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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Backup Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13737 Folder ID Number: 13737-003 Folder Title: [Thanksgiving] Turkey Presentation 11/14/90 [OA 8318] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 26 21 1 4 McGroarty November 16, 1989 5:00 pm [TURKEY] -- Welcome to the White House -- and thank you for joining me as I participate for the first time in a tradition as old as the American Presidency: the signing of the annual Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. -- 200 years ago, George Washington signed the original proclamation for a day of Thanksgiving -- a day of thanks for the bounty we enjoy -- and above all, for the blessings of freedom. -- That's why I'm so pleased to welcome the young Americans, recent newcomers to our country, who are here today. Like every American, you too are descendants of the first Pilgrims -- united by a love of liberty. -- And this year especially, as that yearning for freedom inspires millions around the world, giving thanks for the freedoms we enjoy takes on a special meaning. -- That brings me to another tradition involving our special guest here today -- who's understandably nervous. ( (Gesture toward turkey)) It's my great privilege to receive the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. -- And let me assure you -- and this fine tom turkey, too -- he won't end up on anyone's dinner table. I hearby grant a presidential pardon that will allow this fellow to live out his days on a children's farm not far from here. -- Finally, let me ask all of you to remember another American tradition. Let this holiday time spent with family and friends remind us that helping others less fortunate than ourselves may be the best way we have of giving thanks. -- God bless you, and may you all have a happy Thanksgiving. And now, I'll sign the proclamation. # # # [[-- And now, I'll sign the proclamation declaring next Thursday Thanksgiving Day. /// ]] NOTE: If above line is inserted, delete last sentence: "And, now I'll sign the proclamation." VOL. 164, NO. 2 AUGUST 1983 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC THE BIRD MEN 198 LIVING THEATER IN NEW GUINEA 147 DELIGHT-SIZED DELAWARE 171 CASE OF THE KILLER CATERPILLARS 219 THE MISSISSIPPI'S DISAPPEARING DELTA 226 SRI LANKA'S WILDLIFE: A HISTORY-AND FUTURE- OF PRESERVATION 254 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY WASHINGTON, D.C. DELAWARE Who Needs to Be Big? By JANE. VESSELS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDITORIAL STAFF Photographs by KEVIN FLEMING Beacons across the Delaware Memor ial Bridge light the busiest corridor ina bantam statethat counts its small size a great advantage 171. OST MISUNDERSTANDINGS Delaware River and Bay, sunset sails on M about the place, I'm pretty certain, back bays protected by broad Atlantic stem from its size. A Delawarean beaches, veils of fog curving above tidewa- named Mark Mathre told me the ter farmland, burgundy foliage draping an story, not apocryphal at all, about old Quaker meetinghouse. a crew from television's "Candid Camera" Ironically, when Delaware goes big, it show who set up a roadblock at the state goes biggest: Half the U.S. fleet of C-5A line. They had no trouble persuading: a num- Galaxies, the world's largest airplane, is sta- ber of motorists approaching from Pennsyl- tioned in the capital at Dover Air Force Base vania that Delaware was closed for the day. (pages 188-9). The whole state of Delaware. Because it was E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, filled up. the nation's largest chemical firm, whose in- "Of course," Mark said, "any Delawar- ventions include nylon and Teflon, took root eans coming home would have answered, here 181 years ago and directs its worldwide 'We've got reserved seats." operations from Wilmington. Whenever they do travel and tell others Wilmington, Delaware's largest city, is where they're from, Delawareans risk being also a leading center of corporate law. More asked, "What state is that in?" They weren't than half the top 500 U.S. companies and a much surprised last summer when a nation- third of the companies on the New York al convention of police chiefs met in Dela- Stock Exchange are incorporated in Dela- ware, and it came out that many delegates ware, to take advantage of legal expertise were expecting a trip to New England. And and low yearly fees, though few of these those who live here are still gracious enough firms keep headquarters here. to chuckle about "Delawhere?". But even with its skyline and express- "Just make sure people understand," ways, Wilmington feels more like a town Mark emphasized, "Delaware is a state." than a metropolis. "I walk into a restaurant, If Mark's request points up a staunch and it seems half the people say hi to me by Delawarean pride, it also, I think, suggests name," marveled a recently transplanted that the nation's second smallest state is New Yorker, taken aback by the familiarity somehow different, and special. of this little big city. I've also come to believe that everyone in D' ELAWARE is a state all right-and the Delaware knows everyone else. Irving S. First State at that, having been the ear- Shapiro, Wilmington lawyer and retired liest to ratify the U.S. Constitution. chairman of Du Pont, supported my suspi- But this predominantly rural enclave cions. "My operating premise in Delaware is on the Delmarva Peninsula feels like a much that there are no secrets," he laughed. "The more intimate domain. Only 96 miles long grapevine works very effectively." and at most 35 miles wide, it's smaller than This closeness leads to some lively poli- many U.S. counties. Its population barely tics. Who but Delawareans could sustain a exceeds 600,000. Rhode Island, about half tradition like Return Day? This occasion for Delaware's size, has 60 percent more people. celebration and wound binding is held the Milwaukee has more people. This is a small- Thursday after Election Day in Georgetown town state, where peace, quiet, and good in the southernmost county, Sussex. The neighbors are surplus commodities. custom lingers from an era when people had "It's the little things you notice," said to travel to the county seat to hear election English-born Vicki Fitzpatrick, who settled results. Today, winning and losing candi- here for Delaware's gentle beauties: deer dates come from all over the state to ride side and herons in marshland refuges along the by side in a parade of floats and marching "That pumpkin house" was the talk of Magnolia when Mayor Shirley H. Jarrell painted her home and dispelled the notion that nothing changes here but the stoplight and the seasons. "It's a good town to govern; we all know each other," says Jarrell, with son, D. R. "When I wear this hat, people know I'm free to talk town business." 172 National Geographic, August 1983 The elegance of Granogue and like estates in the Brandywine Valley grew with the estate, still half-farmed, once held a railroad depot. The romance of steam returns fortune of the du Pont family. who settled in northern Delaware almost two centuries when the all-volunteer Wilmington & Western Railroad runs excursions here and in ago. Granogue was built in 1923 when the family gunpowder business was neighboring Red Clay Valley. "It's a hobby keeping history alive," says fireman expanding into the chemical empire of today's Du Pont Company. The 515-acre J.C. Nelson. "I wish you could still hear these whistles blowing far away at night." 174 National Geographic, August 1983 Delaware-Who Needs to Be Big? 175 PENNSYLVANTA Brandywine Creek PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA Newark INTERNATIONAL River York AIRPORT bands. Victors have a grand time, and the Pennsylvania until Delaware gained com- GRANDGUE BRANDYWINE CREEK Ardens plete independence just in time to join the WINTERTHUR Delaware Harrisburg, Tranton defeated are scrutinized for grace. Philadelphia NEW BELIEVUE JERSEY The governor, the U.S. senators, and declaration of freedom from England. EXPERIMENTAL STATION Wilmingtons Samden Delaware's lone representative in Congress DUPONT But overlying county devotion is a more Red Clay Wilmington turn out, even if they haven't been up for strident sectionalism. The world according WALTERS Elsmere Baltimore CARPENTER PORT OF LMINGTON election. "I would guess," ventured 48-year- to Delaware splits into Upstate and Down- DELAWARE MEMORIAL BRIDGE NEW MARYLAND Dover Newar old Republican Governor Pierre S. "Pete" state-Above the Canal and Below the Ca- JERSEY Washington Annapolis DELAWARE New Castle du Pont IV, "that well over half the state- DELAWARE GREATER WILMINGTON AIRPORT Delmarya, Atlantic nal. Debating the merits of the two regions is KILLCOHOOK Ocean maybe even two-thirds-personally knows a treasured institution. NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Peninsula Ocean GETTY OIL REFINERY FORT DELAWARE City at least one of us. People feel, perhaps, a lit- The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal LUMS tle more stake in the government." opened in 1829 to connect the two bays. Delaware City POND Richmond CANAL AUGUSTINE The casual, congenial governor, whose Bay World-faring ships sail this shortcut Delaware's unique northern border, style would delight writers of The Official LAWARE an arc of a circle with a 12-mile VIRGIN through New Castle County, no doubt un- CANAL WILDLIFE AREA Port Penn radius drawn from the city of 37° Preppy Handbook, likes to brag about his aware they are traversing a social demilita- NEW New Castle, was established in 1681. Norfolk state. In six years the budget has been bal- rized zone. "Our Mason-Dixon line," said CASTLE SILVER RUN 75°W Odessa anced, short-term debt has vanished, per- Bill Frank, a journalist who has covered the Middletown Traditional marshland living sonal income taxes have fallen, and the SCENIC is celebrated with fried muskrat state for 60 years. "Delaware is a northern ROUTE9 and snapping turtle soup at the fall lowest state bond rating in the country has state with a southern exposure. And it's a Port Penn Marshland Folk Festival. risen to more than respectable. southern state with a northern exposure." Flemings DELAWARE WOODLAND Landing BEACH How did Delaware do it? "Very good bi- Downstaters paint northern New Castle 24 partisan cooperation," said Governor du BLACKBIRD The First State County as an urban rat race run by aspiring = Pont. "We all know each other, and if there's sophisticates who, on the whole, would sources together to solve it. This is why I say Listen to Bill Collins, a dyed-in-the-wool MARYLAND Smyrna BOMBA Clayton 13 a problem, we can bring the people and re- HOOK THE SECOND SMALLEST state rather be in Philadelphia-and should be. BLACKISTON Leipsic NATIONAL started the nation by being first to 1 WILDLIFE Leipsic Delaware is small enough to work." REFUGE ratify the U.S. Constitution. Only Sussex Countian: "If I had my choice, we'd Cheswold three states are less populated. Two- ship everything above the canal back to DELAWARE STATE COLLEGE thirds of the people live in the urbanized DELAWARE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM D ESPITE ITS SCALE, Delaware is far Pennsylvania." Dover LITTLE north above the Chesapeake from homogeneous. The state began as CREEK Upstaters seldom retaliate. It wouldn't be AWARE Wyoming DEL and Delaware Canal. Predominantly DOVER AIR a confederacy of three counties, and, to proper. They just aloofly acknowledge the FORCE BASE Camden rural, Delaware has the hear talk, you might think it remains quaintness of "slower" Delaware, and hope that while driving to the Sussex County MARYLAND&D greatest percentage of so, for county loyalty runs deep. Stacked NORMAN WILDER Magnolia farmland on the East from bottom to top-descending in size and beaches their cars won't stall in a town AT KENT Coast. Size and diversity ascending in population-are Sussex (coun- where the rural accent defies translation. Mason and Dixon surveyed make the state an ideal Delaware's northern and western ty seat Georgetown), Kent (county seat KILLEN MILFORD microcosm for pollsters. The differences behind this hyperbole borders as well as marking their POND NECK Dover), and New Castle (county seat most famous line the Maryland- predate the canal, which, by accident, Pennsylvania border. Wilmington). For almost a hundred years defined historic patterns of development. Harrington Slaughter STATE FAIR Beach AREA: 2,045 sq mi (5,297 sq km). they were known as the Lower Counties of Delaware Bay became known to Europe Milford GROUNDS POPULATION: 602,000. PRIME HOOK Cedar ECONOMY: Manufacturing- NATIONAL WILDLIFE chemicals, automobiles, State manaded area REFUGE food processing; tourism; Industrial might begins in Ellendale agriculture-poultry, Greenwood the north above the CAPE soybeans, corn. Chesapeake and Delaware ELLENDALE Lewes HENLOPEN CITIES: Wilmington, 404 Milton 70,200; Newark, 25,250; Canal, where coastal Route 9 Bridgeville Rehoboth Dover (capital), 23,500. meets the Getty Oil REDDEN Beach refinery, capable of CONRAIL Georgetown Dewey SUSSEX COUNTY 14 Beach processing 140,000 barrels SUSSEX AIRPORT DELAWARE of crude oil daily. Getty Seaford The Nanticoke Powwow gathers SEASHORE Built-up area leases much of its 5,000 Delaware surviving Indians. Nanticoke each September in Millsboro. Indian National wildlife refuge acres here for farming. Indian River Millsboro HOLTS Inlet State wildlife area But one refinery is Bethel Broad Creek LANDING enough, Delaware decided, Laurel TRAP POND Dagsboro State park Ocean View Bethany and in 1971 passed the NANTICOKE Beach State forest Coastal Zone Act banning Trussum ASSAWOMAN.TO FENWICK Marshlands new heavy industry along SCENIC ROUTE Pond Cypress ISLAND Swamp Selbyville 0 KILOMETERS 15 the shoreline and canal. Fenwick Island o STATUTE MILES 15 ENDS MARYLAND DRAWN BY ISKANDAR BADAY CONRAIL COMPILED BY JOHN R. TRCIBER 176 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHIC DIVISION urban Pioneering a revival of city living, Wilmington launched the nationwide trend of homesteading in 1973. Innovative banking laws and tax breaks now city-a leader in corporate law and the chemical industry. Studying a bring new businesses and an unprecedented building boom to Delaware's largest computer-generated model of DNA, Edward Caruthers probes Du Pont's latest frontier, molecular biology. Du Pont employs 8 percent of the state's work force. in the early 1600s, and was named for Lord De La Warr, a governor of Virginia. enduring agricultural tradition. More than The best nonmarshy coastal land was 50 percent of Delaware remains farmland, of the bay and a terminus of the Delaware sullen heat of Washington, D. C., that the the largest percentage on the East Coast. River pilots who yearly guide 3,000 cargo town of Rehoboth Beach calls itself the found around present-day Wilmington. Agriculture directly employs just 2 percent ships and oil tankers up the estuary to Wil- nation's summer capital. Delaware's beach Here Swedes introduced log cabins to the New World in 1638 when they built the first of the work force, but its earnings trail only mington, Philadelphia, and Camden. communities-indeed, the entire peninsu- manufacturing and tourism. The first stranger I introduced myself to la-felt a sea change in 1952 when the Ches- permanent settlement on the Christina Riv- turned out to be one Jack Vessels. We have apeake Bay Bridge retired the ferries. Ocean er. The Dutch, who earlier lost a fort at the mouth of the bay through a misunderstand- S A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT no proof of relationship yet, but in the spirit City, Maryland, just over the border, now A from Virginia, I plead diplomatic im- of Sussex hospitality took to calling each mirrors Miami Beach. But the Delaware ing with local Indians, wrestled for the terri- other cousin. A house restorer by trade, 42- tory. The English bested both. munity in Delaware's cross-canal feud. towns retain quiet profiles. year-old Jack was transforming a 1728 home Wilmington grew into a port of entry, I began my explorations with language into a visitors center. Lewes draws an in- OSS WAGNER's ice-cream parlor welcoming Scotch-Irish in the 1700s and lat- lessons from a native-photographer Kevin Fleming. The town of Lewes, he taught me, creasing share of the tourists who leave 135 M dominates summer nightlife in Beth- er Irish, Germans, Italians, and Poles. is pronounced Lew-is. Leipsic is Lip-sick, million dollars each year along Delaware's any Beach (winter population 330; Quakers dominated the city's early indus- Atlantic beaches. and Newark must be distinctly New-ark, summer population 12,000). One tries, flour and textile mills on Brandywine or you'll be directed across the river to This expansive 25-mile-long coastline, restaurant acquired a liquor license last Creek. Upper New Castle County, today New Jersey. more than half state parkland, seems to summer, and the town has taken the matter home to two-thirds of the state's population, still leads in manufacturing. Actually, I may have ancestral ties here defy crowding, even when weekends lure as to court with the refrain, "We don't want to many as 90,000 sun seekers. Step beyond be like Rehoboth Beach." English planters, many with slaves, mi- myself. Vessels, I heard time and again, is a "good Sussex County name." " clusters of bodies and blankets, and the surf; Rehoboth Beach, a conservative, church- grated from Maryland into Kent and Sussex I sought Delaware's Vessels clan in Lew- gulls, and gentle dunes work their magic for going town (winter pop. 1,730; summer, Counties in the 18th century and sowed an an audience of one. es, a quiet harbor town of 2,200 at the mouth 50,000), doesn't want to be like Rehoboth So many of the tourists are fleeing the Beach either. (Continued on page 184) 178 National Geographic, August 1983 Delaware-Who Needs to Be Big? 179 Grandest of the du Pont manors, Winterthur (top right) was made a museum in 1951 by Henry Francis du Pont, the fifth generation to own it. Inheriting the estate in 1926, he enlarged the home and filled its 196 rooms with the world's largest collection of American decorative arts. "At first he thought of his collecting as simply furnishing the house," says former curator John Sweeney. "But there was also a teaching aspect. As early as 1929 du Pont had the idea that Winterthur should be 'for the education and enjoyment of the public.' Pursuing that bequest, the annual Winterthur Point-to-Point Races (right) attract some 10,000 spectators in early May when the gardens of the 963-acre estate peak in spring bloom. Proceeds aid the museum's operation. Winterthur, with the University of Delaware, established the first graduate program in American decorative arts. The two also sponsor one of the country's three major art conservation programs. In the training studio (top left) instructors and students restore works from Winterthur and other collections. 180 A full-throttle day breaks as Leipsic watermen Alan Pleasanton, at the helm, and Jimper Fox (below) head out to bait crab pots in the Delaware Bay and River. A good haul will land 15 to 20 bushels, but fluctuating prices and productivity make life on the water chancy. "If you can't accept that, you might as well work in a factory," says Alan, who also fishes and traps eels. Commercial watermen and charter fishing boats share the estuary with oil tankers and merchant ships that travel a path dredged up the center. Heavy shoaling frustrated an early explorer, Henry Hudson, who retreated in 1609 to leave his name on another bay. "The problem with Delaware Bay," says one captain, with a bit of salty exaggeration, "is that you can get out and walk almost anywhere." A swing and a miss seems an easy call. And with a tire for an umpire, you can't argue back. Any pitch thrown through the hole is an automatic strike by the rules of this pickup game in Leipsic, a village of 228 people fronting the Leipsic River. Leipsic and other coastal towns thrived on oystering until a parasite invaded Delaware Bay in the late 1950s and wiped out the industry, today barely recovering. The few boats still docked in Leipsic, like this crabber (right), chug out at dawn largely for the blue crabs and fish that Delaware's fisheries supply to Northeast restaurants. 