The Ithaca Journal from Ithaca, New York • Page 18

THE ITHACA JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1939 EIGHTEEN OVID SAVE! 20 DISCOUNT Petrified Fruit Collected Llano, Texas CP) A. F. Moss, ranchman, has a collection of petrified fruit, including oranges, coconuts, a watermelon, and a peach. Tots Love Yule Tree eca Falls Thursday evening, when the 40th birthday anniversary of the Council was observed. Miss Martha Jane Rice of the Ovld-Interlaken road has gone to Rochester, where she has entered the Rochester Business College.

GOLDS Cause Discomfort For quick relief from the misery of colds, take 666 Liquid Tablets Salv Nose Drop Pettengill Our First Venture In Socialism Now that the nation is safely convalescing from two Thanksgivings, it is appropriate to recall Buffalo have returned to their home from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wells and family of N. Main St. Elmer Burnham of S.

Main who has been laid up for a week with an infected foot, is able to be about again. Mr. and Mrs. John Zammette and children of Auburn have been guests of Mrs. Zammette's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Steen and family of Orchard St. Mr. and Mrs. James McGuire of W.

Seneca St. were among the guests at the annua! banquet of the Knichts of Columbus at Sen- terian Church. Assisting Mrs. Hewitt were Mrs. Robert Purdy Mrs.

Blanche Purcell, Mrs. Leslie Osborne and Mrs. Robert Purdy Jr. Mr. and Mrs.

Jay Purcell of W. Seneca St. were recently entertained at dinner by Mr. and Mrs. George Purcell at Waterloo.

Mrs. Carl Ganoung has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Glenn Marks and family near Covert. Mrs. Lawrence M.

VanVleet and daughters Ruth and Harriet and Wesley Woodman have returned from a sojourn with friends at Maplewood, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Seward Wells of for Gash and Carry i or DIAL 2301 FOR CALL AM) DELIVERY FLETCHER'S r.i At installation formalities at the hall on Wednesday evening, rw a nffirera of Lakeview Grange of Ovid will be inducted into office by District Deputy Harry Carpenter.

A supper will be served following the ceremonies. MVo Rnsln Mav of the Sheldrake heen visitintr in Ithaca with her brother, Clarence Cleveland and family. Mrs. -Prank S. Hewitt entertained at her home on W.

Seneca St. Frill a afternoon the members of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Ovid Presby- SHOP DAILY FBOM 9 A.M. TO 6 P.M. DIAL 2711 I jr an yMM wdb SHOP 304 E. State St.

Toes with a Gift of 2711 Dorbin. either boxed without CHECK THESE MANY ROTHSCHILD CHRISTMAS SERVICES: I FREE PARKING in the Municipal lot on Green Street. When you make a purchase ask for a parking ticket. FREE DELIVERY once a week to rural districts within a radius of 50 miles. 1 PERSONAL SHOPPING: dial and ask for Mrs.

Adline be happy to shep for or with you. CHRISTMAS PURCHASES gift and nicely gift wrapped extra charge. Thrill Her to Her Jf PHOENIX HOSE PAIR M.35 3 Pairs for $3.90 Christmas Gift Boxed TUBULAR ICE In Black Styles for Boys You don't have to be Sonja- Henie to really enjoy skat- lng it's fine fun and a sport every boy and girl enjoys. Give them for Christmas, pair Girls' White Ice Skates the first one on xnov. tv, ioij, nu what the Pilgrim Fathers were thankful for.

It has been forgotten that the 102 pioneers who came over in the Mayflower set up a socialistic commonwealth, somewhat like Brook Farm and New Harmony of grandfather's time, or the Tugwelltowns of today. No one was "to have and to hold" the fruit of his own toil. All was to go into the common store. Those who fished, hunted, farmed, or felled the tall timber were to throw their fish, dejr, vegetables and lumber into a single heap from which all might share equally. Under this system, the drone got as much as the worker or putting it another way, the worker got no more than the drone.

