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Show K ' 1 1 Patriotic Americans have loaned their j Hp I dollars to Uncle Sam. I B J HAVE YOU? I Hp. Go to any bank or postoffice today. I Hi 1 Tomorrow is too late. Banks open I Hi ' I this afternoon and evening' to take 1 Hi ' j Bond subscriptions. j ' H0?. jSjpiffl aMMiigii S The President's Call So Prayer I Whereas, the Congress of the United States, by a concurrent resolution adopted dn the 1 fourth day of the present month of October, in view of the entrance of our nation into the vast and awful war which now afflicts the greater part of the world, has requested me to set jH apart by official proclamation a day on which our people should be called upon to offer con-certed con-certed prayer to Almighty God for his divine aid in the success of our arms ; and, Whereas, it behooves a great-free people, nurtured as we have been in the eternal prin-ciples prin-ciples of justice and of right, a nation which has sought from the earliest days of its exist- ence to be obedient to the divine teachings which have inspired it in the exercise of its lib-ertics, lib-ertics, to turn always to the Supreme Master and cast themselves in faith at his fceU pray- ing for his aid and succor in every hour of trial, to the end that the great aims to which we dedicate our power as a people may not perish among men, but be always asserted and .de-fended .de-fended with fresh ardor and devotion, and, through the divine blessing, set at the last upon enduring foundations for the benefit of all the free peoples of the earth : Now therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, glady responding to the wish expressed by the Congress, do appoint October 28, being the last Sunday of the present month, as the day of supplication and prayer for all the people of the nation, ear-x ear-x ncstly exhorting all my countrymen to observe the appointed day, according to their sey-eral sey-eral faiths, in solemn prayer that God's blessing may rest upon the high task which is laid upon us, to the end that the cause for which we give our lives and treasure may triumph and our efforts be blessed with high achievement. s |