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Show THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. President Sets Apart Thursday, November No-vember 26, as Day of Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing and Prayer. Washington. The president has Issued Is-sued tho nnnual Thnnksglvlng proclamation, procla-mation, sotting upart Thursday, November No-vember 20. ns- "a day of thanksgiving and prayer." "Year by year," declares the proclamation, proc-lamation, "this nation grows In strength nnd worldly power. During the century and n quarter that has elapsed slnco our entry Into the circle cir-cle of Independent peoples we hnvo grown and prospered in material tliing3 to a degree never before known, and not known In any other country. The thirteen colonies which straggled along tho sencoast of tho -Atlantic and wore hemmed In but a fow miles west of tldewnter by the Indian haunted wilderness, have been transformed Into the mightiest republic repub-lic which tho world has ever soon. Its domains stretch across tho continent conti-nent from ono to tho other of tho greatest oceans nnd It exercises dominion do-minion alike In tho Arctic nnd tropic realms. Tho growth In wealth nnd population hns surpassed even tho growth In territory. Nowhere else in tho world Is tho average of Individual comfort and material well-being as high ns In our fortunate land. "For tho very renson that In material ma-terial well being we have thus abounded, wo owe to tho Almighty to show equal progress In mornl and spiritual things. With n nation, as with tho Individuals who mako up a nation, material well-being Is nn Indispensable Indis-pensable foundation. Hut the foundation founda-tion avails nothing by Itself. That lift Is wasted and worse than wasted' which Is spent In piling, heap on heap, thoso things which minister merely to tho pleasure of tho body and to tho power that rests only on wealth. Upon material well-being us n foundation founda-tion must be raised tho structure of tho lofty life of the spirit. If this nation na-tion is properly to fulfill Its grent mission and accomplish nil wo so ardently ar-dently hope and desire. Tho things of the body are good; tho things of tho Intellect bettor, but best of all things of the soul, for In the nation, ns In the Individual, In the long run It Is character that counts. Lot us, therefore, as a peoplo, set our faces resolutely against evil nnd with broad charity, with friendliness and good will toward all men, but with unflinching un-flinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all tho strength that Is given us for righteousness right-eousness In public nnd In prlvnte llfo." |