182 "We've toughened our disturbing-the- In 1971 the state blocked the Shell Oil in Laurel, never knew Bethel existed,' said percent of the state's agricultural income. peace laws and noise ordinance, and Company's plans to build a refinery in Andi, who grew up in Rehoboth Beach and Delaware ranks eighth nationally in broil- cracked down on group rentals," explained southern New Castle County by creating the Wilmington. "We didn't expect to stay, but er production, but no U.S. county grows 42-year-old Mayor John Hughes. "We want Coastal Zone Act, prohibiting new heavy in- the longer we did, the more we liked it. It's more chickens than Sussex. The modern to be a family town. We don't mind singles, dustry along the coastline and the Chesa- not the social whirl of Wilmington, but I poultry industry began here 60 years ago but we don't want to be a swinging town." peake and Delaware Canal. don't have to worry when my daughter rides when Cecile Steele of Ocean View (two miles Demographics being what they are, there "Unfortunately, the action was interpret- her bike down the street. It's a very uncom- inland from Bethany Beach and an ocean are plenty of single tourists. Bars and restau- ed as meaning Delaware wasn't interested in plicated life." view) hatched the simple but revolutionary rants cloned from Washington establish- business growth," said Nathan Hayward Most of the hypnotic miles of farmland idea of raising chickens as a year-round eat- ments do brisk summer trade. III, the energetic director of the Delaware around Bethel, like 90 percent of Delaware's ing commodity, not merely as castoffs of the The Washington-born mayor under- Development Office. "We set out to change tilled acreage, grow soybeans and corn. It's fresh-egg industry. stands these rites of summer. Rehoboth and that image, and I think we're doing the job." chicken feed; all but a fraction of the harvest Chicken growers today are foster parents its famed boardwalk have figured in every The 1981 Financial Center Development nourishes broiler chickens-180 million of to their flocks. Virtually all 1,200 of Dela- summer of Hughes's life; his parents built a Act broke new ground in this effort. It them last year-which account for 55 ware's growers are under contract to one of beach house here in the late 1920s. allows out-of-state banks to operate in "My friends and I used to have wild Delaware, entices them to do so with tax times," he recalled. "But the town is less tol- incentives, and eliminates the ceiling on erant of high jinks now because this is home interest rates; banks can charge what the to more people. When my wife and I moved market will bear. Twelve banks including here permanently in 1964, there wasn't an- Chase Manhattan, Citibank, and Chemical other person on our block that winter, and Bank have established subsidiaries. only a few stores stayed open. Now about 30 In another innovative move, the state has percent of the businesses go-year round, and petitioned the U.S. Department of Com- we have a better class of stores." merce to establish a foreign trade zone in the Retirees account for much of the popula- Kent County town of Wyoming. Orange- tion increase, a phenomenon felt throughout juice concentrate would be imported from Sussex County as tourists who once dashed Brazil, processed in an old Wyoming can- through to the shore take off their blinders. nery, then exported duty-free to Canada or The county population jumped 22 percent in any foreign port. the past decade to 98,000-the largest growth in the state and almost double the I ALSO found Delaware recycling its ar- national average. Greater job opportunities chitectural past into a future. are also keeping native Sussex Countians Overlooking Broad Creek in south- home-and luring them back-after dec- west Sussex County, the immaculate ades of brain drain. white houses, narrow streets, and tiny gen- "It's taken a lot of people by surprise that eral store of Bethel create an illusion of a folks are interested in Sussex," said Dick toy village come to life. The largest homes, Carter, the county's 35-year-old historical built at the turn of the century, belonged preservation planner. Sussex is hoping to to ship captains and ship carpenters. In attract small, quality manufacturing. those days Bethel prospered as a shipbuild- "Agriculture is the backbone of the coun- ing center, sending vessels down-creek to ty's economy, but we want to give our people the Chesapeake Bay. choices," he explained. "And we need more A 1955 Delaware guidebook describes it control over our destiny than rampant coast- as a ghostly, albeit charming, "forgotten al development allows. I think our discovery backwater. Still marvelously in the middle by the outside world is going to be the domi- of nowhere, Bethel has been restored as a nant theme for the next generation, and we bedroom hamlet by people who want to re- want to keep Sussex halfway decent." tire or raise children in a rural setting, yet This is the tightrope also walked by state- can take advantage of services and jobs in level development planners. How to di- nearby Laurel or Seaford, where Du Pont versify the economy-heavily dependent on Broiler chickens lay a golden egg for Delaware, producing 55 percent of its farm operates the world's largest nylon plant. chemicals, agriculture, and automobile George and Andi Martz moved here four income, and for Frank Perdue, chairman of the region's largest poultry assembly-without sacrificing Delaware's company. Here he shoulders one of the 180 million chickens that went to market years after George took a teaching job in homegrown charms? last year from this state, where the modern poultry industry began in 1923. Laurel. "It sounds crazy, but when we lived 184 National Geographic, August 1983 Delaware-Who Needs to Be Big? 185 the nine poultry companies on the Delmarva Fletcher, who farms 300 acres of, yes, soy- Peninsula. The company provides chicks beans and corn. The Webbs raise 174,000 and feed, then processes and markets the chickens a year in two 400-foot-long houses. I KENT COUNTY, just south of Dover, those arresting colors because her house was I found the center of the universe. It's a built by a wealthy peach grower at the turn quiet town, and I almost drove through of the century. A blight ended Delaware's birds. The grower owns the chicken house We walked into one house and greeted without realizing I was there. What made national dominance as a peach producer and pays the electric bill. The house lights thousands of Judy's ten-week-old "babies." me veer recklessly to the side of the road was about that time, but orchards thrive again in shine almost continuously to encourage "People tease me and ask if I'm knitting the sight of a magnificent home and its out- the area today. gluttony as feed pans automatically refill. them bootees," she said, walking among her buildings painted in shades of peach. It's the "I find peaches and potatoes and such on Chickens grow bigger and faster thanks to chattering flock. I averted my eyes as visions mayor's house, and the sign in front de- my doorstep because people know I don't breeding, nutrition, and technology. The of dinner crept to mind. "They don't partic- clares: "This is Magnolia, the center of the farm," Jarrell said of her town's spirit. "My pioneering Mrs. Steele needed four months ularly care for Fletcher," she confided, "but universe around which the earth revolves." neighbors will wash my dishes or cut my to raise a two-pound bird. Today Judy I talk to them all the time. I think that makes "We call Magnolia that because our grass during the day. We help each other and Fletcher Webb of Ellendale can ship a a better bird." boundary is a circle, a symbol of brother- out. You miss that in today's time. seven-to-nine-pound roaster in 12 weeks. Maybe so. The Webbs' contractor, Per- hood," explained Shirley Huddleston Jar- Whatever its position in the cosmos, Mag- "We sold the dairy cows and went into due Farms, named them 1982 roaster grow- rell, a dynamo of a mayor who also teaches nolia proved itself a force to be reckoned the chicken business four years ago," said ers of the year. and raises a young son alone. She chose with when it challenged the U.S. Census Harvesttime farmhands kick up Kent County dust, digging and sorting of the rich farmland now grows soybeans and corn for chicken feed. Lost in a potatoes. With the decline in local canneries and the boom in poultry, most shower of kernels, a worker raises a board to distribute corn in a truck bed. 187 World's largest airplanes, C-5A outsize military equipment, could Dover AFB also operates the nation's some of the new C-5Bs at Dover. Galaxies prep for flight at Dover hold six Greyhound buses. Peacetime largest military mortuary. The more than That plane is as controversial as the Air Force Base, busiest military 900 dead from Jonestown, Guyana, C-5A, an aircraft that ran two billion missions include airlifting mobile air cargo port on the East Coast and hospitals to worldwide disaster areas were brought here in 1978. dollars over budget and is criticized home to half the U.S. C-5A fleet. The and carrying limousines and security Vital to the local economy, the base as needlessly large and expensive 83-yard-long jet, designed to carry may expand if the Air Force stations to maintain and fly. vehicles for presidential travels. 189 188 National Geographic, August 1983 Delaware-Who Needs to Be Big? Bureau. "The 1980 census counted only 197 people," Jarrell said. "The postmaster, the town council, and I went door to door and came up with 327 people. I could not believe they couldn't count correctly in a circle half a mile wide. We would have lost a part of our federal revenue sharing, which is very im- portant to us since we only take in $2,870 in property taxes." A government recount raised the official tally to 283, and the center of the universe kept its federal funds. T HOSE 44 UNCOUNTED SOULS in Magnolia aside, Kent County's popu- lation growth echoes that of Sussex. New housing widens the suburban spread around the historic capital of Dover. Since World War II, Dover Air Force Base and manufacturers like General Foods and ILC Dover-where the Apollo space suits were built-have lessened dependence on agriculture, though about half the county is still farmed. An Old Order Amish community of 235 families tills land west of Dover with horse- drawn plows. There is also a sizable Men- nonite community, "more progressive in worldly ways," Amish farmer Henry Byler told me. "They use cars and electricity. His ancestors, like those of most of these Amish, came to Kent early in this century, not di- rectly from Pennsylvania but from the Mid- west, where they had migrated earlier. Byler shares his 105-acre farm outside Cheswold with his oldest child, 27-year-old Junior. But he worries about land for his younger sons. "Land's getting so it's not available," he said. "One group went out to an area of Kentucky where land is not as ex- pensive. It's not as productive as this soil, but they manage." East of Dover thousands of acres of feder- al and state wildlife refuges attract increas- ing numbers of Canada and snow geese that migrate each fall down the Atlantic flyway. A beach-blanket quilt spreads each summer when as many as 90,000 tourists weekend on Delaware's broad 25-mile- long Atlantic coast. The small beach communities winter quietly-and count multimillion-dollar profits. 190 Day breaks, and the V-line squadrons soar in mournful song and precision flight that built before the Coastal Zone Act. The land effort by many scientists, Kwolek's break- chemical capital of America is putting mon- has begun the slightest of rolls out of the make your heart ache to join them. And per- through occurred "unexpectedly," she said ey on becoming a financial center too. haps warn them about hunting blinds as coastal plain, so even the remaining farms modestly. A significant percent of the na- Anticipating banking expansion and new take on a different cast. they head inland to feed. tion's graduate-level chemists work in Dela- businesses lured by city tax incentives, de- "Thirty years ago, if you came home with Most of the state lives on this northern ware, but, with only a bachelor's degree, velopers are pushing new buildings into the one-sixth of the land, largely in greater Wil- Kwolek has earned 16 patents since joining skyline at an unprecedented rate. Hopes and a couple of geese, you had something to talk about," one hunter said. "There are 200,000 mington and Newark (New-ark, remem- Du Pont in 1946. plans are ambitious for this city that grew ber), home of the University of Delaware. geese out there today because our farms are Marketed in 1972 as a tire reinforcement, up in the shadow of Philadelphia, which it The energy level quickens as you encoun- now growing soybeans and corn, and me- Kevlar has become the preferred material resembles. The spirit is contagious. chanical harvesters leave a lot behind." ter expressways, the Port of Wilmington, for bulletproof vests. Cables of Kevlar may "Wilmington feels like a city waiting to and heavy industry, including two automo- A knockdown goose-feather pillow fight soon anchor oil rigs, and the U. S. Army has happen," observed one newcomer. bile plants, a steel mill, and the Amtrak re- ordered Kevlar-reinforced helmets. "We're watching a child being born," ech- seemed to be raging when I dropped by Alan pair yard for the Northeast. The chemical oed Don Callender, director of the city's new Pleasanton's picking shop in Leipsic during companies-led by Du Pont, Hercules, and HE DU PONT COMPANY and the du Convention and Visitors Bureau. Now he November hunting season. Hand a goose and $1.50 to Alan, and five minutes later it's ICI Americas-dominate manufacturing. Yet silence caresses the pastoral areas of ready for cooking. His mechanical picking T Pont family are no longer synonymous. and others are trying to figure out what to The 2,000 or so living descendants of call this new baby. "We have an identity cri- northern Delaware, where narrow roller- Pierre Samuel du Pont-their collec- sis," he told me. "Chemical Capital? Corpo- machine drums off feathers with rubber fin- gers. Six-year-old daughter Nan does her coaster roads pass old stone houses, clap- tive worth estimated to be at least 8.5 billion rate Capital? These images don't conjure up best to help. board horse barns, and split-rail fences. dollars-live largely outside Delaware. all the reasons why you'd want to come to "Nan loves to gut," said Alan, watching This is land preserved by the wealthy, nick- Their interests are diverse, their wealth less Wilmington." named Château Country for the estates concentrated. Nevertheless, visitors annually spend most of her arm disappear into a goose. "But you just know by the time she's big enough to owned, most noticeably, by du Ponts. "The great period of du Pont family influ- more than 200 million dollars in the city and really help, she won't want to." ence was 1910 to 1960," Delaware historian surrounding New Castle County, touring HE DU PONT legacy in Delaware dates John A. Munroe told me as we played "what museums and estates like Winterthur, Bird picking begins the winter work cycle for Alan, a 32-year-old waterman of line- T from 1802, when French immigrant if?" and tried to imagine Delaware without where Henry Francis du Pont amassed the backer girth. Mid-December he starts trap- Eleuthère Irénée du Pont built a gun- du Ponts. "I think the state would be both largest and most comprehensive collection ping muskrats on 200 acres of marsh up the powder mill on Brandywine Creek better and worse off today," he said. "Cer- of American furnishings. Residential downtown Wilmington has Leipsic River. February ice breakup on the north of Wilmington. His father, Pierre tainly on the whole, worse. But some things Delaware Bay, 11 miles downriver, brings Samuel du Pont de Nemours, didn't think might be better if the state had been forced to been rebounding during the past decade much of the idea. gillnetting for perch and rockfish, then shad do them on its own. There's still a tendency with renewed interest in urban living and and trout. April to November he sets pots for Today explosives are just a pop in the to think that rich people are going to take restoration. Some of the renovation has eels and blue crabs. company's 33-billion-dollar annual sales. care of things." occurred through urban homesteading, a Few men still ply the water and marsh Du Pont launched a chemical empire early If the tremendous du Pont gifts were program pioneered here in 1973 that spread year round, weathering unpredictable pro- in this century with dyes and pigments. In sometimes tied with political strings, they across the country. One dollar buys an aban- ductivity and prices. The oyster industry, the 1930s it perfected Freon for refrigeration also helped push Delaware-at times kick- doned house from the city in exchange for once the lifeblood of Leipsic and other coast- and invented nylon, the first totally man- ing and screaming-into the 20th century. fixing it up and living in it at least three al towns, collapsed in the late 1950s when made fiber. Orlon and Dacron followed. T. Coleman du Pont instigated and fi- years. An innovative lease-purchase plan a parasite infested the bay. Seeding opera- Add agrochemicals, plastics, pharmaceuti- nanced most of the first paved state-long is helping lower income families become tions have helped, but "oysters look bleak," cals, medical diagnostic equipment, and highway that opened in 1924. homeowners in new developments. as Alan told me. electronics. About 70 percent of Du Pont's His cousin and political enemy, Alfred I. Close-knit Italian and Polish communi- "Crabs and eels? Seems I worked last goods are based on petroleum products, SO du Pont, mailed checks to the elderly from ties withstood the turmoil of the 1960s when summer for the hell of it. I've had years I in 1981 it became an oil company as well, 1929 to 1931 while the state stalled in enact- urban renewal razed blocks of black neigh- buying Conoco for 7.8 billion dollars. caught fewer, but I'm getting prices of ten ing a pension plan. borhoods and Interstate 95 cut through the Although most Du Pont products are Another cousin, Pierre S. du Pont, almost middle of the city. Wilmington, once an im- years ago with operating costs of today. Still, if you can scratch out any kind of living made out of state, their invention occurs single-handedly modernized Delaware's portant center on the Underground Rail- doing what you want, I say you're ahead of mainly at the 147-acre Experimental Station school system during the 1920s. road, is more than 50 percent black. near Wilmington. most people." Those three cousins had joined forces to Cross into upper New Castle County on In her laboratory there, research associate keep the Du Pont Company from being sold ESTLED in one of the poorer black bridges soaring above the canal, and the Stephanie Kwolek handed me a jar labeled outside of the family in 1902, and their deci- sion to build a 12-story headquarters in Wil- N communities that escaped the bull- panorama foretells a different world. 1965. What looked like opalescent nail pol- dozers, the Christina Cultural Arts Smokestacks rise from the riverfront Getty ish was one of her earliest solutions used to mington brought new direction to the city. Center has emerged to provide inex- Oil refinery, a Delmarva Power and Light spin Kevlar, a new generation of synthetic New blood and a building boom are surg- pensive, quality training for aspiring artists generating station, and other plants mostly fiber five times stronger than an equal ing into Wilmington today with the arrival and anyone moved by Mozart, gospel, jazz, weight of steel. After a 15-year research of out-of-state banks. This corporate and ballet, drama, or painting. Hundreds of 192 National Geographic, August 1983 Delaware-Who Needs to Be Big? 193 mostly blacks, study here each Brumskill, the center's direc- hat percentage changing. are just beginning to realize what he said. "Our purpose is to take whole community, but this must place where blacks train and their heritage because there's no like it in the state.' designer, Brumskill volunteers to create costumes for Opera Its performing headquarters, renovated 19th-century Grand ouse, also houses the Delaware whose season ticket sales have 700 to 5,000 since 1979. marked the opening of the Del- eatre Company, the state's first professional drama group. "The has proved to be a wonderful so- that unites all types of people," Morris, the company's co- Classic American realism links artistic director. Wilmington sculptor Charles Parks with painters of the Brandywine School such as Brumskill and Morris hope, as the Wyeths. Parks's model of William harmonize racial relations in Penn will become a life-size bronze for Castle County. Five years ago the town of New Castle, where Penn first tricts were merged to correct de landed. Shipping his 32-foot steel regation that had occurred as Madonna (right), wrought for a to the suburbs and left city California church, proved an art itself. most 90 percent black. Private- ollment rocketed. But now inte- beginning to take hold. the first court order to admit to segregated white schools in was directed at two New Castle hools in 1952. That ruling went cases to the U.S. Supreme Court the 1954 decision that separate but equal. ew Castle town actually integrat- school in 1952. But I wasn't to learn that about Arden, the first bumper sticker I saw just follow a leader, be one." town of 516 individualists of Wilmington is one of the few topian communities in the U.S. more or less, the way its founders Arden was launched in 1900 by an economic philosophy called tax. All residential land is owned rustees who lease it to the resi- rent is the only-the single- Reflections of great egrets glide through the marsh in Bombay Hook National tax. The parks covering nearly 45 percent of gild, a gardeners gild, a players gild, a din- a nudist colony and hotbed of free love." Wildlife Refuge, 15,000 acres on the town are owned by all. ner gild. We have Saturday suppers for I found Arden's spirits still free, but their Delaware Bay set aside for migrants "The single tax idea works for Arden, but about 100 people. It costs only $3.50, and it's activities shouldn't raise an eyebrow today. of the Atlantic flyway. Autumn calls it's not an important issue today," said Cy fun to have dinner with your neighbors." It struck me that Arden, designed to break some 200,000 Canada and snow geese Liberman, chairman of the trustees. "What Many years back, the free spirits who set- the mold, conforms in its own way to the here and to marshes across the state. makes this a strong community, and such an tled Arden earned an overblown bohemian Delaware ideal-professed upstate and Deer peek shyly through the brush, enjoyable one, is the high level of commu- mustering confidence to stroll and feed. reputation. "Imagine," said Joan Ware Col- down. That life is best lived on a scale where Such simple, quiet pleasures abound in nity activity and the tradition of the town gan, who grew up here, "even in 1963 my everyone's hand leaves a print, and that a this state of gentle tableaux. meeting. We have an active center with daughter came home from school crying future without the best of the past isn't groups called gilds. There's a folk dancing because her teacher said Arden had been worth a darn. 196 197 National Geographic, August 1983 Delaware-Who Needs to Be Big? NOV- 6-90 TUE 18:39 NATL TURKEY FED P.01 A FAX TRANSMISSION FROM THE: FAXED P5: 51 NATIONAL TURKEY FEDERATION NTF Fax Number: (703) 481-0837 Sent To: JENNIFER From: EDDIE ALDRETE Date: 11/6/90 There Is/Are 9 Page(s) To Follow. COMMENTS: As you requested Let me know if you EA need more National Turkey Federation 11319 Sunset Hills Rd., Reston, VA 22090 Phone #: (703) 435-7206 prefer while meat Germans prefer dark meat. Japanese prefer out parts, such as wings. According to Eddie Aldrete, of the National Turkey Federation, Americans also go for white meat. N On average, each American will eat 16.9 pounds of lurkey meat in '89, up from 9.9 pounds In 79. The right stuff Not only is turkey the traditional main course on Thanksgiving, it is also louted as being generally healthier to gobble than many other meals. A three-ounce slice of a It's all gobble-dygook roasted, skinless, whole turkey, contains 129 calories (roasted, How do you tell a male turkey from a female? No need trimmed beel: 192 calories), 2.6 to look under the feathers; only the toms, or the male grams of fat (9.4 for beef). 