Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-25
Make 1t a Day of
of THANKSGIVING

of Thanksgiving
Tomorrow we set aside as the
one day in the year t. take an
inventory of self, to forget the
misfortunes which may come our
way and recall the blessings -
and there are many for which we
should be thanful.
Business may not have been
what we expected, but there are
others who enjoyed less; health
may have suffered during the
year, but on every street corner,
IN the lanes and on the highways
nay be seen Others in far worse
ondition. Crops may not have
,een as bountiful as we desired,
nut as compared with the ma
ority, ours was a bumper harvest.
Prices probably were unsatisfac-
tory for our farm commodities,
but recall the years when lower.
Then be thankful.
Events have moved rapidly
during the past ten years.
A tremendous war has been
fought. National boundaries
have-eAaaaed. Man has crossed
the ocean by air, has sent his
voice around the world, has
sent his tireless, inquisitive mind
into all the riddles of the universe
in search of knowledge that will
enable him to live more happily
and more fully.
There are seven signs that the
great war itself has borne some
sort of fruit after all that is not
wholly bitter-that it has brought
us to the realization and determi-
ation that such a calamity must
not happen again.
And science has gone Onward,
drawing steadily nearer to the
animation of disease and toll,
t. the unlocking of the doors that
| % four-hfths of mankind inn
I isoned in the reals of soul-dead-
fUing labor end poverty. Let S
he deeply thankful.
Humanity stands at the dawn
i~g. An epoch in human affairs
SO different from everything that
Eas gone before that it staggers
Il E imagination seems about to
open before US. How will we
aet it?
Will we be ready for it--for
iversal peace, for freedom from
|. for universal prosperity, uni
rsal leisure?
Or is the spirit of man to be
,ae only thing that does not prog
IS?
1t is up to US to make ready,
Individually. To become more
tolerant, more kindly, more alert;
to learn that life is not solely a
natter of meals and houses and
automobiles and theaters, that
kapniness cannot be expressed in
4 ollars, that the well-being of one
portion of the race must not rest
en- the misery of another.
That is our task. Let US apply
ourselves to II.
There have been Thanksgiving
DAYS that were gloomy and dark.
4 few still live who, back in the
sixties, longed for home and
loved ones, wondered if that
longing would be granted. But
few years later, our beloved
State was overrun with Carpet
baggers, and the reigns of govern
ment rested in black hands that
we're ignorant and a few who
were vicious. AS time marched
On we came to the day when our
boys "over there were upper
most in our minds and we raised
our voices to Heaven that they
be spared to return to home and
mother and Preside, and we are
thankful that so far that they
HAD been spared.
Today all of that is past, and
we as a State, a County and a
City face the brightest future we
have ever known. Our South
our Georgia again is coming into
boy own. A great Nation has sud.
denly discovered a Promised
Land and they are vending THEN
way Southwark. The march oil
emigration has, almost overnight,
turned from East to West and to-