The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-01
THANKSGIVING.

Now that Thanksgiving is passed for the year, and every person who ! had the price has shown gratitude [ To the Maker of Prosperity for them by gorging themselves with the good things of earth, we can approach the subject in that calmer mind that always marks the morning after,
 Gratitude is one of the most hu' l man of virtues. Not that it is con med to human beings, but ill that it is supposed to develop human symDathy more highly than any other. psychologists have lately rig eed up a platform or consider T abIe praise for it
 The grateful workingman who D thankful to God and his Boss that he has a job, has been the hero oi Sunday School song and story rom time without mind. Tine grateful slave that served his master aIte. evil fortunes had fallen upon hl.h has fingered since slavery days long after the lash and the block nave been forgotten It is all exceedingly beautiful and pretty. Essential: rTbanlxsgiving. extended to God for national and individual well beins' is remnant of that conception of inc Deity when he had Terrors as well as Loves to dispense, and when he inflicted miseries and mlsfor- tunes upon an abject humanity "lth the same equal dispensation where with he rewarded those whom he chose to regard his own people
 Ii is therefore quite impossible from any reasonable point of view to overlook the fact that in Thanks giving for material well being, we are trying to saddle upon God res ponsibility for those things Whlrh human beings had they done their part. could very well have avoided
 When a Rockefeller thanks God for his prosperity, is he not at tho same time saddling the Creator with responsibility for those conditions IT. Bavonne and Colorado which but lately had the nation shudderlnS ln horror? When a neutral nation mak' ing muniticent millions out Of wal munitions thanks God for Prosperi' ty. is it not also thanking God fo1 that war which has so blessed 1t! When a nation thanks Cod fer belne at Peace is it not also Gadii!ng God with responsibility for all war, inas' much he prevented it for one nation could he not have done so for all?
 There is no way of getting over these propositions if We exercise that intelligence which reasoning be ines are at least supposed to pos sess. That God does not do the hor ribIe things that God might do, ant that God has done good where h' would just as well have done harm that he has inflicted happiness where Ee might have inflicted misery, in ev.tably begets the conception tha there is more Devil than God in tha conception of the Supreme Being.
 over all the country men who hat squeezed their profits from tn health and happiness of the men women and children who toiled 10 them were yesterday engaged Il giving thanks that the profit side o the ledger showed such substantia gains. That thanksgiving is consid cred a very becoming thing and very beautiful thing, when as a mat ter of fact it is most blasphemou thing in that it saddles Him t whom thanks are given with tn responsibility for underpaid workers for little children in the mills an' factories, for five hundred per cen increase in the employment of wom ,en at hard labor within the past tel years in the United States.
 Every person is thankful that tn United States is at peace. HoY thankful? To whom? Who is make wars? God or the children of men If it is the Almighty that tears tn face of the earth with desolatin misery and gloats over the anguis of the agonized victims of the bat tlefields what sort of divine COT ception is that but plain downrigh diabolism? Isn't 1t plain and