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FITCHBURG (MASS.) SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24. BtHy. ti.tt lll IK tnd juidrfm MM fw In have ttM o'der 4rinks. by Of CMfk the events of She paart year. Before ihe Remiluuon, however, proclamations were nut always received kindly by ptopUv Crawford tens about Gov.

attempt to slip something over on the clergy and their in 1771, as rebellion up ALMANAC George III. Hutehmson persuaded 4 some of the ministers to read his 1771 Not nu, ih. Mm. Evcnint wfprociamauon a week earlier than ajist fcV- Bnaton: South Churefc. WaalUnfltMl 'fiiuar.

Dec Mooii ter. 23; E. MEMORIES is the great home- as il contained a passage upon the people to give thanks for the "eonlinuaiu-e of civil and religious when George III was definitely curtailing those privileges. In one church the day in New England. It at- walked out when the For Enough To Share--Let Be Grateful MeKENNEY ON MO VLAUC TO HJWt, D.VKJ ivrl of wfc ui jtKfffl utueft.

ana Bui "cryitit the AMI- 4 5 I ftA' A r-A The MfciiYMe can't "ihty have ht iu 0um and very iittie 5 has beeti, and. may it aiwsyi I is, therefore, day olbitter- a flay of family memories, of 4ayt and tad days'of the past, of departed and of absent ones, ajhd also a day of thought about the JftiJe that ire gathered about custom has indeed changed mightily since the earliest colonial days. Then the people used to attend two long services at church, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. The dinner had to be crowded in between services. Finally there was a revolt and the second meeting of the day was omitted.

Today only attend even a morning service. wnter of deepest meaning of whjje in some Mct i ons thousan i family board. What of their fiture' children are, in truth, the proclamation was read. Thanksgiving, aside from feasting. Thankigivinf Day the itmily spends the day, shall the remember it when -they fcftve families of their own and bit- Mr-sweet memories flood in upon on the great home-corning fctxu not feera to that there of deconUmmatiofi fitt, uows ihcai who to to fur "JIO Morton Dywsfy.

opened, unJ -the of and'when no to ptropiv of uitus," I'm A-bomb "fni tht South now decided to try- to iwt jack oi or the UP lourth in dummy iurjclwb, or tbi-ough persttleacc ruwa mcK, He pkytd of chibc in ttummv king of and led' a small fawn promoted ir.u. trick THE ROAD TO MASON, by 1 un itfa to Ih. comte du Nouy (Longmans: Here again a medical man studies and observations fur the sitke of the concluiiona he drawt from "Apparently, man cannot live without a mystical belief," says the author, and whether it's true of the r.est of us, it was true of him. Written 'some years before best -selling "Human Destiny;" cjting many laws and experiments arid present- Boyle's Column By HAL BOVIJt NEW YORK, Nov. 24 of buy a newspaper, a pack rf" bottle of adft drofc, Junior today pop iik i.

i. Indian on the old-fashmed a thermoinefer. He is losing face faster thajn Chiacg! No longer a kind vote fluid flock to football games. But however manners and cus-1 toms may have altered, Thanks-! giving remains in old New England a blessed day of home-coming, a holiday of memories. In Washington By PETER EDSON ''if the family gathering is large, the little ones may be seated at a table.

It was not always $ua. Alice Morse Earle in Home in Colonial Dayi tells us: in many households were WHO IS LABOR" George VI of England, the monarch who holds the royal prerogative in a WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 Argument over the election results is apparently never going to end. There's still just as much jawing about why the polls and the experts went ing the poll more in 1948. In! 11936, 1940 and 1944 polls, there had! been a wide margn of Democratic voters.

Just to prove the system was sound, Bean argued for using it i a year when the voters would be more evenly divided. They did, and look what happened. As for abolishing the polls by law, it's out of the question. It's too good an indoor Trying to outsmart Broadway By JACK O'BRIAN and quoting Descartes, HuxJfy, Renan, Kant, Comte, Laplace, Helm- holts. Whitehead, Eddington, and even Moliere and Matisse, the book urges us to find middle toad" between "absolute deterministic materialism" and "absolute where "both science and religion can meet." A Selected List Of New Books At The Public Library wrong as there was on the morning the unknown is what makes horse pt allowed to sit while eat- hkf.

