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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEW, UTAH First Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation Started a More Bitter Dispute Than Change in 1939 Date T...n crnTT WATSON W .. k. Weitern Newspaper Union.) ARE you going to cele-A cele-A brate Thanksgiving day Aon November 30, the ditional "last Thursday S month, or on i November Novem-ber 23, the new date an-led an-led by President Roose- One hundred ana miy years W . -:.nne AMn't have o Amer. - V wnVpmber 26, as the I t for them to celebrate. He did n w "1C 4. "-I. "-I. .i ToTiirscrivine Drocia- Ltion ever issued, which U incidentally, the first Iproc'lamation of any kind to fane from we wn Chief Executive of the United Sates. to view of the discussion that as Btartea wucu imuu fiinnffed the date of Thanksgiving day this year, it is Li ma tn rpcall the contro- fversy that raged around the first 'official ThanKsgivmg aay. xac ::ory back of that historic event not one in wmcn we can lao ,i, nriHo ativ more than we IIUUl - r an be especially proud of the .:.a nt .oiehratinn that resulted. nlaved a Dart in it Lj it ma en hppause of the ieal- lusy and rivalry of two great mericans inomas denersuii id Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton Started It. tso Wpa nf a Thankseivine day lelebration apparently originated kith Hamilton wno Droacnea me lubject at a meeting of Washing-Son's Washing-Son's cabinet in New York city, .ea the nation's capital, in Au- pst, Ho9. a prime mover in securing the adoption of the Con-iitution, Con-iitution, Hamilton had but re-iently re-iently succeeded in getting his Ira state of New York to ratify It. Despite the fact that two plates had not yet ratified, this (hade ennnffh nrvfntanrps nf the Constitution to assure the per- :anence 01 ine new government o Hamilton evidently felt that natinn ac well dq ha rtr. anally, had cause for thanks- Eivine. ' I It is quite likely that the secre-ifcry secre-ifcry of the treasury, instead of bressing the matter in the cabi- i 1 i -i GEORGE WASHINGTON 1 uld be PPsed 7Xast Jefferson, the secre-?7 secre-?7 state and Hamilton's po-::cal po-::cal enemy, engbeered it so givmg day would come :3m congress, At any rate on Prober M won Si?. raie ?? P S 0f rgress from .,fferid a ."solution 1-6 i i resident to is-fa4 is-fa4 ank5glving day Pcla- iyp1 solution onnl 01 letting the i: opportnniL . Wlth0ut offering "fftfi??811 citizen! enIe thanks I-Mj ' -"-"omES ne hart . uuwn Unnn U ,. hi ul,on men, .auiofg re5n,ll(i EIPected and f. .as not :ners b Jeaerson,s sup-jy sup-jy ess, principal? 3 immediate t4be "did Sft? declared h of , 'a not this mimiM, N ftoms, where NssivA1""6 mockery. of 4 Partis Pinted out 4 ?, nat war fre- od to ."was uier a de- ?SSTuTurof tok -gat the itfi inter! k mem.M UJU not v e mieht not "be 7 a' 4s4zt kV -wr-.w 7jZ A tut, u, s.ura ny xjm yS" szsf The First Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation. inclined to return thanks for a Constitution until they have experienced ex-perienced that it promotes their safety and happiness." He said further that if a Thanksgiving day must be held the states could institute it. He said that "it is a religious matter, and, as such, is proscribed to us." Jefferson's Spokesmen. Through the wordrf of these spokesmen we can hear the voice of , Jefferson, protesting against a monarchial trend in the new government, against encroachment encroach-ment upon the boundary line which had been fixed between church and state and against any invasion of "states' rights." In answer to these protests Boudi-not Boudi-not "quoted further precedents from the practice of the late congress" con-gress" and Rep. Roger Sherman of Connecticut raUied to his support, sup-port, declaring that the practice of thanksgiving was "warranted by a number of precedents in Holy Writ: for instance, the solemn sol-emn thanksgivings and rejoicings which took place in the time of Solomon, after' the building of the temple, was a case in point." The resolution was carried and Representatives Boudinot, Sherman Sher-man and Peter Silvester of New York were appointed by the house committee to wait upon the President. Pres-ident. The senate, on the following follow-ing day,, adopted the resolution, appointing Senators WiUiam Samuel Johnson of Connecticut and Ralph Izard of South Carolina Caro-lina to be the senate members of the committee. Accordingly this committee waited on the President and on October 3 Washington issued the proclamation in which he recommended rec-ommended that Thursday, November No-vember 26, be observed by the people of the United States as a day of thanksgiving. Hamilton had won the first skirmish but there were still stormy days ahead. For now arose the question of how the celebration cel-ebration should be carried out and, of course, the two statesmen were at odds on that Hamilton proposed a monster parade of military officials and governmental govern-mental dignitaries, headed by President Washington. Jefferson, opposed as he was to all displays dis-plays of pomp and circumstance, protested against such a celebration. celebra-tion. He apparently won his point, for it was determined that the day was a domestic holiday and should be observed in the privacy pri-vacy of the home after the New England tradition. Martha Plans a Levee. Accordingly Mrs. Washington began making plans for a levee in the true colonial style at the Executive Mansion in Franklin square to which everyone of consequence con-sequence in New York was invited. invit-ed. It promised to be a great social occasion so it was eagerly looked forward to by the beaus and belles of the city. But even though