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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, November 23, 1949
“O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD”
(By Robert W. Fricke, Guest Editor)
(Chaplain Marks Air Force Base)
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday. On this day
our forefathers took cognizance particularly of the na
tional welfare and rejoiecd in the growth and advance
ment of the nation. They never tired of praising God for
our native land with its many advantages, its rich and 1
varied resources. There is no richer, freer land on earth.
Ours is still a nation with a government “of the people,
by the people, and for the people.” The principles of
equality, freedom, religious liberty and the sancity of
human life have not been lost. Our country “is high
above all nations in praise and in name and in honor”;
a country to which the nations of the earth look for
guidance and help. As a nation we need to follow the
Psalmist’s advice: “Let the people praise Thee, O God;
let all the people praise Thee.”
Thanksgiving Day is a home day, a day of family
gatherings and pleasant reunions. We may well thank
God today for the blessings of the home; the tender love
of a father and mother, the happy influence of children,
the understanding love of a husband and wife, the
companionship of brothers and sisters.
Thanksgiving Day is also a church day. We are to re
mind ourselves of all the spiritual blessings, superior
to all others, which we have enjoyed. We praise God
for the glorious Gospel with it’s message of pardon,
peace and hope of eternal life in Christ. We are grateful
for our houses of worship, for the ministry, the divine
services and fellowship with which God has blessed us
so abundantly.
Thanksgiving Day, finally, is a holiday also for the
individual on which he should thank God for personal
mercies: a sound mind and a healthy body, recovery
from sickness, protection in danger, a reasonable share
of the good things of this life, food, clothing, rest, recre
ation and any other blessings which you may recount in
your own personal life.
Why not go to the house of God on Thanksgiving Day
and join in the services of praise for everything God
has done for you? “O give thanks unto the Lord; call
upon His name; make known His deeds among the peo
ple. Sing until Him, sing psalms unto Him; talk ye of all
His wondrous works.” Ps. 105: 1-2.
AN OLD AMERICAN CUSTOM
Nation Prepares
For Thanksgiving
<By The Associated Press)
The nation pauses to give thanks
for many blessings tomorrow.
And from all indications the
weather will be good, the turkey
a little cheaper than on last
Thanksgiving day, the trains and
buses crowded, the pubic spec
tacles big and glittering.
Traditional turkey day football
games are scheduled from coast
to coast, among them Colgate vs.
Brown, Cornell vs. Penn, Kansas
State vs. Missouri, Texas vs.
Texas A. & M., West Virginia vs.
Maryland and College of Pacific
vs_ California Polytech.
The President and Mrs. Truman
will dine—turkey and trimmin’s—
with relatives in Blair House,
their temporary home while the
White House is being repaired.
A bigger family gathering is
planned at Gettysburg, Pa., where
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Weichert
will gather around dinner tables
with 48 children, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and great
great-grandchildren.
At Plymouth, Mass., townspeo-1
pie in Puritan garb will march
from Plymouth Rock up steep
Leyden Street to commemorate
the country’s first Thanksgiving. |
Big department store parades j
to launch the Christmas buying ■
season will mark the day in New
York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and
elsewhere. Comedian Milton Berle
will lead Macy’s parade, one of
the largest, in New York.
Generally mild and fair wea
ther was forecast by the weather
bureau although a little light snow
was in prospect for the Great
Lakes region.
Public offices and business
places will be closed in most lo
! ealities.
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UNION THANKSGIVING
SERVICE AT METHODIST
The newly decorated Federated
Church will be host to the Union
P r o t estant Thanksgiving Day
Service sponsored by the Nome
Ministerial Assn., with the con
• gregations of the Lavinia Wallace
Young Mission, Church of the
Nazarene, and the Methodist
Church, participating. The service
will begin at 10:30 Thanksgiving
morning.
The prelude to the service will
be played on the organ by Mrs.
Selmer Johnson; Call to Worship
by Rev. Robert Treat; the Col
lect will be led by Rev. Paul
Carlson.
The Junior Choir from the La
vinia Wallace Young Mission will
present an anthem and will be
accompanied by Juanita Fager
strom.
The Thanksgiving prayer will
be given by Rev. Lewis Hudgins,
president of the Nome Ministerial
Assn.
An Anthem “Praise the Lord, O
Jerusalem,” will be sung by the
Senior Choir of the Federated
Church, led by Mrs. Wm. Camer
on, and accompanied by Mrs. Wil
fred Boucher.
Miss Esther McCoy of the Mis
sion will lead the responsive read
ing.
Offertory music will be by the
Nazarene Church trio, composed
of Mrs. Lewis Hudgins, M/Sgt.
and Mrs. A. Vaughn with “What
A Friend We Have In Jesus.”
Special Thanksgiving messages
will be given by Rev. Hudgins,
Theron McGrew and Robert
Treat.
Chinese Reds
Release U. S.
Consul General
W A S H1NGTON, (£>) — Angus
Ward, the American consul gen
eral at Mukden, has been releas
ed from jail by the Chinese com
munists and ordered out of the
country.
