Show THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION BY f PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ff I I S S S V Washington Oct a IThe The president to today i day Issued the annual Thanksgiving Tha proc proe proclamation setting apart Thursday Nov 26 20 asa as asta day da ot of thanksgiving and prayer Year by b year declares the proclamation pr tion this nation grows In strength bength and anI worldly power During tile Ule century and a aI quarter that has elapsed sInce our entry I Into Inta the circle of ot o Independent peoples w have grown and an prospered in material things to a degree never before known wn and now pow known in any an other country The TIl Th thirteen colonies which straggled alon along the seacoast sea of the AtlantiC an J were I hemmed in but a few fey miles mUes west of tide tidewater I water by bv the Indian haunted wilderness I have hare been transformed Into the mightiest est eat republic which tie the t e world lisa has ever seen Its domains stretch across th tha continent from one oe to the other of the greatest oceans and it exercises dominion alike In the Arctic and tropic realms The growth in wealth Wand and population has sur sue surpassed surpassed passed even the growth In territory No Nowhere Nowhere where else In the world Is ie the aver avera average ape e of Individual comfort and material materia Well be lug ing as high as a In our fortunate land I For the very reason that In material materialS S 3 r we have hae thus thu abounded we v iv owe to the Almighty to show equal pros progress I ress Tess In moral things With Witha I a nation as a with the te t individuals who I make up a nation material ing Is Isan Isun isan I an un indispensable foundation But the tho thoI foundation avails nothing by Itself That life Ufe is wasted and worse than wasted I which is LI spent in piling heap on heap heal those things which minister merely mere to fO the pleasure of the bodY and to the power i I that rests only on wealth material materI l li i as a foundation must be raised rallied I the tle structure of the lofty life of the spirit If nation Is properly to fulfill I i its great mission and accomplish all alt we weso WeI H f I so ardently hope and desire Tho 1110 things of the body are ar good the things thing of the i intellect better but best of all aU things of f r the soul for in the nation as In the Indi Individual r i vidual in the long run It Is 1 character j 1 that counts Let us therefore as aa a peo pee people I pIe set our ou r faces resolutely against evil VU f and with broad charity with friendliness friendliness ness and good will toward all Den but Ij l with unflinching determination to smIte i down wrong strive with nit all the strength p i 1 that is given us for righteousness la In pub public z I lic lie and in private life Ufe r t I J 1 i 5 4 |