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18 Thursday, Nov. 22, 1945 "HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

THANKSGIVING

piest of any we have known for the last four years. So

would be another Thanksgiving at home.

able as well as a happy holiday. a national counting of blessings. This year we coun

pressive because it is so quickly computed.

live with.

. cause for celebration.

had freedom, and they had survived. .

8 our best chance of continued survival and progress.

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va world: into which we have emerged.

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pictures as well as periodicals and newspapers, ~~ "We sincerely hope that the campaign will be so well ‘done’ and successful that the idea will spread. Perhaps over here the advertisers of more mundane things might even pitch in and help, just as they helped the government

in its various war drives. 2 Certainly something has got to be done to make the

& Jts material progress. Four million dollars spent by the Church of England won't put on the brakes. But it niight

be a start. :

(And beyond the indisputable fact that men must mend their ways and develop some genuine charity and humility tand good will if they want to survive on this planet, and {if the church could trumpet it loudly enough to make all mien listen, maybe the push-button world would be as

plea it as is promised. A

® ANOTHER BLOW FOR LIBERTY “HERE is enough trouble in this world without any . yammering about how somebody else should regulate his | Jrivate tastes and pursuit of happiness. So we get a lift {but of it when the righteousness boys are rocked back on

That's what has happened to the Texas General Baptist co vention, which solemnly censured President Truman for hic fondness for a friendly drink and game of poker, ibd declared lie was therefore no fit man to receive an ibnorary degree from the church's Baylor university. BAYIOr's prexy Pat Neff has pointedly replied that the Bapsist convention doesn’t grant Baylor's degrees, and has an-

HENRY W. MANZ

"JF HANKSGIVING is, by tradition, a holiday of family . "feasting and family reunion. As such it is the hap- us i ]- | years to come. . _diers and sailors by the hundreds of thousands have come home since the last Thanksgiving, men who were fighting ~ then in Germany and the Philippines and the danger-in-fested skies and oceans, and wondering when and if there

Today the reunion is a reality for them. And so in countless homes a deep, personal gratitude is added to the day’s good food and good spirits. There are new, intangible trimmings for the turkey that will make this a memor-

- Thanksgiving is also a day traditionally marked by

victory and the total is nearly complete, nor any less im-

. ” . ” » . . + +BEYOND victory this day does not offer too many reasons for rejoicing. There is scant joy in many parts of the world. And here at home the peace and plenty so painfully won, the well-being so earnestly desired, are surrounded by hostile forces. There is unrest and anger and confusion, and above them all hovers the invisible threat ~ of the new and deadly atomic force which the world must

So the rejoicing is solemn at best. But perhaps that |’ is in the true spirit of Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims who . first celebrated this day 824 years ago had little material They, too, were surrounded by hostile forces. But the worst was behind them. They

Their descendants, and the millions who have come. }- 40 join those descendants in-the-land-so bitterly won, have | 0 managed to preserve freedom and survive. Today | our problems are greater, but we are stronger in number “cope with them. The difference is in magnitude and

"The éssential qualities which have brought this country thus far are the same ones which brought the Plymouth i colonists through their first winter. They are the qualities * which are still needed today and which, we may hope, offer

JT can scarcely be denied, in a day when the press agent has practically inherited the earth, that even the church Id use a little more spectacular promotion than it has in getting. At least the Church of England seems to be convinced of that fact when it decides to spend $4,000,000

§ Today it is the scientists, not the saints, who are performing the miracles, Theirs seldom have any such emoE impact as did the miracles of the saints, But for the type that can be explained though seldom understood, scientists’ miracles are wonderful. They can kill or re us, save us time and labor, make us more comfortable, e us with more and more leisure of a more and more

