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Redlands, Calif. Thursday, November Values of Pilgrims merit rediscovery By DAVID POLING This year, Thanks for the Pilgrims. As a people and nation, Thanksgiving has been that time of annual inventory for all the blessings we have received. For the thoughtful, believing community, it has been thanks to God for his bountiful creation, expressed in all the gifts of life. For the Christian, Thanksgiving traces its history all the way to the Old Testament, with a very meaningful pause at Plymouth Colony and its New England setting.

In a day when most racial and ethnic groups are finding new joy and pride in their traditions, it is proper to remember the power and determination of America's first minority, the Pilgrims. Too often, of late, these ancestors with white bonnet and stove-pipe hat have been and abused'for their sturdy convictions and unbending theology. Today, those values are being rediscovered and reworked, like an old gold mine with a new vein of productive ore. Why thanks for the Pilgrims almost four centuries later? For one thing, in a society and world choked with conformity and mass-mentality, they moved home and family, broke ties of place and belonging in the Old World, to pursue more clearly their vision of God and his love. And in this hour of instant gratification, this day of immediate reward and response required by so many impatient and indulgent citizens, it is well to remember that the Pilgrims remained in Holland for nearly 12 years, gathering energy and vision and resources for their final destination: America.

And surely we are thankful for their virtues expressed in family and their determination for self-government, free from European aristocracy. And such a family. In that first winter, broken by disease and sickness, hardly 50 of the original 100 survived. In his classic study, "The Pilgrim Way," Robert M. Bartlett reveals that at the height of their tragic first winter, no more than six or seven persons were well, caring for the rest in every detail of their daily need.

Only three married couples survived and only five out of 18 wives lived to raise their children. And their relations with Massasoit and the Wam- panoag Indians remains as a classic friendship between two entirely different, but mutually appreciative, clans. The first Thanksgiving, which lasted three days, including much praise, food and sporting contests, was not an isolated event but marked the beginning of 55 years of amity and mutual regard. The start of self-government and the foundations of civil agreement, were marred by the tragic Salem witch trials. Yet clearly this was a global aberration, with mass executions in Europe and the British Isles.

Plymouth Plantation had two such trials, but no executions and no pursuit, of such fantasies of sick minds. It is time to lift up the people of the first Thanksgiving. It is proper to be thankful for them and their grand beginning. Having suffered for their religious and civil convictions, they refined and created a new community that ultimately meant diversity. And even that was good, so Pastor Robinson wrote: "We must acknowledge but one brotherhood of all." Thanksgiving Day A turkey dinner is almost synonomous with "Thanksgiving" in America.

In this land of plenty we have so long been accustomed to an abundance of food that we do not give it a second thought. Yet, as the Soviet wheat purchases show, agricultural productivity eludes the Russians. They do have climatic problems, being situated to the north. But they also have Communism, a principle that works poorly in farming. Incentive is lacking.

In America we came to the realization in the mid- Thirties that the historic balance had finally tipped. At last, we could produce enough food for all mouths. The problem, now, was distribution. When World War II broke out, America became not only the arsenal of democracy. It was the breadbasket as well.

In Depression or Prosperity, in War or Peace, America is the horn of plenty. A couple of months ago, some prophets were saying mat because of Newcastle disease the price of eggs and of poultry would promptly zoom. It hasn't worked out that way. The disease has been a disaster for the producers whose birds have been eradicated, but not for the consumer. At Thanksgiving time, the advertised prices hold no shocks for the housewife.

The Newsreel A survey indicates that the French are not such great lovers after all. In addition, the California wines are catching up. Detroit announces it will soon discontinue the production of convertibles. The girl who looks her prettiest with her hair blowing in the wind will have to stick her head out the window. The Office Grouch wonders if there isn't some way to rig up the loudspeakers so public places could have silence piped in.

With a Grain Of Salt By FRANK MOORE About County Supervisor Don Beckord, who retires December 4, here are some well known, and little known, facts. coming to Redlands he was the chief of the guide service at the most popular tourist attraction in the West, Hoover Dam. thought he would like to be a career soldier, accepted an appointment to West Point and became a cadet. But, it wasn't his dish. He resigned.

duty called in time of war he went back in uniform, as an officer. That was the service that later put him into the Redlands American Legion post where he became a leading worker on behalf of the proposed Lima Linda Veterans Hospital. the high school in Madison, South Dakota, he was head of the history department. the 1930's, for eight summers, he was with the Omnibus Traveling College. At one time, they had 17 Ph.D.s on the faculty.