No doubt this in part was due to necessities of their situation. Common perils compelled a common defense and a mutual protection. Other perils today produce somewhat similar socialistic mechanisms, such as the navy or the fire department. But as a means to encourage the production of new wealth, how did the Pilgrims' planned economy succeed? System Changed in 1623 In 1621 and 1622 they continued to struggle along with immense fortitude but heart-breaking results. But in the third year, 1623, in the words of the old chronicle, "God gave them plenty, and the face of things was changed to the rejoicing of hearts." In that year they changed from Socialism to a system "in which a stimulus of individual Interest quickened the alacrity of toil." To each family was given the use of a separate parcel of land.

This "made all hands very industrious so as much more corn was planted U. an otherwise would have been, and it gave far better content. The women went willingly into the field and took their little ones with them to set the corn, whom to have compelled would have been thought great oppression." These quaint words record the beginning of a free enterprise in America. And it was that autumn that William Bradford, 'Ye Governor of Ye Colony," issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation. He asked the Pilgrms "to gather at ye meethouse on ye hill" and there thank the "Great Father" not only for such natural resources as he game in the forest, and the fish and clams of the sea, but for "an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes and garden vegetables," all new wealth produced by human effort.

Dropped by Experience It is noteworthy that our pioneer forebears abandoned 316 years ago the very system to which Socialists, Communists and Fascists are urging us to return to now. They did so not because someone wrote "Das Capital" nor because of a blueprint or diagram drawn in an attic. They did so as the result of bitter experience on a stern and rockbound coast. They learned from life itself. They learned what we are urged to forget that the reward of individual toll Is the best assurance of enough "plenty" to have a Thanksgiving about.

And by the time gold was discovered in California, in 1849, the thrifty sons and daughters of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts alone, had created a state with no minerals, coal, or petroleum, and with a scanty soil, saved under this system of free enterprise for the profit motive, enough new wealth so that they "could have given a dollar to each individual of the one thousand millions of the inhibi-tants of the earth, and still have all their schools, meetinghouses, town houses, almhouses, gaols, and literary and benevolent institutions left as nest eggs to begin the world anew." 'Reactionaries' Now There is no greater perversion of political terms than that those who believe in the free enterprise system which "changed the face of things" 316 years ago are now called "reactionaries" and those who would now go back to the system the Pilgrims abandoned are now pleased to call themselves "liberals," applying "new remedies to modern needs!" Well, the promissory notes of the Socialist authoritarians are coming There's no gift more welcome more thrilling than three or more pairs of beautiful sheer Phoenix Vita Bloom chiffon hose. Men! don't worry about "her" size make a happy guess for you and we may even know all about It! Sizes 8J to 10' leading colors! ROTHSCHILD'S Hosiery-First Floor Worn. White Ice Skates $3.95 to $6.50 Men's Black, Hockey Styles, $6.50 i By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON We made some ornaments one Christmas, the children and when I decided that it would be fun for them to have a hand in making trinkets to leave for Santa use. Somewhere I found red foil, silver in reverse. And we made, dyed and strung popcorn in long ropes.

I forgot what else we did but it was fascinating work and what fun we had. The thick foil emerged from our amateur hands as cornucopias, baskets, small boxes and envelopes, depending on the skill of the short fingers that devised them. That was a memorable tree. It was different. Reappear Each Year After that, hanging the funny, homemade holders on the tree became a ritual at our house every year.

They were put away carefully after each holiday along with their braver and glassier kin, and next year they would be included somewhere among the green branches. They lost shape from being annually overstuffed with candy or nuts, faded finally to purplish pink and had to be hung where they didn't show. But when we'd sort the ornaments out to leave for the good old man, the children insisted they be there. Bugs ate up the popcorn strings, and cotton dollies lost their features. But the little containers lasted for so long that my grandchildren now have them on their tree.

