The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-29


opportunity.
There was a time in this nation
when the custom of saying grace
before meat was we'll nigh uni
versal. Not one day in a year but
at every meal in every day of the
year heads were bowed, sometimes
over scanty fare, for a word of
thanks to the Divine Giver. The
heritage of that era hangs over
us and restraints any impulsive
flippancy. Men were grateful for
life itself and the means to main
tain it. Today wealth has so sur
rounded US that unless we possess
a car, a radio and all the appur-
tenances of modern living we are
inclined to think somebody is
holding out on US and our thanks
are perfunctory if said at all.
Those who hold to the values and
benefits of this prosperity are
welcome to contemplate the change
that has been wrought and to tell
us wherein are the gains.
We will now lightly skip over to
China, where two wars are wag-
ing and where Thanksgiving is
practically unknown. About 400
million people are milling around
up TO their almond eyes in trouble.
There have been times when the
railroads in America seemed posi-
tive menaces to the rule of the
people. They were naughty and
hard-bitted, and if we did not have
the money or a pass we could get
! off and hoof it. Among the print
ing fraternity several did just
that. Before golf was discovered
one of our great outdoor sports
was known as counting ties" You
walked just as much as in golf
but it was not aimless.
But as was being said when in
terrupted, the railroads were about
as popular one times as Senator
Moses is among the jackasses. Nc
! one regarded them as much of z
: blessing, and there is no record Of
! any President asking the people
to give thanks for them, although
it may be that the Congressional
Record of that era may contain
prayers by Congressman to be de
ivered from them. AS blessing
: they were just blah.
: Skipping airily again to Chin,
if there is no occasion there fo
any Thanksgiving proclamation
: the main reason for lack of it i
: that there are no railroads. Prov
e inces as big and bigger than mos
of our states adjoining each othe
u have no communication. Famin
" stalks in one and mows down mil
/ lions and the next province with
" surplus of food cannot reach tn
% starving. The land is divided be
y tween war lords, who, if the cour
try had railroads and Republica
$ prosperity would be the industris
IL barons, the Morgans and Rookie
l. fellers of China. The nation
d disunited because there is no DO:
TT sibility of getting together. Pre-
lie vince is isolated from province an
there is no means of transmittin
n intelligence or information. On
lie province with millions of inhabit
ID ants has one newspaper with les
D. than a thousand readersl That
ID just how much you can be mistal
ot en- in identifying a blessing.
m so 1t behooves us to be carefl
IF about picking quarrels with II
r blessings designed by Preside1
it Hoover. He covered them all wit
s. what the almost extinct Mr.. Ne
A tos used to call "Gleetering yene
I'd alities." Certainly he did n,
be mention the Wailing Wall Sire,
panic. Yet there are those WI
n insist that it was a blessing.
y released money for use by othel
nf than the gamesters. He made I
~ mention of the Young Guards, Il
n Old Guards or the Coalition. Y,
20 they are accounted for, probabl
- under the words: 'New exper
- ences and new knowledge in mar
- fields have been recorded" Pro
- perlty he mentioned outrigh
i Judgment is reserved on its ouaI
Is tlcatIons as blessing. The Pre-
10 dent considers it such. 1t is a Ii
n tie sick, just now like Senat,
- Watson. But it will not be ALLOW
= ed to die. The wisest and II
flchest-the terms are synonymol
men of the country have bee
called IN to save it. 1t would !
terrible blow to the country
- II expired. But that wouldn't !
H marker to the blow it would I
I 10 the Republican party.
You can never tell what i
"A blessing. Something that seems
ed De calamltous and menacing ma
~ De the thing in after wears w
a VIII be most thankful for Tbo,
he nave been times when doubts 10
IN t eeen held and ever expressed ov,
er the benevolence of the Pacl(o,'
Now the Packers, except in Il
e, proximity of their plants bs-
I'd actually an odor of sanct;+,, -
v may yet be allowed to go into =. ~
as grocery business. The Pnh1;a yr :!
tues tues and the Combination = .
at trusts s have caused no petitions )
~ gratitude to mount heavsn y.o :
! 1 ne tlme may come that 49,, =
n De looked upon as being # W ~
- benevolent, at least as mild N, NJ
s shin RW1rates as ever scuttled
- foi i,,;,,,. You !, may not be pren S
y ~ ~ n a.. their names in the pra,
70 10 who vi over 11o the turkey this wear. ' Z,
Sc bring? next year wi
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