Show BAT exan lul 6 SIVE OF A ra INA T 10 mag mfg N 3 0 RA T I 1 TUDE E turkey and cranberry sauce crisp weather a general sense of 0 well being and football are in fit the air at the very mention of thanksgiving writes marguerite samuels in the new orleans times picayune but football and too much dinner are not in the final analysis all of thanksgiving there Is a deeper inspirational spi rational lonal side to the day set aside through three hundred undred li years of amerlean american history lil story as the great national celebration of gratitude cratl tude do you remember the sl simple story of that first Thanks thanksgiving gIvin day as you read it in your primary reader and tile the thrill of thankfulness for national greatness and goodness that came to you as your chubby fingers drew deformed turkeys and round eyed pilgrim fathers on the school blackboard it nas in 1021 the fall following the landing at kinmouth PIN mouth that the pilgrims celebi atea the first thanksgiving iv lay day the little colony one hundred and two souls ailio ho bad fated westward from england for their consciences sake had the storms of the atlantic and the worse hardships of a new I 1 england n band winter and they had won through at last to a sort of tranquility tranquill ty compa comparatively with its thunder of li limitless waves a little group of log jog houses crowded d to together ealier behind the all stockade ade feeling safe in I 1 he ir nearness to each other garnered coin fillet filled the barns and the storerooms store rooms of the houses were pungent with cipe apples the colon colony y fel frit t firmly established in hi the new world of Us its se seeking ching even the silent footed indians ii biad ad be beun begun un to t understand that there was as loom for them and for tho the p pale lie f ances ices tot too the deoh boys stuffing stuff inn Z Z V 6 k 4 al bout out puritan spirit of the travel cis is in the mayflower felt that there was sufficient caust cause for thanking god the first thanksgiving and so it NN was as that the farst arst day of orp organ lod thanksgiving was set the N whole ain e little colony in its bet best bucl buckled aided shoos shoes and high fiats with blunder busses asses across square shoulders allied forth from tin the stoc laded homes through snow to the log church there to gh ghe e community thanks for the fi freedom of their tern stern lives outside Out fride thy the crouched behind the firs and bee beaches beeches ches and wondering F aiom i om the Ill Pil grim grini colony the custom spread to others in the new england states in 1630 the massachusetts lian ha colony set aside a lay day for thanksgiving and frequently thereafter until when it became an annual festival in the colony connecticut appointed a lay day in and annually after 1047 except in 1675 the dutch in new netherlands set aside a day in and occasionally casio caslo nally thereafter during the war of independence the continental congress appointed one or more thanksgiving days each year except in n 1777 president washington set side thursday nov 20 as a lay day of national thanks and again in 1795 lie he called the country together for such a celebration president 11 madison adison at the alie close of the war of appointed a da in new york state from on the festival was annual in some of the so southern athern states a national day met with opposition as a relle relic of bigotry so utterly at variance with the cavalier ideals of the southern colonists but by IMS IKS proclamations were issued by the governors of 25 states and two territories Is new england festival perhaps Perli aps it Is natural that the south so far in thought and experience from the colon hers of new england should eon een net et be less wholehearted whole hearted in its celebration of thanksgiving than is the eastern section of the united states with its commemoration of of 1620 with its ceremonies of the ha harvest rIest thanksgiving is essentially bially a new england festival and to see it truly carried out you ou must see it there in massachusetts it Is the signal for great family reunions from california from the high seas from the neighboring town the sons and daughters and cousins and aunts and uncles fo at the old homestead or on Thanks thanksgiving gIN ing day with tile the first anon snowfall fall of the season generall Js lilja eai her ber the roomy si sleighs and the flie vast vasi bearskin rugs are balled out of thell summer mothballs moth balls and from earl earil morning until noon there Is a gw ga jingle of sleigh bells going and comicz bean between cen alie lie railroad station and the farmhouse X after atti me alie dinner a tremendous nf fair I 1 clr the old people sit halt half dozing about tile open figes telling stories 0 the new england that is gone do you remember says one anc they are off in a glorious revel ol 01 0 of their own youth who jille automobile feie unknown and boz bos ton might have been 1500 instead of 15 miles away the young people of the family deeply wrapped in fur coats and rugs already had dashed off along the slippery loads to cambridge and the game the harvard stadium on thanksgiving day NN was as a view of serried rows ros of excitement never to be forgotten alie grey rhythmic curves of the coliseum all gay with banners and llo erb and gills holiday hats along the harvard section red roses and crimson sc sweaters aters bloomed in the menagerie of 0 fur far coats and rugs where the yale contingent cheered for the bull bulldog dod the blue of parma violets was like a twilight mist inist along the rows of spectators A whistle and the game is on tensely leaning for forward Nard tile the watch as if life and death were being decided in the arena below at tl tle e first touchdown the winning winding side goes mad with joy F flags lags wave arms and hats fire afe promiscuously pitched about ab out LA twit i stran gerg p j at othor berfert girls shake hands igli boys they never saw before I 1 meanwhile the snow comes down dow n softly in a powdery ruin rain and the final goal sees frozen hands and feet res chely gin glad to raco ok ofa to warm w arm dor dormitory till tens where the victory Is I 1 celebrated in english breakfast or the defeat dro drowned ned in orange pekoe cal cakes cs and laughing chatter in boston thanksgiving morning grea great t cro clouds its nil fill trinity or whatever hat ever church has laiafa been designated tor for the union ervice the pigeons in copley square flutter over them tamo tame friendly dues dones of pence peace on oil earth good will to rilen men thanksgiving in new orleans here iu in new orleans several of th the churches hold special union services s and tile lay day Is commemorated in typical new orleans fashion thanking god by ahing others something for which to be thankful magical basket dinners containing everything from turkey to dessert are given to the hungry poor of the lie city by the elks the lie Sh shrivers the salvation army kingsley house and other benevolent organizations organisations school children remember anith vi ath fruit and nuts the sufferers nt at tile the home for incurables for the great day coming M W in 2 1 b f 45 F va it t the pumpkin pie as it may be seen in its natural state china says she must fight japan with words well a chinese word looks like a lethal weapon toronto star lincoln was right of couise ou cant fool all of the people all of the time but you only hane hae to fool a majority columbia S C record |