The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-30

from the morning service of Thanksgfv-
ing in the churchill. B. Stowe in odd
town Folks.'
All. on Thanksgiving day. when from East
and from West,
From North and South, come the pilgrim
When the gray-haired New Highlander
sees round his board
The old broken links of affection restorec'
When the care-wearied man seeks his
mother once more,
girl smiled before.
What n moistens the lips and what bright
ems the eye?
What calls back the past. like the rich
whittier, in "The Pumpkin
The state Journal. Topeka and kan
sas and the United States certainly
nave reason to give thanks today for
the blessings and prosperity and peace
and happiness that have been showered
upon the gSatefu1 recipients this year
of plenty and profit
Gratitude is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul: and the
heart Of man knoweth none more
fragrant" Thus said the great Uni
versalist preacher, Hosea Ballou, in
one of his sermons. And yet, Words
worth is responsible for this sentiment,
which is often too true: Alas. the
gratitude of men hath often left me
mourning
on this bright and beautiful
Thanksgiving day there is little ex-
cuse for writing anything that will
incite unseemly strife. or which might
spoil the day in the slightest degree at.
the many family reunions in Topeka
and elsewhere over Kansas, or foment
trouble 1t is just as well to think of
kindly "Reminiscences the happi-
ness and prosperity of the present,
and the pleasing prospects for the
future.
Save and alone such strife, such
contentious and such unseemly strug-
giles as are bound to occur today on
the gridironl
Here's hoping that our own Wash
burn will win, but that the farmer
boys from Manhattan will not be bad
~ punished, just simply given good,
plain. ordinary sporting licking.
The "Aggies" should remember that
it is better to be whipped by Wash
burn than not to be whipped at all.
They are too swelled up now; it is
not good for them; they are getting
spoiled and we don't want them that
way. For many years Washburn al
ways won, but for the last three years
the Agricultural college has carried
away the honors, each and every time.
The scores were simply dreadful The
"Aggies'' could well afford to lose
today.
DIR. Loveland in his excellent ser
mon this morning said: The nation |
is suffering from the bad citizenship |
of so-called good people," There is a
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the reports on the first page of this /
paper today of the Thanksgiving ser
mons that the State Journal report
ers have been able to secure for their |
readers tonight. should think care |
fully over what DIR. Loveland said.
The bad citizenship of good people |
is often worse than the bad citizen
ship of bad people, because in the one
case you know what to expect, and in |
the other you do not like to think that |
there are good people who have |
hypocrisies which they should put
aside.
DIR. Sheldon today gives thanks and
says that in the happy days of old:
Paul never saw daily paper; there
were no reform organizations in the
days of Paul" No wonder st. Paul
gave thanks before the Pilgrims insti-
tuted the day.
William Allen White, Governor
Stubbs and Senator Bristow should,
and doubtless do, find things today
over which they are pleased to give
thanks.
of course Governor Stubs is not
very thankful over the recent result
in the Second district, but the state
IA fr1I
was elected, at least because to Guyer
was administered a rebuke; and if |
ever a Republican deserved rebuke, |
it was Guyer and the machine "Insur- |
gents who stood back of them, and
we deeply regret that the governor
himself was one of these machine
men. He endorsed it and campaigned |
his best to aid the machine, but he
got numerically whipped, just as he
deserved to be.
President Taft ought to be thankful /
today, not only because of that forty |
pound turkey on which he is probably |
munching at this hour, but because
the people from one end of this coun-
try to the other are more and more
the fact that he is MAX
ing a splendid president, that he has
a fine, able level head, and is improv-
ing month by month in the conduct of |
his great office. His second term if
he gets it ought to be great.
OF course, President Taft must have,
with the rest of US, a Fly in the oint-
ment,s' and William Allen White ap-
pears to be that "fy," for he has told
the people, and not yet retracted the
assertion, so far as this writer has been
from his wonderful journey
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