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Show THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving Day Set by President President Hoover called upon the people of the United States to observe Thanksgiving Day by extending ex-tending aid to those who are in need and suffering from causes beyond their control. In his annual Thanksgiving day proclamation the chief executive said this country has many causes for thanksgiving. He added that as a nation "We have suffered far less than other peoples from the present world difficulties.'' His proclamation follows: By the President of the United States, a proclamation. "Notwithstanding that our forefathers fore-fathers endured the hardships and privations of a primitive life, surrounded sur-rounded by dangers and solaced only with meagre comforts, they nevertheless bequeathed to us a custom of devoting one day of every ev-ery year to universal thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessing of life itself and the means to sustain sus-tain it, for the sanctuary of home and the joys that pervade it, and for the mercies of his protection from accident, sickness or death. Many Blessings "Our country has many causes for thanksgiving. We have been blessed with distinctive evidence of divine favor. As a nation we have suffered far less than other peoples from the present world difficulties. We have been free Irom civil and industrial discord. The outlook for peace between nations na-tions has been strengthened. In a large view we have made prog-less prog-less upon the enduring structure of our institutions. The arts and sciences that enrich en-rich our lives and enlarge our control con-trol of nature have made notable advances. Education has been further extended. We have made gains in the prevention of disease and in the protection of childhood. Kow therefore: "I, Herbert Hoover, president of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, Nov. 27, 1930, as a national day or thanksgiving and do enjoin the people of the United States so as to observe it, calling upon them to remember that many of our people are in need and suffering from causes beyond their control, and suggesting that a proper celebration celebra-tion of the day should include that v.e make sure that every person in the community, young and old, fhall have cause to give thanks for our institutions and for the neighborly sentiments oi our people. peo-ple. "In witness whereof. I have hereunto here-unto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the United States. "Done at the City of Washington, Washing-ton, this sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord 1930, and ri the Independence of the United States of America, the 155th. (Signed), HERERT HOOVER, "By the President. (Signed!, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary Sec-retary of State." |