Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-02
PRIDE OF COUNTRY

PRIDE OF COUNTRY
,o1 Another % thanksgiving day has passed. The
usual pertunctory proclamations were issued by
puDllc oflcals and read by the people. Thanksglv-
ing should not be limited to one day IN this land of
opportunity and progress.
Are we proud of our country and grateful
Tor the advantages it gives we should be? 1t
is olten stated tnat Callrornlans greater boost
ers Tor their state and its resources than are the
citizens of any other state in this union
Why localize Cur enthusiasm for our country?
Why should not every citizen of this country be an
active booster for nation which has gone farther
than any other in the world in giving liberty prop
erty rights, business opportunities, home convent
ences educational advantages and amusements to its
people? Why should not our schools and colleges
emphasize to greater extent the advantages OF
citizen of this nation under constitutional form
of government?
Until something is proposed which would in a
small measure give US protection and advantages
equal to those which now receive, we would eX-
press greater thanks for what we have and be less
ready to listen to the thoughtless agtator pro-
fessonal politician who, failing to appreciate the
advantages which surround him, seeks to foist i'm
practical theories visionary experiments upon
people already blessed with a government better
than any other so far devised?
When you feel like kicking look around you.
Practically every American citizen own his own
home if he so desires. He travel to his work
either in electric over system of highways
such the Romans never dreamed of.
In his home gas and electricity do work equal to
that done by of servants to former kings and
queens. The American telephone system furnishes
a communication service IN the humbest home be-
yond the widest dreams of world famous rulers of
the past.
Our property is safeguarded, our workInen are
cared for and lives protected by insur-
ance system unheard of a hundred years ago and
which is rapidly eliminating the pauper and the poor
house.
Aladdin and his lamp have been made reality
BY the radio which, in conf njuncton with wire
nunication, has annhilated distance and, as the
people of the world become better acquainted
through our modern methods of communication, Will
eliminate war The honlesteader in the mountains
can tune in his radio set and listen to the music, lee
lures and amusement programs of the world
Our farmers are learning the advantages OF ap-
plying business methods to agricultural pursuits.
Our Industries are profitng by making their en-
Moves and customers stockholders IN their properties
Gasoline has made individual transportation possible
so that vast sections of the country heretofore mpos
sble of settlement account of distance have been
opened up and are today pouring their produce and
business in over improved highways to the greatest
railroad transportation system in the world.
What picture to paint! Forests, mines, trans
portation OIL electricity telephone gas radio modern
farm machinery factory buildings finer than the
castles of history, roads and road building methods
such as the world has before and an edu-
cational system which offers the poor mans son ad-
yantages which the nobility did not have few genera
tons ago!
Think of these things when you hear the croakers
and the knockers. Don't be thankful just on Thanks
giving day Let build up pride in our country, not
in boastful or arrogant manner but with of
appreciation and thanksgiving that we are so tdr-
natc as to live in land where opportunities and ad-
yanages for the poor and the lowy are greater than
the luxures offered favored and wealthy persons
short century ago.