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VOELXL Nov, 21, 1913 No, 47 
Tue Spirit oF THANKSGIVING is fife giving, for it 
awakens the faculties to a realization of the benefits 
which we enjoy. Even the most unfortunate in this life’s 
experience has something for which to be thankful. 
Every heart knows its own peace and torture, and 
whether one permits peace or unrest to lay hold on life it 
is largely the result of one’s own ill thinking, It is well 
that the nation rests in its mad rush of necessary work to 
make merry and enjoy the old home times about the fes- 
tive board. It is poetic, inspiring and encouraging to 
remember with a thrill of patriotic pride that the pleas- 
ant enjoyable day has come down an unbroken inheri- 
tance from our forefathers who through cold and snow 
and sleet and with a hard winter before them were able 
to pause to take breath again and give thanks to the 
Almighty Power. ‘The festive day has become a part 
of the life of the nation and this is good. It is marvel- 
lous when one pauses to think that the simple custom 
of the early Puritans is now the nation-wide joy of a 
nation of many people. It is something to be thankful 
that Jew and Christian, pagan and even the nostic has 
made this day of days a part of the home life, But to 
fully enjoy this day there ought to be some thing of per- 
sonal enjoyment, poise and jthinking. Must the body feast 
and the mind and soul starve? Shall the nation be riot- 
ous in eating and slow to thinking? Shall heavy luxury 
and ennervating ease with gloating gluttony displace the 
more sober and character-giving virtues of high think- 
ing and simple living? ‘There is no law of the soul’s real 
life that would deny to it the simple pleasures of a pleas- 
ant day and a good dinner and a flow of human joy. 
But ought not the deep unbidden something within us 
all that makes for tthe unseen ‘and unknowable, that cal- 
culates and appreciates the real and unreal in life rise 
above the merely carnal quality of feasting a 
Thanksgiving Day out? It is the soul that makes glad 
the heart of man. ‘‘Betiter a crust of bread with con- 
tentment” is now ever true. The American people have 
not lost their power nor their virility, their sober thinking 
for underneath \the day there will be the eternal some- 
thing struggling for expression in humble thankful think- 
ing. If the world has gone hard give thanks! If the 
world has turned well to you, be thankful and beware, 
look about you, see where a helping hand will make 
another’s and your own heart glad! ‘Thanksgiving in its 
real sense will rescue our minds from a slough of des- 
pond and put up upon a mountain of thanksgiving! Be- 
yond are the rich valleys, though the road behind hag 
been a hard climb, a perilous ascent. A true feast is a 
happy thankful heart. 
Tue Gunnine AccipENts which formerly made the 
Maine woods a peril in other years, are now with us 
in our own locality. The caretaker who was shot at 
Beverly Farms while alighting from his carriage and 
the young man who was more seriously injured less than 
five miles away brings the menace of the shooting season 
too near our doors. ‘There will be necessarily a certain 
amount of risk in every shooting season even when care 
is used but carelessness still continues and is the main 
cause of many accidents. When a hunter “raises” 
something the first thing to do is “think” and then, — 
“shoot.” Look where you’re shooting! It may cost you 
many a good bag but it will mean peace of mind and the 
protection of many another hunter from much pain or 
death from the result of a spent bullet. Estate owners — 
who have availed themselves of the protection of coma 
mon law in prohibiting shooting upon their premises may — 
be and are actuated by other motives than mere terri-_ 
torial selfishness. If one will go shooting it is advisable 
to use ordinary common sense. Parents may help by dis-— 
couraging the use of firearms by younger members of 
their family. There is wholesome sport enough left for 
young life without placing in their hands instruments of © 
torture for the animal world and which may mean a ser-_ 
ious accident or even death to some human. A wise — 
parent will forbid careless boys to use firearms. Inci- 
dentally it is being overlooked by too many that there 
are simple laws of the Commonwealth regulating the 
use of firearms which are being violated hereabouts and 
the police are exercising their perogatives with commend-_ 
able care. 
THE Town or REvERE is dissatisfied with its ool 
ernment and is seeking a change to purge it of various 
unsavory qualities which have worried it in the past. 
A special committee was appointed to carefully consider 
the ways out of the dilemma and to report plans. ‘This 
committee reports two plans; either of them appears — 
troublesome for whether a town or a city it will be im-_ 
possible for the people of Revere to obtain better ere 
ernment than they are willing to tolerate by their votes. 
The suggested scheme of becoming a part of the City of — 
Boston, possibly Ward 27, would be pleasing enough to 
the politicians of Boston for its voting history would not — 
alarm the powers that be. Those who wish to delight 
in enlarged statistics for the city, territorially and num-_ 
erically, will hail the new comers. Lovers of good gov- — 
ernment will pause a while to think! Forever, it will 
mean, a settled liquor policy; for Revere and the beach — 
will be open to the saloon. Revere may well hesitate 
before it takes the step. The people of Hyde Park would 
gladly go back to their old government. Revere of — 
course will have the Boston tax rate. ‘This is attractive — 
to some. Theoretically the enlargement of the City of 
Boston is bad for the city and it will be equally disas- 
trous to town pride and local initiative. Revere should 
consult Hyde Park before making the leap. 
THe WoMEN oF CALtIForNtIA have their votes but do — 
not know what to do now that they have the power. It 
is probably true that certain influences which make for 
evil in that state are in the same mood but for a different 
reason. When the women once assert their will and 
knowledge, these evil influences will not know what to do. 
Even Mexico would be a welcome haven to them, | 
