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Show November 29 Is Set as Day for Thanksgiving President Coolidge's Thanksgiving proclamation, issued from the White House last Tuesday, reminds the populace pop-ulace that another year has passed and that the day of thanksgiving is set for Thursday, November 29, President Coolidge's proclamation follows: "By the president of the United States of America, a proclamation: . "The. American people, from their earliest days, have observed the wise custom of acknowledging each year the bounty with which Divine Providence Prov-idence has favored them. In the beginning, be-ginning, this acknowledgment was a voluntary return of thanks by the community for the fruitfulness of the harvest. Though our mode of life has greatly changed, this cust- om has always survived. It has made Thanksgiving day not only one of the oldest, but one of the most characteristic observances of our county. On that day, in home and church, in family and in public gatherings, gath-erings, the whole nation has for generations gen-erations paid the tribute due from if we will, in deep sincerity, give to it due thought and more especially if we wil compare it with that of any other community in the world. "The year has brought to our people peo-ple two tragic experiences which have deeply affected them. One was the death of our beloved President Harding, Hard-ing, which has been mourned wherever wher-ever there is a realization of the worth of high ideals, noble purpose and unselfish service carried even to the end of supreme sacrifice. His loss recalled the nation to a less captious cap-tious and more charitable attitude. It sobered the whole thought of the country. A little later came the unparalleled un-paralleled disaster to the friendly people of Japan. This called forth from the people of the United States a demonstration of deep and humane feeling. It was wrought into the substance of good works. It created new evidences of our international friendship which is a guarantee of world peace. It replenished the charitable impulse of the country. "By experiences such as these, men grateful hearts for blessings bestowed. bestow-ed. "To center our thought in this way upon the favor which we have been shown has been altogether wise and desirable. It has given opportunity oppor-tunity justly to balance the good and the evil which we have experienced. In that we have never failed to find reasons for being grateful to God for a generous preponderance of the good. Even in the least propitious times, a broad contemplation of our whole position has never failed to disclose overwhelming reasons for thankfulness. Thus viewing our situation, sit-uation, we have found a warrant for a more hopeful and confident attitude atti-tude toward the future. "In this current year, we now approach ap-proach the time which has been accepted ac-cepted by custom as most fitting for the calm survey of our estate and the return of thanks. We shall the more keenly realize our good fortune, niiu iiaLiuns ar L.esi.eu anu renueu. We have been blessed with much of material prosperity. We shall be better able to appreciate it if we remember re-member the privations others have suffered, and we shall be the more worthy of it if we use it for their re-I re-I lief. We will do well then to render thanks for the good that has come to us and, show by our actions that we have become stronger, wiser and truer by the chastenings which have been imposed upon us. We will thus prepare ourselves for the part we must have in a world which forever needs the full measure of service. We have been a most favored people We ought to be a most generous people. peo-ple. We have been a most blessec people. We ought to be a mosl thankful people. "Wherefore, I, Calvin Coolidge president of the United States, dc (Continued on page 8) the guidance of Almighty God that they may deserve a continuance of His favor. "In witness whereof, I have. hereunto1 here-unto1 set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States. "Done at the city of Washington, this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred hun-dred and twenty-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-eighth. "CALVIN COOLIDGE." Thanksgiving Day (Continued from page 1) hereby fix and designate Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November, as Thanksgiving day, and recommend its general observance throughout the land. It is urged that the people gather in their homes and their usual places of worship, give expression to their gratitude for the benefits and blessings that a gracious providence has bestowed upon them, and seek |