The college owned its own buses. History was presented geographically, rather than chronologically, as they moved from historic place to historic place. In asking the blessing before the Beckord dinner, the Rev. John D. Foerster injected a poetic thought.

Alluding to Redlands, he noted that "it is sheltered by mountains, as around Jerusalem." He suggested that the sheltering is not only physical but spiritual, as well. This was an imaginative reference to the great San Bernardino range. On Tuesday the "Redlands Yesterdays" column had this item from 15 years ago: "Distribution of the largest city directory in Redlands 13,400 under way today to commercial establishments which ordered them." City directories were published here for over 60 years and during much of that period, annually. They were driven out of business by the Street Address Directory published by General Telephone company. The age of the computer made it feasible for General to take the contents of the ordinary telephone directory and print it out in two different forms: classified according to streets, and in order of street numbers.

numbers of subscribers in numerical sequence. The strong selling point of the directory is that it is published twice a year and is about as up to date as any directory can be. A growing defect, however, is that there are so many people who have unlisted phones. Isn't that category about one seventh of all subscribers here? The phone directory, of course, is also limited to those who have telephones. By way of comparison, in the 1952 City Directory, 110 persons or places of business were given oh Sixth street.

Of that number, just half were indicated by a symbol as being telephone subscribers. Two other features of the old- style directories are now missed. person's occupation- retired. Pacific agent- orange insurance car manager, Loge and Universal service station mail carrier. You could tell a lot about the town by simply scanning the occupations.

the name of a married man, his wife's name in Mary, Ruth, Edna, Marie, Bridgie, Fern, Lottie, Wanda, Ida, Nelle, Jacquelin. How often today do you wish you had a directory with that valuable information? It's awkward to address a letter to "Ms Lizzie Kuppenheimer" because you don't know if she is Miss or Vic Miller is wondering if the service is complete enough when you dial 117 and wait for the time signal. At 7:27 a.m. he was writing a football game story at his desk. The Facts phone rang and, the switchboard not yet being open, he answered.

"Could you- please tell me what day it is?" a polite lady ssfccd "Saturday," Vic replied. "And the date, please?" "The eighteenth," Vic added. "Thank you," the polite lady said. A Thanksgiving Day Wish Redlands Yesterdays FIVE YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 67, lowest 50. Improvements to the Redlands water storage and distribution system, totaling some $244,000, authorized by the City Council.

Edward F. (Jerry) Dibble of Redlands one of two Southern Californians selected by Gov. Reagan to fill the remaining openings on the newly formed state Water Resources Control Board. The 21st Annual YMCA Membership Enrollment Week, will open Monday with 116 men and 35 women participating. TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 64, lowest 43.

Park Commission recommends that Sylvan Park be enlarged by 3vi-acres by City acquisition of unused piece of the freeway right-of-way. Dual cornerstone-laying ceremonies planned by Masonic Lodge No. 300 for the City's new Safety Hall and neighboring County Branch Building on Brookside avenue. Defensive players Cisco Garcia, Steve Payne and Murray Robertson selected as Terriers of the Week as RHS prepares for tomorrow's first CIF playoff game against Santa Monica. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 65, lowest 46.

High winds damage and topple trees and cause power outage when palm fronds knock out Edison service connections. Lazard Lippman of Redlands, and 11 others in his party rescued from his disabled 75-foot yacht near Santa Rosa Island. Traffic commission votes to paint channelization stripings at the Post Office intersection in effort to resolve some of the confusion at that spot. Timely Quotes We are not running out of resources worldwide We" won't run out of energy. The only thing we might run out of is imagination.

J. Hickel, former secretary of the interior. The President and Pepsi-Cola By TOM BRADEN Richard Nixon was not broke after his California defeat by Pat Brown in 1962, but he was poor enough to worry about being broke. And now that he has won re-election to the Presidency the man who helped him get on his financial feet has won an enormous prize. He is Mr.

Nixon's longtime friend, Don Kendall of the Pepsi-Cola and the prize is an exclusive franchise to sell Pepsi-Cola to 200 million Russians. The deal was announced recently, accompanied by the explanation that Pepsi-Cola had agreed to import Russian vodka to the United States. Newspapers carried the story as though the import agreement had swung the deal but, in fact, the Commerce Department gave no reason why Pepsi-Cola was granted exclusivity, cutting other soft-drink companies from the new market. Democrats think the explanation is as follows: Mr. Nixon had two objectives after the California defeat.

