The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
FED AND FETED
Churches and Welfare Or
CARNATIONS Unite in Al
leviating Distress.
CHILDREN MAKE MERRY
Prisons, Hospitals and Other
Institutions Are Scenes
of Festivities.

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day,
and even those veterans of many years
who keep themselves in the limelight
by insisting that nothing these days is
in the same class with similar happen
ings In past generations. had to admit
that despite the Eighteenth Amend
ment the Irish rebellion, Bob Brindell,
crime waves, grand juries. Armenia and
the price of coal, it was pretty much
the same kind OF Thanksgiving Day
as America always has had. and that
Americans had at least as much to be
thankful for as they ever had.
In almost all of the churches from
Trinity. at the head of Wall street, to
the beautiful little clustered house of
worship in Riverdale avenue, near the
Westchester line, folks gathered to pray
that they might be worthy of all their
blessings and to hear clergymen talk
about human brotherhood. Harsh dis
cipline relaxed q bit In the city and
county prisons. Over on Ellis Island
1000 immigrants were fed turkey until
their appetites were stated. On Black
wells Island there was vaudeville
show for the folks confined there. B. L.
Keith was responsible for the SHOW.
The New York Community Service
and the National League for Disabled
Soldiers got together and entertained
and Toasted almost $4,000 disabled vet
Grams of the great war. The knights or
Columbus, the Red Cross. the Society of
Friends, the Salvation Army, the Y. M.
C. A., the Y. w. c. a. and other or
ganizations gathered in all who had no
place to go. And where they found
folks who couldn't come. they went to
them-in the hospitals, homes, prisons
and other refugees where the helpless, the
unfortunate and the hopeless live.
Happiness for All.
The Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children had great day or
II I'D at it's Inwood shelter, where 2OU
children are under its protection. Hun
dreds OF boys found lots to be thankful
for in the Grace Memorial Newsboys
Home. The Prison Association of New
York went about distributing filled din
ner baskets to the families Of men who
are in Jail. The Department of Public
Welfare saw to 1t that about $4,000 chill
dren in the city's institutions We're q
great deal happier by nightfall. over
In the Brooklyn Navy Yard and on Gov
ernors Island sailors and soldiers made
q particularly merry day of it.
1t was quite in keeping with the spirit
of the day that Carnegie Hall should
have been filled by the joint congrega-
tons of the Free Synagogue and the
West Side Unitarian Church. Rabbi
Wise and John Haynes Holmes, minis
ter OF the Community Church, preached
sermons. Rabbi Harris OF Temple
Israel uttered n prayer there, and the
Rev. william Potter, minister of the
West Side t-a.tarlan Church, read Presi-
dent Wilson's Thanksgiving proclama-
ton. Both Rabbi Wise and DR.. Holmes
deplored Henry Ford, the Dearborn
Independent and the London Morning
Post.
Words are inadequate to describe the
Indignation and sense OF outrage which
all Christians should feel ut the crusade
now being preached against Jews by
Henry Ford" said Or. Holmes. Its a
violation of the first principles of Chris
tan brotherhood and on this day to be
denounced as a betrayal of all that we
mean by true Americanism."