Many tirnej they had to stand the of the table during the CQuntry ment, has become ill. His illness is so serious that a long-planned trip to Australia has been cancelled. The king first noted the symptoms after. And the answers are still just as inconclusive. Department of Agriculture Statistician Louis H.

Bean, who wrote a book on "'How to Predict thinks he has one good explanation Quoting Dr. George Gallup's own! of a circulatory deficiency in his statement that his "final" poll Was racing, football and politics such fun. right leg shortly after he had stood based on information that was from i standing thus-at all meals table of one. of the judges of the table but children sat not at ftb board." Emily Poata of -diffliw decreed children should eat in silence-. they were not to throw bones the tablet.

And they were not fe "look earnestly at any other per- ton that eating." Yes, customs have changed, but IJvanksgivinK remains the great New Aigland festival, the home-coming of travel have changed, tut the people go hortie even as they 4kd in narlieit colonial times. This Week many will travel by plane; ithers by automobile, by train. there waa a time when travel was fhiefly by the narrow footpaths jfcrough the woods, or by canoe. In Jfc31 Gov. Endicott felt that he was tiriable to travel from Sakm to Boston to -was not strong enough to wade tlic tui ds." .,1 Later, of course, came the stage such as those that rarf ibrough Fitchburg from Boston to Xeene.

Drivers had to stop often at fcdges to rearrange the planking jfcfnre they drove across; and as the sped over deeply-rutted Heads the driver would call out to passengers, "Now, gentlemen, to lb right," and the would Ml lean to tht right to keep the at rigid attention for hours in a pub- ceremonv.on.. Remembrance Day, dead. He was working diligently at his job when detected signs of trouble. He has always labored hard and well at his If all members of the Labor party and their supporters at the polls labored as well as their king at their 10 days to two weeks old, Bean de- In Hollywood tt By EKSKINE JOHNSO.V HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 Jane Russell's next picture, "It's Only that this time lag is what Money," will have her playing love tions.

In the two weeks before election. there was a lot of heavy campaigning; MaTiy' votes "were Tinqxiestion- ably changed in this period when there were no poll-takers around to find-oat-what-was going-on voters' minds. Another mistake the pollsters made was in their method of cal- NEW YORK, Nov. 24 Irving Brecher is one of those highly paid, well-swimming-pooled Hollywood gentlemen who would seem to have been born to the technicolored purple. You know the sort of lad who attended the proper entertainment i schools, matriculated at Warner (Brothers and received his masters' M-G-M.

But the same Irving Brecher is a tribute to that traditional pest, the Saturday night pantywaist who tries to be the life of the party, wears lampshades and girls' hats and quips scenes with Non -Faction. "Layout in Advertising" by W. A. Dwiggins. Effective arrangement jof all 'the printed means of selling, by a master of printing design.

"Beginner's Guide to Wild Flowers" by Ethel H. Hnusman. Arranged by color, this guide requires no previous knowledge of botany. "In Search of South Africa" by H. V.

Morton. Not an exposition of So.uth African problems but that current scarcity, a real travel book. ft me that is if the price Frankie knows a doctor who is an went up. expert on crushed bones. I caught! The other day I bumped Into respective jobs, Britain would be inj a a tj how the "undecided" voters a better'economic condition vole.

As of Ooct." 1, for in- The affliction of the king, 15 per cent of the voters were while he was at work, points up the undecided, according to the Roper question: Who is labor? poll. For their final results, the i pollsters had to assume that this 15 per cent of the voters would divide ijust as the other 85 per cent would 'vote. The way this figured out, if Dewey 45 per cent' and Truman 40 I per cent of this 85 per cent express- 1 ing a preference, it was assumed that It was the kind of a close election the 15 per cent would split on the So They Say! that happens once in a generation and is a nightmare to poll-takers. tn. George H.

