Opinion by Colbert I. King: The holiday of peace and goodwill arrives with disease and strife at hand. So it has always been.
Noting the accounts of tyranny and hatred arising from King Herod’s fear of a coming rival to his throne, Curry found an expression of God’s love in the actions of Mary and Joseph to save their baby from destruction.
That Christmas-themed message was also reflected in the December 1949 edition of my copy of the Stevens Starthe student newspaper of Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in the West End section of Northwest Washington. Our third edition, dubbed “Tuberculosis-Christmas Edition,” was a carefully chosen designation.
At Thaddeus Stevens, we knew nothing of The Post’s exposé. But there were plenty of alley dwellings in our West End community.The report by Shirley Moses, also a fifth-grader, came down hard on slackers.“Everyone should cover his mouth when he coughs or sneezes in any public place. Everyone should be careful of spitting in public places for that is a way that the disease may spread.” In those days, mouth-covering masks were worn only by outlaws and bandits.Still, the holiday loomed large.
Beside me is a copy of the front page of the Sept. 20, 1939, edition of The Washington Post — my birthday. I still can’t get over the cost: “THREE CENTS,” it read.“No Peace, Allies Tell Hitler; Belgian Defense Planned; Reds Blockade Estonia … Fuehrer’s Talk Called ‘Travesty of the Facts’”
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