First, he needed a high-paying job. The Trousdale Estates house he had bought in California after his defeat by John Kennedy in 1960 had run him into debt. Moreover, he wanted a job which would permit plenty of time for politics, and for playing the role of Mr. Republican which was the most he then foresaw for himself. Second, he wanted to leave California which had rejected him and embarrassed his wife.

New York seemed the ideal state, but New York law firms did not beat a path to his door. One firm turned him down flat, and others were willing to take him on but not as a senior partner. It was at that point that Don Kendall offered to give the Pepsi-Cola account to whatever law firm Mr. Nixon chose. Another old friend, Elmer Bobst, president of Warner- Lambert Pharmaceutical helped to arrange a deal Berry's World 1972 bj NEA, IK.

don't normally have office hours on Sunday afternoon, but you said things have been going from bad to worse. What's the proWem?" with his own law firm, Mudge, Stern, Baldwin and Todd. Mr. Nixon was made a full partner at $250,000 per year with time off for politics. The Warner- Lambert and Pepsi-Cola accounts were the firm's largest.

Bobst has also been a prize winner during the Nixon Administration. Warner-Lambert's application for a merger with Parke-Davis was originally turned down by the Justice Department's antitrust division, then headed by Richard McLaren. But McLaren was overruled by his chief, Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, also a former Nixon law partner.

As a result of the merger, Bobst's 866,000 shares of Warner-Lambert increased in value by approximately $18 million. Both Kendall and Bobst were early contributors to Mr. Nixon's 1960 race against John Kennedy, and his 1962 effort against former Gov. Pat Brown. Bobst is reported by Jules Witcover in his book, "The Resurrection of Richard Nixon," to have balked at giving his old friend any more money at the time Mr.

Nixon considered another try for the Presidency in 1964. But according to Witcover, Mr. Nixon decided against this race when Barry Goldwater cleared the way to a convention sweep by defeating Nelson Rockefeller in the California primary of that year. In any event, Bobst had already placed Mr. Nixon in his debt by helping to arrange the lucrative job.

The prizes won by both Kendall and Bobst are in no way illegal, but they provide marvelous examples of the way a political system works, and the Pepsi-Cola deal, announced immediately after President Nixon's landslide victory, is particularly noteworthy because it has drawn so little attention. George McGovern's campaign finance chairman was a Virgin Islands hotel owner and liquor distributor named Henry Kimelman. If McGovern's election had been followed immediately by the announcement that Kimelman had been granted exclusive rights to sell bourbon whisky to the Soviet Union, there might have been some criticism. But not even the Coca-Cola Co. has peeped about Kendall's franchise.

"The Real Thing" is Coca-Cola's advertising slogan. But the company is apparently willing to accept the realities of politics. Pepsi-Cola ought to merchandise in Russia with whatever words Russians use to say, "The Real Real Thing." Minute Pulpit "They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, when there is no 8:11. 4 It must be a peace without victory. Only a peace between equals can last: only a peace, the very principle of which is equality, and a common participation in a common Wilson, 28th president.

Coattails no sure pull at the polls By BRUCE BIOSSAT You get into some pretty unsettled depths when you search for reasons why a man can win the White House big, as President Nixon has just done, and not pull a lot of his party's contenders for Congress along with him. In a prior report, I cited the record of the last 40 years, involving 21 general elections, to show that no Republican presidential winner in that span, including the fabled Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, has had much luck with his coattails. If anyone wants to argue that it's different with the Democrats, the answer is that even there it's a mixed bag and the record reveals erratic results.

Lyndon Johnson's 1964 sweep over Barry Goldwater did add 38 more Democrats to the party's already com-, manding U.S. House majority. But Republicans in the Senate were so near their irreducible minimum that the Democrats picked up only a single new seat. Four years earlier, John F. Kennedy edged out Mr.

Nixon for the presidency but actually lost 21 House seats and two in the Senate. Obvious, one might say. Narrow winners don't have coattails. Oh? Harry Truman beat Thomas E. Dewey in a 1948 squeaker complicated by two other candidates.

But with only 49.5 per cent of the total presidential vote, Truman brought in 75 additional House Democrats to produce one of the biggest turnovers in modern times. The presidential coattail theory probably got its great boost from Franklin D. Roosevelt's days. His first victory in 1932 added nearly 100 Democrats to the House and began the party's era of ascendency. By 1936, he had helped lift the total another a record 333.