But they can’t make us better men and women. Christ tian ethics can. - However, the church’s gently persuasive message to that effect keeps getting drowned out. It is Just too quiet to be heard above all the shouts of praise out the wonderful, push-button, vitamin-enriched, - post-

bo owe dnl BRE en y Se THE Church of England is going to get right into the. he: wishes to ~~ arena and battle’it out, slogan for slogan. What tech Le

niques the church will use remain to be seen, but they have made known their intention of using radio and motion

luman race slow up and let its behavior catch up with |

| Jf the church could trumpet through Christendom

thought that

Then we brought: up the final chapter of Nahum

which says:

lion to Britain, from American taxan advertising program. . Baers, the To tho I Dorn Some may think that “spectacular promotion” is a1 | put Picture Painted chosen, irreverent phrase to fpply to the church. But it Dark Picture Painted by Reds ate Soy Should not be forgotten that the spectacular had its part | painting a dark picture of the lot ofthe returning | In winning many early converts to Christianity, : G. 1. He is coming home unetiployment

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probably the strongest man in the world, but he used his strength the wrong way, so he failed. He said he

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Hoosier Forum

“SAY YOU APPROVE OF THE U. 8. CONSTITUTION” By Veteran of '18, Indianapolis =~ °

you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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“DOES WATCHMAN WANT WAR WITH RUSSIA?”

