The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-11-05
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT.

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year has come when, in accord
ance with the custom of our
/ forefathers for generations past
the President appoints a day as
! the especial occasion for all our
people to give praise and thanks
giving 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
mankind. Our natural resources
are at least as great as those of
any other nation. We believe
that in ability to develop and
take advantage of these resour-
ces the average man of this
nation stands at least as nigh as
the average man of any other.
Nowhere else in the world is
there such an opportunity for a
: free people to develop to the
fullest extent all its power Of
body, Of mind, and of that which
stands above both body and smind,
character. Much has been,given
us from on high and much will
will rightly be expected of US
in return. Into our care the ten
talents have been entrusted; and
we are to be pardoned neither if
we squander and waste them,
nor yet if we hide them in a
napkin; for theymust be fruit
full in our hands, Ever through
out the ages, at all times and
among all people, prosperity has
been fraught with danger, and it
behooves us to beseech the Giver
OF All Things that we may not
fall into love of ease and luxury;
that we may lose our sense of
moral responsibility; that we
may not forget our duty to
God and to our nesghbor. A
great democracy like ours, a
democracy based upon the
principles Of orderly liberty, can
be perpetuated only if in the
heart Of the ordinary citizen
there dweIls a keen sense of
Righteousness and justice. We
should earnestly pray that this
spirit of righteousness and justice
may grow even greater in the
hearts of all Of Us, and that our
souls may be inclined ever more
and toward the virtues that tell
for gentleness and tenderness,
for loving kindness and fore
bearance one with another, and
toward those no less necessary
virtues that make for manliness
and rugged hardhood--for
without these qualities neither
nation nor individual can rise to
the level of greatness,
Now, therefore, [. Theadore
Roosevelt, President of the
United States, do set apart
Thursday, the l28th day of Nov
ember, as a day of general
thanksgiving and prayer, and
on that dayI recommend that
the people shall cease from
their daily work, and in their
homes or in their churches,
meet devoutIy to thank the
Almighty for the many and
great blessings they have receiv-
ed in the past, and to pray that
they may be given the strength
50 to order their lives as to de-
serve a continuation OF these
blessings in the future.
In witness whereof [ have
hereunto Set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washing
ton this twenty-ffth day Of
October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred
and seven and the of the indie
pendence Of the United States
the one hundred and thirty
! second.
THEADORE ROOSEVELT.
BY the President:
Elihu Root, Secretary of State.
Tho internal revenue collectors
have received instructions to in
yestigate alleged violations OF the
law which requires that dealers