The Colorado statesman. [volume], November 20, 1920, Image 4

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r HOEVER cannot be thankful cannot even begin to appreciate life.
The privilege of living and knowing that there is a mighty universe,
full of mysterious life, and that for some also mysterious but pur-
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poseful reason we form an Infinitesimal but eternal part of It, Is a (treat
blessing
We should be thankful for life.
Hut the smullest favor, the most meager pleasure that we enjoy, is
also a blessing, and for eaeh and All of such blessings we should be thankful
also. Life Is made up of a multitude of blessings, many of which we
are not disposed to recognize as such, because of our Ignorance and short
sightedness. There are some ills and some misfortunes in life, for which
we ourselves are not wholly to blame, but they are very few compared with
our blessings. Wliat we often call ills and misfortunes are usually bless
ings in disguise. The man who has not seen what he considered some great
calamity turn into a great final blessing is either yet very young or very
obstinate and dumb. The so-called calamity may have changed his whole
course of life, compelling him to give up things on which his heart was
set, yet in after years, through greater and unexpected successes, or, per
haps, through a prolonged and more useful life, made possible only by
that so-called calamity, he realizes the vastness and recognizes the mys
tery of the blessing that was so strangly bestowed upon him. Many there
are, no doubt, who take no account of such unseen guidance, preferring to
credit their own personal shrewdness or to satisfy their conscience or grat
ify their vanity with assumptions of their great luck, for which they are not
Indebted. But why not remember the Source of all blessings and be thank
ful?
For the thoughtless, as well as the mindful, Thanksgiving Day comes
and brings its opportunity for a united rendering of recognition and praise
unto the Author of all of the world’s joys.
Opportunity is ono of the greatest words In the language of men. It
is the beginning of the way to the expression of the highest thought and
the deepest longings which the human heart and brain can possess. The
opportunity to be thankful and to express that thankfulness is the greatest
blessing of all. Let us not miss it. Of course, a special day for thankful
ness is not altogether necessary, but the union of thought and action Is in
itself helpful, and the Thanksgiving festival is graciously remindful. If
you have been afflicted, you have also had sympathy or pity or the promise,
the hope or the realization of healing joys. If you have been disappointed
or thwarted in virtuous plans or ambitions, you have also been strength
ened and made wiser and more fit for higher and greater effort. If you
have seen your plans prosper and roseate skies now spread over you in
cheerful promise of the future, let humility and modesty, rather than
pompous vanity, attend your actions and strengthen your security. If you
have prospered and gained and are enjoying the fruits of ripe and well
rounded effort, remember the sunshine that lighted your way. the rain
that nourished your seed, the wisdom that directed your course, the health
and strength that supported and sustained you, and, above all, the order
ing of the ways and of nature over which you had no control. And then,
whether you are great or small, thriving or striving, well or afflicted, give
thanks to God that He has guided your way and knows the value of your
righteous reward.
iOR the past few years the peQple have been living in the air with the
blue sky as the limit. Extravagance, waste and reckless spending
were rampant on every hand. Thrift and economy were thrown to
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the winds, and "Nero fiddled while Rome burned.”
Prodigality was the sign written over the doorway of all government
departments, and the trusted stewards of the nation, not being able to
burn up the people's money fast enough, literally dumped millions in fev
ered, uninhabitable swamps and padded payrolls in attempting to carry
out useless and unnecessary government projects.
With such a wild and wantonless spirit for economy displayed at the
very seat of government It was but natural that the evil would spread like
an epidemic until every Individual in every locality would become Infected.
The war-stricken countries of Europe were being drained of all their gold
and the United States became, in consequence, the world's banker. Gold
flowed to our Bhores in a continuous, never-ending stream.
Riotous living and spending became the fad of the times, not only
with the rich, but the laboring classes as well. Unheard of prices were
demanded and freely paid for everything. Silks, furs and rare jewels were
worn by everybody, from washerwoman and bootblack clear on up to the
capitalist. Bellboys and elevator pilots were known to go to work in their
automobiles. Hodcarriers worked in silk shirts and silk hose. Money was
so plentiful that it really seemed to grow on trees and everybody had an
orchard. Naturally, under such conditions, prices went up along with
wages and everything else in proportion.
It has .been two years since the Great Armistice, and Europe has
worked overtime to repair her factories, plow her fields and start again
the wheels of industry and production whereby she could feed and clothe
her own people rather than buying in foreign markets. Two years ago, or
more, this country was the world provider. But we see things are fast
changing. Europe has stopped buying and has gone to work producing.
It was only the other day that Mr. Spreckles gave out the statement that
sugar was bound to come down because we had millions of tons of sugar
stored in this country, because Europe was not buying, and the sugar must
be sold. What is true of sugar is true of many other things. We are
slowly returning to "normalcy" and the signs of the times point to the
passing of the joy-riding fad, the diamond erase and a speedy return to
common sense living.
Prices are beginning to take a tumble, and if the people will only buy
gradually and economically we will see things back to earth again by next
spring. War prices will soon be a thing of the past and with the reduc
tion in the high cost of living we will be satisfied once more.
The election doubtless will have an Important bearing on the regula
tion of prices front now on. Already we see signs of the profiteers seek
ing cover and once the drop is started it will be hard to stop. The strain
has been too much for the American peoplo and the result of the election
was proof positive that they were eager to return to the simple life they
lived before’the war. The day of reckoning is at hand —the accounting
must be made and the result made known.
The war has naturally brought about many changes which must be
met by the incoming administration. It will be a long, tedious period of
reconstruction and adjustment. This great work cannot be accomplished
in a day—nay, not in a year. We will be fortunate if at the end of four
years the government will be working on a fully reconstructed basis. We
are done with extravagance and wastefulness and we welcome once more
Thrift and Economy, which are the safeguards of all nations.