0.9 turkeys, gobble. The hens make a clucking noise. grams of salurated fat (4.2 for Females are attracted to males by their gobbling, which beel), 64 milligrams of cholesterol can be heard up to a mile away. T (beef has 73). 59 milligrams of sodium (57 for beef), 25 grams of protein (same for beef), and 1.5 milligrams of won (2.6 for beef). Source: Malloned Turkey Faderation. Turkey touters Tom Swift The country with the highest consumption of turkey is Israel, averaging Despite their stocky stature and what 28 pounds a person annually Because red some may consider to be homely feel, 9 meat in Israel is limited and high priced wild turkeys can fly short distances at up turkey is a more attractive buy. 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A By BONNIE WASHUK have inhabited America's woods and fields. Nor original native of America," wrote Franklin. 1987 = 240,: E Sunday Staff Writer does it have a reputation for being the smartest. But the turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, has a ven- The Apache Indians believed turkeys brought 1988 = 242, F Robin Hamilton of Durham remembers her erable history in America nonetheless. them luck. 1989 - 254, Thanksgivings past. A true native American, the wild turkey has "Estimated "We went to Thanksgiving at my grandparents' been roarning the Americas for an estimated 10 During the American gold rush of the mid- E. house," she said. "It was a family affair We million years: long before it helped the Pilgrims 1800s, turkeys were driven from California to Source: National (the children) had to sit at the kids' table." celebrate life in the new world; long before it Carson City, Nev., and sold to hungry miners for This year her holiday feast was - she cele- almost was named the nation's symbol; and long $5 a piece. brated it early - strikingly different: The only before it became the first meal for our moon- D family at her table was one kid sister; the other 20- mission astronauts. About a decade later, turkeys were sent to the Tire T odd guests were friends. Hamilton jokingly called The following are some tasty turkey tidbits Union troops for Thanksgiving as part of their it "The party of the misfits." revealing the famous role our nation's homely rations during the Civil War. Hamilton, who works at L.L. Bean, explained turkey has played over the last four centuries. Or, T that several of her friends were not getting the Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Mary Had a holiday off, "or they didn't have place to go for American favorite Little Lamb" and editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Many P <I Thanksgiving," she said. "One's from Seattle, an- a magazine that was very important in shaping there any N other from Connecticut. They weren't heading Some experts believe the Pilgrims celebrated women's thinking during the 1800s, took on as a Yes, a) home for the holiday. Only a couple of us had the first Thanksgiving - with gobblers - in 1621 personal crusade a campaign to have Thanksgiv- heavy, ea family in the area. So I said to a friend we should after a successful harvest. Still others credit the ing declared a national holiday. She wrote edito- rather th have a dinner for all.of us." settlers of Virginia's Jamestown in 1607 with cel- rials in her magazine and letters to every gover- Recent Due to our mobile society, divorces, single par- ebrating the first American Thanksgiving as nor of every state. She ultimately persuaded the ratio " enthood, second marriages, and the growing num- their extension of England's ancient Harvest President Abraham Lincoln to consider the hob- synthesis 00 ber of elderly without close family, more people Home Festival, a sort of home-coming weekend. day. Hale saw the holiday as a way to promote sleep, m are observing Thanksgiving unlike the way Nor- Historians who believe the Pilgrims celebrated national unity for a country divided by war. Sleep i man Rockwell portrayed the meal: with grandma the event first say that during that 1621 feast, the neurotra and grandpa presenting the turkey to a table full Indians and Pilgrims drank mostly water with President Lincoln, whose son, Tad, had a pet amino at D of family. their meal. Dried berries and wild plums were turkey that roamed the White House grounds, constitue These days, more elderly people, divorced par- their only dessert. officially declared Thanksgiving a national holi- protein-r ents and single adults group together with friends day in 1863. the brain for the feast. About 150 years later, Benjamin Franklin pro- drowsine One example is an informal group that works at moted the turkey as the national bird. When the About 100 years later, in 1967, Jerome Food Since 9 the state Department of Human Services who bald eagle was chosen over the turkey, Franklin raised the heaviest turkey ever recorded: The meal at have dubbed themselves "the orphans," said Bar- wrote to his daughter saying the eagle had a bad live bird weighed 75 pounds. On average, whole they fee moral character and he wished it had not been body, ready-to-cook weight for a ben-sized tur- associat See FRIENDS, page 5E chosen to represent the country. "The turkey is a See FOWL, page 5E carbohy Secree: N: 0 Z in Israel is limited and high priced, - is a more attractive buy. 3. Extended Page number of turkeys produced 511,000 723,000 321,000 292,000 216,000 389,000 470,000 740,000 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89* al Turkey Federation Leo Balllargeon/Sunday ed of eating turkey? just plain tired? people report drowsiness after eating turkey. Is ly basis of fact for this condition? although drowsiness may be attributable to the carbohydrate-rich foods eaten along with the turkey han to turkey meat alone. it studies show that the composition of a meal (i.e. 0 of carbohydrates to proteins) influences the is of brain neurotransmitters, which are involved in nood and depression. is believed to be regulated by serotonin, a ansmitter in the brain, which is synthesized by the acid, tryptophan. Although tryptophan is a sent of dietary protein, a carbohydrate-rich not a -rich meal increases the level of this amino acid in in and subsequent serotonin synthesis. The resulting ness is caused by the composition of the entire meal. ≥ many people eat an unusually large, many-coursed t holiday time, they often associate the drowsiness el afterwards with turkey. Rather, they should ate their sleepy feelings with the increased amount of hydrates consumed, along with the turkey. National Turkey Faderation. NOV- 6-90 TUE 18:42 NATL TURKEY FED B TURKEY HISTORY AND TRIVIA Opinions vary concerning the evolution of the wild turkey into today's popular domesticated variety. This section presents the most frequently voiced theories about how the turkey got its name, who first tamed the wild turkey, where and when the first Thanksgiving took place and a few anecdotal tidbits about Tom Turkey's life story. 1. Across the United States, are there differences in turkey consumption? People living on the East and West Coasts are heavier consumers of turkey products than the Midwest. The East and West Coasts prefer white meat, such as turkey breast cutlets and tenderloins. California has the highest turkey consumption, over- aging 23 pounds annually per person, of any state in the United States. California's climate allows more outdoor cooking, and the life style emphasizes preferences for "lite" meals. 2. How many turkeys are consumed on Thanksgiving. Christmas, Easter and year-round? Holiday sales have remained relatively the same from year to year. It is difficult to estimate the exact sales for any one particular day. The following is a "guesstimate" of whole body birds consumed: Thanksgiving 45 million Christmas 13 million Easter 9 million Year-round 71 million 3. How did the turkey get its name? Since Christopher Columbus thought the New World was connected to India and that turkeys were really peacocks, he named them tuka, which is peacock in the Tamil language of India. (Actually, the turkey is a variety of the pheasant.) One tale says the merchants who sold turkeys in Spain changed the Tamil tuka to the Hebrew tukki which has evolved into the English turkey. Other sources claim the American Indian name for the bird was firkee while others think the present name turkey came from the alarm call of the bird, "turc, turc, turc." 3 NOV- 6-90 TUE 18:43 NATL TURKEY FED P.05 4. Where did the name "Tom" originate? Tom is a general male name which has been given to the male turkey. Available literature does not give a reference as to when this name was applied. 5. When did turkeys first roam the earth? Recently discovered fossils have been dated to show that turkeys roamed the Ameri- cas ten million years ago. 6. Who first domesticated the turkey? Although it is unclear who first domesticated the turkey, archeological evidence indicates turkeys were confined, if not domesticated, by the Southwestern Indians as early as the birth of Christ. Some experts believe the Aztecs were the first to domes- ticate the turkey. Christopher Columbus, and later Hernando Cortez, acquired a taste for turkey and took birds back to Europe. By 1530, turkeys were being raised domestically in Italy, France and England. When the Pilgrims and other early American settlers arrived in the New World, they were already familiar with raising and eating turkey. 7. When was the first Thanksgiving dinner served? Some experts think the Pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. Others credit the settlers of Virginia's Jamestown with celebrating the first American Thanksgiving as their extension of England's ancient Harvest Home Festival, a sort of home-coming weekend. 8. When was Thanksgiving made a national holiday? President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, in response to a campaign organized by magazine editor Sara Josepha Hale. Ms. Hale was also the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." NOV- - 6-90 TUE 18:44 NATL TURKEY FED 9. Who proposed the turkey as the official United States bird? Benjamin Franklin, who proposed the turkey as the official United States bird, was dismayed when the bald eagle was chosen over the turkey. Franklin wrote to his daughter, referring to the eagle's "bad moral Character," saying, "I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country!. The Turkey is a much more respectable Bird, and withal Q true original native of America." 10. What are some interesting alternative uses for turkey by- products? The feathers are dyed and used for Indian costumes. The skin is used for leather cowboy boots by one company in Texas. Turkey down is used for pillows. 11. Are turkeys really dumb? Will they starve, drown. etc.? Although turkeys are not dumb, the average person may misconstrue their actions. Turkeys are normally curious and investigate unusual objects. Compared to the wild turkey, the domestic variety appears less cunning, more docile and more highly strung. This apparent loss of cunning has evolved through the domestication process. Today's domestic turkey has been bred to produce more breast, thigh and drumstick meat. Consequently, to the benefit of the consumer, the bird has lost some of its natural cunning and ability to elude the hunter. Hence the misnomer dumb. 12. Can turkeys fly? How fast? Although domesticated turkeys cannot fly, wild turkeys can fly for short distances of up to 55 miles per hour and can run at 25 miles per hour. 13. Do all turkeys gobble? Only toms gobble; hens make a clicking noise. 5 NOV- 6-90 TUE 18:44 NATL TURKEY FED P.07 14. How much did the heaviest turkey weigh? National Turkey Federation records indicate that, in 1967, Jerome Foods raised a 75- pound turkey. 15. What is the scientific name for the turkey? The American wild turkey is Meleagris gallopavo. Meleagris is the genus and gallopavo (not capitalized) is the species. 16. Anecdotes. In the early American West, turkeys were trailed like cattle in "turkey drives" to supply food where needed. One of the earliest turkey drives was over the Sterras from California to Carson City, Nevada, where hungry miners parted with five dollars apiece for the birds. A popular figure in Apache mythology, the turkey was thought to have brought corn to the people and helped them grow good crops. Abraham Lincoln's son, Tad, had a pet turkey. When it was mentioned that the bird might make a fine holiday dinner, Tad set up such a howl of protest, that Lincoln was forced to issue a "presidential pardon" for the pet. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin sat down to their first meal on the moon, their foil food packets contained roast turkey. NOV- 6-90 TUE 18:45 NATL TURKEY FED P.08 For Immediate Release: Contact: November 5, 1990 Eddie Aldrete (703) 435-7208 BUSH TO ACCEPT THANKSGIVING TURKEY (Reston, VA) - President Bush will participate in the 43rd annual presentation of the live Thanksgiving turkey in a Rose Garden ceremony set for 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday, November 14, 1990. The turkey to be presented to the President was raised especially for the occasion by National Turkey Federation President Wyatt Upchurch of Raeford, North Carolina. Upchurch is the owner and founder of Tar Heel Turkey Hatchery in Raeford. After serving as a poultry inspector and grader, he ventured into raising turkeys and later became part owner of Upchurch Turkey Farms. In 1972 he bought the breeder and hatchery division of the operation. Immediately following the presentation, the live turkey will be donated to Kidwell Farm, a Fairfax County, Virginia petting ZOO in Herndon, virginia. In a separate presentation to the White House Chef, Upchurch will present two fully dressed holiday birds packaged by Jaindl Farms of Orefield, Pennsylvania. The dressed birds are wrapped in a special "Happy Holidays Mr. President" vacuum packed bag supplied by Cryovac of Duncan, South Carolina. Upchurch and his wife Mary will arrive at Washington's National Airport on American Airlines on Tuesday, November 13, 1990 and will be overnight guests at Hotel Washington, 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue. NOV- - 6-90 TUE 18:45 NATL TURKEY FED P.09 North Carolina is the number one turkey producing state in the country, with 52 million birds raised per year. In fact, if North Carolina were a country, they would be the second largest turkey producing country in the world -- second to the United States. The National Turkey Federation is an association representing all segments of the industry including growers, hatcheries, breeders and processors which account for 95 percent of the nation's turkey production and marketing. The association, in an attempt to accomplish its mission and goals, places considerable emphasis on government affairs, both legislative and regulatory, consumer education and promotion and member services. - 30 - Key Elementry School New Hapshire Estates Elematary School copy turn the mike to wyatt over Upchurch Ref. PN4305 04P.7d WH Speaker's & Toastmaster's Handbook Herbert V. 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Not being aware that it was a joke, he discovered a way not only to frost bulbs on the inside, If there were creatures on Mars using telescopes to study the but also to etch the glass with soft, rounded pits which gave earth, the first evidence of life they would see is the Great Wall the bulbs added strength and effected a maximum diffusion of of China because it is the largest structure ever built on our the light. globe. Made of bricks nearly 2,200 years ago, it is 1,500 miles Fortunately, no "wise guy" told him that he had been long from Kiangsu to the sea, varies from 18 to 35 feet high, assigned the impossible, so he went ahead and accomplished and is thick enough for a road on top. It cost the lives of an it! -Executives' Digest estimated 400,000 workers, many of whom were buried inside the wall, which has been called "the longest cemetery in the world." Did You Know? George Washington never lived in the city named for him, Some Do Even More Washington, D.C. According to one statistician, the average person spends at least thirteen years of his or her life talking. On a normal day, about The Only One 18,000 words are likely to be used-roughly the equivalent of The only president of the United States to be married in the a book of 54 pages. In the course of a single year, your words White House was Grover Cleveland. would fill 66 books, each book containing 800 pages. Historical Knowledge Thanksgiving The first United States president to wear long trousers was Thanksgiving, a traditional American holiday, did not originate Thomas Jefferson. in America. About 3,000 years before it was observed here, God spoke to Moses in the days when the Israelites had just escaped from Egypt. They were having their first experience in the Lewis Carroll wilderness of the Sinai. The original proclamation from God A vivid illustration of the pseudonym is the authorship of two is reported in Exodus 23:16: "Thou shalt keep the feast of harvest, of the world's best known fantasies: Alice in Wonderland and the first fruits of thy labors, which thou has sown in the field: Through the Looking Glass. Everybody knows, of course, that and the feast of in-gathering, which is in the end of the year, the author of these gems was "Lewis Carroll." when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field." Or was it? The fact is, there was no such person in literature as Lewis It Was No Joke to Him Carroll. This name is honored throughout the world, and the classic is said to have been quoted more than any other work, It was a joke that had been tried on every embryonic engineer except the Bible and Shakespeare, and the original manuscript since the electric light was hardly a gleam in Edison's brain. of Alice in Wonderland sold for 15,000 pounds seventy years The novice engineer would be assigned the "impossible" task later. of frosting electric light bulbs on the inside. And yet, Lewis Carroll was none other than Charles A new engineer at General Electric, Marvin Pipkin, was Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician in England, who died in PN4500 04p7a 1986 WH HERBERT V. PROCHNOW fourth edition HERBERT V. PROCHNOW, JR. THE PUBLIC SPEAKER'S A COMPENDIUM TREASURE OF SOURCE MATERIAL CHEST TO MAKE YOUR SPEECH SPARKLE 1817 HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, New York Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney 194 THE PUBLIC SPEAKER'S TREASURE CHEST HUMOROUS STORIES 195 633 Still Cackling 640 Down and Out The aviation instructor, having delivered a lecture on parachute work CUSTOMER: Are these eggs fresh? concluded: GROCER: Fresh! Why, the hens haven't missed them yet. "And if it doesn't open-well, gentlemen, that's what is known as 'jumping to a conclusion." 634 Lucid Intervals An American film actress was applying for a passport. "Unmarried?" asked the clerk. 641 Bossie's Little Weakness "Occasionally," answered the actress. A city girl visiting her uncle on the farm was watching a cow chewing her cud. 635 Proof "Pretty fine cow, that," said her uncle as he came by. "Yes," said the girl, "But doesn't it cost a lot to keep her in chewing gum?" ORATOR: I thought your paper was friendly to me? EDITOR: So it is. What's the matter? ORATOR: 642 When Maude Gets Left I made a speech at the dinner last night, and you didn't print a line of it. "Doesn't that mule ever kick you?" "No, sir, not yet, but he frequently kicks the place where I recently EDITOR: Well, what further proof do you want? was." 636 Long, Long Trail The chief objection to the school of experience is that you never finish 643 Chapter and Verse the postgraduate courses. "My wife has the worst memory I ever heard of." When you graduate from that school, brother, your diploma is a "Forgets everything, eh?" tombstone. "No, remembers everything." 637 Fleas and Elephants 644 Out for the Long Shots "Where's the cashier?" TEACHER (to bring "Gone to the races." out the idea of size): Mention a difference between an elephant and a "Gone to the races in business hours?" flea. "Yes, sir, it's his last chance of making the books balance." TOMMY: Well, an elephant can have fleas, but a flea can't have elephants. 