Show i J LOYALTY THEME OF TION BY WILSON T- T Thanksgiving Day Set for Nov ov 27 War Benefits Are Described WASHINGTON Nov 6 6 President ilson ha has hasi proclaimed Thursday November 2 21 as Thanksgiving day The follows By the Pres Jent of the United States of ot America A proclamation The season of the year has again arrived when the people of the United States Stales are accustomed to unite In giving thanks to Almighty God for forthe forthe the blessings which has ha-has he has conferred upon our country during the twelve twelvemonths twelvemonths mo months that have passed A year ago our people poured out their hearts in praise and thanksgiving that through divine aid the right was vicI victorious victorious vic vic- and peace had come to the I i nations which had so courageously struggled in defense of or human liberty liberty's M I and justice Now that the stern task is ended and nd the fruits of achievement achievement achieve achieve- I ment are ours we look forward with 14 confidence to the dawn of an era r k where the sacrifices of the nations will find recompense in a world at I peace Ii LOYALTY URGED r i But to attain the consummation of or I the great work to which the American people devoted their manhood and the vast resources of their country they should give thanks to God crate themselves to these principles of or right which triumphed through his merciful goodness Our gratitude can can find no more pressing expression than to bulwark with loyalty and patriotism 1 those principles for which the free peoples of the earth fought and died During the past year we have had much to make us grateful grateful- In spite of the confusion contusion in our economic life Ufe resulting from the war we have prospered Our harvests have been I plentiful and of our we wet t have been able to too render succor to less favored nations Our democracy 3 1 remains unshaken in a world torn I with political and social unrest Our OurI I traditional ideals are still our guides I in the path of ot progress and tion j I UNSELFISHNESS ASKED ASi ED These great eat blessings vouchsafed to us for which we devoutly give thanks should arouse us to a fuller sense of or our duty to ourselves and I to mankind to see to It that nothing I we may do shall mar the completeness complete complete- ness of the victory which we we helped to win No selfish purpose animated us in becoming participants in the world orld war and with a like spirit of unselfishness we should strive to aid by our our example and antt by our cooperation cooperation tion in realizing the enduring welfare of all peoples and in bringing into being a world ruled by friendship and 1 good will Therefore I Y Woodrow Wilson President of ot the United States of America hereby designate Thursday the twenty-seventh twenty day of ot November next for tor observance as a day of or thanksgiving and prayer by my fellow rellow countrymen inviting them to cease on that day from their ordinary tasks and to unite In their homes and in their several places of worship in ascribing praise and thanksgiving to tod d the author of all blessings and andt t the e master of or our destinies In witness whereof I have hereunto hereunto hereunto here here- unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed Done in the District of Columbia this fifth firth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen and of the Independence of the United States the theone theone theone one hundred and forty Signed WOODROW WILSON Seal By the president Robert Lansing Secretary of State |