Show Thanksgiving Proclamation Governor Henry H. H Blood has formally formally formally form form- ally proclaimed Th Thursday rad y November ber bel 30 as U day Thanksgiving by by- IssuIng issue ing the following proclamation More than years yean ago the Pilgrim Pilgrim Pil Pil- grim Fathers landed on the bleak forbidding coast of New England There were no waiting friends to wel wel- come them no blazing hearths to cheer Winter already had set In and before the soft balmy bree breezes s of the following springtime had wafted their messages of hope through the unclad branches of the giant glant trees of the great primeval forests foresta nearly half hatt of the worn and weary wanderers had been called to those celestial shores where the cares of this life no longer I trouble Despite the hardships endured endur endur- I endur-I ed the sorrows borne immediately after the first crop had been harvested harvest harvest- harvest I ed a period of prayer and thanksgiving was wu set aside during which th those se surviving surviving surviving sur sur- I. I returned thanks to Almighty God for His mercy and blessings For four years we have been undergoing undergoing undergoing un un- an unprecedented period of economic depression Faith and hope have been at low ebb Hunger want and privation have stalk stalked d the land but at no time have we been called upon to bear the he losses and the grief suffered by those sturdy pioneers Now the clouds of despair are passing and the season of thanksgiving again nisin is at bandIn handIn handIn hand band In Utah we are particularly for for- No great pestilence or disease disease dis dis- ease has decimated our people no serioUs serious serious ser ser- ious public calamity or catastrophe has befallen us The yield of our fields and our orchards has been en en- It is indeed fitting that we should set aside cn cne day ca en which to pause from our labors and to consider consider con con- sider the many gifts which we have received Now therefore I Henry H. H Blood governor of the state of ot Utah do hereby hereby hereby here here- by designate and declare Thursday November 30 1933 as Thanksgiving day ant I urge all citizens to observe that day with pop r devotion and to gather in their homes and places of worship to render thanks for for the numerous blessings which bleh they en- en Joy I also urge that the national colors be displayed on hon s and anci public public public pub pub- pub pub- lic buildings on that day |