South Bend news-times., 1917-11-29
Other Editors Than Ours
"a SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING"
(RN RrIIce Barton Editor Every Week J

A year ago we were giving thanks that we had been
kept out of the and praying that might con-
tinue to be kept out.
And the war has reached across the ocean and
quilted Not family but feels its pressure and its
pain already, and will feel it
Shall say. then that those prayers useless?
Is it impossible to md in days like these anything for
which this nation should be thankful?
I'm ancient times they had suggestive phrase They
spoke of offering a sacrifice of Thanksgiving"
Sacrifice arst and then thanksgiving; JOY, preceded
by and founded self-deniaL
see, look around me, signs that this nation Is
learning the meaning Of that great word sacrifice
signs that inspire in who really loves his
country very deep and reverent gratitude this
ticular THANKSGIVING day.
a few days of the big canton
ments. and spent hours i'm talking with the
They were just light hearted boys, to all outward
appearances. But underneath there another note.
I'D hate to have had all this happen in my lifetime
and had part in it," said OF them. It's the
first time ever had anything big appeal TO much
that everything for it. believe
there must be something in that stuff about its being
happy-happy all the through"
In Washington I met rich man who has abandoned
his business and is working for the government
salary OF 81 year He is one of hundreds who are
doing the thing
The stock market may down; he does not
it. The other in his line of business
making money; and his concern is simply marking
time and he does care.
Just thing the world matters to him-to help
this country do its part in the efficiently that
there may never be another war.
ITS costing barrel money down here "
than 1 ever had making it, A whole world has
opened up thousands of my class-a new
fer being alive Wen be different fellows when
this thing is through"
I a mother who has given two boys, and who is
giving every moment of her days relief work.
Isn't it wonderful" she cried her face beaming ito
think that, if do part we'll now mothers may
never have 10 go through this again."
Sacrihce-sacrifce-eVer And bringing
such a sence OF JOY. such inward peace work
o selfish pleasure advantage brought.
Can any one the sweep that spirit through the
Ia nd OF feeIc
heavy cloud Of days like these?
Across the pathway Of activity of ordinary
lives war writes its flaming question mark.
tones that be drowned, ii cries:
Millions Of across the water giving their
your life?
/ Men dying gladly abroad" il cries-'dying in
their twentes and thries make this world better
place in which live. What doing to make il
/ better?'
] There need enough for such questions
We have lived for many years in the atmosphere OF
DO and Get immersed in that atmosphere
a year ago. when prayed that might be spared
the bitterness of which would interfere with our
doing and getting.
Today that atmosphere is clearing We learning
some OF east-that he who seeks his life
10y thinking only himself finds the end that what
he has saved is worth saving. That he truly finds
his life who first loses il in the service of ideal
Are YOU among the number OF those who begin
learn that truth2 If you then for this
should be perfectly wonderful Thanksgiving day.