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Show Nov. 26 Designated As Day of Thanksgiving President Wilson Issues Proclamation Proclama-tion Urging Day's Observance Washington President Wilson has issued a proclamation, designating designat-ing Thursday, November 26th, as Thanksgiving day. The president's proclamation, which refers to the fact that the United States is at peace while the rest of the world is at war, follows: By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation: It has long been the honored custom cus-tom of our people to turn in the Truitful autumn of the year in praise '-nd thanksgiving to Almighty God for his many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. The year that is low drawing to a close since we last bserved our day of national thanks-iving thanks-iving has been, while a year of dis-ipline dis-ipline because of the mighty forces )f war and of change which have dis-urbed dis-urbed the world, -also a year of spe-;ial spe-;ial blessing for us. It has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with honor, and in some part to succor the suffering and supply the needs of those who are in want. We have been privileged by our own peace and self-control in some degree to steady the counsels and shape the hopes ami purposes of a day of fear and distress. Our people peo-ple have looked upon their own life as a nation with deeper comprehension comprehen-sion a fuller realization of their responsibilities res-ponsibilities as well as their blessings bless-ings and a keener sense of the moral and practical significance of what their part among the nations of the world may come to be. The hurtful effects of foreign war in their own industrial and commercial commer-cial affairs have made them ieel the more fully and see the more clearly their mutual interdependence upon, one another and has stirred them to a helpful co-operation such as they have seldom practised, before. They have been quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their unmistakable un-mistakable ardor for peace, their earnest pity and disinterested sympathy sympa-thy for those who are suffering, their readiness to help and to think of otl'-ers, otl'-ers, have revealed them to themselves themsel-ves as well as to tuo world. Our crops will feed all uho need food; the self-poBxo-jiou of our people peo-ple amidst the most serious anxieties and difficulties and the steadiness and rcsourcefulne-v, of our business men will serve ot, .tor nations as well is.our own. The business, of the .oantry has been supplied wi'.h instrumentalities and the commerce o: the world with lew channels of tn-.ilu and inter-;ourse. inter-;ourse. The Panama canal has been opened to the comit-fireo of the nations. na-tions. The two ''ont'.nfcnts of America Ameri-ca have been bound in closer ties of Tie ndship. New instrumentr-dints -t international uaJ.; have been created w hich will be also new in -trumentalities of. acciuaintanoe, intercourse in-tercourse and muted service. Nev-.i lefore have the people of the United States been so situile-.l for their own ulvantage or the aJ.-antage of their neighbors or so e iuip;v,i to sc. - e themselves and mankind. Now, therefore, 1. Woodrow W;l-son, W;l-son, president of the United States i' Vmerica,' do hereby designate Thursday, Thurs-day, twenty-sixth day of November next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer and invite ihe people throughout the land to ccuso ;! their wonted occupations (Lid i.i their several homes and places of worship render tha-.iks to Ahvighty God. In witness wherefore I have hereunto here-unto set my hand and cn-.is--.-d tin.-?eal tin.-?eal of the United states to' be affix ed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty- eighth day of Oflober j In the year of our Lord one thiv.is-.uid nino hundred and fourteen and of he' independence of the United States of Americe the one 1. -.mired and thirty- ninth. (Signed) . Woodiow WiN.m lly the President. Robert Lansing Acting Secretary of H'ate. |