Just two or three are left, but mother explained that to her it would not be Christmas without them. Just think, an hour or two one winter night, stubby little fingers pasting and folding under my direction, and a sentiment was born too sweet to lose. Love Even Cheap Tree I hear parents say once in a while that a tree is too expensive. Yet, more than once when the purse was just about fiat, I managed to get a little crooked tree, left ignominously standing after its stalwart brothers were sold. I think a quarter was the proud sum I paid one time.

It was very small and very onesided, but it was a tree. The children didn't criticize. It was their own and they loved it. And ornaments are such fun to make. Some colored paper, cotton, tin foil, cranberries or popcorn make a display.

Almost anything is better than to permit a little child to feel he is not on Santa's list. up for protest. With more power than has been entrusted to man in the western world for generations, we have today less stability, less security, less prosperity and less of freedom and the Rights of Man than has been known in centuries. Despite the glowing promises of these world-shakers, these men of blood and iron, these madmen hearing voices in the air, what is the result of all these tragic years? It Is a mirage, a will o' the wisp. "Follow me.

Behind the concentration camps of peace and the cemeteries of war there is the Promised Land!" SAMUEL B. PETTENGILL. FREEDMAN FIXE FURS 318 E. State St. Phone 2298 a Vacation ear-lspundLivit lit Central Florida, amid lakes and rivers, forests and forms, groves and gardens, is beautiful Ocala and pros perous Marion County.

Here lore famous Silver Springs and other giant springs. It is a region of greof natural wonders and it is land of good living. Varied sport and enter-j, 11 tainment. Splendid accom modations. Moderate living costs.

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CHILD'S PARKA SETS Sonja Henie style 100 wool parka sets for girls; many QQ color effects I iilw ROTIISCinLD'S Children's Shops-Second Floor J. ML ir 25c Kerchiefs Are Fine Gifts at 19c Special Christmas purchase of white and colored embroidered Chinese handkerchiefs. Gift boxed. First Floor If i 'I i CHINESE LACE TABLE CLOTHS Make her Christmas merry with something feminine and something fine! Choose a lovely rayon gown with matching robe in lace-trimmed pastels or gay polka dots. Chistmas gift boxed, too, from Rothschild's! SILK GOWNS Are Glamorous Gifts! s3.98 Buy her gift where she shops at Rothschild's lovely lacey gown or one that is tailored.

Christmas boxed. ROTHSCHILD'S Lingerie First Floor to $7 $1 Fine Gifts for Christmas Early American "Old Spice" GIFT TOILETRIES Beautiful handmade Chinese lace table cloths in lovri.v si and geometric patterns. 72x90-inch size in ecru. Christmas gift boxed. 17-PIECE MOSAIC SETS Imported luncheon set; mosaic drawn work on ecrue Bisson linen; 8 place I A AC mets, center runner, 8 IHiSW MEXICAN LUNCH CLOTHS Brew the crushed petals of fragrant roses with tangy spices decorate real wood veneer boxes with gay colorful designs of Early American and you have OLD SPICE! Guest Soap 6 cakes I Toilet Soap 3 cakes $1 Toilet Water.

.4 or. $1 Dusting Powder 6-PC. CANNON SETS Terry bath sets; 2 bath towels, 2 AQ guest towels, 2 wash cloths; set. (S RAYON DAMASK TOWELS 18x32-inch Imported towels; floral COc centers, deeptone borders; each Oil TAPESTRY KNITTING BAGS M.98 54x54-inch printed Mexican cloths, ideal Christmas gifts; each. Napkins, each 25c Kenwood SLUMBER THROWS washable all-wool basket fn weave throws in soft colors UiJw Novelty pouch styles; wood handles; unusual designs; frame all sizes 1.59 Permanent Waves CROQUIGXOLE COMBINATION or RINGLET JJ 95 ALSO $2.50 $3.50 $5.00 Shampoo and Finger Wave 50c Tush Wave, requires no finger waving Soft, natural Marcel effect with Beautiful Kinglet Knds guaranteed 100'i that cannot be cut off regardless of how many times the hair is cut.

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45 Xew York City J55 Philadelphia, Pa. 50 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 50 Providence, R. 1 60 Syracuse, X.

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