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XOVEMBEB 28, 1021
GOD WILL PROVIDE: Take no thought saying. What shall
we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Where-withal shall we be cloth
ed? But seek ye first the kingdom of God. and His righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 5:31, 33.
i . PRAYE R: - O Lord, we would lire by faith and not by sight,
for Thou hast giren us Jesus Christ, and with. Him Thou wilt also
' freely give us all things. I
! r THE GOOD OLD DAYS, THE GOOD NEW DAYS
Three hundred and threes years ago the Pilgrim Fathers
celebrated the first American Thanksgiving 1:
And it was different only in time and setting from the
i i one celebrated in Salem and
f a t rm ?a. 4.1
i ; yesieraay, me spirit was me
Those were.the good oia aays on me DieaK iNew rngianu
coast.: fcTheseare the arood new days in a far flung republic
with wonderful opportunities
tively greater creature comforts, j
Thanksgiving is the oldest, as it is the most purely Amer
ican, of our national feast days. It is destined to last as long
as the Stars and Stripes float over the homes of a grateful
people. . ; r; -
But are we preserving the spirit of the day? Does it
mean as much as it did to our
way to answer that question is to discover exactly what thai
spirit was? And the only way to do that is to go back to the
records of the first Thanksgiving celebration.
! The first winter at Plymouth was a hard one for the
Mayflower colonists. More than half their number died. Thej
lost neither faith nor hope, '-. however. Next spring thej
sowed corn, wheat and barley and were rewarded with ar
. abundant harvest. In the fall
. Thanksgiving feast. ; , !
Edward Winslow described that original festival in a let
' ter to England, which has been preserved, of. which the fol
: lowing is a part: ; i H
"Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent foun
: I men' on fowling, so that we might after a more special man
' ner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruits of om
' labours ; they f oiire in one day killed as much f owle, as with t
- little help beside, served the company almost a week, a"
' which time amongst other recreations, we exercised pui
Armies, many of the Indeans coming amongst, us,1 and amonj
5 the rest their great king, Massasoyt, with some ninetie men
whom for three days we entertained and feasted and . thej
went out and killed five Deere which they bestowed on oui
I Governor and upon the captain, Myles Standish, and others.'
' From this authenticaccourit of the first Thanksgiving
s we gather that recreation and feasting were the features ot
the day. The colonists were hospitable, they called in the
1 Indians ; they hunted deer and fowl and had a gorgeous three-
day feed; it was also an occasion for sports and competitions
, they, exercised their arms. They probably had a shootmg
: match. They may have pitched horseshoes.
3 1 Evidently they were animated by the twin spirits of
optimism and hospitality. Happiness is gregarious. Joy was
;born twins. (And feeding ninety Indians for three days
must have been some feed, as could be amply proved by some
Salem pioneer grandmothers still in the flesh who remember
the last Indians at their back doors on Thanksgiving days
here; the very last one, '01d Quinaby," for whom the Oregon
, Electric station was named, having died from his last Thanks
- giving feed, from the sheer over loading of his capacious
1 stomach -a wonderful tribute to the culinary talents of these
:r same grandmothers; for Quinaby died happy, and he had
" to die some day.) i
j After 300 years has, that spirit changed? Are not
optimism and hospitality now firmlyestablished as the lead-
ing American 'characteristics? !
Moreover, allowing for the stupendous changes wrought
. in our civilization by a1 tercentenary of progress, is not the
human nature behind the Thanksgiving of 1924 much the
same as the human nature behind the Thanksgiving of 1621?
The miracle of the loaves and fishes has repeated itself.
The five deer and the few1, small fowl have multiplied into the
. tons of turkeys and beeves and chickens and cranberries and
mince pies that today feed the multitudinous American.
Athletic sports and motor races are the same "exercising
of arms" indulged in by the first Pilgrims. We have no In
dians or not a sufficient number of them in most of our
communities to call in as chief participants of our modern
h bounty. But we have poor in our almshouses and crippled
children and unfortunates pressed by want and the aged and
infirm in county institutions and prisoners in our jails ; and
these the nation never .forgets: to include! in our, feast of
. gratitude to the Giver of all good things.
: We are too apt to belittle the present in comparison with
the past and to believe lour Pilgrim ancestors possessed
virtues that we have lost .today. If we study the authentic
documents of those far off times instead of being led by the
myths and romances that have grown around them we shall
find our men and women in 1924 are as religious, as brave,
as optimistic, as self helpful, as hospitable and as human as
werq the first grateful Americans of 1621, exercising their
arms, enjoying their first successful harvest and hobnobbing
with the wild aborigines, j i ; , ?
