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WORLD ON UPGRADE
BISHOPDECLARES
Press Also on Hignest Level,
1 Right Rev. i. E. Freeman
Tells The Star Club.
Bishop James E. Freeman in an ad
dress last night at an Informal get
together dinner of The Evening Star
t'lub at the Raleigh Hotel took
sharp, issue with those who have
• branded this a "decadent age," and
declared that it was plainly evident
"that we are on higher levels morally
and spiritually today than the world
has ever known.”
More than 200 gathered for the
Thanksgiving eve festivities, presided
over by the club president. C. Fred
Cook, who not only introduced the
entertainers and speakers of the
evening, but on behalf of the club
laid "The Star Family” extended thanks
to The Evening Star Newspaper Com
pany for its many beneficences.
Frank B. Noyes, president of the com
pany, responded on behalf of the com
pany.
Bishop Freeman, in his optimistic
address, added:
"To any one who knows compara
tive history it is plainly evident that
we are on higher levels."
Dealing With Human Nature.
Pointing out what he said was a
•‘close connection" between the min
istry and journalism, as “we are both
dealing with human nature,” Bishop
Freeman said both were in position
to discover its "virtues and vices.”
Me believes this not only the best
nge. of history, but that America is
the best spot in the world.
‘T hope it be true,” he added, re
ferring to the press, ‘That the men
who are our opinion-making men
are men who have the hopeful out
look. There never has been a time
■when this country needed it like to
day."
Quoting Robert Louis Stevenson, the
speaker said he believed fervently in
this expression of that genius: "I be
lieve in an ultimate decency of things,
and if I awoke in hell I should still
believe in it."
Bishop Freeman. admitting that
there are "spots of corruption,” and
that he did not say the age is "with
out sin.” declared the man "has got
bis age dead wrong who holds it in
contempt, or speaks of it disparaging
ly • • • i believe profoundly that
no man can gain a high place in pub
lic life and hold it today unless his
life be controlled, hy high moral and
spiritual ideals.” *
Journalism Trend I pnurtl.
Journalism, the speaker said, was
an “enterprise in many respects sec
ond to none,” and a "mighty factor
in shaping the life and destiny of the
Republic.” In spite of much evidence
to the contrary. Bishop Freeman said
it was ins opinion that the press was
on a higher plane, today than it was
69 years ago.
•‘You ire the interpreters of life,”
he- told tbo club; "you are the mirror,
held Up ”lo human life • • *. Y‘ou
penetrate beneath the surface of things,
and, you see them, not as they appear,
but you know them as they are.”
Bishop Freeman praised Woodrow
ivyison for hl» fidelity to an ultimate
ideal. He pointed., to the "religion of
Calvin Coolidge as one of the secrets
of the President's hold on the Ameri
can people, and parrying forward his
theme and optifpisrrL hailed the su
preme spirit of optimism in the
"world's master man,-” - Jesus Christ,
as. one Os the causes for his “trans
cendent; place" in the life of the
wor Id- .
Col. Cooke, for the club, presented
special turkey souvenirs of the eve
ning to those at.jbke hoad table; Frank
It. Noyes, Bishop-Freeman, Theodore W.
Noy.es, Dr. John .- Crayke Simpson and
Vfc.toe Kauffmanh, and also to Clif
ford K. Befrymafi, cartoonist for
The Starr. Each member received an
appropriate Thanksgiving souvenir.
3feyer; ; Goldman and his orchestra
entertained delightfully during the
evening, t}ie club joining in the
chorus of popular „soiiga. John F. M.
Bowie, tenor, accompanied by George
liaon,. and George H. O'Connor, bari
tone., "interrupted" on the piano by
Matt'Horne, proved prime favorites.
Col. Cook headed the committee in
charge of the dinner.
ACTORS GIVE* UP HOLIDAY.
So anxious are Government actors
to ntaka' "L'nci© Barn's Follies” a suc
cess they are giving up their holiday
In order to a'uend today’s rehearsals
at the President Theater. A rehearsal
of special numbers .will be held this
afternoon at 3 o’clock and the entire
cast will run over the show tonight.
Brooke Johns, who is directing the
show.’asked members of the cast to
volunteer to turn out despite turkey
dinner and “everything.” The Federal
girls agreed and the director says
this is a happy Thankgiving day for
him. All members of the cast. Johns
says, have shown co-operative atti
tude in preparing the show. The cast
now comprises 60.
Col. Daniel J. Carr Retired.
