The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-11-26
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Days True Spirit
Not Ourselves Alone, Is
Thanksgiving Motto. !

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 afraid!
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?
Irks care the crop-full bird? No doubt
we'll soon be Aeeced.
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 lurk
Amid the gravy's lure; pick clean the
bones.
Next day, pray eat us cold,
Then hash us in mold.
Soup comes at last, thanks be, to hush
our means!
With Many Apologies to Browning.
Like the turkey and the epicureans,
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 num-
Der of free human spirits, of generous
human hearts, Of strong human hands.
Of pure human homes. of noble hu.
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
us reverently thank God that we were
born in an age and in a country in
which It 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 for
a finished civilization, but for the
greater civilization that may be de-
veloped; not for a few choice spirits.
but for the opportunity for all men to
lift themselves into the light; not for
things which make for our own com.
fort, but for the things which make
for the healing of the world; not for
the life that has been lived, but for
the boundless life that is to be, then
let us thank God that he has given us,
not things but chance of growth; not
comfort but opportunity of service;
not ease of spirit but the tolls of the
unselfish life."-Indianapolis News.
THE condemned bird showed no