The Winslow mail., 1924-11-28
PRIDE OF HOME

proclamations were issued by public
officials and read by the people.
Thanksgiving should not be limited to
one day in this land of opportunity
and progress.
Are we as proud of our country and
as grateful for the advantages it gives
us as we should be? We all know.that
CaIifornians are greater boosters for
their state and its resources than are
the citizens of any other state in this
Union.
Why localize our enthusiasm for our
country? No state could exist with
out our United States. 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, property
rights, business opportunities, home
conveniences, educational advantages
and amusements to its people? Why
should not our schools and colleges
emphasize to greater extent the adj
vantages of a citizen of this nation
under our constitutional form of gov
eminent?
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would in a small measure give us
protection and advantages equal to
those which we now receive, we
should express greater thanks for
what we have and be less ready to
listen to the thoughtless agitator or
professional politician who, failing to
appreciate the advantages which sur
round him, seeks to foist impractical
theories or visionary experiments
upon a people already blessed with
a government better than any other
so far devised?
When you feel like kicking, look
around you. Practically every Amer
lean citizen can own his own home
if he so desires. He can travel to his
work either in an electric car or over
a system of highways such as the
Romans never dreamed Of
In his home, gas and electricity do
work equal to that done by score
of servants to former kings and
queens. The American telephone sys-
tenn furnishes a communication SER
vice in the humblest home beyond
the widest dreams of world famous
rulers of the past.
Our property is safeguarded, our
workmen are cared for and our lives
are protected by an insurance sys-
tenn unheard of a hundred years ago
and which is rapidly eliminating the
pauper and the poor house.
Aladdin and his lamp have been
made a reality by the radio which, in
conjunction with wire communication,
people of the world become better &C
quainted through our modern methods
of communication, will eliminate war.
The homesteader in the mountains can
tune in his radio set and listen to the
music, lectures and amusement pro-
grams of the world.
Our farmers are learning the adj
vantages of applying business methods
to agricultural pursuits. Our indus
tries are profiting by making their
employees and customers stockholders
in their properties. Gasoline has made
individual transportation possible SO
that vast sections of the country here
tofore impossible of settlement on ac-
count of distance, have been opened
up and are today pouring their pro-
highways to the greatest railroad
transportation system in the world.
What a picture to paint! Forests
mines, transportation, 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 never before seen, and al
educational system which offers the
poor mans son advantages which the
nobility did not have few genera
lions ago.
Think of these things when yol
hear the croakers and the knockers
Don't be thankful just on Thanksgiv
ing day Learn a lesson from Cali
fornia, where the children are laugh
that the sun is brighter, the sky il
bluer and the advantages greater thai
any where else in the world. Let u
build up pride in our country, no
in boastful or arrogant manner, blu