Show LETS LEIS COUNT THE BLESSINGS THE institution of our american TI thanksgiving day dates back almost to the beginnings ol of the settlement of north america by newcomers neu comers from europe the first thanksgiving day was celebrated b by th the e pilgrims of plymouth in after aate a flay day of prayer and fasting the pilgrims feasted and gale gaie thanks to almighty god for tile the bountiful harvest which elia enabled bled them to look fo forward rivard to a winter I 1 anter of ample food all of the new england colonies and so some me of the others continued this custom a in 0 of f an annual animal day dav of thanksgiving and in ills first year as the first prest dent of the tha united states of america george washington himself made thanh than flay day a national feast by proclaiming thursday ember 26 1789 as the for its celebration I 1 hero oliero lias has never been a year since in li spite of vars internal stress and calani calam ity in which idich ne lie the people of the un cal ted tea states 0 of america have riot not had genuine gennine occasion to glie ghe thanks tor for bleskin bl bleh eslin ang 1 I received for flor in spite of 0 all that has occurred in our history the american spirit lins lias neler iwer been daunted and ne e have grown steadily in spiritual strength irth in this car of 1933 1932 at we e see many things to le be thankful lor for we have come thru the three most trying years we have experienced perien perlen ced in more than halt half a century we hale haie come through them safely I 1 with far less suffering far less permanent injury to our national institutions and our national welfare than have lave any ot of the other peoples of the world on every land hand there Is eldrence tl el flence dence so plain that all can see that the worst Is past and that we are coming again into material prosperity with renewed courage and with ailt our national moral skill unshaken that it seems to us as Is sufficient clent reason thanksgiving day this icar car should be more than a mere inere holiday why buhy it should be a day upon which eiery ciery american should actually give thanks to tile the god he worships for having led us safely through the slough ot of despond to the verge terge ot of the promised land again SPORTS sportsmanship kinship LiN SHIP I 1 TIIE THE THING that distinguishes a genuine sportsman from a hum bum sport Is that those who hae bale the spirit 0 of sportsmanship nian ship not only know how to win ilin gratefully but how to lose uncomplainingly the difference between a genuine sportsman and the other kind Is that your real sportsman never tries to shift the tha responsibility tor for his failure upon somebody else eim we have long believed that the sporting attitude toward life Is the soundest 0 of all philosophies ot of living try your best to w win tut but if you lose dont be too quick to blame somebody so else tor for your allure nine times out of ten people get whatever rewards their individual ability character and industry entitle them to but it 1 Is s our observation ob also that about nine times out of ten tell the me man 11 who falls Is ready t to 0 lay the maine blame upon U pon the government or the lie cap Ita lists ts or the boss or aua an body else but himself true sportsmanship does doe not imply taking defeat lying down doun the true sportsman nex acer knows knolls lihen lie Is licked e he to never accepts defeat its as final but continues to strive to the end of the game lie he observes tile the rules of 0 tilt the ganie game rigidly if lie like them he may try to have them changed but so 50 long as the rules are as they arche follows them we hear a great deal of uI in these daas of depression but every little while arille ve lie run across a real t port sm a who he let circumstances lick him but Is starting out afresh to try to aln the he game of life to beery such man lac e take off our hat |