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(D) Calling Its Mate _ Itll Take Super-magic: CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD & i i 'Regular Cleaning Up ’ for American Cities American cities are getting their ‘faces scrubbed, and a new Industry is rapidly assuming very interesting pro ‘portions, says Merle Thorpe in Na tion's Business Magazine. Send your office building to the laundry, and get it back by Saturday night, nicely ‘washed and ironed! Washington, a number of northern municipalities, and, in the South, Atlanta, and other cities, are going in for cleanliness, and as the dingy buildings skake off their Soot and dust, and emerge with shin ing facades, all dolled up and well lathered behind the ears, one has to rub his eyes to recognize his own home town. . In Washington, for example, a new white city, spick and span, is coming into view by the magiec of soap and water, and within the past year, the Erustic beauty of the nation’s capital as been greatly enhanced. It costs saround $2,500 to steam clean and press an office building of average sizs, while the job of spicking and spanning up the treasury or the Union station might run up as high as $12,- 000. It is worth it. Beauty and clean liness are real assets to any commuye nity. Retain Roadside in Its Natural Beauty The problems of attractive commu hities in advertising their recreational and residence advantages should be linked up in the mind of the commu nity authorities with the advisability of protecting the town’s beauty by keeping the roadsides approaching it free from everything but their natural beauty, according to a report which has just been made by the Division of Housing and Town Planning for the commonwealth of Massachusetts. The building of a new main highway is not merely an engineering problem, On the contrary, it is primarily a so cial and economie problem, a problem of killing or making the region, the report holds. “A region rendered uninhabited ex cept by filling stations, hot-dog stands and billboards is blighted, not helped,” the report says. “Let a town, partic ularly what we call a good summer town, protect every residence by a good zoning plan, and keep its road sides free from everything but their natural beauty, and the whole country will know that town. No town differ ently treated can compete with it.— Detroit News. Beauty in Common Brick No dther exterior material offers such a rich variety of colors as the common brick. And color is impera tive in present-day homes. Nor IS any other so adaptable in the working out of softened textural effects. The com mon brick is in a class by itself in this respect. Other brick stress their uniformity of color and texture, Com mon brick are never alike; always there is a pronounced variation not only in color tones but in texture and form. They burn unevenly, their lines are irregular, their fire flashings never the sameé, And in these ever-present variations lie their greatest charm.— Building Economy, Prohibits Overcrowding An attempt t» limit the density of population in residence areas is made in a unique building code restriction adopted by the city of Madison, N. J., & suburban community which is at tempting to protect itself against the piling up of congestion in its resi dence sections, An amendrient to the building code prohibits the erection in any part of that community of buildings to house more than one family for each 2,500 square feet cf lot area. This Is equiv algnt to limiting the maximum dens ity of population to 17 familles to the acre, Qualities Needed in Roof A roof that is tricky is to be de spised. It Is to be made over, It can't g 0 on with its undependable charac ter, The worst thing about a defec tive roof is that its meanness will show when least expected and least desired. There are artistic roofs that en dure. Beauty and utility will be found the winning team In any building proposition, Nothing sets off a domi clle to such good advantage as a top that Is plcturesque, But it must be waterproof and fire-resisting as well, Eliminate Excess Signs The North Shore (lllinols) Real Es tate board Is working to eliminate ex cess “For Sale” signs on North shore properties. The board recommends that In order to prevent the Injury to the sale vatue of properties ocea. sloned by the presence of ten to fif teen signs on a single lot, as 1s some times seen In a site facing a highroad, the present signs be removed and a single sign put in its place reading: “See Your Realtor."—Chlcago Dally News, . i Electric Fountain Electrle fountains, In addition to beautifying the home, are an extreme- Iy healthful feature, = ’ Wyr' [ & : . = R = = ] BXS e [R o S ; %’?