The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-06
THE WORLDS THANKSGIVING
FOR WINNING WORLD WAR
BY ]. SHERMAN WALLACE

win that hero band enrolled
On the service flags of white and red.
With their cleaning stars of gold.
Today we are thankful that we
nave had part in bringing peace
to the whole world.
No longer are the mothers OF Bel.
gum and France weeping for their
stolen daughters, No longer are the
hearts OF helpless men broken BY the
cries OF outraged wtves. No longer
are the hands OF little starving chill.
|drsn being cut from their bodies
iest they grow up to fght for right
e0nness. No longer do helpless wO-
men with little babes IN their arms
crouch and tremble In cellars at mid
night while the skies rain flre and
Esteei. NO longer do the ships 90 xig-
Hgging through the waves In the
dArkness Of night. with all lights az.
Qnguished. mOmentarily expecting
ne deadly strike OF the hidden, COW.
erdly serpents OF the sea. No longer
are the millions starving to feed the
lnsatiable NAV Of the god OF war.
America Ads In
Restoring Peace.
All over the world today. there IA
peace and our nation helped to
bring It there. Once more men look
one another in the face without hat
red and without fear. In every city
and country place In Belgium and
France and England and Italy and
Serbia and Rumania and all the rest
there 10 peace. Even among the Ger
man people today, poor misguided,
hell-inspired German people, there Is
peace and gladness because tn war
Is done. We are thankful that our ma
'tion heard the cry OF the oppresser,
that we went before II was too late.
that the people OF Europe have been
Idelivered from beneath the jugger-
'naut wheels of the war machine
that the millions who died died not
in vain. Across the ocean, on winds
made hot with the flames of war.
came the appeal.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and In the sky
The larks still hravely singing, ny,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived. felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
s Loved. and were loved, and now
we lie
In Flander fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe
no you from falling hands we throw
The torch. Be yours to hold IL high.
II We break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep. though poppies
grow
In Flanders fields.
He who wrote these words was
soon sle'aping beneath the poppies
In Flanders fields. But America
heard the call and sent back the ans
wer:
Rest We In peace, We Flanders dead,
The fight that ye so bravely led
We've taken up. And We will keep
True faith with you who lie asleep
With each cross to mark his bed
And poppies blowing overhead,
Where once his own life blood ran
red.
So let your rest be sweet and deep
In Flanders fields.
Fear not that ye have died for
The torch we threw to us we caught.
Ten million hands will hold il high.
And Freedoms light shall never
die.
We've learned the lesson that you
taught
In Flanders fields.
Thankful for
Fulfilled Pledge.
Because we have fulfilled that
pledge we are thankful
Today we are thankful because the
liberty and spirit of democracy
which we have enjoyed will now be
know by other peoples. The purpose
OF the war lords of Germany WAS
that liberty should perish from the
earth. Wherever their armies triuph.
ed whole populations were made
slaves. Belgium. northern France,
Serbia, Rumania and Russia tell us
the fate that awaited a., others II
German might had triumphed.'
France. Italy. England and the world
yoke of autocracy.
But now the dark clouds of doubt
and fear are lifted and the sunshine
Of hope and tire pure air of freedom
fills the world. Even In Austia and
Germany the people who have never
before thought for themselves are
coming into their own. II has been
Americas part under divine guild
ance TO share her liberty and to in
still the spirit of freedom into all
the world. The spirit that gave our
nation birth and the principles that
have smade its history glorious have
now been planted n the soil that
has grown only sceptres and
crowns. The thanksgiving that goes
ND from our hearts today goes up
from all the people whom we have
helped TO make free. Let the people
praise thee. o God. Let al. the peo-
pie praise thee. Oh let the nations
be glad and sing for joy; for thou
wilt judge the peoples with equity.
and govern the nations upon earth"
Principles Of RIGHT
Has Been INDICATED.
Today we are Thankful because the
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