The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-11-28
THANKSGIVING THINKS
Nov. 27, IL D. m.

Mary" and closing the bond election
debate, we were too busy to write a
Thanksgiving editorial last night.
Which all our readers should be
thankful for. Some Thanksgiving
editorials are classics, but most of
them are punk, and we fear if we
wrote one, it would be the punkest in
the bunch. An editor can't write a
really fine Thanksgiving editorial un-
less he is really fine writer and has
a great capacity for fooling himself
into the bargain.
Tonight, however, while sitting in
the picture show, and watching two
Imaginary religious fanatics-who
were just like some real ones we have
met-try to vamp Theda Bara, we let
our mind ramble indolently around
and it stumbled over some of the
things that we think we can be gen.
timely thankful for, and we will try
To list them for our readers in the
vernacular, which you will be wise to,
tho' Professor Crimson scathingly re,
marked some thirteen months ago
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The least worst of our editorial
ideas occur to US in the picture show.
Watching the rays slide over the
screen, and seeing the hero and shero
dc every silly thing that real smart
man can think up, sorter counter
irritates our mind, which needs a
great deal of counter-irritating. and
consequently great deal of picture
showing. It's better than any show
ing that comes from Missouri.
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The Star is mainly thankful be-
cause, first, it has so many friends,
and, second, it lives in Florida. Some
people say the Star says TOD many
mean things. Perhaps it does. But
it must manage TO say some good
things sometimes, because we can
count its enemies on our fingers, we
think; certainly on our fingers and
toes. We can't count its friends. It
has more of them than it has names
on its subscription list, because q
whole lot of our friends borrow their
neighbors' papers. Which is friend
ship, all right. but no business. Any
body should be thankful to live in
Florida. We haven't been out of the
state in so long that we have for
gotten how bad it is to live anywhere
else.
The biggest thing to be thankful
for this Thanksgiving is that our
boys are home. A year ago, nearly all
Of them wer in Europe or in the
training camps Of those in Europe,
few of us were sure they were alive
and well. We knew, of course, that
the fighting had ended but how
many were sure that it had ended
soon enough for our particular boys.
And we looked ahead to months more
Of separation, for even if there was
no more trouble, we knew it would
take many long months to bring those
two million huskies home.
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Two Thanksgiving ago most of
them were in the training camps,
with pneumonia riding on every
breeze. And three years ago a lot
Of them were down on the Rio
Grande, yearning to shoot greasers,
and meantime shooting craps.
Well, they are nearly all home now,
| and maybe won't have to wear khaki
and tin hats again; but if they do
| they will all know how; which is an
other thing to be thankful for.
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1t might be supposed that the boys
are the thankfullest, but we opine
that the home folks are thankfuller.
The boys had one devilofa time but
thanks to the censors and that cheer
full and skillful liar, George Creel,
the home folks didn't know tenth of
what they suffered until they came
home and told tor rather some Of
them, because most of them won't
tell. And while they were over there,
they didn't realize their troubles.
good sports, didn't want the home
good sports. didn't want the home
folks to know what hard time they
were having while they were having
it, and generally find something more
| interesting to talk about since they
are home.
The home folks should be thankful
for that unequaled and useful pre-
varicator, George Creel, who told US
regularly that hot meals were served
the boys on the firing line and they
had feather beds to sleep on when off
duty. There is only one fly in the
ointment-if the home folks had
known what tough time the soldiers
were having, they would have torn all
disloyal men and women to pieces,
and we would not be bothered with
| them now.
An American home that has in it
boy or a man who went to war and
went thru it, whether in the danger
of the first line, or the hard and i'm
| peratiyelV necessary work of the 6