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3NEWNAN HERALD I Consolidated- with Coweta Advertiser September. 1886. I Established 1866. fConsolidated with Newnan News January, 1916* f NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1920. Vol; S6—No. 8 A THANKSGIVING Of PEKING. Lord, we who Bet the furrow deop, And sow the seeds of Industry, Tor the rich guerdon that wo reap Give thanks to Thee I Lord, we who make the anvils ring, Who rive and weld laboriously, Por all the wage our labors bring Give thanks Jo Theel Lord, wo who watch the spindles ply, The shuttles flying dizzily, .Por every'boon our efforts buy . Give thanks to Theel Lord, we who build with busy hand Of wood ot_stone unceasingly, Por whatsoe’er our artB command Give thanks to Theel Lord, we who delve in unde'r*earth Par from Thy sunlight fail 1 and free, Por whatsoe'er we win of worth Give thanks to Thee! Lord, we who hoist the straining sail. And plow the green waves of the sea, Por what our stormy tasks avail Give thanks to Thee I Lord, we the toilers of the brain, - Who clutch at? dreams that cling or flee, Por whatsoever heights we gain Give thanks to Theel Lord, we Thy children, snjall and great, Beneath Thy care, where’er It be, The while Thy grace we supplicate, Give thanks to Thee! —Clinton Scollard. "THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION INVOLVES WORK. It has-been customary in recent years for the Department of State to draft .each Thanksgiving proclamation. After the draft has been O. K.’d by the President it 1b handed to the State , Department’s expert penman, who in his copper-plate chirography writes it upon -a large sheet of excellent parchment, which is Sent to the President for his sig nature, and then returned to the State Department to be Bigfled by the Secre tary of State. Next it must be impress ed with the great seal of the United States, whose custodian will refuse to place it even upon so important a docu ment unless authorized to' do so by a for mal warrant signed by the President, for the use of the great seal or the possess ion of an impression thereof without the Chief Executive’s written authority is • a grave offense, punishable by law. In- -deed, the great seal—which was made by A jeweler at a cost of $10,000 and which >. iB kept locked in a great rosewood case— is the most sacred instrument used by the Government. Having had this hallowed cipher of the republic pressed into it, the now Thanksgiving proclamation is filed away in the State Department archives, later . to be bound in ItB chronological order, -with other-accumulated proclamations. Uncle Sam takes all of these technical pains merely to retain the handsomely written proclamation as his own souve nir. But before the instrument has been filed away a typewritten copy is Bent to the State Department’s official printer, who has a shop of his own in the base ment of our Foreign Office. His printed copies are given to the newspapers or to anyone who wishes. Each of the State, Governors must also be sent an .exact copy, but the depart ment’s strict code of etiquette demands that , these copies must not be printed. They are typewritten and signed by the President’s and Secretary of State’s own hands. Each Governor then seconds this move of the ^President in appointing the annual feast day of thanks and prayers, and, in their turn, tho mayors of cities now generally second the move of their Governors. By such indirect means does the prompting of the nation’s thanks the- •oretically reach the people, who-actually receive it directly from the President himself through that eliminator of red- tape delays—the daily newspaper. In ■some localities the bishops receive tin) proclamation from the Governors and hand it down in circular form to the less er clergy, who read it from their pulpits upon the Sabbath following its issuance. In parts of New England it is still tho custom to read the proclamation from the pulpit on two successive Sundays. _ These infinite pains are taken, despite the fact that there is nothing in the Federal statutes authorizing a President ’to set apart such a holy day. But the proclamations make the holiday legal. BLESSINGS MORE THAN MATE- RIAL. In other times a Thanksgiving edito rial was a motley of statistics’and boast fulness. We had grown so many million bushels of grain; our cattle on a thou sand hills lmil increased so maUy hun dredfold ; our clcaring-houso statistics hnd never been surpassed; our per enpitu wealth was tho greatest in the world; indeed, our thankfulness was lost iii th» glorification of the gift. We woro like the people of whom tho Prophet Ilabak- kuk spake, who hnd caught much fish in their nets and gathered them in thoir drags, “tlioreforo they saerifleo unto their net and burn inceuso unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. ’ ’ Of grat itude to a Givor, of thankful recognition of forces which wo did not create, but. without whose co-operation wo should Imve" been as nothing, thore was leBS than ought to have been. All this was due, of courso, not so much to human ingratitude as to human thoughtlessness. To Thank is to think. Tho farther back we think, the farther back wo thank. If our thought ceases with our own contribution to our welfare, our thanks ceaso with ourselves. If. our appraisal stops with our material increase our thanks become material and insensi bly change into boasting. Wo sacrifice unto our groat industries and burn in cense unto our skill, and there our hom age rests. But on this Thanksgiving Day wo hayo such incentive to thought as the world has never seen before, and the blessingB which challenge, us are Buch as do not lend themselves to material appraisal. The ohief blessings of the day are spirit ual; their very names put them a world apart from tho things which are quoted on the market or measured in tho scales of physical worth. Justice, Righteous ness and Peace, these are the exalted values in which we feel our true riches to be, and for these the entire race of men, whether they keep Thanksgiving to day or not, are most devoutly thank ful. , Meat is salted in Colombo by dipping it into the sea, and keeps for months. THANKSGIVING AT ITS BEST. The joys of Thanksgiving are not par taken /in the fulness thereof by many city boys and girls. They simply know that it is a holiday, when the pleasures and trials of school life are temporarily laid aside, when churches ‘ are open for those who want to return devout thanks for the manifold blessingB 'with which they may have been showered, and when the larder fairly groans with delicacies. It is in the country that the manifold blessings of 'Thanksgiving Day* reach their full fruition. It is not a mere episode there, as it is in the city, but an event that' is anxiously looked for ward to for weeks before it dawns. In its celebration it differs from the ways of, the city as widely as does day from flight. In the thickly populated towns the religious aspect of the Holiday lias been lost sight of to a great extent, and in its place there has grown up the habit of feasting and making merry. It is a time for family gatherings, for balls, for football, for theatricals and the thousand and one pleasures City life is beBet with. -FEEL ALL USED UP? 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