I must agree with Mrs. Chris Weeder who added this note to a Xmas card we got during the holidays: "Just read your article about Xmas cards and I said to myself: Sit yourself down and send them one. Remember there are people who are alone, and need someone to say, I thought of you today. A warm feeling and a communion of friendship goes between two people when a card is sent. I hope to spend more time visiting people when we retire as we all need a kind thought or word once in a while."

I have got to agree with the sentiment expressed by Chris. And when the missus asked if we should send Xmas cards I said go ahead and send to them who send to us, and so we did. Anyhow, that's her department.

I have to agree that a card which has a note of personal interest is well worth the expense, but just printed messages seem to say that one's sentiments are mass produced and therefore not being personal.

It is pleasant and healthy for people to remind each other that they think of each other and care. It is said that our biggest sickness we suffer from is depression. People feel sad even when they have all kinds of good things around them.

This I believe to be true. People need to be told that they are loved to make them feel good... and so Chris I got nothing against sending. Xmas cards if they carry those sentiments, but when I see people most every day I can't see what's wrong with just saying, "Merry Christmas!" and save the postage and bother of sending a card.

This loneliness and depression doesn't only bother us unimportant people but it plays hell with those who made it good and whom we think ought to be singing and dancing with joy over their success.

But that just ain't the case with many. There's Marilyn Monroe who got the finest specimen of males like Joe Dimaggio, and then she got a brain and playwright in Henry Miller married to her; but she ended all this good by taking too many pills. And if she behaved as in the play, "After the Fall," by her husband, then she must have been terrible to live with.

And now there is Congressman Mills, one of the most powerful elected officials, who confessed publicly to being an alcoholic. Gads! What kind of symbol does this man make? He can't even control himself and, on the other hand, he controls all our lives as he's been the big power behind our tax system.

It could be that he's gone through a period of depression. On the other hand, our national finances are in such a mess that they drive a man to drink.

So I say to myself, "Look here, Louie, take comfort in just being a nobody. Mebbe you ain't got respect or big dough, and a crow can sing better than you, and you're little and old and almost bald to boot. But look at it this way, you ain't got hardly any problems either.

"Nobody blames you for the slump and unemployment, nor will they even give you credit for starting this crisis. You just ain't figured in it.

"Of course, this means you ain't got much money or power; but even that is not a bad state to be in. Since you can't afford to eat good and live expensively all the time, you don't get too fat and sickly this way.

"With taxes and prices going up so, you can't afford to drink or smoke a helluva lot, and because you gave up these evil poisons you don't wake up in the morning with a headache or coughing your lungs out. You just don't know how well ofg you are, Louie."

I see by the Prosveta that events for year 1975 are already being scheduled for the Campsite. One event I'd like to see come about would be in a nature of a Yugoslav Folk Arts Week.

It's kind of an ambitious idea but because we have to skimp on the use of energy which'll result we can't travel too far. we ought to plan for fun at places where it's not far to go.

It may be too ambitious, but possibly young vigorous people as well as older ones who think young could be induced to enjoy the vigorous and lovely dances of the Balkans.

Dancing could be to accordions for the Slovene polka as well as dancing to the tamburitza in which the Serbian and Croatian kolos could be executed. Then the Macedonians have the bagpipe and the drum tor another type of dancing.

If musicians are not available, dancing can be done to records. I see that the Campsite is getting a record player and so there shouldn't be any lack of music.

I feel that Yugoslav folk dancing is enjoyable physical education stuff, and we can enrich America by promoting that art. Let's think big!

There's only one danger. When a greater Yugoslav event is promoted, it attracts those bothersome politicos who learn nothing and nurse grudges of the war long past. This would be an artistic and enjoyable event, and no old country politicians would be welcome.