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Our Holiday Wish for You!

All of us at COMMWORLD of Kansas City wish you Success, Happiness and Prosperity during this Holiday Season and into the New Year!

Remember "It's a Wonderful Life" – that classic holiday movie? George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, faced ruin in the Bailey Savings and Loan. With the bank auditor ready to close his business down and a warrant out for his arrest, George couldn't see a way out. His mindset was pretty bleak. (Sound like anyone you know in these recession-plagued days?)

Then Clarence, George's guardian angel, showed him that his belief was wrong. By the end of the movie, George had shifted his thinking to the positive. He was grateful for all he had and all he had experienced. Good was flowing his way and his mindset had changed.

The movie ends on that high point, and you're left with the feeling that goodness will continue to come to George, his business and his family. That's how a positive mindset works. Look for the good and you'll find it. Of course, we need to get up and do something, too! But if we all focus our mindsets on Success, Happiness and Prosperity – we'll create a great 2009!

Happy Holidays
From your friends at COMMWORLD of Kansas City

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Fun Phone Facts

What do Christmas Lights have to do with Phones?

The beginning of electric Christmas Tree Lights is a bit sketchy. In 1895 or maybe it was in 1908, Ralph E. Morris, an employee of the New England Telephone Company, came up with an idea. As he looked at the lights on a telephone switchboard, he decided that those miniature light bulbs would be ideal to decorate a Christmas tree. Morris wired the tiny bulbs together, powered them with a battery and attached them to a Christmas tree made out of feathers. He mounted it on a weighted base which he painted green and displayed the lit tree in his home. His son, Leavitt Morris, believed that his father was the inventor of Christmas lights and he wrote an article making that claim. In reality, Ralph Morris wasn't the inventor of Christmas lights, that distinction belongs to another American inventor.

In 1882, either Thomas Edison or Edward Johnson, an inventor working under Edison, actually invented the first electric Christmas lights. One of these gentlemen devised a way of wrapping electric lights with colored crepe paper to create red, white and blue lights. Johnson lived in the first section of New York City to be wired for electricity and that first Christmas tree with electric lights was displayed in Johnson's home. Johnson later came to be known as the "Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights".

The following is from an article which appeared in the Detroit Post and Tribune. It was written by a reporter named Croffut who was visiting New York:

"Last evening I walked over beyond Fifth Avenue and called at the residence of Edward H. Johnson, vice-president of Edison's electric company. There, at the rear of the beautiful parlors, was a large Christmas tree presenting a most picturesque and uncanny aspect. It was brilliantly lighted with many colored globes about as large as an English walnut and was turning some six times a minute on a little pine box. There were eighty lights all encased in these dainty glass eggs, and about equally divided between white, red and blue. As the tree turned, the colors alternated, all the lamps going out and being relit at every revolution. The result was a continuous twinkling of dancing colors, red, white, blue, white, red, blue---all evening."

"I need not tell you that the scintillating evergreen was a pretty sight – one can hardly imagine anything prettier. The ceiling was crossed obliquely with two wires on which hung 28 more of the tiny lights; and all the lights and the fantastic tree itself with its starry fruit were kept going by the slight electric current brought from the main office on a filmy wire. The tree was kept revolving by a little hidden crank below the floor which was turned by electricity. It was a superb exhibition."

Sources include www.oldchristmaslights.com