The communists also released
consulate aides who were jailed
with Ward Oct. 24 on what the
state department called “trumped
up” charges of beating and insult
ing two Chinese in a wage dis
pute.
The department announced to
day that it had received word of
the releases from Ward himself. It
was the first direct word from the
consul general in a month.
In winding up what the depart
ment has denounced as their “bar
baric” treatment of Ward, the
communists gave him a trial be
fore a “people’s court.”
This court found them all guil-1
ty and meted out varying prison i
sentences. Then the sentences
were commuted to deportation.
Ward, 56-year-old veteran di
plomat, made his report in a tele
phone conversation with Ameri
can consul general O. Edmund,
Clubb at Peiping. Clubb rushed
the information to Washington.
Ward said that the other four
man and he were “up and about.”
The state department instructed
Clubb to tell Ward ‘that he and
his entire staff are to depart from
Mukden forthwith.”
The four jailed with ward were
Ralph Rehberg, of Rochester, N.
Y., a foreign service clerk; Shiro
Tatsumi, a mechanic, formerly of
Seattle, Wash., and two European
employees of the consulate, Fran
co Cicogna and Alfred Kristan.
Rehberg and Tatsumi are Ameri
can citizens.
In Rochester, N. Y.. Mrs. Ed
ward J. Rehberg, mother of Reh
berg, greeted the news with “Isn’t
that just wonderful!”
There were only 32,920 auto
mobiles registered in the United
States in 1903.
Fire Disables
Freighter Off
Washington Coast
SEATTLE, (A*) — The stricken
10,000-ton freighter Panamanian
Eagle drifted helplessly off the
Washington coast today after fire
broke out in its engine room last
night.
None of the 34 crew membeis
aboard the freighter required
medical attention.
An army transport ,the Gen. H.
B. Freeman, stood along side
awaiting arrival of the coast guard
cutter Winona from Port Angeles.
The cutter was expected to reacn
the vessel ebout 10 p.m.
Weather conditions at the scene,
s' me 360-miles west-s nithwest of
Cape Flattery, were said to be
“moderate.” The cape is the north
westernmost tip of Wash.ngton
State.
The stricken Ireighte”. third
Panamanian vessel in slightly
more than a month to catch fire
off the Washington coasV was in
bound to Longview, Wash.. Irom
Fusan, Korea. It was no; known
whether the vessel carried cargo
or was empty.
The General Freeman came
alongside the helpless ship short
ly before midnight after a 60
mile dash in response to the Eag
le’s S.O.S. four hours earlier that
fire was sweeping the engine
room.
A message from the army trans
port reported the freighter was
without power or radio. Boiler
fires had been extinguished.
Another Panamanian freighter,
the Salina Cruz, bound from Van
couver, B. C., to the Orient, caught
fire and sank Oct. 17, and the
freighter Andalucia grounded and
broke up off Neah Bay Nov. 4. af
ter another such fire. Neither of
the earlier fires resulted in the
loss of life.
George Beacom remarked:
"Judging by the sales and rush
orders in my store, everybody
must be going to the ROOF GAR
DEN." Adv.
Catholic Information
Gratias Agamus
That’s Latin for “Let us give
thanks.” As it is, no doubt, with
every devout person, so, with us
Catholics, too. every day is
Thanksgiving.
Each morning, in his Holy Mass,
the priest calls on his congregation
to give thanks to Almighty God.
; Standing at the altar, he has just
offered bread and wine to the
Most High, and now before going
on to the sacrifice, he pauses to
exhort the people.
“Gratias agamus Domino, Deo
nostra,”
“Let us give thanks to the Lord,
our God.”
“It is fitting and just,” they re
ply.
“It is truly fitting and just,” he
goes on, ‘right and fruitful until
salvation, that we should at all
times and in all places give thanks
! unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father
i Almighty and Everlasting God,
through Christ, Our Lord.”
The refrain of grateful adora
| tion echoes and re-echoes thro ugh
j out the consecrated prayers of our
j Church.
“We give thanks.” says the An
gelic Hymn, sung at Mass, “be-!
cause of Thy great glory.’
1 "Deo gratias”—“Thanks be to
God.” — It comes over and over
again, in the sonorous Latin of the
ancient liturgy.
Our Catholic scholars through
out the ages have always taught
that the perfect worship of God
must include thanksgiving. First,
there is adoration, or the acknowl
edgment of our utter dependence
on God; next in order comes
thanksgiving; then comes repara
tion or satisfaction for our sins;
and finally there is petition, or the
asking of what we need from the
good God. None of these should be
omitted.
No doubt special Masses of
Thanksgiving will be offered in
our churches throughout the
United States this Thursday, but
they will only underscore the be
lief which is close to every Catho
lic heart: that of ourselves we
have nothing. Our life, health,
prosperity, and all the blessings of
freedom under the Constitution
have come to us from the generous
hand of Almighty God, to whom
be blessing and thanksgiving for
ever. Amen.
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