The Thanksgiving days that followed the first by the
Pilgrim Fathers were not fixed. They might be early or late,
and some lean years they were omitted. The last Thursday
in November has been generally observed since the time of
Abraham Lincoln. But Oregon
nor Pennoyer, in the nineties, who held that the fourth Thurs
day was. the correct date;; and so we had two celebrations
That would have been appropriate this year, had this been
: a November with five Thursdays, since the wonderful out
:. come of , the recent elections. But .there are some Oregon
people who will read this and be doubtful if a second feed
like that of yesterday would be
THE DAY AFTER
When: the ; Plymouth Fathers
landed on the famous rock they
ta form their Hie pnr--
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Ifaaaffer Jab Dwpt
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throughout the United states
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same r
and advantages and compara
Puritan forefathers? The best
of 1621 they held their first
had a chief executive, Gover
conducive to their health.
poses-and adjust themselves to
new conditions. At the end of the
first year when the; crops were
raised and starvation no longer
stared them - ia the - face they de
tided to have a celebration. , To
celebrate it was necessary to have
meat in abundance. ; The hunters
took their guns and went out into
the woods and killed wild turkeys
and ever since that time turkeys
have been associated with Thanks
giving, as It wfj thanksgiving day
and it has come to be more of a
day of feasting than it has of a
day of; prayer. This is not so
bad, either. , ' I
Why shouldn't "we feast after a
year of abundance? Why shouldn't
we celebrate by treating our stom
ach to a right good potion of tur
key? Why shouldn't we have
chanberry sauce as a garnish?
Why shouldn't we drink sweet ci
der on that day?; i
But that was. yesterday. The
day after is stale. Somebody has
said that nothing was more insipid
than jturkey the day after Thanks
giving. This Isn't true. This may
be true with a , few of the
gormanda, but it ig not true of
the average man. There is not
a family in the country that had
turkey yesterday that does not
have the remains today if that
family is thrifty.: Soup and the
pickings the next day are mighty
inviting, and we do not like the
idea of cultivating a tendency to
throw the unused remnants away.
We need to be economical, and
we need at the j same time to get
the good out of the turkey and
turkey soup is nearly as good as
the turkey itself.
However, we have- started on
another year and It looks like
we were going to have a" mighty
good time sunshine . and rain in
abundance has made the fruit pros
pects unsurpassed. Oregon is pre
pared to go on a boom. ! Before
another Thanksgiving a linen mill
will be running in Salem. We
have reason to believe there will
be a beet sugar factory here by
that time also, and with our other
progress it Is going to be a great
year for Salem and a great year
for Oregon. Then during the next
year we have the legislature to
ook forward to. It means j a
"warding house boom for all of
these men to come here. ' They
lave to eat and none of them use
heir credit.
So, take it all together, it lookr
iretty good for Salem, pretty good
"or Oregon, pretty good for the
Jnited' States, and we are happy
o say better for the world than it
ias for some years. . . ' ;
HAS IT FAILED?
The recent World war war
rought on by the assassination of
in Austrian duk9, a trivial affair,
vhich shows how eagerly a pre
text was wanted. England, how
aver, has just given an exhibition
that jars the league of nations,
and the friends of the league will
be mighty sorry to see that Eng
'and is the nation that does the
offending. ; : . !.
There was assassination in both
cases. England will probably get
away with it because there is no
great power back of her to support
Egypt. That country must get
down on its knees, pay its indem
nities and be humiliated in every
way it is asked to. i '
A great war resulted from the
assassination of the Austrian arch
duke. Out of this war came the
league of nations, which many
people haye hoped would be the
instrument for the ending of all
war, but England, the moment It
suits her whim, or purpose, takes
direct action, leavlngthe league
of nations standing but W a limb,
powerless, and noT even consulted.
Egypt will' make its peace with
Great Britain as. best it can. for it
is too weak to fight out the issue
alone, and the penalty of rejection
of the British demands would be
British re-occupation ot Egypt and
reversion of the Egyptian govern
ment to the dependent status that
had long existed ; prior to the
World war.
