Editorial January 2, 1902 Issue

Christmas Reflections

Editor

THE first Christmas of the Twentieth Century was notable for its general observance throughout Christendom. Both religiously and secularly, all classes of people seem to have entered into a spirit of good fellowship which, in some measure at least, responded to that spirit announced by the angelic host who attended the birth of the Saviour at Bethlehem: "On earth peace, good will toward men."

One of the notable features of this Christmas was the gift by one of New York's wealthy men, of five thousand dollars in cash to each of his ten clerks. Many other employers made generous gifts to their employees. Some manufacturing establishments shared dividends with their laborers. Some mercantile houses divided with their clerks and other employees, the profits of their business for the week before Christmas.

Thus, what seems to be almost a new era of good-fellowship, and of nearer and better relations between capital and labor, or between employer and employee, has set in.

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