Col. Daniel J. Carr, who has been
attached to the United States Signal
Corps almost continuously since July
28, 1880, first as an enlisted man and
then as a commissioned officer from
May 20. 1898, has been placed on the
retired list of the Army on account of
age. He served during the Spanish
War and the World War and reached
the grade of colonel in December,
3919. Recently he has been on leave
of absence at 1809 Varnum street, this
city.
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GOBBLER USURPS EAGLE'S PLACE
AS “GREAT AMERICAN BIRD”
Roamed Forests by the
Millions in Early
Days.
Name Is Believed to
Have Originated in
London Mart,
With apologies to the bald eagle, it
is appropriate to refer to the turkey
as the great American bird. The as
sociation of this species of fowl with
the Thanksgiving Day festivities
places it upon the highest pinnacle
of fame. The few specimens taken
back to Spain by Christopher Colum
bus aroused the greatest curiosity and
interest In that country, and subse
quent Imports of the bird within 50
years stirred Europe to its center.
The turkey—pavo or peacock in
Spain, dindon in France, trutkahn
in Germany and kalkun in Scandi
navian countries—was found by mil
lions in the forests of North America, ;
Central America end Mexico when
the white men came to the Western
shores.
The name given to the turkey is a I
little obscure, but it seems to have |
arisen in London from an almost 1
trivial circumstance. It appears that \
about the time of the birth of Queen i
Elizabeth a hardy navigator brought !
a consignment of these birds from :
America to the London market. Fur- |
veyors of the aristocratic houses of i
London found them, bought them,
tried them and then wanted more. |
London tradesmen were asked the j
name of the fowl, and, because every- j
thing then was brought from Tur
key. those asking for the information
were told that they came from Tur
key, and they were known for many
years in the London markets as those
"Turkey birds." This is one of many
tales told to account for the strange
naming of the American bird, and
is probably as good as any. The
turkey has been domesticated, as far
as it is possible, and long ago be
came a large factor in domestic com
merce.
Once Turkey State.
Rhode Island, for many years, held
chief prominence as the turkey-rais
ing State.
Now Tennessee, Missouri. lowa, Ne
braska and Kentucky dispute su
premacy and literally send millions
of these birds annually to market to
be consumed largely at Thanksgiving
and Christmas feasts. An estimate
made by a commission merchant on
Louisiana avenue places the annual
consumption of turkeys in Washing
ton at 16,000. He said it was only a
guess, as there was no way of know
ing with accuracy how many are eaten.
The scientific name given the tur
key Ls Meleagridae. Meleager, In an
ancient Greek legend, was leader of
the Calydonian hunt, who saved the
beautiful Princess Atalanta from the
savage attack of a wild boar, and
thereby gained fame. This scientific
name seems Just about as applicable
to the great American bird as turkey,
but it has the approval of science,
and that is enough. Three varieties
made up the original stock of wild
turkeys on this continent. They were
the gallopavo of New England and
the greater part of North America,
the oceliata of Honduras and the
mexicana of Mexico. A fourth variety
is supposed to have inhabited the
West India Islands, from which the
birds taken to Spain by Columbus
were obtained. From these, in the
course of 400 years, six varieties have
been evolved, known as the bronze,
Narragansett. buff, ' slate, white and
black. The white arid black bjfds are
“freaks” from the wiThree original
species. '
The turkey has rfikver ' be?n more
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than half domesticated. It is still es
sentially a wild bird. It roams the
fields In flocks, feeds upon insects
and stray grains during the late
Summer and Fall months and only
seeks the shelter of the barnyard
when the food supply fails. Young
■ turkeys seem to distrust man and all
ids works, and each generation of
turkeys lias to be tamed. The birds
: do become quite docile under careful
I management, but the hen turkey for-*
| ever seeks the wild in which to steal
i her nest and rear her young. Testl
| mony la not lacking that it costs less
i to raise a turkey than any other
I fowl, and to the ultimate consumer
! in the Thanksgiving and Christmas
| period they cost more than any other
I fowl, so that somebody makes a good
profit on the Annual product,
i The turkey is doubtless one of the
j oldest birds in America and always
j occupied an important, place in the
domestic life of the Indians. The
Pilgrims at Plymouth learned the
value of the turkey from the Mas
p.asolt Indians. Columbus found it in
the West Indies. Cortez was feasted
upon turkey in Mexico and Peru. The
Maya people embodied the turkey in
their oldest hieroglyphics and the
scientists of the Smithsonian, delv
ing among ruins in Arizona, found
a mummified turkey, and the remains
of nearly all the cliff and cave dwell
ers in the Southwest give up the
bones of the turkey. It was a staple
food among the red men from the
earliest times, as it has come to be
in civilized lands around the globe.
