Show a e s e 1 1 I HE lIE Thanksgiving Idea Idu Is il s controlled controlled con con- trolled b by relativity Th The Th Themen men und and women who estal I this strictly American i festival three centuries BiO BCD 7 were wert thankful because the famine threatened b by the j summer drought did not come They found themselves themselves them them- selves possessed of plenty that plenty that Is la enough t to eat Indeed to those who vho had bad endured the perils of the sea In Inthe Inthe inthe the Mayflower and the hardships hardshIp of the first tint winter Inter In the Plymouth colony col col- colony ony any their Thanksgiving dinner was Wal a rare feast Now of ot course everybody in this country has haa enough to eat And If we had been through the thIngs that the tha e experienced a plenitude of beef stew would seem wonderful Providence has haa helped to preserve Thanksgiving relativity It prevent prevents turkeys turkey from being too numerous keeps the price e of them so high that they are a holiday hoUda luxury and thus reminds reminds re re- re- re minds the ultimate consumer of his benefits The Pilgrims had plenty plent of ot wild turkey venison ducks codfish and bass all obtained at profiteering non rates But Out they had bad no butter sugar or coffee and their bread was made of Indian corn The Tha general dinner however wa was such luch a 11 contrast to the pitiful meals of at the hungry months that they Indulged in feasting and mirth A citizen of 1023 would not be happy if It he were transported to the Pilgrim Thanksgiving dinner of ot long a ago o. o He lie would remember what his hi doctor told i him about eating too much meat lie He I would find that the duck uck had not hung long enough lIe He would not understand under under- stand why the people were so genuInely genuinely gems grateful to the Almighty for he had not been blen with them In the days das when an ear of corn was the only dinner Nor would one of the good old col col- be happy In the large cities What were Indian arrows aa III compared compared compared com com- pared with flying taxicabs What were the stocks beside a full tull dress collar What Is this pale rather neutral neutral neutral neu neu- turkey meat as compared with the breast of a n wild gobbler What can you ou be thankful for torf the Puritan would ask he who has everything knows know not the goodness of anything And his hll neighbor at dinner could only tell him of the horrifying Item In the newspapers saying that strawberries were W a quart I l lIt It Is hard with the granaries ct of the the- country stuffed to bursting to base baso this Thanksgiving on the old rea sons Hut there are things to be beI I I grateful for There are ure no epidemics and there is I. practically no unemployment I went ment so men have e health and the chance to work Men are out of the sloth bloth of ot the Era of Inflation and I working harder Tho The country Ignores the howls howl of ot the and the I flatteries of foreign politicians It get gets along With all its It faults It it is still the tha best bait part of this wicked wicket world Nor will w we eat our turkey alone on onI J I this thU our own particular ular holiday No NoI I hungry hunT nation luau asked in us for help Iud and g seen Rim tn ui us turn UrD away |