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A Patriotic Thanksgiving
Our unique American Thanksgiving day is a
patriotic holiday second only to the Fourth of
July. But it is not an occasion for spread-eagle
oratory and flag-waving; rather it is a day set
aside for humble stock-taking of our blessings
with due consideration from whence cometh our
good fortune. The originators and there were
several of this tradition sought to arouse; grati
tude, not just for 'material abundance, but for
America and what it stands for, for the hope of
liberty it held out to all the -world. j j
John Adams in 1765 expressed this thought
when he. said, "1 always consider the settlement
of America with reverence and wonder, !s; the
opening of the grand scheme and design in Pro
evidence for the illumination and emancipation
of the slavish part of mankind all over ; the
arth." :
.'President Washington proclaimed Thursday,
Nov. 20, 1789, as a special day for Americans
to give thanks for having at last
and firmer union. Sarah Hale, editor of uodey s
Lady's Book who merits credit for Lincolnf s pro
clamation of the first national Thanksgiving day
- during the civil war, wrote in 1859, "Wjiuld it
not be a renewed pledge of love and loyalty to
the Constitution of the United States if every
aiate would join in Union Thanksgiving pn the
24th of November?" 1
; Thanksgiving day is thus closely associated
with the growth of patriotism in America a
phenomenon Merle Eugene Curti examines in
his excellent objective study. The Roots of
American Tvivaltv" Columbia Press. 19481. Pul- 1
l(ur nr-iro-winnpr Curti. whose
daughter of the American revolution and whose
paternal ancestry is Swiss, is an eminent histo
rian who believed a knowledge of the sources
and nature of American patriotism may be an
id to more enlightened citizenship. i
; And on this Thanksgiving day when Amer
icans have more to be thankful for thin any
other nation while still such modern expres
sions of insecurity as the loyalty oath plague us
it may be appropriate to consider what pat
riotism means. . V '
; .The seeds of American patriotism, generated
in the old countries of Europe, were the 'colon
lsts' faith and hopes of a new country where life
promised some day to be better, Curti says. The
Puritans were firmly convinced that the hand
of God had guided this country from the start.
A fundamental dogma in early America and
today was that this country was destined to be
great, wealthy, powerful nation, light of liber
ty and Elysium of the common man. j
But patriotism was first provincial and loyal
ty to the embryo nation grew slowly. General
Washington wrote in 1778, "I know the Idea of
Patriotism exists, and I know it has done much
In the present Contest ..." but he often de
plored the weakness of national sentiment. Jef
ferson and Paine campaigned vehemently i for
loyalty to the collective whole. jj
' The Constitution, Curti points out, was a nec
essary instrument in the process by which Amer
icans did become a nation which they could love
and to which they could be loyal. In due time
It became an emotionally charged symbol of
national unity. 1
' There were other symbols and other factors.
Devotion to native soil, the vastness and beauty
''Of our geography, were powerful forces. Heroes,
from the spiritual titans of early New England
to later generals and presidents were an essen
tial element. The melting-pot idea a concept
ef a new and superior race of people made up
U.S. Seeks 1910 Europe Trade Status
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23
I Since Secretary of State Dean
Acheson and ECA Chief Paul
Hoffman re-,
turned from
their respective,
, trips to Eur
ooe. it has be-
come lncreas- '
,'lngly clear that
I icy in Europe
! revolves about
lone magi
; word. Th
'word is finte-
! to Inquire what this word really
' means to Acheson, Hoffman and
' th other American policy-makers.
A groper through the fog
which more ana
more t obscures
American for
eign policy soon
discovers - that
"integration is
the wrong
word. Tq inte
grate, accord
ing to thdic
tionary, means
"to unite or be
come united so
Menart Akop j morc ceu
or perfect whole," which would
suggest that this, country is try
ing to create a United States
of fXtrope overnight.
In fact, what Acheson and
'Hoffman are trying to promote
is nothing of the sort. The real
objective, as one of the authors
of the Integration project put it,
is "to get back to H10 by 1932."