645 Only When New Betty, on a visit to her aunt, being offered some leftovers, politely 638 Strictly Original Blundering declined them. "Why, dear, don't you like turkey?" inquired her aunt. TEACHER: Did your father help you with the problem? "Only when it's new," said Betty. WILLIE: No, I got it wrong myself. 646 Out of the Frying Pan 639 Prosperity TEACHER: Really, Johnny, your handwriting is terrible. You must learn May bad fortune follow you all your days to write better. And never catch up with you. JOHNNY: Well, if I did, you'd be finding fault with my spelling. WITTICISMS AND EPIGRAMS 283 282 THE PUBLIC SPEAKER'S TREASURE CHEST 1418 U.S. now stands for Unlimited Spending.-Tampa Tribune 1398 A sordid money-grabber is anybody who grabs more money than you can grab. 1419 The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. 1399 The subways are so crowded that even the men can't all get seats. 1420 The fact that no one knows anything about the future makes a business forecaster more confident. 1400 Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to lose. 1421 Evolution: dress, $40.75; frock, $75.95; gown, $250; creation, $350. 1401 If all the autos in the world were laid end to end, it would be Sunday afternoon. 1422 A man can blow his own horn nowadays before he completes all the payments. 1402 A pessimist is one who, given the choice between two evils, chooses both of them. 1423 All things come to him who waits, but they are apt to be pretty 1403 The trouble with these "Do You Want Money?" ads is that when well shopworn. you read them you always discover you either have to work for it or 1424 The man's insomnia was so bad that the sheep were picketing him mortgage something to get it. for shorter hours. 1404 It's worth the taxi fare to feel you don't care what happens to the 1425 He made a nickel go so far the buffalo got sore feet. fenders. 1426 Judging from the amount of the public debt, it is no longer much 1405 One guy who always goes to the top is a barber. of a compliment to tell a lady she looks like a million dollars. 1406 There are tens of millions of telephones in the United States, so 1427 If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly use- when you make it in two dials you aren't doing so badly at that. less manner, you have learned how to live.-Lin Yutang 1407 A lot of nice, fat turkey gobblers would strut less if they could see 1428 The diploma you get from the school of experience is inscribed in into the future. marble, but you won't be able to read it. 1408 The theater at the present time is not holding a mirror up to life, 1429 A woman is a man's solace, but if it wasn't for her, he wouldn't but a keyhole. need any solace. 1409 The camera never lies, and it takes a family album to convince 1430 According to a survey, the most dangerous traffic hour is between some people that the truth is a terrible thing. seven and eight o'clock at night. That's when everyone is through din- 1410 The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things ner and hurrying to get nowhere. that make him mad. 1431 He's so stingy that when the boys give three cheers, he only gives 1411 The greatest consolation for many vacationers is that they have two. found where not to go next time. 1432 To enjoy garden work, put on a wide hat and gloves, hold a little 1412 The polls are places where you stand in line for a chance to decide trowel in one hand, and tell the man where to dig. who will spend your money. 1413 Man wants but little here below, but he usually gets along on less. 1433 There will always be a multitude who are congenitally unable to think straight.-Charles Evans Hughes 1414 Most people agree with the person who keeps his mouth shut. 1434 You can't fall out of bed if you sleep on the floor. 1415 The greatest paradox of them all is still civilized warfare. 1435 A golf player is a person who can drive seventy miles an hour in 1416 A resort is a place where the natives live on your vacation money any traffic with perfect ease, but blows up on a two-foot putt if some- until next summer. body coughs. 1417 The poet Heine once said to a caller, "My head today is perfectly 1436 It is getting harder and harder to find a courteous person who isn't barren, and you will find me stupid enough; for a friend has been here, trying to sell you something. and we exchanged ideas." 538 THE PUBLIC SPEAKER'S TREASURE CHEST SIMILES 539 4763 Futile as a tenor in a boiler shop.-Henry Irving Dodge 4787 The head, like the stomach, is most easily infected with poison 4764 She had more ornaments than a circus bandwagon.-Herbert V. when it is empty.-Richter Prochnow 4788 Calm as an iceberg.-Gelett Burgess 4765 Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the 4789 As shallow as a pie pan. present than in the night of the past.-J. Petit Senn 4790 A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its great countenance in its 4766 Ghastly as a laugh in hell.-Thomas Hardy lowest estate.-Sir Philip Sidney 4767 As regular as the roll of an army drum. 4791 4768 Gleamed upon the water like a bride at her looking-glass.-R. D. Blackmore Heaves 4769 His eyes dilated and glistened like the last flame that shoots up Like a mighty ship in pain, from an expiring fire.-Guy de Maupassant Facing the tempest with struggle and strain. 4770 Glitter like the bayonets of a regiment on parade.-John C. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning Van Dyke 4771 Going as if he had trod upon eggs.-Robert Burton 4792 Lies heavy like murder on a guilty soul.-Schiller 4772 Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.-Ninon de Lenclos 4793 The sea hissed like twenty thousand kettles!-Joseph Conrad 4773 As busy as a Swiss admiral. 4794 Hissing like a snake.-Victor Hugo 4774 Graceful as a faun.-Samuel Rogers 4795 He stuck to it about as long as a drugstore cowboy on a bronco. 4775 Her eyes are grey like morning dew.-W. B. Yeats 4796 Holds together as the shell does the egg.-John C. Van Dyke 4776 Genuine grief is like penitence, not clamorous, but subdued.- 4797 As much at home as a fish in water.-Balzac Josh Billings 4798 Our hopes, like withered leaves, fall fast.-Longfellow 4777 Gush like a fountain at its source.-Donald G. Mitchell 4799 Hopeful as the break of day.-T. B. Aldrich 4778 His speech came in gusts, like linnets in the pauses of the wind.- William De Morgan 4800 Hot as Hell-fire.-Dryden 4779 He returned as often as the postman. 4801 Hover-like a moth intoxicated with light.-John Galsworthy 4780 Hairless as an egg.-Robert Herrick 4802 Howlings, like a herd of ravenous wolves disappointed of their prey.-William H. Prescott 4781 He had a hand like a bunch of bananas.-R. F. Outcault 4803 Huddled like beasts beneath the drovers' whips.John Masefield 4782 Happy as birds in the spring.-William Blake 4804 Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.-Henry D. 4783 Fingers, hard as lobster's claws.-Guy de Maupassant Thoreau 4784 Hard as a pine-knot.-James K. Paulding 4805 Hungry as the chap that said a turkey was too much for one, not 4785 Franklin As hard as for an empty sack to stand upright.-Benjamin enough for two.-0. W. Holmes 4806 Hungry as a wolf.John Palgrave 4786 The head of a woman is like a weather cock on the top of a house, 4807 A true Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the which turns with the slightest wind.-Molière more lowly he bends his head. 528 THE PUBLIC SPEAKER'S TREASURE CHEST QUOTATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR SPECIAL DAYS 529 4621 may mean every day, or at least once in seven days.-Edward Sandford Martin And on her lover's arm she leant, 4627 Let the people praise thee, 0 God; let all the people praise thee.- And round her waist she felt it fold, Psalms 67:3 And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old. 4628 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.-Psalms 95:2 -Tennyson 4629 No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.-St. Ambrose SPRING 4622 4630 A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.-Cicero Came the Spring with all its splendor, All its birds and all its blossoms, 4631 All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses. Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast, -Longfellow And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. SUNDAY -Alice W. Brotherton, The First Thanksgiving Day 4623 4632 A French proverb tells us: "Gratitude is the heart's memory." And so it is. For when we are thankful, we are thinking not only of blessings Of all the days that's in the week of the immediate present, but also of good things received in the past: I dearly love but one day- And that's the day that comes betwixt Especially is this so at Thanksgiving.-Esther Burkholder A Saturday and Monday. 4633 Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.-Shakespeare -Henry Carey 4634 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.-Old Testament: 4624 One very optimistic minister had the habit in his opening prayer Psalms each Sunday of thanking God for the weather. On a particularly cold, 4635 The first Thanksgiving Proclamation was made by Governor brwced icy, windy, slushy Sunday morning, the few people who had ventured Bradford three years after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth: no out wondered how the minister could possibly refer to the weather in his "To all ye Pilgrims: morning prayer with any sense of gratitude. To their surprise, he said in "Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant the beginning of his prayer, "Dear God, we thank Thee that Thou dost harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegeta- send us so few Sundays like today." bles, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the THANKSGIVING savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us 4625 Thanksgiving Day is one of the most remarkable days of the year. freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; Decreed by a layman, the President of the United States, by authoriza- now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives tion of Congress, it is obeyed by Catholic, Jew, and Protestant, and by and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the many who have no church affiliation. The response of more than 200 hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November ye 29th, of million people to this call is one of the most encouraging events in our the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and national life. Thankfulness blesses and enriches our daily life. Not the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to only is it deserving of a special day; it merits everyday observance.- listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all Sunshine Magazine his blessings. William Bradford, Ye Governor of Ye Colony." 4626 Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest 4636 Here are a few first-grader's views of the first Thanksgiving: man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow, which "Thanksgiving isn't all day. It comes suddenly at night for dinner. The 530 THE PUBLIC SPEAKER'S TREASURE CHEST QUOTATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR SPECIAL DAYS 531 Pilgrims ate for a living. They used turkey feathers to stuff pillows. I think they wore old-fashioned clothes." "The Pilgrims started it. I never changed some national holidays to Mondays. Believing that the No- met a Pilgrim. They swam across the ocean with three boats, I think. vember 11 date held great significance for this country, Congress passed You give thanks to God on Thanksgiving and you stuff yourself, too." "I a law in 1975 returning the official observance to November 11. The law knew about the Pilgrims a long time ago-when I was five. They sailed became effective in 1978, the sixtieth anniversary of the armistice end- in the Mayflower. The boat got its name because it was finished in May. ing World War I. Its last name was Flower."-Food for Thot WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 4637 "Now children," said the teacher just before Thanksgiving, "tell 4645 Washington is the mightiest name on earth-long since mightiest me something you're thankful for." in the course of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On "I'm thankful," said one small boy, "that I'm not a turkey." that name an eulogy is expected. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe 4638 "Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shin- genial fire of charity in the heart.-Washington Irving ing on.-Lincoln 4646 A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent VACATION sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.- 4639 Between the spring and the autumn, when the sun in its zenith John Adams doth climb, comes a pause in the year's. occupations that is known as vacation time. 4647 His memory will be adored while liberty shall have votaries, his name will triumph over time and will in future ages assume its just VETERANS DAY-ARMISTICE DAY station among the most celebrated worthies of the world.-Jefferson 4640 The Federal government should treat with the utmost considera- 4648 When Washington declined a military escort on the occasion of tion every disabled soldier, sailor and marine of the World War, whether his inauguration (1789), he said, "I require no guard but the affections of his disability be due to wounds received in line of action or to health the people."-Dr. Edward Everett impaired in service; and for the dependents of the brave men who died in the line of duty the government's tenderest concern and richest bounty 4649 "Tis substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring should be their requital.-Democratic National Platform 1920 of popular government.-George Washington 4641 Closer to the truth than he meant to be was the schoolboy who 4650 Washington-a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shin- wrote on an exam paper: "The Armistice was signed on the 11th of ing without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.- November in 1918, and since then every year there have been two min- Daniel Webster, Eulogy utes of peace." 4651 A citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his 4642 countrymen.-Col. Henry Lee, Resolution in Congress, about George Washington Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; 4652 General George Washington resigned his command before Con- Dream of battled fields no more, gress at Annapolis. (It is interesting to note that Washington bade Days of danger, nights of waking. farewell to his officers in New York City on December 4 and left at once for Annapolis. What is now a brief journey required at that early date -Scott more than two and one-half weeks.) 4643 The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.- Calvin Coolidge 4653 4644 Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, continues the tra- dition of honoring the unknown soldier buried in Arlington National TEACHER: What was George Washington noted for? Cemetery on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh STUDENT: His memory. month of the year. From 1971 to 1977, Veterans Day was observed on TEACHER: What makes you think his memory was so great? the fourth Monday in October in compliance with a 1968 law which STUDENT: They erected a monument to it. COMPLETE SPEAKERS ALMANAC A speaker's calendar of 1,464 "anniversary" topics and themes for every day in the year easily adapted to a speech on almost any subject, delivered on any date from January 1st through December 31st Leonard Spinrad and Thelma Spinrad ete Speaker's Almanac January 51 His name was Daniel Shays, and his rebellion was quickly broken up. Shays received no lasting punishment, and some relief measures were passed to help hill, died on this day him and his group. In this country you can fight city hall and you can go a ords can be weapons lot higher. Daniel Shays was the first in a long line of Americans who have : world with speeches thought that the way to get government to listen to you is, so to speak, to punch I great knack for com- government in the nose. One wonders what would have happened with Shays' I think it only fair to Rebellion if there had been the kind of press and television coverage given demon- gland in World War strators today. In the long run, maybe the modern method is better; nobody ntry needed, he was has to shoot guns or get hurt. Return of Hostages from Iran One of the most searing episodes of American history came officially to in 1908 by a British its close on this day in 1981, when the American hostages who had just been freed from their long captivity in Iran finally came back to American soil, ar- ater the idea came to ts is a timely way to riving at West Point in New York. The long futility of American efforts to r to learn, willing to get them out had depressed the nation but also, for the first time since the long as always, I suspect agony of the Vietnam War, had united all of us. What the Iranian hostages' captivity brought home to all of us was and is that we Americans don't like others to push any of us around. Let us hope that in the aftermath of the hostage experience we will continue to feel that whoever hurts any group of us hurts us all. tel Europe, this was Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn war world. The Rus- A marriage that changed the world took place on this day in England in any while the Allies it to put as much of 1533. The participants were Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she already heavy with child, he recently divorced from Catherine of Aragon. It was that divorce 1 embrace with their which triggered Henry's being excommunicated by the Catholic Church and he smells territorial created the Protestant state in England. And Anne Boleyn's baby turned out to be Elizabeth I, the great queen who built the British Empire. History is often particularly interesting because the whims, amours, and problems of indivi- duals sometimes change the course of the world. We are fortunate in our coun- try to have a system of checks and balances that saves us from our own Henry = great Scottish poet VIIIs. the giftie gie us/To and misunderstood JANUARY 26 y experience in the e rest of the world's Franklin on the Bald Eagle if we truly see our- iled about our inter- On this day in 1784, Ben Franklin was rather upset, and he wrote his daugh- ter to tell her why. "I wish," said Franklin, "the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country; he is a bird of bad moral character The Turkey is a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native olutionary Army led of America." Well, the bald eagle seems to have survived Ben Franklin's vote field, Massachusetts. of no confidence, but generation after generation of American speakers has found SPI 52 Complete Speaker's Almanac it wise to talk turkey to the American people, and I do not propose to do other- Al wise today. Jefferson's Library It was just about this time of year, back in 1815, that Thomas Jefferson Leonard offered to convey to the Library of Congress, which had been destroyed by the British in the War of 1812, more than 6,000 books which he had assembled as his personal library at his home in Monticello over the course of fifty years. This collection provided the foundation for the modern Library of Congress. When will Whatever di But you may be surprised to know that there were plenty of voices raised in sary of one Congress to urge that Jefferson's offer be turned down. "We don't need the your talk, b books," they said. "The price tag was too high," they said. "Let's just pick your audien the books we agree with." Fortunately, these voices didn't prevail. But there are still voices in the land trying to limit our sources of information and seek- Every day i sary of som ing to turn away new knowledge and different points of view. Like Jefferson, human achi we must do everything in our power to make knowledge more available, to give tion, a mom people a chance to think for themselves. Let us talk together today about one through in area where not enough is known by enough people. event in bus the birthday MacArthur's Birthday annual "Da Today is the birthday of a man who was loved and who was hated with from Freed Forces. an ardor few arouse. He was Douglas MacArthur, born on an Army post in Arkansas on January 26, 1880. It would have taken a legion of lesser men to Why not m: accomplish what he accomplished, not only as a battle commander but as the your speech virtual viceroy of prostrate, defeated Japan. And yet, not once but several times, ence with in before? Tha this amazing man overreached himself. He miscalculated his power and popu- that the C larity in a clash with an ex-haberdasher named Harry Truman, who happened NAC is in to be president at the time. He flirted with political candidacy and then de- cided, probably wisely, that the war of the ballot box was not his kind of battle. This book Douglas MacArthur discovered, as lesser men and women are forever amazed pawnbroke to discover in their time, that while the public wants to be led it gives its ulti- choice anec tions, and mate loyalty to ideas rather than individuals. And so today I want to talk about nearly any an idea-an idea whose time has come. of them are January Is Different Now the same we We are living in topsy-turvy times. Here it is the end of January, and what Are you lod your speech has happened to the traditional January White Sales, for example? They have ject in a fr turned all colors. It gets harder to find a white sheet or a white towel all the your views time. And what about the January vacationer? It used to be that the only peo- humor you ple who took January vacations were the rich and the retired, who