The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-26
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2e, 1918.
CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING.

81 Thanksgiving day, 1913. brings
Ssauch to be thankful for. This is true
uf every year, under tho freedom OF
the stars and stripes, but the year
1913 has its special causes for being
thankful.
Y North Dakota comes to the closing
Tyeriod Of the year with we'll filled
Bins, with wealth and prosperity ever
Increasing, with a happy, cOntented,
Healthy people rejoicing In prospects
for a. splendid future. No state in the
ration has more substantial cause for
returning thanks for the bounties of
The year, or with brighter hopes of
What is before.
8That the nation has ample cause
for thanksgiving is evident to all who
foIlow the trend of current events. A
financial concern of wide reputation,
fin a recent letter summed Up the
causes for national thanksgiving in
the following, which The Forum be-
ilfeves to be an excellent summary:
; 1.-THE first thing that occurs to us
iii that We arc gaining knowledge alb
tic time about the conservation of
health. The moment the point was;
Brought out tina the conservation Of
Human life had n dollar value to ~
there was no question of the ultimate
Success of the movement. The steeE
companies have organized depart
raents for the safety and health of
their employees. The life insurance
companies are making campaigns for
tpublic health, and one company has
Established at considerable expense, a
ypablic nursing system in th~ickly-pOp-
.1ilated centers. 1t is estimated that
the annual economic loss due to pre-
;vhntable disease and death amounts
to 1900, 900, 900 and the country and
nStably the larger metropolitan cities
have undertaken the work Of greatly
minimizing this enormous loss by
1ihalth campaigns.
1--WE should be thankful for the par
Gel post, which became effective the
beginning of the year and which has
exceeded expectations as to its sue
cgss. 1t was figured hat the govern
rnent would earn $15, 900. 900 a year
from this service, but the figures will
double that estimate. A long step for
ward was made when the parcel post
system was established.
eve should be thankful for the
prospect Of framing a banking and
currency bill which will unite the
hands of our business interests all
over the country, make credit more
available to the farmer and the rank
and file business men. instead OF con-
.centrating our capital in centers
where it is easily controlled by large
banking groups, which use it. Of
~.course, for their w purposes.
1--WE should be thankful that. while
the corn crop shows some shortage as
compared with the bumper yield Of
last year. there Is a splendid average
kameng the nine or ten staple crops
upon which We depend. The money
value of the harvest of 1913 is prob
ably in excess of that of last year.
We should be thankful for a broad
ter diffusion of knowledge respecting
the control Of capital and corpora
lions in the interest Of the general
Ipublic.
1--WE should be thankful that the
Panama canal is now practically a
|cQnlpleted enterprise and will greatly
add to the wealth and opportunities
ofathe nation, bringing both of our
coasts into closer understanding and
sympathy, also South America, Great
ing new centers of wealth on both
seaboards, adding to our naval and
commercial strength. This, the most
important enterprise of construction
ever undertaken by his or any other
country, has been completed, and ever
since it was put under the supervI-
sion Of that splendid disciplined army
official, Colonel Goethals, has been
without scandal and with the highest
efficiency, testifying to the success
with which the government can put
through enterprises of pith and mo-
ment when it is put to the test of TAX
ing them up itself.
1--WE should be thankful that oui
dividend and interest Disbursements
continue, generally speaking. Upon
record plane, all the time increasing
on the whole"