Jefferson had outmaneuvered him in this respect, re-spect, Hamilton was not yet ready to admit defeat. He began organizing or-ganizing all kinds of public festivities fes-tivities to upset the plans of those who wished to celebrate quietly. The festivities opened with a parade pa-rade in the moraine as Hamil ton had planned and the secre tary of the treasury reviewed it from in front of Fraunces tavern. tav-ern. After the parade Hamilton was host at a great feast in the tavern and it is this first official Thanksgiving dinner to which we can look back, but not with any great pride, for it degenerated into a disgraceful brawL Hamilton could not be present for the entire affair. He was to have remained long enough to respond to a toast and then leave for the President's mansion. But Hamilton was late in arriving ar-riving at his own Dartv and his guests, impatient to be at their feasting, sat down without him and began to eat. Almost immediately im-mediately a disagreement arose among the diners. A certain Lieutenant St. Clair, who had toasted the festive day not wisely but too well, felt called upon to assert, upon his honor as a gen tleman, that ne was "penec ly sober." Whereupon Alderman Tisdal of the city council, who had probably also been toasting the festive day extensively, disputed dis-puted the statement and called upon St. Clair to prove that he was sober. The result was a fight from which the lieutenant emerged with a broken nose. Order was finally restored, so Hamilton made his speech and left. Unfortunately for him, however, how-ever, news of the disorder at the tavern had preceded him. An Angry President When Hamilton arrived the President questioned him about what had taken place. When he learned that a young soldier of the United States army had been injured in a disgraceful brawl, especially at a gathering presumably pre-sumably for the purpose of giving thanks to God for the blessings of "good government, peace and concord," his anger was aroused and he demonstrated again that he knew how to use strong language lan-guage when the occasion called for it. "It is disgraceful, by , sir!" spoke George Washington, and there was nothing left for Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton to do but meekly agree and discreetly withdraw from the presence, of his chief without further comment Thus did the political rivalry of two of his cabinet members have a part in detracting from the solemn character which our first President had wished the first Thanksgiving day to have. Although this , may have had nothing directly to do with it, the fact is that not for five years thereafter did Washington again proclaim another official Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. That was during his second sec-ond administration and it is interesting in-teresting to note that this Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day was celebrated, not in November at all but in February! Feb-ruary! On January 1, 1795, in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, which was then the nation's na-tion's capital, Washington called upon his f ellow Americans to "set apart and observe, Thursday, the nineteenth day of February next, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day to meet together and render their sincere and hearty thanks to the Great Ruler of the Nations for" a long list of blessings which the country was then enjoying. The example set by Georga Washington of setting aside a day of national thanksgiving was followed fol-lowed by his successor, John Adams, who proclaimed two Thanksgiving days during his administration one on Wednesday, Wednes-day, May 9, 1798, and the other on Thursday, April 25, 1799. This custom, however, was allowed to lapse during the two terms of Thomas Jefferson, but it was revived re-vived by James Madison who issued is-sued four such proclamations during his administration. The first three were more for a day of "public humiliation and prayer" because of the nation's tribulations in the form of the second war with England, but the fourth was a day of real thanksgiving that peace had come at last. All of these proclamations proc-lamations were issued in response re-sponse to a joint resolution from the senate and house of representatives. repre-sentatives. The first set aside the third Thursday in August of 1812, the second named the second sec-ond Thursday in September, 1813, as the day; the third designated Thursday, January 12, 1814, and the fourth, issued soon after the treaty of peace with England was proclaimed, called upon the American people to set aside the second Thursday in April, 1815, as a day for praising , "the Great Disposer of Events and of the Destiny of Nations" for their many obligations "and more especially for the blessing of the restoration of peace." The Month Varied Thus it will be seen that although al-though Thanksgiving days by Presidential proclamation in the main picked upon Thursday as the day of the week for such an ob servance, the month varied greatly and there was no connection connec-tion between these Thanksgiving days and the annual observance established by the Pilgrims. No other Presidents after Madison seemed to have had occasion for proclaiming a Thanksgiving day and it remained for Abraham Lincoln to resume the custom and to link up the proclaimed Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day with the Pilgrim custom cus-tom by establishing the last Thursday in November as a national na-tional day for giving thanks. The first Lincoln proclamation appointing a day for divine supplication sup-plication was dated August 12, 1861. It designated the last Thursday Thurs-day in September as "a day of