Show f f Pilgrims Not o Always Blue Blues s Thanksgiving always suggests to tous tous tous us that double impulse of respecting r Christian ideals and of feasting fe plentifully The latter element Is I quite predominant in the general attitude at- at altitude attitude at al- II toward the day I I It would be a good Idea to hyphenate hyphenate hy hy- the words Thanks Giving for in that way th word giving rather than taking would be emphasized emphasized em em- and thus be in better accord accord accord ac ac- ac- ac cord with the true spirit of the day In any event we are all very thankful thankful thankful thank thank- ful that in our country we still express express ex- ex press our gratitude to the Lord in inthe inthe inthe the same language used by the Pilgrims Pilgrims Pil Pil- grims three hundred years ago in 1621 writes Prof B B. B J. J CIgrand member of faculty University of Illinois in the Chicago American It is to be regretted d that so many people use the terms terms Pilgrim and Puritan interchangeably In reality they are widely different The Pilgrims were minded liberal-minded people They were double Protestants Protest Protest- aRts ants haying having rebelled against not only only on on- ly the Roman Christian methods but also against the regal or English government church In the belief l that they could not reform the former and certainly not amend or change the latter they chose to go goto goto goto to Holland and latter to America there to worship as they pleased J The Puritans believed they could alter the Episcopal or government church so they remained faithful to the real religion and the sovereign The Pilgrims were liberal minded far tar more so than they are given giyen credit for tor being while It was the Puritans who were strict The pictures we paint of these people causes the rising generation to shun contact with these well- well meaning early Americans There Is IB Ismore t more cruelty In the sized average-sized community today there Is more ty- ty ranny in the land this moment among Industrial classes more unreasonable unreasonable civic taxation to say nothing ot of various religious restrictions than was exacted in those days of ot the Pilgrims' Pilgrims regime There have been more unjust accusations accusations ac ac- ac- ac against these nation founders than Americans realize Those people were not half halt as blue or severe as we have been led to believe They were human and l' l most charitable Let us teach and preach to love and revere them Arthur Gillman a a. great authority ty on legal affairs in the colonies G writes that it is ia almost needless to tolI z lI say that the so-called so blue laws which have been made the butt and I 17 joke and object of ot violent tion were never In existence In that colony but were manufactured by a I I writer who desired to hold bold the colony Certified copies of these blue laws fall faU to materialize In fact New Jersey Virginia and parts of the he south by far more strict about the observance of the first day as the Sabbath was called New Jersey forbade traveling for pleasure or other similar recreation Infraction of these those rules might be punished bytho by bythe bythe the tho whipping post a fine or imprisonment Let t us not point our fingers too sharply at the Pilgrims It may surprise some to read that rum Madeira wine wine and punch with Plenty of ot mule power kick could be obtained in Pilgrim communities The ordinances specified the prices to be charged |