And, meanwhile, what about the
league of nations and article II
of the covenant? "
Article XI. Any war or ,
threat of war, whether im
mediately affecting any of the
members of the league or not,
is hereby declared a matter
of concern to 1 the whole
league, and the league shall
take any action that may be
deemed wise and effectual to
safeguard the peace : of na-
tions. In case any such,
emergency should arise, the t
Secretary general shall, on the :
request of any member of the .
league, forthwith summon a :
meeting of the, council.
Sir Eric Drummond of Great
Britain is secretary general of the
league., j
INTERNATIONAL GATEWAY
-The Panama canal has more
than vindicated itself, and it be
comes increasingly . important as
the business interests of the coun
try grow. James J. Hill, the em
pire builder, wasf one of the first
who saw the uses of the canai.
- We have before us the Panama
Canal Record of October 29 which
shows the destination of all the
tonnage .passing through in Sep
tember last.' Mora than half the
total-tonnage passing through the'
canal that month was coast to
coast traffic, ships bearing! car
goes from the Atlantic to the .Pa
cific ports and vice Versa. " '
, The total Pacific-bound tonnage
in September was 990,197 tons.
Of that total, 687,710 tons origin
ated, on the east coast of the!
United States. Nearly one-half of
the, westbound tonnage passing
through the canal In September
was for the west coast of the
United States 478.321 tons. If
to that is added 82,934 tons for
the west coast of Canada, it is
seen that much more than half
of the west-bound , tonnage came
to California, Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia.
The total eastbound movement
through the canal In September
was 986,076 tons. Of that con
siderably more than half, namely
570,318 tons went from the west
coast of the United States, and
95,316 tons went from the west
coast to Canada.
This large business indicates
that the canal serves a real pur
pose, but despite all the noise it
has no bearing on the rivers and
harbors appropriations which it Is
thought to vindicate. The canal
is one thing; dumping money Into
the inland rivers and harbors is
quite another thing.
FQREST CONSERVATION"
It is a fact that we took our
conservation ideas too far a few
years ago. It is als6lamentably
true that the reaction swung too
far the other way. What is needed
is to have the public feel a re
sponsibility. Forest fires are the
result1 of carelessness, but the
thing we wish to mention now is
the planting of trees, reforesta
tion. The trees all over the north
west are going to be cut down,
are being cut down very fast, and
here must be some plan devised
to start new trees growing. Na
ture's : reforestation is slow and
unsatisfactory. The work to be
done right must be done by men.
- The man who satisfies his con
science when challenged as to his
conservation work by, replying, "I
ave shot woodpeckers" does not
now apparently that woodpeckers
only go after worms In rotten
rees. Our consciences are entirely
oo easily satisfied when it comes
o the destruction of our forests
We need to quicken them and to
appreciate the responsibility each
ndividual has in preserving the
forests and placing- trees.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
There is a good deal of agi
ation now and the hot-heads are
nsisting on reading the progres-
dves out of the republican party
It is true some of our most con
spicuous leaders were absent with
out leave. Under military rules
they might be cashiered and dis
missed , from the services of the
party, but this it not a military
country. This Is a country of
moral suasion and the course of
wisdom is to conciliate and
bring these ' recalcitrant voters
back. It is estimated that two
million of the votes received by
La Follette were republican votes.
To drive him and his followers
out of the party would sound the
doom of the republican party. The
democratic party has always a
solid south to depend upon, and
if we drive two million voters to
the democratic party in ordinary
years 'they can' win. Ths is a
time for republicans to hold their
heads and count the cost of read
ing any man out of the party who
does not voluntarily go.
NEVER A TERRITORY
A subscriber called The States
man by phone and asked us if
California , had ever been a terri
tory. The question was referred
to the state librarian, and accord
ing to the best records in that
office It was not. The United
States " came into possessicn of
California on August 15, 1846,
and they had a military form of
government, although it was ir
regular. .
In 1849 a convention was held
to decide, whether to ask for ter
ritorial or state government. The
latter won and application was
made for admission to the union.
Congress adjourned, however,
without taking action, and it was
not until Sept. 9, 1850, that Cali
fornia was admitted to the union.
There does hot seem to be any
record of the territorial form of
government having been put into
operation at any time.
There is Just one way to cut
government costs and that Is to
lessen the number of offices, les
sen the number of employes and
insist on full hours for those who
do work; cut off graft, like the
rivers and harbors bills, and ad
dress ourselves generally to econ
omy. In state affairs the only
way to reduce taxes is to spend
less. It is not enough to get a
dollar's worth of service for a dol
lar's worth of expenditure. It Is
easy to have too much service, and
that is what we have been getting
In Oregon and. the United States,
both.' We .want just a little less
gervice which would. mean a little
ie33 taxation.
