The Arvada enterprise., 1923-11-29
sy JOHN DICKINSON sHERMAN

y JObSW OlCkIN6CN 8HEHMAN
@~HANKSGIvlNG Day, 1929 The peo
pie Of the United States Of America
should celebrate this truly American
holiday with heartfelt enthusiasm.
For even the most casual comparison
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h66A Of things here and abroad should
KSNM make % thankful that we Ameri-
TR HM cans and at home In America. This
WI HE u not preachment but really the
Nh GM churches should he quite crowded
NNEAN o. the last Thursday In November -
\MAA are the places Of amusements, to say
80 W the least. Certainly have much
for which to be thankful as a nation.
end . Christian people should make public
hankaglviAx - "the outward and visible sign Of
a inward and spiritual grace" The man who
cannot the hand Of Divine Providence In our
American history 10 indeed blind
Suppose the American people went In mass to
thsir churches Thanksgiving morning and made
publie return Of thanks TO Divine Providence they
could say In perfect truth words to this effect:
Almighty God. we thank Thee this Thanksgiv.
ing Day
That We at peace with ourselves and with
an the world
That land is still the United States Of Amer.
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That Old Glory flies In greater grandeur than ever:
That We ARE still freemen. as In the beginning;
That our homes own and inviolate:
That NO foreign Overload orders our destinies:
That still is life. liberty and the pursuit of
Aappinessr';
That NO pauper's dole Is our portion;
That prosperity beyond our proportion Ia oup:
That II In our hand that IL stretched forth to
ehe starving OF other lands
That the Red Death ls held nj bay:
That Thy hnnd. ~ ever. still guides this nation -
For these things, Almighty God. we thank Thee
And as for the rest Of the day, the Thanksgivinv
0nner II the main thing-not entirely for the sake
Of the feast Itself but largely because the feast IN
me crowninI touch OF day that IL peculiarly 4
DAY OF the home aud the family A man with
money In his poke, can buy u turkey dinner ON
Thanksgiving Day almost anywhere from Plymouth
Rock TO Cnbrillo and from Peskan to Tumacacort.
ouf II he hrs n home and Isn't there he's ant 70
b mighty lonesome. True II is-nnd more's the
pity-thnt good many Americans In these iattsr
DAYS live In apartments and on the delcatesseu
shops but just the same there In many an old.
fashioned home LETT where nn old.fAshiouet fam
lily win cut an oldfnshioned Thanksgiving Day
dinner Of turkey and nxin's and "punkin" pie
which II one Of the many things for which ~
should give thanks
Nobody should be ashamed Of looking forward
70 the Thanksgiving turkey. The turkey 10 . noble
bird worthy Of the day. And Thanksgiving Day
Ahould give our first taste Of him. The house
wife WIN will serve turkey on her table before
Thanksgiving should be-well. say II yourself. And
U she knows her business she will not have a lot
q folderols and dofunnies before the turkey When
. man y turkey hungry he wants Il brought In the
vsry nrst thing. And an expeditions carver ands
Rsat favor In his eyes. Turkey. stufnn', mashed
Doeate, gravy and cranberries-that's the feast
Aftsf that The good housewife can bring along all
- goodies she Mkss-the rest 10 anti-cimax any.
Nv. sxesptias posebly the pumpkin pie and
GAsesa.