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Show Thanksgiving Proclamation i i President Wilson has set. aside Thursday, November 27, as Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day in a proclamation which says the country looks forward "villi confidence to the dawn of an era when the sacrifices of the nation will find recompense in a world at peace." The proclamation follows: "The season of the year has again arrived when the people are accus-! accus-! tomed to unite In giving thanks to 'Almighty God for the blessings which be has conferred upon our country 1 during the twelve months that have passed. A year ago our people poured out their hearts in praise and thanksgiving that through divine aid the right was victorious and peace j had come to the nations which had so courageously struggled in defense ;of human liberty and justice. Now i that the stern task is ended and the fruits of achievement are ours, we look forward with confidence to the dawn of an era when the sacrifices of the nation will find recompense in a world peace. "But to attain the consummation of the great work to which the A-merican A-merican people devoted their manhood man-hood and the vast resources of their country they should give themselves to these principles of right which triumphed through his merciful goodness. good-ness. Our gratitude can find no more perfect expression than to bulwark bul-wark with loyalty and patriotism those principles for which the free peoples of the earth fought and died. "During the past yyear we have had much to make us grateful. In spite of the confusion in our eco nomic life resulting from the war We have prospered. O'Ur harvests have been plentiful and of our abundance abund-ance we have been able to render succor to less favored nations. Our democracy remains unshaken in a ; world torn with political and social unrest. Our traditional ideals are I still our guides in the path of progress pro-gress and civilization. "These great blessings, vouchsafed to us, for which we devoutly give thanks, should arouse us to a fuller sense of our duty to ourselves and to mankind to see to it that nothing we may do shall mar the completeness complete-ness of the victory which we helped to win. No selfish purpose animated us in becoming participants in the world war, and with a like spirit of unselfishness we should strive to aid by our example and by our co-operation in realizing the enduring welfare of all peoples and in bringing into being a world ruled by friendship and good will. "Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of A-merica, A-merica, hereby designate Thursday, the 27th day of November, next, for observance as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer by my fellow countrymen, country-men, inviting them to cease on that day from their ordinary tasks and unite iu their homes and in their several places of worship in ascribing ascrib-ing praise and thanksgiving to God, the author of all blessings and the master of our destinies. "In witness whereof I have hereunto here-unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed." |