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Show a commodious planet, as Carl Sandburg said memorably. Think of Art, Poetry, Music, Day? Painting! (Continued from Page 1) libraries, our gorcame here in th eearly days, and geous art galleries, our musical I outand ny children and that the albums of the masters pourings of mans spirit from the grandchildren li re in a land of beginning of his life pilgrimage, plenty, and in a land of liberty, preserved to delight, encourage, freedom and opportunity for all or console us. Are we thankful who are willing to work. for these precious heirlooms of I am thankful that the rank eternal beauty? We couldnt very and file of our good people in well spare them in life battle. America are now getting next to They mean much to us. How themselves and waking up to the much they could mean is illus- poison ivy of Communism which trated by this incident: has been too' widely spread and disseminated amogn the people "Long ago a monk wandered late of years. into the fields and a lark began to sing. He had never heard a I am thankful that our nation lark before, and he stood there is bag and strong, and that the entranced until the bird and its greata majority of our people, song had become part of the both in and outside our governheavens. Then he went back to ment, believe in and are guided the monastery and found there by the Christian ideals taught by a doorkeeper whom he did not Jesus, that we should love our know and who did not know neighbors, and that it is more him. He told them he was blessed to give than to receive. Father Anselm, but that was no I am thankful that, as a whole, help. Finally they looked through the American people have a fine the books of the monastery, and sense of humor and good sound there revealed that there had judgment. That while they may a be been a Father Anselm there and listen to those patient hundred or more years , before. who want to spread new Isms, Time had been blotted out while like they have done in Europe; he listened to the lark. there is only one "Ism that the Of this story James M. Barrie the American people, as a whole, says, "That was a case of beauty want here, and that is good old boiling over, or a soul boiling Americanism, under the Stars over. I neednt remind you that and Stripes. I am thankful that artists with words, painters with we have the American Legion color, great composers of musical and the many other fine or harmony have been releasing sky- ganizations to see to it that our larks for centuries in order that American ideals of liberty and the soul of men might boil over, fraee enterprise is maintained unthankfully! Skylarks and ingrat- der our Constitution. itude are strangers! I am thankful that so many of Think of Religion, Faith! our boys came back safe and There was a time when bloody sound, and that they are now wars were fought in its name. taking an active part in hoth Tens of thousands were massa-cree- public and private affairs in our Men were martyred, burn- society. because ed, they could not beI am thankful that our ideals lieve the doctrine of the ruling of peace and good will, adn of group. In our own country, Hell, a good neighbor. a lake of fire and brimstone, ter- being am I thankful that we now rorized many worshippers because an have active organization of they believed God selected people the United Nations, dedicated to to be saved or damnarbitrarily ed. Now we know God was back secure peace and to banish war. of none of these atrocities. We That this organization can and know of last that God is kind will shine the light of turth upon and good; that, since His Glory those who seek aggression and is intelligence, He loves a thinker; who seek to oppress and subject we know now that should all others to do their will, and thus Nations else fail the upright, God the eventually the United will reform discivilize and these Father will not fail them. And turbers of the of the peace to thanksgiving day is a day of world. gratitude, a day of faith, a day These are some of the many of prayer! Three hundred and twenty six things, I think we should be Governor Bradford a thankful for. If we will think decreed on which the Pilgrims were about them and ponder them in day to give thanks although the our hearts on this Thanksgiving harvest had been a scant one. Day, then we will be better citizens, and have mor elove for, Two hundred and forty-tw- o later years eighty four years President Lincoln desigago nated Thursday, August 6, as a day of Thanksgiving, praise and that was in the middle prayer of the Civil War, when gratitude was indeed a miracle. Today gratitude and thanksgiving flow from our hearts, not only for a Our great The slogan adopted by the National Citizens Fooc committee, has the full support of the Logan Citizens Food committee, according to Chairman Reed Bullen. The local program will be carried on in the Logan City Schools by means of poster and essay contests. The best posters will be displayed in some of the windows of the leading stores, and the best essays will be published in the newspapers and broadcast over KVNU. John Smrrintendent C. Carl- city schools has endorsed the program and will see that it is a project in the schools. Posters from the Nawill ba tional committee in many of the rooms of the schools and be used as a rulde for subject mateer for the .students who will make posters. Bulletins have been supplied to all the teachers from which information and suggestions may be had for the essay work. The stake presidents of the Laan stakes will support the camnalgn and urge all bishops cf the wards and the Relief Society teachers, to emphasize the mmortancc of this very worthy cause. In view of the starving condi-ti'-- 'n in the world, and now at time the commlt-fr- o purrorp'-tthat all pans and rive thanks ard each pledge to do their part in helping to tHc suffering. gain Torld today, with the of winter, is a vain facing a desperate foad situation. aw TvrMcularly critical ip wnpnrn Furone. Tvroir'hf'''',t tha growing saon frct draught and floods took a baov-toll of food crops. Wheat rve production in Western prd is dnwn hv 200 mUlion Pumn bushois. even as compared to last vpor. hunger was wide-Au- d the situation has rnrwo worse in the last 60 to CO favs. oUto ptwatSTT nooero bread isle of the dis-piny- ed ; mh Con-(U'u.-v- n,. ra-f'o-- ic- furhr hoTo Proripo Tiaon Ttah' TToUopd. cut in RwdoTl resistance is so low that thousands are dying of pneumonia and tuberculosis. This winter the suffering will be tragic. While hunger spreads in Europe, Americans are still eating at a record rate far above r. America, with its record 1,450,000,000 bushel wheat crop is the major source of relief. Wheat is the heart of the problem because wheat is one of the cheapest, most easily shipped, most nourishing of foods, and because our own crop is off 1 about 900 million bushels, last years record. pre-wa- Thanksgiving (Continued from Page 1) can we be thankful enough for the microscope and the patient observing eye behind it, and to all who are trying to bring medical aid to all people by ever widening health service! Think of the Toilers Over the Centuries ! Aching backs, blistered hands, sweaty brows. Father works from sun to sun but mothers work is never done. People out by toil at the age of 40! In pity of it Jesus said All who are weary and heavy laden come to Me and I will give you rest. Man was a slave for a roof over his head and a loaf of bread. At last inventive mind freed him. Today the machine is the slave. The toiler has some' leisure, a softer bed, better food. Thankful this American will help make true of Europe, China, India! old-wo- m of orererit prosue''ts. the rations for roo't rniiproo wUl have to ha nit enonop or lafar. As Celd of Freedom VTnVo-rnpirq. the unreat groT,TS. i Think men used to own the Powerful worae. the Pn poVo mottopa less powerful. After a long time poppiation of Western Europe has an to inspired leader said, A napf'-'heno more mouths cannot live half slave and tion fed the better half free. Now, about a hundred Tf,s tro that, in pf manv larcrp rlt.ipR. vou years later, wise men say, A iTdif to0 lutfp pvidenee of lumper world cannot live half slave and nrf fhp ,Tnror(o mop I half free. We have now learnVtlir. rfprr th MPS ed that we are all (blacks, yelpprl Oijtoidp Pro crmitli elpcr and plosor fellow creepers in to actual starvation. 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