Benjamin Franklin desired to make
the turkey the national bird, but was
outvoted by others, who seemed to
find a truer connection between the
bald eagle and the Indomitable spirit
of the American republic. It may be
die screaming eagle better suits the
ways of war and poets’ dreams, but
the turkey occupies a specially warm
place in the affections of the Amer
ican people. At Thanksgiving and
Christmas time he is king of birds,
and will so remain to the end of time.
ZIONISTS TO* CELEBRATE.
Will Hold Meeting at Wilson Nor
mal Monday Night.
In celebration of the success of
tlie Zionist drive for membership in
this city a meeting will be held at
the Wilson Normal School, Eleventh
and Harvard streets, Monday night.
The speaker of the evening will be
Emanuel Neumann of New York City,
who is the national director of the
Palestine Foundation Fund. Five
million dollars was raised in the
United States under the direction of
Mr. Neumann.
On the program Monday will be
several numbers of music. Delegates
to the National Council of the Pales
tine Fund will be named. The dele
gates will attend the meeting in New
York next week.
BISHOP DEFENDS
YOUIHOFTODAY
Right Rev. W. T. McDowell
Says Pessimists Wrong in
Appraisal of Young.
America may well be thankful that
the youth of the Nation is not, as a
whole, so bad as painted by pessi
mists, for “there is another youth
movement not in the direction of
frivolity and. foolishness, but in the
direction of loyalty and earnestness,”
Bishop William F. McDowell of the
Methodist Episcopal Church declared
today at the National Thanksgiving
service in the Metropolitan Memorial
M. E. Church, John Marshall Place
and C street.
Bishop McDowell admitted that “no
one can be unconscious of the ex
istence of another type of young life,
or the wide extent of it—atype that- is
shallow, superficial, worldly and reck
less”; but he pointed out that "this
type, in some form or other, lias al
ways existed, and has always existed
in# large numbers." The “shallow”
, type, he explained, is easy to see and
exaggerate, and it would be easy to
grow pessimistic about it if one were
inclined to pessimism.
Sees Move (o Service.
“But it is not of this class that I
am thinking on this Thanksgiving
morning,” the bishop stated. "There
is another youth movement that is
indeed exercising a good dea iof free
dom and independence and showing a
good deal of impatience with tradi
tional restraints, but a movement
nevertheless toward service and
earnestness of life, unselfishness and
consecration to the will of Christ.
And in tills I rejoice.
“I know literally hundreds of young
men and young women in the colleges
of America whose levels of aspiration
and devotion are far and away above
the average level in the churches.
They have the spirit of adventure for
the Master. They are impatient that
We do not take Him more seriously..
They have their own faults, but they
are the kind of material out of which
a new age can be made. And for
Christ's sake I thank God for them.
“A second note in my song of
Thanksgiving this morning is based
upon wbat appears to be a clearer un
derstanding of the meaning of faith.
Faith means so much in the life of
the world that everything which
makes it clearer and more potent is a
distinct advantage. As never before.
It is coming to be seen in its highest
reach as personal trust, one person
trusting another person. And this
makes it possible for faith to grow
with knowledge and to increase with
acquaintance.
New Uny Bring. Change.
“There have been times when it
almost seemed as if the less knowl
edge a person possesses the more
faith he might have and must have.
But we have come upon a belter day
which exactly reverses this. We in
terpret personal faith now in the
’ light of the faith of Jesus Christ him
self, who knew God so perfectly that
He could trust Him so absolutely,
i “Last April it was my privilege to
. give a course of lectures at the Ohio
s Wesleyan University from which 45
, years ago, in June, I was permitted
• to graduate. This furnished the o"c
--■ caslon for a fairly thorough review
■ of the student life of my own period
I in college, the years that I have
known student life since, in many
■ colleges, and student life as it ex
> ists today. And making this review.
. I am bound to lift as the first note in
- my song of thanksgiving this morn
ing my joyful gratitude, for the num
l her of the noblest young men and
Father of Coolidge Prefers Chicken
To Turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner
By the Associated Preen.
PLYMOUTH, Vt., November 27.
Col. John Coolidge, father of the
President, yesterday made prepa
rations for a simple dinner in his
farmhouse here today, confessing
he “never was much of a. hand to
make great of Thanksgiving.”
Never having liked turkey, he
bought from a neighbor, yesterday
morning, a chicken, which he him
self plucked and dressed.
