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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1923
Page
4
Christmas thoughts explore goodwill and teamwork while noting local events. Fort Scott protests Venus show. eighteen million Americans hold Christmas savings accounts. mild winter forecasts and Ford's Coolidge remarks spark mixed reactions in a Lawrence newspaper column.
An editorial writer warns that shifting production to the east risks a New York viewpoint. A Kansas speaker jokes about Atchison as a potential seat of government. The piece also touches on travel, airplane use, booming construction costs, and political jabs over Coolidge vs Johnson.
The Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of St. Bartholomew's in New York for over two decades, rejects a recent pastoral letter from the House of Bishops and questions the Virgin Birth and bodily resurrection. He has urged Bishop Manning to trial him for his comments, a dispute echoing earlier clashes over the resurrection.
A collection of satirical blurbs touching on Christmas shopping, politics, crime, the environment, and society. Items range from shop signs and police jokes to a New York cop’s wife incident and references to snow in Arizona, all with a humorous or cautionary tone.
The Gregorian calendar adoption by the Russian Orthodox church unites the Christian world to celebrate Christmas today for the first time since 1581. President Coolidge and family spend their first White House Christmas. Pope delivers an address as cardinals greet him in Vatican. Japan opens diet session with a suffrage bill to let all males over twenty one vote. New Zealand's Massey to address Canada tour in Quebec. Pasadena wedding features Lorain Arnold Rowan and Robert H. McAdoo. The year marks Elizabeth Blackwell’s 75th anniversary since earning her M D in 1849.
A feature reprints a long archival letter from Lucy Stacey Greene to her portrait, tracing a Lincoln era chain from Maine to Illinois and Kansas. The note reflects pioneer life, abolitionist currents, and family ties across generations, ending with a personal sign off and reflections on growth and faith.
Barbara Shuenemann sails from northern Michigan with evergreens to Chicago each Christmas. Since Captain Hermann Shuenemann’s loss on the Rouse Simmons, she has led the family tradition, buying and cutting trees to bring holiday cheer to local families at the Clark street bridge. The piece contrasts American and Canadian clocks and notes public library seasonal displays and Grant Park as summer gathering spots.
The text describes fishermen by the piers and breakwaters who fish in all seasons. They face surf and tides, catching small fish not longer than a forefinger. The appeal lies in the sport and the meditative stillness of time beside the water.
A New York essay surveys critics as they navigate the word however and its comma after every claim. It contrasts sharp judgments with the impulse toward perfection, noting season highlights in theater and the rise of clean, artistic revues amid varying artistic success.
A holiday card from F D Coburn former secretary of the state board of agriculture frames optimism over national life. It urges Americans to abandon pessimism and focus on facts showing economic opportunity and liberty across the United States.
Robert Edmondson of Lawrence visits business circles while families travel to Kansas City and Iowa for Christmas. Local events include a funeral, a sale, W C T U gathering, and a Christmas tree at Midland hall. Family visits feature Herriott, Rush, Jellison, Morgan, and Green households with Santa Claus gifts and holiday plans.
Sunday visits shift from Christmas day as families gather at relatives homes in the area. Mrs. Myrtle Ward from Colorado joins her mother in Kansas City while Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schilmeyer plan to visit sister Mrs. George Hun singer in Fairview. Lawrence Leonhard visits cousin Har Old Von Gunten in Eudora. Supt. O J Lane and Sparr of Lawrence call on the Herriott home. Alfred Heck plans a Christmas tree for relatives and will spend Christmas Day with his mother Mrs. Fred Heck Sr. of Lawrence.
Danish critic Brandes in Paris at 84 remains active and harsh on American taste. He cites Einstein as the Newton of this age whose conclusions will be established, while condemning Freud as obscene in human imagination and preferring to leave such ideas to America.
The excerpt recalls Brandes saying intuition should be a trait kept for female Bergson admirers. He notes the remark drew a reaction from Bergson's mother in London and he asserts he remains faithful to the opinion.
A woman dressed in men's clothes and a ballroom mask held up two clerks at a Tulsa loan company today, escaping with about $100. Police reported the bandit spoke in a refined voice, and the act occurred amid holiday shoppers in the streets.
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