What the United States wants is
Europe whose internal trad
Ung relationships are as close as
possible to those which existed
rbefore the first World War.
i In brief, it Is now the major
aim of American policy in Eur
ope to eliminate currency con
trols and export and Import re
strictions. Ultimately what is
wanted is a real economic union,
with tariffs eliminated and a
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of the best elements of the Old World j took
hold. ; M
The eagle, borrowed from the Romans, be
came a symbol, although Ben Franklin (with a
wink, no doubt) argued that "in truth, the Tur
key is, in comparison, a much more respectable
bird, and withal a true original native of Amer-
ica." Old Glory, The Star-Spangled Banner, the
Liberty Bell and Un'cle Sam won the affections
arid loyalty of the people gradually. I
Noah Webster promoted American English;
Theodore Roosevelt fostered theidea of organic
nationalism; later years brought conflicting loy
alties: anarchists like Emma Goldman, human
itarians like, John Dewey, individualists like
Thorstein Veblen, America Fijsters, the Ku
Klux Klan, the Know-Nothing and the One
Worlders. j j -
That, through the years and through the test
ings,: American patriotism could survive despite
and be enriched by such apparently incompat
ible concepts of loyalty is perhaps one of the
characteristics of our democracy we can be most
thankful for. On this Day of Thanksgiving, it
is well to remember tfyat, as Curti concludes his
book: j i j
1 "Conflicting conceptions of patriotism will
' continue to flourish. The older, j humanitarian,
individualistic and liberty-loving patriotism is
tenacious and it seems unlikely that it Will in
the near future be supplanted by the more in
tegral, exclusive and chauvinistic! type." But he
asks and it is a question to consider thought
fully "What comfort and assurance will there
b for those who hold that the nation can sur
vive in an interdependent world only through
the development of a wider patriotism, a loyal
ty to many kind in any and every nation?"
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Firemen's Ball
' Salem firemen are staging a
the recently renovated Crystal
have ben working hard to make this ) event a
success and the advance ticket! sale insures a
good crowd. Proceeds go to help finance the
state convention
association which
June. ,
South Dakota's legislature hai tried to put a
crimp in carpetbag farming. An out-of-state
person who leases land in the state for farming
must get a license and pay the county 2 per cent
of his gross income. It is aimed at the get-rich-quick
operators who see a chance for a cleanup
on a rising grain market. They take everything
out and put nothing back in the land and pre
viously could escape local taxes by selling' their
grain and moving equipment out right after har
vestand maybe they didn't own any equip
ment, 1
? Fraternity alumni sounded offj at the U. of O.
homecoming last week end over the university's
program which will require freshmen to live in
dormitories no moving out to fjjat houses when
pledged. Some temperate voices were heard
however and no adverse, action Iwas' taken. The
"Greeks" will have to go along with the univer
sity regulation. They'll survive even j if they
have no freshmen to do the house chores.
I It's about time for reporters to write the clos
ing sentence: "And so we leave Vice President
and Mrs. Barkley honeymooning at Sea Island,
Ga."
The Russians claim to have invented the para
chute, back in 191 1. They should guess again.
Jacques Garnerin made a successful drop from
a balloon by parachute in 1797J
central bank ihA System and a
common curreficyi created. But
all concerned agree that for the
foreseeable future; this real "in
tegration'' is ho i mare than a
dis&nt dream.! :
This apparertly rather modest
but in fact enormously difficult
project! for turning the clock
back to happier days is envisag
ed as taking folace in a series
of stages. In I the first stage,
there would be ' three separate
groups of "integrated" states
France and Italy, -Belgium, Hol
land and Luxembourg, and the
three : Scandinavian countries.
The first fivej countries would
then be Joined, to form "Frita
lux." The Scandinavians would
therr probably be brought into
Fritalux. And! fiialiy, Western
Germany would be added, to
make one i big, relatively free
trading area in Western Europe.
Britain (to the great relief
of the British leaders) is not
being pressed to become an ac
tive participant in? this Acheson
,Hoffman project. But while they
were in Eurdpe Acheson ; and
Hoffman politely but firmly
urged British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin and Chancellor of
the Exchequer j Sir Stafford
Cripps to givei the scheme "en
couragement and I support." Be
vin and Cripps rather reluctant
ly agreed. Thejchief British con
tribution is expected to be firm
military and political commit
ments jj to France, to balance
French fears Of a revived Ger
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Since this project' now clearly
has first priority. In American
foreign policy;' it ! ia deeply im
portant to ask! not only what it
is expected to accomplish but
Also what it is not expected to
accomplish. Its authors believe
that in the long rUn the very
long run integration'' will
' strengthen ( the economies of
Western Europe, and make the
continent less dependent on the
United Ststes.1 A; more immediately-
important political objec
tive is to tie the rapidly reviv
ing western uerman economy
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firmly into that i of the conti
nent, and thus prevent Germany
from turning again against the
west. w . , ;
These are highly commendable
aims. But it is Inecessary to ex
amine the otheJ side of the coin.
In Europe, two facts stand out
like large, sorej sinister thumbs.