went south all in this 3 to keep warm. Now people by the thousands head north; instead of trying to escape the snow they are trying to find where the snow is the best. Yes, these are topsy-turvy times. Professional athletes make more money-much more aker's Almanac November 463 ges would come e greatest chal- NOVEMBER 26 Whatever chal- :r opportunities Warsaw Ghetto portunities, but On this day in 1940 the clock turned back hundreds of years. The Nazi forces of Adolf Hitler forced half a million Polish Jews to live in a walled-in ghetto in occupied Warsaw. It was just another step in Hitler's demonic effort y in 1917. The to wipe out the Jews of the world, and it led ultimately to an epic example of ) the Bolsheviks battle gallantry by a doomed people in an uprising against impossible odds. n and how loud- We have a tendency to think of heroism as something more in style in olden mains a govern- days than in our own century, but no time and no nation has a monopoly on goodness we live heroes. Today I want to talk about some unsung heroes-peacetime people whose the voice of any bravery and courage are manifested not merely in their survival but also in their poken. I come to continuing struggle. n say, as I could Thanksgiving : I stand. The season of Thanksgiving is customarily the time for counting our bless- ings and expressing our gratitude to the source of those blessings. I think it cotland, had two is a good exercise for us to do this, for when we count our blessings we become it making money, more aware of how fortunate we are in our time and our place. Today I am gave away about going to be the vehicle by which still another blessing will come your way. It ncredible amount is the blessing of brevity, so let me get right to it. hed when he was John Harvard ust which its pos- Somewhere about this time in 1607, a young man was born in London the community." who decided when he was 30 to settle in the Massachusetts Bay colony. A year " Now, not all of later he died. He left a fairly sizable estate for his time, as well as a good collec- - Carnegie's bene- tion of books, and he left all the books and half his money to a new college ves. There is cer- that had just begun near Boston. In honor of its benefactor the college adopted lar that I want to his name and called itself Harvard, a memorial to John Harvard. I doubt that John Harvard ever could have envisioned the glory that would one day come to the institution bearing his name, and certainly not every philanthropy blos- 1 in search of hid- soms so greatly, but the story of John Harvard is an example that good deeds $ in the world was are indeed remembered. Today I come before you to seek your good deeds in o and defied every a worthy cause, and while I cannot promise you lasting fame to match John n 1780 with a for- Harvard's, I think I can promise you the rewarding satisfaction of knowing you orld passed through have given good to the world. the Hussar makes Surprise from China ealth; it is so often This was the day in 1950 that Red China suddenly entered the Korean $ of this nation are War, signaling the emergence of a new major power in that part of the world. ays to use them. I The course of world affairs since then has seen a considerable rise in the influ- ence of the so-called Third World. Nations rise and nations decline, and in re- PRE Englewood Pri PN6081 P33 982 WH The t: Quotable Woman 1800-1981 compiled and edited by Elaine Partnow FACTS ON FILE, Inc. 460 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10016 473-480 THE QUOTABLE WOMAN 1880-1889 9 Thy changing kings and kingdoms pass away 475. Alice Williams Brotherton The gorgeous legends of a bygone day, But thou dost still immutably remain (fl. 1880s-1930) Unbroken symbol of proud history, unageing * * * priestess of old mysteries 1 Books we must have though we lack bread. Before whose shrine the spells of Death are "Ballade of Poor Bookworms" vain. Ibid., "Imperial Delhi," St. 2 2 Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast, 10 Two gifts for our portion And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose cour- We ask thee, o Fate, age never ceased. A maiden to cherish, "The First Thanksgiving Day" A kinsman to hate. "A Song of the Khyber Pass," St. 2, The Feather of the Dawn 1927 476. Ophelia Guyon Browning 11 What, 0 my heart, though tomorrow be tragic, (fl. 1880s) Today is inwoven of rapture and magic. 1 She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer Ibid., "Spring in Kashmir," St. 9 And cries, "It shall be done-sometime, some- where." 473. Alma Mahler Werfel "Pray Without Ceasing," Singing with Grace 1882 (1879-1964) 1 Mahler, ascetic though he was, had a lurid 477. Mrs. E. T. Corbett reputation. In fact, he was a child and women were his dread. It was only because I was a (fl. 1880s) stupid, inexperienced girl that I took him off 1 Ef you want to be sick of your life, his guard. "First Meeting," Gustav Mahler Jest come and change places with me a 1946 spell-for I'm an inventor's wife. 2 From the moment of his spiritual triumph, too, The Inventor's Wife 1883 he looked down on me and did not recover his love for me until I had broken his tyranny. 478. Ellen M. Hutchinson Sometimes he played the part of a school- master, relentlessly strict and unjust. He soured (fl. 1880s-1933) my enjoyment of life and made it an abomina- * * * tion. That is, he tried to. Money-rubbish! 1 They are all in the lily-bed, cuddled close Clothes-rubbish! Beauty-rubbish! Traveling together- -rubbish! Only the spirit was to count. I know Purple, yellow-cap, and baby-blue; today that he was afraid of my youth and How they ever got there you must ask the April beauty. He wanted to make them safe for him- weather, self by simply taking from me any atom of life The morning and the evening winds, the sun- in which he himself played no part. I was a shine and the dew. young thing he had desired and whose educa- "Vagrant Pansies" tion he now took in hand. Ibid., "Marriage and Life Together" 479. Meta Orred 3 I can never forget his dying hours and the greatness of his face as death drew nearer. His (fl. 1880s) battle for the eternal values, his elevation above 1 In the gloaming, O, my darling! trivial things and his unflinching devotion to When the lights are dim and low, truth are an example of the saintly life. And the quiet shadows falling Ibid., "The End" Softly come and softly go. "In the Gloaming" 1890 474. Beth Slater Whitson (1879-1930) 480. Helen Keller 1 Meet me in Dreamland, sweet dreamy Dream- (1880-1968) land, 1 we could never learn to be brave and There let my dreams come true. patient, if there were only joy in the world. "Meet Me To-Night in Dreamland" Quoted in the Atlantic Monthly 1909 May, 1890 172 1860-1869 1860-1869 The Quotations 351-357 matter if you were 2 My debt to you, Beloved, 8 But Woman is rare beyond compare, way. No one has Is one I cannot pay The poets tell us so; orialize his wealth In any coin of any realm How little they know of Woman mark would not On any reckoning day. Who only Women know! Ibid., Ch. 11 "Debt" "Woman" o his business the 9 I love the Christmas-tide, and yet; nks. When he fails I notice this, each year I live; glass of root beer. I always like the gifts I get, d Husband, Ch. 6 355. Carolyn Wells But how I love the gifts I give! 1910 "A Thought" believe any state- (1869-1942) of his ambitious 1 Total is a book. We find it 10 The books we think we ought to read are poky, could believe the Just a little past its prime; dull, and dry; Ibid., Ch. 7 The books that we would like to read we are And departing leaves behind it Footprints on the sands of time. ashamed to buy; us out of shape so "Four," St. 3, At the Sign of the The books that people talk about we never can Ibid., Ch. 14 1896 recall; Sphinx And the books-that people give us, oh, they're it her own grave the worst of all. S been young and 2 There was a young man of St. Kitts "On Books" d ugly. Ibid. Who was very much troubled with fits; The eclipse of the moon 11 When Venus said "Spell no for me," Threw him into a swoon, "N-O," Dan Cupid wrote with glee, When he tumbled and broke into bits. And smiled at his success: Schuler "Limericks," No. 3, The Book of "Ah, child," said Venus, laughing low, Humorous Verse 1920 "We women do not spell it so, 3 A Tutor who tooted the flute We spell it Y-E-S." two rare beasts Tried to teach two young tutors to toot; "The Spelling Lesson" : world. Said the two to the Tutor, e Song" (c.1902), "Is it harder to toot, or The Other Voices, To tutor two tutors to toot?" an, ed. 1975p Ibid., No. 6 356. Elizabeth Botume 4 "Women are all right, in their place-which, by the way, is not necessarily in the home- (fl. 1870s) Mew but a family feud, of all things, calls for mas- 1 It was not an unusual thing to meet a woman culine management and skill." coming from the fields, where she had been In the Onyx Lobby, Ch. 1 hoeing cotton, with a small bucket or cup on e down, 1920 her head, and a hoe over her shoulder, con- the brown, tentedly smoking a pipe and briskly knitting as 5 "I'll bet Sherlock Holmes could find a lot of she strode along. I have seen, added to all these, Farmer's Bride," data just by going over the floor with a lens." a baby strapped to her back. 1 Poems 1916 "He could in a story book-and do you know First Days Amongst the ned afraid why? Because the clews and things, in a story, Contrabands 1893 human; are all put there for him by the property man. Like a salted mine. But in real life, there's y. Ibid. nothing doing of that sort." Ibid., Ch. 5 6 The earth has rolled around again and harvest time is here, 357. Mrs. Edmund Craster house The glory of the seasons and the crown of all (fl. 1870s) the years. "The Meaning of Thanksgiving Day 1 The Centipede was happy quite, 1922 Until the Toad in fun Said, "Pray which leg goes after which?" * * * And worked her mind to such a pitch, 7 A canner can can She lay distracted in a ditch life, Anything that he can, Considering how to run. But a canner can't can a can, can he? "Pinafore Poems," Cassell's Weekly "My Wage" "The Canner" 1871 133 A COMPILATION OF THE t MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. of the House and Senate. Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States (With Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise) VOLUME I PUBLISHED BY ruly, BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE, Inc. NEW YORK 56 Messages and Papers of the Presidents PROCLAMATION A NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. [From Sparks's Washington, Vol. XII, p. II9.] Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God. especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:" Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately insti- tuted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our pray- ers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and rela- tive duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good govern ments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best. Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A. D. 1789. Go WASHINGTON. Street Proctor (Hinchliffe/Grossman) November 7, 1990 3:00 p.m. TURKEY PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PRESENTATION OF THANKSGIVING TURKEY November 13, 1990 Rose Garden only I want to welcome all of you to the Rose Garden, especially K Tom over there -- after everything that's been going on in Wash- q.A. ington these past few months, it's great to finally be sharing a doesthis this salmer Not They stage with someone I can call a turkey and get away with it. 11'he that could 00mg Fed thout starting a bisht get to Looking at him I just realized: I once said you can take broccoli state is and stuff it. Well, now I have a place. to do just that congr. TOM, DONT TAKE be But Tom's arrival wasn't without PERSONALL controversy -- Millie was and 80ing pretty jealous of him -- at least she was until I explained he Tomas probably wouldn't be around long enough to write a book. 11 I want to assure those of you who fear that a terrible fate awaits our Tom: we've decided to spare him. He won't be subjected to questions from the Washington Press Corps, after all. Listen EA Tom, since you come from N.C., as a re-election gift to my good Farm Fanctuary friend Jesse Helms, I'm going to give you a Presidential pardon: chect year you can spend the rest of your life at a nearby children's farm. Animal Rights one hts last EA. I'm glad to see you kids here's a story you can take back -might come to your teachers. Ben Franklin was upset that the Bald Eagle was and claim VEEGAN named our national symbol, because he wanted it to be the turkey. He said: "The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and a 1 true origínal native of America." I'm sure that's a sentiment Wyatt Upchurch and the National Turkey Federation would applaud. Stuat Proctor You know, Thanksgiving's really special to me -- because it's a truly American holiday one that sums up the good, Key School from H. Elem Estater Elem. School 2 generous heart of this country. And it reminds us of our real American values -- the ones we just can't afford to forget. Values like deep gratitude for the rich blessings of this great land. Unselfish generosity toward those in need. And commitment to the primary importance of family. PROC. We can draw our inspiration from the Pilgrims. They suffered and lost so much -- yet gave a day of genuine rejoicing for the little bit they did have. How much more gratitude we, who have so much, owe today: to our God; our fellow citizens; our country; and our brave servicemen and women so far from home this holiday. Bob Sincerely I'm going to be with them on Thanksgiving Day. I'll express what's in the heart of every American when I shake these young men and women's hands and say: thank you. Thank you for standing for freedom, for the innocent, and for morality in our world. Thank you for bearing witness by your presence to the over- whelming importance of mankind's hopeful dream of a just future. And perhaps their sacrifice will make those of us at home this Thanksgiving Day reflect even more deeply. So that when we give thanks for our food -- we will think of those ravaged by hunger. When we give thanks for our health -- we will think of those imprisoned by pain, illness or despair. When we give thanks for our freedom -- we will also think of those who live in the darkness of tyranny. When we give thanks for our future -- we will think of those who don't know hope. And we will realize that we have two obligations above all others. First: we must not take for granted the blessings of our 3 lives. And second: for our lives to have true meaning -- we must share with others. This holiday reminds us that it's inner rich- ness, not external wealth, by which we are measured. For Thanks- giving is not a time of the year -- but an attitude of the heart. Thanks for coming, Tom -- God bless everyone here, your families and our servicemen and women -- and Happy Thanksgiving! # # # # Wyatt Upchurch ton Jacob M. Braude R Speaker's and Toastmaster's HER Handbook of Anecdotes II Occasions By and About Famous and Writers Personalities and Writing Occasion umor edia and Anecdotes Humor 'er's Library sters and Speakers PRENTICE-HALL, INC. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. Inreaf for the observance of Thanksgiving throughout the country. She wrote Temptation editorials and personal letters to the governors of all the states and also JAMES, WILLIAM wrote to the President. 870. William James, the psychologist and writer, believed that Her campaign was eventually successful. On October 3, every person ought to do an unpleasant duty every day just to keep him- 1863, President Lincoln issued his first national Thanksgiving Proclama- self in moral trim. The moral "muscles" grow with exercise and use. If tion, setting apart the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving day. we want them to be strong for the times of great temptation, we must make Today, it is a legal holiday in all states, the District of them strong by using them to resist the ever recurring small temptations. Columbia, Canal Zone, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. It is like the youth of mythology who picked up the new- born calf in the field. Every day he went out and lifted it in his arms. Since the calf's weight increased only a little each day, the youth did not Thinking notice the increase. By continuing to lift the calf day after day, his strength EINSTEIN, ALBERT grew with the calf's weight so that he could still lift it after it had grown 874. Albert Einstein was once asked what he would most like into a full-sized bull. to say to the science students in American schools. Without hesitation he replied: "I would ask them to spend an hour every day rejecting the ideas Texas-Alaska of others and thinking out for themselves. This will be a hard thing to do BARTLETT, E. L. but it will be rewarding." RAYBURN, SAM 871. Senator E. L. Bartlett of Alaska was twitting House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas about the fact that Alaskan statehood has reduced Thoughtfulness Texas to second rank in size. GARFIELD, HARRY A. "If you don't keep quiet," Rayburn warned, "a few Texans GARFIELD, JAMES A. will come to your state and throw a cocktail party. When they get through 875. It is related that when James A. Garfield decided to go to using your ice, you'll be smaller than Rhode Island." college he favored Yale, but also wrote to the presidents of Brown and Williams colleges. Yale's president made a formal reply and the president of Brown did the same. But the president of Williams took an extra second TOWER, JOHN G. 872. Senator John G. Tower (R-Tex.) reports that a Texan and to add this line, "We shall be glad to do what we can for you." As a an Alaskan were debating the size and importance of their states. on a result of that line, Williams college received the honor of graduating a journey by steamer along the Alaskan coast. The Texan was yielding no president of the United States and having as its own president, Harry A. ground, insisting that the Lone Star State conceded first place in nothing- Garfield, son of President Garfield. size, scenery, products or advantages. As they debated an iceberg loomed ahead. The Texan Threat stopped, studied it a moment, then conceded, "Well, I've got to admit you've got bigger ice cubes." KING PHILIP 876. King Philip of Macedon wrote a threatening letter to the Thanksgiving Day rulers of Sparta, and said: "If once I enter your territories, I will destroy you HALE, SARAH J. 873. all, never to rise again." In 1827, Sarah J. Hale, a magazine editor in Boston, The Spartans replied in a letter which contained only Massachusetts; began a campaign urging the adoption of a uniform day one word-"If." 284 285 P7 WHRC t:A DICTIONARY OF WIT, WISDOM, SATIRE by HERBERT V. PROCHNOW HERBERT V. PROCHNOW, JR. I8 17 Harper & Row, Publishers New York, Evanston, and London 228 A DICTIONARY OF WIT TROUBLES UM The tools by which God fashions us for better things. Henry Ward Beecher TRUTH UM The object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Churton Collins UN The one thing that nobody will believe. George Bernard Shaw What men kill each other for. Herbert Read The opinion that still survives. Elbert Hubbard (The Roy- UN croft Dictionary) The strongest argument. Sophocles The foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all so- cieties. John Dryden UN A universal error. Elbert Hubbard (The Roycroft Dictionary) What God says about a thing. UN The rarest quality in an epitaph. Henry David Thoreau Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of UN life. H. F. Amiel Truth ever lovely-since the world began, UN The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. Thomas Campbell TUNAFISH A fish in a can that comes out when unexpected company calls. TURKEY An old bird that strutted and got caught. TWENTY-ONE The age of complete confidence. TWINS Two things in this life for which we are never fully pre- pared. Josh Billings UN U UGLINESS A point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. Austin O'Malley UKULELE A so-called musical instrument which, when listened to, you cannot tell whether one is playing on it, or just monkeying with it. Will Rogers Ref. PN6081 .09 1979 Rien WH The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations THIRD EDITION Oxford New York Toronto Melbourne OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 11 BICKERSTETH BISMARCK BLACKSTONE No lark more blithe than he. 14 The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those to look like iron. Love in a Village (1762), I.v who have stout hearts and sharp swords. Sidney Whitman, Personal Remini Rectorial Address, Glasgow University, 7 Nov. 1923 (1902), p.252 1 And this the burthen of his song, For ever us'd to be, 15 Judge Willis: You are extremely offensive, young I care for nobody, not I, man. SIR WILLIAM BLACKST If no one cares for me. F.E. Smith: As a matter of fact, we both are, and the 1 Man was formed for society 2 We all love a pretty girl-under the rose. only difference between us is that I am trying to be, Commentaries on the Laws of E. II.ii and you can't help it. Birkenhead, Frederick Elwin, Earl of Birkenhead (1933), vol.1, 2 Mankind will not be reasone 3 In every port he finds a wife. ch.9 humanity. Thomas and Sally (1761). ii bk.i.5 16 Judge Willis: What do you suppose I am on the Bench for, Mr Smith? 3 The king never dies. REVD. E.H. BICKERSTETH 1825-1906 7 Smith: It is not for me to attempt to fathom the 4 Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? inscrutable workings of Providence. 