Leslie La Rod, Leonard,
as Jerry Seymour; Lorraine Ty-
ner, Dallas, as Madame Darus-
ka; Betty Ponry, Denton, as Bor-
tha; Mac Ramsey, Atlanta, as
Fritz; and Billie Faye James,
Temple, as Julia Maughton.
Need Little to Keep Faith
With Children at Yule
Tonight, perhaps some soldier
is less lonely because he remem-
bers the sled or drum or train he
found beneath his Christmas tree
one morning long ago.
It takes so little to keep faith
with the children. Madame Schu-
mann-Heinck remembered one
Christmas all her life. She was
perhaps seven or eight when
times were very hard and it did
not seem as if very much waa
going to be left for her. But on
Christmas morning, the little
girl found she had been remem-
bered. Her treasure? It was
an orange, round and yellow, and
her very own. Just one orange
saved that Christmas day for all
eternity. Years later, a famous
lady realized the love and sacri-
fice and ideals that orange rep-
resented. , '
Season^ Greetings
ChrUtmai in New Mexico
Marked by Indian Drama
Christmas in New Mexico is a
subtle mixture of the past and
present, with Indian ceremonials
and Spanish-American folk cus-
toms existing alongside typically
Christian celebrations. Most
popular of Christmas ceremonials j
among New Mexico’s Pueblo
Indians is “Los Matachines,” a ’
dance drama which has its roots I
in the ancient Aztec civilzation1
of Mexico. In many pueblos,
especially those in the Rio I
Grande and Jem,ez valleys, cere- v
monial dances are performed
after midnight mass, on lG|hrist- 5
mas eve, on Christmas day, and
for the ensuing three days. The
fortnight before and after
Christmas renews the annual New
Mexico presentations of age-old
miracle plays.
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Anderson, LeRoy. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1943, newspaper, December 24, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth527217/m1/4/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.