The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-11-28
THANKSGIVING MEANS MUCH
THIS YEAR.

Thanksgiving is one of the few
days which American people of all
classes, religious and creed have uni
versally celebrated.
1t is time for the recounting OF
ones blessings and while things are
not perhaps exactly as we would like
to have them, nevertheless each one
has many blessings to be thankful
for We can look about us on every
hand and find cheerful people so much
worse off than we are that we ought
to be ashamed not to offer prayer
of thankfulness for the manifold
blessings we enjoy.
Never in the experience of any per-
son living today has Thanksgiving
meant so much as this year. The
cream of the young manhood of Am
erica was thrown in the balance of
the world war and in much less per-
iod of time than most people dared
hope for complete victory over brutal
autocracy has been won by the Allies.
The hundreds of thousands of
young men who have battled valiantly
for right and humanity are certainly
thankful that they were given an OPP
portunity to take a real mans part in
bringing lasting peace to the world.
Nearly every family in the country
is directly or indirectly interested in
one or more boys "over there" and
they should be thankful because these
young men felt their responsibility as
American citizens, and went willingly
into the conflict.
Citizens of Minnesota should feel
extremely thankful because of the
very small percentage of casualties
which this state has suffered. One
hundred and nine thousand of the
states finest young men are in active
military service, either overseas or in
home environments, and the best in
formation now obtainable indicates
that the casualties of all kinds, death,
injured, sick and missing in action
both oversee and at home, will be a
JIllC lOSS tliclli WV C1lOu0Slhus
This small casualty list does not
mean the North Star state has not
done her "bit." The Yanks from the
north have been in the thick of the
fray and they have added military
lustre to the splendid record achieved
by troops from this state in the Civil
war. ...
Although the expense of the war to
the nation has been tremendous and
will cost still more, nevertheless the
resources of the nation have not been
scratched.
American citizenship will be more
appreciated when our boys get home
from cover there" the demogogue
and the unprincipled trouble maker
will have hard shedding. The 4,000,-
100000 men indicted into military
service are red-blooded, manly Ameri-
cans and they will not tolerate the
spreading of insiduous and poisonous
propaganda for personal profit.
America will settle back into per-
iod of prosperity never before enjoyed
by any people on earth; the people of
the entire world will be immeasurably
better off because of the overthrow of
a brutal and lustful autocracy, and
the universal brothrhood of man will
be extended to the four corners of the
earth.
The people of Western Stearns have
harvested a bountiful crop and the
citizens of Sank Centre have prosper
ed while giving literally to all wal
agencies.
Under all conditions there is, some
thing decidedly out of tune with the
individual who cannot be thankful this
year.-A M. w.