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Show THE S UN A SFW SAUNA. UTAH advancements nf ye Chr'a-tluhonour of and fulth, our King & Countrle, a voyage to plant ye firft colonle In ye northerns parts of Virginia, doe by thefe presents solemnly & mutually In ye prefence of God and one of another, (Copyright ) covenant & combine our felves togeather Into a civ-i- ll you had five hundred thou-sandollars left you, how would body politick, for our better ordering and pefer-vatio- you spend it? Kerry Allen put the & furtherance of question to his friend Don Burgess as ye ends aforefaid; and by the tw-- sat sorting tackle preparatory vertue hearof to enacte, to a raid on an trout conftltute and frame such stream. Me? Five hundred thousand dolJuft and equull lawes, ordinances, acts, conftltutions lars? Why waste time Imagining a & offices from time to combination like that? Well, time, as fliall be thought persisted Kerry, Ill tell most meete & convenient you what Id do. Id buy up the enfor ye generall good of ye tire town of Westburg all but that Colonle; unto which we darned 'Sherman property and Id put promife all due submlfflon a fence around that. Don laughed. and obedience. Pat Sherman been In Witneff Whereo.f w giving you the frosty eye again? Pat? You mean Miss Patricia Van Alstyne Sherman. Funny, we were kids togettier, and lately I can't get t near her with a pole. I went to her father to buy that corner lot. Gave me to understand that not an Inch of Sherman property was for sale, or ever would be. Ildlo, whats this? In at the silt of the door the postman was slipping a long official-lookin- g envelope, and Kerry hastened to pick it up und run a finger under the flap. A moment later he sank hack into his chair, his eyes fairly bulging. Five Ha, ha ! lie laughed weakly. hundred thousand dollars! Mine! Kerrys speculation concerning the money and its pat arrival were not so coincidental as you might think. He had read in the paper a day or two ago of the death of his uncle, who was reputed worth exactly that amount. Unfortunately, Kerry, although the only heir, was on such bad terms with liis uncle that he had not the slightest idea but that the estate would be distributed among the eccentric old fellows pet charities. It came then as a terrific shock to learn that his uncle had died in between the destroying of one will and the drawing up of another, and consequently Kerry inherited the entire n n, ten-foo- fortune. Kerrys act was to get a list of owners around the Sherman place. And when, little by little, he began buying up that property he let himself In for the most adverse criticism on all sides. Ilis friends feared that not only was the making himself appear a fool to be squandering his By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN IIANKSGI VINO DAY all good Ameri- cans are popularly supposed to give thanks In 'spirit to the pilgrims for Plymouth Hock; for turkey, cranberries anil pumpkin pie; for their heroic struggle for religious freedom, and for that demonstration their successful New England could he made to yield a living. So probably you will picture to yourself Wiles Standlsh and John Alden and fair Priscilla and all the rest of the stately company wnlking down the gangplank of the Mayflower and step-jdn- g olT on to the good old solid rock of New Kngland good old solid New England bedrock that hud been right there and had been bidding defiance to the sea and the elements when the Itockles were still at the bottom of the oeean. Well, that's fine for a historical picture. Rut nowaduys science will not let us alone for a single minute. Champion busy bodies, these scientists regular buttlnskys! When they are not Inventing a new kind of poison gas to abolish war by making It too deadly for any use they are fixing up a balanced ration to do away with Thanksgiving dinners. And now theyve gone and monkeyed with Plymouth Rock with Plymouth Rock Itself! Its a sad tale, fellow Americans. And here It An espeeiully sad Is In all Its saddening details. detail Is that It seems to have Its beginning In a nntve-bor- n American, Dr. George Frederick Kunz. To be sure, he was horn In New York city and New York and Massachusetts differ a hit on and In tunny things which may account for Ids doings. Anyway, hes a gem expert" and a member of ninny scientific societies all over the world and the wearer of nil sorts of decorations. Most remarkable of all, lies president of the Ameiicnn Scenic and Historic Preservation society. Well, Dr. Kunz attended the recent meeting at Toronto, Ont., of the Rritish Association for the Advancement of Science. There he produced a granite sliver which he said was a piece of Plymouth Rock. And the Rritishers ns eager as ever to get even, after more than IKK) years fell upon that poor lone silver of Plymouth Rock, haled it Into a clinic and proceeded to operate. Dr. A. I. Coleman, Dr. W. II. Collins, Prof. T. L. Walker, Dr. II. M. And and other Canadian geologists performed the operation. Refore the operation Plymouth Rock was good old New England granite. After the operation which, of course was entirely successful Plyme outh Itoek was hlotite granite with altered The altered part of It Is