( President Coolidse deprecates
the use of Christmas trees. lie
Is wrong in this. Christmas trees
should be grown as a business.
There was a time when there was
the same complaint made against
baby beef, but it, died down be
cause It was unreasonable. The
Christmas tree opposition $s un
reasonable. In the first place a
cedar can function no better than
to bring Christmas cheer to a
home. In the next place the trees
can be easily planted for that pur
pose and not allowed to grow over
four or five years old. llt'is a
sentimentality that is not justified
by. the . fact that causes its oppo
sition. ; ,. :
They are good advertisers
these show people. In Kansas City
where the income publication list
is being investigated, an actress
brought the action on getting the
publicity.
MY MARRIAGE
PROBLEMS
AdeJe Garrison' New Thane of
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
Copyright 1921, by Newspaper
Feature Service. Inc.
CHAPTER 320
THE DECISION ALLEN DRAKE
FORCED LILLIAN TO MAKE
With fingers! deft and speedy,
Lillian helped me prepare the
sandwiches for which Allen Drake
had asked. , Then I poured the
coffee intended for Smith into a
vacuum bottle and put it and the
sandwiches, wrapped, in' a napkin,
on a tray. " -
"There," I said In a tone which
I am afraid registered distaste for
my task. L
'I know," Lillian said sympa
thetically. "It is a pill to prepare
food and drink for that beast out
there. You'd much rather brew
him some nice poison like that
with Which he tried to kill you.
But it's in a good cause, my dear,
and you've done it beautifully.
Now for this coffee tray. Coffee
pot- hot water pot cream su
ar cups and saucers spoons.
There that's correct. I'll take
it. Better bring the other to the
library, too. Allen will come back
there for it.v' .
Characteristically, she had tak
en the heavier tray, and had
whisked into the hall before I
could protest. I : followed her
swiftly and found Dr. Pettit coax
ing the library fire to life, while
Tom Chester, in an armchair
drawing up close to the blaze, was
making a manful effort to sit up
right, though, he was shivering
violently. '
"Cortee, now. Doctor?" Lillian
was asking as I came into '.the
room, and set Smith's tray on a
stand in the corner ready for Al
len Drake's demand. The physi
cian nodded a curt assent, and
Lillian gave me a silent SOS above
his shoulders. I crossed the room
to her, ,and bent to her perturbed
whisper.
"How many lumps for young
Chester?" I've clean forgotten."
"Three," I whispered back with
a sudden i remembrance of the
pleasure young Chester had taken
in the coffee I invariably served
when he had been a guest at our
home. Without a home, and still
mourning the loss of his mother,
he had been pathetically grateful
for our hospitality.
"Thank you." She dropped
them in with a practiced hand.
added cream judiciously and hand
ed me the cup.
"Make him drink it," she added.
and I obediently crossed the room
to Tom 'Chester's side.
A Smiling Rebu ke. ,
"Here is your coffee, Mr. Ches
ter," I said, and he looked up with
a pitiful attempt at a smile.
Thank you.", he . answered
gratefully, stretching a shaking
hand for the cup. I put it into
his bands, but kept my own upon
it, and it was lucky I did so, for
otherwise it would have crashed
to the floor.
'Let me steady it for you," I
said in matter-of-fact tones, as
he flushed painfully. "Here!" j
I slipped one hand behind bis
head, for I have often fed Mother j
Graham, when she has been very
weak, and with the other held the
cup to his lips almost drained of
color. He drank gratefully, as a I
thirsty child might do, but had not
finished when Allen Drake came
back Into the room.
I saw him halt perceptibly In
the doorway, then he came for
ward with a sneering little smile
upon his Hps. ! , ;
What a touching tableau!" he
To clean
your bowels
w I t b o u t
cramping
or overacting,
take "Cascar
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icbe, dizzi
ness, bilious-
i oeis. eases.
Bdigestion, sour upset stomach
tnd all such distress - gone by
morning. . Nicest laxative and
cathartic on earth for grown-ups
and' children. 10c, 25c and SOc
boxes any drugstore. Adv.
"Cascarets" 10c j!
if Dizzy, Bilious,
Constipated I
said airily. "Mrs. Underwood, you
ought to paint It. Call' it "First
Aid to the Injured." or something
like that. Are the things x ready
for Smith?"
