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Show DAY OF JOY. What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving day? Wait a minute. It Is a falling, characteristic of Aincrl-I Aincrl-I cans, to attempt to express nearly everything ev-erything in terras of money. Or, at least, In terms of prosperity. Most of us have the notion that j Thanksgiving day as a national festi-' val was born in much tho same spirit a gratlude for good fortune. To some extent, It was. The Pilgrim Fathers Fath-ers were thankful for crops that en-' sured them again3t starvation in the i barren winter that lay ahead But 'unquestionably their Joy was not confined con-fined to food. They thanked the Almighty for lib 'erty In government, freedom of worship wor-ship and the simple Joys of happy homes So, this Thanksgiving day, let us not be thankful merely in proportion to our prosperity, though times have : greatly improved In the past year. Let us remember and be thankful j for these more Important elements of ilifo our families, our health, our, tnends. Alany a home that is trying to make la small chicken serve as Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing feast for half a dozen hungry I mouths has more of genuine love and happiness to be thankful for thsn 1 some of the place? where butlers I (servo giant turkey on silver platters.' And if we are away from home, I I forced to dine at a public eating place j among strangers, let us be thankful j f or the love of far away home folks 1 and friends. I Such is the real Thanksgiving spirit, j oo |