Miss Aurora Pierce, his house
keeper, who has prepared his
Thanksgiving dinners for eight
years, will frlcasse it. She said
PRESIDENT LEADS
NATION IN THANKS
FOR GREAT BOUNTY
(Continued from First Page.)
supplemented in our day by a’declara
tion of dependence.’ ” The solidarity
of the world, he declared, which must
come, must "find its root In a sense
of our dependence upon God."
Also of outstanding Importance was
the 10:30 o’clock service at Gunton-
Tempie Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Sixteenth and Newton streets north
west. The sermon was preached by
the pastor, Rev. Bernard Braskamp.
A musical program appropriate to
Thanksgiving day was rendered by
the choir.
Other Church Services.
Every church in the city held special
services in the morning, and many in
cluded evening services in the day’s
program. Among them were Ep
wortli Methodist Episcopal South.
Douglas Memorial Methodist Episco- i
pal. Eastern Presbyterian, Ingram Me
morial Congregational. Keller Memorial
Lutheran. Ninth Street Christian, St.
Paul’s English Lutheran, Epiphany,
Luther Memorial. Episcopal Church of
the Transfiguration, Washington He
brew Congregation, Mount Pleasant
Methodist Episcopal. Church of the
Ascension. AH Souls’ Unitarian, Church
of Our Father, Universallst; Rhode
Island Avenue Methodist Protestant.
Memorial United Brethren. Bethany
Baptist. Eckington Presbyterian, Lin
coln Road Methodist Episcopal. St.
Paul’s Methodist Episcopal, Foundry
Methodist Episcopal, Shiloh Baptist
Institutional. Church of the Covenant,
the four Christian Science churches,
Metropolitan Baptist, Church of the As
cension, Wesleyan Pentecostal and
Holiness Church, colored.
NEEDY AIDED IN CHICAGO.
Feast for “Outcasts” Feature of
Day's Generous Spirit.
CHICAGO, November 27.—G00d
cheer for all was Chicago's Thanks
giving spirit.
Provision was made from the city's
bounty for the Inmates of orphanages,
detention homes and penal institu
tions. the friendless and the wanderer.
Thanksgiving day services in many
churches were directed to those away
from their homes.
Typical of the spirit was “The Feast
of the Outcasts,” served especially,
hosts announced, “to cheerless, home
less, penniless men, tramps, hoboes
and bums." Similar dinners and en
tertainment programs were arranged
by welfare organizations for various
institutions and the poor.
Needy war veterans and dipabled
former service men were cared for by
committees of the American Legion
Auxiliary in hospitals and Sana
women whom I have ever known, who
today are eager to know the mind of
Christ, eager to do in the world the
will of Christ and to conform in
their lives to the pattern of Christ.”
today Mho didn’t expect to cook
ranch in the way of sweets, since
■he didn't eat them herself and the
colonel nsver cares for more than
cne dessert at a meal. •
The two will bo the only per
sons to eat the homestead's din
ner. The colonel said today that
it is more than 10 years since his
son spent that holiday with him.
The village will have no com
munity observance of the day. One
resident said yesterday;
“Last year we were all loggin',
this year there ain't much to do
but clean up.”
torlums. Vaudeville acts and enter
tainment programs augmented regu
lation Thanksgiving dinners served
in the house of correction, detention
home and -State penitentiary at State,
ville, Ills.
NEW FRENCH ENVOY DINES.
Daeschner Guest at American Din
ner in Paris.
By the AaaocUted Pre»».
PARIS, November 27.—Emile Daesch
ner, • recently appointed French Am
bassador to the United States to suc
ceed Jules J. Jusserand. came in con
tact with an American gathering for
the first time last night when he ate
turkey and cranberry sauce with the
American Club at a Thanksgiving
eve dinner.
The new Ambassador was a guest,
of honor, together with Marshals
Joffre and Foch, Gens. Mangtn and
Gouraud and Capt. Georges Pelletier
D'Oisy, the aviator, who recently made
a flight from France to Japan.
Tribute to Jusserand.
M. Daeschner in an address paid
tribute to the career of M. Jusserand.
He said that Aueserand was one of
the great diplomats whom it was
difficult to imitate, but that he would
make it his principal aim to do what
M. Jusserand had been doing for 22
years toward tightening the bonds of
friendship that had existed between
the two republics since the days of
Lafayette and Washington.
The first thing he did when he
learned he had been named Ambas
sador to Washington, said M. Daesch
ner, was to look up the great repub.
lie on the map. He was Impressed
by the vastness of the country, as
he already had been impressed by
the ardor of American boys, who had
never hern out of their country, to
cross the sea to defend France.
Grange Meeting Date Changed.
