Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-26
THANKSGIVING DAY NOV. %
TIME SET APART FOR EXPIRES
SION OF GRATITUDE.
The President Points Out That
Acknowledgment Is Due Of Our
Peace and Prosperity.

President Roosevelt today issued
proclamation setting apart Thursday.
November %, as a day of Thanksgiving
and prayer.
The proclamation follows:
BY the President of the United States of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Once again the season of the year has
come when. in accordance with the Gus
tom of our forefathers for generations
past. the President appoints day as the
especial occasion for all our people to
give praise and Thanksgiving to God
During the past year we have been free
from famine. from pestilence from war
we are at peace with all the rest of man
hhd' Our natural resources are at least
as great as those of any other nation
we oeheVe that in ability to develop
ana take advantage of these resources
the average man. of this nation stands al
ieast as nigh as the average man of any
other Nowhere else in the world il there
such an opportunity for free people to
usr Slop 20 the fullest extent all its powers
VI oooy. OF mind. and of that which stands
ABOVE both body and mind character
Macn mas been given us from on high and
much Will rightly be expected of us in
return. into our care the ten talents have
pe s,.t ln'Fnsted; and we are to be pardoned
neither II we squander and waste thew
nor yet If we hide them In A nankin. for
tney must be fruitful in our hands
Even throughout the ages. at all tfmes
anu among all peoples. prosperity has
peen iraught with danger, and it be-
nooVes us to beseech the Gfver of all
Things that we may NOT fall int Io,,o ~
ease and of luxury: that we may not
rose our sense of moral resuonsibtlity.
ehat we may not forget our duty to Cad
ana To our neighbor ~
A great democracy like o,rs a
racy based upon the principles of orIari,,
oei.y. can be perpetuated ONLY If in tbe
heart or the ordinary citizen there dn,aiis
M nee" sense OF righteousness and Justice
srir'. ssiould earnestly pray that this
spn IL vi righteousness and Justice may
grow ever greater In the hearts Of oil ~
us. ana that our souls NAV he inclirod
eNeF more both toward the. virtues that
IN Ior sentieness and tenderness for
a,a.I LIS hi1oness and forbearance one with
aho'her and toward those no less noe 60
gary virtues that make for rnanI,na.. 80,
nuseeo hardihood-for without these o,,a1.
res neither nation nor individual cav ris,
TO the .evel of greatness. ''
p. Wv, therefore I. Theodore Roosevelt
.ss.osnt or the United States. do set
part thursday. the 18th dav of Maven
nei; as~the day of general thaukseiuin,
ana prayer, and on that day l recornnanSS
l INA, the people shall cease from tbair
rb,,Sol n anu IN their homes or in their
ZINES enes: meet devouty to thank the AL |
We, ny Tor the many and great blessings
10y nave received in the past and to pray
lnat tney may be given the strength 50 to
oraer their lives as to deserve a confirm
alton of these blessings in the future
IN witness whereof I have hereunto
SET nay hand and caused the seal of the
l nited states to be affixed |
lone at the city of Washington this
lwehty-Hfth day of October. in the wear
Oh our Lord one thousand nine hundred
ana = seven and of the independence of the
anu
1Saai, THEODORE ROOSEVELT |
by the President: Elhu Root, Score
tary of State |