The first is the! imminent threat
of British financial collapse,
which has by j no means been
removed by devaluation of the
Kund, and which would surely
followed by a general eco
nomic collapse jail over the con
tinent. .
proTeV. ?h.nnTfu;ohn.
scheme were whole-heartedly ac
cepted and put into operation
immediately, nd appreciable eco
nomic benefits would accrue for
a number of years. Thus the pro
ject will NOT 4eai With a situa
tion which threatens to knock
the underpinings right out from
under American foreign policy.
The second fact which stands
out in Europe i is that Western
Europe is still virtually defense
less in the fae of the Soviet
Union's massive rearmament ef
fort. Again, the1 integration pro
ject will NOTj affect the reel
balance of military power,
which is rapidly swinging in
favor of the Soviet Union.
In one of ichekov's minor
short stories there appears the
character of a Russian land
owner who planned vast im
provements on his i property,
while the roof of his house was
falling about jhis head. Free
trade on the continent, leading
ultimately to aj real continental
economic and political union,
would certainly be a i vast im
provement, and a thoroughly
worthy ultima tie aim of Ameri
can 'policy. But there is a per
fectly obvious danger that "in
tegration" will jbe accepted as a
magical and marvellously inex
pensive substitute tor a real pol
icy, capable of preventing the
non-communist! world from cav
ing in, like the Russian landown
er's roof. ;
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socialized medicine so we can get
free toupes and false teeth.
We have more leisure time
than any other industrial nation
which we use in driving like mad
to get some place where we have
no real business.
We are the richest nation on
earth, yet we are worried stiff
lest we have a depression.
We are the most powerful na
tion on earth, but frightened
over the Russian bogey without
and the communist infiltration
within.
Yes, Americans are dissatis
fied, nervous, intemperate: Burn
ing up their energies often in
useless projects.
So-o-o, the first they ought to
do when they go to church today
or next Sunday is to crave fore
giveness of the Almighty, fore
giveness for they- selfishness,
their avarice, their self-pride and
arrogance, their Phariseeism
And then, with proper humility
thank the Lord for all the bless
ings they as Americans enjoy.
Better English
BrlXC. Williams
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "It is very handy to
live near the city."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "abyss"?
3. Which one of these words is
mispelled? Peninsula, pinnacle,
parashute, prairie.
4. What does the word "buoy-'
ant" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with exc that means "abnormal
growth or increase"?
ANSWERS
1. It is better to say, "It is very
convenient to live near the city."
2. Pronounce a-bis, a unstressed,
ias in it, accent second syllable.
. Parachute. 4. Light-hearted.
"His cheeks are rosy, his steps
buoyant." 9. Excrescence.
GRIN AND BEAR
"One tiling to be thankful for
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The Safety
Valve ! i
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
To the editor: i i
. So now the various states are
considering enacting laws mak
ing it a most serious offense to
commit "in the hews" j crimes
against children, crimes against
which even the most primitive
savages would need no legisla
tion. The old adage of "reaping
the whirlwind" is being realized
by our "sexy" sowing of the
wind. Look on most any news
stand, or pick up one of the
numerous cheap editions of books
with sensational titles and open
it at random, and ten chances
to one you will find racy enough
material to satisfy the most lust
ful mind. We thrdw every pos
sible inducement for wrong con
duct Into the paths! of our youths
(and older "youths") and then
wonder what is happening. The
overplaying of sex on the screen
certainly is not without; effect,
either. But, cheer jup: When our
gun-toting kids exchange the toy
pistol for real ones, there should
be even more excitement than
now. j . ; 1
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379 N. Cottage
Salem, Ore.
COL. CHURCH SCOLDS
PLAN FOE CAPITOL GROUP
To The Editor: j
The starry-eyed, planners
seem to have forgotten that they
are supposed to be planning! a
state capitol; not a park. The
capitol should be the state's
business headquarters not
merely something j to be gazed
at from afar. It should be acces
sible and compact for the bene
fit of those who have business
there and have to, pay for it in
taxes, but there is no chance tor
this now as the self-declared ex
perts have already scattered it
all over 40 acres so that anyone
having business in more than
one state department will have
to take a day off, and walk a
mile or two hither and yon,
hunting for the place he wants.
There is already ja closed area
six blocks long running east and
west, and the present plan is to
make another of the same size
running north and south. With
these and the proposed one-way
street system it will be a tor
tuous feat to get from one side
IT
By Lichty
yen never have to Stand in Bne
mevie.
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alc re&r, evrt suspecr ) j
fHffifW cor
of town to the other in any di
rection. Of course the new plan
to split Summer street into two
narrow streets with a mall be
tween them is hopefully design-
ed to prevent people west of
Summer street from getting to
the big new retail center on
Capitol between Center and
Union. I don't believe it will
work.