THANKSGIVING.
RETURNING TO EARTH.
Devoted Ones Should Be Left Where
They Lie Peacefully in France.
By JOHN GRIER HIBBEN, President Princeton University.
I went over to the graves of our Princeton boys
who fell in the war. I need not recall what the years
1916, 1917, 1918 meant to Princeton. There were
many Princetonians who did not come back and our
quest had to take a devious course; now to crowded
cemeteries where they slept in numbers and now to
little, obscure corners where two or three of them lay
side by side.
Our search, rewarded here and there by the mel
ancholy satisfaction wo felt in standing by the grave
of one of Princeton’s own, led us to Namur, Liege,
Kheims, to Verdun and the Argonne, till at last we stood at the foot of
the hill of Romagne and our eyes could take in the gentle incline where
in a garden of green shrubbery and beds of flowers sleep 24,000 of our
American dead. The national banner floats its majestic foldß overhead
and the peace and beauty of the cemetery, which is now American ground,
are unequaled.
My conviction is that these devoted ones should be left where they
lie. I feel amazement when I read that attempts are still being made to
bring them back. Let me say to the mourner that could he see, as I did,
this beautiful “God’s Acre,” with its plants and flowers tended so lovingly,
he would say with me that there is every reason for leaving the boys where
they are and no good reason for bringing them home. I feel strongly that
our l’rincetonians would ask to be left by the side of their comrades where
they fought.
Romagne graveyard is as much a monument to our country as it is to
the soldiers; it is a tie between France and America. The French, in spite
of volatility, are a deep feeling, loyal minded people. Wherever we went
in our quest we found the same evidences of their love and gratitude. It
is not in France that the name of America will ever be mentioned without
affection.
Public Service Is the Great Word
With American Universities.
By PRESIDENT M. L. BURTON, University of Michigan.
The supreme duty of the universities is to get into close touch with
American life at all points and give it direction, unification, and inter
pretation. Service, public service, is the great word with American uni
versities.
The work and teaching of the university should be unified with our
primary aim in view. Some effort must be made to correlate the courses.
In some way the student will be given such guidance that he will see the
relation of his courses to one another, to knowledge as a whole, and to life
in its most practical relationships. Quietly, but inevitably he will begin
to have convictions. Laziness, mediocrity and smattering will give way
to work, quality and thorough mastery of a few vital things.
The curricula must be definitely directed toward community needs.
In fact, this tendency is in full tide. The college of literature, science and
arts is recognizing that it must serve the state through the professional
training of the high school teacher. The college of engineering has seen
that more emphasis must be placed upon problems of management, upon
the economic side of production, and upon all those phases of engineering
which make for community improvement. The school of law recognizes
its obligations in adjusting the law to the changing social order. Our
schools of medicine have long since shifted the emphasis to preventive
medicine.
The university must utilize definitely its equipment and personnel
for research work in solving the problems of the state. It should be the
research center of the state. The actual organization of an industrial re
search laboratory in co-operation with the Michigan Manufacturers’ asso
ciation is an illustration. Just so in every realm, the university should
serve the people. With every problem of government, economics, sociology’,
art and edacation, the university should concern itself. It should become
the thinking, investigating, philosophizing center of the commonwealth.
Finally the university must permeate the state w : th knowledge. The
people are literally hungry for knowledge.
Great Work Done by Clubs Among Boys
and Girls on Southern Farms.
By FRED S. WHITLAW, North Carolina Farmer.
One of the greatest movements now in progress in the South, and
one which deserves the utmost encouragement from state and federal gov
ernments, is the organization of clubs among the boys and girls of the
farms. The boys and girls take the keenest interest in their crops, and
the competition at the various county and state fairs is so close as to make
the most expert judging necessary. Asheville and western North Carolina
are encouraging the formation of these clubs, and each year special prizes
are awarded for the best acre of com, the best pig and for other products.
The boys start early in the year and they give their elders a close race
when it comes to yield per acre. We have a county farm demonstrator,
of course, and his advice is just as freely bestowed on the younger farmers
as on their parents. These boys employ every aid to nature in the shape
of deep plowing, proper fertilizer, selected seeds and constant labor, which
combine to give them bumper crops each year.
The girls contest in pig raising and in the production of butter, pre
serves, canned fruits and vegetables and in vegetable growing. One is sur
prised to see what those western North Carolina girls can produce in the
way of canned food from an acre or even a half acre of ground. And at
raising pigs they give the boys the closest kind of a race.
As these youngsters of today are the citizens of tomorrow, this de
velopment of ability is one of the greatest assets any state can have, and
should be highly encouraged. I think every state in the South, and in
fact, in every other part of the United States, should encourage the farm
children in work of this kind, for it means a practical insurance against
a food shortage in the future.
Judge John M. Kcniiedy, municipal court., Kansas City, Mo.—lf
women roav vote, why shouldn’t they chew tobacco?
WANTED
| to place in each of the fifteen thousand homes of our people in ;
Denver, a copy of
Scott’s Official History of the
American Negro and the
World War
A complete and authentic narration of the participation of j
American soldiers of the Negro race in the great fight for de-» §
| mocracy. Illustrated with official and personal photographs i
§ of over two hundred in number, this work offers delightful §
§ reading of its fiOO pages for the youth, the middle-aged and s
| the old, and each home will add dignity and loyalty to our |
; race and country by being provided with a copy of this com- ;
j mendable work. A very desirable gift in and out of season. ;
This book is being offered at the very reasonable price of j
$3.00
at the office of
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History of “Th«* American Negro in the World War,” and no better $
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3 heroism and patriotism.
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