Gallup, poll director. loss of Manchuria is just like Pearl Harbor. After the people tTfrW 1 has happened. Rep. Walter H.

Judd (R) of Minnesota. More and more functions of the in- same basis, or eight points for Dewey and seven points for Trurnan. This made the total percentages Dewey There is no evidence "tTfaTThe" 'Undecided voters split this way at all wftgn they iiiHfutied into the- booth and cast "their ballots. The Gallup organization is now making a study of selected precincts, all over the country, to ike left, somt of fcaning out of the coach' in their to assist. The coming of the railroads facilitated the home-coming for Thanks- ing.

In New England Charles W. Elliott wrote: "In year (1853) we learn that the on the great railway leads into- New England Cumbered during Thanksgiving- Heek 25.292 1 1 (this half being the Ad Odd, course, as to plying of railroad farts, but not in sense. of being queer; fcr children art ever or never odd that according to atti- vde and understanding of adults. However ttw children--odd oi dividual have been taken over byjdetermine where they went wrong, the government. We are rapidly los- Some of the Gallup experts are of the ing nur freedom, and free enterprise opinion that the people who were which has made this country's polled in advance of the election greatness possible will go with no representative of the peo- James F.

Lincoln, president, Lincoln Electric Co. -r $6000 house. Federal Housing Administrator Raymond Foley. We live under such conditions of international tension that we must continue to carry a big stick to protect our rights as a free people. -Sen.

Raymond E. Baldwin (R) of Connecticut If they'd jest show more, westerns, the world wouldn't be in this cowboy Jim Bannon. Mr. Truman Mutt Decide (New York Herald Tribune) President Truman has received pie who voted on election day. If this is true, it may be found that many people who were polled as ItepucTTcafiS' not ftoMiW Hr rtst their ballou because.they were so sure Dewey was going to win by a top-heavy majority.

Normally, a light vote means Republican victory. That it didn't work out that way this time is now attributed to the fact that labor union political organizations did such an effective job in getting out the city vote. THe farm which had been so heavily counted on by the was light This made the total vote light. But in the Democratic cities it was heavy. Still another important factor is that the total for presidential was lew than the 1 total t.vm TT -IVIVMI the ball.

He must dettrmine. for congressional- or how he going to play u. And ho; cand id a This showed vp par- must decide now, because the ticulai lv in Ohio, where 300,000 of hu cabinet and of house in the old always found good things to eat, which was pumpkin pie, a food old Thanksgiving Day ilaple. The pumpkin pies were tihce 'upon a time baked in square that only the four corners "fnti LI usl. Bnt Whether round or tnuare, we can Mill repeat WhitUtrt lints withi fcflf rrnrtfct Mtlfi bitch ftat, Hkt tht rich pumpkin without pumpkin wan held to unthinkable," Mary Caroline Crawford in il in Old KnftoiMf.

fet there could pumpkin pte than voted control the character o( his administration and the success with which it translates policy into action. President Truman is in new position in regard to men even more tbanjh.regard won the did not its ring from Uw first to the ''In' ptmpkrn much feature election on mainly New Deal, platform. But he did hot win it with New now grown old for the rnmt part, HU Itading ideas are familiar. tnere Tjehrnd them no foTIWa idmlriWrailve eBflTfWijF "TFJ put them into effect. Nor has he ever in the piut been compelled to fare the problem of building auch a team.

He inherited what was left of the Rotwevelt cabinet. He early ahowrd retdirtess to modify it into Uiinf more nearly in accordance with hit own predilections, but he never mond. This helped down the total presidential vote, nationally. Too many people just weren't interested in any of the candidates. Some of the undecided never did make up their minds.

