| Show oft 0 I 1 is ax 43 0 ai A 04 0 la Is celebrated in thanksgiving memory of the day when the friendly indians gaw caw the new coming farmers of old england in need because their european cereals failed to grow on the sands bands of cope cape cod these red men gave the 1111 grInis corn beans squashes wild turkeys and wild grapes all conal considered dered sacred gifts of the great spirit to tile the soll soil of america says bays dr erl rates bates advisor in indian extension at the new york state college of agriculture however he be says this was not the first thanksgiving the rite was born its cs early man sought out his relationship to his creator and wondered at the mystery of the seasons this became associated with mystery nod and nn an element clement of fear and to explain this priests soon developed a ceremonial history story tells of thanksgiving ten thousand years ago in the tigris eu valley when tile the harvest was ra fathered in the valley of the nile la in crete in tile beginnings of some of cf the priestly rituals in greece and rome kome among the hebrews Ife brews the A t A red hed men gave the th pilgrims Pilgrim 3 corn beans beam squashes turkeys turkey norsemen norseman Nor semen in the congo ane and I 1 in tas mania as the seasonal waves threw quantities of fish on their shores to a simple people like the north american Ind indians lans thanksgiving was personal and sincere they felt the spirit at each sunrise and each sunset and each month the tribe in common council celebrated one of their twelve thanksgivings thanksgiving s in midwinter they thanked the great spirit for sending the snow to protect the seeds and animals later they gave thanks for the sweet waters of the woodland or r maple sap in spring they held their great thanksgiving for they were ft era able to plant their food staple indian maize soon followed the ceremony tar for the strawberries and in order those for the beans and squashes the corn harvest for tho the wild apples and grapes and for the time when the hide and flesh of the deer and bear was wag in season doctor dates bates says bays the power of the six nations camo canial through the tha common lond of their religious ere ls As the red man looks at the white american today he be says tile the great spirit spira hu haj given the white american daty ty times more than he ever gave aas the red uran but the white american 1 has but one thanksgiving a year sear it the red nian man with his bis limitations was able to produce his great civilization with but natures book and the sky as ills his guide what can the white man main not do with his inheritance and the wisdom of ages through tile the printed pages of hla his ideals and faith will n move I 1 ov e mountains in america toddy oday t a as s in d days q ys gone balf by it we place our feet on the sacred soll soil ij jig fth the white american has haa but one thanksgiving a year of the red man and unafraid celebrate the true american spirit of thanksgiving to be a tolerant neighborly american live the thanksgiving spirit of the red american la in dally thinking and living doctor bates says thanksgiving chrysanthemum since it Is the chrysanthemum season this hardy lower flower defying tho the frost the chrysanthemum la is the thanksgiving flower that Is quite as it should be thanksgiving Is a hardy holiday as well as a hearty one it spans the whole distance between the he 1 american an 1 of the seventeenth century t ury u who ho held in new england all sport an ungodly pastime and the american of the twentieth century who makes a god of sport that shows how truly and abl abidingly amerlean american a holiday Is this one which Is so rarely privileged that tile the president of the has to pay it the tribute of an annual official proclamation |