4 The royal navy of England h The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within. defence and ornament; it is i Songs in the House of Pilgrimage (1875) strength; the floating bulwar AUGUSTINE BIRRELL 1850-1933 13 ROGER BIGOD, EARL OF NORFOLK 1245-1306 17 That great dust-heap called 'history' 5 That the king can do no wro Obiter Dicta. Carlyle fundamental principle of the 5 By God, o King, I will neither go nor hang! 18 In the name of the Bodleian. iii.17 Reply to King Edward I's expostulation, 'By God, earl, you shall Dr. Johnson either go or hang'. 24 Feb. 1297, when Edward required the 6 It is better that ten guilty per barons to invade France through Gascony while he took command innocent suffer. in Flanders. Hemingburgh's Chronicle, ii.121 iv.27 PRINCE BISMARCK 1815-1898 19 Die Politik ist keine exakte Wissenschaft. JOSH BILLINGS (HENRY WHEELER SHAW) WILLIAM BLAKE 1757- Politics is not an exact science. 1818-1885 Prussian Chamber, 18 Dec. 1863 7 When Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 6 Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, 20 Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen. All Nature was degraded: But four times he who gets his blow in fust. Politics is the art of the possible. The King dropped a tear into Josh Billings, his Sayings (1865). See 446:6 In conversation with Meyer von Waldeck, 11 Aug. 1867 And all his pictures faded. 7 The trouble with people is not that they don't know Annotations to Reynolds, Discour 21 Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht. but that they know so much that ain't so. 8 To see a World in a Grain of Josh Billings' Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom (1874) We will not go to Canossa. Reichstag, 14 May 1872 And a Heaven in a Wild F Hold Infinity in the palm of 22 Die gesunden Knochen eines einzigen pommerschen LAURENCE BINYON 1869-1943 And Eternity in an hour. Musketiers. Auguries of Innocence, 1 8 Now is the time for the burning of the leaves. The healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. The Burning of the Leaves 5 Dec. 1876 9 A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. 9 With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, 23 Ehrlicher Makler. 5 England mourns for her dead across the sea. An honest broker. Poems For the Fallen 19 Feb. 1878 10 A dog starv'd at his master' Predicts the ruin of the State 10 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 24 Die Politik ist keine Wissenschaft sondern eine Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. A horse misus'd upon the TO Kunst. Calls to Heaven for human t At the going down of the sun and in the morning Politics is not a science but an art. We will remember them. Each outcry of the hunted ha 15 Mar. 1884 A fibre from the brain does 1 25 Legt eine möglichst starke militärische Kraft in die A skylark wounded in the W NIGEL BIRCH 1906- Hand des Königs von Preussen, dann wird er die A cherubim does cease to sir 11 For the second time the Prime Minister has got rid of a Politik machen können, die Ihr wünscht; mit Reden 9 Chancellor of the Exchequer who tried to get und Schützenfesten und Liedern macht sie sich nicht, 11 The bat that flits at close of expenditure under control. sie macht sich nur durch Blut und Eisen. Has left the brain that won't Once is more than enough. Place in the hands of the King of Prussia the strongest 25 Letter, The Times, 14 July 1962 possible military power, then he will be able to carry out the policy you wish; this policy cannot succeed 12 He who shall hurt the little \ through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it Shall never be belov'd by m EARL OF BIRKENHEAD (F.E. SMITH) can only be carried out through blood and iron. He who the ox to wrath has 1872-1930 Prussian House of Deputies, 28 Jan. 1886. Used by Bismarck in Shall never be by woman lo' 12 We have the highest authority for believing that the the form Eisen und Blut, 30 Sept. 1862 29 meek shall inherit the Earth; though I have never found 26 If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out 13 The caterpillar on the leaf any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the of some damned silly thing in the Balkans. Repeats to thee thy mother's records of Somerset House. Said to Herr Ballen 'towards the end of [Bismarck's] life', and Kill not the moth nor butterf Contemporary Personalities (1924). Marquess Curzon related by Ballen to Winston S. Churchill a fortnight before World For the Last Judgement drav War I. See Hansard, Vol.413, col.84 13 Nature has no cure for this sort of madness 37 [Bolshevism], though I have known a legacy from a 27 I may avail myself of the opportunity of denying once 14 A truth that's told with bad rich relative work wonders. more the truth of the story that Prince Bismarck had Beats all the lies you can inv Law, Life and Letters (1927), ii. ch. 19 ever likened Lord Salisbury to a lath of wood painted It is right it should be so; 84 PRAYER BOOK R BOOK PRAYER BOOK mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle. 18 I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein 7 thou shalt go: and I will guide thee with mine eye. hou me 1 Even the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding: whose mouths must be held with bit 10 and bridle, lest they fall upon thee. lest 2 O remember not the sins and offences of my youth. Great plagues remain for the ungodly: but whoso defiled, 25:6 putteth his trust in the Lord, mercy embraceth him on 3 Deliver Israel, o God: out of all his troubles. every side. of my 21 9 4 Examine me, o Lord, and prove me: try out my reins 19 Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing praises lustily and my heart. unto him with a good courage. 26:2 33:3 orses: r God. 5 I will wash my hands in innocency, 0 Lord: and so 20 A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man: will I go to thine altar; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength. That I may shew the voice of thanksgiving: and tell of 16 ined all thy wondrous works. 21 0 taste and see, how gracious the Lord is: blessed is 6 the man that trusteth in him. 6 My foot standeth right: I will praise the Lord in the 34:8 ou congregation. 22 The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who d from 12 seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is 7 The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom then good. est not: shall I fear: the Lord is the strength of my life; of 10 whom then shall I be afraid? 23 What man is he that lusteth to live: and would fain see 27:1. See 83:5 good days? ry scorn 8 Teach me thy way, o Lord: and lead me in the right Keep thy tongue from evil: and thy lips, that they way, because of mine enemies. speak no guile. oot out 13 Eschew evil, and do good: seek peace, and ensue it. 9 I should utterly have fainted: but that I believe verily 12 et him to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the 24 They rewarded me evil for good: to the great living. discomfort of my soul. 15 35:12 san 10 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees: yea, 25 O deliver my soul from the calamities which they the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus. bring on me, and my darling from the lions. re out He maketh them also to skip like a calf: Libanus also, 17 is even and Sirion, like a young unicorn. 26 Fret not thyself because of the ungodly. 29:5 37:1 11 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring forth 27 The meek-spirited shall possess the earth: and shall be all my young, and discovereth the thick bushes. refreshed in the multitude of peace. 8 11 ots 12 The Lord shall give strength unto his people: the Lord 28 I have been young, and now am old: and yet saw I shall give his people the blessing of peace. never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging 10 their bread. 13 Sing praises unto the Lord, 0 ye saints of his: and 25 give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his 29 I myself have seen the ungodly in great power: and le forth holiness. flourishing like a green bay-tree. For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and I went by, and lo, he was gone: I sought him, but his in his pleasure is life: heaviness may endure for a place could no where be found. hadow night, but joy cometh in the morning. Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is 30:4 e; thy right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last. 14 Then cried I unto thee, 0 Lord: and gat me to my Lord 36 em that right humbly. 30 I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept silence, 1, and 8 yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief 15 Into thy hands I commend my spirit. to me. me all 31:6. See 71:14 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus se of the 16 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no musing the fire kindled: and at the last I spake with my sin: and in whose spirit there is no guile. tongue; For while I held my tongue: my bones consumed away Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my the through my daily complaining. days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. in. 39:3 32:2 17 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer 31 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth p, ye unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found: but in himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell ome in. the great water-floods they shall not come nigh him. who shall gather them. and 7 7 391 PRAYER BOOK PRAYER BOOK PRAYER BOOK He hath made the round world so sure: that it cannot song. for the service of men; be moved. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath That he may bring food out 93:1 made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and maketh glad the heart of m: 1 The floods are risen, o Lord, the floods have lift up the sheep of his pasture. cheerful countenance, and I their voice: the floods lift up their waves. 100.1. See 83:8 heart. The waves of the sea are mighty, and fage horribly: 12 I am become like a pelican in the wilderness: and like The trees of the Lord also a but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier. an owl that is in the desert. cedars of Libanus which he Thy testimonies, o Lord, are very sure: holiness I have watched, and am even as it were a sparrow: 14 becometh thine house for ever. that sitteth alone upon the house-top. 4 102:6 1 The high hills are a refuge are the stony rocks for the 2 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear: or he that 13 Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation He appointed the moon for made the eye, shall he not see? of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy knoweth his going down. 94:9 hands. Thou makest darkness that 3 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they all shall the beasts of the forest do I rejoice in the strength of our salvation. wax old as doth a garment; The lions roaring after their Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they from God. and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms. shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years The sun ariseth, and they g 95:1. See 83:7 shall not fail. lay them down in their den 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the 25 Man goeth forth to his wor strength of the hills is his also. 14 Praise the Lord, O my soul: and forget not all his the evening. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared benefits. o Lord, how manifold are the dry land. 103:2 thou made them all; the ear 0 come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel 15 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things: making So is the great and wide se before the Lord our Maker. thee young and lusty as an eagle. things innumerable, both SI For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of 5 There go the ships, and the his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. thou hast made to take his To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your 16 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy: hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of long-suffering, and of great goodness. These wait all upon thee: t] meat in due season. temptation in the wilderness; He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth he his 18 When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw anger for ever. 8 2 The earth shall tremble at 1 my works. 17 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the touch the hills, they shall S Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, 32 and said: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for earth: so great is his mercy also toward them that fear they have not known my ways; him. 3 He had sent a man before 1 Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they should not Look how wide also the east is from the west: so far sold to be a bond-servant; enter into my rest. hath he set our sins from us. Whose feet they hurt in the 4 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even so into his soul. 5 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name: is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 105:17 bring presents, and come into his courts. For he knoweth whereof we are made: he remembereth that we are but dust. 4 The king sent, and delivere O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth stand in awe of him. The days of man are but as grass: for he flourisheth as people let him go free. He made him lord also of I 96:8 a flower of a field. his substance; 6 The Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof: yea, For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone: and That he might inform his p the place thereof shall know it no more. the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof. teach his senators wisdom. 11 97:1 20 7 0 sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done 18 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: marvellous things. and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon 5 Yea, they thought scorn of With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath the wings of the wind. gave no credence to his WC He maketh his angels spirits: and his ministers a But murmured in their tent he gotten himself the victory. flaming fire. the voice of the Lord. 98:1 106:24 He laid the foundations of the earth: that it never 8 Praise the Lord upon the harp: sing to the harp with a should move at any time. 6 Thus were they stained wit psalm of thanksgiving. Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment: went a whoring with their With trumpets also, and shawms: o shew yourselves the waters stand in the hills. 38 joyful before the Lord the King. 104:3 6 7 o that men would therefor 19 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shall not goodness: and declare the 9 With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the pass: neither turn again to cover the earth. the children of men! people with equity. He sendeth the springs into the rivers: which run 10 For he satisfieth the empty among the hills. soul with goodness. 10 The Lord is King, be the people never so impatient: he All beasts of the field drink thereof: and the wild asses Such as sit in darkness, an sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so quench their thirst. being fast bound in misery unquiet. Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their Because they rebelled agai 99:1 habitation: and sing among the branches. and lightly regarded the co 11 o be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands: serve the Lord 9 107:8 with gladness, and come before his presence with a 20 He bringeth forth grass for the cattle: and green herb 8 Their soul abhorred all ma 396 AUGUSTUS AUSTEN AUSTEN temperent ut bene utantur. 16 They will have their barouche-landau, of course. chosen language. To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect [Mrs. Elton.] Northanger Abbey, ch.5 moderation. ch.32 1 But are they all horrid, On the Good of Marriage, xxi 17 Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young horrid? [Catherine.] 1 Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum. ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of ch.6 With love for mankind and hatred of sins. their health and their complexion. My dear, did you 2 Oh, Lord! not I; I neve Often quoted in the form: Love the sinner but hate the sin. Opera change your stockings? [Mr. Woodhouse.] else to do. [John Thorp Omnia, vol.II. col.962, letter 211. Migne's Patrologiae (1845), ch.34 ch.7 vol.XXXIII 18 One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always 3 Oh! who can ever be ti 2 Roma locuta est; causa finita est. say there is something direful in the sound. [Mrs. ch.10 Rome has spoken; the case is concluded. Elton.] 4 Real solemn history, I Sermons, bk.i ch.36 quarrels of popes and I 3 We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we 19 N.B. There will be very few Dates in this History. in every page; the men trample the vices themselves underfoot. The History of England (1791) hardly any women at a iii. De Ascensione ch.14 20 Henry the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399. 5 Where people wish to EMPEROR AUGUSTUS 63 B.C.-A.D. 14 ignorant. To come wit 21 One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has come with an inability 4 Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions. Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 23 had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and of others, which a sen therefore not worth reading. to avoid. A woman es 5 I inherited it brick and left it marble. (Of the city of Rome.) 28 22 Nothing can be said in his vindication, but that his misfortune of knowing 6 It will be paid at the Greek Kalends. abolishing Religious Houses and leaving them to the well as she can. (Meaning, Never.) 87 ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to 6 From politics, it was a the landscape of England in general. 7 Sir Walter Elliot, of K 23 Lady Jane Grey, who has been already mentioned as was a man who, for h JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817 reading Greek. any book but the Barc 7 An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. [Mr. occupation for an idle Woodhouse.] 24 It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and distressed one; this Emma, ch.3 myself-we fainted Alternately on a Sofa. favourite volume alwa Love and Freindship. Letter the 8th 8 One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures KELLYNCH-HALL. of the other. [Emma.] 25 She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, Persuasion, ch.1 ch.9 civil and obliging young woman; as such we could 8 'My idea of good con 9 With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when scarcely dislike her-she was only an Object of of clever, well-inform he has ladies to please, every feature works. [Mr. John Contempt. of conversation; that Letter the 13th Knightley of Mr. Elton.] 'You are mistaken,' ch.13 26 There certainly are not so many men of large fortune company, that is the 1 in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve ch.16 10 A man must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and them. 9 My sore throats are a encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to Mansfield Park, ch.1 [Mary Musgrove.] see him. He must think himself a most agreeable 27 You must give my compliments to him. Yes-I think ch.18 fellow. [Mr. John Knightley.] it must be compliments. Is there not a something 10 All the privilege I cla 11 She believed he had been drinking too much of Mr wanted, Miss Price, in our language-a something loving longest, when Weston's good wine. between compliments and-and love-to suit the sort [Anne.] ch.15 of friendly acquaintance we have had together? [Mary ch.23 Crawford.] 12 My mother's deafness is very trifling, you see, just 11 It is a truth universal ch.11 nothing at all. By only raising my voice, and saying man in possession of anything two or three times over, she is sure to hear. 28 A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever. of a wife. [Miss Bates.] heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and Pride and Prejudice, ch ch.19 turkey part of it. 12 "Kitty has no discret ch.22 13 The sooner every party breaks up the better. [Mr. father: 'she times the Woodhouse.] 29 Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. 'I do not cough for n ch.25 ch.48 fretfully. 30 She was of course only too good for him; but as ch.2 14 That young man is very thoughtless. Do not tell his father, but that young man is not quite the thing. He nobody minds having what is too good for them, he 13 May I ask whether t] has been opening the doors very often this evening and was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing. from the impulse of keeping them open very inconsiderately. He does not 31 'And what are you reading, Miss -?' 'Oh! it is only a previous study? [Mr ch.14 think of the draught. I do not mean to set you against novel!' replies the young lady: while she lays down him, but indeed he is not quite the thing. [Mr. her book with affected indifference, or momentary 14 You have delighted Woodhouse.] shame.-'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda:' ch.18 ch.29 or, in short, only some work in which the most 15 An unhappy alternat 15 Open the windows! But, surely Mr Churchill, nobody thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest this day you must be would think of opening the windows at Randalls. delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of parents.