Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1910-11-23
Around Town

We now come to our first Thanks
giving editorial Here is where the
country editor usually swings his most
fluent pen With the style OF the
Presidential proclamation, he launches
into reverend thanks for al creation,
barring ,oi course, the one back with
his subscription. With the travail OF
a Methodist prayer he starts over the
sea and thanks Almighty God for His
mercy in preventing war and blood
she'd among the nations OF the earth,
for the Bibles distributed among the
heather (never mentioning the accu-
mulated dust OH his OWN he gives
thanks for the crops raised in his own
county. the overlooking granaries OF
the world and generously admits old
Bill Jones to the synagogue. Then
piously quotes a bit OF Scripture he
learned when a boy, he sends her of
to press | shall merely content my
self to say expect to eat my share
OF turkey and give thanks that the
POST is no worse than it is, and
here's. my verse. Waste al the ink
you please, you cant beat this -
And when We reap the harvest of
your land, thou shalt not wholly reap
the corners OF thy field neither shalt
thou gather the gleanings OF the har-
vest. And thou shalt not gather every
grape o. thy vineyard: thou shalt leave
them for the poor and the stranger"
To you who oppose the POST, the
old man gave this as our guide
We shall follow the rules We shall
play hard-follow close our interior
~
we mean to make a gain and though
we may never make a touch down, we
shall have the satisfaction Of playing
fair game and hard You have won
the toss up. Now kick off and play
ball--and play hard for our champion
ship lies in this game.
''What you think, sir, is no criterion
for mel may think what you think
then we agree, but only what |
think, sir, is criterion for me"
i. Some one said the other day that
some Of the Council deserve to be in
the work house, That is trite even if
it is true Very like that several OF
the ex CounciImen and Other citizens
too, il they got their deserts. | would
be, | am sure. | don't want to get
what ! deserve, no. nor any one else,
for that matter Newark is on the
boom and it would make business too
dull and then the work house can &C
conmodate only SO many.
Wandering through the fields OF
art and literature as studied by some
oil Our younger folk, the old man
queer, know, but jadging from books
loaned at the library this month, here's
the way | see it:-With smell OF la
vendcr and Old Lace" we catch a
sound of The Masters Violin play
ed ~ Sherlock Holmes Strolling
along, lost in the ''Silver Horde, with
''Richard Carver' and his Hound OF
the Ras'lervilles" we enter the Trail
al the Lonesome Pine" Catching "A
Breath of the Gods we smile at The
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" "
jealous of the Man in the Lower
Ten" making love to the Goose Girl
a maiden who has already become en-
gagged to the Man Who Marries."
But il is master hummer" us, we
won't tell, so jump tip with the Man
on the Box" THE Avenger', we ride
out to 1.-THE Crossways" to see "The
White Sister" With her we wander
over to the palace of the King" oc-
cupied by "The Spoilers Listening
to the strains OF My Rosary BY
'.Relccca of Sunnybrook Farm
slowly open my eyes and see ths
Wiring on the Walf' and realize tina
we are nearing the Firing Line ant
in Truth Dexter, old man we are
getting durn near the Danger Mark.
Not bit of harm in the world, bu
what dream that was! | poke thu
fire and pick me up a book worth whll'
and read of the days OF Aud Lanf
Syne
| was reading the other day abou
the sacking of Rome by the Barbar
iaus. The soldiers were tearing
through those magnificent palaces am
public buildings, destroying works o