Yet even Roosevelt's magic diminished with passing time. Republicans regained 80 House seats in off-year 1938, and FDR could pick off just five of those in winning his third term in 1940. Again, his party lost 45 seats in 1942, and he got back just 21 in 1944. Clearly, it's risky to talk in simple terms of coattail effects. The jumble of evidence suggests many factors may be at work.

It's easy, and historically accurate, to say Republicans fell deep into minority status in the crisis of the Great Depression and have never really gotten out of the hole. You can argue, too, that despite all the reapportionment of districts in recent years, a high proportion of House seats probably are relatively "safe" for one party or the for Democrats. In 1956, political analyst and author Samuel Lubell gauged that, over a considerable span, only about a third of the 435 House seats had changed parties. There are no recent exhaustive studies, but the "fluid" districts today may be as few as 20 per cent of the total. It is often contended, furthermore, that the voters, growing in education and sophistication, are consciously using one party as a check upon the other, and one branch of government to balance off the other.

This tendency has heightened, some say, as distrust of all government has mounted staggeringly among Americans. Analyst Walter DeVries' studies of voters' widening habit of ticket-splitting support the notion that Americans are hopping all over the ballot list on big election days. Lubell supplies a fresh rationale for this. He sees the voter as, effect, acting on several elections at once, picking and choosing out of a mood of massive distrust and a desire to protect mostly against what he perceives to be the monumental and still enlarging power of the real managerial center of today's society. On a nice note, you can tell his voice By NORTON MOCKRIDGE Many, many years ago, shortly before he was to open on Broadway in "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison admitted to me that he was "frightened as hell." "I cawn't sing, y'know," he said, morosely, "and yet as Professor 'Enry 'iggins, I've got all these damnable songs to put over.

Oh, it's dreadful position, and when I croak things like. 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her they're going to laugh me right off the stage. Oh, I tell you. I'm going to find a way to bag out of it!" I assured him that he really didn't sound all that bad and that seemed to please him. Anyway, he went on, of course, and as you know, he was a smash hit.

Everybody adored his singing. I was reminded, however, of Rex's fright when I talked the other day to Harriet Lee, the voice coach who used to work for MGM and Universal, and who specialized in training such "nonsingers" as Anne Baxter, Eve Arden, Gene Nelson, and Ginger Rogers. She's now working on Cheri Caffaro who'll sing in her forthcoming production of "Girls Are For Loving." "I can teach the technique of singing," she told me, "and I can teach a serious student how to use her speaking voice in song. But no one in the world can put a voice in someone's throat if it isn't there to begin with." Naturally, I asked her what she thought of Rex Harrison. "I think he's divine," she said, "because you can't tell when he stops singing and starts talking!" I sorta like this dialogue I heard the other day at a restaurant where two men, sitting at a counter, got into an argument over whether the cheese cake was frozen.

"It's frozen," said one man. "I swear it is." "It is not'" said the other. "I'll bet you $100 that it's frozen," said the first man. They went on arguing, and finally agreed on a one-dollar bet. They called the waitress over to settle the matter.

"Is this cheese cake frozen?" asked the first man. "No," said the waitress, 'It's not frozen." But the bartender heard the argument and chimed in: "Sure, it's frozen." The two men turned and stared at the waitress. "Hey," said one of the men, "he says it IS frozen!" "Well," said the waitress, with a shrug, "when I brought it to you it wasn't frozen!" Speaking of waitresses, four men sitting at a bar in another restaurant I frequent ordered cheeseburgers and in time the waitress, approaching them from behind, snuggled between the men and placed the burgers on the bar. One of the men, kind of pleased at the way she'd snuggled in, said: "I hear you also give back rubs." "Yeah," said the waitress, "but that's when I add on the entertainment charge!" Paul Lindenblatt, a Brooklyn pharmacist, told Drug Topics magazine that language isn't the terrible barrier we sometimes think it is, especially in a drugstore. 'Take this young Puerto Rican lad who burst into my shop a couple of months ago," said Paul.

'I don't know how say what I want to buy in he confided, haltingly. "So, can I say it in I told him to go right ahead, I'd try to figure it out. "After a moment's hesitation, he blurted out the orders: And that, for some reason, makes me think of the importance of punctuation. Some people are inclined to ignore it, but, says my friend, editor Garrett Oppenheim, a couple of commas can change a whole thought. For example, he gives this line: Eleanora Duss says Sarah Bernhardt is the greatest actress in the world.

But toss in a couple of commas, and it comes out like this: Eleanora Duss, says Sarah Bernhardt, is the greatest actress in the world. Quick Quiz What is acrophobia? fear of heights..