White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-11-19
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Days True Spirit
Not Ourselves Alone, Is
Thanksgiving Motto.
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Grow fat along with me
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was
made;
The ak is. in his hand,
Assassination's planned.
Stand pat, get fat, nor be afraidl
Poor vaunt of life, indeed,
Were Turk but made to feed
On corn alone; to seek, to find and
feast,
When feasting ends, to howl
Is this the end of fowl?
Inks care the crop-full bird? No doubt
we'll soon be heeced.
Rejoice we are allowed
To grow and yet be proud
To grace the festal board, be stuffed to
burst,
Be turned upon the spit
Till we have Drowned bit,
Then eaten up with one fell swoop,
that's worst.
So take and eat thy Turk,
Save carcass that may Turk
Amid the gravy's lure; pick clean the
bones.
Next day, pray eat us cold,
Then hash ,Ie II, a mold
Soup comes at last, thanks be, to hush
our means!
With Many Apologies to Browning.
Like the turkey and the ep1cureans,
we are prone to eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we may die. We
must have particular day appointed
in which to give thanks, lest we for
get. We take so much for granted,
accept all the good things of life with
out stopping to count our many bless
ings, or to name them one by one, as
we were admonished in Sunday school
so long ago.
We enjoy years and years Of health,
forgetting what wonderful gift it is
until Illness lays us low. We accept
our friends who strew our path with
roses and cheer our way with kind.
ness until one is gone, and we realize
how much more we might have been
10 him. We think we love our chill
dren, but when they have all left the
nest. how gladly would we have them
back that we might show them how
much more we could prove our love.
The editor Of the Outlook, some
years ago, expressed the true spirit OF
Thanksgiving so effectively that
quote him verbatim: IF the end OF
society is to produce the largest mum
Der of free human spirits, Of generous
human hearts, of strong human hands
Of pure human homes, of noble hui
man lives; If the liberation of serfs
the setting free Of those in bondage
the care and reverence for the man
as a man, the open door to the boy
and girl whose feet are eager to climb
the breathing of the breath of life
through stagnant world, means prog
ress toward the ultimate goal, then let
rs reyerently thank God that we were
born in an age and in country in
which 1t is our supreme good fortune
not to be ministered unto but to min
ister."
"If we are to return thanks" he
goes on to say, mot for ourselves alone
but for all men; not for work done
but for noble chances to work; not TO,
finished civilization, but for the
greater civilization that may be de
yeloped; not for few choice spirits
but for the opportunity for all men tt
lift themselves into the light; not TO-
things which make for our own com
fort, but for the things which MAKE
for the healing Of the world; not TO
the life that has been lived, but To-
the bnundless life that is to be, thel
let us thank God that he has given us
not things but chance of growth; no
comfort but opportunity of service
not ease of spirit but the tolls of thu
unselfish fe."-Indianapolis News