COLLEGE PARK, November 27. —
Dates for the annual meeting of the
Maryland State Grange at Salisbury,
originally set for Tuesday and Wed
nesday. December 9 and 10, have been
changed to December 11 and 12. it has
been announced by the State master,
H. John Black of Rosslyn. The finally
completed program for the meeting
includes a two-day session, opening
at 9:30 o’clock December 11.
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TORE* TO GOD
Canon De Vries, at Cathe
dra] Service, Sees Much
Cause for Thankfulness.
America should be thankful today
for the spirit of God and His work
which prevail among the people of
the nation. Rev. Dr. William U. De
Vries, chancellor of the National
Cathedral, declared today at Thanks
giving services held at the Cathedral.
Taking as his topic "Our Country"
Dr. De Vries decried the crime and
lawlessness that is spread as an open
book before the people of the United
States every day. and said the
Thanksgiving celebration muat be ac
companied by prayer and effort that
God may become the dominant force
In the life of the nation. "Only
through God can we reach that state
of spiritual life wherein we are at
one with the alms of the Creator.”
“We should be thankful today,” Dr.
De Vries said, "because we are free
from all foreign control and influence.
We govern ourselves. We are not
governed by a chosen and expert few
as were some of the nations of
Europe before the war.”
Dr. De Vries said the men who
fought In the war should not be dis
couraged because we have not ob
tained all we fought for. If Germany
had won the war we might have been
forced to bow the knee to govern
ment dictated by her. he added, ami
would probably not enjoy today the
self-government we now have.
The young men of the United States
are the finest body of men the world
has ever seen. Dr. De Vries said, quot
ing as his authority European phy
sicians who examined the American
soldiers during the war. “And their
idealism Is one of the finest things in
the life of our country today,” he
added. Dr. De Vries said he had travel
ed extensively In the United States
during the last few years, visiting 42
of the 48 States. Travel, he said. Im
parts an Invaluable spiritual asset to
the traveler in this country, because
of its bigness and Its resources.
Concluding, Dr. De Vries called on
the American peole to observe
Thanksgiving day in a spirit of faith
and hope that right will prevail, ever
holding the ideal of the Creator be
fore them for guidance.
61 Ships to Be Salvaged.
[ Correspondence of the Associated Press.
REVAL, November 2.—The Estho
nian government contemplates the sal
vage of 61 war vessels and commercial
carriers sunk during the war off the
Eathonlan coast. Included are 16
Russian, one German and one Eng
[ lish warship. The work will begin
next May.
PRIZE PEACE PLAN
TO BE CHOSEN SOON
$25,000 Award Offered by
Part-Time Resident of
Washington.
By the Associated Press,
AUGUSTA, Me., November 27. —The
plan which has been selected as that
best calculated to promote world
peace by educational methods in the
$25,000 prize contest instituted by
Raphael Herman of Washington.
D. C.. will be made public, together
with the name of the author, on De
cember 8, it was announced yester
day by Dr. Augustus O, Thomas,
president of the World Federation of
Educational Associations.
Mr. Herman is not a resident or
citizen of Washington, but Is a
wealthy business man of Detroit,
Mich., who spends part of his time in
the Capital each year. He was char
acterized today by persons prominent
In educational work here as a person
intensely interested in education and
for that reason had offered the |25,000
prize. Until recently Mr. Herman
vigorously protested against publica
tion of his name as the donor of the
prize. Dr. Thomas is quoted by
friends here as saying, but later he fc
permitted his identity to be revealed*
as selection of the best plan was
about to be accomplished.
Came ro I'. 9. in IS9O.
Mr. Herman was born in Germanv,
December 15, 1865, and came to
America in 1890.
He engaged in business in New York
State, was actively Identified with the
Pan-American exposition in Buffalo
in 1901, and from 1895 to 1903 pub
lished the Acetylene Journal. He
was president of the National Acety
lene Association from 1900 to 1902,
and assumed the office of president
and treasurer of the Diamond Power
Specialty Company of Detroit In
1905, which offices ha apparently
holds today. He also is president
and treasurer of the Power Efficiency
Corporation and the Calorlzing Cor
poration of America. He was an or
ganizer and trustee until 1912 of the
Detroit Tuberculosis Sanitarium, a
member of the Detroit Board of Com
merce and American Museum of
Natural History, New York. He is a
thirty-second degree Mason and un
married.
Noted Russian Poet Dies.
Corropondecce of the Associated Pre.s,
REVAL.. November I.—Valerius
Brjussow, the Russian poet, died re
cently at Moscow, 51 years old. He
was considered one of the most prom
inent representatives of modern Rus
sian literature. He was a member of
the Communist party.