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have been running it.
politics will take the
women in the country'
other things they hav
stepladder to reach fir
the newspapers.Here's hoping that
minds of all the
off some of the
e been using as a
st page position inPAGE advertisement in a magazine tells
how to double your money in ten years.
That don't interest me greatly. If I don't
more than double the money I have now in
the next ten years, I won't be here. I
know more about finances than to bite at a
fool thing like that, and I'm no financier,
either. If somebody can tell me where to
put this four bit piece when I go to bed
tonight, so it will be a dollar in the morn-
mig, I'll be interested a whole lot. But,
when there is a prospect of having to wait
ten years for that to happen, why---
Goshamighty, man! Think how hungry a
fellow would get !
ANOTHER thanksgiving proclamation
has been issued by the president of
the United States. With the exception of
the thanksgiving proclamation of 1865,
when peace had come to the country after
four years of internecine strife, and in
1918, when the world war was concluded,
there has perhaps never been a time when
the American people had so much to be
thankful for. In spite of the howling of
malcontents throughout the land, the
country is wonderfully prosperous. In
spite of the appearance of an utter collapse
of the moral machinery of the land, things
are doubtless getting better in that way.
There were a certain number of men and
women who were going to succumb to the
wild orgy of spending and of extravagant
living that followed the war, just as it has
followed every other war, in every other
land. Six years have passed. The young
woman and the young man of today were
boy and girl six years ago. The men andwomen who will rule the social affairs of
the country for the next ten years were
not contaminated by the social freedom
that followed the war. Bad as the effect
of the reconstruction period was on every
feature of human life in the entire world,
America has much to be thankful for in
the fact that it was no worse, and that the
country has so far recovered from it in
the short space of six years. Speaking of
thanksgiving, I sometimes wonder if we
are not, as a nation of people, getting sel-
fish. It hasn't been so many years since
the people of various communities got to-
gether on Thanksgiving Day, held a gen-
eral, public celebration of the event, and
feasted together in honor of the occasion.
I don't know that the people are more
selfish now than they were then, but the
custom that has been forgotten has always
seemed a lovely thing to me. It is prob-
ably because there are so many other ways
of celebrating than there was in the old
times. About the only thing that one could
do in those days was to attend the public
celebration, or else sit around home all
day by himself. Now, there is a great list
of events from which to choose. In fact,
there are many things one can do on
Thanksgiving that have little in common
with a religious festival. Some of them
are almost as much out of place as getting
drunk to celebrate the birthday of Christ.
Still, I believe that most of the wild stuff
that is pulled on Thanksgiving day is
done in a spirit of gladness, and that is the
spirit of the Great Day. We have all much
cause to be glad and thankful on this
Thanksgiving Day, and I trust that every-
one whom my good wishes may reach will
be both thankful and happy.
FIGHTING the other fellow because he
is making a few dollars and has
two shirts, is a relic of the stone age. In-
deed, it is worse than that. It is quite5
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Grinstead, J. E. (Jesse Edward), 1866-1948. Grinstead's Graphic, Volume 4. Number 11, November 1924, periodical, November 1924; Kerrville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth498254/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schreiner University.