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Show mill of mm mm pith fiaiifji : OPTIMISTIC .SPIT IS Even Influenza Patient Are Thankful; Holiday Finds Little Poverty; Good Dinners Plentiful By Darrell J. Creenwell DKSJMTK tlu ravap.'S nncl pr'Vli'iicu of iiil lui ii.a, I lie jvell known high tost of livinp. inability to see tin- more nopulnr moving TirtTrrFrntarsnntl 1lte 4- rilratlona that the MerrhHiiln hmik Will 1)una'liT 1(1 iil l r limn rrnts on a dollar in ilf of things ialt l-akr Is IhiinkfiU ton.y. The boys ar coming hums. Ami that mans a thI 'h'nl to nearly vary family In Hi clly. Salt l.aka eltlwna ran b thankful for many nlhr lilrnHinKa. U ' l"lnl-d l"lnl-d out. Thosa who have Influrnza ran ba thankful they ar not riad ThOM who hava had It ran b thankful thank-ful that they are ovfr II. And everybody, every-body, who haan't not It. I thankful thank-ful on general principle. STILL ANOTHER SIDE. There li another aide to the silua-tlon. silua-tlon. With turkeya and other good thlnm aelllng at prtrea far In advance of thoae of last year, the Influenza patient ran be thankful that ha haa no appetite and therefore need not Inveat a week a aalary In a bird. The convalescent victim of the flu can be cheerful In the fart that with rnn-valeecence rnn-valeecence haa come an appetite that makea him forget the price of hia turkey or gooae. Salt I-aka really la observing perhaps per-haps the moat unuaual Thanksgiving .day In the history of the city. Virtually Vir-tually every form of celebration la under the ban by reaaon of the epl- Bt-mie. HIT lira slims Ullina phrtt- leakers will not or have not done today, to-day, which they did laat Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day: Go to church. -Attend football game. Knjoy theatre matinee. Laugh at film comedians. Qo to theatre at nlftht. Kox trot at a dancing party. HELLO, NOT GOODBYE. Rut on the other hand Halt Lake one year ago was aaying goodbye to eoldler boys and sailors and nobody knew whether the boys would ever return. Thla year the gonunyea are being replaced by the most wholehearted whole-hearted of welcomes. Not even the moat hardhearted of health authoritlea had the courage to forbid the assemblage of the family at the uaual bounteous turkey dinner und so virtually every home enjoyed such a dinner. lespite high prires merchant reort excellent Thanksgiving Thanks-giving period purchases of the good things of the season. Owing to the wHtvhf'ilnesa of the charitable societies and the Ked Oross there were few. If any, cases where-in where-in poor families were without provisions pro-visions for a substantial meal. Ity reason of the general demand for labor, there are almost no cases of extreme poverty In the city. Those raaeva of distress arising from sick- mvrm are being hnwdled in a sutiMfwc 1 tory manner, it is dicta red. ORIGIN OF HOLIDAY. Were the churches open today the " Brti ulsters would hsve pointed out that the first Thanksgiving day was observed ob-served by the I'llcnm Katht-r at Plymouth, Mas., The settlers and their Indian guests feasted on wild turkeys and deer. 1 Hiring the revolution Thanksgiving was a national InMtitutinn. annus Uy recommended by conn res, but after taw general Thanksgiving for peace I fn 17M. there was no national appointment ap-pointment until ITSf, when Washington, Wash-ington, by request of congress, recommended recom-mended a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the constitution. Washington Issued a second proclamation procla-mation op thanksgiving In 1795. on account ac-count of the suppression of Insurrection. Insurrec-tion. There was thanksgiving for peace In HI 5, until whif-h time Thanksgiving had been mainly a New England custom. Ourtng the Civil war Lincoln Is-sued Is-sued procWmfltton recommending an- ! nual Thsnksgivlngs Since then a proclamation has been issued annually. an-nually. ! ALL GIVE THANKS. ! I Owing to the conditions prevailing 'in the state. I'tah cities were unable ' today to asuemhle in u mnsa meeting to give thanks for the glorious end-i end-i ing of the war and the prospect for the early return of "the boys' from i training camps in the 1'mted Stntes and from overses. yet tt is know n that such thanks are being uttered Individually in thousands of homes ' in the state and at the family dinnt r 'table the glances cast at the place wtr the atsent one formerly sat ! do not bring panes of fear. In those' homes where the vacant i chair never agmn will be occupied ! owing to some enemy bullet or bay- ; onet there i comfort In the knowledge knowl-edge that the democracies of tlx world are giving thanks for the life I that wts laid down that free people j might remain free. j |