Show WHAT THANKSGIVING SHOULD MEAN TO US Pilgrim Men and Women at Plymouth Set Example T THANKSGIVING Is la a day unique inthe In Inthe the list of ot not holidays holidays not perhaps so unique In its iti conception as os In the meanIng which the day has come to have We think of ot It as a day of ot get getting ting together The dinner Is Its sym sym- symbol sym sym- symbol symbol bol Faith In the goodness of or God and anda anda n a reverent and formal prayer ot of thanksgivIng for His EIls bounty Is Its Owed avowed purpose But nut Its greatest profit to us may come orne from the thoughts It Invokes of that little Lund bund of hardy men and aud nl en I ti b l lue what It meant to face tace hunger to know hunger and stick to an appointed task That task happened to be the opening up of ot that new land which was destined to provide pro pro- provide I vide so bountifully for tor you and me who ho ha hay hav- V t inherited It They were those stickers stickers those from m whom thIs tills heritage has come down Hardy Yes but with n a ruggedness that was not alone a 0 physical attribute They experienced the primal lessons want fear and the need of strife strIte nut But they stuck stuck- And they won von That first Thanksgiving day was for tor them the thea thema m a solemn rite It If they that they that band ot o f Pilgrim men and women could women could feel teel so s o honestly thankful for Gods God's bounty as asIt a ait asIt 9 It was measured out to them theta at Plym Plym- Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth In 1621 what one of ot us In n thIs e day and generation but needs b be e ashamed to feel teel less It was a solemn solem n occasIon but how could they else but bu bube t be happy Let us be happy on this a Thanksgiving day nut But too let us not no t Frank forget Frank H Sweet 0 c 1025 Western Newspaper N wo p r Union y r y |