New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Turkey 68 Cents a Pound,
but New York Prepares
for B0untiful Feasts; Elk.
sercises i'm the Churches
Dinners for Service Men
Crews of Mine Sweepers to
Get First Holiday Dinner
Here in Three Years

That Pilgrim forebear Of Father
Knickerbocker who shouldered his
musket and took a hike through the
snow-carpeted woods surrounding Plym-
outh in search Of an unsuspecting
wild turkey probably never would have
established the Thanksgiving tradition
had he been faced with the necessity
of : handing over sixty-eight cents q
pound for the piece de resistance of
his feast. The thrifty soul would have
seen nothing to be thankful for.
But 800 years bring changes in ones
point of view, as we'll as in the price
of cranberries, and New York is ali set
10 be thankful tomorrow for all the
good things that have fallen into her
zap, and to forget the others-for a
day. Tradesmen may waylay you and
deplete your pocketbook, but no red
Indian turks along the path to scalp
you.
New York will put on its best fall
togs tomorrow and 60 to church in
the morning to give thanks to the
Girer of all things. The weather man
says it will be colder, SO appetites
should be sharply whetted for the gas
tronomic ceremony of the afternoon.
The evening will present variety Of
entertainment.
Dinners for Service Men
The day will take on special sig
nifcance in some millions Of American
homes of ex-service men. Last Thanks
giving saw the armistice but two weeks
in effect, and the holiday spirit of a
lot of fathers and mothers was tenn
uered somewhat by the thought that this
typical]y American day must be lone
some one for an American boy to spend
in France.
The men still in service. whose
homes are too far away to permit the
Trip, and the wounded in army hos
pitals in New York and vicinity will
,nunity Service, the National League
for Woman's Service, the Stage Wo-
mems War Relief and other welfare
agencies have arranged to see to it that
there is plenty of turkey and pumpkin
Pie for all of them. The Navy Club
will give $500 men of the mir s-sweep-
ipg fleet their first Thanksgiving din
1ler at home in three years.
Neither will the city forget its poor.
thousands OF families Will receive we'll
Stocked baskets of food and other ne
dssities from the Salvation Army.
Most of the Protestant chVrches of
the city will either hold services of
their own tomorrow or join with other
Congregations in union services.
Three Services at Cathedral
sThere will be three services at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, at
8 and II a. M, and at p. m. The
Very Rev. Howard c. Robbins, Dean
of the Cathedral, will preach at the
II o'clock service
An unusual union service will take
place at Manhattan Congregational
Church, Broadway and Seventy-sixth
Street, at IL a. m, when the congre-
cation of that church and of the New
Synagogue will join in worship. Rabbi
Ephraim Frisch and the Rev. Charles
Arthur Hawley will conduct the ser
vice.
Congregation B'nal Jerushun will
hold services at it's synagogue, Eighty
eighth Street, near Broadway, at 1920
a, M, Abram l. Elkus, recently named
Judge of the Court of Appeals and
former United States Ambassador to
Turkey, will speak on "The Problem of
the Near East" Professor Vladimir
Uubinsky will contribute to the music