The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-11-14
BREACH FILLED
PR0MPTLYB BY
Adj CLUB
President harrington, at Head of
Live Boosting Organization,
Realizing Need of Thanksgiving
Proclamation, Issues Edict Call
ing Upon Members and Public
to Give Thanks.
(From Thnrsday Adyert.ser.l

FROM thursday AuNert.Ser.)
Notwithstanding the fact that Ia-
wall is without Governor and Homo
lulu has a mayor who has not seen the
necessity for issuing u Thanksgiving
proclamation, the Ad Club has stepped
into the breach, as it were, and at the
meeting last night the members voted
unanimously TO approve the following
manifesto" of good will drawn up by
President Farrington:
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Following a splendid custom, born of
the struggles of our forefathers and
mothers to gain for themselves and
their children life liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness, our countrymen, with
regularity and fervor peculiar to Il
religious rite, pause each year during
day set apart for the purpose of Civ
ing thanks for the blessings that have
fallen to their individual and common
lot.
This year of our national and terri
torial progress finds the people of Io-
nolulu and of Hawaii without "A Coz
fellow citizens and with mayor who
doubts mis- official authority to ask his
friends and neighbors to assemble in
the home or in public places, there to
join in thanksgiving and prayer to the
Author of all good.
Thanksgiving is a pleasant personal
and civic duty, which does not require
the official approval of any fmictionary
IN order to make it appropriate.
Therefore | deem it proper and esne-
cially in keeping with the spirit of orr
glorious institutions that this Honolulu
Ad Club shall lend its aid in swelling
the expression of gratitude which in a
somewhat feeble but intensely human
way measures the moral stuff OF which
our men are made.
Better Spirit Developed.
Our harvests have been less than in
former years; the source of our finan-
cial prosperity has been attacked and
is now threatened with destruction; the
problems of the future in the domestic
affairs of this city and Territory arc
serious and difficult The year has
brought TO us, however, a great and
most promising development of com
munity spirit; there is evident on
S'NiS manu- ~ ItitllIdllOH OF lnp lnuI-
yidual responsibility OF the citizen,
coupled with Il Willingness to do each
his and her full share, TO live and TO
let live In the wider field of national
ard world events we have lived in the
midst and are part of governmental
projects and widespread social move
ments that make us Justly proud of
our countrymen and inspire us with a
feeling Of gratitude that we live in this
day and generation, aud especially are
we happy in having our abode in Ha-
wall mel.
Now, therefore, because of the au-
thorty in me vested as an average citi-
zen, and by virtue of no one else being
willing to do it, and as president for
and in the name of the Honolulu Ad
Club, do hereby call upon all citizens
and residents of the Territory OF Ha-
wall to heed the proclamation of the
President of the United States--may
providence guide and preserve him.
and assemble in the home or in places
of worship on the twenty-seventh day
of November nineteen hundred and
thirteen, to contemplate their mercies
and give thanks for their blessings.
eyer recalling that though the captains
and the kings depart, "stll stands
Thine ancient sacrifice, an humble and
n contGte heart. -
Members Must Respond.
And | especially call upon the mem. -
ters III the Honolulu Adj Club to as
semble at luncheon in this place at
noon on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth
day of November, for Thanksgiving
luncheon, at which time every member
is requested and urged to present per
sonally and in writing a signed Thanks.
giving sentiment, not too long, not too
solemn, not too gay, but sincerely vote
ing the spirit of the season.
Done under my hand and with vhe
zeal of the Honolulu Al Club, this
twelfth day of November, nineteen hun.
dred and Thirteen, and of the years of
our Thanksgiving the two hundred aud
seventy-frst