Show I f PROCLAMATION BY I r ErR OF TH THE UNITED lIED STATES I Every E day the great principles for which we wc are lighting fighting take hake fresh hold upon lIpon our thought and purpose and maJ matte make e It clearer what the end must be beI I and what we e e must do to achieve it AVe Y e 1 no now r know kno more certainly c than we ev ever knew ever r. r knew before l why free men brought blought the greatt greaL and government government govern govern- ment we ve love lo into existence c because it grows clearer and clearer what supreme su su- preme sen service Ice it rs is to be Americas America's Am ricas rica's privilege e to render I to the world The fhe anniversary r of the discovery of of-Amer of America Amer ica must therefore have for fOI us in this fateful year cm a peculiar and und thrilling significance We should make Inalie it n a a da day clay of ardent rededication to the Ideals upon which our government founded is and by which our present heroic tusks tasks s sare are arc Inspired Now 1 therefore I I Woodrow Wilson President of the United States of oC America do the 1 day clay of 1918 1913 lis' lis as as' Liberty day On that dil day I request the citizens of every community of oC the United States city town and countr countryside to celebrate celebrate cele cele- brate the thc di discovery covel of our country in order to stimulate a generous response to the thc Fourth Liberty Loan Commemorative Commemorative addresses pageants pageant harvest home festivals or other r demonstrations demonstrations should be arranged for in cr c every neighborhood under the general tHree tHree- direction ton tion of the secretary of of the treasury and the im immediate direction of the Liberty Loan committee tt e in cooperation cooperation opera co tion with the United States bureau of education and the thc public school authorities au an au L Let t the pea P peoples people's pl les le's s 's response to the Fourth Liberty r. r ll express the measure of re Of their 1 to the ideals hi Which have guided th tJ countr country from Its dIs discovery over U n now 11 and nt of their determined l' l purpose purpose c t to to defend er diem hem rind and gt grantee their triumph I For r the purpose of participating P ng ngIn in Liberty ribert d day celebrations all employees ees of the thc federal gon government throughout the thc country whose services can cun be spared ma may he excused be-excused excused one on S Saturday the th day dav davor of or October for th th entire da day i In Tn witness I have hereunto set my hand and mid caused t true the e seal of the U United States State's to be affiX affixed d IJo frone In the In-the the District o of Columbia llin this day clay of September In lu In the year yem of of Our Lore Lon On One Thousand Nine Hun Hundred Hun Hun- tn dreg dred and Eighteen and of the In c pende e e of the the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty Forty- lort third WOODROW WILSON I ONI r l j Bythe By th the President P sid p ROBERT nT LANSI LANSING G. G oc of State Secretary I i i II i i i I |