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Show - few Mm mmA .... anb (jioe thanks jcu lice in Gmeiica I THIS THANKSGIVING as you bow your head to express your gratitude for your private blessings, remember to give thanks for one you share with over 150 million other people: The blessing of living in America. Nowhere else in the world are your personal rights so well guarded, and your work so well rewarded. The average American wage, for instance, is $3100. . . the Russian but $720. The American gets an average of 323 pounds of meat per year . . . the Russian gets only 33 pounds. The American has an average of 38 pounds of sugar to sweeten his life yearly. . . the Russian Rus-sian just 18 pounds. The American spreads a minimum of 18 pounds of butter and margarine on his bread in a year. The Russian gets but 4.2 pounds. Authority for these Russian figures? Georgi Malenkov, Premier of Russia. These are his own statistics in his official speech to his Deputies. He gives no figures for the production of cars, television sets, refrigerators. Eight years after the end of World War II the Russian is ap- parently getting almost none of these things. Such unwitting testimony for the free American Amer-ican way of life from the one who would destroy des-troy it should give us pause this November 26th. Pause to express our thanks for the gift of American citizenship, and the inalienable rights this gift bestows. Pause to determine to protect this way of life for ourselves and our .children's children. . . against any odds! Let's have our turkey dinners, football games, family reunions and all that on Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, November 26 but let's remember that it is Thanksgiving Day, and observe it as such with at least a brief moment of gratitude to God for our blessings. It is from our Pilgrim Fathers' grateful prayers in the wilderness a long-ago November that our present Thanksgiving derives. They set an example in word and deed which we might well remember at least once a year. Even before the Mayflower landed them at Plymouth they had written in the 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! |