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Show WHAT THANKSGIVING SHOULD MEAN TO US Pilgrim Men and Women at Plymouth Set Example. THANKSGIVING is a day unique In the list of holidays not perhaps, so unique in its conception as in the meaning which the day has come to have. We think of it as a day of getting get-ting together. The dinner is its symbol. sym-bol. Faith in the goodness of God and a reverent and formal prayer of thanksgiving for His bounty is its avowed purpose. But its greatest profit to us may come from the thoughts it invokes of that little band of hardy men and vninen who knew what It meant to face hunger; to know hunger and stick to an appointed task. That task happened to be the opening up of that now land which was destined to provide pro-vide so bountifully for you and me who havT inherited it. They were stickers those from whom this heritage has come down. Hardy? Yes; but with a ruggedness that was not alone a physical attribute. They experienced the primal lessons: want, fear, and the need of strife. But they stuck. And they won. That lirst Thanksgiving day was for them a solemn rite. If they that band of Pilgrim men and women could feel so honestly thankful for God's bounty as it was measured out to them at Plymouth Plym-outh in 1021., what one of us in this day and generation but needs be ashamed to feel less. It was a solemn -occasion, but how could they else but lie happy? Let us be happy on this Thanksgiving day. But, too, let us not forget. Frank II. Sweet. 11c), )2fi. Western Newspaper Union, |