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Show Thanksgiving f- .;,r , Keil This being the last issue of the Press-Bulletin befort thai day set aside by our pilgrim fathers, to give thanks for the bounteous harvest,, we utilize this space at this time to commemorate that day, . 1 Thanksgiving originated with our forefathers who set aside day late in November to give thanks that for the first time the gaunt11 Spectre of famine did not haunt their vision of the coming winter,. The harvest was good there would be enough food in the colony to sustain life until the following year. Reverently they bowed their heads before a munificent providence. :- ' v ' But we today, living a little over two centuries later, woul five a few thanks to a providence that supplied us with nothing more than the mere necessities of life. Now we are disgruntled unless fate castto's a goodly supply of luxuries along with the necessities. . J . When we think of the struggles of these early pioneers te founding our great and prosperous nation, however, we are forced to the conclusion that in this age we are demanding too much and failing to shof sufficient appreciation ap-preciation for what we get , " i" ' We are the most prosperous people on the face of the globe. Nowhere else can laborers drive cars, afford well lighted comfortable homes, with radio, phonograph, and all modern conveniences. ; In no other nation is farming an industry, managed by men who own their own land. To be sure there is money made in large scale ranching in South America and Australia, but as a class our farmers are better off than tillers of the soil elsewhere. " ' ' And nowhere else in the world can a young man start out with a limited lim-ited capital and build up a business of his own. In Europe he is restrained by a thousand restrictions snd traditions. In newer countries there is less opportunity because there is less wealth. Nowhere else can a man send his children through college in institutions institu-tions maintained entirely' at the expense of the state. In Europe education is for the few whose parents can afford to pay high tuitions for the maintenance main-tenance of private schools and colleges. Here it is for the many for all who are sufficiently interested in self improvement. Figures are startling. We Americans comprising six, per cent of the wdrld's population, own 88 per cent of all the automobiles, 63 per cent of all the telephones, produce and use over 66 per cent of the World's steel, produce 50 per cent of the world's cotton and consume 25 per cent of it. So it would appear that we have a great deal to give thanks for next Thursday. We certainly owe much more to providence than did our reverent rev-erent ancestors. - |