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Show President's Proclamation. "The season Is at hand when, according ac-cording to the custom of our people, It falls on the Picsldcnt to appolnta day of praise and thanksgiving to God. During the past jear the Lord has dealt bountifully with us peace at lionicand abioad, and the chance for ourcltlens to work for their welfare unhindered by war, famine or plague. It behooves us not only to rejoice greatly because of what has been given us, but to accept it with a solemn sol-emn sense of icsponsibillty, rcalilng that under Heaven It rests with us ourselves to show that we aic worthy to use ailght what has thus been Intrusted In-trusted to our caic. In no other place and at no other time has the experiment experi-ment of government of the people, by the people, and for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as heie In our own countiy in the opening cars of the twentieth ccntuty. Failure would not only be a dieadful thing for us, butadicadful thing for all mankind, because It would mean loss of hope for all who believe In the power and the 1 ighteousness of liberty. Therefore In thanking God fortlicmerclescxtended to us in the past, wo beseech II Im that He may not withhold them In the future, and that our hearts may be roused to war steadfastly for good and against all the forces of evil, public pub-lic and private. We pray for strength and light so that in the coming .vcars we may with cleanliness, feailcssness and wisdom, do our allotted woik on the earth In such manner as to show that w e are not altogether unwoithy Of the blessings we have leceived. "Now, theieforc, I, Thcodoie Uoose-velt, Uoose-velt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty-sixth twenty-sixth of this month (November), and do recommend that tluoughout the land people cease from their wonted occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks unto Almighty God for Ills manifold mciclcs." |