Unaesthetic people have sug
gested consideration of parking
needs, but this seems to crassly!
business-like for the planners,!
who envision only far-flung
vistas with marble sepulchers a
furlong apart on each side. The
pracUcal thing is to pave those
"malls" and use them for park
ing, which would make it un
necessary for the state board of
control to buy several high-!
priced blocks somewhere over
yonder for that purpose, as is
now proposed. j
A. M. CHURCH !
Hollywood
on Parade
t- By Gene Handsaker
HOLLYWOOD Bing Crosby's
next, "Top o the Morning," is a
lightly tripping fantasy until it
stumbles over its whimsy and
gets serious. Crosby fans who've
been waiting for a really corking
Crosby movie will have to wait
a while longer.
Bing plays an American insurance-company
investigator who
goes to Ireland to recover the sto
len Blarney Stone. Posing as an
oil painter near Blarney Castle,
he's presently locked up as a
suspect himself. The incompetent
local cop, Barry Fitzgerald, and
his assistant, Hume Cronyn, re
lease Bing because he sings pret
tily and is Irish, too.
Still sleuthing about, Bing falls
in love with Barry's beautiful
daughter, Anna Blyth. She falls
for Bing because he fulfills a lo
cal soothsayer's predictions re
garding Ann's lover: The lining
of his coat is green. His voice
comes from strange places (a dic
tating machine), etc.
But the Blarney Stone's ab
sence from the ledge where tour
ists kiss it is visiting Strang mis
fortunes upon the countryside.
Finally, in some hard-to-follow
runnings about a dark forest, the
thief is exposed. He seems more
pitiable than despicable.
The Groaner's singing is. as us.
ual, the best thing about his pic
ture though his material is rou
tine. Next is the sensitive beauty
of Miss Blyth, whose toothy smile
is one of the prettiest on the
screen. Fitzgerald nabs some
scenes and sympathetic laughs as
the bungling cop. A village dance
is lively. Unfortunately, that's
more than you can say for the
last part of the scrips. And some
of the brogue is unintelligible. :
"Slattery's Hurricane" is a
pretty exciting movie about navy
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Thanksgiving
special onniin
Baked Chlclcen
Roost Duck
Roost Turkey
Friod Chicken
Fried Rabbit
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DINNER
OVER
Trinuninas with very order
12 other items to pick from.
Lou & Shorty
Proof of Bird 'Literary
Is in Eating,
Not Carving
By Deary MeLemere
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Nov.
23 This is written for men
who dont know how to carve a
turkey but who
will have to
make a stab at
It on this
Thanksgiving
day.
The message
comes from the
heart because it
is written by a
man whose car
ving ability is
limited to carv
ing his name or
initials on pub
lic monuments.
A man who can't stand at the
end of a table and slice a turkey
after the approved fashion is
considered a pariah by society.
He is ranked right along with
railroad station "mashers" and
blackguards who cheat at par
ches! '
Why society takes this attitude
has long baffled roe, and many
is the hour I have spent locked
in my study trying to figure out
the reason for it- It cant be be
cause turkey carving is a sign
of success for you can search
"Who's Who" or "Burke's Peer
age" without finding the name of
a man who is known simply as
a great carver. Carvers in stone
and wood, yes, but that's a dif
ferent thing. The world would
never have heard of Michelan
gelo if the Italian had confined
his carving to turkeys or ducks
and never dabbled in marble.
Neither can it be because
carving a turkey is a sign of a
complete gentleman. I doubt if
there is anyone reading this who
couldn't name a fine carver who
couldn't be trusted with a coun
terfeit bilL Some of the most
thorough-going rascals of my
acquaintance' can separate the
wings from the withers of a tur
key with consummate ease, and
slice off portions so thin they
could be stand-ins for tissue
paper.
But there is no denying that
the world in general feels non
carvers are failures in life. Every
time I am forced to try to carve
a fowl of any kind in the pres
ence of my mother she looks as
grief-stricken as if she had just
received word that the governor
had refused a reprieve and that
I was off for the gallows.
I wish I had a penny for every
time she has told me that I was
the only male member of the
family on either side who wasn't
a beautiful carver. She imply
will not appreciate the fact that
I have saved upwards of 543
precious hours by not knowing
the proper stance and swing
when confronted by roasted birds
from which the feathers have
been removed.
I urge all men who can't carve
not to be ashamed of it. So many
are, you know. They have let
the world get them down. What
they should do is look down on
men who have wasted so much
time and energy perfecting a
fairly useless art
A great carver is no more
necessary to the world than a
great unicyclist, say, or a man
who can blow 103 smoke rings
with one puff of a cigar. All
right to have around, to be sure,
but not really vital.
