Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-01
INDIVIDUAL COMFORT
AND WELL:Df|NG HIGHER
Thanksgiving Pfoc'sm,tjon Declares
Moral Aad Spiritual Should Equal
Material p'tqss.
NATIONS GROsTH UNPRECEDENTED
Enjoying Greater Blessings Than Any
Other Country. Our Gratitude to the
Almighty Should Be Of commensu-
rate Degree, Declares President
Roosevelt.
NATIONS eaoSTH UNPRECEDENTED
(By Associated Press)

The PrrSiurnt TO-DAY issued inc au-
nual Thanksgiving proclamation, IN
which he pointed cut the steady
growth Of the nation In strength,
worldly power. wealth ana population.
and that our average Of individual
comfort and welibeing is higher than
that OF any other country in the world.
For this, he declares. Americans
owe IL TO the Almighty TO show equai
progress in moral and spiritual things.
The reclamation follows:
by the President OF the United
States Proclamatinn:
Once again the season Is at hand
when. according to the ancient Gus
toms CT our people. 1t becomes the
duty Ct the President to appoint
day Of prayer and OF thanksgiving TO
God
Our Growth unprecedented.
Year by year this nation grows
in strength and worldly power. Dur
inxssthe century and 2 quarter that
lfsIs elapsed since oar satvy into the
EcfrsIe. aafenan( 1ant .snen - nse
grown ah6 pf6sbeFed N material
things to a degree never known be-
fore, and not known In any other
country. The thirteen colonies
which struggled along the seacoass
Of the Atlantic and were hemmed In
but a few miles west OF tidewater by
the Indian haunted wilderness. have
been transformed into the E'ightiest
| republic which the world has ever
seen. It's domains stretch across the
continent from one to the other CT
the greatest oceans. and II exercises
dominion in the Arctic and troplcaI
lands The growth in wealth and
population has surpassed the growth
| in territory.
Blessed Beyond Other Countries.
"Ncyhere else in the world Is the
, average of individual comfort anu
| material well being as high as in our
land. Fer this reason, that in ma
tcr!ai well being We have thus abound
ed we eve II to the Almighty to show
equal progress in moral and spiritual
things With a nation, as with tndi'
yiduaIs who make a naticn. materiai
well being is an indispensable fouH-
dation. But the foundation avaiis
rcthirg by itself: that life S wasted
and worse than wasted. which IS
spent in piling heaps upon heaps
! hose things which minister merely
20 the pleasure Of the body and 10
the power that rests on wealth.
! WeILBeins . Groundwork.
| "I-mn weII+5eing as foundation,
| must BE- raised the structure OF the
lefty life of the spirit. II this nation
is pr>periy TO fulfill its great mission
and 10 accomplish all that we so ar
IDENTIFY hope and desire. the Things
Of the BODY are good: the things o.
| the intciIec. better: but best OF all
arc the things Of the soul: for. IN
the nation. as in the individual. in
the long run IL is character that
| counts
Let US therefore. as a people, Sc
our faces resoIuicly against cvti. anu
with bread charity. with kin'iiinsss
and Goodwill toward all men. out
! with uaf!iuChing determination "a
smile down wrong. siriv" with all N"
ST .cnsth that is given MS for right
rousncss in public and in private
life
November IS Set Apart.
| Now. thcrefo-c T. Theodore Ro"sc'
Iv,it Pr.sidca. 81 :he United STATE
do So, apart fhs 10Th day OF Novrui
l,.r mex, as a day 6: Een"ral thanks
giving aud prayer. and on th't day
rc-commcnd that the people shan
cca.le from their daily work. and. IN
their homes CT In their churches. meet
dcyou;Iy TO thank she Almighty foS
the many and great blessings they
have rcceivcd in tn past. and {" pray
that they may u" given strength ~
lio order their Ewes as 20 deserve
In continuation Of these blessings ~
tho futgT".
Il, witness whereof. have here
unto sct my hand and caused tho
seal q tho United States 10 b. az
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