feldspar! easy to understand, but just what they did to poor old Plymouth Hock even a desk dictionary of 1,080 pages cant explain. And all the comfort one can r Is that they didn't say get out of a poor old P. R. Is unorthodase. Rut there's more to come and worse. Those Canadian Iconoclasts proceeded to hold what up-- 1 eared to the Pilgrim society and the National Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to have many resemblances to a post mortem. Whatever It may he called. Its findings are these, In effect: Plymouth Hock is a gay deceiver. Plymouth Keck deceived the Pilgrims. Plymouth Hook has been masquerading these three hundred years as a little bit of New England. Plymouth Rock is a detached boulder, cast on the New England shore by the lee. Plymouth Rock is a Rrltlsh Immigrant, ns Rrlt-Ia,- h as the Pilgrims themselves. Plymouth Itoek Is a part of a mother rock, lor. cated north of the St. Lawrence, probably In plag-ioclas- 2,020-pnge- I.ao-rudo- Plymouth Rook Is on unwitting instrument In behind the this International deceit, the pow thrown being a gigantic glacier that did the Job about 500,000 years ago without attracting general attention. Did the old Ray state rise as one man in protest? Well, not exactly as strong ns that there are a good many Portuguese around Cape Cod ese days and the French Canadians are as thick In the state as the rocks In the sheep And, ns the poet hath It pastures. E'en In the City of Itoston, The home of the Lean and the Cod, Now the Lowells have no one to talk to Since the Cabots speak Yiddish, b'gad Rut the patriotic societies of the old Ray state let out u roar of wrath and anguish. Ami when the University of Rochester New York and Massachusetts always did have hard work to dwell together In amity announced that Plymouth Itoek had come from Canada, the grand old Commonwealth got Into notion. Gov. Channlng II. Cox was out of the state, but I.leut. Gov. Alvan T. Fuller, without waiting a minute, ordered an examination then and there of Plymouth Rock. Canadian geologists are not the only ones who can wield the hammer and Juggle the microscope What Lieutenant Governor Fullers geology experts will find or will report can only be guessed at this writing. Perhaps It Is better sol Anyway, Samuel Rice, who Is custodian of Plymouth Rock and its grand new portico and Commonwealth Reservation, reports that some relle hunter has stolen a sliver and points out what seems to be a freshly broken spot on the weather-worsurface close to which are marks ns if some one had been hammering. Plymouth Rock was taken from the custody of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth in 1920 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Is now a ward of the state. It lies about eight feet below the flooring of the portico which rovers It and It is possible to walk about three sides of It. The old canopy which covered the rock from 1807 to 1920 was provided with tall steed grill gates which were locked nights so relic hunters had little chance then. As to the "Thanksgiving Eats, ninny good Americans would doubtless he glad to ses Mnsss-soi- t more highly honored on Thanksgiving day. It was he who Introduced the cranberry and the punkin to the American people through the Pilgrims. Masu.soit may have been a poor ignorant savage and all that, but he and his people had' a delightfully simple na1 fairly efficient agricultural system: Corn in the hill and a climbing bean ; a pumpkin seed every five hills. Massa soit showed the Pilgrims the cranberry growing wild In the marshes and lmd no difficulty whatever In demonstrating that roast turkey and cranberry sauce was one beuven-borcombination. The Pilgrims, of course', knew about turkeys, which had been taken across seas from Mexico and had be'oome common on English farms before 1(00. Rut It was Mussusolt who brought turkey, cranberry and pumpkin together for the Pilgrims. Mussusolt evidently was vvliat In the'se days would he calle'd a good old scout. At the time of the arrival of the Pilgrims he was bend chief or sachem of the Wampanoags, whose territory from Cape Coil to Norragnnsett hay llis home town was on the site of Warren, It. I. He was about forty years of age, a portly man in his best years, grave of countenance and' spare of Massasolt was a good fr'end to the Pilspeech. grims and the offensive and defensive treaty made with them was kept by the chief to the day of his death in 1001. The Mayflower Compact" Is of course one of the Important documents of our American history. It was signed by the 41 male Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower before the landing on Plymouth Rock. The agreement : In 1 e Name of God. Amen We whofe names are under written, the loyal subjects of our dread soveralgne Lord King James, by ye grace of God of Great Rrltaine, France & Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, Ac. Havelng under taken for ye glorte of God. and 1 from-the-roc- n r have subferibed our names at Cape Codd ye 11 of November In ye year of ye ralgne of our soveralgne Lord King James of England, France A Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland Anno Doin. 1620. ye The following tribute to the Pilgrims Is part