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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING . . . The amazing performance of our country's economy, in face of the dire predictions of the prophets of gloom and doom, is a real and present cause for thanksgiving, 1955. We produced goods and services at a record annual rate of $392,000,000,000 in the third quarter of this year. For the first time in history, employment went past the 65,000,000 mark in August. Personal incomes established a record-breaking yearly rate of $304,700,000,000. Building construction reached a new peak. Business this year showed its faith in America's future by record outlays for plant an equipment, with expenditures for factories, machines and other production equipment estimated at $27,000,000,000. . Truly, let us give thanks! vEv People who mind their own business usually succeed they have so little competition. t AN EXAMPLE TO REMEMBER . . . The first crop had been bountiful in the new, strange land; the perils of its wilderness, while present still, were no longer unknown. So the Pilgrims offered prayers of thanksgiving on the day of the feast girded spiritually and materially against all dangers. As we today follow, in effect, their example in the festive turkey, so should we be girded as they were that first Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, against all who imperiL us and our heritage of freedom. It is from our Pilgrim Fathers' grateful prayers in the wilderness wil-derness that our present Day of Thanksgiving derives. They set an example in word and deed which we well might remember at least once a year. Even before the Mayflower landed them at Plymouth they had written in their Compact: "We whose names are underwritten have undertaken, for the glory of God, to establish in Virginia the first colony for the advancement of the Christian faith. . ." So glorious our heritage, so short our memories! vEv A philosopher is someone who always knows what to do until it happens to him! t A helicopter carrying 19 passengers, cruising at 100 miles an hour and having a range of more than 300 miles is in the cards for '56. t Success nowadays is making more money to pay the taxes you would not be paying if you had not made so much money already. 30 |