The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-11-26
Current Comment
By Georgia Huston Jones
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER
WILL MEN LIFT THE BAN?
A WORTHY APPOINTMENT.

The Spirit of Thanksgiving is once
more upon us and as we pause
a moment to cast an eye in retro
spect we feel that never have we
had greater cause for being thank
full than today.
AS we recount the many blessings
that it has been ours to enjoy-we
breathe prayer of thankfulness for
the travail of the past that has
brought us to this hour of appreeia-
ton.
We are thankful for our men and
women-broad of vision and strong
of heart, who, believing in America
and in American institutions have
sought to reach the heights-in spite
of the obstacles barring the way; we
are thankful for the really BIG men
and women on the other side who
have extended the hand of friend
ship and sympathy and thus lent
aid and comfort; we are thankful
for the faith and prayers of our
mothers and our heritage of patti
ence; we are thankful for the priyi-
lege of American citizenship, for the
glorious part it has been ours TO
play in the development of this the
greatest republic the world has yet
known; we are thankful for our con-
tribution to the furtherance of hui
man liberty-even to the supreme
sacrifice from Boston Common to
Flanders Field; we are thankful, o
Ye Powers that be, for the great con-
ference of wise men now gathered at
Washington, truly a parliament of
men, looking toward the federation
of the world; we are thankful for the
recognition of women, for our awak-
ening to race consciousness and for
our own great Chicago;
And we thank Thee, o God, for
this Spirit of Thankfulness springing
up within us like an everything well /;
for the hope that springs eternal in
spite of the evil presence of the de-
mon of prejudice stalking always
just ahead; for these things and the
capacity still to love and to serve,
still to aspire and to achieve; we are
thankful.
AMEN.
The comes a time to every individ-
ual when he is brought face to face
with the big Issue" upon the proper
career-the turning point, so to
speak, upon which future events re-
volve. Often the issues are pre-
sented in such guise as to seem un-
important and of little moment at
the time and are only estimated at
their true worth in the light of
after events.
Such an issue now confronts the
men of this nation. Since the pas
sage of the. last amendment to the
Federal ConsrfttH SION comforting full
rights upon the women of this coun-
try, some men seem loathe to recog-
nize and to adjust themselves to the
new order of things.
Many men, otherwise fairminded
and progressive, are prone to keep
women in their place" and refuse
them the right to work out their des-
TIMES according to their abilities !:
they attempt to draw a line over
which woman shall not pass" and
which, i'm the end, if persisted in,
will certa My react to their own Diet
riment.
The women are conscious of their
new power and propose to use it to
the fullest, but they do not desire to
pit their strength against the men,
to wage a battle of the sexes as il
were, but to exercise their common
privileges and share responsibilities
EQUALLY with men.
o, men of Chicago, set the pace
for others in this all-important mat
ter as you have in other things of far
less consequence; you would not de-
liberately hurl defiance in the face OF
God and man nor would you wilfully
retard the march of civilization by
forcing the mothers of men to places
of subordination.
Let US climb the hill of life and
progress together--or as unto the
bow the cord $50 unto the man
is woman.
The Colored Womans Association
of Cook County, has begun active
campaigning in the fight of a black
man for the state senate from the
Third District. The headquarters of
the Woman's Association is the club