humiliation, prayer and fasting." The regular Thanksgiving in November, 1861, was a rather subdued occasion. There had been no presidential proclamation. proclama-tion. In 1862 there was no proclamation, proc-lamation, either. The momentous year of 1863 brought, however, three proclamations. procla-mations. The first was dated March 3 and, designatedApril 30 as a day of fasting and prayer. July 15 another was issued, setting set-ting August 6 as a day to give thanks at the prospect of peace. The third came October 3, when President Lincoln issued a proclamation proc-lamation that said "And so . . . the last Thursday in November is hereby set apart as a day of thanksgiving and praise." As a im, nuL UJ. rL) y B-j jit. tL&i . Xm -ti.lL,-?S Resolution by Elias Boudinot result the first of the presiden-tially-proclaimed, last-Thursday-in-November Thanksgiving days was observed that year. On July 7, 1864, by direction of congress, President Lincoln designated des-ignated the first Thursday of August Au-gust as "a day of national humiliation hu-miliation and prayer." October 20 of the same year saw the issuance issu-ance of his second proclamation designating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving day. Before that day arrived it was known that he had been re-elected by an overwhelming majority a result which had been extremely ex-tremely doubtful during the campaign. cam-paign. Moreover, by November, 1864, it seemed certain that the Confederacy could not hold out much longer. So with the assurance as-surance that the Union was saved and with the great vote of confidence confi-dence in his administration given him by the people, Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln had good reason to lead the nation in a Thanksgiving - celebration. cele-bration. For the last 75 years succeeding succeed-ing Presidents have not deviated from the custom of proclaiming the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving day until this year when President Roosevelt lived up to his reputation of being a "tradition-defier" and established estab-lished the next-to-the-last instead of the last Thursday in the month for this national holiday. ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI "Death Trap at El Chivo TTELLO EVERYBODY: A A "You asked for a real life adventure," says Morris E. Lowder of Chicago, "so here goes." That's the way I like to hear you boys and girls talk. I ask for it, and you dish it up. And just between you and me, the boys and girls in Chicago and its neighboring towns and for that matter, all over.northem Illinois are dishing dish-ing them up faster than any 'bunch of folks I've struck yet. The Adventurers' club as Installed chapters in a number num-ber of cities. I've been swamped, with mail in every doggone dog-gone one of them. But never have I been swamped the way Chicago has swamped me. I'm mighty grateful to you for your hearty response. I've had a flock of good yarns from you, but it's going to take a little time. And speaking of being swamped well Morrie Lowder knows something about that, too. As if we didn't have enough floods right here in this country what with floods of letters and flooding rivers Morrie had to go to Cuba and get himself Into a first-class flood down there. Morrie was assistant manager for an American drug concern and In the latter part of May, 1924, he started out from Havana on business trip Into the Orient province. Trains Filled With Inauguration Throngs. It was the day after the inauguration of Gerardo Machado as president presi-dent and the trains were filled to overflowing with people who had come to view the proceedings. The train Morrie was on was one of 18 cars, every one of them packed with people. ' It had been raining for three days before his Inauguration, and it was still raining. The streets were full of water when Morrie left Havana but he was to see a lot more water before his Journey was over. By the time they reached the town of Colon in Matanzas province, the water in the streets was a foot deep. Beds and chairs were Coating i.ninn- . j I If -Wfft, - The passengers were helpless on a bridge that might be washed away at any minute. about and people were making for the upper floors of the few tall build ings in town. Morrie thought the train would stop there and make no attempt to go on until the water had gone down, but to bis surprise it moved on toward Macagua. Morrie knew that the country up ahead was low and flat What was more, they had to cross a river called El Chivo a stream that be came a howling torrent when It was swollen by the rains. The train puffed along, part of the time through water that came to the hubs of its wheels. At last it came to the trestle spanning the 1 Chivo. It was about seven o'clock, and pitch dark, when they started across that viaduct. "Sharp flashes of lightning," says Morrie, "were the only things we could see by. The two engines up ahead were puffing and roaring, and we could feel the trestle shiver under the weight of the train and the pressure of some 12 feet of water that went tearing under It carrying trees and animals to destruction. All of a sudden the train came to a stop with a terrible jolt. Morrie Offers Help to Injured. As a medical man, Morrie stepped forward and offered to help if any one was injured. Several of them Morrie among them went forward to the express to see what had happened. They found out, all right The viaduct, weakened by the flood, was breaking up. Even while they stood In the express car, a whole section of the road bed was swept from beneath It, leaving the car hanging In mid air with only Its couplings holding It up! The train couldn't move now. The two engines were