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Show ThuwJav. Sov. 24, THE 19.5. i:VS, TIMI-S-- GIVING THANKS IN DAKK DAYS OF REVOLUTION ;i"K;K New j Shipment Of I f "- i .r Afternoon - -. v . ,u t H1! XFAV VELVET HATS Hanson Style Shop to her home in Scipio Sunday aft' er a two week's visit at Mills. Dell Ward spent Monday evening in Mills as a guest at the home of Thoral Howell spent a few days Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hanson. of last week at his home in Mills. Mrs. H. M. Hanson and children returned to Mills Friday after visiting for a few days In Nephl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George How- ard. Word was received here Wednesday of the birth of a daughter at Nephi to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Oc-ke- y. Mr. and Mrs. Joh,n Williams were Mills visitors Sunday. Williams John B. Hanson and L. M. Han son and son Ladd were at Nephi on business Saturday. Jack Kelly Rex Peterson and Elvin Young spent Tuesday at Ne phi. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hanson and children spent Sunday at Scipto re turning home on Monday. v ON Herman McCune and Ernest Bailey of Nephi spent Monday at Mills, returned Mijs Berniece Blackett Letter From Denmark Inspired First Christmas Seal Sale t ' . - "mi-1- i JACOB RIIS first person In the United to suggest the use of clirlstmas Seals to raise money to fight tuberculosis was Jacob Riis, the noted author, editor and settlement worker. In an article in th3 OUTLOOK for July, 1907, he described a stamp he had received in the mail from a friend in Denmark, where they had been sold tj raise money for a hospital for tuberculous children. Riis urged the adoption of the Idea in the United States. This article came to the attention of Emily Bissell of Wilmington, Delaware, who decided to use seals as a means of raising money for a similar hospital on the banks of the Brandywine River. She designed the first seal, sold during the Christmas holidays of 1907. The next year the project became national. After that tuberculosis associations soon were formed In every state and lu many cities and towns, until today, as the sale of the 2Sth Christmas Seal begins, there are 2084 such tuberculosis associations and committees In the counAnd Instead of less than 200 trysanatoria, there are now 633. From coast to coast the seal pays tor local health work, especially among children, and supports s clinics, nursing such projects THE service, preveutorla, and other work. forms of In Jacob Riis' article be explained how successful the idea bad proved to be for three years in Denmark. He said that other "charity" stamps had come and gone without finding continuous public favor. "I think 1 can guess the reason," wrote Riis. "They didn't have the right spokesman. It remained for Hans Chris tian Andersen's countrymen to en list Santa Claus." "What 1 want to know," continued Riis, "is why we cannot here bor row a leaf from Santa Claus' Danish year book, and do as tbey have done. Why should we not have Christmas stamp, printed by tuberculosis committee, not for the purpose of building a hospital let each state or town build its own but for the purpose of rousing up and educating the people In this most important matter? What might it not mean In revenue to finance the cause that creeps along where It ought to run? But, much more than that, what might It not be made to mean as an educating medium in fighting the White Plague? Practically every man who saw this stamr on a letter, or on a postal-carit Is posted on both In Denmark would want to know what It meant. And when people want to know, half the fight is won. It is because they do not know a few amazingly simple things that people die of tuber culosis. "I am pleading for the half mil lion poor souls all over the land whose faces are sot today toward an inevitable grave because of igno rance, heedless Ignorance, and for the friends who grieve with them and for them." Since the above was published the death rate from tuberculosis In the United States has been reduced which means a almost saving today of 150,000 lives per year. Despite this fact, one out of every Ave deaths among persons between 15 and 45 Is due to this disease. The war waged with money from Christmas Seals must go on unabated, until tuberculosis Is utterly banished d Bridge Parties Jl I I 1 " Co me in and compare our 4jwnti(y CHKiiTusf mm By J. A. McNaUKlUon LOS ANGELES TIh Los Angeles Branch of the Agricltural Credit Corporation is under way with am ple funds for all worthy purjxwcs. A large number of applications hav been received including