The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-11-18
Underwood Bouquets and Brickbats

F. W. Dehart has purchased ranch
near Sherwood, Ore, l8 miles south
of Portland, and expects soon to re-
move part of his family to the same.
Bert Veach has resigned his position
as superintendent of the Goddard farm
ard intends in the near future to locate
in Clarke county. perhaps in the neigh
burhood of Vancouver. Mr.. and Mis-
Veach will be much missed in this vi
cinity, as they are among the original
pioneers and enjoy very large &C.
quaintance and have great mary
friends. They have been helpful
neighbors, believing in doing all they
can end making no fuss about it.
The president has proclaimed thurs.
day, November rs, day OF thanksgiv-
ing and prayer, when he asks US TO
cease from our wonted occupations and
in homes and places of worship recder
thanks to Almight, God. But | am
afraid there will be more turkey din
ners than real thanksgiving, more peO-
Lle at the ball games and in the ball
rooms than in the churches. We are
overlooking with material comforts IN
blessings, but they do not always make
US thankful. Well filed graneries and
barns and good prices for apples do not
always connect the soul with God His
best gifts are not necessarily great
market values and obsnk surplusses
The greatest good is what we are all
hunting for, but we often choose gold
brick and get shoddy for the real
goods. Vast material wealth and pros
perity are by no means 10 be despised.
but they are only the foil ard back.
ground for more valuable assets. Viz
tue is more than market values, good
character more than gold.
Gratitude is not one of our distin-
gushing characteristics. Cur mem.
ories are often short. We little note
ard not Iorg remember some of the best
and Eoblest thirgs that are ever done
We take all we can get ard often for
get the giver. Yet it is tie glory of
man that he is able to return thanks.
Animals do not know how to feel or
say thank you" But to feel graft
tude is human, and to give expression
TO it is always becoming. We will
thank the boy who picks up our hard
kerchief on the street. but we will
often take all the good things that
come our way and forget TO thank in
heart or life the Almighty Giver of all.
When our old battleship Texas went
through storm of iron and shot in the
fight with the Spanish feet and came
out unscathed. Captain Phillip had all
hands called on deck and said: 81
want all you officers and men to lift
your hats and from your hearts offer
silent thanks to the Almighty" avery
hat went off and every head was
bowed, and you could have heard pin
drop on that deck. When Captain Philip
walked past the crew he saw tears on
the face of many an old sailor that he
supposed did not know how to cry.
America has just passed through a
year of the greatest tragedy in human
history. and while the lands beyond the
seas have been smitten by tornado of
fire ard blood and filled with all the
carnage and all hate, we have been un-
scathed. We ought to lift our cap and
say with the crew of the Texas: IL
thank Thee
America is the fairest land on which
the sun in all its course around the
globe shines; the Pacific coast is the
fairest part of America, Oregon and
Washington are the fairest part of the
Pacific coast; Hood River, White Salm-
on and Underwood are the fairest part
of Oregon and Washington.
This is land of hope. The average
of human happiness is greater here
than anywhere else on the globe. Our
people are the best educated. the best
behaved (most of the time), the best
housed, the best fed, the best dressed
and the best looking people on the
globe today.
1t took the Almighty four hundred
million years to get this country ready
for us, but when be did it was the best
work of His hands. We ought to be
thankful. Thistledown.