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It is evident that the Walrus is not the only one who resorts to such low-brow reading matter aa “Alice Through hte Looking Glass,” for a cartoon in a recent daily showed two more characters f.em another poetic (?) narrative from that same book. The cartoon depicted a man of the government telling “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” that it was time for them to be put aside in this national emergency. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, so the story goes, “agreed to have a battle; for Tweedledum said Tweedledee had spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, as black as a tar-barrel; which frightened both the heroes so, they quite forgot their quarrel.”
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One of the most charming of this year's Christmas stories was the one that came from Richmond of the Sunday School class who is making Christmas for the Swift Run Gap mission in Greene couni ty. The youngsters of the city Sunday School class started their gathering of presents at the Christmas season some years ago when they heard the story of want in the mountain mission territory. This year their industrious saving
cessions towards a proper and just sharing of the highway with their fellow men. This occurred despite the fact that in 1949 it meant death for one or more persons in 706 cases, injury in more than 11,000 cases and property damage in some 66,000.
Virginia motorists and pedestrans learned no lesson from that but came back strong to worsen the record this year. The inhuman side of the story lies in their absolute refusal to inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree by sharing the road properly or considering human life.
It seems it will be many eons before we learn properly to apply the Christmas spirit on this planet
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