applications for loans on Real Estate which are entirely foreign to the purpose of this organization. The men who have been drafted into this service may be relied upon to do their best to serve agriculture nd liveslock In the matter of recon-- 1 Rtrttction and needed relief. It looks like about the only safe rule that can be followed with respect to stocker and feeder loans is to base them on the present values, meaning that prospective feeders should figure on fattening their cattle and marketing them at the present fat prices. The local cattle market has reacted a quarter to fifty cents higher than a week ago and the undertone seems stronger, although hog prices which showed a constant rise for several success ive days are again showing weakness with a tendency to slip back, thus confirming what we have said right along, that there can be no permanent appreciation in values witthout sustained buying power which must come from labor employment. Local feed lot supplies are plenti ful but not alarming. There are a- bout 20,000 cattle on feed in Los An geles County, which means 20 days supply for only the Los Angeles market. Those cattle will be topped out and marketed from time to time as they are ready. This supply especially at feed lots close to the market is always a hazard because it is a visible supply and one which the packers may draw on at will. Local meat conditions are relativ ely good. Up to this time Southern California has shown an increased consumption of meat food supplies. This situation has been helped some by the big fleet in the Pacific Wat ers drawing their supplies from the west coast and assisting In the ab sorption of what otherwise might have been a surplus but now the volume is just holding its own with last year, and the price of beef ranging from 20 per cent to 25 per cent lower than a year ago. Tne exception Is Baby Beef which has held its own as compared to last years prices. w recent compilation of figures in connection with the unemployment situation in this locality indic ated that the meat packing Institu tions are empolying a larger num ber of men than they did in 1929, due to the Increased volume and and spreading the umployment wages among a greater number. It should be recognized tnat Tne packing business Is highly special ized, required a large percenage oi skilled labor. Nevertheless, the attitude of the packers has been to eooperate to the utmost in absorbing a portion of our surplus labor. A have taken our place among the nations and empires of the earth." Presidential Proclamation. The first Presidential Thanksgiving proclamation named November "YVe MAY 7, 1778 was hostilities announced can scarcely be imagined. Immediately the commander in chief issued his proclamation and directed that public religious service and thanks giving should take, place on the same evening, April 19. This was probably the happiest Thanksgiv ing America has ever experienced writes Estelle Harris In the Bicen tennlal News, published by the Alex andria (Va.) Gazette in with the United States commission for the celebration of the areain anniversary or Washington's birth. A country gained glory and honor and home around the bend of the road. December 11, 1783, the gloriously solemn day appointed by OH, NOBLE BIRD! two-third- 19. 1783 congress. Dr. John Rogers preached Mb famous sermon announcing . . . better Merchandise For Less Monev It Pleases Us To Please You Ord & Mangelson s 4 TO WEEKS CHRISTMAS Shop liarly Itlail Early Buy Christmas Seals 1789. As far as the people were concerned, they could join In with any and all services, for they felt the nation was saved again now that the great Washington was at the helm. As for Father George himself, he was entirely too busy to write much in that diary of his, that Is such a precious legacy to his Here is all he says: "No people. vember 20. Being the day appoint ed for a Thanksgiving, I went to St Paul's chapel, though It was most inclement and stormy but few people at church." The signing of the confederation articles was the es peclal occasion. 