*‘;—Fx‘:" (R /‘Ffifl" '-,;*/a,zw,:—«**§ Q'/(/(i;," =7 vfl%‘/afi///mw | 5 B pie s | KN RSN S e:,;-,;/,.v,;,/y/j\,)f‘ P e z :'\\\'\\-w\‘\;/éj;':r"r':‘;" y "/P,,(/;,/,w / e — NSAM " RN\ . ~:';—7~_l4;gfi.:_l.',;{.; Zas-,;‘ | - W "‘l\T_‘;f;l;j,'i/"/" g‘ - "~"~f”é{%/ oW UL :1 Thanksgiving day is the oldest of American national festivities, Inde pendence day, though coeval with and commemorative of our national natal day, boasts only a respectable antiq uity of a century and a half, but an other century ar * a half must be add ed to carry us backward to the his torical origin of the day that we have nationally dedicated to prayer and thanksgiving—to the days of bluff Governor Bradford and to the first struggling colony of herolc pilgrims. It was in this cradle of our common wealth that the observance of a day of thanks was first nurtured on ogr goil, though its inspiration was brought from lands across the seas and probably threaded human history back to the plains of Palestine when the psalmists of Israel praised the Lord in song for the bounties of earth, First Thanksgiving. Benjamin I'ranklin tells us that, in a time of great despondency among the first settlers of New England, it was proposed in one of their public meetings to proclaim a fast. An aged farmer arose and spoke of their pro voking Heaven with their compliments and of the many mercies they had already received and of the many causes they had for tQanksggiving. He then made a motion that instead of appointing a day of fasting, they should appoint a day of thanksgiving. To this the assembly agreed. The first Thanksgiving day was kept amid circumstances most unpropitious and with gaunt famine hovering over the rude and cheerless dwellings of that little colony. The summer of 1621, following the landing at Ply mouth, yielded bus a scanty harvest and unless speedy supplies came from Europe the sturdy Colonists foresaw that they would be reduced to the point of starvation. Yet, amid such surroundings as these, we learn from the old chronicles that Governor Brad ford, “the harvest being gotten in, sent four men out on fowling, so that we might, after a more special man ner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labors.” And thus, While sickness lurked and death as sailed And foes beset on every hand, the first governor of New England in stituted the American Harvest Home and celebrated the first New Kngland Thanksgiving day. Many “Thankful” Days. The old Colonial records also tell of the appointment of Thanksgiving days, for various causes, in the Mas sachusetts Bay colony, in the years 1633, 1634, 1637, 1638 and 1639, In Plymouth colony similar publicly de clared observances took place in 1651, 1668, and in 1680, when the tenor of the proclamation seems to indicate that it had then become a settled yearly custom. The Massachusetts Bay colony was the first to appoint an annual Thanks glving day by the proclamation of the English governor, During the Revolu tion, Thanksgiving day became a na tional Amaerican institution, being an nually recommendgd by congress, but after the general thanksgiving for peace, in 1784, there was no national appointment until 1789, when Wash- f B ‘% A \\;ss RS by g L] mfi@ N ' 1.0, i & 4L o N STt §Vi o hat so'we might afler a speci ‘ . rio‘c'cll flkififi?fflt% & sSTheyf fout in one day killed as «fié : mg“.f;oul as, with a l‘tmeaHp esidle. $F at whick fime, w other tecteations. f‘wlmfi!tlhm*\walethimdad : Waud they went ouf and killed five deer which (;\M brought to the plantation, and bestowed \onauggwmandqulhe caplain and{t othets. - alt hit is not h 'yl o o o ‘ Bl oiyeof vt gl ington, by request of cengress, rec ommended a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the Constitution. Washington I§sued a second proclama tion of thanksgiving in 1995, on ac count of the suppression of insurrec tion. President Madison, by request of congress, recommended a thanks giving for peace im 1815, at the con clusion of the War of 1812. But the official recommendation of a day for the giving of thanks was mainly con fined to New England, until 1817, after which date it was regularly ap pointed also by the governor of New York. The Dutch governors of the New Netherlands had proclaimed thanksgiving days in 1644, 1645, 1655 and 1664 and in 1755 and 1760 a day was similarly designated by the Eng iish governor of New York. Annual Proclamations. During the Civil war, in 1863 and 1864, President Lincoln issued proc lamatiéns recommending annual thanksgivings and since then a proc ¥ o 2 Uow st gy «fmn T S——— 08 -v Ry ) RO Tg o P V. et ok Pl eB; N - P S Sl ) R e e [T g haaae X e ~:A;AE:E:EE?E::?: i A ; ’ ;g&is;:";cjgigizigié;i:E;E;E;Eai;fi";é;gj:;:;v R s sg § g . LI e 1 el e o | oy < B L PREF" o ':3'351;;};»::53;:f:"::' Interior of Colonial Home in Amer« ica’'s Earllest Days. lamation has been issued annually by the President of the United States as well as by the governors of the sev eral states and the mayors of Amer ican cities. Custom has fixed the time for Thanksgiving day as the last Thurs day in November, but up to 1864 thera was no uniformity as to the date of the observance and Presidents and governors followed no fixed rules in setting a day apart, each state decid ing its own Thanksgiving day. Thanks« giving day was long in settling down to its present fixity of day and sea son, It is on record that one prudent municipality of the old time once postponed the celebration of the day for a week, “in order to get molasses with which to sweeten the pumpkin pies.”—Kansas City Times. Canadian Thanhksgiving Than' :iving is proclaimed annual« Iy in Canada by the governor general, The day is Monday of the week of November 11,