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She- stated, in substance: that she. implies co or it he represents the views of But they are too economical to scrap the forms. They would do a5 she darn pleased: thos T pitions The Times. ~The your genera] reading public. I hope| have merely blackened them out she would live where she wanted mes assumes no : it is the former. form up to to, and that she had a.right to say bility for the return of manu. I plead for sanity and reason] evidence of who advised her to “move to Rus- Snce regarding them.) AEieal lnaight, not sgilation, Let| I0lON. « tetf Lond and quit yapping at the Ameri- h : can form of government" had bet. (Dave been over there Jor - wo 8% Shi of 0 ourtel aud Umi. S sib, Tit aa § w ter watch out. That was me, or nome "| Watchman has a letter which says| tailors, and when I sould’ say, *1) ——ch ot because thay for one |POthing constructive. Only that he Stockholm he ow over Risin, Valet) Sistet enlisted in the watchman and hates Com- In fous dus When I told him that I had not got a admires munism. He states the U. 8. 8. R.'s w where Uncle Joe (no election) Stalin oN Jugvard Whe has been In|, oioice we play with all their| undertook to make it in presides, people just don’t move thousknds more | jee. or else. OF tise WhM? To It is the first new suit I have had for 10 around and live where they desire (WOuld Mke 0 spend this Obrisl-ly gs 0's lees copenls: of ms 18 is mide.of They don’t do what they please, and|iA# &¢ home. They went over Iny.,"we “He states, “The United| as §00d as that o they think if it is agin the gov. (OW government so why can't they|niiian civilisation from. destruc. kronor”. ($125 ernment (the Communist party).(8¢t some of those idle ships '|tion from Communism.” -Well, I'm whether this was a lot It was only a little over a year ago|Pring them home. Why not send|gcaings sin. Who is on my side?| most we are allowed to charge, that Mrs. Haggerty was beating her (50m of our strike leaders and the | gveryone, 80, too, is a capitalistic] It made it seem terribly peniter. with hot aut-pourings in SELES Over 0 take the place of | country against Communism. How- | not only good behalf of cancelling the old Amer- ough them over, capitalism will come more| men. ican custom of electing a Presi-|® country rd for so ttle pay |°4lY to the U. 8. 8. R. than Comdent and was thumping the hard : * ' Imunism to the U. ; N for the late Franklin D ves and mothers, 40 you |not afraid of the competition Bs IN WASHINGTO velt as the right? If so, write your|what does he propose? War? The course the United States constitu the forum. U. 8. 8. R. has raised 193,000,000 Need F tion guaranteed such an election people from utter poverty, ignorance # but what 0. the: Constitution. to, IF WERE SMART WEY and servitude to the second most folks like Mrs, ? Bhe . powerful nation in thé world. It Uke Mis. Haggerty Num SECRETS [Dw epoond. Iti By Thomas L. Stokes though the .constitution provides] Now that the war is over, why|They still lack personal and political WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. oi er a od. Ral bo to rsdn [FSS 1, Ho seme tu of giv hc, us say You approve the good old United |1® ? . [lsirous of getting these freedoms. He loaded with States constitution just once, and If we are smart, we will keep this|assumes asininity and lethargy for| table will be well of laws instead of & government of |up to Powers. ‘It to] than that, With economic security| It is not so in large sections .of the rest of the men. TY Jorslgn hoy they will start a gerater struggle for| world. This might be worth a thought as we push . rr. : at; have. Sues the ‘other securities, This is the our chairs back, surveying with that satisfied feeling “COULD SEND MORE SHIPS - secret” with her, Why|5 ator. of menkind. Doss he think | the well-picked carcass of turkey or chicken of goose. TO Beno ork wer (36 hehe eso, nt 8 0 Sy bro oy ls Bt Le Byes. Juan’ Cheek, $14°H. Pine ot. tonh ther SeCtMt|- One thing is certain. The U. 8. atalitoeat> .» = = , . hoe It seems the government of nation |= F- is here to stay. The largest "Slow starvation is on there in many places United States could send more Te Soniy in the World with sewly as the winter begins to into unheated habitae to 1+ every religious group every race tions, : 3 in Pts we © cis Always been| represented will not fade out for| All of which calls attention to what we can do, - to care now whether od ar Schuman. A) Wit. ole Congress, ad 4 « nation. : or not. ws ny on claims if it hadn't been ihe world to- i A Us 98 3 Satin, has : day. It is our responsibility to know | An immediate job which it has been very slow to do, The boys that have been declaring war on Japan, | ieee people and to work with them. | 50 Slow that unless-it acts promptly there may be a there for so long would still be fighting. We Know | we must. It we scoept the doctrine lull in food shipments abroad. Come home the same as the Sant oanomie bomb of The Watchman (see all the free May ‘Shipment 3 te ih victory, ahd not Russias|SrTesing I sive him) we would| ivy heat I ; Sccept. war with the U. 8. 8. R NS Daan Seats a2 pple ae & hcl either do- the. peo A be, the Philippines, says the boys out the atomic secret, I think BAN a 16 relia ob : towards future | shows no faith in humanity. Pur-| other caused by shipping shortages and inade« A a Lowa thay that MAGI0e 8 ther, his fears are based on the| quate interior transportation 1s Busepe. = : : : idea that our democratic way of life| ~ Just as pressing is the necessity for action on the. : : Is unfit to compete with the U. 8.| new $1,350,000,000 contribution from the United States Carnival —B ‘Dick Turner 8. R. way. He speaks a philosophy | for UNRRA which President Truman requested ree : of division, fear and hatred. This| cently, The $550 million emergency CY appropriation . is not. the philosophy with which | already has been obligated. : i jour virile nation accepts the lead Dujess the larger appropriation is made available. ership of the world. It is not the| soon, purchases of food to carry through the NO Soret oad J lake off| worst of the winter will bé delayed and shipments - sergeant’s uniform up up. Ht Ke S my white sleeves to go to work for| * Shipments for the last quarter of this year to IX my God, my country and my fam-| Europe and North Africa, unless interrupted by the . KE eh | failure of funds, will amount to close to four million - ; ® "= tons. This, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson saidHUNTING recently, will be sufficient only for “the most urgent CENSES STILL GOOD" minimum needs” He is } that this amount au North Africa is in dire need because of one of i I el panos Slows wr r ppm cidents as (1) feeding pigeons (2 | countries whic the food. suspen, parking this way or that or other the largest of | United Kingdom, Prance, ® a policeman’s ides of resisting is done by negotiations officer, If a farmer such as over the prosenough milk for Continuation of food

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