-Your motl Nobody could be so imprudent. [Mr. Woodhouse.] wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best do not marry Mr Co 22 DICKENS Bleak House David Copperfield Davi heart that had better not be wibrated.' maintained. [Mr. Bagnet.] ch.22 ch.27 1 Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly? [Miss 19 It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their Miggs.] poor relations. 1 ch.70 ch.28 20 Never have a mission, my dear child. [Mr. Jellyby.] BLEAK HOUSE ch.30 2 2 Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length 21 England has been in a dreadful state for some weeks. before the Court, perennially hopeless. Lord Coodle would go out, and Sir Thomas Doodle ch.1 wouldn't come in, and there being nobody in Great 3 This is a London particular A fog, miss. Britain (to speak of) except Coodle and Doodle, there ch.3 has been no Government. ch.40 3 4 Educating the natives of Borrioboola-Gha, on the left bank of the Niger. [Mrs. Jellyby.] 22 She's Colour-Sergeant of the Nonpareil battalion. [Mr. Bagnet.] 4 ch.4 ch.52 5 The wind's in the east I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind THE CHIMES is blowing in the east. [Mr. Jarndyce.] 5 ch.6 23 O let us love our occupations, 6 I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind Bless the squire and his relations, will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it Live upon our daily rations, concedes to the butterflies! And always know our proper stations. 2nd Quarter 6 7 'Not to put too fine a point upon it'-a favourite apology for plain-speaking with Mr Snagsby. A CHRISTMAS CAROL ch.11 8 He wos wery good to me, he wos! [Jo.] 24 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. 7 9 He [Mr. Turveydrop] is celebrated, almost stave 3 everywhere, for his Deportment. [Caddy.] 25 It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em off short in 8 10 'It was a maxim of Captain Swosser's', said Mrs a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax. 9 Badger, 'speaking in his figurative naval manner, that stave 5 when you make pitch hot, you cannot make it too hot; and that if you only have to swab a plank, you should DAVID COPPERFIELD swab it as if Davy Jones were after you.' ch.17 26 'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?' asked the gentleman, 10 11 The Professor made the same remark, Miss laughing. I looked up quickly; being curious to know. Summerson, in his last illness; when (his mind 'Only Brooks of Sheffield,' said Mr Murdstone. I was 11 wandering) he insisted on keeping his little hammer relieved to find that it was only Brooks of Sheffield; under the pillow, and chipping at the countenances of for, at first, I really thought it was I. ch.2 the attendants. The ruling passion! [Mrs. Badger.] 12 See 377:13 27 'I am a lone lorn creetur',' were Mrs Gummidge's 12 What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. [Mr. words and everythink goes contrairy with me.' Chadband.] ch.3 13 ch.19 28 'I feel it more than other people,' said Mrs 13 The Chadband style of oratory is widely received and Gummidge. much admired. 29 I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance! 14 14 You are a human boy, my young friend. A human [Mrs. Gummidge.] boy. o glorious to be a human boy! 30 She's been thinking of the old 'un! [Mr. Peggotty, of 15 o running stream of sparkling joy Mrs. Gummidge.] To be a soaring human boy! [Mr. Chadband.] 31 Barkis is willin'. 15 Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ch.5 [Guppy.] ch.20 32 "There was a gentleman here yesterday,' he said-'a stout gentleman, by the name of Topsawyer he came 16 'It is,' says Chadband, 'the ray of rays, the sun of in here ordered a glass of this ale-would order suns, the moon of moons, the star of stars. It is the it-I told him not-drank it, and fell dead. It was too 16 light of Terewth.' old for him. It oughtn't to be drawn; that's the fact.' ch.25 [The Waiter.] 17 Lo, the city is barren, I have seen but an eel. 33 I live on broken wittles-and I sleep on the coals. 17 18 It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I [The Waiter.] never own to it before her. Discipline must be 34 'When a man says he's willin',' said Mr Barkis, 'it's 176 HOUSMAN HOWELL The true, sick-hearted slave, And do not understand a word I say, Expect him not in the just city Nod with your hand to signify as much. And free land of the grave. Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, Trinity Magazine, Feb. 1921; 23 first published in The Bromsgrovian, 1883 1 Because I liked you better 10 Mud's sister, not himself, adorns my shoes. Than suits a man to say, 11 Reader, behold! this monster wild It irked you, and I promised Has gobbled up the infant child. To throw the thought away. The infant child is not aware 31 It has been eaten by the bear. 2 Halt by the headstone naming Infant Innocence. Laurence Housman, A.E.H. (1937), p.256 The heart no longer stirred, And say the lad that loved you 12 Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out, but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long Was one that kept his word. time. 3 Here dead lie we because we did not choose Juvenalis Saturae (ed.) (1905), Preface To live and shame the land from which we sprung. 13 The arsenals of divine vengeance, if I may so describe Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; the Bodleian library. But young men think it is, and we were young. 36 14 Gentlemen who use MSS as drunkards use lamp-posts-not to light them on their way but to 4 I did not lose my heart in summer's even, dissimulate their instability. When roses to the moonrise burst apart: M. Manilli Astronomicon Liber Primus (ed.) (1903), When plumes were under heel and lead was flying, introduction, I In blood and smoke and flame I lost my heart. 15 If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of I lost it to a soldier and a foeman, the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure A chap that did not kill me, but he tried; of wonder and of awe, he must contemplate the human That took the sabre straight and took it striking intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died. abysses of ineptitude; and it might be fruitlessly 37 debated to the end of time whether Richard Bentley or 5 Good-night; ensured release, Elias Stoeber was the more marvellous work of the Imperishable peace, Creator: Elias Stoeber, whose reprint of Bentley's Have these for yours. text, with a commentary intended to confute it, saw the 48. Parta Quies light in 1767 at Strasbourg, a city still famous for its 6 When the bells justle in the tower geese. II. Of earlier editors of Manilius The hollow night amid, Then on my tongue the taste is sour 16 Ueberlieferungsgeschichte. is a longer and nobler Of all I ever did. name than fudge. Collected Poems (1939), Additional Poems, 9 Preface to his (1927) edition of Lucan, De Bello Civili 7 The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do: 17 Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two. morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if But oh, my two troubles they reave me of rest, a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin The brains in my head and the heart in my breast. bristles so that the razor ceases to act. 17 The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933) 8 Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his 18 The University which once saw Wordsworth drunk and wrists? once saw Porson sober will see a better scholar than And what has he been after that they groan and shake Wordsworth, and a better poet than Porson, betwixt their fists? and between. And wherefore is he wearing such a Speech at farewell dinner, University College, London, before conscience-stricken air? going to Cambridge as Kennedy Professor of Latin, 1911. Laurence Housman, A.E.H. (1937), p. 101 Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair. JULIA WARD HOWE 1819-1910 "Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his; 19 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that Lord: it is; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be wrath are stored. fair Battle Hymn of the American Republic (Dec. 1861) For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair. 18 JAMES HOWELL 1594?-1666 9 0 suitably attired in leather boots 20 Some hold translations not unlike to be Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom The wrong side of a Turkey tapestry. Whence by what way how purposed art thou come Familiar Letters (1645-55), bk.i, let.6 To this well-nightingaled vicinity? 21 One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred My object in enquiring is to know. pair of oxen. But if you happen to be deaf and dumb bk.ii, let.4 266 JEG THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 13, 1990 INFORMATION MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: CHRISS WINSTON 3 FROM: BETH HINCHLIFFE SUBJECT: PRESENTATION OF THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY On Wednesday, November 14, at 1 p.m., in the Rose Garden, Wyatt Upchurch and the National Turkey Federation will be presenting you with this year's Thanksgiving turkey. You will have previously signed the Thanksgiving Proclamation. In attendance there will be, in addition to the turkey, about 60 people, including students from local schools. (Hinchliffe/Grossman) November 13, 1990 6:00 p.m. TURKEY PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PRESENTATION OF THANKSGIVING TURKEY November 14, 1990 1 p.m. Rose Garden I want to welcome all of you to the Rose Garden, especially Tom over there -- after everything that's been going on in Wash- ington these past few months, it's great to finally be sharing a stage with someone I can call a turkey and get away with it. 11 Looking at him I just realized: I once said you can take broccoli and stuff it. Well, now I have a place to do just that. 11 But Tom's arrival wasn't without controversy -- Millie was pretty jealous of him -- at least she was until I explained he probably wouldn't be around long enough to write a book. 11 I want to assure those of you who fear that a terrible fate awaits our Tom -- we've decided to spare him. He won't be sub- jected to questions from the Washington Press Corps, after all. Listen Tom, since you come from North Carolina, as a re- election gift to my good friend Jesse Helms, I'm going to give you a Presidential pardon -- you can spend the rest of your life at a nearby children's farm. III I'm glad to see the kids from the Key Elementary School and the New Hampshire Estates Elementary School -- here's a story you can take back to your teachers. Ben Franklin was upset that the Bald Eagle was named our national symbol, because he wanted it to be the turkey. He said: "The Turkey is a much more respectable Bird, and a true original Native of America." I'm sure that's a sentiment Wyatt Upchurch, Stuart Proctor, and the National 2 Turkey Federation would applaud. You know, Thanksgiving's really special to me -- because it's a truly American holiday -- one that sums up the good, generous heart of this country. And it reminds us of our real American values -- the ones we just can't afford to forget. Values like deep gratitude for the rich blessings of this great land. Unselfish generosity toward those in need. And commitment to the primary importance of family. 11 With those values in mind, I have just signed the 1990 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation -- continuing a Presidential tradition begun by George Washington. I was pleased to have five religious leaders from different denominations on hand for the signing. And continuing an even longer tradition that dates back to the Pilgrims. We can draw our inspiration from these early Americans. They suffered and lost so much -- yet gave a day of genuine rejoicing for the little bit they did have. How much more gratitude we, who have so much, owe today -- to our God 11 our fellow citizens 11 our country 11 and our brave servicemen and women so far from home this holiday. I'm going to be with them on Thanksgiving Day. And I know I'll express what's in the heart of every American when I shake these young men and women's hands and say: thank you. Thank you for standing for freedom, for the innocent, and for morality in our world. Thank you for bearing witness by your presence to the overwhelming importance of mankind's dream of a just future. III 3 And perhaps their sacrifice will make those of us at home this Thanksgiving Day reflect even more deeply. So that when we give thanks for our food -- we will think of those ravaged by hunger. 11 When we give thanks for our health -- we will think of those imprisoned by pain, illness or despair. 11 When we give thanks for our freedom -- we will also think of those who live in the darkness of tyranny. 11 When we give thanks for our future -- we will think of those who don't know hope. And we will realize that we have two obligations above all others. First: we must not take for granted the blessings of our lives. And second: for our lives to have true meaning -- we must share with others. For this holiday reminds us that it's inner richness, not external wealth, by which we are measured. 11 After all, Thanks- giving is not a time of the year -- but an attitude of the heart. Thanks for coming, Tom -- God bless everyone here, your families, all those being held hostage, and our servicemen and women here and abroad -- and Happy Thanksgiving! # # # # Ref. Dil D85 WH A Dictionary of Days Leslie Dunkling Facts On File Publications New York, New York Oxford, England Tennant Creek Show Day teachers sees to it that the mathematics were systematically made, for example in teacher gets a zero in his subject by setting the study of the weather. him a fiendishly difficult question, suggested by someone in the Graduate Math Depart- Texas Independence Day ment at Berkeley. March 2nd. This was the birthday of Sam Houston (1793-1863), who led the Texans Tennant Creek Show Day See HOBART to victory over the Mexicans at the Battle REGATTA DAY. of San Jacinto and thus assured Texan inde- pendence. Texas remained an independent Tenth of April republic from 1836 until 1845, when it was 'The name of this day', says Chambers in annexed to the United States. The day was The Book of Days, 'is almost the only one especially. important in 1986, as Texas applied in England as a denomination for celebrated its sesquicentennial. an event.' He was writing in 1863, when the phrase 'the Tenth of April' still reminded Thamesday many people of the English Revolution that Early September. A celebration on and might have taken place on that day in 1848. alongside the River Thames between the The Chartists, mostly working men, had Westminster and Waterloo bridges. Various arranged to petition parliament in huge events begin at noon and end at night with numbers to demonstrate their strength. The a grand fireworks display. The purpose government, fearing violence, brought in the seems to be to remind Londoners that the troops, swore in citizens as special city can be a place of fun as well as business. constables and displayed cannon near Westminster Bridge as a deterrent. These Thanksgiving Day measures succeeded, so that 'the Tenth of The last Thursday in November in the April remained only a memory of an appre- USA; the second Monday in October in hended danger judiciously met and Canada. In 1621 the settlers of the averted.' The Chartist movement itself Plymouth colony celebrated their first collapsed after this anti-climax, and the harvest home with a day of thanksgiving to People's Charter, drawn up in 1838, was God for his bounty. The day was primarily allowed to lapse. a religious one, but inevitably it was also a day of family and social enjoyment. The Tenth of September, The observance of an annual day of thanksgiving The title of a novel by A. R. and R. K. first became general throughout New Weekes, published in 1934. The story hinges England. After the Revolution it spread to on the fact that the heroine, Annette the Middle States, then to the West. It Damerel, will inherit a considerable sum of reached the Southern states after the Civil money on her twenty-third birthday, which War. It has been observed nationally in the occurs on September 10th. US since 1863 by presidential proclamation. In modern times the day is associated Term Day with family reunions and family traditions. A Scottish expression for a day in the year Americans who spend Thanksgiving Day fixed for a specific purpose, such as the with another family will say that they ate payment of rent, hiring of servants, etc. The all the usual food and did all the usual two main term days of the year were things, but not in quite the correct order traditionally WHIT SUNDAY and MARTINMAS, the order in which they do things in their though the other QUARTER DAYS, CANDLEMAS own home. For countless Americans meticu- DAY and LAMMAS DAY were also term days. lous attention to detail where traditions are In the nineteenth century, 'term days' were concerned is very important indeed. 0. also those on which scientific observations Henry comments on this aspect of American 118 Thirtieth of January r example in life in his short story Two Thanksgiving Day These Were the Days Gentlemen. Louisa M. Alcott also comments An autobiographical work by the American on it in Little Men. She describes the 'good writer Clarence Day. See DAY. old-fashioned way' of observing the day, thday of Sam and refers to the 'popular belief that Thinking Day d the Texans Thanksgiving must be kept by coming as February 22nd. The birthday, in 1857, of at the Battle near apoplexy as possible, and escaping Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy d Texan inde- with merely a fit of indigestion or a head- Scout movement. Scouts and Guides are 1 independent ache.' For Whittier it was the day 'When encouraged on this day to think about Lord when it was the gray-haired New Englander sees round and Lady Baden-Powell and fellow scouts The day was his board/ The old broken links of affection throughout the world. 36, as Texas restored.' Nowadays a morning visit to 1. church may precede the meal, or perhaps a Third Day sortie to see one of the parades which take Tuesday. An expression used by the Society place on this day. New Yorkers are of Friends (Quakers). ation on and especially fond of Macy's Parade, and will between the be out on the often freezing streets at an Thirtieth of January idges. Various early hour, waiting to see the giant floats 'We must neither play cards, nor read, nor I at night with pass by. One has only to be amongst the sew on the fifth of November and on the The purpose crowd of onlookers, preferably near the thirtieth of January, but must go to church, oners that the starting point of the parade, listening to the and meditate all the rest of the day'. This ell as business. affectionate remarks of young and old as is the narrator, Margaret Dawson, each float begins its journey, to realize just describing life at the -house of her kins- how much such traditional events mean to woman, Lady Ludlow, in the short novel by ember in the Mrs Gaskell, My Lady Ludlow. The 'fifth of in October in Americans. November' reference is to the Gunpowder ttlers of the Erica Jong was well aware of these senti- Plot (see GUY FAWKES DAY); the 'thirtieth d their first mental associations of the day when she of January' refers to Charles I, who was hanksgiving to began How To Save Your Own Life with the executed on that day in 1649. The king was was primarily bleak sentence: 'I left my husband on beheaded by the supporters of Cromwell y it was also a Thanksgiving Day.' An English writer after many indignities had been thrust upon joyment. The would probably have had to say: 'I him, and was buried the same night in St of thanksgiving murdered my mother on Christmas Day' George's Chapel, Windsor. The execution oughout New to achieve the same effect. Mark Twain's is referred to briefly in a poem by Andrew on it spread to comment on the day actually hints at the Marvell (1621-78): the West. It wholesale slaughter (of turkeys) which after the Civil accompanies it, but as usual displays his He nothing common did or mean ationally in the wit. In Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar he Upon that memorable scene, y proclamation is associated But with his keener eye I writes: "Thanksgiving Day. Let all give The axe's edge did try: humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, mily traditions Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, nksgiving Day but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they To vindicate his helpless right, do not use turkeys: they use plumbers. It / that they all But bowed his comely head all the usual does not become you or me to sneer at Fiji. Down, as upon a bed. correct order ("Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return things in their from Ireland') Thanksgobble Day ericans meticy humorous reference to THANKSGIVING DAY, Charles I is one of a lengthy list of royal e traditions nt indeed 0 which is noted for the consumption of personages bearing that name to have ect of America hurkeys, suffered great misfortune, causing the super- 119 PN4305 04P7c 04 WH t: The Toastmaster's By the same author: Treasure Chest HERBERT V. PROCHNOW The Federal Reserve System World Economic Problems and Policies The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom Herbert V. Prochnow HERBERT V. PROCHNOW AND ROY A. FOULKE and Herbert V. Practical Bank Credit Prochnow, Jr. HERBERT V. PROCHNOW AND HERBERT V. PROCHNOW, JR. The Toastmaster's Treasure Chest A Dictionary of Wit, Wisdom and Satire The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest The Successful Toastmaster A Treasury of Humorous Quotations EDITED BY HERBERT V. PROCHNOW HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS AND HERBERT V. PROCHNOW, JR. The Changing World of Banking NEW YORK, HAGERSTOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON 1817 31 THE TOASTMASTER'S TREASURE CHEST 30 HUMOROUS STORIES 188 Wanted to Help "Because," said one straightforward thinker, "there wasn't anybody else to Professor: "If there are any dumbbells in the room, please stand up." invite." A long pause, then a lone freshman stood up. Professor: "What! Do you consider yourself a dumbbell?" 