20, Girl Proffers Feathers as College Tuition Fee Blootulngton, III. Duck feathers, fox pelts, farm produce and even live slock comprised tuition fees of fered by students entering Illinois Weslejan university when It opened for the fall term recently. Nate Crahtree, business manager of the school, said the offer of the duck feathers came from a girl In Missouri. Her father, he said, owned a duck farm. Unusual "fees" were offered as a result of an announcement by the school authorities that they would accept farm produce In lieu of cash because of economic conditions. The produce was to be accepted at prices ranging from 5 to 20 per cent above the market quotations. Approximately 25 Btudents took advantage of the school's offer. As a result the university now has stored In local warehouses and elevators an abundance of potatoes, corn, wheat, oats and other staple products. The university plans to see them when the market la more opportune. Quelling the Insurrection In Pennsylvania was again a deliverance from danger, and cause for great rejoicing on the part of all the people, and a proclamation was made, appointing a day of thanksgiving, for the general welfare and stable condition of the Union. This was Issued from Independence hall, and Man in Tennessee Owns February 19, 1795, was thus set Volume 227 Years Old apart, on which day the nation was Tenn. (J. S. Ingle has Knoxville. "with devout reverence and affec- come Into of a book two possession tionate gratitude, to return thanks hundred and twenty-seveyears old. The volume, bound In calf, carries this title : "The Figures or Types of the Old Testament, by Which Christ and the Heavenly Tilings of the (inspcl were Preach'd to the People of Old. Explaln'd and Improv'd in Sundry Sermons by Samuel Mather, Sometime Pastor of the Church In Dublin." NOVEMBER 26, 1789 The volume was printed In Lonfor its national blessings and Im- don by "Nath. Ililller In Ledenhall Over Against St. Mary Axe, In plore their continuance." As with St., all of George Washington's papers, 1705." this proclamation abounds In patriotism and counsel of the highest or- Clean Shave Almost Cost der, both as worthy of emulation Him Rhodes Scholarship today as yesterday. Columbus, Ohio. For want of a Much Reason for Thanks. Fred Fricken, mathematmustache, In looking back to these special ics instructor at Ohio State univerThanksgiving days of early Amerilost a Rhodes scholarcan history, no patriotic heart can sity, almost which Includes two years study ship, the and help feeling appro- and beauty living expenses at Oxford unipriateness of these gatherings. Also, England. He had sent a porversity, the part they played In keeping the of himself with a mustache. little nation as one ideal family, un- trait Later he shaved It off. Then upon til it could walk alone, the Amer- his appearance for examination, the ican fathers holding before It the failed to Identify him. HowJudges on which truths the foundation a former professor vouched ever, rests, liberty, equality. Integrity. for Fricken. Now, Just as a preFor whatever else has oi has not Is regrowlng a musFricken caution, nathe of foundation this happened, tion still rests securely and there Is tache. much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving day. The stars have not faltered In their course and freedom still reigns. The good earth has blossomed and fruited for her overWatches, Jewelry, Dialord, man, as In 1(507 and 1776, and monds, Wedding Rings now that autumn has marked the finish of her harvest for this year, old earth is drawing back her sap, Fine Watch and Jewelry her cliloropliyl and her chemicals Repairing a Specialty Into her storeroom, to be covered with snowy blankets instead of green grass conserving and renewG. W. Moreland, Jeweler ing all her power, making ready for next summer's spread of glory. Hawkins Bldg. Nephi, U. n two-hun- APRIL iits with others you have bought here and elsewhere 13, 1621 for tlianUsivin' at i'iymouth Immediately after their first harvest, In 1021. The Massachusetts I'.ay col ony tlrsl observed such a day In tWO and frequently thereafter until 1(;), when it became an annual fes Connecticut tival In that colony, also had a similar lestival annually onward. Usually, these from days for thanksgiving followed the harvest, and were set aside pri marily to Kite thanks to the Lord for the blessings he had bestowed upon the Colonists. Puring the Revolution, the Continental congress ap pointed one or more days for thanksgiving euch year, except in 1777, when not even 8 congressman could find any blessings to point out to his constituents as reason for rejoicing. These Revolutionary Thanksgiving days usually were founded upon some military success nd fortune smiled wanly. Indeed, upon the Continental nrmy in 1777 the winter of despair at Valley Forge. Valley Forge Observation. Washington's Thanksgiving day proclamation al Valley I'orge came after the snows and the hunger and the sufferings of that terrible win had departed and ter of 1777-7spring smiled again upon the ter The tile valleys of Pennsylvania. occasion was the entrance of France Into the war as an ally of the ColoThe Valley Forge Thanksgiv