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Show A NATION OF KICKERS Any way you look at it, we're pretty much a nation of kickers. We lack appreciation of the good things that have come to us in recent years. Only the other day a man was'asked if he had anything any-thing to be thankful for this year, and he gave us an answer we believe be-lieve you'll enjoy, as well as profit by. He said: "Sure I'm thankful I don't live back in the days when the land around here could be bought for $4 an acre; when a spring seat on a farm wagon was a luxury; when the only refrigerator in town was in a butcher shop. I'm thankful I live in an age when all I have to do is touch a button to get a light, turn on a faucet to get a drink of water, when school houses in the country are as good as in the city and children are hauled to them in auto busses, when men can ride to and from their work in flivvers instead of on shank's mare. Of course all of these things are the result of toil and thrift, so I'm thankful for good health to toil and sense enough to save a little as I go along." Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea, next time we start in to kick about something, if we really haven't so many good things that we can well afford to put up with a few bad things now and then, or with something that doesn't exactly suit us, since we've got so many things that do. It's human nature to kick, of course. And yet when we sit down and figure how the generation that went before us here in this community got along without about 80 per cent of the blessings and conveniences we've got, doesn't it seem sort of ungrateful to join that vast army of people who kick because they are not capable of making good use of what they have got? |