on the other side of the break the cars the passengers, helpless on a bridge that might be washed away at any moment They were sure that by this time, there must be other breaks in that bridge breaks behind them that would leave them marooned in the middle of the swollen river. "We uncoupled the pin of the baggage car," says Morrie, "and with a rush such as I never want to bear again, it was wept away. We began sending up flares in the hope of bringing aid, but they were answered by only a few poor guajiros, themselves them-selves marooned on the thatched roofs of their homes. The conductor con-ductor In charge mustered about 10 of us for any duty, and to be truthful about it, we all thought that this would be the last duty any of ns would perform." Passenger Cars Thought to Be Sinking. Morrie had a small medical kit and the doctors aboard made good use of his supplies. Suddenly came the news that the first of the pas senger cars was sinking into the river. The men uncoupled that car, herding its passengers into others th&t were already overcrowded. "We had some thirty prostrated people on our hands," Morrie says, "and while we were working over them we could feel the cars Jerk and sway as slowly they settled toward the water. Gee, but you feel helpless in a spot like that No one could help these people. Most of them were praying, and till my dying day I'll never forget the looks on their faces." But already help was on the way. One telegraph line was still up, and, when the train didn't come through, Macagna wired Colon to send an engine. A switching engine came down from Colon and found, that, contrary to Morrie's belief, there were no breaks In the western end of the trestle. The crew loaded all the passengers into six cart, and Morrie saya they put them In three deep In the aisles. "We went back the next morning," says Morrie, "just to see what had happened to the engineer and the fireman we had left behind. The engines were sunk in the river until only the roofs showed, but there were the engineers and firemen waving to us from the tops of the cabs." (Releawd by Westers Newspaper Union.) Lightweight Helium Has Practical commercial utility of the "lightweight" helium discovered In the air by University of California Califor-nia scientists remains extremely doubtful, the scientists have reported. report-ed. Dr. Luis W. Alvarez, assistant professor of physics, who, with Robr ert Cornog, graduate student from Denver, detected submlcroscopic quantities of the lightweight helium in ordinary air, reported the discovery dis-covery is considered important to the science of physics, but its pos-rible pos-rible use in commercial form, such Jtsk Me Jitiother O General Quiz The Quettior.M 1. When a state is added to the Union, when is the star added to the flagT 2. What animal has the largest brain in proportion to its size? 3. What is the difference between a cornet, a trumpet and a bugle? 4. How many tons of water flow over Niagara falls per minute? 5. What is the difference between be-tween permanent and perpetual? 8. Are there more red or white stripes in the American flag? The Answers 1. On the July Fourth following the admission. 2. The ant. 3. A bugle has no valves, the cornet and trumpet are similar, but the cornet has more winding. curved pipes and is shorter. 4. The flow of water over Niag ara falls is 67,000 tons per minute. 8. Permanent constant, without cessation. Perpetual repeating at intervals. 6. Seven red and six white. A Loose Tongue Never yet did any man repent of having spoken too little, where as many have been sorry that they have spoken too much, Arabian Nights. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are an effective laxative. Sugar coated. Children like them. Buy now! Adv. Experience and Memory Experience is the father of Wis dom, and Memory the mother. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly because be-cause it goes rlRht to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm. Increase secretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed inflam-ed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to aril you a bottle of Creomulslon with the understanding that you are to like the way it quickly allays the couijh, or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION f or Coughs,Chcst Colds, Bronchitis Little Commercial Value as in lighter than air craft. Is very much in doubt Reason wby the commercial utility util-ity of lightweight helium is extremely extreme-ly doubtful is that no method bas yet been devised to extract any type of helium from the air in usable commercial quantities. The scientists made their discovery discov-ery with the aid of the university's 225-ton atom smashing cyclotron. The United States bas a monopoly monop-oly on heavy helium which bas a lifting power 92.3 per cent that of hydrogen, the lightest known gas. Power of Ink A drop of ink makes millions think. Byron. " Isn't ibis Why Yon Are Constipated? What do you eat for breakfast? ColTeo, toast maybe some eggs? What do you eat tor lunch and dinner? White bread, meat, potatoes? pota-toes? 1 Ci little wonder you're con-etipated. con-etipated. You probably don't eat enough bulk." And "buifc" doesn't mean the amount you eat It's a kind of food that forms a soft "bulky" mass In the intestines intes-tines and helps a movement If this is your trouble, may we suggest sug-gest a crunchy toasted cereal KeXlogtft AU-Brantot breakfast All-Bran is a natural food, not a medicine -but it's particularly rich In "bulk." Being so, it can help you not only to get regular but to keep regular. You won't have to endure constipation, you can ao(4 It. 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