nies. ing May, 177S, was a military cele bration, with the chaplain of brig ade directed "to offer up thanks and deliver a discourse suitable to the occasion." Then there was camion fire and huzzas, and cries of "Long Live the King of France!" Long Live the Friendly European Powers'." and Anally a general run ning fire and huzza, "The American States !" Celebrations of Peace. Another special Thanksgiving day was ordered by General Washing ton at Newburgh on the Hudson, April 19, 1783, eight years to the day from the shot fired at Lcxing ton. Ultimate peace had been as sured ever since the surrender of Cornwallis, but the question had be come alarmingly acute ever since: How was it possible to keep even remnant of the army alive to re ceive the treaty of peace? Six months more of this starvation, this utter discouragement as to the use of It all the harassed general dared not think of what his poor boys might be driven to do to end it all. The joy with which the informa tion was at last received from Sir Guy Carleton that a cessation of r merchandise is selected lor x'lil, Thanksgiving day originated with the IMyrlms. who set aside a iluy DECEMBER Bride Showers Birthday Parties Air always more complete when entirely new lStfl. 1 and Mrs. Clayton spent Sunday at Mills. L.l' '' if ST. - at Valley 'urtje i.,.k great pains In pilt hetore tin' sol lli'i'n '"tin in men-u- SU.50 I Mr. V The Livestock Situation SHIPMENT OF METAL C AND MILLS NEWS t iriii ;illia PHK CKXT OFF on all LADIES COATS 15 j Much to Be Thankful For WASH i() From S5.75 PAGE FIVE reason lur his of the Uliisl npei ial ui'UliiiM He nf today, divine tjiii'.liicss." looking buck with a lull knowledge if the gnat trials ami suffering plaied ui!i the Continental army In that winter of misery at Valley Forge, may perhaps wonder a! the faith thus unfolded There is, how ever, one tact which we, accustomed to obserte the lust Thursday of Nut ember us Thailksglt lug day. It is Thank ulnitiUI not ut lving day as we know it. with a definite plate Unti our calendar, tlid not come Into existence until Dresses I t il.g ITAH. XKIMII. iL I IsttL ) Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wankier Sr. left Wednesday for Los Angeles to visit for a short time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wankier Jr. Mrs. C. A. Mangelson entertained last Thursday afternoon In honor of her birthday anniversary. Dinner was served at six o'clock to teen. four- The First Year BeeHive girls of the Levan M. I. A. held a candy pull at the home of their class lead- er Mrs. Mildred Chrlstensen recently. Special guests were Mrs. Cora Wankier, Mrs. Thela B. Wankier. and Mrs. Pern Chrlstensen. The Primary officers and teachers accompanied by the boys and girls distributed Thanksgiving baskets Tuesday afternoon to a number of the older members of the ward. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Fillmore of visited on Sunday at the home of Mrs. Fillmore's parents Mr. Effie and Mrs James Sherwood. Sherwood returned with her sisiter and family to Eureka Sunday evening where she will remain indefln-atel- y. Eureka Mr. and Mrs. Darral Chllds and family of Centerfleld spent Satur day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S P. Chrlstensen. Leo Chrlstensen who has been in Centerfleld for some time, returned home with them. During the past several days the Levan Ward Amusement hall has been cleaned and The woodwork and benches have been repainted andi revaimishect The walls have been kalsomlned and the music stand lowered and a number of things remodeled improv Ing the appearance of the hall tc a great extent. Mr. and Mrs. ' S. P. Chrlstensen entertained at a family dinner on Saturday the occasion being Mrs. Christensen's birthday anniversary. Dinner was served at 6 p. m. to ineteen guests. Those from out-o- f - town included Mr. and Mrs Darral Chllds and family of terfleld. Cen- o SUCKERS DANCE AT North Ward Amusement Hall or Tuesday November 29. 10c CANDY our Is a protection against check raising. Order your checks printed here. jam u Echo of Pilgrim Romance The kettle which John Alden might have given his beloved Prls-clll- a to start housekeeping is believed by antique authorities to have been found at Vaterloo, N. Y. Brought to America on the Mayflower and believed to have been used In preparing the first Thanksgiving feast, the blackened receptacle now Is known as the "Conant kettle," named after the family which acquired It from Alden, thought to have been the original owner. Levari News DESERET MORTUARY Why pay more for less THOMAS BAILEY, MANAGER Telephone Nephi 55 "SERVICE ABOVE ALL" |