Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22

won. Ii, in ub1lat1on over their victory, they had
placed joyous raiment their backs, thrust
feather in their caps, and walked around on their
heels proclaming how great and able they were,
after the manner of most people, should have
regarded it, in this day, as quite normal. But for
profound reason these big were not pulled
out with foolish vanity They didn't 60 strutting
about like pin headed turkey gobbers They offered
up thanksgiving, in plain and humble garb, for what
had been permitted them-and ate the gobblers
We emulate them In one respect: we still eat the
gobblers They wise and women, those
old Purtans far their education went.
Virtues Come from Education
YOU see all virtues largely matter of educa-
ton. The child has more instructive regard
for truth Kindness fairness than he has for prop
erty rights. There is nothing in the world cruel
naturally small boy-unless it is little girl
From the beginning to the end of Our life we are
moved by two incentives: the fear of punishment
and the hope of reward. If thing doesn't pay, it
isn't worth while. But don't forget that the great
big rewards from inside and not outside; in
larger understanding deeper sympathy inner
quality, an exultant something away down deep in
side of us that makes us happier and better than
the common garden brand of success can bestow
upon Incidentally in the long, long run-some-
times takes centuries-the fine things in life always
pay best in dollars and cents, too
Those old Puritans who created Thanksgiving got
hold of something real and tangible for which they
felt real gratitude. Probably it realization OF
their concept of liberty, which was freedom to do
exactly as they wanted to do and full power to COM
pei everybody else to do the That's the kind
of liberty most of cheer for until we are hoarse
Of course it isn't liberty ALL but what the political
orators and earnest editorial writer's nowadays call
Especial privilege.
The Purtans fought with fanatical zeal for their
privilege that they called liberty; though measured
by any standard but their it pretty poor
brand Still it probably the most useful variety
for hair fi,,,a hon hevO med their
kind of liberty, along with measure of prosperity
they overwhelmed with the gorgeousness OF
it. 1t seemed much bigger and finer than they
were that they didn't take all the glory of accom-
plishnent to themselves. If a concerted young
Roundhead felt inclined to gallus yawp there were
ministers with piledriver vocabuares to pound the
vanity out of him.
The Puritans were educated in gratitude-these
fighting ministers had lot to do with that. When
we devote as much time and attention to that virtue
as we do to common honesty and the multiplied
ton table it will be as familiar either. And II
gratitude should become or less general IN
stead of being painfully sporadic that pleasant nc
ton of the radical THE Brotherhood of Man,
would arrive at the dignity of reality instead or
being the azure nimbus of dream
Must Have Others Help
FOR mind you, not of us has accomplished
even the littlest thing all by himself. When you
get right down to it, dependent on others
for everything from necessities like pampered van
ity luxures like fresh eggs The other fellow does
his share toward helping me, and do my share-no,
not my share, but something toward helping him.