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CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942
WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto
the most High, xxx And call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
—Psalms 50: 14-15.
THOUGH AT WAR, MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR
The previous war our country was engaged in, World War
No. 1, found us fighting a victorious battle for the freedom of
all peoples on a Thanksgiving Day, but it proved of no avail, in
the Peace that was made. Again, in 1942, America finds itself
involved in another war of far greater proportions, with the same
ideals, but there will, we all hope, be a different kind of peace
made this time, one that will make it impossible for any of the
Assassins to break the traces, and build for another assault upon
innocent and peace loving peoples. No peace, we believe after
this war is won, will be entered into that will give men of the
Hitler, Mussolini, Toja type an opportunity to assuage their lust
for power in the blood of millions upon millions of innocent victims.
But, with it all, Americans have much for which to give
thanks—our bountiful crops, unlimited resources, and our peo
ple at home of a will to suffer deprivations and give of their all
for the preservation of their liberties, religiously, politically and
otherwise. No sacrifice is too great, and our boys on this Thanks
giving Day are giving battle to preserve for us these privileges,
toying down their lives, if necessary, that we may enjoy the
Thanksgiving Days to come, in peace and security.
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THANKSGIVING, 1942
By RUTH TAYLOR
The Inn are glowing nU and scarlet. Nature has decked herself
in the spirit of Thanksgiving for the fruits ef the summt season.
If yea walk la the caaatry, beauty faces yea wherever yea tarn. Bat
it is ap to you whether yea see the autumn fiery as a fruition of the
harvest of cummer—or a final defiance to the threat of the approach
ing winter.
So it is with Thanksgiving this year.
There are these who cay—“Why should we celebrate? The world
is crumbling about us. Everywhere there is war and devastation. The
old things no longer exist We have nothing to be thankful for!”
No doubt then were repinen and Doubting Thomaaes at the first
Thanksgiving held on these shores. There were those who said “Why
should we be thankful? We face a long and desolate winter, with no
way of escape—no ships will arrive. There is only the merciless
ocean before us and the dread wilderness and fierce savages
us. We have nothing to be thankful for!”
But just as in the days of the Pilgrims, there were those who felt
gratitude that the Lord had thus far preserved them, and carried them
through their trials and tribulations, and that they, in the words of
David, should ‘“Give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His
mercy endureth forever”—so in this day of sorrow and tribulation, the
great majority of our people, too, are grateful and give thanks.
Not in the spirit of vainglory that our land is not as other l»~<«
devastated and overrun by a merciless enemy, bombarded from sea and
air, not in the spirit of vainglory—but humbly and reverently, we thank
God for His mercy towards us, that we still have freedom—freedom
to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.
We must face this day of Thanksgiving 1942, not only in the same
spirit the first celebrants did over three hundred years ago—with grati
tude for the mercies of the past and with faith in the continuance of
those mercies, saying as they did, in the words of the Psalmist: “O
give thanks unto the God of heaven; for His mercy endureth for ever,”
—but with the fervent prayer that, God willing and we toiling, we can
continue to celebrate as a united people in a United States with all
those precious privileges that that world connotes.
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND POLITICS
The President has received much abuse from many quarters
during the past few years about his politics, yet we have never
had a President who played laps party politics than President
Roosevelt.
The three preceding Republican Presidents — Harding,
Coolidge and Hoover—were party “wheel-horses” of the first
water. When Hoover appointed a “50 per cent Democrat” to the
Supreme Court, he thought he was being very noble. The three
.administrations were marked by complete Republican party
politics. To them, it was “turn the rascals out” as far as the
Democrats were concerned and they did a thorough job of it.
Woodrow Wilson also made this error. We believe that if
he had taken Republicans like Root and Taft, SrM and Hughes into
his confidence or even to Europe to make the peace, his League
of Nations would have been ratified and we may have been living
in a diffrent world today.
Our President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the reputation of
being one of the most astute politicians of our generation—plays
less party politics than any President in our history.
In the President's Cabinet sit such die-hard Republicans as
Henry L. Stimson—a member of Hoover’s Cabinet. Secretary of
the Navy Knox ran against Roosevelt on the Landon ticket in
1936, and made some speeches against the President that would
make any Sunday school teacher blush—and yet he is one of the
President’s closest advisors in this war.
Wendell Willkie ran against the President in 1940—and yet
he has been given opportunities that rarely come to human be
ings in three lifetimes, as far as gaining for himself public sup
port and public interest.
Harlan Fiske Stone, whom the President appointed the Su
preme Court Chief Justice was a Republican member of Coolidge’s
cabinet, and from the top right down all the way through in every
branch of the Government service, there has been less party
politics played in the matter of jobs than in any other President’s
time in our history. As a matter of fact, that is the real reason
that men like Farley broke with Roosevelt. The President is
much too non-partisan for these old-time party politicians. Then
we have the African campaign. Can there be any doubt that the
Republicans would have gained much less representation in the
House of Congress and in Governorships if the African offensive
had been started on November 1st, instead of on November 9th?
When victory comes, and it is time to make the peace, we can be
sure that the Republican Party will have as much representation
in the making of decisions as will the members of the President’s
own party.
MR. PEGLER—OH THOU SAGE!!
On the day that American soldiers under General Eisenhower
were invading Africa—Mr. Pegler in his syndicated column in
many hundreds of our newspapers had an editorial which in ef
fect tried to stir up hatred, resentment, suspicion against—n<^—
not our enemies—against our allies—the Russians.
For fear that Mr. Pegler may have written that before he
knew anything about the greatest overseas invasion in all his
tory; the day AFTER General Eisenhower occupied Algiers and
laid the very foundation for our eventual Victory—Mr. Pegler
had a whole column about Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and how she
(mused high taxes and other gems of thought which any psy
chiatrist would agree can only come from some aberration of the
brain on the part of this “sour-puss” sage Westbrook. Pegler.
Let us hope, and we know this will come to pass—that on the
day American, English and Russian troops march down Unter
Den Linden in Berlin Mr. Pegler will continue to give out with
some real hot stuff about Mrs. Roosevelt and taxes.
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