195 Substitute Freshman: "Well, not exactly that, sir, but I hate to see you standing all Roses are red, violets are blue; alone." Orchids are $10.95-will dandelions do? 189 Tooth Tax 196 In School Internal Revenue agent to taxpayer: "We try to be lenient, sir, but we just can't "John have you whispered today without permission?" allow this as a medical deduction: '$50 to the tooth fairy"?" "Only wunst." "Robert, should John have said wunst?" Just the Old Geese "No'm; he should have said twict." 190 Game warden: "Say, you're hunting with last year's license!" Hunter: "Yeah. But I'm only shooting at the ones I missed last season." 197 Move to the Rear The bus had become so crowded that there didn't seem to be room for any more passengers. Surveying the situation, the driver sang out cheerfully, "Kindly 191 Modern Spider push each other to the rear, please!" Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her and said, "Curds have choles- 198 Wonderful Thing to Do Also terol, whey is fattening, and sitting on that tuffet will give you back trouble before you're forty." A university English instructor recently introduced to his class what he termed "one of the finest, most elegant lines of poetry in the English language." " 'Walk with light,' he quoted, and then repeated softly, " 'Walk with light.' 192 The Good Old Days Now, isn't that a wonderful thing to say to someone?" A little boy ran to his father and excitedly said: "Wow! You oughta see the The class agreed and wished to know the author. great lawn mower our neighbors have. It doesn't need gas or anything. You just "I suppose it's anonymous," said the instructor. "It's written on a sign at the push it!" intersection of Main and Ninth Streets." 193 Difficult Case 199 That Would Be Bad A frightened householder reported to the police that he'd been struck down A Phoenix teacher was explaining to her third-graders the importance of in the dark outside his back door by an unknown assailant. A young policeman penmanship. "If you can't write your name, when you grow up you'll have to was sent to investigate and soon returned to headquarters with a lump on his pay cash for everything." forehead and a glum look on his face. "I solved the case," he muttered. 200 Busy "Amazingly fast work," his superior complimented him. "How did you ac- An Oxford don describing another don: "What time he can spare from the complish it?" The young cop explained, "I stepped on the rake, too." adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties." 201 194 Easy Question Mixed Up One Sunday morning a group of children in a Sunday School class were asked "My family is politically mixed up," the woman told the canvasser. "I'm a this seeming run-of-the-mill question: "Why did the Pilgrims invite the Indians Republican; the old man's a Democrat; the kid's wet; the cow's dry; and the cat's on the fence." to the very first Thanksgiving dinner?" INSPIRATIONAL QUOTATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 229 2155 The Foundation CHAPTER Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an Ameri- can way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most basic -expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers of America saw it, and V thus, with God's help, it will continue to be.-Dwight D. Eisenhower 2156 Give Thanks Every Day It is good that we should set aside a day in each year for Thanksgiving, but it would be better if we gave thanks every day. For the absence of thankfulness does not mean that we are merely ungrateful-it means that we are missing the thrill of appreciation and pleasure. There seems to me no greater misfortune than having SO much that all of it becomes meaningless; than wanting what you haven't, rather than what you have. Seven of the wisest words I know are, "Only those are rich who desire little."-Channing Pollock Inspirational Quotations and 2157 No Nobler Venture Illustrations Here, under cover of darkness, the fast-dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them lest the Indians should know how many were the graves. Reader! History records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than of 2152 Sixty-the Happy Age this Pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness, in watching, often in hunger and cold, they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man, through countless A wise old gentleman of eighty tells his friends as they reach sixty: "You have ages, should have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example spent sixty years in preparation for life; you will now begin to live. At sixty you inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our have learned what is worthwhile. You have conquered the worst forms of foolish- republic throughout the world!-Inscription on Plymouth Rock Monument ness. You have reached a 'balance' period of life, knowing good from evil, what is precious, what is worthless. Danger is past, the mind is peaceful, evil is forgiven, the affections are strong, envy is weak. It is the happy age." 2158 Memorial Day Memorial Day is a good time to remember our wonderful heritage and some 2153 A Baby of the blessings we so take for granted. We often treat with indifference the sound foundations of our nation's life that were laid by consecrated and industrious A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as hands. We should be grateful for our Constitution which has safeguarded our marvelous as a newborn baby. liberty and not allowed it to be destroyed by malicious minds or by those blinded The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo by prejudice. planes, don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils We have come into the heritage of our nation and have with little effort or sacrifice become sharers of its wealth and partakers of its honor. Every day is and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and not too often to remember the men of vision who bought our liberty, and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.-Carl Sandburg particularly should they be remembered on Memorial Day. 2154 That's All I Want 2159 The Cost One of the finest sermons ever preached was delivered by a little girl who was asked by her teacher to repeat the 23rd Psalm from memory. She didn't recite We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger it as most of us know it, but what she said makes sense for our day and age. "The of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.-Felix Lord is my shepherd," she began, "that's all I want." Frankfurter 228 THE TOASTMASTER'S TREASURE CHEST 232 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 233 The man who cast that deciding vote for President Hayes was a lawyer from 2174 A Day for Thanksgiving and Praise Indiana who was elected to Congress by the margin of just one vote. That one His heart wrung with anguish over the suffering and death of so many Ameri- vote was cast by a client of his who, though desperately ill, insisted on being taken cans on the battlefields of the Blue and the Gray, President Abraham Lincoln to the polls to cast that one vote.-Americans Will Vote, Inc. still found much to thank Almighty God for in the grim October days of 1863, in a Thanksgiving Day Proclamation that has significance and meaning for all 2170 Kindness of us today. Said the great Lincoln: The extraordinary thing about kindness is that the more you expend, the richer "The year that is drawing to its close has been filled with the blessings of you become. Try it. Do a little quiet thinking about people around you. Make fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly an effort to understand them better; then take the trouble to speak words that enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have may lift their spirit, enhance their self-respect. You can never guess what a few been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to kind words sincerely spoken may do for them-and for you.-The Little Gazette penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. "Needful diversions of wealth and strength from the fields of peaceful industry 2171 Thanksgiving to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship. Population has steadily increased Tell us, Lord, what is it we should say "No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these Of gratitude on this our thankful day? great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while Should prayers of thanks for food and health be said? dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. But DAILY prayers are for our daily bread. "It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, No, this day calls for more than that- and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole A heart-deep, lasting, grateful thought American people by a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent For inspiration, soaring, trouble-proof, Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. " That You have given for a perplexed life. This time of mem'ry of our origins, Of folk whose faithful works outweigh their sins, 2175 Wealth Who stood firm-rooted in their trust in You The best definition of wealth is the possession of whatever gives us happiness, Gives cause for deep rejoicing; it is true contentment, or a sense of one's significance in the scheme of things.-Ernest Man can stand with fearless dignity Watson Amid his trials and turmoils sturdily If, truly, reverence is his attitude. For this sure knowledge, Lord, our gratitude. 2176 An Unexpected Answer -John A. Howard Who owns American business? Many people have misconceptions about it. Most people will answer, "the rich," "the elite," "two percent of the popula- 2172 Waiting tion," or something similar. But those people are wrong. Too many are waiting for God to do something for them rather than with The correct answer is that a majority of Americans have a piece of the action Ralph W. Sockman -and many of them don't even know it. The fact is, private employee pension funds now own more than one third of business and industry, and it's predicted that in a few years will control fifty percent. 2173 Benefits from Adversity Every person who has a life-insurance policy also has a stake in business It is not good for all your wishes to be filled; through sickness you recognize because of his insurance company's corporate holdings. the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, satisfaction; Then there are Employee Stock Ownership Plans which encourage employees through exertion, the value of rest.-From an old Greek Book of Wisdom to buy stock in the company where they work. THE TOASTMASTER'S TREASURE CHEST 360 HELPFUL VERSES 361 3880 It's Christmas 3886 Boston Christmas comes with snow and ice, Then here's to the City of Boston, With mistletoe and all that's nice; The town of the cries and the groans, But, brother, it almost gives me chills Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks To think it also comes with bills. And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns. 3881 First Class or Steerage? 3887 Procrastination Said Jonah one day to the whale, So many things I've left undone! "My, my, you look hearty and hale. Like marching soldiers, one by one, When I go overseas, They pass before me in review, Will you transport me please The little things I meant to do! In a window seat near the tail?" 3888 Whole Duty of Children 3882 Expensive Tan A child should always say what's true To Florida and elsewhere south And speak when he is spoken to Have scurried those who can- And behave mannerly at table; And soon they'll scurry home again At least as far as he is able. To show their high-priced tan. -Robert Louis Stevenson -Leverett Lyon 3889 Critics 3883 Visitors Nature fits all her children with something to do, That visitor can take a bow, He who would write and can't write, can surely review. Who, seeing me about to doze, -James Russell Lowell Remarks, "I must be going now"- 3890 And goes. Diplomacy Diplomacy is to do and say 3884 She Didn't Stop The nastiest thing in the nicest way. A quite sentimental young cop -Isaac Goldberg Saw a cute thing come out of a shop. 3891 Greetings When he gave her the eye, She went blushingly by. Don't tell your Friends about your Indigestion: She'd just lifted twelve spoons and a mop! "How are you!" is a Greeting, not a Question. -Leverett Lyon -Arthur Guiterman 3885 Their Day 3892 A La Carte The turkeys seem restless, It takes much art The geese acting queer- To choose à la carte Can it be they are sensing For less than they quote That day is 'most here? For the table d'hôte. -Leverett Lyon -Justin Richardson THE TOASTMASTER'S TREASURE CHEST 422 TOASTS AND QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS 423 4585 Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! 4594 Some people always sigh in thanking God. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4595 Thanksgiving Let us then, as good citizens, as believers in God, gratefully keep Thanksgiving Day. Let us crowd to his sanctuaries, and praise God, from whom 4586 Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast, all blessings flow. Let households and friends gather about their firesides and And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. well-spread boards, and let charities to the poor brighten and commemorate the Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led, day, that it may be to us all long a pleasant memory.-J. B. Walker And thanks unto the harvest's Lord who sends our "daily bread." 4596 Yet it is meet and proper that a nation should set apart an annual day -Alice Williams Brotherton for national giving of thanks. It is a public recognition of God as the Author of 4587 all prosperity. It is the erection of a memorial to the honor of him who has led So once in every year we throng us through another year. The annual proclamations which call to the duty of Upon a day apart, thanksgiving are calculated to remind the people of their indebtedness to God, To praise the Lord with feast and song to stir in their minds and hearts emotions of gratitude and praise, and to call out In thankfulness of heart. thanks and sincere worship which otherwise might not find expression. But if the -Arthur Guiterman observance of the day be not marked by real remembering of mercies and by real 4588 Thanksgiving is one of the great traditional American holidays, and yet lifting of hearts to God in thanks, what blessing can possibly come with it?- J. R. Miller it did not originate in America. About three thousand years before it was ob- served in this country, God spoke to Moses in the days when the great host of 4597 "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Israelite slaves had just escaped from Egypt. They were having their first experi- Lest we forget-lest we forget!" ence in the wilderness of Sinai. The original proclamation from God is reported -Rudyard Kipling in the 23rd chapter of Exodus, 16th verse: "Thou shalt keep the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of 4598 Of the 102 pilgrims who had set sail on the Mayflower the previous in-gathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy autumn, only 51 sat down at the festive board when the first Thanksgiving dinner labors out of the field."-Sunshine Magazine was held in the New World in 1621. The other 51-exactly half of the original party-lay buried on a nearby hill in unmarked graves, smoothed over in order 4589 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. 92:1 that the Indians might not count the dreadful losses that had occurred because of disease and privation. Yet those who remained recognized ample cause for 4590 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth gratitude: harvest had been abundant, each family had its own cottage ready for 107:1 the oncoming winter, and the Indians, once hostile, were now friendly, and some of them had even come to partake of the great feast with their white friends. 4591 Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, Although the Pilgrims thus originated the observance of Thanksgiving, this day But still remember what the Lord hath done. for the recognition of blessings did not attain the status of a national celebration -William Shakespeare until 1863, when President Lincoln proclaimed, in the midst of the Civil War, a day for expressing gratitude. Since then, it has been an annual observance.- 4592 Now thank we all our God, Sunshine Magazine With heart and hand and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, Washington's Birthday In whom His world rejoices. 4599 America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And -Catherine Winkworth if our American institutions have done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.-Daniel Webster 4593 Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving- 4600 Almighty God: We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the kindness to us, and to all men.-The Book of Common Prayer United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the Saturday Saturday THE WHITE HOUSE Eddie Aldrete Alaute AL-DRETTY 703-435-7208 (Hinchliffe/Grossman) November 7, 1990 3:00 p.m. TURKEY PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PRESENTATION OF THANKSGIVING TURKEY November 13, 1990 Rose Garden I want to welcome all of you to the Rose Garden, especially Tom over there -- after everything that's been going on in Wash- ington these past few months, it's great to finally be sharing a stage with someone I can call a turkey to his face and get away with it. Looking at him I just realized: I once said you can take broccoli and stuff it. Well, now I have a place to do just that. But Tom's arrival wasn't without controversy -- Millie was pretty jealous of him -- at least she was until I explained he probably wouldn't be around long enough to write a book. 11 I want to assure those of you who fear that a terrible fate awaits our Tom: we've decided to spare him. He won't be subjected to questions from the Washington Press Corps, after all.\\ Listen Tom, since you come from N.C., as a re-election gift to my good friend Jesse Helms, I'm going to give you a Presidential pardon: you can spend the rest of your life at a nearby children's farm. I'm glad to see you kids -- here's a story you can take back to your teachers. Ben Franklin was upset that the Bald Eagle was named our national symbol, because he wanted it to be the turkey. He said: "The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and a true original native of America." I'm sure that's a sentiment Wyatt Upchurch and the National Turkey Federation would applaud. You know, Thanksgiving's really special to me -- because it's a truly American holiday -- that sums up the good, generous 2 heart of this country. And it reminds us of our real American values -- the ones we just can't afford to forget. Values like deep gratitude for the rich blessings of this great land. Unsel- fish generosity toward those in need. And recommitment to the primary importance of family. Abraham Lincoln -- a good man, a humble family man -- gave this holiday to our country, even in the midst of a grim war that was bringing anguish to the nation he loved. In his first Thanksgiving proclamation, this great President gently reminded his people of blessings such as fruitful fields and healthful skies. Then he said "It has seemed to me fit and proper that these should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people." He was thinking then, as we think now, of the very first Thanksgiving. He drew his inspiration, as should we, from those Pilgrims who had suffered and lost so much -- yet who gave a day of genuine rejoicing for the little bit they did have. How much more gratitude we, who have so much, owe today: to our God; our fellow citizens; our country; and our brave service- men and women so far from home this holiday. I'm going to be with them on Thanksgiving Day. And I know I'll express what's in the heart of every American when I shake these young men and women's hands and embrace them and say: thank you. Thank you for standing for freedom, for the innocent, and for morality in our world. Thank you for bearing witness by your presence to the over- whelming importance of mankind's hopeful dream of a just future. 3 And perhaps their sacrifice will make those of us at home this Thanksgiving Day reflect even more deeply. So that when we give thanks for our freedom -- we will also think of those whose lives are measured in chains both actual and metaphorical. When we give thanks for our food -- we will think of those ravaged by hunger. When we give thanks for our future -- we will think of those who don't know hope. When we give thanks for our health - - we will think of those imprisoned by pain, illness or despair. And we will realize that we have two obligations above all others. First: we must not take for granted the blessings of our lives. And second: for our lives to have true meaning -- we must share with others. This holiday reminds us that it's inner rich- ness, not external wealth, by which we are measured. For Thanks- giving is not a time of the year -- but an attitude of the heart. Thanks for coming, Tom -- God bless everyone here, your families and our servicemen and women -- and Happy Thanksgiving! # # # #

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