Show WAR SHADOWS HAD W I LOST tO T THIS I 1 n YEAR A R 1 For Last ast Four Years Fete Has Centered Around I Military Camps Thankfulness for far general prosperity prosperity remembrance of the Ideals of of that sturdy band of Pilgrims who vho landed in n America years ago and celebration celebration cele cele- bration of Thanksgiving without boys in uniform and away at war will mark the Thanksgiving day in Salt Lake and tho the remainder of the state this I ye year I Quito Quite ilo the opposite was true four years ago The cloud of impending I war overhung America and even then American boys were beyond the Mexican Mex Mex- I Villa lean ican a. a bOf border The r rT T Thanksgiving searching for rIS issue the of bandit The i Telegram for 1916 carries a dispatch r from the border showing that these troops consumed pounds of roast turkey 2000 pounds of cranberries boxes of apples and oranges pounds of plum pudding and pounds of candy for their time-honored time Thanksgiving meal 11 WAR WAll War Var had hall como como by Thanksgiving day of 1917 Thanksgiving took the tho form of prayers for boys who were donning the khaki and blue and preparing to fight for America Thanksgiving exercises ex- ex exercises exercises ex ex- centered about the training camps In 1918 the war was over by Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving Combined ed with the thankfulness thankful thankful- ness for the successful termination of the conflict was the hope and expectation expectation expectation tation of seeing the son or brother or sweetheart or husband from over there There were no Thanksgiving services in Salt Lake The Influenza had necessitated the closing of churches schools and theatres and had laid police restrictions on public of all kinds LAST L. YEAR When Thanksgiving da day rolled round in 1919 life began to take on more normal aspects Thousands of or soldier shad been demobilized in faraway faraway faraway far far- away lands and were again at their paternal firesides In thousands of American homes there was indeed cause for thankfulness for more than one American doughboy or sailor or marine who had been on duty in some out of the way place of the world and who was thought dead popped in unexpectedly durin during the latter days I of the summer and fall I |