The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-11-29
THIS THANKSGIVING TIME
BY sam Clark

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Paeans of praise, not dirges oil
dolor, are Americas due, Never in
it's history, has this land, as a
whole, had cause for greater
Thanksgiving. Bounteous harvests,
peace and plenty smile upon Us.
Farm production from field and
pen and stable in the aggregate
mounts into billowing billions
prosperty's surest foundation.
Mechanical devices have reach
ed a perfection beyond the widest
dreams of a Verne fictionist. The
arts of transportation and of com
munication have been SO develop
ed that time and space have been
annihilated. The greatest produc-
ton and the widest distribution If
human comforts ever recorded on
the tablets of time are ours. Or
ganized charities and beneficences
and free educational facilities are
bigger and broader than ever
dreamed of. Childhood is protect
ed as never before; womanhood
holds in her hands rights never
before hers and manhood's oppor-
tunities are the broadcast and the
highest that eyer graced the flam-
ing tide of time.
America is the envied of all
lands; America is the richest Of
all lands and Americans tread
proudly erect in the van of human
progress. Blessed by natures
boundless bounty, peopled by the
most progressive Of mankind, with
a past that is glorious, with a
present ablaze with civilizations
highest achievements and with a
golden future reckoning to even
greater heights and grander glor-
les, the United States holds within
its boundaries humanity's highest
possibilities.
The standard of living of the
average American far outstrips
that of the millionaire of fifty
years ago and farther outstrips
that of all the royalties of the
past.
The heart of every American
should throb with pride at his
country's achievements and the
lips of every American should ut
ter a prayer of Thanksgiving for
the sumptousness of the blessings
amid which he lives.
But none Of those o all Of
these are the cause of Americas
greatest Thanksgiving. The great
est cause of Thanksgiving ever
chiseled on the worn tablets of
Time is the outlawry of war. War
is the monster that has devoured
the flesh, quaffed the blood and
engulfed the treasure Of man
the first records of time to
the Armistice Of eleven years ago
this month. War has been the
ghost Of every feast and the men
ace Of every fireside. 1t has stalk
ed through every land and wading
through seas Of blood and the
tears of its victims. Conceived in
the womb of greed, delivered by
the acts Of diplomacy, nourished
by the schemes Of politicians and
diplomats and fattened by military
Dropagandists. War has been the
-nsatiate demon Of earth. Down
he NAV of the world war were
engulfed over eight million lives
and over two hundred and fifty
billions Of earth's garnered treas
Ire. An army of millions of MAIN
ID and invalid remain a witness
IS Of Wars ruthlessness. The
leets Of the world could ride on {
he tears Of women widowed and {
children orphaned by the grisly I
Monster. i
At last humanity, aroused by {
american initiative, has envision-
d Wars futility, Wars ruthless I
.ess, Wars titanic sacrifices, Z
Vars useless engulfment Of price /
9ss lives and of s-weat-earned
reasure. Finally the world, led by d
-merica, has pulled the hypocrit- D
mask Of patriotism from Wars e
reedy visage. a
That is the keynote upon which II