Show THE I MYTON MyrON FREE PRESS I An Independent Newspaper r PU Published every Thursday at Myton Myton Utah by the tho Basin Balin Publishing Company C. C 13 n. COOK Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year In advance 1100 6 months In advance 3 8 months Un In advance 80 10 Advertising Rates on Request Phone R Ring Ring one one ng-one one long lone one abort short PILGRIMS NOT ALWAYS BLUE Thanksgiving always suggests to tous tous us that double Impulse of respecting I Christian Ideals and of at feasting plentifully The latter clement element Is Isi i quite pred predominant In the general at attitude attitude attitude at- at toward the day It would be a good idea to hyphenate hyphenate hyphenate hy hy- hy- hy the words Giving Thanks for in hI that way the word giving rather than taking would be emphasized emphasized emphasized em em- and thus be In better accord accord accord ac ac- ac- ac cord with the true spirit of the day In any event we are all very ery thankful thankful thankful thank thank- ful that in our country countr we still express express express ex ex- ex- ex press our gratitude to the Lord Inthe in inthe inthe the same language used by the Pilgrims Pilgrims Pil Pil- grims three hundred years yeal's ago In IG 1621 l writes Prof B. B J. J Cigrand member of faculty University of Illinois In the Chicago American It Is to be regretted that so so many people use the terms Pilgrim and Puritan interchangeably In reality the they are widely wIdel different The Pilgrims were minded liberal-minded people They were double Protestants Protestants Protestants Protest Protest- I ants having rebelled against not only only only on on- ly the Roman Christian methods but also against the regal or English government church In the belief that they could not reform the former and certainly not amend or change the latter they chose to go goto goto goto to Holland and latter to America there to worship as they pleased The Puritans believed the they could I alter the Episcopal or government I church so they remained faithful to I the real religion and the sovereign The Pilgrims were liberal minded far more so than they are given credit for being while it was the Puritans who were strict The pictures we paint of these people causes the rising generation to shun contact with these well- well meaning early Americans There ismore Is Ismore ismore more cruelty in the sized average-sized community today tOdar th there re Is more ty- ty raUll in the land this moment among Industrial classes more unreasonable unreasonable unreasonable civic taxation to say nothing of various religious restrictions than was exacted In those days of the Pilgrims' Pilgrims regime There have been more unjust ac- ac cus cusa ons offs against these nation founders than Americans realize Those people were not half as blue or severe as we have been led to believe The They were human and most charitable Let us teach and preach to love and revere them Arthur Gillman a great authority ty on legal affairs in inthe the colonies writes that it Is almost needless to say that the so-called so blue laws which have been made the butt and joke and object of at violent tion were never in existence In that colony colon but were ere manufactured by a writer who desired to hold the colony Certified copies of or these blue laws fail to materialize In fact New Jersey Virginia and parts of the south by br far more strict about the observance of the first da day as the Sabbath was called Ne New Jersey forbade traveling for pleasure or other similar recreation recreation Infraction of these rules might be punished by the whipping post a fine or Let us ns not point our fingers too sharply at the Pilgrims It ma may surprise some to read that I rum Madeira wine and punch with plenty of mule power kick could be obtained In Pilgrim communities j The ordinances specified the prices prices' j I to be charged I I |