Garfield Junior High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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EDITORIAL When the barberry candles burn soft and low And the hearth-fire is flickering- bright, When caroling voices come over the snow And calm is the Christmas night, Then the bells ring out from the old church tower With their message of peace and cheer; Then the Christmas Spirit holds all in its power, The Christ-child is hovering near. Bettv Branstead H-9. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AVe are all of us planning our Christmas lists and thinking hard to solve the prob- lem of brother, sister, mother, and father ' s gift, but I wonder how many of us are thinking of the true Christmas spirit ? Lowell ' s quotation The gift without the giver, is bare applies to the time spirit of our greatest holiday. Most people of today think more of buying an expensive showy gift than of giving a simple present and giving it with the true spirit — love and thought. When the three Wisemen took their gifts to the Frince of Peace they took them be- cause they loved him and because they wished to show their love. This was the origin of the Christmas gift. In the nineteen long centuries which have elapsed since then, a great deal of this love and the putting a part of oneself into one ' s gift has disappeared. In just a few weeks we shall all be giving our Christmas gifts. Let us try to make them have the same significance as did those Christmas gifts, which the Wisemen took to the manger on that first Christmas. E. D. L. LITERARY STAEF Editor - . Esto Linscott Assistant Editor Arthur Boles Literary Editor Betty Branstead Assistant Literary Editor Margaret Christensen Joke Editor .Anita Rhodes Art Editors Katharine Rogers, Rosa Bloom, Stuart Rose, William Wilke Athletic Editors Julia Peterson, Peter Dechant BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Hartley Daneke Assistant Business Manager Alex Romanoff, Harry Temple Subscription Manager Robert Bartlett Assistant Subscription Managers Herbert Herms, Renard Farrar Faculty Advisors ....Mrs. Gavin, Miss Peterson