"Right here." Lillian replied,
indicating the smaller tray. In
her voice was a waspish accent.
Which told me that she was in
censed at Mr. Drake's discourt
esy. "I thought you were going
to send one of the men for this."
Her tone was a rebuke. It said
plainly, "What did you leave
Smith for anyway?" That Mr,
Drake understood it, I saw by the
resentful flnsh in his eyes, though
his voice was cooly nonchalant
"There's one of them in the
hall. The other is with the chief.
guarding our friend."
He took the tray from Lillian's
hand, stepped Into the hall 'and
was back again In an instant.
"He Must Go."
" "I must be certain of the whole
plan before I leave Smith alone
to work out his escape," he said,
"Who is going to take this young
man's place and make sure that
his part of the trailing of Smith Is
done properly?"
"No one." Tom Chester's voice
rang out. all his dislike of Allen
Drake strengthening his tones.
"I am going myself as soon as the
doctor dopes me up a bit.".
,Mr. Drake looked at him crit
ically.
"But this is nonsense." he said.
He cannot do anything', in his
condition. He'll be sure to make
a botch of It. I cannot permit"
changed his wording quickly. "I
must strongly advise against it."
Tom Chester shot an appealing
glance at Lillian. She smiled re
assuringly at him. -
"Thank you for your solicitude
Allen," Lillian cooed maddening
ly, "but there is no other way. He
must go."
(To Be Continued)
BITS FOR BREAKFAST I
. . .
'' Are you etill thankful?
Or do you feel' like the man In
the cold gray morning of the day
after? -
m
Hector Adams, the florist, con
cerning whom Ella McMunn wrote
yesterday Is the man who' grew
all the wonderful flowers at the
state fair grounds. Is there any
one in this part of Oiegon who
did not admire them?
: V m
And talking of Mi3s McMunn.
she will not thank tl.e Bit3 ior
Breakfast, man 'Cor telling this
secret about her, which she has
kept all her life, and, would still
keep: Her mother's great grand
mother was a Hanks, of th fam
ily ot Nancy Hanks, who was the
mother of Abraham Lincoln. So
Ella - McMunn is a relative of
Abraham Lincoln; how distant she
has not taken the trouble to find
out, or if she has she is not tell
ing it.
P.; V
' There Is a committee of the
baiem Chamber of Commerce to
eee to the selling Of the balance
FUTURE DATES
November 2T, Thursday ThsnksgiTinc
day.
- November 29, Saturday American War
Mothers' bazaar. 8P city ticket office.
December 1. anliv f'k;i.i w-.ir...
peaker. Col. Coulter, Methodist church.
icctmupr x ana t. Annual Cherrian
Show, Grand theater.
December l, Monday Election of of
ficers. Capital Post No., 9. American Le
g-ion. .
December 2. Tuesday Annual election
of officers. Salem Cherrians.
December 3, Wednesday Annual elec
tion, board of directors, YMCA.
February 7. Saturday Debate, Willam
ette unirersity vs. University of West Vir
Sipia.. mm
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cially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages.
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of
Proven directions oi each rag- Physicians everywhere recommend it.
of the stock in the Miles spinning
mill. There is to be no delay. So
If you want to get in on this in
vestment. Dromisinsr to be -the best
investment you ever made for both
yourself and your city and stale
and;' country, you would better
speak up at once.: If you do not,
you are likely to be too late.
: . :
The . idea of having one way
traffic in the rear of . the Salem
postpfflce is taking, right off the
reel Also the idea of having
policemen on the busiest down
town cornera at the rush hours.
Graduate at Silverton
Will Take Speciar Work
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Thanksgiving
We wish to express our apprecia
tion at this opportune time for the
patronage and loyalty of our many
friends.
To you we extend the heartiest of
Thanksgiving greetings.
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National Bank
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Paregoric, Teething Drops
and Soothincr Svruos. esnp-
Dora Henriksen, a graduate of the
Silverton high school with the
class Of last Jurfe,, has entered the
Silverton high school again and
will do post-graduate work in the
commercial department. Miss Hen
riksen entered the Lutheran Jun
ior college at Parkland, Wash.,
last fall but was taken ill and
forced to return to her home. Ill
ness in the Henriksen family pre
vented her from again returning:
to school in time to make up lest
work.
-Using sand to disperse clouds
isn't new. The go-getters have
been doing that for centuries.
Men don't work so hard these
days. It took six of them to rob
Just one store in nttsburg.
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