Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — A WORLD THANKSGIVING. [ARTICLE]

A WORLD THANKSGIVING.

Why Should America Have Monopoly of the Holiday? 'This being tbe Thanksgiving season, it should lie the proper time to ask why the United States of America has a monopoly on the celebration of a day of thanks to the supreme Giver for the blessings be lias conferred. Why is there not a day of universal thanks, when all the civilized nations of the earth could get together for obe day and proffer their thanks for the blessings they have received? Every civilized nation recognizes a supreme Ruler and Author of all good, and Christian, Jew, Mohammedan, Buddhist and Coufucian could unite for one day at least in the brotherhood of thankfulness. It would be a beautiful idea if we in America who instituted this day of thanks cotild pass its spirit all ardund the world and know that on this day, when we pause a while to offer thanks, every other natiou was doing tbe same. That would be a unity which lias never yet,been attained, but of which no man of any faith can give any good and sufficient reason for its nonexistence. There is absolutely no argument against a day of universal thanks, and if anybody—Jew or gentile—can object to it 1 should like to know the nature of his objection. The feeling of gratefulness is a common heritage of mankind, and, as it is, why should mankind hesitate to., become a unit in its -

acknowledgment can have world expositions, world congresses, world societies, world tribunals, so why not a world Thanksgiving day?— W. .1. Lampton in Letter to New York World.