Show BLESSINGS Of I YEAR STRESSED I BY PRESIDENT PRE SlOE NT Chief Executive of Nation Nation Na Na- tion Calls Upon People to Give Thanks on ont I Thursday November 29 29 CHARITY TOWARD I OTHERS URGED I IDeath l Hd-l Death of President Hard Harding ing Is Feelingly Mentioned Men Men- Mentioned Mentioned Men Men- by President Coolidge Cool Cool- Coolidge idge in Proclamation WASHINGTON Nov 6 President dent COolidge's Thanks Thanksgiving da day daj proclamation issued t today dab from the ine White hite House calls cans to mind that the year rear has brought to the American American people two tragic ex experiences ex- ex the the death of President Harding and the Japanese earthquake earth earth- but quake but says that such experiences experiences expert expert- serve to test and refine men and nations I During the year year also the proclamation proclamation procla procla- mation matlon says the nation has been blessed with much Of ot material prosperity The president ent asks that the people gather in their homes and places of worship of-worship on Thursday November 29 9 to give expression expression expression ex ex- ex- ex to their gratitude and seek sek the guidance of ot Almighty God that they may deserve a continuance continuance continuance con con- of His The proclamation follows By the president of th the United Unite States of Am America rica A tion The American people from their earliest days das have observed the wise custom of acknowledging each fach year the bount bounty with Divine Providence has favored them Ulem In the beginning this his this this- acknowledgment acknowledgment ac ac- ac- ac was a voluntary return return return re- re I turn of thanks s by the community tor pr the fruitfulness of at the harvest Though our mode of life me has greatly great great- ly changed this custom has al always always always al- al ways survived It has made Thanksgiving day not riot only one of ot the oldest but one one one- of th the most characteristic observances o oti ot sour our country On rn and nd chur church chuich h in fn m f family gatherings the whole- whole I Ifor for tor generations paid the tho tribute due from grateful hearts for ble blessings blessings bless bless- sings s- s ings bestowed To center our our ur thought in this way upon the favor or which we hav have e been shown has haa been altogether Wise and desirable It has 1135 given opportunity Justly to balance the good and the evil which we have experienced In that we have never failed to find reasons for being grateful to God for a generous preponderance preponderance preponderance pre pre- of the good Even Inthe in inthe inthe the least propitious times time a a broad contemplation of our wh whole le position position post post- tion has never failed t to disclose overwhelming reasons for thank thank- Thus viewing our situation situation situation situa situa- tion we have found a warrant for fora a hopeful ana nd confident attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude toward the future In In this current year w we now ap approach approach approach ap- ap the time which has nas been accepted by custom as most fitting for Cor the calm survey of ot our estate state and the return of thanks We Ve shall the more keenly realize our good fortune If we ve will in deep sincerIty sincerity sincerity sincer sincer- ity give to It 11 due thought and more especially if u we will compare It with that of any other community community community in the world The year has brought to our people two tragic experiences which have deeply affected them One the death of our beloved President President Pres Pres- WAS I ident Harding which has been mourned wherever there is a realization realization real real- Iz of otho tho worth of high ideals service noble purpose and unselfish carried even to the end of supreme sacrifice His loss recalled the nation nation na na- na- na tion to a less captious and more charlt charitable ble attitude It sobered the whole thought of the country A little later came the unparalleled disaster to the friendly people people- of Japan lapan This This called forth the from p people ople of the United States a demonstratiOn dem- dem emot em- em of ot deep and hu humane iane feeling It was wrought into the substance of good works It created created cre- cre new evidences of our international International international inter Inter- national friendship which is a guarantee of world peace It re replenished replenished replenished re- re the charitable impulse of the he country By experiences such as these men and nations are tested and refined We Ve have bave been blessed with much mu-ch of material prosperity We Ve shall be better able to appreciate appie- appie date clate It if we remember the privations priva priva- I others have suffered and we we shall be the more worthy of it if we SC use It for their relief We Ve will do well then to render thanks thanks' for forthe forthe the good that has come to us and I show by our actions that we have become str stronger wiser wier and truer |