Show t THANKSGIVING TION Last Thursday in November Set Apart by President of 1 the United States PEOPLE EXHORTED TO PRAY t GREAT Gri AT BLESSINGS YET VET IN STORE Was n Oct 26 President Roose noose Roosevelt velt vIL Nt today t Issued ed his Thanksgiving proc pro proclamation N through ugh the th secretary of state naming tIe lle last Thursday in November the The Thanksgiving Than proclamation Once again the tho those season se son of the year has come when wh n in accordance with the cus CU custom i itom tom torn o oZ our oU forefathers for generations past the president appoints the day as ts the especial esp occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God During the past ast year ear we have been free from famine from pestilence from war we are at peace with all the rest of mankind Our natural resources are arc areat areat at least aa as great as those of ot any other nation We Ve believe that in ability to develop and take advantage of these re resources sources the average mat man of this nation n Hands at least as high as the average man of or any other oth r Nowhere else in the world word Is ts there thero such sueh an all opportunity for a afree afree free tree people to develop to the fullest ex cx extent c tent all its ith powers of body of ot mind and of that which stands above both body and mind character Much has been given us from on high and much will rightly be expected of us In return Into our care the ten talents have havo been entrusted and we are to be bo pardoned neither if It we squander and waste thorn them nor yet if It we hide hida them In Ina a II napkin for they I must be fruitful in our hands Ever throughout the ages at atall atall atall all times and among all peoples prosper prosperity prosperity r rIty ity has been fraught with danger and it behooves us to beseech the tho Giver of All Things that we may not fall into love of ease and of or luxury that we may majr ma not lose our sense of moral responsibility that we may not forget our duty to God and to our neighbor y A great democracy like ours a de democracy democracy based upon the principles of oC orderly liberty can be perpetuated only if Jr in the heart of the ordinary citizen there dwells a keen sense of oC and justice We should earnestly pray pra that this spirit of righteousness and Jus Justice justice justice tice may grow ever greater In the hearts of all of us and that our souls may ma be Inclined evermore both toward the vir virtues virtues tues that tell for gentleness and tender tenderness tenderness tenderness ness for loving kindness and forbearance one with another and toward those no noless noless less ess necessary virtues that make for man manI I Uness and rugged hardihood for without these qualities neither nation nor indi individual vidual can rise to the level of great greatness ness flees Now therefore T J Theodore Roosevelt president of the United States do set apart Thursday the day of November as a day for general thanks thanksgiving thanksgiving thanksgiving giving and prayer and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily dally work and In their homes or in their churches meet devoutly to thank the tho Almighty for the many and alid great blessings they have received in tho the pst past and to pray that they may be given the strength for to so 50 order their lives HS lIS to deserve a continuation l of these blessings In the future |