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In that issue, we read this “Yuletide Greetings.”
➤ “What a delightful privilege it is to have this opportunity to extend to each of the 25,000 readers of The Cattleman our sincere Yuletide Greetings.
“In this issue we have tried to inject a little of the Christmas spirit, in the hope that you may forget, for a few moments at least, your business cares and worries, and again enjoy the treasured memories of childhood days, when Christmas to you perhaps meant more than it does today.
“Too often some of us look upon Christmas as only a time for children to make merry, and we fail to reap the season’s joys. And Christmas IS for children — the children of God from one minute old to one hundred years young.
“We cannot make the most of Christmas without the recognition of the kinship of the whole world — the realization that all men are brothers, that all are the sons of God. We must consider the needs and desires of little children — remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old, and help and encourage the unfortunates on whom success has not smiled during the years past. This do, and we will enjoy the spirit of Christmas.
“May all that is good come to you this Christmas season, and may you feel in your heart the real Christmas spirit, is our sincere wish.
“Let’s make it a really Merry Christmas, and look forward to a happy and prosperous New Year.”

➤ “This year’s December cover of The Cattleman departs from the usual presentation but still carries the universal theme of Christmas, as interpreted by Jerome Tiger, young Creek-Seminole of Oklahoma. Self-taught since he took up the brush just four years ago, 23-year-old Jerome has created many of the Indian tales told him by his grandfather, particularly of the infamous ‘trail of tears’ of the 1830s in which his forebears migrated to Oklahoma. On this month’s cover, Jerome paints the Christmas story as he first imagined it at his mother’s knee.”