What -nfgcted settle argument is two more polls, or na- ttonal surveys. One would be to determine how the people who were jerked back to just about 15 years ago when Irving escaped the awful Jane was wearing a blonde, wig i He had placed an ad in Variety, the and the frilly duds of an 1880 glamor! k1 entcrt inment publication, frt nf 4 take it) in a love scene for "Montana Belle- at-Republic, doll. In previous scenes she masquerades ss a boy. Jane, a tomboy in real life (I'm not kidding), groaned in her corset and high' neck (courtesy of the censors) and said: "This is not one of my comfortable days." Wonder if Olivia de Havilland has acknowledged the birth of her first niece? Joan Fontaine would be mighty surprised if she did. Fox is testing Glenn Dobbs, the L.

A. pro football star. He's an All- American from Tulsa U. Howie Mayer, the Hollywood press agent, paid for out of his meager depression-era movie usher's salary. The ad read: "Berle-proof gags for sale--so bad even Milton Berle won't buy them!" The ad caught the practiced optic of a gentleman who was interested in both gags and Milton 'Berle--it was Milton Berle himselfr Milton hired Irving, and they set upon an unusual a bunch.

The bunches of gags varied in number, although they became more and more amusing as time toddled by. Pretty soon Irving was hot only carries a watch which gives him the time in Paris, singa weekly radio show does?" replied Mayer. Groucho Marx went sailing at Balboa Bay and somebody brought along one of those lah-he-dah glamor dolls who was continually asking stupid questions. Groucho's patience was almost unbelievable and though he had been subjected to this babe'sj barrage for about two hours, he. had yet to lay anything.

Finally she pointed to a buoy and said: "Oh. wnars InBTT Said Groucho: "That's very important. If you pull that up, all the water runs out of the bay." onewiTrSTHowardr an even $125 a crack. Having got to Hollywood, where he to zing along apace, Irving became an established, comedy Writer. Being a fellow who likes to do things on the side, particularly if they come to look not unlike Fort Kleig lights, he wrote a show.

Right now it's pi week by its sponsor, out which Irving, as owner of the show, actors, and regularly pockets as much as lots of folks tote home in a year. Irving also proudly related the news that a movie version of the wonditi he boss and a njcke, west toward the sunset. He tita iiad: in the It his He tnd the buffalo are now. going down together. Tiie For the nickel is about AS pause put Andnrw to the average man ae a gyii Jackson's picture on to bail is to a hen.

Time was when wmpiained they poor the nickel delighted the childish never got to te- thii heart Give one to a kid today, and their hero. N.ow the DemocraU the little innocent is likely to in-; 31 of, quire: slighted tlie memory'of Trionuw Jejf. "What's it for?" jferson by putting "hie profile oil And it is a hard question to an- nickel. swcr. The nickel, like the old The blamed thing is pluinb bint mare, ain't what used to be.

ut value. Today nobody The coin originally was strictly an ulle the trouble of plugging inflation product. Now it's a victim of inflation. It was first minted in 1866 in the high price times folio wing the Notice Of CONCORD, N. Nov.

24 JPI Senate x- war. Before that the people official made small change with half cents. Bridges Chester Merrow large cents, pennies, bronze Norris Cotton will' be back it cents, mckel three cents, and silver "same old stand" next three-cent and half-dime 'pieces. Election cwMificates, bearing Ow. The new five-cent which 'Dale's signature, were forwarded to WM actually only 25 per cent nickel' Washington yesterday, informinf and 75 per cent jcopper, quickly ri- congressional clerks that the valed even the Indian head penny in 'Hampshire Republican trio had been popularity.

It quickly drove "the! reflected. "Aid There I Stood With two-cent and half-dime coins ourj On Dec. 13 four Republican AJr4i tATil "l( i i i 1 si irvn Piccolo" by Meredith Willson. The radio musician and comedian gets a book off his mind. "New Song in a Strange Land' 1 by Esther Warnpr.

Fascinating mt or native Iile in JLibena liy an American woman who was not satisfied with the- typical colonial exis- "Existentialism" oy Jean-iPau Sartre. An exposition of the phi- that. about but so few understand. Fiction "Guard of Honor" by James Gould Cozzens. A sprawling complex airbase which was too much of a problem to its young commanding officer.

