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November, 1921
THE ATLANTIAN
The Atlantian
Box 118, Atlanta, Georgia
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OUR MOTTO: “PULL FOR ATLANTA OR PULL OUT.”
Editorial Etchings
THANKSGIVING 1921
We come to Thanksgiving Day of 1921 with a multitude
of people convinced that we have nothing for which to be
thankful.
The men whose thinking is not perverted by temporary
misfortune can see the fallacy of that idea.
Perhaps in our whole history we have never had so
great a thing to be grateful for as the fact now apparent
that never before have our people seen themselves as they
are.
This is so tremendous a fact that it will take us a long
time to grasp it in its'full significance.
In all history no nation has been so obsessed by vanity
as to its shrewdness and capacity as this American nation.
We have blandly appropriated the gifts of Almighty God,
as if they were something of our own creation, and claimed
all credit as our own.
No other nation has ever had such a splendid inherit
ance as this great and fertile country which has fallen into
our hands through no merit of our own.
We have mangled it, misused it, and evilly exploited it.
Our sins of omission and commission have mounted
mountain high. Now we are paying the penalty. Now we
are beginning to realize that things did not just happen so,
but are the logical result of vicious principles and mofe vic
ious practices. Now we are beginning to say, “This must
not happen again.”
We cannot yet get away from the notion that it just
happened, but the very phrase we use shows that we realize
that such evil days are preventable.
This is an immense gain, for dimly it may be, but cer
tainly, the thought of prevention is taking root in the minds
of men.
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What follows must be the logical sequence of that
thought. That logical sequence is the going to God, whom
we have forgotten, and asking him to create in us a right
spirit, to give us a clean heart, and to grant us wisdom. If
we do this in humility, repenting sincerely of our past folly
and misdeeds, our petitions will be heard and answered.
Wisdom and righteousness can come only from follow
ing God’s law. If we refuse to do this our nation will per
ish, and ought to perish for it will become hopelessly rotten.
Perceiving this truth and doing the right thing we can
feel the most profound thankfulness to the Giver of All
Good that He has awakened us to the truth, and given us
another chance to serve Him, to serve our fellow creatures,
and to serve ourselves.
Every nation that depends solely on its own wisdom,
and leaves the Universal Father out of its reckoning, is
doomed to early destruction.
GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE AVERTED
After much jockeying for position, the contending fac
tions in the railroad war have declared a truce, and the day
of settlement is postponed.
A general railroad strike, added to the prevailing de
pression would have been an appalling calamity, and there
is no man wise enough to see what the end of that situation
would have been.
It was that consideration, which in all probability had
the most weight with the parties in conflict for after all
both crowds are Americans and have some regard for their
country.
The settlement, however, has been only postponed,
probably until next summer. It must come, unless Govern
ment, acting for all the people, shall provide against the
disaster.
For if the questions at issue should at any time result
in a general strike, the cost will be so terrific that the coun
try will be torn up as never before and no section will
escape.
It will come, if we settle down inert to another period
of chancing our luck.
Providence has been mighty good to this people* but it
is a stupid people which insists on tempting Providence by
failing to do what it can. For we know that Providence
helps the man who helps himself.
It is probably true that no nation of the earth profits
less by experience than this American nation.
We have already reaped the harvests of some of our
failures, but it is a sober fact that unless we mend our ways
in the matter of preventing evil doing, we will reap in the
near future such a harvest of disaster as we have never
even dreamed. r