isa-normaladvance-1914-00066

Description:	66THE NORMAL ADVANCEl%e JJormal gfobanceDEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOLEDITORIAL, STAFF.Edwin J. Hemmer Editor-in-ChiefCarl N. Miller Associate EditorZelpha Burkett Literary EditorBernice Bodenhafer Society EditorMarjorie Cuppy Exchange EditorRaymond Rightsell Athletic EditorGladys Rippetoe Local EditorFaun McKamey -. Senior EditorSherman T. Sublette Sophomore EditorClare Goldman College Course EditorBUSINESS STAFE\Wm. L. Connor Business ManagerOscar Koch Advertising ManagerR W. Hyndman Circulation ManagerBOARD OP CONTROL.President W, W. Parsons. Ex-Offtcio.Prof. Arthur Ciinninoham, Chairman.Prof. Erle E. Clippinger.Ethel Ray, 16. H. E. Stork, C. C, Secretary.Published Monthly from October to May, Inclusive.Terms, per year $0.75Single Copy 15June Annual 1.00Address all Communications to The Normal Advance., Terre Haute, Indiana.Entered at the Postoffice of Terre Haute as second-class Mail Matter.CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.WE have but lately passed over the season of Thanksgiving, that holiday set aside each year by the President, for the purpose of giving thanks for, and meditating over, the blessings that the year has showered upon us. We are now approaching the Christmas holi¬ days, that period of the year for which Thanks¬ giving is only the preparation, when we are imbued more fully with that spirit of true christian fellowship, and at which time we pass the thankful stage and rejoice.It is indeed a season through which and for which we should rejoice. Rejoicing is more than thanksgiving. When we add to thanks¬ giving the element of jubilation or exultation we have rejoicing as the result. That is the difference there should be between Thanksgiv¬ ing and Christmas. We are thankful atThanksgiving that the year has been profitable. We rejoice at Christmas that these profits make it possible for us to make some one else happy and thankful.We must beware of the present day agitation that would do away with so much useless giv¬ ing. Too much giving might, of course, be overdone like anything else, but to give too lit¬ tle would be a curse indeed. Free and cheerful giving at this time of the year is the main thing that holds for Christmas its spirit of Christ¬ ian fellowship. Brightly decorated postcards are nice things for newlyweds and the folks back home during a summer vacation, but the day is yet to come when they will be worth a snap of the finger as a remembrance to be kept and valued for years as a memory of by-gone friendships. They wear out too easily and have been known to get lost and misplaced. The person who does all his shopping at the postcard counter, does not get much out of Christmas. He doesnt make a big enough in¬ vestment.But the mere fact that many of us have not enough money to get much besides postcards is iiT> drawback. Our services are always far more valuable than what money we have to spend. If any one does not believe this, let him freely offer his services to some home mission or social service worker and see how often he is refused. There is no end to the agencies through which one may offer and give ones services in order to advance and increase the true Christmas spirit.It matters not what talents we possess to give another happiness, but whether or not we employ those talents. Certain it is, that if we wish to make the most out of Christmas we must put into it all that it is possible for us to give. Give, and give freely, and then will we all be able to really and truly rejoice.CHAPEL CONDUCT.We are told that order is heavens first law. In glancing over the columns of one of our ex-
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