THANKSGIVING

Ever since the Pilgrims crossed the ocean and endured "all ye periles & miseries thereof, again to set their feete on ye firme and stable earth", America has been "a favored nation". This last phrase is the keynote of President Harding's Thanksgiving Proclamation. It goes almost without saying that scarcely another Thanksgiving Day in our history has come at so appropriate a time as does tomorrow. With the Armament Conference proceeding with unexpected rapidity, with a Chinese agreement of momentous significance concluded only this Monday, the situation is no longer gloomy. This country has sought for and won--to use another phrase from the Proclamation--"the privilege of service". For all of which, thanks may well be given.

The original Thanksgiving Day was sacred. We American have a lighthearted way of turning any holiday to merriment, no matter how, solemn it may have been in the past. After all this is not an unfortunate trait, for an occasion may be honored better by enjoyment than by solemn sighs; and that especially if we keep in mind--as who can not at this moment of history--our gratitude for a successful year.