"Over the Edge" by Lawrence Treat. To the foreman of the jury in the murder trial, the case was just routine, until he recognized the photograph of the victim! "Garnered Sheaves" by Elizabeth H. Emerson. More charming stories about the friendly Quakers of the "Good Crop." "Burnished Blade" by Lawrence It is the dawn of the in France, as young Schoonover. Renaissance Pierre travels on a dangerous mis- sion -to empire.

"Prizelstorks of 1948" ry Memorial Award. A FrorfnKFbesl published short stories by American authors. Way" by Shirky Seiferi. The romance of Yarina Howell and Jefferson Davis. Nude Driver Arrested HAMPTON, N.

Nov. 24 (P) An Amesbliry, oi circulation. electors- will meet at It had a mighty reign. For. two House and duly cast generations of Americans it was a of electors! college for basic coin, although by statute itjdefeated Republican Candidate was legal tender only in the mem ot oi 25 cents or less, Thomas E.

It helped buiid fortunes for the IT to its 24 iJ Woolworths, the Dukes and many- their flection. Town What couldn't a man do with "of re- nickel in the good old days? hoUJie of their muffs or a hair ribbon. He could belly up to a bar and get a i shot of stomach warmer or a tall I City Star) Human beings are hot alone tot glass of beer. It would finance him i their tendency to be right-handed to -a plug of chawin' tcrbarcj', a left-handed. Elephants, parrota smal pack of coffin or two have their the darkest, strongest cigars this things.

And animals, like a JeN- side of Cuba. (handed person trying to write witli It would take him to the ihis ri ht hand become in the era of the silent! flickers. v.j- i when strong men fainted at. the; the i'TM when ordered to. somethinf with sight of pretty Pearl White, tied' by traciw TM the path of the speeding express to trainmg him to tra Yes, ir-r-rce For nckel A likely way to make your dof ic, according to ah article tn.

American, to iintitiiiK hu anaite naoflw trwn, 15 nunutMc late out of wiih either foreleg. Dog jascertfiin whether a dog left a right handed before attemptJaf Sunday.swell could thrill his best handshake' gfr: by knocking over five ducks in While Polly may want a cracker, a row at the shooting gallery. A chances are that she will want boy could buy a hot dog, a in her left claw. The Washington sack ofpopcorn; a whopping: half-rZod pint iop crram cone, or enough lie-jits parrots are Icft.fooJetL oil for the right or left by uaing They thought so much of this dear'tusk or the other exclusively fer. old coin that the worst thine unused tusk is could say of a man was, "He ain't' worn'down and more worth a plugged nickel." prized by ivory And today? It won't even- buy the I Crickets on the other are foam on a jthss of beer.

onlv' ht a while katydids 1 i Manhunt." "Wake of the Red UT is looking for a gal to play an ro ra TM completed, Eskimo with sex appeal in "Arctic i I'Tn roducin whi wi rf be followed by many more Riley movies, a sort of grownup, side of the mouth Andy Hardy perennial style series, If there's a moral to this little yarn. I guess Jt's just that you should think twice about batting Witch" will be Republic's bid for the top moneymaker of the year. With John Wayne as the screen's new Gable, it shouldn't miss. Margaret Herrick, the Academy's executive secretary, tells me that the old theory that movies released during the last two.weeks of the year have a better chance to win is a fallacy. She's figured it out--0 per cent of the Oscar-winning films (and performances) were released in the fix months of the years in tttty nomttmed: A Hollywoodsman, just back from As Dunbraqk investigated In his tht nude man leaped into i i 3 jtuvrc MICUI 1VHJJCQ 1IHU that Saturday night neighborhood his nearby automobile and sped comic over the head with the nearest! Dunbrack Mid, and was ap- copy of Milkr'i.

You might wantipwhended when nis car hit a tree. to borrow his swimming pool some time. Chair Breaks, Onions Lost! (Hartford Courant) Vcrnon, Vermont, where ti5c losers youth was not Wedding Muiic Is On the Fan (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Barrett Spach, head of the brgan Northwestern University, is Iri Row Europe, that story about Hit Hayworth standing up the Shah of Jm in Saturday Night West District wo TMen want to feel at weddings. Ht ita! Pitch Group recently treated the to Junk You Truly," TM Persia was the.

