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.¡s;1t11ess
ra~!l
er l"b:.n eq..a.li4o/ an<l
.excel!ence?"·asks
Time-(1<~.n
•.Z4,
1'969).
()~l!er ru~tiru)s
a.e no ienger .as im–
pressed with Amer·ica and tbe
wrry
A:mericans
do
tbings
as
·{bey
-used
to
be.
"Very feW people are enamoured of tbe
American way of
lif~"
says British his–
torian Sir Denis 8.-ogan.
ffisJ"orians
are now
speculating
oo
whetber the {enure of the
U.S.
as
tbe
first
power in the
'Workl
will
not
aJso
.bC
one
of
the briefest i.o -b.i:story.
What happened
- .and
what is c:ontifl–
uing
10
hap.pen? Wh.y
is
America fast
losing its reputation
as "
"Crtty upon
a
·Hill"?
A:fialety-W,...nisl& •
Y
es,
we as a na·t.ion
today
are ;, seri–
ous trouble. Again, we have
forgotten
God and·h.e is begillcing to witbdraw+>is
blessings from
us.
Nolice tbis dire warn·
ing from God
given
to tbe ancient na–
tion of Israel: "Beware tbat thou forget
not tbe Lord thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and bis judgments,
and
bis starotes, which
1
c:ommand thée this
da
y:
.Lest
when
thow
has/ eOJen ond .art
fol~
and hast built _goodly bouses,· and
dwelt tberein;
a~d
when 'tb.y herds and
thy ftocks multiply, and tby silver and
thy gold
is
multiplied, and
all
tbat tbou
hast is multiplied ... And tbou say in
th.i.oe beart,
My
power and tbe might of
mine
hand h&th gotten
me
.flris wealtb.
But thou sbalt remember -the Lord thy
.Go<t::d'oroit
<is'lhe
tb.at
si"e~"thl:e~er
ro get wealth, lhat he may establish his
covenant which he sware
un~o
tby
fatbers, as it is tbis day. And it sbaU be,
ifthou do at
aU
forget tbe l<><d thy God,
and walk aOer otber gods, and serve
them, and worship them. 1 testify
against you
this
day that ye shall surely
perisb"(Deut.S : ll-13,17- 19).
Though God spoke this prophecy spe·
citically to ancient Israel, it can apply to
modem America today in principie.
What does
all
this mean, and wbat
Taleof
theTurkey
by
Charles J. Milazzo
Most Americans are acquainted with
the turkey shared by both tbe Pilgrims
and the lndians on a day of tbanksgiv–
ing proclairned by Govemor Bradford
oflhe Plymouth Colony in 1621.
Wbat most Amerieans don't know is
the derivation ·of the word "turkey" and
the manner in whicb the festive fowl
became associated with the Thanksgiv–
ing Day holiday.
The -trail of the turkey begins long
before the Engtish landed oo the shores
of the New World. As reponed by the
Spaniards, the turkey was first found
strutting around wben Cortez invaded
Mexico in 1519. Atthat time the Aztecs
ate the turkey soiked in a deücious
chocolate sauce.
When the conquistadores first saw the
bird with its chest puffed out and tail
feathers spread out in a fan, they
WEEK ENDINO NOVEMBER 22, 1975
doe6
it
have
t0
<k>
with
~.ving?
Jus-t
this:
Our eareless,
go41ess.
decadern..way .of life has ·stripped tbe
-Value.aad
meaning
from
lile
lba.olc,sgiv–
·U\g
·o~
hdi<iay.
"-... Máll.e
'RoMobci""c
Meaaincfal
Tbere
is
-hing wrong with good
food and
fami~y
reunions on Thanksgiv–
ing Day. But all too many ..se these
activities wroagly and forget
·the
pur–
pose
for tbe holíday. M.any
g1ut
them–
selves witb
far
more food than they
out\ht to eat; few,noweve.r, stop to give
God thanks for th.is food - even
on
Thanksgiving Day.
Farnily reun·ions
an
too often turn
o~t
to be family brawls. Many a tense
Th<lnksgiving Day with relatives ends in
violeoce. Aod
in
recent years, t-here have
been severa!
cases
of someone jumpi.og
up from
the
Thanksgiving dinner
10
grab
a
gun and shoot sorne member of
bis or ber famil
y.
·
Milli<>ns of otbers.push and shove one
. aoother
i.n
large cr<>wds at football
garnes aod ,parades, and
kili
one another
on
the bigbways as they madly strive to
make
sure
they get their fair quota
-or
pleasure.
·
And where is the giving of thanks
in
all this? In 1he overwhelming vast ma–
jority of
cases.
it is nowhere to be found.
What a travesty!
Thanksgiving should not be limited
to
ooe day a yeaT. H should be a daily
occun:ence l<>r all of us. We all 'h.ave
much to be thank:ful for- allthe time.
Nów as never before, we need to stop
and tbank
God
for the many blessings
we still have - and change from our
wrong ways
so
that' the blessings we
have lost can be restored.
lf we fail to do this and if we fail to
aeknowledge God as the giver of all our
blessings. he will surely "withdrawe his
present help from us, [and] we
sho/1
be
made a story and a by-word through the
world:' '
O
thought it was a breed of peacock and
named the bird "pavo," later promoting
it to "pavo real" or "royal peacock."
Tbe "pavo real" was taken to Spain in
1525 where it became an instant gas–
tronomic sensation. In Spain, the bird
was bred and sent
lO
otber couotries. As
its popularity spread, a curious thing
bappened to the bird's name. Tbe
French called the bird a "dindon,"
meaning "from India," because the East
was 'l'here all exotic dishes originated.
The Germans gave it the name "kale–
kutisch hum." That term passed into the
Sca.ndinavian language as "kalkon.' '
Much later, the English. confused by tbe
various names given the detectable bird,
placed the fowl's origin as halfway East,
which carne to Turkey, and so "turkey"
it was ealled.
Sorne American naturalists believe
that the word may have come from one
of the 'turkey's ealls: "turc, turc, turc."
One historian says the word may bave
spread to the colonists from the Ameri·
can lndian's name for tbe bird. suppos·
edly "firkee."
Be that as it may, tbe Pilgrims perpet–
uated the word by ealliog it turkey. For–
ever lost in history is the Aztec's name
for the turkey- guaholoti. O
ltead
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