The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-11-26
iowa PEOPLE
SHOULD REJOICE
People Who Are Living Within Iowa
Borders eating the Fat and
Drinking the Sweet
GIVE THANKS ON TOMORROW
Iowans Thankful for THE Garden
Spot of the WorId''-Barns Are
Filled to Overlooking.

The people of the United States are
standing in thoughtful attitude,
awaiting Thanksgiving Day! Next
Thursday, the 9th of November, the
edict has gone forth for the assemb-
ling of our people together to give
thanks as a nation and as states to
the mighty God, who has watched over
us; and whose providential care has
guided, guarded and protected us from
dangers seen and unseen, as another
year mas come and gone since we as
nation and as a people, acknowl-
edged his goodness and Watchful care
over US. 1T is a good thing to give
thanks unto the Lord" And no other
people know that better than America!
Therefore, as a nation and as states,
we may throw aside our cares and
responsibilities, rejoicing in the fact
that it is as we'll with us as it is!
When we look across the sea TO the
starving MI lions, we cannot but be
touched by the miseries war has
wrought among them. 1t would make
our coming Thanksgiving all the
sweeter if it were possible to share
our bounties with the starving, suffer
ing ones; but we can help our poorer
ueighbors at home by making the day
brighter for them; for the poor we
nave ever with us; and when We will
we can do them good! Thus, as ma
ton, we can be glad and thankful, as
we'll as pitlIul. Then let us as ma
ton, while we return thanks and are
feasting on the fat of the land re-
member in generous way the less
fortunate nations of the earth; for "he
who giveth unto the poor lendeth to
the Lord For be We assured Of this
whose is generous in sucn a season
Will have it returned to him ''in full
measure, pressed down and running
overt"
And what of Iowa. the garden spot
of the world? If ever a people should
rejoice IN eating the fat and drink
ing the sweet it is the people living
within her borders. Barns filled al
most to bursting, and gathering
not yet completed! If there is any
people on earth who ought to be
thankful, it is the people of Iowa. No
storms lave devastated the state. No
disease has marred the
happiness of our people. There is
plenty of work for those who are will
ling to work There is not an issue of
any of our papers but you will find
many advertisements OF help want
ed. Men and women who have gone
off Searching for climate cou-d have
found work in Iowa and allowed the
"climate to take care of ITSELF! Liv-
ing is not high as compared wit other
places. Our water is good, pure and
plentiful. Our climate for heal,n will
compare we'll with any equal area in
the United States. even if it has not
been so advertised.
Corn, as food, is the most health
full in the world! 1t sustained our
pioneers long before mills We're
established in Iowa. when mortar and
pestle supplied the hominy, the stout
coffee mill. the coarse corn meal, and
the skillet the parched corn, in case
of dire necessity. Let the snow COW
err our state, il it will never SO deeply;
but we will give the Lord thanks. 1t
always weeps itself away in the spring,
and the deeper the covering the lars-
err the corn crop the season following!
So we will gather in our churches
to give thanks to the God who gives
our bountiful crops and adjourn to our
well-tilled tables to attest His bounties,
praise His name for His wonderful
goodness to children of men, with hope
and trust for the coming year. Iowa
with her barns bursting out with pro-
ducts of the year can we'll afford to
spend the day in feasting and mirth
while the old promise is rehearSed
in our ears as the rainbow of hope
shines once more in the clouds:
while the earth remaineth, seedtime
and harvest. summer and winter, cold
and heat, and day and night shall not
cease!" And thus. with such prom
Use ringing in our ears, may We not
give thanks. "eat. drink, and be mer-
nv ?''-Plain Talk