The proof of the turkey is in
the eating, not the carving.
(Distributed by
McNaught Syndicate. lac.)
fliers who hunt down hurricanes
at sea so Florida coastal residents
can be forewarned. Richard Wid
mark, a nice guy in "Down to the
Sea in Ships," is a heel again. He
has his own private hurricane of
emotion with Linda Darnell as
the storm center. Unfortunately,
she is married to a navy hurri
cane hunter, John Russell.
Patiently standing by is Ver
onica Lake, who loves Widmark
though he treats ber meanly. I'd
like to pick a quarrel with the
scripters in Miss Lake's case. The
story, at one point, lands her in
the hospital. You wonder why.
Turns out she's a dope addict.
though the studio didn't want to
say so because "the navy lent a
lot of support in making the pic
ture." So you're given a flash of
an unintelligible medical-diagnosis
card and left guessing.
There's a lot of hair-raising
flying through storms, though
and enough emotional conflict to
keep you interested.
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JOHN i RUSKIN: THE ! POR
TRAIT OF A PROPIOrrfby:
Peter Quennell (Viking; $4-75) '
Ruskin was a genius. We Aal-;
Ixe it when we read som4 : of
his books about art, and it has
been proclaimed eagerly by nutty
competent critics. Anyway! he
said so himself. And the ques
tion about geniuses which arous
es universal interest is, What
have they got that we haven't?1
From ) the outside looking in,
from the seat in the audience
looking j up, from the sidewalk
watching the parade, we; regard ;
the genius, crowned, be medalled
and deafened by cheers, as the
lucklestj man in the world. But
the price he pays, whether He Is
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Strindoerg,
Poe, Whitman, Proust or Ruikih,
Is often infinitely great, and:
what hefs got that we haterf't is i
something we wouldn't for the
world "have. f ?
In Ruskin's case, that was fiey-'
er made so clear as in this bibg- i
raphy which probes to Unc om-:
fortable I depths the writerfs dora-;
plex, baffled and thwarted ciar-:
acter. Aside from his oVerrsU-1
. mation of Pre-Raphaelites fahd;
under -estimation of Whistler paid, !
Mviaif sssa yai kiai uudlvl fevIT JjP I
tion of the artist's role, he Was a
man who, figuratively, neverf left
his parents' home, and, literally,!
never established a home of his :
own. j j M i
His father and mother: ta tight
him the facta of life but no( the
meaning. His mother accomban-i
led him to Oxford; father j and i
mother accompanied hint Hon,'
trips abroad; and whea tffie
Gray nuirried him, she found she,
had ma rried all three, and! in
deed all three went along on the
honeymoon. John Ruskiri want
ed it that way. Effie did foot,'
and years after she. had Iefthim
for Mirtais, she went to Ros La
Touche'4 mother with a warding
which opened that good wonjian's
eyes, and must open our tfiser
eyes still wider. i j I
The repeated, and shoctng,
failures in his personal life Were
the reverse of the character
which could write so evocatively
of some of this world's dearest
treasures. Quoting Jowettj : as
charging that Ruskin j "never
rubbed his mind against others,:
Quennell finds in "the absence
of this sjalutary friction" Sthe
plana tion for "the majority! of
Ruskin's! Intellectual shortcom
ings, and not a few of his tnis-!
fortunes! in the sphere of
lova
and friendship.
Salvation Army
leutenant to; I j
Move to Seattle
Lt- Barbara Somervell, statJfched
with the Salem Salvation! Army
for the past year, has received
orders to report to Seattli a; an
assistant in SA headquarters there,
it was announced Wednesday f
CapL R. B. Lesher, Salem ad
jutant, said no replacement has
been assigned. Miss Somervell Will
deliver farewell message Su iday
to the junior group at 6 p.m. and
to the adult at 7:30 pjn.
Younji GOP Cihl
Meeting Friday
A special meeting of Mlrlon
County Young Republican club to
select delegates and consider poli
cies for the coming state conven
tion wllli be at 7:30 p.m. Friday
In the courthouse. President jSara
Hall announced Wednesday. 1;
The state , conclave will ;bel De
cember 9 to 11 at West Lfnfli
Christian Scientist
Service Today!
A special Thanksgiving : setvic
will be held by the First ChUrch
of Christ,j Scientist, in the church
at Liberty and Chemeketa stitets
at 11 a.m. today. j
A nursery for children lis pro
vided during service. The service
is public. I iif, f
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Estate Said
Bids are now being re-;
ceived for real property M
1347 Fir st. Phono 34134
for eMails. l '
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