Ali the Shah to dinner i ahowad. Gallagher buck in to a chicken-pic Vernon correspondent of the llke he says weddings are iBrattleboro Reformer tell the story tc without, and play in- K. of what at the home of Mr. ste uch works M'thaw he never flnd Mrs Herbftrt Baker) vh; th 0 Bach, Couperin and PurcslL --4 idea can "The evening was marred hy three I is just iiort of the most serious ocniri-inc-s'lly notion that would occur to youth, who cigar it'll fetch is a skinny thing Left-winged gave his name as Charles C. Fish, 18,1 looks like.

8 cigaret with was apprehended unclothed -lastland evaporates in three night after an 80-mile-per-hourUt let you in to see a ver IM said today. Malek said the youth would be arraigned Saturday on charges of lewd and lacivious conduct and reckless driving. The chief said Officer Donald Duhbrack was notified by a woman resident of the North beach area that a man was acting strangely near her home. In many cities you have to tearri are about it up with Hosr.t pennies to ride a on'British roads. Early Statesman VEftTICAL LSPlctartd I South signer of Declaration of 2 Above Independence 3 Chicken 12 Rescued 13 Wakening ISpnclosed 18 Baking chamber 4 North DakoU (ab.) 5 POM 7 Not any 17 English school 8 i a 1 1 Animal hair undecirted in October voted The other would to rebuild from the ground up; hud been tried in of in 17W to put off Thmln- of them thrre wan of earwuker government," temporary filling gap rather than a wount who didn't vote stayed whom they voted for if they had fone to fhe Poll-taker Elmo Roper argued for some years that no in continuing to take polls on At meeting of itatis- ticiana in Williamifown, in IMS, Roper declared that polling to human knowledge in any way.

Gallup, and other unified, adminutration pripartd to'cnt nattonal poll-Ukeri wen also pm- iiii.iuc*i«*, uir most penous OCcul i wv.ui 10 oi a camrra the first time "'when Mrs. Loe got a chirk-l" 1 1 For Bother, aunU, and ether, four years in Duke of Chicago. cn bone Muck in.her throat. She kin, the music must tpeak of. Producer Jerry Wiild talking to! a tten to the hospital wrier- the bone parting and evm though! "T.II.--J..

i i i debut in hia next musical. fin. Mn. Baker lost her onkmn bv "with "BrT Shirley and Johnny Agftr ipilling the entire Vetileful on Iho sisters and girl friends, Jt want to do a radio series bawd on fToor, Mrs. Haw! Corey to grief the sweeihesa of their upcoming film, "What Every when Ihe chair in which fhe hwirtbreakingly beautiful i Young Bride Should Know." cashing in on Boh Mitchum'a front-page to reiHuing puhlicity.

fell apart like the one-horse when it isn't shay. Who says a chickt-n pie Mipptr ihnot be unevfntfol cccasion? Any-' proHwi Mr. Sp'achj 6r theyi the console, hot merely' mtwir. he Is i a we'll bet this pie was of (hot memories. Along with the linwcr Strangers Marry," in which he rich; variety on which in 1M4, It will bt billed now "Betrayed." In the time an elephant produc- staked thfir reputations for many years.

And what better way could there be to upend a ftw winter that will crumble in an envelope in jewl box, the lace tha low Jn trunk rn the will go rlnwn through the years recollection ing offspring, oyster it able Ihun ptiiyinR pitch with from tinging to lay chicken pit supper the priu? "Yourt It My Heart MOM." American rivtr 31 Producer o( 9 Full bodies 94 Courtevui 17 Crones 43 Prayer endtnf ISHirnnguw 20 Behold! 42 Winxlike rart Dinner courMt .11 Moirth pnrti "1 Greek letter measure 23 Two (prefix) Higher Trinity term ab.) 27 Heavy 32 make their MTtllttrium "parenlil'To?.