The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

Thanksgiving dinner with it's Indian guests. Young pie all love the sweet story of Priscilla the Puritan mai den. Men and women turning moment in busy lives to glance backward feel deep satisfaction in the know of the bravery of their fathers who laid the founda tons of the nation and who left them heritage of sur dy courage and democratic ideals
 The traditions country grow old. They have perennial youth. Stories and traditions become bodied in the epochs of nations life and literature which the latter generations find sustenanee. The tales of the brave of country of their sacrifices, and noble courage loyalty strength, to be part of the nations thought and it's life. They form ideals toward which the character of the community grows develops The story of Thanksgiving is sim pie from many viewpoints; but it is rich in sub stance that its inspiration is felt to-day all over the Unit States.
 In England the Puritans were unhappy They separat- ed from the Church of England and held services in pr vate houses in the open air These called Sep aratists They arrested lawbreakers and fined or Imprisoned About the time the Jamestown colony planted, band of. these Separatists went to Ley den, in Holland, where they could enjoy freedom of worship. They stayed there 12 years.
 These Pilgrims mainly farmers, had difficulty living the Dutch cities gardens children obliged to attend Dutch schools and fast losing the of the English tongue. The of the Pilgrims the Dutch army and navy and the young people began to intermary The Pilgrims feared that they stayed in Holland longer their families would become Dutch They decided that they would like to go to America They sent two men to get permission of the London company settle it's land. The glad to get them for colonists and them charter of privileges
 The race spirit had cried against it's by absorp ton The sturdy English desired to keep intact their language and their racial characteristics and worship God as they deemed right.
 It was in December that they made landing on the coast Of Massachusetts.
 There with hoary hair
 Amidst that pilgrim band
 Why had they to wither there,
 Away from their childhoods land?
 There womans fearless eye
 Lit by her deep loves truth
 There manhood's brow serenely hgh
 And the fiery heart of youth.
 What sought they thus afar?
 Bright jewels of the mine?
 The wealth of seas, the spells of war?-
 They sought faiths pure shrine!
 Ay call it holy ground
 The soil where first they trod,
 They left unstan'd what there they found
 Freedom to worship God.
 was terrible winter they lived through the climate away the comforts of civilization times came The fruitful the little colony with stores that would keep them through the coming winter The barbarous foes of the had not molesed them although they lived there tiny colony shut in from friends by the the the forest primeval stretching the north, south of them. They thank their blessings eet aside day in which to express their gratitude to the Good All Father. They rich in worldly goods but their hearts reached out to all humanity and that feast day they invited 10 their table Massaso Indian chief and 40 of his braves great undertaking for that small group yet they from their hearts in the ulness of their gratitude This and wholesome spirit has become part of the national celebration Thanksgiving is day of festivity of family reunion of feasting of glad 
 An atmosphere of satisfaction pervades it. The ana lycal mind make comparisons of to-day yes terday, and speculate the morrow. That mind hcw the catastophes that fell the nation have