of the official proceedings of the House of Represenhere-unde- fifty-fourt- tatives : Three hundred years ago a small company of devout men and women, upheld by conscience and Inspired by faith, braved tbe dangers of the sea la order thnt In a new world they might found Christian commonwealth. They landed first at the end of Cape Cod, whers now Is Provlncetovvn. There In the cabin of the Mayflower they signed a compact that has taken Its place among the momentous documents of history, for then Englishmen first Joined by mutual covenant to form a civil body politic. Recause this was the germ of the Idea that was to grow into the Constitution of the United States every American owes gratitude to its authors and should honor the spot where It was conceived. The landing of the Pilgrims' symbolizes one of the worlds great adventures. The hardships of the voyage, the perils of the wilderness, the ravages of that dreadful winter these are but circumstances that frame the picture. Acting for the nation, our concern today with the solmen story is that it rivets the Imagination on the noblest phases of human nature lofty purpose, dauntless courage, steadfast endurance, pious enthusiasm, holy faith. To commemorate and glorify these virtues, out of which sprang the most precious institutions of America, Is not only to Inspire our people with fresh gratitude for their heritage, but also to revive tlrnlr respect for those institutions, spread understanding of vvlnit they mean, Insure their safety, encourage their growth. Never has It been more Important for us to teach the lesson of liberty through law, of sacrifice for common gain, of righteousness for its own sake. The Pilgrims naturally are a cherished tradition of the American people, especially from tte Idealistic point of view. It seems to be generally overlooked that the Importance of their succest was quite ns great from the materialistic viewpoint. Historians point out that It was the economic success of the Plymouth colony, rather than its high ideals and religotis devotion, that first interpreted the New World to Europe as a successful field for workers and citizens rather than for adventurers. They declare the Pilgrims the most Important of the first groups leading the way to our national settlement and development. Our national growth in the 300 years since the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Hock Is the wonder of the world. There are 119 000,000 of us now. This country is worth $350,000,000,000. .Our farm lands and their permanent improvements are valued at $77, 000,000, 0(H). The 30,187 hanks have total resources of $54, 0:14,911,000. The railroad! are worth at least $22,0 lO.OtXI.OOO. Electric light and power companies represent an Investment of $6,000,000,000, electric railwnvs more than $3,500,. 000.0(H), gas utilities $4.000,01)0, (XX) and telephones and telegraphs $3,0H).(HH),(HH). There are more than 300.000 manufacturing esahl aliments and mills- the industries in the United States, worth closv to $50,0(MU)( 0,000. We have 13.250,000 automobiles und motor trucks in use. There are $3,594,. 772.928 worth of implements and machinery on th farms. T1 ere are 23,000,000 homes in the Uniter States. Columns could he written of why we Araerlcral should give thanks on Thanksgiving day 1924 Let us each seek out ov.r own reasons and tp1 thunkful 1 money for purely personal revenge, but that lie was throwing it away where no returns were possible. Ilis only recreation was an occasional afternoon trout fishing, and It was from such an expedition that he was returning around twilight one day when he noticed at the corner of Shermans best meadow a large for sale sign. He made his way up to the Sherman place. Patricia's father sat on the veranda. Saw my sign, he grunted. Suppose youve come to buy and gloat? Been making a fool of me, grabbing everything around me? Heard you were going to fence me in. Kerry sank comfortably down on the upper step and crossed his long Not at all, Mr. Sherman. In legs. fact, Ive come on an entirely different errand to urge you to hold on and not sell at any figure!" The older man regarded him susWhy are you telling me piciously. this? he asked. Kerry stood up and faced him squarely. Because, he said firmly, I cannot play other than fair with the father of the girl I love, however little she cares for me. Thats funny, said John Sherman. Then he bent down. Fact is, Pat loves you, he said. Im sure of it, but she fancies it would not be reciprocated, and so takes special pains he to conceal the fact. Result is You know shrugged his shoulder. how girls are! Suddenly, before Kerry could protest, he lifted his voice. Oh, Pat, come here! See If you can worm out of this young man Just why he won't buy my land! Some months later when the Koly-na- c Perfume corporation built their huge factory and sidings in Westburg, nnd all the nearby property rose tremendously In value, Kerrys former critics changed their tune and had somewhat nothing but admiration, grudgingly but none the less genuine, for their joung townsman's marvelous insight. How had he foreseen a condition which more than trebled his Investment? 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